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The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson Captain-General and Governor-In-Chief of Massachusetts Bay (Volume 2); Comp. from the Original Documents Still Remaining in the Possession of His Descendants

The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson Captain-General and Governor-In-Chief of Massachusetts Bay (Volume 2); Comp. from the Original Documents Still Remaining in the Possession of His Descendants


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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1886. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... DIARY AND LETTEES OF THOMAS HUTGHINSON. CHAPTER I. At the end of the former volume we left Governor Hutchinson at Tylney Hall, about five miles from Basingstoke in Hampshire, where, in company with his youngest daughter Margaret, commonly called Peggy, he was enjoying the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Welbore Ellis, of Pope's Villa, Twickenham. He had asked, and had obtained, the King's leave to come to England " for six or nine months," flattering himself that by the expiration of the shorter, or at all events of the longer of those two periods, all matters in dispute between the Mother Country and her Colonies would be so far accommodated, as that he should be able to return in peace to his government of Massachusetts, there to enjoy in all time to come, the prosperity and the happiness of the country he loved so well. Double the longest of those periods however had elapsed; yet so far from a settlement, the plot had rather thickened than otherwise: all attempts at conciliation had failed: several fierce and bloody battles by the beginning of 1776 had been fought: Boston was blockaded by a force of from ten to 17,000 Provincials, and every day only seemed to add to the bitterness, and put the possibility of accommodation still further off: yet he persisted in clinging to a forlorn hope of better times --of a happy chance, or a favourable turn--with a simplicity that may now almost surprise us. The motive for his coming to England is not very clearly stated; but the general tenor of his remarks to those members of the government with whom he chiefly came in contact when discussing the probable effects of the Boston Port Bill, the Declaratory, and some other Bills, may suggest that his chief object was to try and get those Acts either VOL. II. B repealed or mitiga...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781153962773
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 178
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1153962772
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 381 gr


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