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5. John Meares, Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789 from China to the North-West Coast of America (1790; repr., New York: Da Capo Press, 1967).
6. London World, February 23, 1791.
Benjamin Banneker
1. Davis S. Shields, ed., American Poetry: The 17th and 18th Centuries (New York: Penguin, 2007), 574.
2. Sylvio A. Bedini, The Life of Benjamin Banneker (New York: Scribner, 1972), 17.
3. Martha E. Tyson, “Banneker: The Afric-American Astronomer,” in The Posthumous Papers of Martha E. Tyson, edited by Her Daughter (Philadelphia: Friends’ Book Association, 1884).
4. Pennsylvania Mercury, October 15, 1791.
5. Michael Hardt, ed., Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence (New York: Verso, 2007), 85.
6. Ibid., 86.
7. Bedini, Life of Benjamin Banneker, 238.
Jesse Hawley
1. Jesse Hawley [pseud. Hercules], Genesee Messenger (New York), January 1807, in David Hosack, Memoir of DeWitt Clinton (New York: J. Seymour, 1829), 311.
2. Ibid., 323.
3. Cadwallader Colden, The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada Which Are Dependent on the Province of New York in America and Are the Barrier Between the English and French in that Part of the World (1724), in Ibid., 234.
4. John Lauritz Larson, “ ‘Bind the Republic Together’: The National Union and the Struggle for a System of Internal Improvements,” Journal of American History 74, no. 2 (September 1987): 363–87; Pamela L. Baker, “The Washington National Road Bill and the Struggle to Adopt a Federal System of Internal Improvement,” Journal of the Early Republic 22, no. 3 (Autumn 2002): 437–64.
5. Hosack, Memoir of DeWitt Clinton, 347.
6. Gerard Koeppel, Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2009), 7.
7. William Cooper, A Guide in the Wilderness, or the History of the First Settlements in the Western Counties of New York with Useful Instructions to Future Settlers (Dublin: Gilbert and Hodges, 1810), 21–22.
8. Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC), May 19, 1813; Roy I. Wolf, “Transportation and Politics: The Example of Canada,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 52, no. 2 (June 1962): 176–90; Don C. Sowers, “The Financial History of New York State from 1789 to 1912,” Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, vol. 57 (New York: Columbia University, 1914), 61.
9. Rochester Democrat, repr. in Cleveland Daily Herald, January 17, 1842; Albany Evening Journal, repr. in New York Spectator (New York City), January 19, 1842; Milwaukee Journal, February 2, 1842.
James Brittain
1. Robert Scott Davis Jr., “The Settlement at the Head of the French Broad River or the Bizarre Story of the First Walton County, Georgia,” North Carolina Genealogical Journal 7, no. 2 (May 1981): 65.
2. In addition to Davis’s “Settlement at the Head of the French Broad River,” Brittain is named in Alexia Jones Helsley and George Alexander Jones, A Guide to Historic Henderson County, North Carolina (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2007); Harry McKown, “December, 1810: The Walton War,” This Month in North Carolina History (December 2006), http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/nchistory/dec2006/index.html; Jim Brittain, “History Corner,” Mills River, North Carolina Newsletter 5, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 2.
3. Theodore Davidson, Genesis of Buncombe County (Asheville, NC: Citizen Company, 1922), 78.
4. Ibid., 119. The name of the grand jury foreman, William Whitson, also appears with Brittain’s in the list of dismissed commissioners. Whitson was also Brittain’s commanding officer in the state militia.
5. John Preston Arthur, Western North Carolina: A History from 1730 to 1913 (Raleigh, NC: Edwards and Broughton, 1914), 19, 33.
6. Martin Reidinger, “The Walton War and the Georgia-North Carolina Boundary Dispute” (unpublished manuscript), North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981, cited in “State’s First Walton County Caused Ruckus,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 3,