[893] [There is a portrait of Waldo in Jos. Williamson’s Hist. of Belfast, Me., p. 44.—Ed.]
[894] History of Massachusetts Bay, ii. 371.
[Views of this sort regarding the prudence or apathy of Rhode Island were current at the time, and Gov. Wanton, in a letter to the agent of that colony in London, Dec. 20, 1745 (R. I. Col. Records, v. 145), sets forth a justification. Mr. John Russell Bartlett, in a chapter of his naval history of Rhode Island (Historical Mag., xviii. 24, 94), claims that the position of the colony has been misrepresented.—Ed.]
[895] [For authorities, see post, p. 448.—Ed.]
[896] Letter to the Duke of Bedford in Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia, p. 560.
[897] July 17, 1750, a proclamation was ordered to be published “against the retailing of spirituous liquors without a license.” August 28th, a second proclamation was ordered to be published, and “a penalty be added of 20 shillings sterling for each offence, to be paid to the informers, and that all retailers of liquors be forbid on the same penalty to entertain any company after nine at night.” In the following February, it was “Resolved, that over and above the penalties declared by former Acts of council, any person convicted of selling spirituous liquors without the governor’s license, shall for the first offence sit in the pillory or stocks for one hour, and for the second offence shall receive twenty lashes.”—Selections from the Public Documents, pp. 570, 579, 603.
[898] Ibid., p. 710.
[899] Selections from the Public Documents of Nova Scotia, p. 266.
[900] Winslow’s Journal in Collections of Nova Scotia Historical Society, iii. 94, 95.
[901] Winslow’s Journal in Collections of Nova Scotia Historical Society, iii. 98.