Note 240 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

John Adams's Works, iv. 34; Frothingham's Warren, 200, Wells's Sam. Adams, i. 509, ii. 62; Grahame's United States, iv. 328; Barry's Mass., ii. 448; Goodell's Provincial Laws, v. index. Something of the sort seems to have been suggested in Rhode Island, Oct. 8, 1764, in a letter to Franklin (Works, vii. 264). Dawson (Sons of Liberty in N. Y., 61-64) finds the earliest movement in the New York Assembly, Oct. 18, 1764. Thornton (Pulpit of the Rev., 45, 191) notes the suggestion in a letter of Jonathan Mayhew, June 8, 1766, to James Otis, that there might be a communion of colonies, as there was a communion of churches.