[3]. Min. of Legislative Council, and of General Assembly, Dec. 23 and 30, 1767.

[4]. Letter of Colden to Earl of Shelburne, Jan. 21, 1768. Doc. Rel. Col. Hist. N. Y., VIII, p. 6.

[5]. Minutes, General Assembly, Feb. 6, 1768.

[6]. Vide Isaac Q. Leake, “Memoir of the Life and Times of General John Lamb,” Chapters II and III.

[7]. Minutes, General Assembly, Dec. 18th and 19th, 1769.

[8]. Minutes, General Assembly, Dec. 31, 1769.

[9]. Minutes, General Assembly of that date.

[10]. Original in a book in the Office of the General Court, labelled “Inquisitions &c., 1665–1676” p. 239, printed in Hening’s Statutes at Large, II, 517.

[11]. Burke, Hist. Virginia, II, 237.

[12]. Quoted by Hening, Statutes at Large, II, 518.