[107] Lossing.

[108] General Schuyler Hamilton: "Addresses on the Flag," p. 18.

[109] Preble: "The Flag of the United States."

[110] Benjamin Franklin's only son bitterly resented his father's abandonment of peaceful and constitutional methods, and himself left the country in 1782, and died a U. E. Loyalist in 1813.

[111] Carried in Congress only by the casting vote of the chairman.

[112] Franklin, Adams and Washington.

[113] Preble: "Ross episode."

[114] Also spelled "Wessingtons."

[115] "Magazine of American History," Vol. XIX., p. 151.

[116] Edward VI., Mary, Elizabeth.