[203] November 16, 1710. “A day of Thanksgiving on account of success at Port Royall.” John Marshall’s diary, Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., April, 1884, p. 161.
[204] First ed. 1710; second, in 1715. Cf. Stevens’ Bibl. Geog., no. 3,039; Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. p. 216; H. M. Dexter’s address on Wise in the Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Church in Essex, Salem, 1884, p. 113; and Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, ii. 429.
[205] Various petitions to the queen during 1710-11 are in the Mass. Archives, xx. pp. 133, 145, 152, 164, 170.
[206] Dudley on the 9th issued a proclamation for an embargo on outward-bound vessels. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xi. 206.
[207] Annexed are engravings of a contemporary print, “Exact draft of Boston harbor,” and of a ground plan of Castle William from originals in the British Museum. See notes on the construction and history of this fortress in Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 101, 127. The Catal. of the King’s Maps in the Brit. Mus. (i. p. 216) shows a drawn plan of the Castle, by Colonel Romer, 1705, four sheets, with a profile. Pownall’s view of Boston (1757) shows the Castle in the foreground. (Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 127; Columbian Mag., Dec., 1787; Drake’s Boston, folio ed.). The plan of the island as given in Pelham’s map is sketched in Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 127.
[208] The fleet had not been provisioned in England, in order to conceal its destination. Walker’s Journal shows that in Boston Jonathan Belcher was the principal contractor for provisions, and Peter Faneuil for military stores.
[209] Published in London, 1712. (Cf. Carter-Brown, iii. no. 166.) Dummer, referring to Walker’s charges, says, “They can’t do us much, if any, harm.” Mass. Hist. Coll., xxi. 144. Cf. also Dummer’s Letter to a friend in the country on the late expedition to Canada, with an account of former enterprises, a defence of that design and the share the late M——rs had in it. Lond. 1712. (Sabin, v. 21,199; Carter-Brown, iii. no. 167.)
[210] A journal of this negotiation is printed in the New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg., January, 1854, p. 26.
[211] See Vol. III., chapter on New England.
[212] Cf. papers on the Usher difficulty in N. E. H. & G. Reg., 1877, p. 162.