vi INTR OD UC TION. 



personal observation of these writers, and which 

 have long since been out of print, would give pleas- 

 ure to some of the friends of my youth, preserve 

 facts for future use which would otherwise be lost, 

 and give to my own children an opportunity of 

 learning something concerning their forefathers 

 which is not recorded elsewhere. 



I need hardly say that these pamphlets have been 

 left exactly as they came from the hands of the 

 writers, and that they have been reproduced only 

 for private circulation. 



Theodore Gaillard Thomas, M.D. 



New York 



