nd subsequently resided in Bristol, Eng.,
where he died. His wife was Jane, daughter of Addington Davenport. While
in London, in lodgings in the Strand, almost opposite Somerset House, he
wrote as follows to a friend: "As soon as the Xmas holidays were over,
the tea consignees presented a petition to the Lords of the Treasury,
praying a support until the affairs in America were settled. We are told
we shall be allowed L150 a year. This is a fine affair, and we can by no
means live upon it, but there are such a confounded parcel of us to be
provided for, that I am told no more will be allowed....

When we shall be able to return to Boston I cannot say, but hope and
believe it will not exceed one year, for sooner or later America will be
conquered, that you may depend on."

[47] Henry White was an eminent and wealthy merchant of New York, a
member of the Council, and an original member and finally president, of
the New York Chamber of Commerce. He acted for a time as commissary,
while the royal army occupied that city, and being a pronounced
loyalist, his estate was confiscated. After the peace he went to
England, and died in London, December 23, 1786. Eve, his widow, died in
New York, in 1836, at the great age of ninety-eight. Of his sons, John
Chambers White, became a vice-admiral in the British navy, and Frederick
Van Cortland, became a general in the army.

[48] See p. xxxv., ante.

[49] Isaac Royal, of Medford, died in England, in October, 1781. He was
a representative from Medford to the General Court, and for twenty-two
years a member of the Council. In 1774, he was appointed a Councillor
under the writ of mandamus, but was never sworn into office. Appointed a
brigadier-general in 1761, and the first who bore that title here. He
left the country April 16, 1775; was proscribed in 1778, and his estate
was confiscated. He bequeathed upwards of two thousand acres of land in
Worcester County, Mass., to found the first law professorship of Harvard
University, and his bequests for other purposes were numerous and
liberal.

[50] William Brattle, F.R.S., lawyer, preacher, physician, soldier and
legislator, son of Rev. William, minister, of Cambridge, died in
Halifax, N.S., in October, 1776; aged seventy-four. He was graduated at
Harvard University, in 1722; was distinguished both for his talents and
eccentricities; was a representative from Cambridge, and many years a
member of the Council; a member of the Stamp Act Co