Noddle's Island, May 27: Frothingham's Siege, 109; Dawson's Battle, i. 47; Force's Am. Archives, ii. 719; Gordon, ii. 24; Humphrey's Putnam, 69; Tarbox's Putnam; Sumner's East Boston; N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., April, 1857, p. 137.
[393] Frothingham's Warren, 490 (May 16).
[394] P. O. Hutchinson's Gov. Hutchinson, 457.
[395] Thornton's Pulpit of the Revolution, p. 277.
[396] Life of Gerry, i. 79.
[397] Familiar Letters, p. 60.
[398] P. O. Hutchinson, p. 468.
[399] Issued in pursuance of Dartmouth's instructions of April 15. Sparks' Washington, iii. 510. There are copies of the broadside in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library, and in the Bostonian Society's rooms.
[400] Fonblanque's Burgoyne, 136, with the document in the Appendix. It is also in Niles's Principles and Acts (1876), p. 122. Moore, in his Diary of the Amer. Rev., i. 93, gives a sample of the fun made of it in rhyme. Cf. Wells's Sam. Adams, ii. 310.
[401] Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. 352.