Where there are variant spellings, the text has been corrected to match the preponderant versions, and are noted. Some compound words are found both with and without hyphens. Where the hyphen occurs on a line break, the hyphen is removed, or not, in accordance with the most common version.

The entry for Oct. 11, regarding the appointment of Matthew Smith to the Vice Presidency of the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council is not referred to in the Contents. An entry, enclosed in [ ], is added under his name there.

The Index entries for ’Nord, Edward’ and ’Nitschmann, Martin’ lacked a page number. The correct pages (p. 619 and 825, respectively) are added here, enclosed in [ ].

The Index entry for ’Ringgold, Arthur’ most likely should read ’Ringgold Artillery’. The founder of the unit was Maj. Sanuel Ringgold. There is no ’Arthur Ringgold’ mentioned in the text.

On p. 518, the antifederalist newspaper founded by Hugh Henry Brackenridge in 1799 was actually called the “Tree of Liberty”, not the “Tree of Life” as it appears here and in the Index. There seems to be some confusion of “Lawyer Brackenridge” in Pittsburgh, and a later American painter, Hugh Henry Breckenridge, who worked in Philadelphia and Massachusetts, and one of whose better known paintings was called “The Tree of Life”, though the latter is judged to have been created ca. 1929, four years later than the publication date of 1924.

On p. 918, there is a passage that opens a quotation, (“it was the intention...) but has no closure. By context, the quotation would end with that sentence (...carried that plan into operation.”) It is possible that the opening mark is spurious, since there’s no apparent source for the passage.

On occasion, apparent errors appear in quoted text, in which case they stand uncorrected but are noted.

Some items in the Index appear out of alphabetic order. These have been marked with a leading ‘*’, but have not been moved.

The Index reference to ‘Fontainbleau’ on p. 704 is spelled ‘Fountainbleau', and has been corrected. This places the item in the wrong place, alphabetically, and so has been marked with ‘*’.

Those errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s (and there are many) have been corrected, and are noted below. The references are to the page and line in the original.

