Note 896 — Chapter XIII · (continued 2)

[Bozman was born in 1757 and died in 1823. He had published in 1811 a preliminary Sketch of the History of Maryland during the three first years after its Settlement. Some of the old records, supposed to have been lost since he used them, were found at Annapolis in 1875, and serve to show the accuracy with which he copied them. Gay’s Popular History of the United States, i. 515.—Ed.]