Note 318 — Chapter I · (continued 3)

Varying views of the current of British feeling will be found in Frothingham's Rise of the Repub., p. 412, etc.; in Bancroft, orig. ed., vii. 219, 241, 257, etc., and in the final revision, iv. ch. 22 and 23. Lecky (iii. 573) thinks the majority of the people were with the king, and Hutchinson reported like views (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xvi. 255). Galloway was still communicating to the ministry secret intelligence through Gov. Franklin, of New Jersey (N. J. Archives, x. 570), and was causing it to be known that the people in the colonies who were for war were the violent ones, while the Quakers and the Dutch, the Baptists, Mennonists, and Dumplers, were for moderation (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. 340).