The correspondence of Jeremy Beiknap and Eben Hazard, the one mainly in Dover, N. H., and the other in Philadelphia, begins in Jan., 1779, and goes through the war, -as printed in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xlii. The papers of Jonathan Chase of Cornish, a militia colonel, who was at Saratoga, relate to his regiment's service, and contain a few letters from Generals Gates, Morey, Bedel, etc. Some of them have been printed in Town Papers, xi., xii., xiii., and in the Revolutionary War Rolls, vol. xvii.

The Belknap papers (Mass. Hist. Soc.) also contain many other documents relating to New Hampshire,1 including letters of Richard Waldron (b. 1650, d. 1730) and of Lieut.-Gov. John Usher. A volume of Belknap Papers in the N. H. Hist. Soc. contains some correspondence of Governors Wentworth and Shirley.

When Sparks, in 1831, caused copies to be made of some of the papers (1774-1783) of John Langdon, the originals were then in the possession of Langdon's daughter, Mrs. Elwyn of Philadelphia; 2 and later they were in the hands of Dr. A. L. Elwyn of Philadelphia, who, reserving what he considered the most important, gave the rest to the Pennsylvania Historical Society. These last consist of building accounts of vessels ordered by Congress, drafts of speeches, and a few letters, beside other miscellaneous documents. They also include some of the papers of William Whipple, which apparently fell into Langdon's hands, including drafts of his letters and a letter-book, 1781-1784. Since Dr. Elwyn's death they have been in the charge of the Rev. Alfred Langdon Elwyn.

A portrait and some of the letters of Alexander Scammell are given in the Mag. of Amer. History, Aug., 1883.

I find no record of the papers of Nathaniel Peabody, but an important paper, of which, with Philip Schuyler and John Matthews, he is the signer, has been recently found in the New Hampshire Historical Society. It is the proceedings of the committee appointed by Congress, April 13, 1780, to visit headquarters, with their report and correspondence with general officers.4

The General Sullivan papers are now in the keeping of Thomas C. Amory of Boston, but are eventually to become the property of the N. H. Historical Society. When Sparks, in 1827, made his copies (Sparks MSS., no. xx.), they were in the possession of Sullivan's grandson, Dr. Steele of Durham, and were later on deposit in the Portsmouth Athenæum. There are scattered letters of Sullivan in the Trumbull Papers (vol. iv., etc.); others in the papers of Meschech Weare in the Mass. Hist. Soc. cabinet; and copies of others from the New Hampshire Archives are in the Sparks MSS. (xxxv.)

There are a good many of the papers of Meschech Weare in the cabinet of the Mass. Hist. Society. One of the lots contains the letters, mostly original, of Jay, Sullivan, Steuben, and others, addressed to Weare, between 1779 and 1782. Two other volumes, Letters and Papers, 1777-1824, are in large part made up of his papers, including much illustrating the campaign of 1778 in Rhode Island.5 Other letters of Weare are among the Trumbull MSS.

The Proceedings of the N. Y. Hist. Soc. (1848, p. 41) show that Mr. Jacob B. Moore, sen., then librarian of that society, deposited with it the correspondence and papers of Meschech Weare, in ten folio volumes, covering the period 1680 to 1786, and accompanied by a chronological index. They are now in the possession of George H. Moore and Frank Moore of New York, or were recently.

The correspondence of Gov. Wentworth, 1767-1778, is preserved in the Nova Scotia Archives, the governor having been at a later day the executive of that province, and a transcript of his letter-book has been made for the office of the secretary of state at Concord. 7

There are in the Sparks MSS. (no. xliii., vol. i.) copies made in 1840 at the State Paper Office of the correspondence of the royal governors of New Hampshire and the home government (1765-1774), and (vol. iv.) the correspondence of Gov. Wentworth with the Board of Trade, and minutes of the Board (1767).

The correspondence of Secretary Waldron and Gov. Jonathan Belcher (1731-40) is in the N. H. Hist. Society.

