[695] Works, ii. 411, 413, iii. 45, ix. 591, 596, x. 284, 359, 394; Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xliv. 300, 465; N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1876.
[696] There is help in tracing the sporadic instances of the independent spirit to be found in Sparks's App. to his Washington (ii. 496), in Frothingham's Rise of the Republic (pp. 154, 245, 291, 315, 364, 428, 438, 449, 452, 469, 483, 489, 499, 506, 509); in Hutchinson's Massachusetts (iii. 134, 264, 265,—cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xix. 135); in Jefferson's Notes on Virginia; in Galloway's Examination; in Force's American Archives, 4th ser., ii. 696, and vi., index, under "Independence;" in Bancroft, vii. 301, viii. ch. 64, 65, 68; in Grahame, iv. 315; in J. C. Hamilton's Repub. of the U. S., i. 110; Palfrey's New England, i. 308, ii. 266; Mem. of Josiah Quincy, Jr., p. 228; Wells's Sam. Adams, ii. 242, 352; Greene's Nath. Greene, i. 122; Austin's Gerry, ch. 13; Rives's Madison, i. 108, 124.
The position of parties in Congress can be traced in Randall's Jefferson, i. 153; Read's Geo. Read; John Adams's Works, i. 220, 517, ii. 31-75, 93; Pitkin's United States, i. 362.
[697] Boston Gazette, April 15th and 29th; Penna. Evening Post, April 20th, etc. Several of these are quoted in Moore's Diary.
[698] Declaration of Independence by the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, May 1, 1776, by H. B. Dawson, N. Y., 1862; or Hist. Mag., May, 1862.
[699] Adams's Works, iv. 201; Mag. of Amer. Hist., May, 1884, p. 369; Bancroft, viii. ch. 64; Force, 4th ser., vi. 1524.
[700] N. Y. Hist. Coll., 1872, p. 26; and on the timidity of Penna., Reed's Reed, i. 199-202.
[701] Works, ii. 489, 510; Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xliv. 466; Jameson's Constitutional Conventions, pp. 115, 116.
[702] No. Amer. Rev., by L. Sabine, April, 1848.
[703] Passed May 15th, and written by Edmund Pendleton,—Rives's Madison, i. 123, 130. For R. H. Lee see Life by R. H. Lee, Jr.; Sanderson's Signers; Brotherhead's Book of Signers, etc.