Note 537 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. 351. There are two or three copies of this broadside in the library of this society, and it is reproduced somewhat smaller in the Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 73, and is reprinted in the Society's Collections, xii.; and in Wm. Lincoln's ed. of the Journals of the Provincial Congresses (Boston, 1838). There is in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library a printed broadside containing Governor Trumbull's letter to Gage, dated at Hartford, April 28, 1775, sent by a committee of the Connecticut assembly, and also Gage's reply of May 3, 1775, in which he characterizes his Circumstantial Account in the language quoted in the text. He also tells Trumbull that the royal troops "disclaim with indignation the barbarous outrages of which they are accused, so contrary to their known humanity. I have taken the greatest pains (he adds) to discover if any were committed, and have found examples of their tenderness both to the young and the old, but no vestige of cruelty or barbarity."