Wood, William B. Personal Recollections of the Stage. Embracing Notices of Actors, Authors, and Auditors, During a Period of Forty Years. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird. 1855.
INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHIES FOR PLAYS.
Only essential references are given, and wherever possible the author's name is indicated, rather than the title. In such cases, the full title of the reference may be had by consulting the General Bibliography.
Thomas Godfrey, Jr.
William Allen, American Biographical Dictionary; Dunlap, i, 50; Seilhamer, i, 185; Tyler, Consult Index; Journal of William Black; Journal of Sarah Eve, Extracts from the: Written while living near the City of Philadelphia in 1772-1773 (Philadelphia, 1881); American Museum, 471-472; Journal National Institute Sciences, i: 165, 1915; Nation, 100:415, April 15, 1915.
Major Robert Rogers
Allibone; Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography; Dictionary of National Biography; Duyckinck; Ryerson, American Loyalists; Sabin; Sabine, American Loyalists; Tyler; Winsor. Ellis P. Oberholtzer, Literary History of Philadelphia (1906); Sears. Canadian Magazine, 1914, 42:316-318; Dial (Chicago), 59:68-69; 97, 1915; Historical Magazine (New York), April, 1860, 127; New England Magazine, 1894, n. s. 9:678; Royal Society of Canada Proceedings and Transactions, ser. 2, vol. 6, sec. 2, pp. 49-59, Ottawa, 1900. The reader is also referred to the Nevins re-issue of "Ponteach," in which full bibliographies are given; also to Parkman's "History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac." Consult Caleb Stark's "Memoir and Official Correspondence of Gen. John Stark, with Notices of Several other Officers of the Revolution. Also, a Biography of Capt. Phinehas Stevens, and of Colonel Robert Rogers" (1860).
Mrs. Mercy Warren
Alice Brown, "Mercy Warren" (Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times). New York: Scribner's, 1896; Duyckinck; Ellet, Women of the American Revolution; Fiske, John, American Revolution; Griswold, Female Poets of America; Mrs. Hale, Woman's Record; Rees, 132; Seilhamer, ii, 3; Winsor, Boston; Wegelin. Adams, Works of John—ed. by Charles Francis Adams.—Consult Index; Blackwood Magazine, xvii, 203; Correspondence Relating to Mrs. Warren's History of the American Revolution, Mass. Hist. Coll., ser. 5, v. 4, 315-511; Harper's Magazine, 1884, 68:749; New England Magazine, 1894, n. s. 9:680; North American Review, lxviii, 415. In studying first editions of plays, the reader is referred to the Bibliographies of Charles Evans and Charles Hildeburn.
Hugh Henry Brackenridge