Note 199 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

For the movements in Boston, see Frothingham's "Sam. Adams's Regiments" in the Atlantic Monthly, June and Aug., 1867, and Nov., 1863. The letter of the town to Dennis Deberdt, the London agent, sets forth their side of the case (Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 29). John Mein, the Boston printer, one of the proscribed, published his State of the importation of Great Britain with the port of Boston from Jan. to Aug., 1768, to show that his assailants were also importers (Stevens's Hist. Coll., i. no. 393; Quaritch, 1885, no. 29,618). There is one of the agreements among the Boston merchants, Aug. 14, 1769, in Misc. MSS., 1632-1795, in Mass. Hist. Soc. cabinet. Samuel Cooper tells Franklin how the agreements are adhered to (Sparks's Franklin, vii. 448). Moore, Songs and Ballads of the Rev., p. 48, gives some verses from the Boston Newsletter, urging the "daughters of liberty" to lend their influence in this direction. In the early part of 1770 the movement seemed to be vigorous (Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 150; cf. papers of Cushing, Hancock, and others, in Letters and Papers, 1761-1776, in Mass. Hist Soc. cabinet). Late in the year Hutchinson could write: "The confederacy in all the governments against importing seemed in the latter end of the summer to be breaking to pieces" (P. O. Hutchinson, i. 24). For such matters in Philadelphia, see Scharf and Westcott's Philadelphia; Franklin (Sparks), vii. 445; (Bigelow), ii. 39. In Delaware, see Life of George Read, 82. In Charlestown (S. C.) there was a controversy over the non-importation association, in which Christopher Gadsden and John Mackenzie supported the movement, and W. H. Drayton and William Wragg opposed it. These letters, which appeared in Timothy's S. C. Gazette, June-Dec., 1769, were issued together in The letters of Freeman, etc. ([London], 1771, Brinley, no. 3,976).