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PREPARING FOR THE PRESS: 



HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



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Volume One. 



BY GEORGE BANCROFT. 



This will form the Fourth Volume of the History of the United States, and the 

 first of the two which will contain the History of the American Revolution. 

 It comprises Eight Chapters. 



CONTENTS. 



Chap. I. — Revolution at hand. 

 Chap. II. — Conquest of the Ohio Valley. 

 Chap. III. — The Stamp Act and the Amer- 

 ican Protest. 

 Chap. IV. — Rebellion menaced. 



Chap. V. — Resistance organized. 

 Chap. VI. — Continental Congress. 

 Chap. VII. — Lexington, Concord, and 



Blinker Hill. 

 Chap. VIII. — Independence declared. 



For the preparation of this volume, it is known that Mr. Bancroft has had 

 materials never before used ; particularly the original, unpublished Journal of 

 the Committee of Correspondence of Massachusetts 5 — letters from public com- 

 mittees, from places as far south as Savannah, most of them unpublished, and 

 never read by any writer of American history ; — letters from almost every town 

 and village in Massachusetts, from very many in Maine, .New Hampshire, Rhode 

 Island, and Connecticut; — unpublished letters, giving the history of the period 

 from 1765 to 1776, from Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin as Agent for Mas- 

 sachusetts, John Adams, Richard Henry Lee, Arthur Lee, William Lee, Chris- 

 topher Gadsden; from Charles Thompson, Dickinson, and many others; — a 

 larcre file of most valuable letters from Joseph Warren ; beside letters from 

 William Prescott, Josiah Quincy, Jr., John Hancock, Gerry, Hawley, Dr. Cooper, 

 and other leading characters in JNew England. 



III. 



REPORTS OF CASES 



In the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. 



BY THERON METCALF. 



Volume Four. 



IV. 



TREATISE ON THE LAW OF 



PRIVATE CORPORATIONS AGGREGATE. 



BY JOSEPH K. ANGELL AND SAMUEL AMES. 



Second Edition. — Early in 31 ay. 



V. 



A COMPLETE DIGEST 



Of the Seventeen Volumes of the Massachusetts Reports, the Twenty- 

 Four Volumes of Pickering's Reports, and Three Volumes 



of Metcalf's Reports. 

 In Two Volumes, Royal Octavo. 



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