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 A. S. GRAHAM and
CONTINENTAL ARMY 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_
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