Footnote 1:
Claude C. Robin, _New Travels through North America: in a Series of
Letters ... in the Year 1781_, Boston, 1784, p. 23.
Footnote 2:
_Mercurius Politicus_, September 23-30, 1658.
Footnote 3:
Edward Wenham, "Tea and Tea Things in England," _Antiques_, October
1948, vol. 54, p. 264.
Footnote 4:
Samuel Sewall, _Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729_, reprinted in
_Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society_, 1879, ser. 5,
vol. 6, p. 253.
Footnote 5:
John Marshall Phillips, _American Silver_, New York, 1949, p. 76.
Footnote 6:
Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville, _New Travels in the United States
of America Performed in 1788_, London, 1794, p. 80.
Footnote 7:
Peter Kalm, _The America of 1750. Peter Kalm's Travels in North
America_, edited and translated by Adolph B. Benson, New York, 1937,
vol. 1, p. 346, vol. 2, p. 605.
Footnote 8:
Baron Cromot du Bourg, "Journal de mon Séjour en Amérique," _Magazine
of American History_ (1880-1881), quoted in Charles H. Sherrill,
_French Memories of Eighteenth-Century America_, New York, 1915, p.
155.
Footnote 9:
Marquis de Chastellux, _Voyages de M. le Marquis de Chastellux dans
l'Amérique Septentrionale_, Paris, 1788, quoted in Sherrill, _op.
cit._ (footnote 8), p. 190.
Footnote 10:
Kalm, _op. cit._ (footnote 7), vol. 1, p. 195.
Footnote 11:
Israel Acrelius, _A History of New Sweden; or, The Settlements on the
River Delaware_, translated and edited by William M. Reynolds,
Philadelphia, 1874, p. 158.
Footnote 12:
Letter from M. Jacquelin, York, Virginia, to John Norton, London,
August 14, 1769. In, _John Norton and Sons, Merchants of London and
Virginia, Being the Papers from Their Counting House for the Years
1750 to 1795_, edited by Frances Norton Mason, Richmond, 1937, p. 103.
Footnote 13:
Letter from Gilbert Barkly to directors of the East India Company,
May 26, 1773. _Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and
Documents ..._, edited by Francis S. Drake, Boston, 1884, p. 200.
Footnote 14:
Philip Vickers Fithian, _Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers
Fithian, 1773-1774; a Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion_, edited
by Hunter Dickinson Farish, Williamsburg, 1957, pp. 110, 195-196.
Footnote 15:
R. T. H. Halsey and Charles O. Cornelius, _A Handbook of the American
Wing_, New York, 1924, pp. 111-112.
Footnote 16:
Léon Chotteau, _Les Français en Amérique_, Paris, 1876, quoted in
Sherrill, _op. cit._ (footnote 8), p. 96.
Footnote 17:
Médéric Louis Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry, _Moreau de St. Méry's
American Journey_, translated and edited by Kenneth Roberts and Anna
M. Roberts, Garden City, 1947, p. 266.
Footnote 18:
Claude Blanchard, _The Journal of Claude Blanchard, Commissary of the
French Auxiliary Army Sent to the United States During the American
Revolution, 1780-1783_, translated by William Duane and edited by
Thomas Balch, Albany, 1876, pp. 41, 49.
Footnote 19:
Moreau de Saint-Méry, _op. cit._ (footnote 17), p. 266.
Footnote 20:
François, Marquis de Barbé-Marbois, _Our Revolutionary Forefathers.
The Letters of François, Marquis de Barbé-Marbois During His
Residence in the United States as Secretary of the French Legation
1779-1785_, translated and edited by Eugene Parker Chase, New York,
1929, p. 123.
Footnote 21:
Nancy Shippen, _Nancy Shippen, Her Journal Book_, edited by Ethel
Armes, Philadelphia, 1935, pp. 167, 229, 243.
Footnote 22:
Chastellux, _op. cit._ (footnote 9), quoted in Sherrill, _op. cit._
(footnote 8), p. 40.
Footnote 23:
Eliza Southgate Bowne, _A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago. Selections
from the Letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne_, edited by Clarence Cook,
New York, 1887, p. 207.
Footnote 24:
Shippen, _op. cit._ (footnote 21), p. 167.
Footnote 25:
Prince de Broglie, "Journal du Voyage," _Mélanges de la Société des
Bibliophiles Français_, Paris, 1903, quoted in Sherrill, _op. cit._
(footnote 8), p. 13.
Footnote 26:
Comte de Ségur, _Mémoires, ou Souvenires et Anecdotes_, Paris, 1826,
quoted in Sherrill, _op. cit._ (footnote 8), p. 78.
Footnote 27:
Shippen, _op. cit._ (footnote 21), p. 175.