Copies of some of Stark's papers, made in 1827, are among the Sparks MSS. (no. xxxix.; others in xxxv.) Various letters of Eleazer Wheelock, of Dartmouth College, are scattered through the Trumbull Papers (vol. iii., in 1771, etc.), and a considerable collection of his papers is in the possession of the college, secured in part through the interposition of Judge Mellen Chamberlain.

A part of William Whipple's papers seem to have passed into the hands of John Langdon, as already mentioned. Some of his letters are given in Lee's Life of R. H. Lee (vol. ii. p. 111, etc.), and others (1776) are in the Sparks MSS. (no. xlvii.). No considerable mass of Whipple's papers are known to exist.

What is left of the papers of Col. Timothy Bedel is in the library of the New Hampshire Historical Society,

1 Ante, V. 166.

Sparks MSS., lii., vol. ii. There was published in

Philadelphia, in 1880, Letters by Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and others, written during and after the Revolution to John Langdon, New Hampshire. This volume was edited by Dr. Alfred Langdon Elwyn, but the volume has neither contents, introduction, nor index, and it is said that some of the most important papers were not included. There is a portrait of Langdon at present hanging in Independence Hall.

3 Some of his correspondence is printed in the N. H. State Papers, xvii., as mentioned later.

4 It is a MS. volume of 354 pages, and it is attested by Col. Abraham Brasher, secretary of the committee.

5 Letters of Washington to Weare are printed in the N. H. Hist. Soc. Coll., ii. 150-194.

6 T. B. Akins's List of MS. Docs. in the Government Offices at Halifax (1886), p. 9.

7 Steps have been taken to supplement them by copies of other papers in the Public Record Office in London.

and they have been printed in the N. H. State Papers, xvii. With the same society were also at one time the papers of Nathaniel Peabody, but they have disappeared, and except that the society published some of them they have left no trace. Some found a few years ago in a junk shop were acquired by the State, and are printed in N. H. State Papers, xvii. p. 386. The Life of William Plumer1 is said not to have made full use of Plumer's MS. autobiography, which is in existence. It is not known that the papers of Matthew Thornton exist.2 A very few of the papers of Judge Thompson are preserved at Durham by a descendant.3 Those of Paine Wingate have been scattered.

VERMONT. The principal Revolutionary interest in Vermont, irrespective of the fight at Bennington, is the intermittent controversy between the people of the New Hampshire grants and New York (see Vol. V. p. 179), and the attempts of the British, through their Canadian commander, to alienate the people of the grants from the patriot cause.

The Haldimand papers 4 illustrate the negotiations which extended from Jan. 11, 1779, to March 25, 1783. (See the Vermont Hist. Soc. Collections, ii. 59-366.) There are copies of Beverly Robinson's and Ethan Allen's correspondence (1780-81) in the Sparks MSS. (lii., vol. ii.), of the correspondence of Clinton and Haldimand (1779, etc.) in Ibid. (xiv.), and other papers on the subject, copied from the MSS. in the Royal Institution, during 1780-82, in Ibid. (no. lxx.) There are scattered letters of Ethan Allen among the Trumbull Papers (vol. iv.).

The printed records of Vermont for this period are the Records of the Council of Safety and Governor and Council; and the Vermont State Papers; being a collection of records and documents, connected with the assumption and establishment of government by the people of Vermont; with the Journal of the Council of Safety, the first constitution, the early journals of the general assembly, and the laws from 1779 to 1786, inclusive. Added, the proceedings of the first and second councils of censors. Compiled and published by William Slade, jun., secretary of state (Middlebury, 1823).

The papers collected by Henry Stevens, sen., first president of the Vermont Historical Society, and covering the history of that State from about 1758 to 1846, were bought by the State of New York in 1875, and are as yet unarranged; but Mr. Fernow informs me that they include papers of Ethan and Ira Allen, with other papers showing the commissary details of the Northern army.

