[138] _Order of Assembly, 27 October, 1709._ Massachusetts had spent about L22,000 on her futile expedition of 1707, and, with New Hampshire and Rhode Island, a little more than L46,000 on that of 1709, besides continual outlay in guarding her two hundred miles of frontier,--a heavy expense for the place and time. [139] See J. R. Bartlett, in _Magazine of American History_, March, 1878, and Schuyler, _Colonial New York_, ii. 34-39. The chiefs returned to America in May on board the "Dragon." An elaborate pamphlet appeared in London, giving an account of them and their people. A set of the mezzotint portraits, which are large and well executed, is in the John Carter Brown collection at Providence. For photographic reproductions, see Winsor, _Nar. and Crit. Hist._, v. 107. Compare Smith, _Hist. N. Y._, i. 204 (1830). [140] _Commission of Colonel Francis Nicholson, 18 May, 1710._ _Instructions to Colonel Nicholson, same date._ [141] _Instructions to Richard Viscount Shannon, July, 1710._ A report of the scheme reached Boston. Hutchinson, ii. 164. [142] The troops, however, were actually embarked. _True State of the Forces commanded by the Right Honble The Lord Viscount Shannon, as they were Embarkd the 14th of October, 1710._ The total was three thousand two hundred and sixty-five officers and men. Also, _Shannon to Sunderland, 16 October, 1710_. The absurdity of the attempt at so late a season is obvious. Yet the fleet lay some weeks more at Portsmouth, waiting for a fair wind. [143] _Archives of Massachusetts_, vol. lxxi., where the original papers are preserved. [144] _Nicholson and Vetch to the Secretary of State, 16 September, 1710_; Hutchinson, ii. 164; Penhallow. Massachusetts sent two battalions of four hundred and fifty men each, and Connecticut one battalion of three hundred men, while New Hampshire and Rhode Island united their contingents to form a fourth battalion. [145] The contemporary English translation of this letter is printed among the papers appended to _Nicholson's Journal_ in _Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society_, i.