24 William Strickland to J. Robinson, 5 Dec. 1794, Strickland Papers, NYHS.
25 John Bristed, Aermica and Her Resources (London, 1818) 377, 386.
26 Michel Chevalier, Society, Manners and Politics in the United States (1961, New York, 1969), 139.
27 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (2 vols., New York, 1951), II, 36.