[ 43 ] For a dramatic, but not inaccurate, account of the expedition and Clark, read John Bakeless, Background to Glory: The Story of George Rogers Clark (Lippincott: Philadelphia, 1957.)
[ 44 ] Gardner W. Allen, A Naval of the American Revolution, 2 volumes (Boston, 1913), I, 40-41.
[ 45 ] For a fuller discussion of black Virginians in the Revolution, see Luther P. Jackson, Virginia Negro Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (Norfolk, 1944), and Benjamin Quarles, The Negro in the American Revolution (University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 1961).
[ 46 ] Ward, American Revolution, II, 792.
[ 47 ] The chronology of selected events in Virginia 1763-1783 was taken from William W. Abbot's publication entitled, A VIRGINIA CHRONOLOGY 1585-1783, "To pass away the time", Williamsburg, Virginia, 1957. Permission for use of this material has been granted by the publisher.