Footnote 28:
Kalm, _op. cit._ (footnote 7), vol. 2, p. 677; Moreau de Saint-Méry,
_op. cit._ (footnote 17), p. 286.
Footnote 29:
Shippen, _op. cit._ (footnote 21), p. 248.
Footnote 30:
François Jean, Marquis de Chastellux, _Travels in North America in
the Years 1780-81-82_, New York, 1827, p. 114.
Footnote 31:
Ferdinand Marie Bayard, _Travels of a Frenchman in Maryland and
Virginia, with a Description of Philadelphia and Baltimore in 1791_,
translated and edited by Ben C. McCary, Ann Arbor, 1950, p. 48.
Footnote 32:
Mrs. Anne Grant, _Memoirs of an American Lady, with Sketches of
Manners and Scenery in America, as They Existed Previous to the
Revolution_, New York, 1846, p. 54.
Footnote 33:
Kalm, _op. cit._ (footnote 7), vol. 2, p. 611.
Footnote 34:
Barbé-Marbois, _op. cit._ (footnote 20), p. 123.
Footnote 35:
Blanchard, _op. cit._ (footnote 18), p. 78.
Footnote 36:
Ferdinand M. Bayard, _Voyage dans l'Intérieur des Etats-Unis_, Paris,
1797, quoted in Sherrill, _op. cit._ (footnote 8), p. 93.
Footnote 37:
Claude Victor Marie, Prince de Broglie, "Narrative of the Prince de
Broglie," translated by E. W. Balch in _Magazine of American
History_, April 1877, vol. I, p. 233.
Footnote 38:
Bayard, _op. cit._ (footnote 36), quoted in Sherrill, _op. cit._
(footnote 8), p. 93.
Footnote 39:
Brissot de Warville, _op. cit._ (footnote 6), p. 129.
Footnote 40:
Suffolk County [Massachusetts] Probate Court Record Books
(hereinafter cited as Suffolk County Record Books), vol. 53, p. 444,
inventory of Mrs. Hannah Pemberton, Boston, June 22, 1758; vol. 39,
p. 185, inventory of Joseph Blake, Boston, September 18, 1746. Among
other inventories in Suffolk County Record Books listing tea tables
with tea equipment thereon were those of Sendal Williams, Boston,
March 13, 1747 (vol. 43, p. 407); Revd. Dr. Benja. Colman, Boston,
September 1, 1747 (vol. 40, p. 266); Mr. Nathl. Cunningham, February
6, 1748 (vol. 42, p. 156); Joseph Snelling, Boston, December 8, 1748
(vol. 42, p. 60); Eliza. Chaunay, Boston, May 28, 1757 (vol. 52, p.
382); Gillam Tailer, Boston, October 18, 1757 (vol. 52, p. 817); Jon.
Skimmer, Boston, October 30, 1778 (vol. 77, p. 565).
Footnote 41:
Bayard, _op. cit._ (footnote 31), p. 47.
Footnote 42:
Letter from [Louis Guillaume] Otto [to Nancy Shippen], undated,
Shippen Papers, box 6, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress. The
letter is dated about 1780 by Ethel Armes, _op. cit._ (footnote 21),
p. 8.
Footnote 43:
Jacob Hiltzheimer, _Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer of
Philadelphia, 1765-1798_, edited by Jacob Cox Parsons, Philadelphia,
1893, p. 94.
Footnote 44:
Fithian, _op. cit._ (footnote 14), p. 193.
Footnote 45:
Benjamin Franklin, letter to Mrs. Deborah Franklin, dated February
19, 1758, London. _The Writings of Benjamin Franklin_, edited by
Albert Henry Smyth, New York, 1905, vol. 3, p. 432.
Footnote 46:
Bayard, _op. cit._ (footnote 36), quoted in Sherrill, _op. cit._
(footnote 8), p. 93.
Footnote 47:
_Boston Gazette_, April 25, 1737; _Boston News-Letter_, June 24,
1762; _The New-York Gazette_, January 8, 1799. These and other
newspaper references have been taken variously from the following
sources: George Francis Dow, _The Arts and Crafts in New England,
1704-1775_, Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1927; Rita Susswein Gottesman,
_The Arts and Crafts in New York, 1726-1776_, New York, 1938, and
_The Arts and Crafts in New York, 1777-1799_, New York, 1954; and
Alfred Coxe Prime, _The Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland,
and South Carolina, 1721-1785_, Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1929.
Footnote 48:
Suffolk County Record Books, vol. 39, p. 499, inventory of James
Pemberton, Boston, April 8, 1747.
Footnote 49:
_Boston News-Letter_, November 28, 1771.
