[Footnote 86: Simple Sapling is the name given to one of the dramatis
personae in Mrs. Warren's satirical piece called _The Group_. In one
copy, which has a written key to the characters, Nathaniel R. Thomas is
named, in another Abijah White.]
[Footnote 87: A brief account of this enterprise by an eye-witness is
given in Force's _American Archives_, Fourth Series, Vol. II., p. 165.]