Note 202 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

New Jersey Archives, x. 21. Cf. William E. Foster on the development of colonial coöperation, 1754-1774,—a chapter in his Stephen Hopkins, vol. ii. A symbol, common at this time, of a disjointed snake, the head representing New England, and the other fragments standing for the remaining colonies, and accompanied by the motto "Join or Die", seems to have first appeared in The Constitutional Courant, no. 1, Sept. 21, 1765, and was used later by the Boston Evening Post. Cf. Mag. of Amer. Hist., Nov., 1882, p. 768; 1883, p. 213; and Preble's Hist. of the Amer. Flag.