Note 128 — Chapter XIV · SOCIETY IN THE OLD DOMINION.

Boswell’s Life of Johnson, ed. Birkbeck Hill, ii. 312. Professor James Butler, in an excellent paper on “British Convicts shipped to American Colonies,” American Historical Review, ii. 12-33, suggests that Johnson’s impression may have been derived from his long connection with the Gentleman’s Magazine, wherein the lists of felons, reprieved from the gallows and sent to America were regularly published.