[183] The native town of the author, J. H. Stark.

[184] It was saved from confiscation by his wife remaining in it during the war, and her furnishing a substitute for her husband to serve in the army.

[185] James Murray, Loyalist; pp. 152, 154, 155.

[186] James Murray, Loyalist; pp. 248, 249, 251.

[187] Memoir of the war in the Southern Department of the United States. By Henry Lee, p. 397.

[188] The barbecue is still in vogue in the Southern States at all large social gatherings.

[189] Memorial of James Thompson of Charlestown, Mass., and Woburn, Mass., by Leander Thompson, A. M.

[190] See "Life of Count Rumford," by George Ellis.

[191] Mass. His. Coll. 2, series Vol. IV, pp. 167, 168.

[192] For further information about these French Protestants see the "Memoir" by Dr. Holmes, or to Vol. XXII. p. 62. of Massachusetts Historical Collections.