Note 490 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

There is a likeness of Thomas, owned by Mrs. Williams, of New York, a descendant. This portrait was engraved for the illustrated edition of Irving's Washington, and is reproduced in Jones's Campaign for the Conquest of Canada, p. 52. There is a brief memoir, Life and Services of Maj.-Gen. John Thomas, compiled by Chas. Coffin (New York, 1844). In July, 1775, Thomas had been justly irritated at the irresponsible action of Congress in ranking the general officers of its appointment, and had only been prevented from resigning by Washington's urging him to pause. W. B. Reed, in his Life of Joseph Reed (i. 109), prints this appeal of Washington from the draft in Reed's handwriting.