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For much of the material cited in this study I am indebted to three Delaware 

 Institutions, the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, the Longwood Founda- 

 tion, and the Historical Society of Delaware. It is to the first that I attribute my 

 interest in the subject itself, prompted mostly bv the partial remains of an early 

 nineteenth-century tannery that once flourished on what are now the grounds 

 of the Haglev Museum. The museum staff, together with former Hagley Museum 

 Fellows, particularly Ralph Gray and Carroll Pursell, provided generously of 

 their time and information. I am grateful, too, to the Longwood Foundation's 

 Eleutherian Mills Historical Library for the privilege extended me of using their 

 extensive manuscript holdings at a time when such use occasioned a serious 

 burden to the library's professional staff. The courtesy of the Historical Society 

 of Delaware in allowing me to reprint material from their journal Delaware History 

 is but a token of the many kindnesses extended me by the Society. 



Peter C. Welsh 



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