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Footnote 1:
Townshend’s Historical Collections, p. 76.
Footnote 2:
Prince’s New-England Chronology, part I.
Footnote 3:
Wood’s New-England’s Prospect, ed. 1764, p. 5.
Footnote 4:
See the Charter in Hutchinson’s Collection of papers, p 1.–23.
Footnote 5:
Neale’s History of the Puritans. 4to. Vol. 1. p. 543.
Footnote 6:
Hutchinson’s History of the Massachusetts Bay. Vol. II. p. 3.
Footnote 7:
Suffolk Records.
Footnote 8:
Suffolk Records.
Footnote 9:
Hutchinson’s History, Vol. I p. 487.
Footnote 10:
Prince’s Chronology, p. 238.
Footnote 11:
Governor Winthrop’s MS. History.
Footnote 12:
Hutchinson’s Letter of December 7. 1762.
Footnote 13:
Hutchinson’s History, Vol. I p. 251 and 252.
Footnote 14:
Extract from Governor Winthrop’s MS. History sent me by Gov. Trumbull
from Connecticut.
Footnote 15:
Massachusetts Records, Vol. I.
Footnote 16:
Hutchinson’s History. Vol I. p. 424.
Footnote 17:
Massachusetts Records, in many places.
Footnote 18:
Mr. John Calender’s Century Sermon.
Footnote 19:
Massachusetts Records for the 4th of November, 1646, Vol. I.
Footnote 20:
Hutchinson’s History, Vol. II. p. 2 and 4.
Footnote 21:
ibid. Vol. I. p. 115.
Footnote 22:
Hutchinson’s Collection, p. 420.
Footnote 23:
Chalmer’s Political Annals, under Connecticut and Rhode-Island.
Footnote 24:
Neal’s History of _New-England_, Vol. I. p. 214–217.
Footnote 25:
Hutchinson’s History. Vol. I. p. 268.
Footnote 26:
Ibid. p. 328.
Footnote 27:
See Hutchinson’s collection of papers, p. 477–506. The Massachusetts
assembly in their answer to Gov. Hutchinson in 1773, quoted the above
passages in such a manner and to such a purpose, as expresses their
opinion of the truth of what Randolph declared.
Footnote 28:
Chalmer’s Political Annals, p. 313.
Footnote 29:
Smith’s History of New Jersey, p. 513.
Footnote 30:
Smith’s History of New-Jersey, p. 517.
Footnote 31:
ibid. p. 528–529.
Footnote 32:
ibid. 536.
Footnote 33:
Corrupted by time into Whore-Kill. The name of many rivers, in
New-York particularly terminate with kill, which means both river and
rivulet.
Footnote 34:
The manuscript copy contains a number of authorities from Bracton,
Fortesque, the petition of right, &c. See Smith, p. 129, the note.
Footnote 35:
Smith, p. 117–123.
Footnote 36:
See Chalmer’s Political Annals under the head of Virginia, for many of
the preceding and subsequent articles respecting that colony.
Footnote 37:
Bland’s Inquiry into the rights of the British colonies.
Footnote 38:
Bland’s Inquiry into the rights of the British colonies.
Footnote 39:
Chalmer’s Political Annals, under Virginia.
Footnote 40:
Locke’s Works, Vol. IV, p. 519, &^c. 1779.
Footnote 41:
Chalmers’s Political Annals, B. I. p. 537, 538.
Footnote 42:
Most of what is said upon Carolina is taken from Chalmers’s Political
Annals, under the head of that province.
Footnote 43:
A defence of the American Constitution of Government, by John Adams,
Esq. p. 365.
Footnote 44:
The Modern Universal History, Vol. xl., 1763.
Footnote 45:
Chalmers’s Political Annals, under the head of Pennsylvania.
Footnote 46:
Chalmers’s Annals.
Footnote 47:
Chalmers’s Annals, p. 654.
Footnote 48:
The Modern Universal History, vol. xli. p. 19. 1764.
Footnote 49:
Ibid. p. 20.
Footnote 50:
Modern Universal History’ vol. xl. p. 453–463. 1763.
Footnote 51:
William Smith’s History of New-York, p. 75.
Footnote 52:
Chalmers’s Political Annals.
Footnote 53:
Lord Camden’s Speech in April 1766.
Footnote 54:
Hutchinson’s History, Vol. II. p. 74.
Footnote 55:
Hutchinson’s History, Vol. II. p. 271, 290, 294, 321. and governor
Burnet’s Speech to the Massachusetts general court, in the
Massachusetts Records for 1728.
Footnote 56:
Massachusetts Records for 1729 and 1731. Hutchinson’s History, Vol.
II. p. 355, 360, 363.
Footnote 57: