Note 599 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

Edmund Quincy wrote at the time: "The tories, they say, have been equal plunderers with the military." N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1859, p. 231. Washington wrote to Lee, "The destruction of the stores at Dunbar's camp, after Braddock's defeat, was but a faint image of what was seen in Boston" (N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1872, p. 32). For the contributions of the Friends of Philadelphia to the poor of Boston, see the Penna. Mag. of Hist., i. 168.