[121] W. S. Johnson, Trumbull Papers, 437.
[122] Administration of the Colonies.
[123] Mass. State Papers, 306.
[124] Lossing's Field-Book of the Revolution, i. 630. For a full account of this affair, see Bartlett's History of the Destruction of the Gaspee.
[125] W. E. Foster's Stephens Hopkins, Pt. ii. 95.
[126] Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 266.
[127] For a full account of the formation and purpose of the Committee of Correspondence, with the names of the Boston members, see Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 263.
[128] See resolutions and members of the committee in Mass. State Papers, 400.
[129] History, iii. 397.
[130] Ramsay gives these resolutions. Hist. Amer. Rev., i. 98.