[4] Jonathan Potts Papers, four volumes of miscellaneous manuscripts at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (hereinafter referred to as Potts Papers).
[5] Journals of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts Bay, quoted in Owen, op. cit. (footnote 2), pp. 22-23.
[6] Greenleaf Ledger, 1765-1778, at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. (The Greenleaf pharmacy was established by Elizabeth Greenleaf in 1726 or 1727. See J. L. Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, 1920, vol. 5, pp. 472-476; Jonathan Greenleaf, A Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, New York, 1854, pp. 89, 91, 205, 207; Boston Post-Boy and Boston Gazette, November 8, 1762, obituary of Elizabeth Greenleaf.)
[7] Owen, op. cit. (footnote 2), p. 23.
[8] J. R. Alden, The American Revolution, New York, 1954 p. 23.
[9] Owen, op. cit. (footnote 2), pp. 12-13.
[10] Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, edited by Worthington C. Ford, Washington, D.C., 1905, vol. 2, p. 250. Nearly all excerpts from Ford also appear in Owen, op. cit. (footnote 2).
[11] Ibid., vol. 3, p. 261. The Samuel Ward diary for September 23 records that "a parcel of medicines for the hospital" was "to be bought" (E. C. Burnett, Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Washington, D.C., 1921, vol. 1, p. 205).
[12] Ford, op. cit. (footnote 10), vol. 3, p. 344.
[13] Burnett, op. cit. (footnote 11), vol. 1, p. 292.