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good instruction to him and company, and furnish him with 

 suitable sermons in print, or in your own very legible if not 

 very intelligible manuscripts to read to his men, who are 

 without a preacher ; in the room of one, constitute Jotham 

 curate." 



This warlike minister, Rev. John Brown, we shall notice 

 again soon. 



The second lieutenant of the company was Thomas 

 Lothrop, just twenty-one years of age. Other Cohasset 

 men in the company were : — 



Luther Stephenson ... 29 Micah Nichols . . . . 22 



Calvin Gushing .... 28 Jerome Stephenson . . 21 



Lusitanus Stephenson . . 27 Charles Ripley . . . • (?) 



Gideon Hay ward . . . (?) Micah Humphrey ... 18 



In all these various expeditions of New England yeo- 

 men, the English authority in North America was rapidly 

 forcing Frenchmen to the wall. The "total reduction of 

 Canada" to British control was their maxim, and it was 

 wholly accomplished after Wolfe's marvelous capture of 

 Quebec, when in the year 1760 Montreal, the last strong- 

 hold of the French, surrendered. 



But the victories of the British carried the seeds of 

 future failure of her authority in the American colonies. 

 In the first place it gave her an overweening sense of her 

 rights in the new country that soon degenerated into 

 tyranny ; and in the second place it developed an army in 

 these colonies so self-sufficient that when the time came 

 to declare our independence, there was brawn and bravery 

 enough to fight out our claim. The storm of the Revolu- 

 tion began to gather within two years of the fall of Mont- 

 real. The brilliant orator James Otis, of Boston, in the 

 year 1762 made the walls of the Massachusetts capitol 

 echo with these startling words : " It would be of little 

 consequence to the people whether they were subject to 

 George or Louis, the king of Great Britain or the French 



