HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE CONTINENT. BY GEORGE BANCROFT. The Author's Last Revision. VOLUME IV. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. 1884. CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. The American revolution. Its necessity. Its principle Most cherished in America. Britain should have offered independence. His character. Firmness of Newburyport, Salem, and Boston Effect of the port act in Connecticut and Providence New York committee of fifty-one. Baltimore, the model. New Hampshire. New Jersey New York and Connecticut plan a congress Sympathy of South Carolina for Boston. Virginia Its burgesses appoint a fast; are dissolved; hold a meeting Convention called in Virginia. North Carolina. Union of the country June-August 1774. 20 |