46-48, 131, 134, 135 _et passim_.

[50:1] Massachusetts Archives, lxxi, p. 107: cf. Metcalf, "Mendon," p.
130; Sheldon, "Deerfield," i, p. 288. The frontier of Virginia in 1755
and 1774 showed similar conditions: see, for example, the citations to
Washington's Writings in Thwaites, "France in America," pp. 193-195; and
frontier letters in Thwaites and Kellogg, "Dunmore's War," pp. 227, 228
_et passim_. The following petition to Governor Gooch of Virginia, dated
July 30, 1742, affords a basis for comparison with a Scotch-Irish
frontier:

We your pettionours humbly sheweth that we your Honours Loly and
Dutifull Subganckes hath ventred our Lives & all that we have In
settling ye back parts of Virginia which was a veri Great Hassirt &
Dengrous, for it is the Hathins [heathens] Road to ware, which has
proved hortfull to severil of ous that were ye first settlers of these
back woods & wee your Honibill pettionors some time a goo petitioned
your Honnour for to have Commisioned men amungst ous which we your
Honnours most Duttifull subjects thought properist men & men that had
Hart and Curidg to hed us yn time of [war] & to defend your Contray &
your poor Sogbacks Intrist from ye voilince of ye Haithen--But yet agine
we Humbly persume to poot your Honnour yn mind of our Great want of them
in hopes that your Honner will Grant a Captins' Commission to John
McDowell, with follring ofishers, and your Honnours' Complyence in this
will be Great settisfiction to your most Duttifull and Humbil
pettioners--and we as in Duty bond shall Ever pray . . . (Calendar of
Virginia State Papers, i, p. 235).

[51:1] But there is a note of deference in Southern frontier petitions
to the Continental Congress--to be discounted, however, by the
remoteness of that body. See F. J. Turner, "Western State-Making in the
Revolutionary Era" (_American Historical Review_, i, pp. 70, 251). The
demand for remission of taxes is a common feature of the petitions there
quoted.

[51:2] Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xliii, pp. 506 ff.

[51:3] _Ibid._, xliii, p. 518.

[52:1] Connecticut Colonial Records, iv, p. 67.

[52:2] In a petition of February 22, 1693-4, Deerfield calls itself the
"most Utmost Frontere Town in the County of West Hampshire"
(Massachusetts Archives, cxiii, p. 57 a).

[52:3] Judd, "Hadley," p. 249.

[52:4] W. D. Schuyler-Lighthall, "Glorious Enterprise," p. 16.

[53:1] Sheldon, "Deerfield," i, p. 405.

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