the most lenient judgment, I trust the reader may
find as much pleasure in the perusal of this volume,
as the writer has found in its preparation.
I am under obligations, for valuable assistance, to Mr. A. R. Spofford, the learned and indefatigable Librarian of the Congressional Library; to Colonel Brantz Mayer, of Baltimore; Hon. A. R. Boteler, of Virginia; Mr. Lyman C. Draper, of the Wisconsin Historical Library ; Mr. James Anglim, publisher, of Washington; Dr Joseph Toner, of Washington ; Mr. E. D. Butler, of the Department of Maps, British Museum, London; Mr. R. A. Brock, Librarian of the Virginia Historical. Library ; Mr. James Veech, of Pittsburgh ; Mr. A. C. Nutt, of Uniontown, Pa.; Mr. D. Shriver Stewart, of Washington City ; Mr. Benson J. Lossing, the eminent historian ; Mr. John B. Hurley, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ; Mr. H. D. Black, of New York; the Librarian of the Maryland Historical Society; Messrs. Theodore Luman, Clerk of the Court ; T. Leiper Patterson, Civil Engineer ; L B. Millner and L. T. Dickinson, of Cumberland ; the last two named for some of the sketches given.
For many of the facts recorded I have had recourse to the pages of Spark's Writings of Washington, Irvings Life of Washington, Sargent's Braddock, the Colonial Records, Pennsylvania Archives, The Olden Time, the Pennsylvania Gazette, the Universal Magazine, Sharpe's MS. correspondence. The Monongahela of Old, KerchevaFs History of the Valley, Dodriddge's Notes, and others.
THE AUTHOR.
