[61] Minot's History, ii. 168.
[62] Mass. State Papers, 18 et seq.
[63] Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, p. 171.
[64] Hutchinson's History, iii. 103. Two Americans, Franklin and William S. Johnson, were reporting on the Wilkes turmoils in England, at this time, to their home correspondents. Cf. Franklin's Works (Sparks's ed.), vii. 401, 403; Bigelow's Life of F., ii. 9; Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xlix., 270 et seq.
[65] Bancroft, History, v. 275.
[66] These resolutions are in Ramsay, Amer. Rev., i. 59.
[67] The proceedings, with the circular letter, may be found in the Mass. State Papers, 35.
[68] Of the colonies south of New England, South Carolina was the first to agree to the proposed congress. Ramsay, Amer. Rev., i. 68.
[69] Later, in December, he was compelled to renounce his office under circumstances of special ignominy, from which his age and character afforded no protection.
[70] Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 184.