[131] Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 294; Hutchinson's History, iii. 441.
[132] Hutchinson's History, iii. 441.
[133] He died at Brompton, England, June 3, 1780.
[134] Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 347.
[135] The action of the other colonies in respect to the proposed Continental Congress may be found in Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 331, n.
[136] See authorities in John Adams, a pamphlet by the writer of this chapter, 1884.
[137] Works, iv. 109. I find in the works of no other writer, historical or political, more accurate conceptions of the causes, immediate and remote, of the Revolution, and so fair and judicial a statement of them. Works, i. 24, 92.
[138] Bancroft, v. 250.
[139] See Rights of Great Britain asserted against the claims of America (London, 1776).
[140] Works, x. 321.