o have your warriours come and see me," wrote Allen to
the Indians of Canada in 1775, "and help me fight the King's Regular
Troops. You know they stand all close together, rank and file, and my
men fight so as Indians do, and I want your warriours to join with me
and my warriours, like brothers, and ambush the Regulars: if you will, I
will give you money, blankets, tomahawks, knives, paint, and any thing
that there is in the army, just like brothers; and I will go with you
into the woods to scout; and my men and your men will sleep together,
and eat and drink together, and fight Regulars, because they first
killed our brothers" (American Archives, 4th Series, ii, p. 714).

[54:2] Compare A. McF. Davis, "The Shays Rebellion a Political
Aftermath" (Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, xxi, pp. 58, 62,
75-79).

[55:1] "Land System of the New England Colonies," p. 30.

[55:2] Massachusetts Colony Records, i, p. 167.

[56:1] Compare Weeden, "Economic and Social History of New England," i,
pp. 270-271; Gookin, "Daniel Gookin," pp. 106-161; and the histories of
Worcester for illustrations of how the various factors noted could be
combined in a single town.

[56:2] F. Merrill, "Amesbury," pp. 5, 50.

[56:3] B. L. Mirick, "Haverhill," pp. 9, 10.

[57:1] Green, "Early Records of Groton," pp. 49, 70, 90.

[57:2] _Ibid._

[57:3] Worcester County History, i, pp. 2, 3.

[57:4] J. G. Metcalf, "Annals of Mendon," p. 85.

[58:1] P. 96. Compare the Kentucky petition of 1780 given in Roosevelt,
"Winning of the West," ii, p. 398, and the letter from that frontier
cited in Turner, "Western State-Making" (_American Historical Review_,
i, p. 262), attacking the Virginia "Nabobs," who hold absentee land
titles. "Let the _great men_," say they, "whom the land belongs to come
and defend it."

[59:1] Sheldon, "Deerfield," i, pp. 188-189.

[59:2] These facts are stated on the authority of E. Washburn,
"Leicester," pp. 5-15: compare Major Stephen Sewall to Jeremiah Dummer,
1717, quoted in Weeden, "Economic and Social History of New England,"
ii, p. 505, note 4.

[60:1] Compare the Virginia system, Bruce, "Economic History of Virginia
in the Seventeenth Century," ii, pp. 42, 43.

[60:2] For this item I am indebted to our associate, Mr. Andrew McF.
Davis: see his "Colonial Currency Reprints," i, pp. 335-349.

[60:3] Hutchinson, "History of Massachusetts" (1768), ii, pp. 331, 332,
has an instructive comment. A. C. Ford, "Colon