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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 38: (search)
efore the meeting of Parliament, was regarded as a victory. Americans in London were told with a sneer that they should soon have the company of Otis and others. Letter from London, 20 Nov. 1768; in Boston Gazette, 721, 3, 3, of 23 Jan. 1769. No one doubted but that, on the arrival of the additional regiments sent from Ireland, he and Cushing, and sixteen other members of the late political assemblies, would be arrested. Frances to Choiseul, 4 Nov. 1768. Hillsborough hastened to send Bernard's dispatches to the Attorney and Solicitor General, asking what crimes had been committed, and if the guilty were to be impeached by Parliament. Hillsborough to the Attorney and Solicitor General, 6 Nov 1768. The King, in his Speech Parliamentary History, XVI. 469. on the eighth of November, railed at the spirit of faction breaking out afresh in some of the Colonies. Boston, said he, appears to be in a state of disobedience to all law and government, and has proceeded to measures
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 40: (search)
or of Government, by abetting the popu- Chap. XL.} 1769. March lar party. Bernard to Hillsborough, 5 March, 1769. The people of the near town of Lexington, at tndependence. Providence Gazette, 18 March; Boston Gazette, 27 March, 1769. Bernard to Hillsborough, 27 March, 1769. Compare W. S. Johnson to Dr. Benjamin Gale, nding 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 shoulnt and copied for Beckford, Hutchinson to Mauduit, 16 April, 1769. unmasked Bernard's duplicity. The town of Boston repelled the allegation, that they were held They proved their own undeviating respect for law; they set in a strong light Bernard's unmanly duplicity and petty malice; his disposition to over, Chap. XL.} 17British Ministry was palsied by indecision, Thomas Pownall, the predecessor of Bernard as Governor of Massachusetts, stepped forward in the House of Commons to propo
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter XLI (search)
's Hist. III. 223. The secret Councils which Bernard now held with Hutchinson Bernard to Hillsb 12 June. 1769. After some hesitation, Bernard to Gage, 12 June, 1769. and after conferring me would have very dangerous consequences; Bernard to Gage, 19 June, 1769. and that it would be other at the castle, might be sufficient. Bernard to Gage, 26 June, 1769; Gage to Hillsborough, Message of Governor Bernard, 15 June, 1769. Bernard to Hutchinson, 17 June. No time, replied port as their first object. Message of Governor Bernard to the House of Representatives, June 21,d in Boston against the will of the Province, Bernard demanded Message of Bernard, 6 July, 1769;in your messages. To his Majesty, rejoined Bernard in his last words, and if he pleases, to his atisfaction, For the preceding jealousy of Bernard, see Andrew Oliver to Hutchinson, 22 June, 1769. Letters passed between Hutchinson and Bernard. Compare I. Williams of Hatfield to T. Hutchins[15 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 42: (search)
stands my Chap. XLII.} 1769. Aug. system, Bernard to Hillsborough, 29 April, 1769. said Bernardent, I have lived in perfect harmony with Governor Bernard, was the time-server's first message to t Even to Franklin he vouched for the tales of Bernard as most just and candid. T. Hutchinson to person not named, 17 October, 1769; to Sir Francis Bernard, 19 October, 1769; to the Earl of Hillsto paper, For example, Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, 19 April, 1770. If besides a penal Actlsborough, Boston, 8 Aug. 1769; Same to Sir Francis Bernard, 8 Aug. 1769. stimulated by the unanimiity of New-York, were impatient that a son of Bernard, two sons of Hutchinson, and about five otheridicule the false and malicious aspersions of Bernard, Gage, Hood, and the Revenue Officers; and maan of New-York, quoted in Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, 18 February, 1770. Compare the narrate Hillsborough administered the Colonies with Bernard for his Counsellor? Men felt that a crisis[19 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 43: (search)
70. Jan. Samuel Adams; Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, 20 Dec. 1769. it must be the first buseady on their journey; Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard; 10 Jan. 1770. when Hutchinson most unw770. Jan. any support to its Petition against Bernard; and any Representation during the session of. Cooper to Gov Pownall. Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, and several letters in January. This, said Bernard's friends, was as good a time as any to have called out the troops; and they thoug in his Narrative sent through Hutchinson and Bernard to Hillsborough; by the Report of the Committ. So the opinion which had been expressed by Bernard during the last summer, and at the time had bincy Adams, and they agree with Hutchinson to Bernard of the 18th of March, except that Hutchinson uld be an excuse for it. Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, 30 March, 1770. Considering the relattion may be some excuse. Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, 12 March, 1770. How far the affronts a[3 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 44: (search)
