Note 65 — THE REVENGE.
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(Charles) Henry Frankland, afterward Sir Harry Frankland, and celebrated under that name because of the romantic story of Agnes Surriage, recounted in Dr. Holmes's poem, Agnes. An elder brother of Capt. Thomas Frankland, he had come to Boston in the spring of this year as collector of the port, and soon became one of the most picturesque magnates of the place. Nason, Sir Charles Henry Frankland, pp. 9-29. His associate was Robert Lightfoot, a prominent merchant. Pubs. Col. Soc. Mass., VII. 91.