History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
Bancroft, after having consolidated the Itemomlrance aud the Meniorial, making them one paper, obliged liurke to offer both, on the same day, and in the same House, all of which were described in the narrow compass of four lines, without even a hint how such an Assembly as he had previously described, could have prttduced such a paper -- his silence serving to screen his unfaithfulness, as a historian, both in a falsification and in a suppression of the truth. {Hislun/ nf Ihc Vniti'it tildlcit, original edition, iv.,2S(; ; Ihemnie, centenary edition, iv., .515.) John 0. Hamilton, of course, by his suppression as well as hy his falsification of the truth, in order that his father and his grandfather might he unduly eulogized, is equally untrustworthy {UisUirij of the I{e}mhlit\, i., 86.) Lendrum, tory of the Anierkiiu Iterolntion, i., 87;) "Paul Allen" (Ilistorn of the American llerolutioit, i., 237, 238;) Gordon, (Huttorij of theAmerican Rcrolulion, i., 500;) Ramsay, {Histoi-ji of the American Iterolntion, i., 171, 172;) and others, less prominent but not less popular, liave been equally unfaithful, as historians, in this nuitter.
Lossing, {Fielil Hoolc of the Iterolntion ;) Frothingham, (Bisc- of lite IteiiuhVu- ;) Ridi)ath, {Hklorij of the Vniteil ^tatef ;) Lodge, (Histonj of the EnijILth O'lonies in America ;) Morse, (Annah of the American Iterulutiou ;) Warren, l Uistoyij of the American Jterointiou ;) and others, although abounding in facts and fictions concerning Massachusetts, have not spared a line for the recognition of what was done for "the common "cause," by the General .Assembly of the C'Jlouy of New York.