For the commotions in the other colonies, see, for New Hampshire, beside the histories, the N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 408, 413, and the letter of July 26, 1774, in the Chas. Lovell Papers (Mass. Hist. Soc.). For Connecticut, the general histories of the State, Peters's Connecticut, and McCormick's reprint, to be corrected by J. L. Kingsley's Hist. Address (1838), New Englander (1871, p. 248), and Scribner's Mag., June, 1878. Cf. also J. H. Trumbull's Blue Laws true and false. Dawson (Westchester County, p. 7) claims that the refusal of the New York authorities to allow the tea ship Nancy to enter the harbor was more significant than the riot in Boston, and he cites various authorities. Cf. Lossing's Schuyler (i. ch. 16) and Leake's Lamb (ch. 6). For Pennsylvania, see the histories of Philadelphia; Niles's Principles and Acts (1876, p. 201); Reed's Life of Joseph Reed (i. ch. 2) for his letters to Dartmouth; Madison's Works (i. 10). For North Carolina, see Hist. Mag. (xv. 118).
[249] For a portrait of Cushing, see Mem. Hist. of Boston, iii. 34.
[250] Journals of the House, 1773; Boston Gazette; Alden Bradford's ed. of Mass. State Papers; Gent. Mag., July, 1773. The letters were first published June 16, 1773 (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Oct., 1877, p. 339).
Copy of letters sent to Great Britain by Thomas Hutchinson and Andrew Oliver, and several other persons born and educated among us; which original letters have been returned to America (Boston, 1773; reprinted in Salem, 1773). The letters of Gov. Hutchinson and Lieut.-Gov. Oliver, 1st and 2d ed. (edited by Israel Mauduit) (London, 1774). The representations of Gov. Hutchinson and others contained in certain letters transmitted to England, and afterwards returned from thence (Boston, 1773). These letters are reprinted in Franklin before the Privy Council (Philad., 1859). Cf. Works relating to Franklin in the Boston Public Library, pp. 21, 22; Sabin, vi. p. 344, Haven in Thomas, ii. 632, 633; Stevens's Hist. Coll., i. p. 166.
[251] Mahon (v. 323) thinks it strange that any American of high standing should care to justify or palliate the conduct of Franklin. Goldwin Smith (Study of History, N. Y., 1866, p. 213) says: "Franklin alone, perhaps, of the leading Americans, by the dishonorable publication of an exasperating correspondence, which he had improperly obtained, shared with Grenville, Townshend, and Lord North the guilt of bringing this great disaster on the English race." Lecky (England in the Eighteenth Century, iii. 380, 416) alleges rather hastily that Hutchinson had once been concerned in using Franklin's letters with a certain disregard of rights. (Cf. Sparks's Franklin, iv. 450.) Some memoranda of Chalmers are in the Sparks MSS. (x. vol. iv.) Cf. Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors (vi. 105); Massey's England (vol. ii.); Adolphus's England (vol. ii. 34); Walpole's Last Journals, i. 255, 289.
[252] It is included in Sparks's edition, iv. 405, and embraces Franklin's letters to Cushing and his replies. Cf. also Sparks's Franklin, i. 356, viii. (his letters), 72, 79, 81, 85, 98, 100, 116, 117; Bigelow's Life of Franklin, ii. 130, 141, 158, 187, 206; Parton's Franklin, i. 560, 564, 582.
[253] A faithful account of the transaction relating to a late affair of honour between J. Temple and W. Whateley, containing a particular history of that unhappy quarrel (London, 1774). On Temple's connection with the Hutchinson letters, see the citations of the contemporary correspondence in Temple Prime's Some account of the Temple Family (N. Y., 1887), pp. 61-85.
[254] Franklin's Works, iv. 435.
[255] Ibid., iv. 441.
[256] Cf. Boston Daily Advertiser, April 3 and 5, 1856.