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John Wilkes, The Correspondence of the Late John Wilkes: With His Friends. (R. Phillips, by T. Gillet, 1805)
Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren, Warren-Adams letters: being chiefly a correspondence among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814, Volume 72. (The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1917)
Danske Dandridge, American Prisoners of the Revolution. (1910)
Treaty of Paris, 1783; International Treaties and Related Records, 1778-1974; General Records of the United States Government, Record Group 11; National Archives.
Effects
Mercy Otis Warren, Jeffrey H. Richards, Sharon M. Harris, Mercy Otis Warren: Selected Letters (University of Georgia Press, 2009)
Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America: The United States of North America. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888)
United States Senate, History.
Compton, Nancy. "Ruggles & Allied Families Genealogy"
Peleg W. Chandler, “Trial of Mrs. Spooner and Others.” (American Criminal Trials. Vol. 2. Boston: T. H. Carter, 1844.)
Murdered by His Wife, by Deborah Navas (University of Massachusetts Press, 1999).
Lucius Robinson Paige, History of Hardwick, Massachusetts: With a genealogical register (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1883)
Shirley Ruggles Sullivan Germain, Brigadier-General Timothy Ruggles and Descendants (Shirley Germain, 2001)
Edward Alfred Jones, The loyalists of Massachusetts: their memorials, petitions and claims (The Saint Catherine Press, 1930)
Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Ed., Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson (September 30, 2005, EBook #16781)
Maurice Henry Smith, “Charles Paxton: Founding Stepfather.” (1982)
James Henry Stark, The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of the American Revolution (J.H. Stark, 1907)
Ledyard Bill, The History of Paxton Massachusetts (reprint: BiblioLife, 2009)
Overture
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Coda
A Vindication
The Rights of the British Colonies, Asserted and Proved (James Otis, 1764)
Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists in a Letter to a Noble Lord (James Otis, 1765)
Sources & Notes