Page 94. Probably an error for Poole Island

12. Page 94. No corroboration has as yet been found of Moreau's statement as to the origin of Frenchtown.

13. Page 97. The author was apparently misinformed in regard to the early history of Newcastle. Amandus Johnson, in his récent study, The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, 1638-1664, gives no account of any Swedish settlement named Stockholm or New Stockholm. He speaks of the location of the Dutch fort, Fort Casimir, as being about twelve miles from the présent site of Newcastle, and states that when it was captured by the Swedes, its name was changed to Trefaldighet (Trinity). According to the same author, the name of Fort Casimir was afterwards changed to New Amstel. According to Ferris (Settlements on the Delaware, pp. 77, 105, 129-131), the Dutch founded New Amstel near their Fort Casimir about 1656 and the name New Amstel was changed to Newcastle at the English conquest.

14. Page 99. The date assigned as the date of the founding of Wilmington seems to be rather that of the adoption of a larger plan for building the city. See Ferris, op. cit., p. 222. As to its earlier and later history, see Ihid., pp. 192 ff.

15. Page 102. Bon-Albert Briois de Beaumetz (1759- 1800?), président of the Conseil provincial of Artois, was deputy for the nobility of that province in the National Assembly and at one time président of the Constituante. At the beginning of the Reign of Terror he escaped from France, thanks to aid given him by Talleyrand, sought refuge in England and thence passed to America in 1794. He and Talleyrand were constant companions during their sojourn in America and were partners in a land enterprise in Maine and in a cargo shipped to India. Beaumetz left Philadelphia on May 27, 1796, for Calcutta and according to Talleyrand (Memoirs, I, 246-247) died there. See an interesting letter written by Joseph Fauchet to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs on June 5, 1794, in Turner, Correspondence of French Ministers, 1791-1797, in American Hist. Assoc. Report, 1903, II, 378-381 and 465-466.

16. Page 102. For the circumstances under which Talleyrand left England for the United States, see G. Pallain, Correspondance diplomatique de Talleyrand, La Mission de Talleyrand à Londres en 1792.

17. Page 103. Lafayette's aide-de-camp in the American Révolution and nominated by him to fill one of the posts of aides-majors in the National Guard. La Colombe made his escape from France to Rotterdam, thence to England and to America, arriving in New York at the beginning of May,

18. Page 103. A référence evidently to comte Louis de Narbonne Lara (1755-1814). This incident is in accord with the account given of his life in Biographie Générale, tome 37.

19. Page 103. For an account of a most interesting trial before the revolutionary courts at this time, see The Reign of Terror: a Collection of Authentic Narratives of the Horrors Committed by the Revolutionary Government of France under Marat and Robespierre, I, 35-86.

20. Page 104. Evidently a mistake for zvhisk or wisk, the form admitted by the Academy in 1798. It is for English whist. Robb for rob or robre, Eng. "rubber."