684 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
NOTES 
1. Henri L. Bourdin, Ralph H. Gabriel, and Stanley T. Williams, eds., 
St. Jean de Crévecoeur, Sketches of eighteenth century America, p. 145, New 
Haven, 1925. Carl Bridenbaugh, The colonial craftsman, pp. 59-60, New York, 
1950. Charles B. Kuhlmann, The development of the flour-milling industry in the 
United States, passim, Boston, 1929. 
2. See articles by author in Delaware History, vol. 7, March 1956, pp. 17-36, 
and September 1957, pp. 319-836. 
3. Winslow C. Watson, ed., Men and times of the revolution; or Memoirs of 
Elkanah Watson ... from the year 1772-1842, 2d ed., p. 227, New York, 1856. 
4. Travels in America 100 years ago, pp. 69-70, New York, 1894. 
5. J. Thomas Scharf, et al., History of Delaware, 1609-1888, vol. 2, p. 786, 
Philadelphia, 1888. 
6. By 1816 “the trade, industry, and importance of the State of Delaware” 
were dependent upon the prosperity of the Brandywine Mills. See miscel- 
laneous petitions, January 26, 1816, legislative papers, Delaware State Archives, 
Dover, Del. 
7. From 1785 to 1800 the Delaware Gazette, Wilmington, is a treasury of 
advertisements reflecting milling activity in New Castle County and partic- 
ularly along the Brandywine Creek. See, in addition, Scharf, History of 
Delaware, vol. 2, pp. 880-897, 914-948. 
8. United States Gazette, December 18, 18238. Q 
9. “Extracts from the letter-books of Lieutenant Enos Reeves,” Pennsylvania 
Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 21, p. 289, 1897. 
10. See Kuhlmann (note 1), pp. 28-29, 38. Joseph Scott, A geographical 
description of the States of Maryland and Delaware, pp. 80-82, 90-91, 107-71, 
Philadelphia, 1807, provides an interesting comparison of the Brandywine and 
Ellicott Mills. Arthur G. Peterson, Flour and grist milling in Virginia: a 
brief history, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 43, pp. 97-108, 
1935, treats the James River mills. 
11. See Bucks County Historical Society papers, vol. 5, pp. 527-528, 1926; 
Benjamin Ferris, A history of the original settlements on the Delaware... 
and a history of Wilmington pp. 302-803, Wilmington, 1846; Pennsylvania 
Gazette, Philadelphia, December 2, 1762; and Agreement and survey of lands, 
August 9, 1760, Tatnall Papers, MS., Historical Society of Delaware, Wilmington, 
Del. 
12. A journal... of the life, travels, and Christian experiences of ... 
Thomas Chalkley, p. 290, London, 1751. 
18. Carl Bridenbaugh, ed., Gentleman’s progress: the itinerarium of Dr. 
Alexander Hamilton, 1744, p. 15, Chapel Hill, 1948. 
14. Some cursory remarks made by James Birket in his voyage to North 
America, 1750-1751, p. 54, New Haven, 1916. Birket visited Wilmington in 
December 1750. 
15. Laurence Henry Gipson, Lewis Evans, p. 98, Philadelphia, 1939. 
16. Description of the streets and the main roads about Philadelphia, 1754, 
Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. 18, p. 217, 1894. 
17. Travels through the middle settlements in North America in the years 
1759 and 1760, reprinted from 3d ed., 1798, p. 88, New York, 1904. 
18. Philip Padelford, ed., Colonial panorama, 1775; Dr. Robert Honyman’s 
journal for March and April, p. 11, San Marino, 1939. 
19. The Deane papers, Collections of the New York Historical Society .. . 
vol. 1, p. 56, 1886. In Wilmington Deane was told that one vessel alone 
carried 30,000 barrels of flour a year to Philadelphia. 
