Note 1351 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)
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Especially one of Sept. 8, “in a wet tent” (p. 402). A letter from Shirley himself, the next day, Sept. 9, is in the N. H. Prov. Papers, vi. 432. Cf. also N. Y. Col. Docs., vi. 956. The records of the two councils of war, first determining to continue, and later to abandon, the campaign, with Shirley’s announcement of the decision to Gov. Hardy, are in Penna. Archives, ii. 413, 423, 427, 435.