Excerpt from The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America, Vol. 1 of 4: Including an Account of the Late War; And of the Thirteen Colonies, From Their Origin to That Period Struck with the importance of the fcenes that were Opening upon the world, in the beginning of 1776, he formed an early delign of compiling their billory, which he made known to the late commander in chief of the American army, and meeting with the delired encouragement from him, he applied himfelf to the procuring of the bell materials, whether oral, written, or printed. Oral communications were minuted down while frefh in the memory the written were directed immediately to him felfin many inl'tances, in others only imparted the productions of the European prefs could not be received with any regularity or certainty during the war, but were improved as they could be obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.