[26] This is the inventory given in "Abstracts of Wills," 1:323.
[27] "Journal and Letters," 1767-1774.
[28] Sparks' "Life of Washington," Appendix, ix:557-559.
[29] Bigelow's "Life of Franklin," iii:470.
[30] "Colonial New York," 1:232.
[31] "Lives of the Loyalists,":18.
[32] "Abstracts of Wills," ii:444-445.
[33] Ibid., 1:323-324.
[34] "Abstracts of Wills," 1:108.
[35] "An Historical Account of Massachusetts Currency." See also Colonial Documents, iii:242, and the Records of New Amsterdam. See the chapters on the Astor fortune in Part II for full details of the methods in debauching and swindling the Indians in trading operations.