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Christopher Jr. and Charles Marshall Waste Book, February 21 to July 6, 1776, at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Ford, op. cit. (footnote 10), vol. 3, p. 442; vol. 4, pp. 188, 197; Burnett, op. cit. (footnote 11), vol. 1.

Owen, op. cit. (footnote 2), pp. 18-19.

American Archives ... Peter Force, ed., Washington, ser. 4, vol. 1-6, 1837-46; ser. 5, vol. 1-3, 1848-53. Ser. 4, vol. 3, p. 306.

Duncan, op. cit. (footnote 2), pp. 62-64.

Pennsylvania Packet, June 24, 1779.

It is quite possible that the designation "bad" was a typographical error for "rad."

American Archives, ser. 4, vol. 5, p. 115.

Connecticut Courant, February 12, 1776.

Newport Mercury, January 15, 1776.

Massachusetts Gazette, September 7, 1775.

American Archives, ser. 4, vol. 4, p. 159.

Massachusetts Gazette, February 22, 1776.

Boston Gazette, April 15, 1776.

Ibid., April 22, 1776. It is worth noting that Morgan did not think this important enough to include in his Vindication (see footnote 35).

John Morgan, A Vindication of His Public Character in the Station of Director-General of the Military Hospital, and Physician in Chief of the American Army; Anno, 1776, Boston, 1777.

Pennsylvania Packet, June 24, 1779.

American Archives, ser. 4, vol. 5, p. 488.

Morgan, op. cit. (footnote 35), pp. 102, 144; and Independent Chronicle, April 10, 1777.

James Thacher, American Medical Biography, Boston, 1828, vol. 1, pp. 270-273.

For biographies of Sylvester Gardiner see Dictionary of American Biography, New York, 1931, vol. 8, pp. 139-140; Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York, 1887, vol. 2; H. A. Kelly and W. L. Burrage, Dictionary of American Medical Biography, New York, 1928, pp. 450-452; James H. Stark, The Loyalists of Massachusetts, Boston, 1910, pp. 313-315.

Greenleaf Ledger (see footnote 6).

American Archives, ser. 5, vol. 1, pp. 282, 284.

Ibid., p. 314.

S. E. Morison and H. S. Commager, The Growth of the American Republic, New York, 1950, vol. 1, p. 210.

New-York Journal, July 13, 1775.

Ibid., May 11, 1775.

New-York Gazette, January 1 and January 29, 1776. For a history of the English patent medicines in America, see G. B. Griffenhagen and J. H. Young in The Chemist and Druggist, 1957, vol. 167, pp. 714-722, and in U.S. National Museum Bulletin 218, 1959, pp. 155-183 (Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 10).

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