Part 12

Greenleaf Ledger, op. cit. (footnote 6).

Potts Papers, vol. 2, folio 213.

Ibid., vol. 3, folio 305.

Ibid., folio 331.

Ibid., folio 346.

Ibid., folio 336.

Ibid., folio 369.

Ibid., folio 331; Craigie to Potts, September 1, 1777.

Preserved at the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts.

Independent Chronicle, October 30, 1777.

Ford, op. cit. (footnote 10), vol. 5, p. 748, vol. 7, p. 274, vol. 8, p. 538. (Smith received $2,490 on September 9, 1776, $2,952 on April 17, 1777, "for sundry medicines," and Caldwell & Co. received $666 on July 7, 1777, "for sundry medicine delivered William Smith.")

Ibid., vol. 7, p. 321. (Christopher and Charles Marshall received $4,151 on May 2, 1777, "for sundry medicines and chirurgical instruments supplied by them for the use of different battalions of continental forces.")

Pennsylvania Journal, January 29, 1777.

Potts Papers, vol. 2, folio 150.

Ibid., folio 153; Bass to Potts, March 17, 1777.

Pennsylvania Journal, June 11, July 9, 23, 1777.

Ford, op. cit. (footnote 10), vol. 11, p. 546.

Pennsylvania Evening Post, March 18, May 27, 1777.

Boston Gazette, February 3, 1777; Connecticut Courant, April 7, 1777.

Pennsylvania Packet, April 15, 22, 1777. This anonymous article was written by Dr. Benjamin Rush and reprinted as a pamphlet.

Potts Papers, vol. 2, folios 158, 159.

Pennsylvania Ledger, October 10, 1777; Pennsylvania Evening Post, October 14, 18, 1777.

Pennsylvania Evening Post, November 1, 8, 13, 1777, April 29, 1778. (A large number of advertisements announcing thefts appeared during the British occupation.)

Pennsylvania Evening Post, January 10 through April 20, 1778, and Pennsylvania Ledger, April 4, 15, 1778. [Yeldall advertised his "Anti-Venereal Essence" only once under American occupation, but at $4.00 per bottle (Pennsylvania Evening Post, August 26, 1777).]

Pennsylvania Evening Post, June 25, 1777.

Gibson, op. cit. (footnote 2), p. 149.

It was in February 1778 that Dr. Potts assumed his office as purveyor general for the hospital department of the Continental Army with the duty of purchasing and distributing all supplies and medicines (ibid., p. 154).

Potts Papers, vol. 1, folio 24. (This apparently is the list prepared by Brown, even though it is not signed by him. The item "Medicines, Vials, Cork &c £20,000" was added with the statement "The above enumerated articles should be purchased immediately," and both were in the handwriting of "W. Shippen, D.G." The document is undated.)