[54:1] "I want to 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, "Colonial Precedents of Our National Land System," p. 84; L. K. Mathews, "Expansion of New England," pp. 82 ff. [60:4] J. G. Holland, "Western Massachusetts," p. 197. [61:1] Jos. Schafer, "Origin of the System of Land Grants for Education," pp. 25-33. [62:1] H. D. Hurd (ed.), "History of Worcester County," i, p. 6. The italics are mine. [63:1] Egleston, "Land System of the New England Colonies," pp. 39-41. [63:2] _Ibid._, p. 41. [63:3] T. Dwight, "Travels" (1821), ii, pp. 459-463.