Note 439 — Chapter II
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Sparks's Washington, iii. 129, 145, 520; Correspondence of the Rev., i. 70, 71; Genl. Mag., 1775; Bailey's letter, in Me. Hist. So. Coll., v. 437. Washington, Oct. 24, 1775, transmits a statement (Oct 16) of Pearson Jones. (N. Y. Archives in Sparks MSS. xxix.). A letter of William Whipple, Nov. 12, 1775, to Langdon, describing the burning, is among the Langdon Papers, and a copy in the Sparks MSS. (lii. vol. ii.). There is a rude copperplate engraving of the burning town, by Norman, in the Boston ed. of the Impartial Hist. of the War (1781), vol. ii. Cf. Williamson's Maine, ii. 422; William Goold's Portland in the Past (1886), ch. 10; Willis's Portland, with plans and views; Smith and Deane's Journal of Portland; Jos. Williamson's Belfast; Barry's Mass., ii. 56; N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1873, p. 256; Hist. Mag., Mar., 1869 (xv. 202); Old Times, vi. 823; N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 633, 635. Hutchinson records (Life and Diaries, i. 583) that when the news reached London, Lord George Germain told him that "Graves had been put in mind of his remissness, and he imagined he would run to the other extreme." Cf. Mahon's England, vi. 75.