[253] Fort Dummer was repaired in 1740. On determining the bounds between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, it was brought within the latter province. (B. H. Hall, Eastern Vermont, i. 15, 27; Temple and Sheldon, Northfield, 199; Shirley, letter, Nov. 30, 1748, in Mass. Hist. Coll., iii. 106; N. H. Prov. Papers, vol. v.)
[254] It seems to have been a satisfaction to Cotton Mather, that “the hairy scalp of Father Rallee paid for what hand he had in the rebellion into which he infuriated his proselytes.” Cf. Cotton Mather’s Waters of Marah Sweetened (Boston, 1725), an essay on the death of Capt. Josiah Winslow in a fight with the Indians at Green Island, May 1, 1724.
[255] See post, ch. vii.
[256] It was not till 1773 that a compromise fixed the western line of Massachusetts, and not till 1787 was it finally run.
[257] Cf. Dr. Douglass, Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xxxii. 172.
[258] “The great misery of Cotton Mather was his vanity; and this gangrene, first applying to his literary, then to his social, may ultimately have tainted his moral, reputation, in the judgment of his fellow citizens.” Jas. Savage in Mass. Hist. Coll., xxxii. 129.
[259] Corner of Kilby and State streets, according to present names.
[260] A Poem, presented to his excellency William Burnet [t], Esq.; on his arrival at Boston [Boston, 1728?] 5 pp., is not to be confounded with this poem by Mather Byles.
[261] Rec. Com. Report, viii. 226. (Sept. 30, 1728.)
[262] A Collection of the Proceedings of the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty’s Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, containing several instructions from the Crown, to the Council and Assembly of that province, for fixing a salary on the governour, and their determinations thereon, as also the methods taken by the Court for supporting the several Governours, since the arrival of the present charter. Boston, 1729. (Harv. Col. lib., 10352.6; Carter-Brown, iii. no. 434). Cf. Jeremiah Dummer’s Letter dated Aug. 10, 1729, on the Assembly fixing the governor’s salary. (Sabin, v. 21,200; Haven in Thomas, ii. p. 418.) Year after year the effusive arguments on the House’s side are spread upon the town records, in the instructions given to the members from Boston.