RHODE ISLAND. - The records of the Revolutionary period in the office of the secretary of state include, beside the general records, those of the Council of War (1776–1781), various military returns, the journals of the Senate and the House, documents relating to the destruction of the "Gaspee" (one volume), petitions and papers of letters of marque (1776-1780), orders of the King in Council (1734-1783), and numerous miscellaneous documents.6 The Carter-Brown library possesses transcripts of papers, relating to Rhode Island, in the British Archives (1636–1769), in ten volumes, the latter part of which refer to the beginning of the Revolutionary troubles,7 and many of these papers have been printed in the Rhode Island Colonial Records, of which the sixth and later volumes refer to the Revolutionary period.8 The Sparks MSS. (no. lix.) contain papers selected in the Public Offices of the State.

The documents in the case of Torrey v. Gardner respecting the Narragansett lands (1734) are in the Prince library, and they are enumerated in the appendix of the Catalogue of that collection (p. 157).

There are also in the Sparks MSS. (xliii., vol. iii.) copies of the official correspondence of the authorities of Rhode Island with the home government (1763-1776).

Various letters of Gov. William Greene are in the Trumbull MSS., and others are in the Gov. Ward papers.

1 Ante, VII. 320.

2 Letter of Chas. H. Bell, Aug. 27, 1886.

3 Letter of Miss Mary P. Thompson.

The Haldimand papers in the British Museum are indexed in the Additions to the MSS. in the Brit. Mus., 1854-1875 (London, 1880), under such heads as Allen (Ethan) and Vermont. A Calendar of the Haldimand Papers is now publishing by the Dominion Archivist at Ottawa. See description on a later page.

5 Vol. i., 1775-1779 (1873); vol. ii., 1779-1782 (1874). John R. Bartlett's Bibliog. of Rhode Island (1864), p. 246. This list shows about 1000 titles. The collection of Rhode Island books formed by S. S. Rider of Providence (1885) is said to show 3000 titles of bound volumes, and 15,000 of pamphlets. Cf. an Index to the printed acts and resolves of, and of the petitions and reports to, the General assembly of the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations, 1758 to 1862. By John Russell Bartlett (Providence, 1856-63).

7 Bartlett's Bibliog. of R. 1., p. 249.

8 See Vol. V. p. 166. Other papers are given in Cowell's

Spirit of '76 in R. I. Arnold, Hist. of R. I., ii. 376, refers to the papers in the secretary's office. He speaks of the Records of Portsmouth, the town forming the most northerly part of the island of Rhode Island, as the most complete and best preserved records in the State; but he says there is a gap in them from Dec., 1776, to Nov., 1779 (Arnold, ii. 389). The town histories of Rhode Island, except those of Providence and Newport, have not much upon the Revolutionary times beyond such local aspects as are presented, for example, in Frederick Denison's Westerly and its witnesses, 1627-1876 (Providence, 1878, ch. 15). Number Ten of the R. I. Hist. Tracts is an Historical Inquiry concerning the attempt to raise a regiment of slaves by Rhode Island during the war of the Revolution, by S. S. Rider (Providence, 1880); other numbers of this series are mentioned elsewhere. Cf. Staples' Rhode Island in the Continental Congress, which was edited by Reuben Aldrich Guild (Providence, 1870). James N. Arnold's paper on the "Causes of the popularity of the Revolution in Rhode Island" is in the Narragansett Hist. Register, iv. 81.

The papers of Gov. Henry Bull are owned by Henry Bull of Newport.

Many of the papers of Samuel Ward, governor of Rhode Island (1762-63 and 1765–67) are preserved. His official letters were given to the State by a descendant, and are printed in the R. I. Colonial Records. His descendant, Mr. John Ward of New York city, possesses his diary during the Continental Congress of 1774 and 1775-76, which has been printed in the Mag. of Amer. Hist., i. pp. 438, 503, 549, 696; and the letters written during this period down to his death, Mar. 26, 1776. These letters have been used by the late Professor Gammell in his Life of Samuel Ward, and in a paper by their present owner, called The Continental Congress before the Declaration of Independence," published in the N. Y. Geneal. and Biographical Record, Apr., 1878. (Cf. also Ibid., Apr., 1877.) There are copies of some of the Gov. Samuel Ward papers in the Sparks MSS. (no. xxv.)

