[543] Force's American Archives, 5th Series, vol. i p. 486.
[544] During a few months of study in New-York City, I came across the above in the library of the N.Y. Hist. Soc.
[545] Schloezer's Briefwechsel, vol. iv. p. 365.
[546] An Historical Research (Livermore), pp. 114-116.
[547] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. viii. p. 640.
[548] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. viii. p. 641.
[549] Ibid., vol. viii. p. 524.
[550] R.I. Col. Recs., vol viii. pp. 358-360.
[551] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. viii. p. 361.
[552] This is evidently a mistake, as Washington's letter was dated Jan. 2, as the reader will see.