[1]. Journals of Congress (W. C. Ford, editor), 1906, V, 517.
[2]. Benson J. Lossing, in Harper’s Magazine, 1856, vol. 13, p. 178 et seq.
[3]. It so appears attached to the exchange copy of the treaty of peace with the United States.
[4]. The Great Seals of England, by Alfred Benjamin and Allen Wyon, London, 1888. Review in The Spectator, 61, 173.
[5]. Familiar Letters of John Adams and his Wife, 210.
[6]. Journals of the Continental Congress (W. C. Ford, editor), 1906, V, 690 n.
[7]. Our Great Seal, by C. A. L. Totten, 1, 25, gives a reproduction of the frontispiece.
[8]. Reports of Committees relating to Congress, vol. 23, Continental Congress MSS. All the committee reports bearing on the seal are in this volume.
[9]. See note at the end for a glossary of heraldic terms used.
[10]. Delaware counties.