VOL. I NO. 1 THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY WITH NOTES AND QUERIES JANUARY 1905 WILLIAM ABBATT 281 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Published Monthly $5.00 a Year 50 Cents a Number THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY WITH NOTES AND QUERIES VOL. I JANUARY, 1905. NO. 1 CONTENTS THE BRONZE TABLET ERECTED AT QUEBEC TO COMMEMORATE MONTGOMERY’S DEFEAT _Frontispiece_ PAGE THE ORIGIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA JAMES J. TRACY 1 Chief of the Massachusetts State Archives Division A BIT OF CHURCH HISTORY REV. ROSCOE NELSON 10 (The First Church, Windsor, Conn.) ARNOLD AND MONTGOMERY AT QUEBEC. (Illustration) 13 The Bronze Tablet Commemorating Arnold’s Defeat A “SCRUB-POETICAL” ANSWER TO A GOVERNOR OTIS G. HAMMOND 18 HAS GOVERNOR LOVELACE OF NEW YORK BEEN PROPERLY IDENTIFIED? W. G. STANARD 30 THE INFLUENCE OF SLAVERY ON THE OLD SOUTHERN CIVILIZATION H. E. BELIN 34 ANTHONY WALTON WHITE, BRIGADIER IN THE A. S. GRAHAM and CONTINENTAL ARMY ANNA M. W. WOODHULL 40 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS Two Eighteenth Century Letters 45 The Panama Canal Twenty-five Years Ago 48 The Earliest Known Autograph of Benedict Arnold 50 MAGAZINE OF HISTORY NOTICE 51 GENEALOGICAL 53 MINOR TOPICS: A Committee to Visit Nova Scotia 56 BOOK NOTICES 57 ANNOUNCEMENTS 58 Entered as second-class matter, March 1, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. _Copyright, 1905, by William Abbatt_ [Illustration: SCENE OF MONTGOMERY’S DEFEAT. Tablet placed by the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 1904. ] THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY WITH NOTES AND QUERIES VOL. I JANUARY, 1905 NO. 1 THE ORIGIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA