[449]. Ibid., Vol. II, p. 300.

[450]. Sanderson, op. cit., p. 168.

[451]. Ibid., p. 169.

[452]. Farrand, Records, Vol. I, p. 593.

[453]. Ibid., Vol. I, p. 542.

[454]. Farrand, Records, Vol. III, p. 350.

[455]. McRee, Life and Correspondence of James Iredell, Vol. II, pp. 161, 168.

[456]. Peele, Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians, p. 75. Davie’s great collection of papers was destroyed in Sherman’s raid. Ibid., p. 78.

[457]. Farrand, Records, Vol. I, p. 86.

[458]. Ibid., Vol. II, p. 202.