Note 907 — Chapter V · (continued 2)

Hutchinson, in London, seems to have thought Boston the object of the campaign (Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 165; Adams's Familiar Letters, 286; Hutchinson's Diaries, ii. 152). James Lovell writes from Philadelphia, July 29, 1777, that Howe seems bound up the Delaware; but he warns his friends in New England that his present movements may be undertaken to cloak an ultimate design upon the New England coast (Charles Lowell MSS.).