[64] Lettre d’un Habitant de Louisbourg.

[65] Report of Council, 12 January, 1745.

[66] Sparks, Works of Franklin, vii. 16.

[67] Correspondence of Shirley and Wentworth, in Belknap Papers. Provincial Papers of New Hampshire, v.

[68] Governor Wanton to the Agent of Rhode Island, 20 December, 1745, in Colony Records of Rhode Island, v.

[69] Colony Records of Rhode Island, v. (February, 1745).

[70] Shirley to Wentworth, 16 February, 1745.

[71] “A native of Ravistock Parish, in Wales.” Parsons, Life of Pepperrell. Mrs. Adelaide Cilley Waldron, a descendant of Pepperrell, assures me, however, that his father, the emigrant, came, not from Wales, but from Devonshire.

[72] Governor Wanton to the Agent of Rhode Island in London, 20 December, 1745.

[73] Parsons, Life of Pepperrell, 51.