Note 265 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Cf. letter from Portsmouth, N. H., in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 2d ser., ii. 481; Hollister's Connecticut, ii. ch. 6; lives of Jay by Jay and by Flanders, and documents in Force, for the effect in New York; Minutes of the Prov. Congress of New Jersey, p. 3; New Jersey Archives, x. 457, etc. A paper by Joseph Reed on the action in Pennsylvania (N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1878, p. 269) was controverted by Thomson (Ibid., p. 274), who held that Reed had no intimate knowledge in the matter. Cf. Chas. Thomson's letter to Wm. H. Drayton in the Penna. Mag. of Hist. (ii. 411), from the Sparks MSS., and his letter in the N. Y. Hist. Soc. Proc. (1878, p. 218); Niles's Principles and Acts (1876), p. 203; Dickinson's Polit. Works, i. 285-416. The resolutions of Delaware are in the Life of George Read, pp. 88, 101. For the Maryland action, see Niles (p.258) and McSherry's Maryland. For Virginia, see Rives's Madison (i. 60); Niles (p. 272); Life of R. H. Lee (i. 97); Randall's Jefferson (i. 85); Parton's Jefferson (p. 130). For North Carolina, McRee's Iredell.