Abbreviations

AAS American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.

AFP Averell Family Papers, New York State Historical Association

APS American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia

BB Business Box

BJHHP Bishop John H. Hobart Papers, Protestant Episcopal Church Archives, microfilm edition available at New-York Historical Society

BRP Benjamin Rush Papers, Library Company of Philadelphia

CB Correspondence Box

EFP Ebenezer Foote Papers, Princeton University Library, Library of Congress, and New York State Library

GHCP George Hyde Clarke Papers, Cornell University Library

GWBWL-MS G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Conn.

HCA Hartwick College Archives, Oneonta, N.Y.

HDP Henry Drinker Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania

HSP Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

JCHP John Christopher Hartwick Papers, Hartwick College Archives

JFCP James Fenimore Cooper Papers, American Antiquarian Society

JFP John Fine Papers, New-York Historical Society

JKP James Kent Papers, Library of Congress

LC Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

LCB Library Company of Burlington (N.J.)

LCP Library Company of Philadelphia

MHS Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston

NJSA New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, N.J.

NYCHR New York City Hall of Records

NYHS New-York Historical Society, New York City

NYPL New York Public Library, New York City

NYSA New York State Archives, Albany

NYSHA New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, N.Y.

NYSL New York State Library, Albany

OCCO Otsego County Clerk’s Office, Cooperstown, N.Y.

OC-CCP Otsego County Court of Common Pleas

OC-CGSP Otsego County Court of General Sessions of the Peace

OC-CO&T Otsego County Court of Oyer and Terminer

OCRD Otsego County Registry of Deeds, Cooperstown, N.Y.

PECA Protestant Episcopal Church Archives, Austin, Tex.

PHS Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia

PMHB Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

PVGP Peter Van Gaasbeck Papers, Senate House Museum, Kingston, N.Y.

SCJ Superior Court of Judicature

SHM Senate House Museum, Kingston, N.Y.

STP Silas Talbot Papers, G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Conn.

SUNY State University of New York

TCP Tench Coxe Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania

WCP William Cooper Papers, Hartwick College Archives

WMQ William and Mary Quarterly

WTFEP William Temple Franklin Estate Papers, New York Public Library