does not appear from the records of the Academy that the suggestion as to publishing Winthrop's History was ever formally brought before that body. Governor Trumbull died in August, 1785; and it was not until 1790 that the History was printed, for the first time, from another copy, made by John Porter, Trumbull's Secretary. At that time it was not known that a continuation of the History was in existence. The complete work was first published by the late Hon. James Savage in 1825, a few years after the discovery of a third manuscript volume in the tower of the Old South Meetinghouse, in Boston. It had remained buried there for nearly two generations, having probably been borrowed by Rev. Thomas Prince from some member of the Winthrop family as early at least as 1755. Some further account of the papers now printed was given in the Preface to the Third Part of the Trumbull Papers, and it remains only to repeat the sense of loss which the Committee felt in the death of their associate, George B. Chase, when only a part of the present volume was in type. For the Committee, BOSTON, December 15, 1902. CHARLES C. SMITH. THE TRUMBULL PAPERS. SAMUEL HUNTINGTON TO JONATHAN TRUMBULL. PHILADELPHIA, Jany 6th, 1780. SIR, I am honoured with your Excellency's two letters of the 13th ult with the papers to which they refer. Agreable to your Excellency's request I have caused one of the lists of the Bonds transmitted to be endorsed, which is here with enclosed. I have the honour to forward by Brown two dozen blank commissions with instructions and bonds. By late letters I have received from Amsterdam it is abundantly evident that your Excellencies correspondence, as also that of Governor Livingston, with Baron V. D. Capellen, hath enlighten'd & undeceived many people in Holland, & produced many friends & favourable sentiments with respect to the cause in which we are engaged. I hope Congress will take some honourary notice of the Baron. I am told N. Jersey have just passed a law appointing proper persons to purchase all articles of provision & forage for the army which that State can supply. I was in hopes to procure the act & send it forward by Brown. I believe a regulation of that kind will be generally adopted, & cannot but hope it may be attended with beneficial consequences to the public. I have directed For notice of Samuel Huntington, see 7 Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. ii. p. 231 n. EDS. Mr Brown, if he can obtain the above mentioned act in the Jerseys, to take it with him. I am favour'd with intelligence on which we place dependance that the late embarkation from N. York, on the 23a & 26th ulto., had troops on board to the amount of 5,000 effective men, their destination unknown & no intelligence has been received of them since they sailed. I have the honour to be, with the greatest respect, Your Excy's hble. servt. SAM. HUNTINGTON. P. S. The papers formerly sent to Mr Laurens were deliverd to a Committee of which he was one; I called on him for them before his departure; he deliverd me some of them; the whole I have not been able to collect, but shall continue my search, & if I can recover them will do my self the honour to forward them immediately to your Excellency. Mr Laurens told me he met with great difficulty to get them translated: few persons here understand the low Dutch, your last letter from the Baron, I procured a Dutch clergyman, about eight miles from this city to translate; he appears perfect master of the Dutch language, but does not write English elegantly, tho' I believe gives the litteral sense with exactness. I am, ut supra. S. H. Gov' TRUMBULL. 21st inst. ROGER SHERMAN* TO ANDREW ADAMS.† To the Honble Andrew Adams, Esq", Speaker of the House of Assembly, at Hartford. PHILADELPHIA, January 7th, 1780. SIR, I obtain'd last evening an account of the prices of the several articles, as stated by the late law of the * For notice of Roger Sherman, see 7 Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. ii. p. 25 n. — Eds. For notice of Andrew Adams, see Ibid., p. 256 n. — Eds. |