For North Carolina, J. H. Wheeler's Reminiscences and Memoir of No. Carolina (1884).
For South Carolina, R. W. Gibbs's Doc. Hist. of the Amer. Rev., p. 1; Niles's Principles and Acts (1876), p. 319; Charleston Year-Book, 1885, p. 331, with a fac-simile of broadside of schedule of stamps; Ramsay's South Carolina; Flanders's Rutledge, p. 456. There are in the Sparks MSS. (xliii. vol. iv.) various official letters of the governors of the different colonies to the home government. Gage's reminiscent letter to Chalmers is in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. (xxxiv. 367, etc.); and other letters are in the Hist. Mag. (May, 1862, vol. vi. 137).
[186] Gay's Pop. Hist. U. S. (iii. 341), for a view of the hall.
[187] Authentic Account of the proceedings of the Congress held in New York in 1765 on the subject of the American Stamp Act (Philad., 1767; Lond., 1767; Philad., 1813; in Almon's Tracts, 1773; in Niles's Principles and Acts, 1876, p. 155,—see Sabin, xiii. nos. 53,537, etc.); Journal of the first Congress of the American Colonies, N. Y., Oct. 7, 1775, ed. by Lewis Cruger (Sabin, iv. 15,541). They passed a declaration of rights, an address to the king, a memorial to the lords, and a petition to the commons. (Cf. Hutchinson's Mass., vol. iii., App. pp. 479, 481, 483, 485; N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 87, 89; H. W. Preston's Docs. illus. Amer. Hist.,1886). John Adams and McKean at a later day exchanged memories of the Congress (John Adams's Works, x. 60, 63). Beardsley, in his W. S. Johnson (p. 32), explains the position of that member for Connecticut. Cf., among the general writers, Bancroft, v. ch. 18; N. C. Towle, Hist. and Analysis of the Constitution, 307; Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 185; Palfrey's New England, iv. 399; Barry's Mass., ii. 304; Dunlap's New York, i. 416; Green's Hist. View of the Amer. Rev., 72; Lossing in Harper's Monthly, xxvi. 34, and Mahon's England, v. 126.
Timothy Ruggles (b. 1711), who later joined the Tories, was chosen president by a single vote. Cf. sketch in Worcester Mag. (1826), vol. ii., p. 54, and Sabine's Amer. Loyalists.
[188] Works relating to Franklin in Boston Pub. Lib., p. 20; Bancroft, orig. ed., v. 306; Penna. Mag. of Hist., viii. 426, and x. 220; Sparks's Franklin, i. 290; iv. 156, 161, 206; vii. 281; x. 429-32; Parton's Franklin, i. 436. The grounds of the accusation against Franklin are discussed in a correspondence of Franklin with Dean Tucker (Sparks's Franklin, iv. 518; Bigelow's Franklin, i. 460-466), and Tucker so far admitted his error as to omit the passage.
[189] Smyth's Lectures, ii. 383.
[190] The Examination of Franklin [before the House of Commons] relative to the repeal of the American Stamp Act in 1766 (Williamsburg, n. d.; London, 1766; Philad.? 1766?; n. p. and n. d.; London, 1767—the titles vary in some of these editions). The report is also in Almon's Prior Documents (London, 1777, pp. 64-81; Sparks's Franklin (iv. p. 161; cf. vii. 311, 328); Bigelow's Franklin, i. 467); Bancroft, v. 428; Ryerson, i. 308.
[191] In recording the debates in Parliament, Bancroft (orig. ed., v. 383, 415) used the accounts in the Political Debates, in Walpole's Letters, the précis in the French archives, the report set down by Moffat of Rhode Island, and the copious extracts made by Garth, a member, who sent his notes to South Carolina. William Strahan's account is given in the Penna. Mag. of Hist., April, 1886, p. 95. It is said in P. O. Hutchinson's Governor Hutchinson (i. 288) that Pitt was in doubt at first which side to take. Cf. lives of Pitt and editions of his speeches, and the comment in Mahon, v. 133, 138, and Ryerson, i. 302. Smyth (ii. 365) considers the protest of the lords against the repeal (Protests of the Lords, ed. by J. E. T. Rogers, ii. 77) the best exposition of the government view of taxation. For a Paris edition of this Protests, with Franklin's marginal notes, see Brinley Catal., no. 3,219. See also, for English comment, Fitzmaurice's Shelburne (i. ch. 7), and Lecky, (iii. 344); and for American, Bancroft, v. 421, 450; Mem. Hist. of Boston, iii. 19; and in Franklin's Works (iv. 156; vii. 308, 317).
There were rumors of the coming repeal in Boston as early as April 1st (Thornton's Pulpit, 120), but the confirmation came May 16th, when public rejoicing soon followed, and on a Thanksgiving, July 24, Charles Chauncy delivered a Discourse in Boston (Boston, 1766; reprinted by Thornton, p. 105). The Boon Catalogue (no. 2,949) and others show numerous sermons in commemoration of the repeal; and the public prints give the occasional ballads (F. Moore's Songs and Ballads, p. 22).