So large is the proportion of such that it would appear that the County during this period was receiving large accessions to its population from other nations and other colonies. Ireland, " Old Englanil " and Connecticut are frequently indicated as the place of nativity. We find also that more thanhalf of these soldiers were under twenty-five years of age. A result of these military experiences was to prepare these men, by the knowledge gained, for that other and much more serious contest, which, though less thought of in that time of danger than before it, was imminent and inevitable.

The twelve years before the Revolution which succeeded the Peace of Paris were, however, to develop to the proportions necessary for action the antagonism of which the wilful assumptions of the mothercountry was the occasion. Had untrammeled legislation for the intei'est of the colonies been allowed, it is possible that the military successes just obtained might have been turned into a matter of national pride among the people on this side of the Atlantic, as well as the other. But with an indifference to their welfare ever apparent, an interference was carried on even farther than a concern for her own manufacturing and other industries required. And the consequence, as was to be expected, was deei) and universal discontent. And when this is said, it is but just to remember that in those years the most thoroughly loyal were exasperated with the course pursued by the home government, and deemed it neither wise nor fair. Some of these were pronounced enough; others there were who took perhaps too much account of the excitable elements which the war especially had thrown into society,'