Note 434 — Chapter II
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Being carried to Connecticut, he sunk under his confinement, and was allowed to embark for the West Indies, but the vessel on which he sailed was never heard of. For the sources and their examination, see Sparks' Washington, iii. 115, 502; John Adams's Works, ii. 414; ix. 402; Wells's Sam. Adams, ii. 51, 333; Greene's Life of Greene, i. 120; Cowell's Spirit of Seventy-Six in Rhode Island; Bancroft, vi. 409; Chandler's Criminal Trials, i. 417; Frothingham's Siege of Boston, 258; Loring's Hundred Boston Orators, 37, 40; Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 111, 145; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., June, 1884, p. 15; Sparks MSS., xlix. vol. i.; N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 622; New Jersey Archives, x. 671. An exculpatory letter of Church, dated American Hospital, Sept. 14, 1775, is among the Sullivan papers (Sparks MSS., xx.)