Chapter XX

PROGRESS OF THE WAR WITH THE FRENCH.--CHANGE IN THE JURISDICTION
OF THE COURTS.--SENSE OF COMMON INTEREST DEVELOPING AMONG THE
COLONISTS.--LOUISBURG CAPTURED.

Privateers fitted out, 162

1741. James Greene started an iron works, 162

Changes of the jurisdictions of the courts, 163

Encroachments of Connecticut, 163

1741. Newport Artillery chartered, 165

Counterfeit bills troublesome, 164

1744. Lotteries legalized, 165

Rhode Island's part in the capture of Louisburg, 165

Death of Colonel John Cranston, 166

Two privateers and two hundred men lost, 166

Sense of common interest and mutual dependence
gaining ground, 166

Caution against fraudulent voting, 167

Disaster to the French armada, 168

1746. Close of the campaign, 168

Accession of territory, 168