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[611] William Wells Brown, William C Nell, and all the Colored men whose efforts I have seen, have made a number of very serious mistakes respecting Banneker's parentage, age, accomplishments, etc. He was of mixed blood. His mother's name was not Molly Morton, but one of his sisters bore that name.
I have used the Memoirs of Banneker, prepared by J.H.B. Latrobe and J. Saurin Norris, and other valuable material from the Maryland Historical Society.
[612] In the most remote records the name was written Banneky.
[613] J. Saurin Norris's sketch.
[614] Jefferson's Works, vol. iii. p. 291.
[615] See Norris, paper on Banneker.
[616] All of Banneker's literary remains were published by J.H.B. Latrobe in the Maryland Historical Society, and in the Maryland Colonization Journal in 1845. The Memoir of Banneker was somewhat marred by a too precipitous and zealous attempt to preach the doctrine of colonization.
[617] Needles's Hist. Memoir of the Penn. Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, p 32.
[618] J.P. Brissot de Warville's Travels in the U.S., vol. i p. 243.
[619] Columbian Centinal of Boston, Dec. 29, 1790.
[620] Brissot de Warville's New Travels in the U.S., ed. 1794, vol. i. p. 242.
[621] For an account of Fuller and Derham, see De la Littérature des Nègres, ou Recherches sur leurs Facultés intellectuelles, leurs Qualités morales et leur Littérature; suivies de Notices sur la Vie et les Ouvrages des Nègres qui se sont distingués dans les Sciences, les Lettres et les Arts. Par H. Grégoire, ancien Évêque de Blois, membre du Sénat conservateur, de l'Institut national, de la Société royale des Sciences de Göttingue, etc. Paris: MDCCCVIII.