CONTENTS

THE BRONZE TABLET ERECTED AT QUEBEC TO COMMEMORATE MONTGOMERY’S DEFEAT Frontispiece
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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 CONTINENTAL ARMY A. S. Graham and 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

SCENE OF MONTGOMERY’S DEFEAT.

Tablet placed by the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 1904.