Note 35 — BILLS OF RIGHTS: THEIR HISTORY AND POLICY.

This was the testimony of the late Rev. Charles Lowell, who had received it from his father, Hon. John Lowell, a member of the Convention, in whose family was a tradition that the latter obtained the insertion of the words "all men are born free and equal," for this declared purpose. See, ut supra, Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., 4th Ser. Vol. IV. p. 340.