[86] Virginia Laws. Chalmer.
[87] Virginia Laws. Chalmer.
[88] Chalmer.
[89] Chalmer. Trumbull.
[90] Hutchison. Chalmer.
[91] Idem.
[92] Hutchison. Chalmer.
[93] Hutchison. Chalmer.
[94] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[95] Chalmer. Smith.
[96] Chalmer. Smith.
[97] Hutchison.
[98] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[99] Chalmer. History of South Carolina and Georgia.
[100] Chalmer. Beverly.
[101] Idem.
[102] Chalmer. Beverly.
[103] Chalmer.
[104] From a paper in possession of the British administration, it appears that in 1673, New England was supposed to contain one hundred and twenty thousand souls, of whom sixteen thousand were able to bear arms. Three-fourths of the wealth and population of the country, were in Massachusetts and its dependencies. The town of Boston alone contained fifteen hundred families.
[105] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[106] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[107] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[108] Trumbull. Hutchison. Chalmer.
[109] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[110] Trumbull. Hutchison.
[111] Smith.
[112] Chalmer. Smith.
[113] Chalmer. Smith.
[114] History of Pennsylvania. Chalmer.
[115] Hutchison.
[116] Smith.
[117] Smith.
[118] See note No. I, at the end of the volume.
[119] Hutchison. Belknap.
[120] Belknap.
[121] The quotas assigned by the crown are as follows:
| To Massachusetts Bay | 350 |
| Rhode Island and Providence plantations | 48 |
| Connecticut | 120 |
| New York | 200 |
| Pennsylvania | 80 |
| Maryland | 160 |
| Virginia | 240 |
| ----- | |
| Total, 1,198 |
[122] Belknap.
[123] Belknap. Hutchison.
[124] So early as the year 1692, the difference of opinion between the mother country and the colonies on the great point, which afterwards separated them, made its appearance. The legislature of Massachusetts, employed in establishing a code of laws under their new charter, passed an act containing the general principles respecting the liberty of the subject, that are asserted in magna charta, in which was the memorable clause, "no aid, tax, talliage, assessment, custom, benevolence, or imposition whatsoever, shall be laid, assessed, imposed, or levied, on any of his majesty's subjects or their estates, on any pretence whatsoever, but by the act and consent of the governor, council, and representatives of the people, assembled in general court."
It is scarcely necessary to add that the royal assent to this act was refused.
[125] History of South Carolina.
[126] Chalmer.
[127] Hutchison.