| THE BRONZE TABLET ERECTED AT QUEBEC TO COMMEMORATE MONTGOMERY’S DEFEAT | [Frontispiece] | |
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| THE ORIGIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA | James J. Tracy | [1] |
| Chief of the Massachusetts State Archives Division | ||
| A BIT OF CHURCH HISTORY | Rev. Roscoe Nelson | [10] |
| (The First Church, Windsor, Conn.) | ||
| ARNOLD AND MONTGOMERY AT QUEBEC. | (Illustration) | [13] |
| The Bronze Tablet Commemorating Arnold’s Defeat | ||
| A “SCRUB-POETICAL” ANSWER TO A GOVERNOR | Otis G. Hammond | [18] |
| HAS GOVERNOR LOVELACE OF NEW YORK BEEN PROPERLY IDENTIFIED? | W. G. Stanard | [30] |
| THE INFLUENCE OF SLAVERY ON THE OLD SOUTHERN CIVILIZATION | H. E. Belin | [34] |
| ANTHONY WALTON WHITE, BRIGADIER IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY | A. S. Graham and Anna M. W. Woodhull | [40] |
| ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS | ||
| Two Eighteenth Century Letters | [45] | |
| The Panama Canal Twenty-five Years Ago | [48] | |
| The Earliest Known Autograph of Benedict Arnold | [50] | |
| MAGAZINE OF HISTORY NOTICE | [51] | |
| GENEALOGICAL | [53] | |
| MINOR TOPICS: A Committee to Visit Nova Scotia | [56] | |
| BOOK NOTICES | [57] | |
| ANNOUNCEMENTS | [58] | |
Entered as second-class matter, March 1, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Copyright, 1905, by William Abbatt
SCENE OF MONTGOMERY’S DEFEAT.
Tablet placed by the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 1904.
THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY
WITH NOTES AND QUERIES
Vol. I JANUARY, 1905 No. 1
THE ORIGIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA
Prior to the outbreak of the Revolution the militia of the Province of Massachusetts Bay was governed by the provisions of an act for regulating the militia, passed in 1693. Although quaint and antiquated in its provisions, it seems to have sufficed for all practical purposes; and no other act was passed regulating the militia until the Provincial Congress, almost at the beginning of its sittings, took steps to place the militia of the Province upon a different basis in order to find themselves prepared for the impending contest with the mother country, which at that date, October, 1774, was patent to all men as an unavoidable conflict.