Transcriber Notes:
Passages in italics were indicated by _underscores_.
Small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS.
Throughout the document, the oe ligature was replaced with "oe".
Throughout the document, a tilded m is represented by [~m], and a
tilded nn is represented by [~nn].
Throughout the document, a single superscripted letter is represented by
that single letter preceded by a caret, and more than one superscripted
letters are represented by the letters enclosed by curly brackets. Thus,
the word "y^e" represents a word where the "y" is normal and the "e" is
superscripted; and the word "2^{dnd}" represents a word where the "2" is
normal and the "dnd" is superscripted. In both conventions, it is
assumed that a dot appeared below the superscripted letters, since in
the original text a dot was often (but not always) present under the
superscripted letters. Thus, "2^{dnd}" in the present text would
represent a normal digit "2" followed directly by the superscripted
letters "dnd" with a single dot below the set of three letters.
The Contents of Volume I. page incorrectly lists the Chronology as
starting on page xix, where it starts on page xv.
The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up
paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate. Thus
the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in
the List of Fac-Similes, and the order of illustrations may not be the
same in the List of Fac-Similes and in the book.
This document was filled with errors and inconsistencies in punctuations
and hyphenation. For example, usually the word re-eligible is
hyphenated, but sometimes it is not; sometimes; reinstated is hyphenated
but sometimes it is not; and usually the comma is used as a thousand
mark, but sometimes a period is used for that purpose. Also, the
abbreviations were not uniform (e.g., Mas. v. Mass.), which were only
corrected when it was clear which abbreviation was considered correct
at the time printed. Another example is the abbreviation for Resolution,
which was sometimes Resol:^n, sometimes Resol^n, and sometimes Resol.^n
Sometimes "nem: con." was used, and sometimes "nem. con." was used. The
only time errors were corrected was when it was very clear that an error
was made, and it was clear how the error should be corrected, and those
corrections are listed below. Two exceptions are the case where a period
is missing at the end of a sentence or missing at the end of an
abbreviation, both of which happened so often that those corrections
were made but were not listed below.
Similarly, since the English language has changed so much in the past
two hundred years, variations in spelling were only corrected was when
it was very clear that an error was made, and it was clear how the error
should be corrected. Those corrections are listed below.
In Footnote 25, two instances of "thier" was replaced with "their".
On page 23, a comma was added after "Massachusetts".
On page 23, a comma was added after "New York".
On page 39, a comma was added after "Savannah Georgian".
On page 42, the semicolon after "for general propositions" was replaced
with a period.
On page 49, a quotation mark was added after "be instituted.".
On page 67, "tranquility" was replaced with "tranquillity".
On page 80, "is to to be" was replaced with "is to be".
On page 85, a period was added after "2".
On page 85, a period was added after "4".
On page 87, a comma was added after "the landed".
On page 104, "that" was replaced with "than".
On page 105, "M^r Bedford In" was replaced with "M^r Bedford, in".
On page 109, "M^r Randolph, urged" was replaced with "M^r Randolph
urged".
On page 117, "against the 43." was replaced with "against the 43,".
On page 119, "it was formerly practised" was replaced with "It was
formerly practised".
On page 119, "Wilsons" was replaced with "Wilson's".