Note 286 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

John Adams, with something of the warring politician’s onset, says of Shirley that he was a “crafty, busy, ambitious, intriguing, enterprising man; and having mounted to the chair of this province, he saw in a young, growing country vast prospects of ambition opening before his eyes, and conceived great designs of aggrandizing himself, his family, and his friends.” Novanglus, in Works, iv. 18, 19.