[Footnote 19: Thirteen days before, the writer had been chosen with four
others, J. Bowdoin, W. Cushing, Samuel Adams, and R. T. Paine, to go to
Philadelphia, for the purpose of meeting delegates of other colonies for
consultation.]
[Footnote 20: Samuel Moody, born in 1675, graduated at Cambridge in
1697, and died in 1747; one of a class peculiar to colonial times, the
like of whom are no longer to be found in the rural districts.]