The papers collected by S. G. Arnold (R. I.) are owned (those bound) by the John Carter-Brown library, and (unbound) by Mrs. S. G. Arnold of New York city.

The papers gathered by Isaac Backus are in the Rhode Island Hist. Society.

The Carter-Brown library, so rich in printed sources, is not particularly well equipped with manuscripts. The most conspicuous manuscripts are the original of Champlain's West India voyage, elsewhere referred to (ante, ch. v.; and Vol. IV. p. 133), and an Italian portolano of the sixteenth century, the only example, so far as I know, of such an early cartographical record preserved in America. It is an atlas on vellum, containing 28 leaves of maps in colors heightened with gold, of which five show the American continent; but they represent two opposed sets of the cartographical views prevailing at that time, one making North America adjoined to Asia, and the other showing it distinct from the older continent. It is described in Quaritch's Catalogue, Hist. and Geog. (1885), no. 28,159, and by Mr. Winsor in the Amer. Hist. Asso. Papers (i. 438). Prof. Edw. T. Channing in his Life of William Ellery in Sparks's Amer. Biography, vol. vi. p. 128, says that Ellery's friends destroyed all his letters at his own request, but that "it was not known how the letterbooks and journals used in this [Channing's] memoir escaped." Col. T. W. Higginson printed a journal of a journey to attend Congress in 1777–1778 in Scribner's Monthly, Jan., 1880.1 It is understood that a mass of his papers descended to his youngest son, Wanton Ellery, from whom they passed to the grand-daughters of the patriot, the Misses Ellery of Newport. Some Ellery papers were in the possession of the late James Eddy Mauran of Newport; and others of a later day were given by Mr. Mauran to the Rhode Island Historical Society.

The most considerable collections of Revolutionary papers gathered by a Rhode Island officer are those of General Nathanael Greene. Caldwell, in the preface of his Life of Greene, in 1819, says of Greene's papers: "No inconsiderable portion of the materials necessary to complete his biography has been lost through the negligence of those to whom they were entrusted. In various parts of the country individuals are known to have been in possession of volumes of his official letters, but on strictest inquiry few of these documents are now found."

The statement made by William Johnson in his Sketches of the Life and Correspondence of General Greene (Charleston, 1822) is that Mrs. Shaw, Greene's youngest daughter and administratrix, delivered to him the private correspondence of the general, which had at that time never been examined,2 and requested C. C. Pinckney, who then had in his charge the official papers of the Southern campaign, to deliver them to him. These last papers had been committed on the disbanding of the army to Major Edward Rutledge, whence they passed successively to his son, Henry Rutledge, and to General Pinckney. Johnson found them well preserved and well arranged, and says that Greene had been induced to preserve everything carefully, out of respect for a wish of Joseph Reed that the latter might have material for writing a history of the Revolution, which he then looked forward to doing. He also says that in addition to these papers he had access to "the private cabinets of Greene's friends," and was assisted by Pendleton, later Judge Pendleton, who had been a member of the general's military family. Greene's grandson, Professor George W. Greene,

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prepared in 1846, from the common printed authorities and at the request of Sparks, the Life of Nathanae Greene, which is included in Sparks's American Biography. Later, Professor Greene received the family papers, amounting to over 6,000 documents, and began the preparation of the much more elaborate Life of Nathanael Greene which, in three volumes, was published in New York in 1867-71. He printed many of the letters entire and large extracts from others in his first two volumes; but in his last volume, which begins with the opening of Greene's great campaign in the south, he is much more sparing of the use of the papers in so extended a way. The efforts which have been made to induce Congress to buy the Greene papers have failed. They are said to be at present in the possession of Mrs. P. M. Nightingale of Brunswick, Georgia. There are some letters of Greene among the Ward papers.