ix.14	Fr[ei/ie]tchie, Barbara	Transposed.
xii.24	Tulliall[e/a]n	Replaced.
19.45	belonging to the Britis[t/h] fleet	Replaced.
24.42	Governor Morris advised Colonel Clap[man/ham]	Replaced.
45.33	Every interest in London was again[st] him.	Added.
49.29	Gover[n]or Packer	Inserted.
63.20	“One Thomas [McGee]	Sic: McKee
66.10	[“]The> first Party	Added.
80.17	on account of conscientious scruples.[”]	Added.
80.30	who was a [seafearing] man	sic: seafaring?
82.8	Count [D/d]e Rochambeau	Replaced.
82.20	and driven by o[v/x]en	Replaced.
89.41	which would alone hav[e] established	Added.
92.1	John Penn, Last Propriet[o/a]ry Governor	Replaced.
94.27	Ole Bornemann Bull was [born] in Bergen	Missing.
99.24	a colossal statu[t]e of the man	Removed.
99.30	Jail at Hannastown Stormed Febru[ru]ary	Removed.
109.39	murder in the first degree.[’/”]	Replaced.
121.16	The Government interfer[r]ed with their plans	Removed.
125.5	through the negotia[it/ti]on of	Transposed.
126.15	destined to bec[a/o]me	Replaced.
151.23	Annakey Coolin[g/’]s attestation	Replaced.
128.29	Robert Turner and Thomas Tre[e/s]se were interested	Replaced.
149.20	a Scotch and Calv[a/i]nistic settlement.	Replaced.
156.4	after the title of 1768 was ex[t]inguished	Inserted.
194.20	from the Twel[f]th District	Inserted.
196.14	was chosen to succee[e]d him	Removed.
199.38	with the ad[d]ition> of ninety-five officers	Inserted.
201.15	was built in Ap[p]ollo	Removed.
201.18	and the Alleghen[e]y portage railroads	Removed.
204.24	published a volum[n/e]	Replaced.
205.27	and [“]other grain.”	Added (likely).
211.17	we find Pence en[e]gaged	Removed.
227.35	son of the great vice[-]gerent	Removed.
235.11	The Governor sent Con[ar/ra]d Weiser	Transposed.
243.18	One of these early engines, the Rocket[t]	Removed.
259.36	Li[ue/eu]tenant Colonels	Transposed.
260.38	to subdue the Indian atrocit[i]es	Inserted.
263.25	he entered heart[i]ly into the scheme	Inserted.
263.29	for the contemplated i[n/m]provements	Replaced.
277.3	in procuring accom[m]odations	Inserted.
282.26	These troops rendez[v]oused at Fort Henry	Inserted.
288.2	it was entirely obli[b/t]erated many years ago	Replaced.
291.42	receive [the] Continental Congress	sic: missing?
295.33	had taken two or three [familys] prisoners	sic
298.37	built by the Balt[i]more promoters	Inserted.
301.26	did not leave all to di[s]plomacy	Removed.
303.21	invited the sur[r]ounding tribes	Inserted.
307.12	in Mon[t]gomery County	Inserted.
308.32	the Supreme Ex[e]cutive Council	Inserted.
309.40	These [maurauders] were pursued	sic
317.25	much cunning di[s]plomacy	Removed.
322.46	did not reach his des[t]ination	Inserted.
325.12	for poultry and fresh p[r]ovisions.	Inserted.
327.17	Beth[eu/ue]l died at his home	Transposed.
327.19	Beth[eu/ue]l Vincent, born June 3, 1762	Transposed.
330.29	an agreement of s[e]ttlement	Inserted.
332.28	becoming his sur[i/e]ties	Replaced.
338.8	oppose the preten[t/s]ions of Lord Baltimore	Replaced.
347.3	not[h]withstanding all their endeavors	Removed.
351.14	Dem[o/a]gogues have been using commissions	Replaced.
358.26	that Washington had died[,] bells were muffled	Added.
361.5	Zeisberger left Fr[ei/ie]denhutten	Transposed.
368.24	and temporary hospital accom[m]odations	Inserted.
368.31	commis[s]erating	Removed.
390.36	over Bair, Know No[r]thing	Removed.
412.4	the reign of Loui[x/s] XIV	Replaced.
414.30	as the propriet[o/a]ry’s one-tenth	Replaced.
421.40	contained many h[ei/ie]roglyphics	Transposed.
428.6	dissati[s]fied with the indisposition	Inserted.
430.29	They were on the[re/ir] way	Replaced.
431.34	by its ac[c]omplishment	Inserted.
445.37	possession of de[s]cendants of Captain Wilson	Inserted.
447.45	Peter Alrick[s]	Added.
460.5	Not[h]withstandin his overcautiousness	Removed.
469.34	as tenant of Claypool[e]	Added.
470.38	Beauje[a]u’s command was reinforced	Removed.
471.28	A[t] this point the supply	Added.
501.45	by a stra[get/teg]ic movement	Transposed.
512.27	dis[tin]guished visitor.	Inserted.
513.23	and rough[t]ly handled him	Removed.
513.33	Henry Melch[oi/io]r Muhlenberg	Transposed.
518.21	Lawyer Br[e/a]ckenridge, in 1799, left	Replaced.
518.24	Br[e/a]ckenridge and some of his adherents	Replaced.
518.25	the “Tree of [Life].”	sic Liberty
535.10	and allot[t]ing ten thousand acres	Inserted.
539.35	at the hands of Canass[atego/etoga]	Replaced.
544.17	the great Oneida vice[-]gerent	Removed.
544.29	He and William Hayes had volunte[e]red	Inserted.
548.6	abandoned the s[ei/ie]ge on this fort	Transposed.
548.31	the valley of the Musking[ha/u]m	Replaced.
553.17	[Allegany] on the branch of Ohio	sic
553.26	they would pass the [Susquehannah]	sic
634.39	some seen carried off[)]	Added (likely).
637.9	under the preten[t/s]ion of fears	Replaced.
643.19	that a convention [h/b]e called	Replaced.
652.8	the artillery in cas[t/e] of defeat.	Replaced.
667.8	John Paul Ja[e/c]quet	Replaced.
669.43	he stayed in Philade[l]phia	Inserted.
679.15	I arrived about 11 o’clock. o’clock.[”]	Added.
687.20	any person who had [ac-]accepted or might accept	Removed.
697.19	to start a school here in Germantown.[”]	Added.
720.30	one of promise for the Engli[g/s]h	Replaced.
731.34	S[abastai/ebastia]n Graff and John Haldeman	Replaced.
741.36	was propelled with sail and oar[,/.]	Replaced.
761.6	The Rev. Mr. Stee[e]l	Removed.
764.8	became odi[o]us to the people of Philadelphia	Inserted.
770.20	in great force to bes[ei/ie]ge> the fort	Transposed.
781.22	Early in 1764 e[tx/xt]ensive measures	Transposed.
783.28	Prey of Kidnap[p]ers	Inserted.
785.32	on hor[es/se]back	Transposed.
789.15	a sense of the i[n/m]portance	Replaced.
790.5	On March 5, 1798[,] President Adams[,] informed Congress	Added/Removed.
791.16	circular letter to milit[i]a officers	Inserted.
793.29	and when they was [goeing] to put him	sic
796.39	the situation was entirely changed[.]	Added.
797.5	the vicinity of D[ie/ei]trick Six’s	Transposed.
802.3	reaching a trading[-/ ]post	Replaced.
813.22	old age and decrep[t]itude	Removed.
819.8	Joe heard the foo[t]steps	Inserted.
842.1	Saint[ /-]Pierre replied	Replaced.
850.21	[“]Bury me at the foot	Added.
852.13	and carried Spac[h/k]man off	Replaced.
864.7	one of the m[a/o]st disgraceful local conflicts	Replaced.
878.30	after some conversation[;/,] stepped eight paces	Replaced.
888.1	was the prou[n]d proprietor	Removed.
910.15	General Cadwal[l]ader’s	Removed.
900.29	His parents were of Engli[g/s]h origin	Replaced.
902.4	“Annals of Philadelphia[,]”	Removed.
918.15	that plan into operation.[”]	Added. But see note.
935.25	*Fo[u]ntainbleau, 704	Removed.
919.38	ascertaining the lat[t]itude	Removed.
946.70	Muhlenberg, Henry Melch[oi/io]r, 513	Transposed.
947.27	Ogleth[ro/or]pe, James Edward, 313	Transposed.
951.2	Ringgold, [Arthur Artillery], 277	Replaced.