Transcriber's Notes.
The copyright of this work has been researched and no indications were found that the U.S. copyright was renewed.
Punctuation has been normalised, and hyphenation of words outside quoted material has been made consistent, without comment here.
Due to the large number of variant spellings in the material quoted in this work, the following possible typographic errors in quoted material have not been corrected:
Page [ix]: "trnsubstantiation."
Page [20]: "American indenpendence, which."
Page [30]: "June 31, 1800."
Page [38]: "Union Tavern in George Town, where he palns to."
Page [38]: "Carpenter, can by the asistance."
Page [49]: "number of dogs in Gerogetown."