[44] A black man who sold pies and cakes.
[45] Written after a general pruning of the trees around Harvard College.
[46] Doctor of Medicine, or Student of Medicine.
[47] Referring to the masks and disguises worn by the members
at their meetings.
[48] A picture representing an examination and initiation into
the Society, fronting the title-page of the Catalogue.
[49] Leader Dam, Armig., M.D. et ex off L.K. et LL.D. et
J.U.D. et P.D. et M.U.D, etc., etc., et ASS.
He was an empiric, who had offices at Boston and
Philadelphia, where he sold quack medicines of various
descriptions.
[50] Christophe, the black Prince of Hayti.
[51] It is said he carried the bones of Tom Paine, the infidel, to England, to make money by exhibiting them, but some difficulty arising about the duty on them, he threw them overboard.
[52] He promulgated a theory that the earth was hollow, and that there was an entrance to it at the North Pole.