[34] Ibid., April 22, 1776. It is worth noting that Morgan did not think this important enough to include in his Vindication (see footnote 35).

[35] John Morgan, A Vindication of His Public Character in the Station of Director-General of the Military Hospital, and Physician in Chief of the American Army; Anno, 1776, Boston, 1777.

[36] Pennsylvania Packet, June 24, 1779.

[37] American Archives, ser. 4, vol. 5, p. 488.

[38] Morgan, op. cit. (footnote 35), pp. 102, 144; and Independent Chronicle, April 10, 1777.

[39] James Thacher, American Medical Biography, Boston, 1828, vol. 1, pp. 270-273.

[40] For biographies of Sylvester Gardiner see Dictionary of American Biography, New York, 1931, vol. 8, pp. 139-140; Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York, 1887, vol. 2; H. A. Kelly and W. L. Burrage, Dictionary of American Medical Biography, New York, 1928, pp. 450-452; James H. Stark, The Loyalists of Massachusetts, Boston, 1910, pp. 313-315.

[41] Greenleaf Ledger (see footnote 6).

[42] American Archives, ser. 5, vol. 1, pp. 282, 284.

[43] Ibid., p. 314.