Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

While Congress were sitting at Annapolis, in Maryland, the Rev. Dr. G. of R. in this State, represented to that Honourable Body, that, for the purpose of cherishing and preserving the principles of Liberty, he had undertaken to write a history of the American Revolution, and prayed for leave to inspect such publick records and papers as could with propriety be submitted to the perusal of a private person. Congress thought proper to indulge him, but, it is to be presumed, under such restrictions as prudence and their knowledge of the man must have naturally suggested. He now boasts of having, as he supposes, been furnished with the necessary historical memoirs beyond any other person, and is publicly soliciting subscriptions for defraying the expense of printing his work, requiring, agreeably to his well known Modesty, half the price of it to be paid at subscribing. This with a competent number of subscribers, we are well informed, is all he wants in America; for, not choosing to employ an American press, he means shortly to return to his native country, Britain, and there publish his History. It is probably suited to the political state and genius of the people of that Island, and there only may the publication of it be encouraged.