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Marriage Document no. 101, Report of the Record Commissioners of Boston, p. 298.

The Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, November 9, 1834.

SILVIO A. BEDINI, "A Compass Card by Paul Revere (?)", Yale Library Gazette (July 1962), no. 2. pp. 36-38; WILLIAM T. DAVIS, Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth (Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1883).

D. ALAN STEVENSON, The World's Lighthouses before 1820 (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), p. 179.

PAUL REVERE, Day Books, MS., Massachusetts Historical Society.

HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 50), pp. 7-8.

Information from Mr. C. E. Smart, of W. & L. E. Gurley, Troy, New York.

PENROSE R. HOOPES, Shop Records of Daniel Burnap, Clockmaker, (Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1958), pp. 63-66.

HOOPES, op. cit. (footnote 18), pp. 92-93.

Memoirs of the Huntington Family Association (Hartford, Conn., 1915), Index no. 1.3.4.4.2.4.

PALMER, op. cit. (footnote 34), p. 143.

Correspondence with Mr. Ray Brighton, Portsmouth, N. H.

CHARLES W. BREWSTER, Rambles about Portsmouth (Portsmouth, N. H.: L. W. Brewster, 1859, 1873), ser. 1, pp. 165, 329.

CHARLES W. BREWSTER, Rambles about Portsmouth (Portsmouth, N. H.: L. W. Brewster, 1869), ser. 2, pp. 27, 90, 93, 136, 233, 263, 277, 316, 322, 367.

Information from Prof. Alfred F. Whiting, Dartmouth College Museum.

REV. JAMES HILL FITTS, History of Newfields, New Hampshire, 1638-1911, (Concord: Rumford Press, 1912).

PRICE, op. cit. (footnote 1), p. 64.

The full title is The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, Late Commissioner on behalf of the United States During Part of the Year 1796, the Years 1797, 1798, 1799 and Part of the Year 1800 For Determining the Boundary Between the United States and the Possessions of His Catholic Majesty in America. It was published by Budd and Barton for Thomas Dobson at "the Stone House, No. 41 South Second Street" in Philadelphia in 1803.

Index

Abbott, Katherine M., 98

Adams, Augustus, 99

Adams, George, 131, 134, 136

Allen, John Johnson, 148

almanac, 22, 24, 25

American Antiquarian Society, 38, 112

American Philosophical Society, 11, 12, 16, 21, 22, 24

Amherst College, 26

Annals of Salem, 43

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