[59] Quoted in the Portsmouth Oracle, May 21, 1814, p. 2-5. The story of the wagon which started with forty bushels of corn, related by Timothy Pickering, was reprinted in the Massachusetts Spy of May 25, 1814, p. 3-3, but "Uncle Sam" is omitted.
[60] Quoted in the Columbian Centinel, June 29, 1814, p. 2-1.
[61] Quoted in the New York Herald, November 16, 1814, p. 3-4.
[62] The story was reprinted in the New York Herald of December 7, 1814, p. 2-3.
[63] Quoted in the New York Herald, December 21, 1814, p. 3-5.
[64] The extract was reprinted in the Portsmouth Oracle of January 28, 1815, p. 3-2; and in the Connecticut Courant of February 7, 1815, p. 3-1.
[65] Quoted in the Salem Gazette, January 21, 1815, p. 3-1; Portsmouth Oracle, February 4, p. 3-1; Connecticut Courant, February 7, p. 1-3.
[66] Supplement to Niles' Register, VII, 187. That volume ended with the issue of February 25, 1815.
[67] Supplement to Niles' Register, IX, 95. That volume ended with the issue of February 24, 1816. The Albany Register of December 6, 1814, advertised a play, farce, and "Naval Pillar" to take place at the theatre the following evening "in honor of the memorable Naval Conflict on Lake Champlain, fought on the glorious Eleventh of September" (p. 3-4). The song in the text may have been written for that occasion, though it is not mentioned in the advertisement.
[68] See p. 33, above.