1 Higginson's Travellers and Outlaws (Boston, 1889), and Penna. Mag. of Hist., July, 1888.

2 Ramsay took notes from Greene's papers, but carried

no manuscripts away. Hist. Mag., xiii. 26.

3 Second series, vol. x.

The papers of Stephen Hopkins were swept, in Sept., 1815, from the house where they were deposited, by a tide, raised by a great gale.1

The original papers in the Hopkins and Ward case are in the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester. The letters and diaries of James Manning, covering the Revolutionary period, are in the library of Brown University, and have been used by Reuben A. Guild in his Life, Times and Correspondence of James Manning, 1738-1790 (Boston, 1864). In the same library are the papers of Hezekiah Smith, a chaplain in the Revolutionary army, which have been used by Dr. Guild in his Life, journals, letters and addresses of the Rev. Hezekiah Smith, D. D., of Haverhill, Mass., 1737-1805 (Philad., 1885).

A body of correspondence of the Revolution (1775-1782), from papers in the Rhode Island Historical Society, is printed in their Collections, vol. vi. (1867).2

CONNECTICUT. — A statement of the condition of the Archives of the State in 1849 is given in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1849, p. 167. At that time, about 50,000 papers before 1790 had been bound in 138 volumes and indexed. The printing of the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, ordinarily referred to as Colonial Records, has as yet proceeded no further than 1775. Of the series, vol. xii. (1762–1767), published in 1881, vol. xiii. (1768–1772), published in 1885, and vol. xiv. (1772-1775), are the last printed. The volumes are edited by Charles J. Hoadly. The State has also printed a Roll of state officers and members of the General Assembly of Connecticut from 1776 to 1881 (Hartford, 1881).4 Some of the Continental rolls of the State are in the War Department at Washington, but the State has taken steps to have copies made. There is in the first vol. of the Trumbull Papers (MSS., no. 138) a statement of the Connecticut troops in the service of the United States in 1782. A roll of the officers and men who served from Connecticut is in preparation for publication, under the charge of the adjutant-general of the State.

There are in the Sparks MSS. (xliii., vol. iii.) copies of the official correspondence of the home government with the authorities of Connecticut (1763-1776).

A special book, A Historical Collection of the part sustained by Connecticut during the War of the Revolution, by Royal H. Hinman (Hartford, 1842), is an accumulation unskilfully arranged, and it includes (p. 159) an epitome of the legislation in Connecticut touching the Revolution, and (p. 325) the acts of the governor and Council of Safety, June 7, 1775, to May 6, 1778.

A Report of the Secretary of State and State Librarian on the Ancient Court Records (Hartford. 1889) has recently been made to the General Assembly. The following facts are from it: The legislative records from April, 1636, to April, 1775, have been printed. Those of the State, still in MS., begin in 1776. The records of the Particular Court are succeeded by the county courts in 1666. They include Probate Records. The records of the Court of Assistants begin in 1669 and end in 1715; those of the Superior Court cover 1711-1798. A separate statement is made regarding the courts in Andros's time, with other accounts of those of the counties. The records of the New Haven jurisdiction between 1644 and 1653 have disappeared, and one volum remains of later records, which were printed in 1858. The records of the Plantation of New Haven, 1639-1649, etc., were printed in 1857; a continuation to 1662 exists in MS., followed by the town records, 1662-1678.

1 Stone's Life and Recollections of John Howland, P. 47. Foster in his Stephen Hopkins, app. B, beside enumerating such of Hopkins' letters and papers as are preserved in print, adds a list of those unpublished which he succeeded in finding.

2 Revolutionary correspondence from 1775 to 1782, comprising letters written by Governors Nicholas Cooke, William Greene, John Collins, Jonathan Trumbull, Generals Washington, Greene, Sullivan, and others.

