[281] Cf. D. C. Gilman on Berkeley’s gifts to Yale College in New Haven Col. Hist. Soc. Papers, vol. i. See the house in Mason’s Newport, p. 73, and in Kingsley’s Yale College, i. p. 60. Cf. also Perry’s Hist. of the American Episcopal Church, i. pp. 532, 545
[282] Cf. Moses Coit Tyler’s “Dean Berkeley’s sojourn in America” in Perry’s Hist. of the Amer. Episcopal Church, i. p. 519; A. C. Fraser’s Works of Berkeley, with Life and Letters of Berkeley, Oxford, 1871, and his subsequent Berkeley, 1881. Some letters of Berkeley from Newport, among the Egmont MSS., are printed in Hist. MSS. Com. Report, vii. 242. Cf. also D. C. Gilman in Hours at Home, i. 115; Tuckerman’s America and her Commentators, p. 162; E. E. Beardsley in Amer. Church Rev., Oct. 1881; Bancroft’s United States, final revision, ii. 266; Noah Porter’s Two Hundredth Birthday of Bishop Berkeley (New York, 1885); Sprague’s Amer. Pulpit, v. 63, and references in Poole’s Index, p. 114. Douglass poked fun at Berkeley in his own scattering way. Summary, i. p. 149.
[283] Cf. Sheffield’s address on The Privateersmen. of Newport.
[284] Cf. Hist. Sketch of the fortification Defences of Narragansett Bay, by Gen. Geo. W. Cullum (Washington, 1884).
[285] The ministers of Boston in a memorial, Dec. 5, 1737, did what they could to counteract the machinations of Belcher’s enemies. Mass. Hist. Coll., xxii. 272.
[286] John Adams, with something of the warring politician’s onset, says of Shirley that he was a “crafty, busy, ambitious, intriguing, enterprising man; and having mounted to the chair of this province, he saw in a young, growing country vast prospects of ambition opening before his eyes, and conceived great designs of aggrandizing himself, his family, and his friends.” Novanglus, in Works, iv. 18, 19.
[287] Cf. Elias Nason’s Life of Sir Henry Frankland; Dr. O. W. Holmes’ Poem of “Agnes;” Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. p. 526; and the Appendix to the Boston Evacuation Memorial.
[288] His portrait in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Gallery is engraved in the Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 260. There is a steel engraving in the Mag. of Am. Hist., Aug., 1882. Cf. Catal. Cab. Mass. Hist. Soc., no. 77.
[289] New England had under 400,000 population at this time, of whom 200,000 were in Mass., 100,000 in Conn., and Rhode Island and New Hampshire had about 30,000 each.
[290] Lotteries were becoming in Massachusetts a favorite method of raising money in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Cf. H. B. Staples on the Province Laws (1884), p. 9; Mem. Hist. Boston, iv. 503.