[1547] Cf. Rise of the Republic, p. 111.
[1548] Rise of the Republic, p. 112.
[1549] Hist. Mag., iii. 123.
[1550] Cf., on Coxe, G. M. Hills’ Hist. of the Church in Burlington, N. J. (2d ed.), where there is a portrait of Coxe.
[1551] No attempt is made to enumerate all the conferences with the Indians in which several colonies joined. They often resulted in records or treaties, of which many are given in the Brinley Catalogue (vol. iii. no. 5,486, etc.). Records of many such will also be found in the N. Y. Col. Docs. and in Penna. Archives. Cf. Stone’s Sir William Johnson. See chapters ii. and viii. of the present volume.
[1552] Rise of the Republic, 116. Cf. also Kennedy’s Serious Considerations on the Present State of the Affairs of the Northern Colonies, New York, 1754. James Maury was writing about this time: “It is our common misfortune that there is no mutual dependence, no close connection between these several colonies: they are quite disunited by separate views and distinct interests, and like a bold and rapid river, which, though resistless when included in one channel, is yet easily resistible when subdivided into several inferior streams.” (Maury’s Huguenot Family, 382.) In March, 1754, Shirley urged a union upon the governor of New Hampshire. (N. H. Prov. Papers, vi. 279.)
[1553] The commissions of the deputies are printed in Penna. Archives, ii. 137, etc.
[1554] Cf. Shirley to Gov. Wentworth, in N. H. Prov. Papers, vi. 279.
[1555] Sparks’s ed., iii. 26. The “Short Hints,” with Alexander’s and Colden’s notes, are preserved in a MS. in the N. Y. Hist. Soc. Library; and from this paper they were first printed in Sedgwick’s Life of William Livingston, Appendix. A MS. in Colden’s handwriting is among the Sparks MSS. (no. xxxix.).
[1556] It can also be found in Penna. Col. Rec., vi. 105; N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. 889; Minot’s Massachusetts, i. 191; Pownall’s Administration of the Colonies, 1768, app. iv.; Trumbull’s Connecticut, app. i.; Haliburton’s Rule and Misrule of the English in America, p. 253,—not to name other places.