In the Rhode Island Historical Society's library there are the following Revolutionary papers:—

The MSS. of Gov. Nicholas Cooke, governor of Rhode Island, 1775-1778, in two bound volumes, the second of which is "Revolutionary Correspondence, 1775-1781." Other letters of Cooke are in the Trumbull MSS.

The MSS. of Theodore Foster, secretary of the Rhode Island Council of War, 1776-1781, in sixteen volumes, and letters to him in two volumes, a large portion of which belong to the same period.

The MSS. of Commodore Esek Hopkins, in three vols. The MSS. of Moses Brown, a prominent Rhode Island Quaker, in fourteen volumes, the papers of 1770-1792 being in vols. ii. to vii.; beside miscellaneous material in three volumes.

Capt. Stephen Olney's "Account of a portion of the war."

Col. Christopher Lippitt's "Autobiographical sketch." Much Revolutionary material can also be found in "Military Papers" (4 vols.); "Rhode Island Manuscripts" (10

vols., particularly the last volume); "Providence Papers," 1643-1793 (1 vol.); Miscellaneous Manuscripts' (1 vol.); "Miscellaneous Papers" (6 vols.): papers of Jabez Bowen, a leader in Providence; the diary, etc., of Chaplain Enos Hitchcock, and Col. Ephraim Bowen's account of the burning of the "Gaspee.”

The papers of Gen. James Mitchell Varnum are not known, and I am informed by his grandnephew, Mr. John M. Varnumn of Cambridge, that he knows of only a few fragments of them. The only memoir of him is by Wilkins Updike in Memoirs of the Bar of R. I. (1842), which is condensed in Hildreth's Pioneer Settlers of Ohio. The papers of Gen. Joseph B. Varnum, a brother of James M. Varnum, are in the keeping of Mr. John M. Varnum, and contain correspondence with John Adams, Gideon Granger, and George Thatcher. An autobiography of Joseph B. Varnum is printed in the Mag. of Amer. Hist., Nov., 1888.

Mr. S. S. Rider has in his MSS. collections some of the papers of Gov. Benedict Arnold, the pension memoranda of General Nathan Miller, miscellaneous papers of Theodore Foster, orderly-book of Col. Daniel Hitchcock, the papers of Henry Marchant, and other documents of the Revolution. The papers of John Howland, a revolutionary soldier (cf. Life and Times of John Howland), belong to R. P. Everett; and those of Thomas Vernon are in the Newport Historical Society.

3 Cf. ante, V. p. 166.

4 It has engravings showing the five different state-houses at New Haven and Hartford since 1719.

"Beside the regular records of the General Assembly," says Mr. Hoadly, "which are unbroken, and those of the Council of Safety [at present in the State Library], there are in the State Library thirty-eight volumes of Revolutionary archives in manuscript; but most of the papers possess limited interest, the most valuable of the documents belonging to our archives being among the so-called Trumbull Papers in the Massachusetts Historical Society."

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The great bulk of the Trumbull Papers, thus referred to, belong to the period of the Revolution, and were accumulated in Governor Trumbull's hands because of his official station, and in these days, when the opinions respecting the right to public papers are more sharply defined than they were formerly, would unquestionably be held to be the property of the office, and not of its incumbent. They were offered to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1794, shortly after its formation, apparently because the establishment of such a society created fit custodians of such papers, and presumably because, at that time, it occurred to no one that the public offices of Connecticut would be a fitter place for them, since it was customary for public offices then to pay little attention to the preservation of records. The offer came from David Trumbull, son of the governor, and in the name of the heirs, and as

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carrying out the intention of Governor Trumbull to deposit them "in some public library." The offer was accepted, and the papers were received in loose bundles, late in 1795.1

In 1845 the State of Connecticut made an equitable claim upon the society for these papers, as in the main the papers gathered by Trumbull in his official character, and retained by him, as was then customary, as his private property, but as being, in the light of later practices, properly a part of the archives of the State. The society fell back in the main on their possession of fifty years, and on the honest creation of a trust by the son of Governor Trumbull, which they were bound to fulfil, and declined to surrender the papers.2 In 1885 the society printed, as the forty-ninth volume of its Collections, a selection from the papers, containing, beside some of the earlier ones, the letters of W. S. Johnson already referred to, and letters of Col. Jedidiah Huntington written during the siege of Boston. The preface of this volume gives some notes respecting the history of the papers. Others of Gov. Trumbull's papers are in the Connecticut Historical Society.

