The legal aspects are particularly touched in Towle's Constitution, 311; Cocke's Constitutional Hist., i. 29; Scott's Development of Constitutional Liberty, 166; Oscar S. Strauss's Origin of Republican Form of Government, (N. Y.) 1885. Cf. Daniel Webster's Address before the N. Y. Hist. Society, Feb. 23, 1852, pp. 36, 40; and H. A. Brown's Oration on the Centennial of the Congress, 1874.
The general works to be consulted are Grahame, iv. 373; Bancroft, orig. ed., vii. 127; Hildreth, vol. iii.; Pitkin, i. ch. 8; Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 335, 359; Greene's Hist. View of the Amer. Rev., 79; Dunlap's New York, i. ch. 29, 31, and Jones's N. Y. during the Rev., i. 468; Gordon's Pennsylvania, ch. 20; Mulford's New Jersey, 389.
[281] Mag. of Amer. Hist., i. 438.
[282] Sabin, iv. 15,542. A MS. copy of the journal, attested by C. Thomson, and evidently brought home by Thos. Cushing, a Massachusetts member, is in the library of the Mass. Hist. Soc. (Proc., i. 271). Later editions are The whole proceedings of the American Continental Congress held at Philadelphia (New York, 1775,—Sabin, iv. 15,598); Extracts from the journal and from the votes and proceedings of Congress, published in Philad., reprinted in Boston and London (Ibid., iv. 15,526-28; Brinley, ii. 3,990; Stevens, Nuggets, no. 3,264). There were other editions in Providence, Newport, New London, Hartford. There were two editions published in London by Almon in 1775 (Sabin, iv. 15,544; Brinley, ii. 3,989). The journal appears also in the several authenticated series of the Journals of Congress, 1777, 1801, 1823, etc.
The correspondence of Congress with Gage (Oct. 10th and 20th) is contained in the Journal, i. 18, 46.
The documents of the Congress are given by Force.
[283] Works, i. 150, ii. 340, 366, 370, 382, 387, 393, ix. 339, 343; his correspondence with Mercy Warren is in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xliv. 348.
[284] Vol. ii. p. 535. It was printed separately at the time in Philad., Watertown (Mass.), and Newport. It will also be found in the Journals of Congress, i. p. 19; in Ryerson's Loyalists, i. p. 411; in Marshall's Hist. of the Colonies, App. ix. p. 481. Cf. Story's Constitution, i. 179; Curtis's Constitution, i. 22; Pitkin's United States, i. 283; Hildreth's United States, iii. 43; Gay's Pop. Hist. U. S., iii. 341; Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, p. 371; Greene's Hist. View, p. 83; Ramsay's South Carolina, i. p. 233.
[285] Cf. note on the authorship of it, in N. Jersey Archives, x. 529.
[286] It is printed from this copy, with fac-similes of the signatures, in the Mag. of Amer. Hist. (May, 1883, p. 377), together with the letter transmitting it (Stevens's Hist. Coll., i. 167; Bibl. Hist., 1870, no. 1,026). Franklin printed it at once in Almon's edition of the Journal of the Congress (Works relating to Franklin in the Bost. Pub. Lib., p. 24; U. S. 47th Cong., 1st Sess. Misc. Doc., no. 21, p. 20). It is also in the Philad. ed. of the Journal, i. 46; and was separately printed at Boston in 1774 and 1775, and at New York in 1776, with other documents (Sabin, iv. nos. 15,581-83; Haven in Thomas, ii. pp. 642-43). It has since been given in Force, 4th ser., i. 934; N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 437-41; N. Jersey Archives, x. 522; Spencer's United States, i. 348, 381; Griffeth's Historical Notes, 136. Cf. Ramsay's So. Carolina, i. 242; John Adams's Works, i. 159, x. 273; Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 377; Amer. Quart. Review, i. 413.