[887] [A severe criticism appeared in Observations on Dr. Stevens’s History of Georgia, Savannah, 1849. C. K. Adams’ Manual of Historical Reference, p. 559, takes a favorable view. Hildreth (ii. 371) speaks of Stevens as a “judicious historian, who has written from very full materials.”—Ed.]
[888] [In two volumes. It passed to a second and third edition. Pickett is spoken of as a private gentleman and planter of Alabama, in the enjoyment of wealth and leisure when he wrote his history, bringing to his task a manly industry and generous enthusiasm. He was fortunate in being able to procure much material which had been hitherto inedited; manuscripts of early adventurers in the territory, who were traders among the red men, and in some cases the testimony of the red men themselves. Southern Quarterly Review, Jan., 1852.—Ed.]
Portraits of Oglethorpe. The likeness given on a preceding page follows a print by Burford, after a painting by Ravenet, of which a reduction is given in John C. Smith’s British Mezzotint Portraits, p. 128. There is a note on the portrait of Oglethorpe in the Magazine of American History, 1883, p. 138. See the cut in Bishop Perry’s American Episcopal Church, i. 336.
The head and shoulders of this Burford print are given in the histories of Georgia by Stevens and Jones; and in Gay’s Popular History of the United States, iii. 143; Cassell’s United States, i. 481. The expression of the face seems to be a hard one to catch, for the engravings have little likeness to one another.
The medal-likeness is given in Harris’s Oglethorpe, together with the arms of Oglethorpe.
There is beside the very familiar full-length profile view, representing Oglethorpe as a very old man, sitting at the sale of Dr. Johnson’s library, which is given in some editions of Boswell’s Johnson; in White’s Historical Collections of Georgia, 117; in Harris’s Oglethorpe; in Gay’s Popular History of the United States, iii. 165; in the Magazine of American History, February, 1883, p. 111; in Dr. Edward Eggleston’s papers on the English Colonies in the Century Magazine, and in various other places.—Ed.
[889] Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts Bay, ii. 95.
[890] The articles of capitulation are in Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts Bay, ii. 182-184; and the first volume of the Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society contains an ample collection of documents connected with the capture of Port Royal, obtained from the State-Paper Office in London, and covering forty-six printed pages.
[891] Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia, pp. 5, 6.
[892] [A description of Nova Scotia in 1720 was transmitted to the Lords of Trade by Paul Mascarene, engineer. It is given in the Selections from the Pub. Docs. of Nova Scotia, p. 39.—Ed.]