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Footnotes:

[1] Cordis’s bill for a dinner given by Governor Hancock to the Fusileers at this house in 1792 is a veritable curiosity in its way:—

£ s. p.
136Bowls of Punch 15 6
80Dinners 8
21Bottles of Sherry 4 14 6
Brandy 2 6

[2] A punch-bowl on which is engraved the names of seventeen members of the old Whig Club is, or was, in the possession of R. C. Mackay of Boston. Besides those already mentioned, Dr. Church, Dr. Young, Richard Derby of Salem, Benjamin Kent, Nathaniel Barber, William Mackay, and Colonel Timothy Bigelow of Worcester were also influential members. The Club corresponded with Wilkes, Saville, Barré, and Sawbridge,—all leading Whigs, and all opponents of the coercive measures directed against the Americans.

[3] Liberty Tree grew where Liberty Tree Block now stands, corner of Essex and Washington Streets.

[4] The name of a room at Julien’s.

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