Footnote 50:
Shippen, _op. cit._ (footnote 21), p. 215.
Footnote 51:
_Boston News-Letter_, October 4, 1750; _Maryland Journal_, November
20, 1781.
Footnote 52:
Robin, _op. cit._ (footnote 1), p. 23.
Footnote 53:
W. Stephen Thomas, "Major Samuel Shaw and the Cincinnati Porcelain,"
_Antiques_, May 1935, vol. 27, p. 178. The letter and tea set are
exhibited at Deerfield, Massachusetts, by the Heritage Foundation.
Footnote 54:
Fithian, _op. cit._ (footnote 14), p. 133.
Footnote 55:
Kalm, _op. cit._ (footnote 7), vol. 1, p. 191.
Footnote 56:
C. F. Volney, _Tableau du Climat et du Sol des Etats-Unis_, Paris,
1803, quoted in Sherrill, _op. cit._ (footnote 8), p. 95.
Footnote 57:
_Boston News-Letter_, March 24, 1774, November 18, 1742, and April 4,
1771; _New-York Journal_, August 3, 1775.
Footnote 58:
_New-York Gazette_, April 3, 1727; _Boston Gazette_, June 4, 1759;
_Boston News-Letter_, January 9, 1772; _Maryland Gazette_, May 13,
1773; _Pennsylvania Journal_, December 15, 1763.
Footnote 59:
Kalm, _op. cit._ (footnote 7), vol. 1, p. 347.
Footnote 60:
_Boston News-Letter_, April 4, 1771, November 18, 1742, and January
9, 1772; _New-York Gazette_, February 14, 1757; _Pennsylvania
Gazette_, January 25, 1759; _Rivington's New York Gazeteer_, January
13, 1774; _New-York Journal_, August 3, 1775; _Boston Gazette_,
September 11, 1758; _New-York Daily Advertiser_, January 21, 1797.
Footnote 61:
Moreau de Saint-Méry, _op. cit._ (footnote 17), p. 38.
Footnote 62:
_New-York Gazette_, February 14, 1757; _Boston Gazette_, May 14,
1764; _Maryland Gazette_, January 4, 1759; _New-York Journal_, August
3, 1775; _Pennsylvania Gazette_, July 6, 1772, and October 31, 1781;
_Boston News-Letter_, April 4, 1771, and January 9, 1772; _New-York
Daily Advertiser_, January 21, 1797.
Footnote 63:
_New-York Mercury_, October 30, 1758; _Pennsylvania Journal_, April
25, 1765; _Boston News-Letter_, January 17, 1745; _New-York Gazette_,
December 6, 1771.
Footnote 64:
_Pennsylvania Gazette_, January 25, 1759; _Pennsylvania Journal_,
April 25, 1765; _Independent Journal_ [New York], July 23, 1785.
Footnote 65:
_New-York Gazette_, April 3, 1727.
Footnote 66:
_Maryland Gazette_, January 4, 1759; _Pennsylvania Chronicle_,
January 29, 1770; Suffolk County Record Books, vol. 52, p. 324,
inventory of John Procter, May 13, 1757.
Footnote 67:
Suffolk County Record Books, vol. 52, p. 327, inventory of Revd.
Charles Brockwell, May 13, 1757.
Footnote 68:
Quotations variously from _New-York Gazette_, April 3, 1727, August
2, 1762; _Commercial Advertiser_ [New York], Oct. 10, 1797; _Boston
Gazette_, July 26, 1756; _New-York Daily Advertiser_, May 7, 1793;
_Boston News-Letter_, October 18, 1750; _Pennsylvania Evening Post_,
July 11, 1776.
Footnote 69:
_New-York Journal_, August 3, 1775; _New-York Daily Advertiser_,
January 21, 1797.
Footnote 70:
_Pennsylvania Packet_, May 29, 1775; _American Weekly Mercury_
[Philadelphia], January 1736; _Boston Gazette_, May 3, 1751, and
September 11, 1758; _Pennsylvania Journal_, August 1, 1771.
Footnote 71:
Bayard, _op. cit._ (footnote 36), quoted in Sherrill, _op. cit._
(footnote 8), p. 92.
Footnote 72:
_New-York Daily Advertiser_, May 7, 1793.
Footnote 73:
Letter from O[tho] Holland Williams to Dr. Philip Thomas, April 12,
1786, Williams Papers, vol. 4, letter no. 320. Manuscript, Maryland
Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland.
Footnote 74:
_Boston News-Letter_, April 4, 1771; _Pennsylvania Gazette_, October
31, 1781; _Minerva, & Mercantile Evening Advertiser_ [New York],
August 4, 1796.
Footnote 75:
_Boston News-Letter_, September 16, 1736.
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