[374] Minutes in Mass. Archives, vol. cxv.
[375] Bancroft, orig. ed., vii. 311.
[376] Frothingham's Warren, 467.
[377] It was before long known what a reception these delegates had had in New York, and how the crowd were with difficulty prevented from taking the horses from Hancock's carriage and drawing it. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1865, p. 135. The journey of the delegates to Philadelphia in May, 1775, is described in the Deane Correspondence (Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll., ii. 222, etc.), and Jones (N. Y. during the Rev., i. 45) describes their reception.
[378] The papers of Quincy include a long message to the patriots, practically a report on his English mission, which he was too weak to write himself, but dictated to a sailor on the voyage. The only poetrait of Quincy is one painted after his death. This is engraved in the Mem. Hist. of Boston, vol. iii.
[379] The trouble was in part whether "effects" included merchandise as well as furniture. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiii. 58. Cf. Frothingham's Warren, p. 483. James Bowdoin, as representative of the Boston people, tried to make an arrangement on the basis of a surrender of arms, and the draft of an order in Bowdoin's handwriting, in the name of Gage, is given, with references, in Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 76. Cf. Evacuation Memorial, p. 115. A part of the agreement with Gage was that the country Tories should be allowed to move into Boston. Among those who soon found their way into Boston, but under difficulties, were Lady Frankland and Benjamin Thompson, afterwards Count Rumford. (Evacuation Mem., 125-130. Cf. Barry's Mass., iii. 5, and references.)
[380] Whittier's "Great Ipswich Fright", in his Prose Works, ii. 112; Ipswich Antiq. Papers, iv. no. 46; Crowell's Essex (Mass.), 205.
[381] See Alexander Scammell's letter in Amory's General Sullivan, 299. New Hampshire was already sending forward her men. Hist. Mag., vii. 21.
[382] Niles's Principles and Acts (1876), p. 141.
[383] Force's Am. Archives, ii. 433-39; Beardsley's Life of W. S. Johnson, 110, 210. The Massachusetts delegates meanwhile had tarried long enough in Connecticut, on their way to Philadelphia, to confirm the patriots there, and force the halting to take a decided stand. Cf. Journals Prov. Cong., 179, 194, 196.