NOTES 417 



P. 345 Cf. Letter of Henry Lee, of Prince William 

 County, Virginia, to William Lee of London, March 

 ist, 1775 



! We are making large Quantitys of Salt Petre from 

 the Nitre in the Tobacco Putrified with Urine and have 

 made some very strong well grained Powder in this 

 County therefrom wch ketches quick and shoots with 

 great force, so that we shall be able in Future to supply 

 ourselves with Salt Petre and gunpowder without Im- 

 porting any." 



Lee of Virginia. Edited by Edmund Jennings Lee. 

 Philadelphia, 1895, p. 293. 



See also, Work of the Ordnance Bureau of the War 

 Department of the Confederate States, 1861-1865. By 

 Professor Mallet [Alumni Bulletin of the University 

 of Virginia, III, 387] "As regards the materials for 

 making gunpowder, search was made for nitre earth, 

 and considerable quantities were obtained from caves 

 in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Alabama, as also 

 from old buildings, cellars, plantation quarters, and 

 tobacco barns." 



P. 374 The old style was, ' The Government of 

 the Counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex upon 

 Delaware." By the Constitution of Sept. 1776, the 

 style became, The Delaware State." See, Conrad, 

 History of the State of Delaware. Wilmington, 1908, 



If 150- 



P. 379 Scharf, History of Philadelphia, II, 966- 

 967, makes no mention of Reyan, but gives a brief 

 account of Lewis Hallam's company, whose vicissi- 

 tudes and stratagems at this time were very similar. 

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