There is a MS. copy among the Shelburne Papers, as shown in the Hist. MSS. Commission’s Report, no. 5, p. 55.
[1557] The first of these is by Franklin, in his Autobiography. It will be found in Sparks’s ed., p. 176, and in Bigelow’s edition, p. 295. Cf. also Bigelow’s Life of Franklin, written by himself, i. 308, and Parton’s Life of Franklin, i. 337.
The second is that by Thomas Hutchinson, contained in his Hist. of Mass. Bay (iii. p. 20).
The third is William Smith’s, in his History of New York (ed. of 1830), ii. p. 180, etc.
The fourth is in Stephen Hopkins’s A true representation of the plan formed at Albany [in 1754], for uniting all the British northern colonies, in order to their common safety and defence. It is dated at Providence, Mar. 29, 1755. (Carter-Brown, iii. 1,065.) It was included in 1880 as no. 9, with introduction and notes by S. S. Rider, in the Rhode Island Historical Tracts. Cf. William E. Foster’s “Statesmanship of the Albany Congress” in his Stephen Hopkins (R. I. Hist. Tracts), i. p. 155, and his examination of current errors regarding the congress (ii. p. 249). This account by Hopkins is the amplest of the contemporary narratives which we have.
[1558] Cf. John Adams’ Novanglus in his Works, iv. 19; Parton’s Franklin, i. 340; John Almon’s Biog., Lit., and Polit. Anecdotes (London, 1797), vol. ii.
[1559] This subject, however, is examined with greater or less fulness—not mentioning works already referred to—in William Pulteney’s Thoughts on the present state of affairs with America (4th ed., London, 1778); Chalmers’ Revolt of the American Colonies, ii. 271; Trumbull’s Connecticut, ii. 355-57, 541-44; Belknap’s New Hampshire, ii. 284; Minot’s Massachusetts, i. 188-198; Sparks’s edition of Franklin, iii. p. 22; Pitkin’s Civil and Political Hist. of the U. States, i. 143; Bancroft’s United States (final revision), ii. 385, 389; Barry’s Massachusetts, ii. 176 (with references); Palfrey’s Compendious Hist. New England, iv. 200; Weise’s Hist. of Albany, p. 313; Stone’s Sir William Johnson, i. ch. 14; Munsell’s Annals of Albany, vol. iii., 2d ed. (1871); Greene’s Hist. View Amer. Revolution (lecture iii.).
[1560] Another MS. is in the Trumbull MSS., i. 97.
[1561] It is printed in N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. 917; Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 206.
[1562] It is printed in N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. 903; Penna. Archives, 2d ser., vi. 206.