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HISTORY

OF THE

JUSTIN WINSOR,
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE CONTINENT.

BY

GEORGE BANCROFT.

The Author's Last Revision.

VOLUME IV.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

1884.

586426

LLEC

MAR 31 1899
LIBRARY

Bequest of
Justin Mincers

COPYRIGHT,

BY GEORGE BANCROFT,

1858, 1860, 1876, 1884.

Massachusetts appoints time and place for the continental congress
Gage dissolves its assembly

John Adams in Boston town-meeting

Promptness of Rhode Island and of Maryland

Generous conduct of Marblehead and Salem. Intrigues of Gage

Boston town-meeting approve their committee of correspondence
Address to Hutchinson. Gage's proclamation

Threats of arrest not executed

Hutchinson reaches England. His interview with the king

The king confident. Boston ministered to by the Carolinas
Connecticut. Quebec. Delaware. Maryland

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Public spirit in New York. State of parties

Character of John Jay. New York delegates to congress
Opposition to the nomination in the New York committee
South Carolina elects its deputies. Timidity of Dickinson
Pennsylvania chooses its deputies.

New Jersey. New Hampshire

Compromise between the parties in New York

Virginia convention. Paper by Jefferson. The slave-trade forbidden .
Opinions of Washington

Decision of Virginia. Of North Carolina

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Number of the militia. Putnam

Courts of New Hampshire broken up

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Spirit of resistance. Thomas Gardner.
Charles Lee. Opinions of Hawley.
Mandamus councillors. Ruggles. Timothy Paine. Murray
Willard resigns. Watson. Massachusetts delegates in Connecticut
They reach the Hudson. New York disinclined to war.

Suffolk county convention. Convention of three counties in Boston

Court at Springfield interrupted. Supreme court in Boston
Middlesex convention at Concord.

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Sympathy of congress for Boston. Maryland punishes the importers of tea.

A letter from Washington. The resistance of Massachusetts approved
Sentence passed upon eleven acts of parliament

Congress threaten to stop British imports and exports

The slave-trade discontinued. Congress address the British people
Congress petition the king

Independence not yet desired

Preparations for war which Henry predicts

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