[184] Bancroft, orig. ed., v. ch. 14; Boston Rec. Com. Rept., xvi. p.155.
[185] For details, see—
For New Hampshire, a letter from Portsmouth, Jan. 13, 1766, to the New Hampshire agent in London, in the Belknap MSS. (Mass. Hist. Soc., 61, C. p. 108).
For Connecticut, Stuart's Governor Trumbull; Jared Ingersoll's Letters relating to the Stamp Act (New Haven, 1766); and some tracts by Governor Fitch (Brinley Catal., nos. 2,116-2,118).
For New York, the Journal of the N. Y. Assembly; histories of the City and State of New York; N. Y. Col. Docs., vii. 770; N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1876; Lossing's Schuyler, i. 203; Leake's Lamb, ch. 2-4; a long and interesting letter from Wm. Smith to Geo. Whitefield in Hist. MSS. Com. Rept., ii. (Dartmouth Papers); a letter of R. R. Livingston to General Monckton, in Aspinwall Papers, ii. 554; Penna. Mag. of Hist., ii. 296; J. A. Stevens in Mag. of Amer. Hist., June, 1777 (i. 337), and on "Old Coffee-Houses" in Harper's Monthly, lxiv. p. 493 (see view of Burns's Coffee-house, the headquarters of the Sons of Liberty, in Valentine's Manual of N. Y. City, 1858, p. 588; 1864, pp. 513, 514; and in Gay's Pop. Hist. U. S., iii. 456); and Dawson's Sons of Liberty in N. Y.
For New Jersey, letter of Governor Franklin to Lords of Trade, in N. J. Archives, ix. 499, with other papers.
For Pennsylvania, Sparks's Franklin, vii. 297, 303, 307, 308, 310-13, 317-19, 328; the account in the Penna. Gazette, no. 1,239, Supplement, reprinted in Hazard's Reg. of Penna., ii. 243; Watson's Annals of Philad., vol. ii.; Muhlenberg's journal in Penna. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. i. 78; Wallace's Col. Bradford, p. 95.
For Delaware, Life of Geo. Read, p. 30.
For Maryland, the Gilmor Papers in the Maryland Hist. Soc. library, vol. iii., division 2; and references in vol. xi. of the Stevens-Peabody index of Maryland MSS.
For Virginia, the Resolves (May 29th) of the Assembly (to which Patrick Henry made his bold speech), given in Hutchinson's Mass., iii., App. p. 466; Geo. Tucker's United States, i., App., and cf. Franklin's Works, vii. 298; C. R. Hildeburn in Penna. Mag. of Hist., ii. 296; Huguenot Family, p. 424; Ryerson's Loyalists, i. 286; and Randall's Jefferson, i. ch. 2.