The local records of the Revolution are exemplified in Miss F. M. Caulkins's New London (1852); William Cothren's Ancient Woodbury (1854, vol. i.); D. M. Mead's Greenwich (1857); Henry Bronson's Waterbury (1858); H. R. Stiles's Ancient Windsor (1859); R. H. Phelps's New Gate of Connecticut (Simsbury)

1 They were arranged in thirty volumes, though one or two volumes were probably bound when received. Vols. i. to xviii. contain papers arranged chronologically, 1750-1783. Vol. xix., which included for the most part much earlier papers, was burned, while in the hands of James Savage, in 1825. Vols. xxi. and xxii. hold papers not Revolutionary. Vol. xxiii. embraces for the most part printed papers and broadsides. Vol. xxiv. (though not numbered) has “ Military Returns, 1752-1784." These volumes were probably loose papers when received. Vol. xxv. (to give this and later ones a number) is labelled "Washington," and contains official papers, 1779-1783, mostly signed by Washington, but not written by him. Vols. xxvi.-xxix. are letterbooks of Trumbull, containing copies of letters sent and received, covering his correspondence with Washington, Schuyler, Gates, the president of Congress, and others. Some of the names more frequently occurring are those of Joseph Spencer, Matthew Griswold, Jedidiah Huntington, David Wooster, Roger Sherman, Samuel H. Parsons, Oliver Wolcott, William Williams, General James Wadsworth, Return J. Meigs, Roger Enos, Oliver Ellsworth, G. S. Silliman, Ezra Stiles, William Ledyard. Vol. xxx. has the letters of the agent of Connecticut in London, William Samuel Johnson.

These last letters have been printed in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. (vol. xlix.), edited by Dr. Charles Deane. They include a few letters from Governors Pitkin and Trumbull, and from Richard Jackson, the regular colony agent in London, Johnson having been sent to watch the Mohegan case. They cover the period from Feb., 1767, to June,

1771, and give the observations of a keen spectator upon the movements in English politics at this time affecting American interests. Sparks copied some of Johnson's letters (Sparks MSS., lii., vol. iii.). E. E. Beardsley, in his Life and Times of William Samuel Johnson (Boston, 1886), refers to Johnson's diary during this period and to the papers of the Johnson family. He gives a portrait after Stuart. Cf. also Harper's Mag., Nov., 1883, p. 815.

2 Cf. Mass: Hist. Soc. Proc., ii. 322, 331, 343, 357, 366. Papers of so active a correspondent as Trumbull are naturally found in most of the larger collections of Revolutionary papers. There are many letters to and from Trumbull among the Meschech Weare papers in the Mass. Hist. Soc. cabinet (Letters and Papers, 1777-1780, vol. i.).

The Trumbull MSS. have been used by Barry and various other writers.

The usual portrait of Gov. Trumbull is one taken late in life, representing him full face, one hand in his breast, the other extended and resting on a cane. The original, painted by his son, Col. John Trumbull, is in the Trumbull gallery, New Haven. It has been several times engraved, by O. Pelton, E. Mackenzie, J G. Kellogg, etc. Cf. Hollister's Connecticut, vol. ii. ; N. E Hist. and Geneal. Reg. (1835), etc. A small canvas, showing the same figure of the governor, but with the form of his wife in the right rear,perhaps the original study of the larger picture of the gov ernor,- is owned by Mr. Joseph McClellan of Woodstock, Connecticut, whose mother was a sister of Col. Trumbull. The same gentleman owns two portraits of this artist, painted by himself.