Longfellow wrote a poem in the measure of Burns’ Bruce, for the centennial celebration of the fight, May 19, 1825, and this was his first printed poem. It has been reprinted in connection with Daniel Webster’s youthful Fourth of July oration, delivered at Fryeburg, July 4, 1802, in the Fryeburg Webster Memorial.
[945] A tract of seven pages,—in Harvard College library. A paper of this title, as printed in the Mass. Hist. Coll., v. 202, is dated “From my lodgings in Cecil Street, 9 April, 1744.” An early MS. copy is in a volume of Louisbourg Papers in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library.
[946] Carter-Brown, iii. no. 823; Brinley, i. no. 70.
[947] See on the contribution of New York to the expedition, N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. 284.
[948] Cf. William Goold on “Col. William Vaughan of Matinicus and Damariscotta,” in the Collections (viii. p. 291) of the Maine Historical Society. S. G. Drake’s Five Years’ French and Indian War (Albany, 1870). Palfrey (Compendious History of New England, iv. 257) gives Vaughan the credit. Cf. Johnston’s Bristol, Bremen, and Pemaquid, p. 290.
[949] Cf. Chauncy’s Sermon on the victory, p. 9; Mass. Hist. Coll., vii. 69. The Rev. Amos Adams, or Roxbury, in his Concise History of New England, etc. (Boston, reprinted in London, 1770), written at a time when “many of us remember the readiness with which thousands engaged themselves in that hazardous enterprise,” credits Shirley with the planning of it.
[950] A memorandum of Dr. Belknap, printed in the Proceedings of the Mass. Hist. Soc. (x. p. 313) shows as being in the cabinet of that society in 1792 the following sets of papers: Correspondence between Shirley and Wentworth, 1742-1753; between Shirley and Pepperrell, 1745-1746; between Pepperrell and Warren, 1745; between these last and the British ministry, 1745-1747; and between Pepperrell and persons of distinction throughout America, 1745-1747. These papers as now arranged cover the preparations for the siege, as well as its progress, and the events immediately succeeding. Pepperrell’s letters are mostly drafts, in his own hand. The instructions from Shirley are dated Mar. 19 (p. 13). We find here “A register of all the Commissions” (p. 26); the notification of the capitulation, June 20 (p. 63). There are letters of Benning Wentworth, Com. Warren, Gen. Waldo, John Gorham, John Bradstreet, Arthur Noble, William Vaughan, John Rous, Robert Auchmuty, Ammi R. Cutter, N. Sparhawk, etc. There are also various letters of Benj. Colman, who from his relations to Pepperrell took great interest in the movement. (Cf. the Colman papers, 1697-1747, presented to the same society in 1793.) The editor of N. H. Prov. Papers, vol. v., prints various papers as from the “Belknap Papers” in the N. H. Hist. Society library. Cf. Belknap Papers (Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll.), i. 120.
[951] It contains manuscript books, bound together, which were in part the gift of the Hon. Daniel Sargent, and in part came from the heirs of Dr. Belknap. These books contain copies of the leading official papers of the expedition and capitulation, the records of the councils of war from Apr. 5, 1745, at Canso, to May 16, 1746, at Louisbourg, the letters of Pepperrell, Shirley, Warren, and others between Mar. 27, 1745, and May 30, 1746; records of consultation on board the “Superbe,” Warren’s flag-ship; with various other letters of Warren; several narratives and journals of the siege and later transactions at Louisbourg, some of them bearing interlineations and erasures as if original drafts; and papers respecting pilots and deserters. The writer of the diaries and narrative is given in one case only, that of an artillerist who records events between May 17 and June 16, 1745, and signs the name of Sergeant Joseph Sherburn. There are also some notes made at the battery near the Light-house beginning June 11.
[952] Boston and London, 1855-56, three editions. Sabin, xiv. no. 58,921.
[953] Other special accounts of Pepperrell are by Ward in the appendix of Curwen’s Journal and in Hunt’s Merchants’ Mag., July, 1858; Mag. of Amer. Hist., Nov., 1878; Potter’s Amer. Monthly, Sept., 1881.