Note 179 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Hutchinson had expressed disapproval of the Stamp Act; but doubting its expediency did not affect his judgment of the necessity of enforcing it (P. O. Hutchinson, i. 577; ii. 58). On the destruction of his house, see his own statement in P. O. Hutchinson's Governor Hutchinson, i. 70, 72, and his letter, dated Aug. 30, 1765, in the Mass. Archives, xxvi. 146, printed in the Mass. Senate Docs. (1870, no. 187, p. 3). He says: "The lieutenant-governor, with his children, lodged the next night at the Castle, but after that in his house at Milton, though not without apprehension of Danger." Quincy's diary (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., iv. 47) preserves Hutchinson's speech, when a few days later he took his seat on the bench, clad with such clothing as was left to him. Cf. the accounts in Boston Newsletter, Sept. 3, 1765; Parliamentary History, iv. 316; Conduct of a late Administration, 102; Memorial Hist. Boston, iii. 14, etc.; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Jan., 1862, p. 364.