The spellings "Bastile" and "Bastille", "beforementioned" and
"before-mentioned", "Fraunces'" and "Fraunces's", "ibid." and "Ibid.",
"Potowmac" and "Potomac" appear in this text.
The following alterations have been made to the text:
p. 17: "it is their _interest_" amended to "it is in their
_interest_".
p. 127: double quotation marks added before "Taxation".
p. 142: double quotation marks added before and after "I was".
p. 201: period replaced by comma after "what any man durst".
p. 235: "dominant trait in in" amended to "dominant trait in".
p. 240: "philanthrophy" amended to "philanthropy".
p. 245: "a devil of fool" amended to "a devil of a fool".
p. 250: "postcript" amended to "postscript"; also comma deleted
after "Ternant".
p. 314: "W. Washington" amended to "G. Washington".
On p. 253 "represent for you" should perhaps be "represent you" but has
been left unchanged.