Note 178 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Thomas's Hist. of Printing, Am. Antiq. Soc. ed., ii. 223; Sargent's Dealings with the Dead, i. 140, 144; Lossing's Field-Book, i. 466; Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 159; Thomas Paine's "Liberty Tree Ballad" in the Penna. Mag., July, 1775; and Moore's Songs and Ballads of the Rev., p. 18. The selecting of a large tree and its dedication to the cause became general. Cf. Silas Downer's Discourse, July 25, 1768, at dedication of a tree of liberty in Providence (Providence, 1768), and the Providence Gazette, July 30, 1768 (Sabin, v. 20, 767; J. R. Bartlett's Bibliog. of R. I., p. 112; Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,622).