Note 1569 — Chapter VIII · (continued 3)
Reading edition
Cf. Bancroft, orig. ed. iv. pp. 369, 460. “After the surrender of Montreal in 1759, rumors were everywhere spread that the English would now new-model the colonies, demolish the charters, and reduce all to royal governments.” John Adams, preface to Novanglus, ed. 1819, in Works, iv. 6.