15. Ibid., p. 269.
16. Ibid., p, 272.
17. Smith, The History of the Province of New-York, Volume Two, A Continuation, 1732-1762, p. 254.
18. Michael Kammen, Colonial New York–A History (New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1975), p. 346.
19. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VI, Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1922, New York, pp. 26 and 27.
20. Edwin R. Purple, Genealogical Notes on the Colden Family in America (New York: Privately Printed, 1873), pp. 8 and 9.
21. Keys, Cadwallader Colden, p. 279.
22. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VI, p. 88.
23. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. IX, Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1937, New York, p. 229.
24. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VI, p. 89.
25. Keys, Cadwallader Colden, p. 283.
26. Smith, The History of the Province of New-York, Volume Two, A Continuation, 1732-1762, p. 263.
27. Ibid., p. 266.
28. “The Colden Family of Early America,” http://coldenpreservation.org/ (accessed 2012).
29. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VI, pp. 213–16.
30. Ibid., p. 236.
31. Ibid., pp. 368–71.
32. Ibid., p. 381.
33. Kammen, Colonial New York–A History, p. 346.
34. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VI, pp. 344–47.
35. Ibid., pp. 356–64.
36. Ibid., pp. 306 and 307.
37. Keys, Cadwallader Colden, p. 298.
38. Ibid., p. 338.
39. Kammen, Colonial New York–A History, p. 349.
40. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VII, Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1923, New York, pp. 1–7.
41. Edmund S. Morgan and Helen M. Morgan, The Stamp Act Crisis (New York: Collier Books, 1967), pp. 314 and 315.
42. Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (New York: Viking, 2005), pp. 45–47.
43. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VII, p. 56.
44. Ibid., pp. 59–62.
45. Ibid., p. 77.
46. Ibid., p. 80.
47. Ibid., p. 64.
48. Ibid., pp. 84 and 85.
49. Ibid., pp. 64 and 65.
50. Ibid., p. 67.
51. A. J. Wall, “Cadwallader Colden and His Homestead at Spring Hill, Flushing, Long Island,” Quarterly Bulletin, VIII (1924–25), p. 12.
52. Keys, Cadwallader Colden, p. 325.
53. Francis R. Packard, History of Medicine in the United States (New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1931), p. 505.
54. Ibid., p. 328.
55. Ibid., p. 331.
56. Ibid., pp. 333 and 334.
57. Kammen, Colonial New York–A History, p. 357.
58. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VII, p. 144.
59. Ibid., p. 146.
CHAPTER 7: AN OCTOGENARIAN: 1769–1776
1. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VII, Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1923, New York, p. 158.
2. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. IX, New York Historical Society for the Year 1937, New York, p. 218.
3. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VII, pp. 218–21.
4. Ibid., p. 348.
5. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. IX, Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1937, New York, p. 224.
6. Ibid., pp. 225–32.
7. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VII, pp. 173–82.
8. Alice Mapelsden Keys, Cadwallader Colden: A Representative Eighteenth Century Official (New York, 1906), p. 353.
9. Brooke Hindle, The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America 1735-1789 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1956), p. 118.
10. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VII, p. 183.
11. Ibid., p. 186.
12. Ibid., pp. 220–22.
13. Robert Lettice Hooper to Reuben Haines, August 10, 1774, Wyck Papers, Correspondence (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society).
14. Michael Kammen, Colonial New York–A History (New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1975), p. 363.
15. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VII, pp. 283–87.
16. Ibid., p, 273.
17. Ibid., pp. 287–90.
18. Wall, “Cadwallader Colden and His Homestead at Spring Hill, Flushing, Long Island,” Quarterly Bulletin, VIII (1924–25), pp. 11–20.
19. Edwin R. Purple, Genealogical Notes on the Colden Family in America (New York: Privately Printed, 1873), p. 8.
CHAPTER 8: EPILOGUE AND LEGACY
1. Edwin R. Purple, Genealogical Notes on the Colden Family in America (New York: Privately Printed, 1873), pp. 110–12.
2. Ibid., p. 9.
3. Ibid.
4. A. J. Wall, “Cadwallader Colden and His Homestead at Spring Hill, Flushing, Long Island,” p. 11.
5. Ibid., pp. 18 and 19. After over forty years of intermittent engagement in acquiring and studying material related to the life of Cadwallader Colden, I was surprised to learn that the location of his burial place is but two miles, as the crow flies, from the Mt. Lebanon cemetery where my parents are buried.
6. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. IV, Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1920, New York, p. 244.
7. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. VII, Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1923, New York, p. 186.
8. Ibid., pp. 305–308.
9. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. V, Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1921, New York, p. 13.
10. Ibid., p. 376.
11. Ibid., p. 301.
12. Cadwallader Colden, Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York canals (Printed by the order of the Corporation of New York by W. A. Davis, New York, 1825).
13. Anne MacVicar Grant, Memoirs of an America Lady: with Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as They Existed Previous to the Revolution (New York: Printed for Samuel Campbell by D. and G. Bruce, 1809), p. 6.
14. Ibid.
15. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. II, Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1918, New York, p. 206.
16. Lawrencec Wroth, An America Bookshelf 1755 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1934).
17. I. Woodbridge Riley, American Philosophy: The Early Schools (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1907), p. 329.
18. Louis I. Tucker, Puritan Protagonist: President Thomas Clap of Yale College (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961), p. 99.
19. Max Savelle, Seeds of Liberty: The Genesis of the American Mind (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1965), p. 99.
20. Adam Leroy Jones, Early American Philosophers (New York: Macmillan, 1898), pp. 17 and 18.
21. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. I, Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1917, New York, p. vii.
22. The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader Colden, Vol. III, p. 143.
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24. William Smith, Jr., The History of the Province of New-York, Michael Kammen, ed., (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1972), “Introduction,” p. lxx.
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