The bibliography of Vermont to 1860, showing 250 titles, was printed by B. H. Hall in Norton’s Lit. Register, vol. vi.; a more extended list of 6,000 titles by Marcus D. Gilman was printed in the Argus and Patriot, of Montpelier, Jan., 1879, to Sept. 15, 1880. (Boston Public Library. 6170.14.)
[444] “Early Connecticut Claims in Pennsylvania,” by T. J. Chapman in Mag. of Amer. Hist., Aug., 1884.
[445] Cf. documents mentioned in Henry Stevens’s Catal. of books and pamphlets relating to New Hampshire (1885, p. 15), which documents were sold by him to the State of New Hampshire. Stevens says regarding these papers: “Dear fussy old Richard Hakluyt, the most learned geographer of his age, but with certain crude and warped notions of the South Sea ‘down the back side of Florida,’ which became worked into many of King James’s and King Charles’s charters, and the many grants that grew out of them, was the unconscious parent of many geographical puzzles.... All these are fully illustrated in the numerous papers cited in these cases.” The Thomlinson correspondence (1733-37) in the Belknap papers (Mass. Hist. Soc.), which is printed in the N. H. Prov. Papers, iv. 833, etc., relates to the bounds with Massachusetts, and chiefly consists of letters which passed between Theodore Atkinson, of Portsmouth, and Capt. John Thomlinson, the province agent in London. Cf. Hiland Hall’s Vermont, ch. iv.; Palfrey’s New England, iv. 554; Belknap, Farmer’s ed., p. 219; and the Report of the Committee on the name Kearsarge, in the N. H. Hist. Soc. Proc., 1876-84, p. 136. The journal of Richard Hazzen (1741), in running the bounds of Mass. and New Hampshire, is given in the N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., xxxiii. 323.
[446] Historical Mag., 2d ser. vol. ix. 17; N. H. Prov. Papers, vi. 349. Cf. Belknap’s New Hampshire, iii. 349; and Farmer’s ed. of same, p. 245. Douglass (Summary, i. 261) points out how inexact knowledge about the variation of the needle complicated the matter of running lines afresh upon old records. Cf. also Ibid., p. 263.
[447] The original MS. award of the commissioners is in the State-paper office in London. The Carter-Brown Catal., iii. no. 692, shows a copy of it. The Egerton MSS. in the British Museum have, under no. 993, various papers on the bounds of Massachusetts, 1735-54. Cf. also Douglass, Summary, i. 399.
[448] Mr. Waters reports in the British Museum an office copy of the “Bounds between Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut,” attested by Roger Wolcott, 1713; and also a plan of the south bounds of Massachusetts Bay as it is said to have been run by Woodward and Safery in 1642. Douglass (Summary, i. 415) has some notes on the bounds of Massachusetts Bay; and on those with Connecticut there are the original acts of that province in the Conn. Col. Records, iv. (1707-1740).
[449] Bowen’s Boundary Disputes of Connecticut, part iii.; Palfrey’s New England, iv. 364. The report of the joint committee on the northern boundary of Conn. and Rhode Island, April 4, 1752, is printed in R. I. Col. Rec., v. 346. Cf. Foster’s Stephen Hopkins, i. 145.
[450] Bowen, parts ii. and iii., with maps of Connecticut (1720) and Rhode Island (1728); Rhode Island Col. Records, iv. 370; Palfrey, iv. 232; R. I. Hist. Mag., July, 1884, p. 51; and the map in Arnold’s Rhode Island, ii. 132, showing the claims of Connecticut. Cf. Foster’s Stephen Hopkins, i. 144. Since Vol. III. was printed some light has been thrown on the earlier disputes over the Rhode Island and Connecticut bounds through the publication by the Mass. Hist. Soc. of the Trumbull Papers, vol. i. (pp. 40, 76), edited by Chas. Deane, who gives references. Rhode Island’s answer to Connecticut about their bounds in 1698, and other papers pertaining, are also printed with references in the Trumbull Papers, i. p. 196, etc.
[451] The cuts of this fort have been kindly furnished by the Maine Historical Society.
[452] Cf. “Frontier Garrisons reviewed by order of the Governor, 1711,” in Maine Hist. and Geneal. Recorder, i. p. 113; and “Garrison Houses in Maine,” by E. E. Bourne, in Maine Hist. Coll., vii. 109.