[141] History, ii. 43.
[142] Ibid., vi. 85.
[143] Hist. N. E., ii. 444.
[144] New York, 1882 by Eben Greenough Scott.
[145] In the absence of such a work, the student will find something to his purpose in the Hutchinson Papers (Prince Soc. ed.), ii. 150, 232, 265, 301, 313 et passim; Andros Tracts, ii. 69, 215, 224, 233 et passim; Sewall's Letters, i. 4; Chalmers's Political Annals, in the notes particularly, and in his Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the Colonies; Palfrey, Hist. New England, ii. 444; iii. 276, 279, n. For the commerce and products of Virginia in 1671, and the effect of the navigation laws, see Chalmers's Political Annals, 327; and in 1675, Ibid., 353, 354; and for duties imposed on commerce by colonial assemblies, Ibid., 354, 404. For complaints of British merchants to Charles II. of infractions of the navigation laws by New England, Ibid., 400, 433, 437. See Ramsay's American Revolution, i. 19, 22, 23, 45, 46, 49; and Franklin's Works, iv. 37, for British trade with the colonies. Jefferson's Notes, 277, gives the amount of Virginia exports just before the Revolution. Queries and Answers, relative to the commerce of Connecticut in 1774 (Mass. Hist. Coll., vii. 234), affords much interesting information as to shipping, sailors, and importations from Great Britain, the course and subjects of foreign trade of the colony. For similar papers relating to New York, see O'Callaghan's Documentary Hist. of New York, 8vo ed., vol. i. 145, 699, 709, 737, and vol. iv. 163.
[146] Works, Boston ed., vol. ix.
[147] The Late Revelations Respecting the British Colonies (published at Philadelphia, 1765, and attributed to John Dickinson) contains valuable statistics of commerce, and discusses the British commercial and revenue policy with great ability; also, Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies, attributed to Daniel Dulaney, of Maryland, 1765; The Right to the Tonnage, by the same, Annapolis, 1766.
[148] Cf. Felt's Massachusetts Currency; Pownall's Administration of the Colonies, 102 et seq.
[149] Hist. N. E., iii. ch. ix.
[150] Sewall says that the first admiralty court was held July 5, 1686, and that several ships had been seized for trading contrary to the acts (Letters, i. 34). Dudley was inaugurated May 26, 1686, and soon got to the work of enforcing the laws. See also Andros Tracts, iii. 69.