came off with loss and Carilong. We took Fort Frontenac and in the fall of the year Dequesne by Gen11 Forbs.
Sr. Since it is upon your desire I have exposed myself by this mean performance, I hope you will receive it with candour. I have nothing but my memory to depend upon, which in a man advanced to the eighty-first year of his age is but a poor library. Yet I am confident the chronology and the facts are true and will be found so when inquired into.
I have long wished for a History of New England and hoped Mr. Prince his Chronologie would have laid a good foundation for it, but he has left it unfinished.
This small mite cast into this treasury is my whole substance, and if men of ability would out of their abundance cast in proportionally we might have a good History of the Colony and of New England, before it is too late to get materials.
- I am &c.
- R. Wolcott
- I am &c.
To Mr. President Clap.
Connecticut Historical Society, Collections (Hartford, 1895), HI 3 2 5~336 passim.
23. "Boston the Metropolis of North America" (1750)
BY CAPTAIN FRANCIS GOELET
Goelet was a New York merchant, whose diary bears testimony to his lightness of disposition and to the convivial habits of gentlemen of the time. — Bibliography : Winsor, Memorial History of Boston, II, ch. xvi, notes. — For an earlier estimate of Boston, see Contemporaries, I, No. 146.
BOSTON the Metropolis of North America Is Accounted The Largest Town upon the Contenant, Haveing about Three Thousand Houses in it, about two Thirds them Wooden Framed Clap Boarded &c. and some of them Very Spacious Buildings which togeather with their Gardens about them Cover a Great deal Ground they are for the most Part Two and three Stories high mostly Sashd. Their Brick Buildings are much better and Stronger Built, more after the Modern Taste all Sashd and Prety well Ornamented haveing Yards and Gardens Adjoyning Also.
