1 Jonathan Dickinson to John Aiken, 22 Oct. 1717; Dickinson to brother, 22 Aug. 1718; Dickinson to cousin, 17 Oct. 1719, Jonathan Dickinson Letterbook, 1715-21, HSP.
2 For details of dress and appearance, see GM 36 (1766), 582; also Robert Ferguson, Northmen in Cumberland and Westmorland (London, 1856), 144-45.
3GM 36 (1766), 582.
4 The name was inspired by Exodus xix:4-5, where the Lord said to Moses, “Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep ray covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine.”