[69] _Colony Records of Rhode Island_, v. (_February, 1745_). [70] _Shirley to Wentworth, 16 February, 1745._ [71] “A native of Ravistock Parish, in Wales.” Parsons, _Life of Pepperrell_. Mrs. Adelaide Cilley Waldron, a descendant of Pepperrell, assures me, however, that his father, the emigrant, came, not from Wales, but from Devonshire. [72] _Governor Wanton to the Agent of Rhode Island in London, 20 December, 1745._ [73] Parsons, _Life of Pepperrell_, 51. [74] Belknap, _Hist. New Hampshire_, ii. 208. [75] Tradition told me at York by Mr. N. Marshall. [76] Lecture of Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted by Cabot, _Memoir of Emerson_, i. 10. [77] Moody found sympathizers in his iconoclastic zeal. Deacon John Gray of Biddeford wrote to Pepperrell: “Oh that I could be with you and dear Parson Moody in that church [at Louisbourg] to destroy the images there set up, and hear the true Gospel of our Lord and Saviour there preached!” [78] Bourne, _Hist. of Wells and Kennebunk_, 371. [79] Gibson, _Journal; Records of Rhode Island_, v. Governor Wanton of that province says, with complacency, that the pay of Rhode Island was twice that of Massachusetts. [80] Parsons, _Life of Pepperrell_, 54. [81] Of the Massachusetts contingent, three hundred men were raised and maintained at the charge of the merchant James Gibson. [82] The list is given by Williamson, ii. 227. [83] _Memoirs of the Principal Transactions of the Last War_, 44. [84] _Ibid._, 46. _Letters of Shirley_ (Public Record Office). [85] _Shirley to Newcastle, 24 March, 1745._ The ministry was not wholly unprepared for this announcement, as Shirley had before reported to it the vote of his Assembly consenting to the expedition. _Shirley to Newcastle, 1 February, 1745._ [86] The first draft of Shirley’s instructions for taking Louisbourg is in the large manuscript volume entitled _Siege of Louisbourg_, in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society. The document is called _Mem^o for the attaching of Louisbourg this Spring by Surprise_. After giving minute instructions for every movement, it goes on to say that, as the surprise may possibly fail, it will be necessary to send two small mortars and twelve cannon carrying nine-pound balls, “so as to bombard them and endeavour to make Breaches in their walls and then to Storm them.” Shirley was soon to discover the absurdity of trying to breach the walls of Louisbourg with nine-pounders. [87] It is printed in the first volume of the _Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society_. Shirley was so well pleased with it that he sent it to the Duke of Newcastle enclosed in his letter of 1 February, 1745 (Public Record Office).