Publications Of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    Volume LXXXI

    Officers of the Society

    • Donald F. Friary, President
    • Daniel R. Coquillette, Vice President
    • Celeste Walker, Vice President
    • Robert J. Allison, Vice President
    • Leslie A. Morris, Recording Secretary
    • Martha J. McNamara, Corresponding Secretary
    • Thomas Appleton, Treasurer

    Committee of Publications

    • Pauline R. Maier, Chair
    • Robert Charles Anderson
    • Donald F. Friary
    • Christopher Jedrey
    • Kenneth P. Minkema
    • Conrad Edick Wright

    Editor of Publications

    • John W. Tyler

    The Papers of Francis Bernard

    Governor of Colonial Massachusetts, 1760-69

    Volume II: 1764-1765

    Sir Francis Bernard, 1772. By John Singleton Copley. By permission of the Governing Body, Christ Church, Oxford.

    EDITED BY COLIN NICOLSON

    The Papers of Francis Bernard

    Governor of Colonial Massachusetts, 1760-69

    Volume II: 1764-1765

    Research Assistants:

    Stuart Salmon

    Scott Bird

    BOSTON    The Colonial Society of Massachusetts    2015

    Distributed by the University of Virginia Press

    DEDICATION

    To Catherine, Catriona, and Kristen

    Copyright © 2012 by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    ISBN 978-0-9794662-9-8

    Printed from the Income of the Sarah Louise Edes Fund