Note 1552 — Chapter VIII · (continued 3)

Rise of the Republic, 116. Cf. also Kennedy’s Serious Considerations on the Present State of the Affairs of the Northern Colonies, New York, 1754. James Maury was writing about this time: “It is our common misfortune that there is no mutual dependence, no close connection between these several colonies: they are quite disunited by separate views and distinct interests, and like a bold and rapid river, which, though resistless when included in one channel, is yet easily resistible when subdivided into several inferior streams.” (Maury’s Huguenot Family, 382.) In March, 1754, Shirley urged a union upon the governor of New Hampshire. (N. H. Prov. Papers, vi. 279.)