[Footnote 41: Samuel Adams and Thomas Cushing, both of them delegates.]
[Footnote 42: "Mr. Brattle begs leave to quere whether it would not be
best that there should not be one commissioned officer of the militia in
the province." (Brattle to General Gage, 26 August.)
The other rumor is not sustained by this letter, as General Brattle
there announces that all the town's stock of powder had been
surrendered, and none was left but the king's, meaning thereby what
belonged to the province. But whether he advised it or not, it is
certain that a detachment of the regular troops was sent out of Boston
on the 1st of September to secure all the powder left at Charlestown,
and to bring it away, which was done.]
[Footnote 43: Writs to summon juries. The administration of justice had
been stopped by the impeachment of Chief Justice Oliver, and the refusal
of the juries to act under him. The present attempt was intended to
deter all others from becoming jurors.]
[Footnote 44: The old name of the town of Sharon.]
[Footnote 45: The most clear and decisive account of the general rising
that took place at this time in the province is given in the official
letter of General Gage to Lord Dartmouth, of the same date with this
letter. _Am. Archives_ for 1774, p. 767.]