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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 40: (search)
he Colonies well over, and sought to lull them into acquiescence. The plan for altering the Charter of Massachusetts on which Hillsborough had been definitively resolved, Hutchinson to J. Williams of Hatfield, 29 January, 1769. was for the present, laid aside; discretionary orders were transmitted to Gage to send back to Halifax the two regiments, which were brought from that station, and to restore the regular rotation by sending two other regiments to Ireland. Hillsborough to Gage, 24 March; 1769. Bernard was given up and recalled with a promise to the London merchants that he should not be employed in the Colonies again; and the government of Massachusetts was to be confided to Hutchinson, a town-born citizen of Boston. New-York was to be secured by a confirmation of its jurisdiction over Vermont, and the permission to issue paper-money; and Virginia, by a more extended boundary at the West. At the same time England professed to seek a good understanding with France. But