[74] Belknap, Hist. New Hampshire, ii. 208.

[75] Tradition told me at York by Mr. N. Marshall.

[76] Lecture of Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted by Cabot, Memoir of Emerson, i. 10.

[77] Moody found sympathizers in his iconoclastic zeal. Deacon John Gray of Biddeford wrote to Pepperrell: “Oh that I could be with you and dear Parson Moody in that church [at Louisbourg] to destroy the images there set up, and hear the true Gospel of our Lord and Saviour there preached!”

[78] Bourne, Hist. of Wells and Kennebunk, 371.

[79] Gibson, Journal; Records of Rhode Island, v. Governor Wanton of that province says, with complacency, that the pay of Rhode Island was twice that of Massachusetts.

[80] Parsons, Life of Pepperrell, 54.

[81] Of the Massachusetts contingent, three hundred men were raised and maintained at the charge of the merchant James Gibson.

[82] The list is given by Williamson, ii. 227.

[83] Memoirs of the Principal Transactions of the Last War, 44.