[73] "Letter of Major Caleb Stark in Memoir of General John Stark," p. 364.
[74] During Cleveland's administrations a bill was passed allowing claimants to present claims for adjudication to the amount of their face value. If interest was added, they would exceed $100,000,000. The owners of the 898 vessels destroyed, who were called upon to make this sacrifice as a means of relieving the government from a great responsibility, in many cases were reduced to poverty by the duplicity of the government, and even now with this scant justice, there are many that find it very difficult to prove their claim, so long a time has elapsed, and many are dead without legal representation.
[75] American Archives, series I, p. 1350.
[76] American Archives. Series I, p. 1350.
[77] Frothingham Siege of Boston, p. 212. Letters of John Adams to his Wife Vol. I., p. 79.
[78] Windsor Nar. and Crit. His. Vol. VI., 655, 657.
[79] Essays in American History, 178.
[80] Essays in American History, 176, 177.
[81] Proceedings, N. J. His. Soc. II, 31.
[82] Life of Brandt. Appendix No. 1, Vol. I.