e Monthly Review, XLIII. 161. but they attracted little attention. The Government would not change its system; the well-founded Petition of Massachusetts against Bernard was dismissed by the Privy Council, as groundless, vexatious and scandalous. Report of Council, 7. March, and Orders in Council, 14 March, 1770; in appendix to Bernard's Select Letters. At the same time, his interference had involved his successor in needless embarrassments. By his advice, Hutchinson, against his own judgment, Hutchinson to Gage, 25 Feb. 1770. convened the Legislature Chap. XLIV.} 1770. March at Cambridge. Hutchinson to Hillsborough, 28 Feb. 1770. First draft st one, that between the opinions of the House of Lords and those of the Town of Boston, the difference was irreconcilable. The eagerness of Hutchinson to keep Bernard's favor and ingratiate himself with Hillsborough, induced him to call the newly elected Legislature, as he had done the last, to Cambridge. Not the least shadow
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 45: (search)
in the twilight retired to his country house at Milton. Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, 15 Sept. 1770. But he was so haunted by fear as to dread being waylaid; and the next day, as he and Bernard had done five years before, he fled for safety to the Castle, where he remained every night for the rest of the week. His fears 22, 23, and printed in the Remembrancer for 1776, i. 158; Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, 20 October, 1770; Hutchinson's private letter to Hillsborough, 26 Octobal with the inhabitants as being in a state of revolt. Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, 20 Oct. 1770; in Hutchinson's Ms. III. 26, 27, 28. Compare with it Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, of 4 August, 1770. After CHAP. XLV.} 1770. Oct. that should be decided, he proposed to starve the Colony into obedience by narrowingnst each one of them who could be proved to have fired. Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, 6 Dec. 1770, and more fully, 10 Dec. 1770. If there had been evidence o
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 48: (search)
in this Province and to the world, as the sense of this town, with the infringements and violations thereof, that have been or from time to time may be made; also requesting of each town a free communication of their sentiments on this subject. The end in view was a general Confederacy against the authority of Parliament; the towns of the Province were to begin; the Assembly to confirm their doings and invite the other Colonies to join. Hutchinson to a Friend in England, I suppose Sir Francis Bernard, 14 June, 1773. I had the fullest evidence, &c. &c. The motion was readily adopted; but it was difficult to raise the Committee. Cushing, Hancock, and Phillips, three of the four Representatives of Boston, S. Cooper to B. Franklin, 15 March, 1773; Franklin, VIII. 37; Hutchinson to John Pownall, 19 April, 1773; Boston Gazette, 918, 2, 2, and other letters. pleaded private business and refused to Chap. XLVIII.} 1772. Nov. serve; so did Scollay and Austin, two of the Selectmen.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 49: (search)
22 Feb. 1773; Same to General Mackay, 23 Feb. 1773; Same to Sir Francis Bernard, 23 Feb. 1773. including almost every one of the larger townip of the paper see the contemporary letter of Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, 23 February, 1773. Chap. XLIX.} 1773. Jan. Like the Counciation of towns; Hutchinson to Israel Mauduit, Feb. 1773, and to Bernard, March, 1773. a prohibition of the commerce of Boston, Hutchinson to Bernard, March, 1773. and the option to the Province between sub- Chap. XLIX.} 1773. Feb. mission and the forfeiture of their rights.ir authors had written, but they showed a thorough complicity with Bernard and the Commissioners of the Customs, to bring military sway into ave wrote what ought not to be made public. Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, probably, 14 June, 1773. He had written against every pirable office of Deputy Postmaster General. Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, 29 June, 1773. All the summer long the insidious letter
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 50: (search)
nd themselves, said Hutchinson, involved in invincible difficulties. Meantime in private letters he advised to separate Boston from the rest of the Province; and to commence criminal prosecutions against its patriot sons. Hutchinson to Sir Francis Bernard, 3 Dec. 1773; Compare too Hutchinson to Mauduit, 7 Dec. 1773. The spirit of the people rose with the emergency. Two more tea-ships which arrived were directed to anchor by the side of the Dartmouth at Griffin's wharf, that one guard mthout a permit. He had no thought of what was to happen; the wealth of Hancock, Phillips, Rowe, Dennie, and so many other men of property, seemed to him a security against violence; Hutchinson to Mauduit, Dec. 1773; to——, 30 Dec. 1773; to Sir F. Bernard, 1 Jan. 1774. and he flattered himself, Hutchinson to Lord Dartmouth, 14 Dec. 1773; Boston Gazette, 13 Dec. 1773. that he had increased the perplexities of the Committee. The decisive day draws nearer and nearer; on the morning of Monda
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