Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not
changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced
quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Page 81: The chapter about John Armstrong conflates the father, who was
born in 1717 and served as a General in the Continental Army, with the
son, who was only 18 in 1776 and became a Major in 1782 (Wikipedia).