Note 214 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Sparks's Franklin, iv. 258. Some letters of Strahan (1767-8, etc.) are in the Penna. Mag. of Hist., x. 322. The letters of Wm. Samuel Johnson are also of importance (Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xlix.). He describes Barré and others in debate. Barré, in March, 1769, predicted the loss of the colonies (Smyth, Lectures, ii. 384), and in April Johnson is writing, "It seems pretty probable that we shall go on contending, and fretting each other, till we become separate and independent empires" (Beardsley's Life of W. S. Johnson, p. 65; also see pp. 38, 42).