Sources 
LOCATION AND ABBREVIATIONS 
The following lists of manuscript and printed sources are not designed to constitute 
a complete bibliography of all materials examined or cited, but are primarily 
intended to serve as a guide to the location of manuscripts and to abbreviations of 
manuscript and printed sources most frequently cited in this volume. The location 
of all manuscripts cited but not listed below has been given in the footnotes. 
MANUSCRIPT SOURCES 
The sources are listed alphabetically by the abbreviations used in the footnotes. 
The following abbreviations of locations are used. 
CHS Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut, 
CSL Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut. 
LC Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 
MHR Maryland Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland. 
MHS Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland. 
Mass. H.S. Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. 
NHHS New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire. 
NJHS New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, New Jersey. 
NYHR Hall of Records, New York County, New York, N.Y. 
NYHS New-York Historical Society, New York, N.Y. 
NYPL New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. 
PHS Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 
PRO Public Record Office, London, England. 
RISA Rhode Island State Archives, Providence, Rhode Island. 
Add. MSS Additional Manuscripts, British Museum, London, England 
Adm. Admiralty Papers, PRO. 
fames Alexander MSS NYHS 
All Souls College MSS All Souls College, Oxford University, England. 
Samuel Allen MSS NHHS 
Bayard MSS NYHS 
Calvert MSS MHS 
Chalmers MSS NYPL 
Christ Church College MSS Christ Church College, Oxford University, Eng- 
land. 
CO Colonial Office Papers, PRO 
Coleman MSS Mas's. H.S. 
MS Conn. Archives Connecticut Archives, CSL. 
MS Conn. Col. Rec. Connecticut Colonial Records, CSL.