Note 419 — Chapter II · (continued 3)

See a humorous contemporary ballad on the Death of Old Tenor, in 1750, reprinted in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xx. p. 30. It is ascribed to Joseph Green in the Brinley Catal., no. 1,459. Cf. Some observations relating to the present circumstances of the Province of the Mass. Bay; humbly offered to the consideration of the General Assembly, Boston, 1750. (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 934; Brinley, i. no. 1,457.) Hutchinson’s plan was opposed in A Word in Season to all true lovers of their liberty and their country, by Mylo Freeman, Boston, 1748. (Brinley, i. no. 1,456.) Cf. Minot’s Massachusetts, i. ch. v.