Editorial note — Hon. Thomas Dongan, Governor of New York.

[Footnote 187: Authorities: O'Callaghan's Documentary and Colonial Histories of New York. Bancroft's History of the United States. Lingard's History of England. Bishop Bayley's History of the Catholic Church in New York. O'Callaghan's Journal of the Legislature of New York, especially a note thereto, by George H. Moore, Esq. Shea's History of the Catholic Missions. Campbell's Life and Times of Archbishop Carroll. DeCourcy and Shea's Catholic Church in the United States, etc.]