324 NOTES 



P. 19 The Preface of Chronicon Ephratcnsc, signed 

 * Lamech and Agrippa,' is dated April 14, 1786. See, 

 translation by J. M. Hark, Lancaster, 1889. 



P. 22 " There may be from 7000 to 8000 Dutch 

 Waggons with four Horses each, that from Time to 

 Time bring their Produce and Traffick to Philadelphia, 

 from 10 to 100 Miles Distance." 



Douglass, British Settlements. Boston, 1750, II, 



333- 



P. 23 The quotation is, perhaps, from Justus Moser 

 (17201794), "Patriotic Fancies," 1775. 



P. 26 Dr. Schoepf, late of the allied troops from 

 Germany, could scarcely expect invariable courtesy on 

 the part of those Americans speaking his language. 



P. 32 Cf. the Abbe Robin's New Travels, (Phila- 

 delphia) 1783 under Maryland. 



P. 38 By this time news of the Peace should have 

 reached Virginia. Cf. Freeman's Journal, Dec. 3, 

 1783 "Last Sunday arrived the Lord Hyde Packet 

 from Falmouth, 47 days. From the English papers 

 brought we have extracted the following important 

 advices ' [regarding the Definitive Treaty] . 



P. 42 See, Acts of Assembly (Virginia), 1777, p. 

 19, ch. XII " James Hunter, near Fredericksburg, 

 hath erected and is now carrying on at considerable 

 expense and labour, many extensive factories, slitting, 

 plating and wire mills." 



Cf . Jefferson's Notes, Sec. VI. 



P. 44 See, Letter of Roger Atkinson, 1772, 

 Virginia Mag. of Hist, and Biog., XV, 345 " Sir, it 



