Abbreviations and Short Titles

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    COWH

    Committee of the Whole House

    GT

    George Thatcher

    JH

    Jeremiah Hill

    NB

    Nathaniel Barrell

    NYC

    New York City

    SL

    Silas Lee

    SST

    Sarah Savage Thatcher

    TBW

    Thomas B. Wait

    manuscript types

    AL

    Autograph Letter (unsigned)

    ALS

    Autograph Letter signed

    AN

    Autograph Note (unsigned)

    FC

    File Copy (retained by sender)

    FC:dft

    File Copy draft

    LS

    Letter signed

    Ms

    Manuscript

    repositories, manuscripts, and manuscript collections

    Barrell Correspondence

    Coll. 2304, George Thacher Correspondence with Nathaniel Barrell, 1787-1800, MeHi

    Chamberlain

    Mellen Chamberlain Collection of Autographs, Boston Public Library

    DLC

    Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Foster Family

    Foster Family Autograph Collection, 1621-1930, Special Collections, MHi

    GTP-Biddeford

    MS1, George Thacher Papers, McArthur Public Library Archives and Special Collections, Biddeford

    GTP-Portland

    Coll. 94, George Thacher Papers, MeHi

    GTP-Salem

    George Thacher (1754-1824) Papers, MSS 313, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts

    MeB

    George M. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives, Bowdoin College, Brunswick

    MeHi

    Maine Historical Society, Portland

    MHi

    Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston

    NN

    New York Public Library

    PHi

    Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia

    Thacher’s Tracts

    E173.T46, Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

    TFP

    Thacher Family Papers, 1667-1867, Ms. N-1653, MHi

    Tyng Correspondence

    Dudley Atkins Tyng Correspondence with Judge George Thatcher, 1789-1815, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, Mass.

    Varnum Letter

    Joseph B. Varnum to GT, 30 Jan. 1815, War of 1812 Papers, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

    Wait Letters

    Letters to George Thacher, 1789-1821, Ms. N-1710, MHi

    newspapers

    CADA

    [Philadelphia (1796-1800)] Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser

    CC

    [Boston] Columbian Centinel

    CG

    [Portland] Cumberland Gazette

    DADA

    [Philadelphia] Dunlap’s American Daily Advertiser

    EH

    [Portland] Eastern Herald

    FG

    [Philadelphia] Federal Gazette

    GA

    [Philadelphia] General Advertiser

    GUS

    [New York (1789-90); Philadelphia] Gazette of the United States

    IG

    [Philadelphia] Independent Gazetteer

    MC

    [Boston] Massachusetts Centinel

    NYDG

    [New York] New-York Daily Gazette

    PG

    [Philadelphia] Pennsylvania Gazette

    publications

    Adams Diary

    L.H. Butterfield, ed., The Adams Papers: Diary and Autobiography of John Adams (4 vols., New York, 1961)

    Adams Family

    L.H. Butterfield, et al., Adams Family Correspondence (13 vols. to date, Cambridge, Mass., 1963-present)

    Allen, “Early Lawyers”

    Frederic Allen, “The Early Lawyers of Lincoln and Kennebec Counties,” MHSC, 1st Ser., 6(1859):38-81

    Allen, Thacher Genealogy

    David W. Allen, Genealogy, and Biographical Sketches of the Descendants of Thomas & Anthony Thacher (Vineland, N.J., 1872)

    Ames

    W.B. Allen, ed., Works of Fisher Ames, as published by Seth Ames (1854; reprint, 2 vols., Indianapolis, Ind., 1983)

    Anderson, Maine Families

    Joseph C. Anderson II, ed., Maine Families in 1790 (8 vols., Rockport, Me., 1998), vol. 8.

    Anderson, York County Wills

    Joseph C. Anderson II, ed., York County, Maine Will Abstracts, 1801-1858 (Camden, Me., 1997)

    Andrews, John Cotton Smith

    William W. Andrews, The Correspondence and Miscellanies of the Hon. John Cotton Smith (New York, 1847)

    Annals of Congress

    Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (42 vols., Washington, D.C., 1834-56)

    ASP

    American State Papers (Financial, Foreign Relations, Miscellaneous, Naval Affairs) (38 vols., Washington, D.C., 1832-61)

    Atkins, Atkins Family

    Francis Higginson Atkins, Joseph Atkins: The Story of a Family (Las Vegas, N.M., 1891)

    Banks, Maine Becomes a State

    Ronald F. Banks, Maine Becomes a State: The Movement to Separate Maine from Massachusetts, 1785-1820 (Middletown, Conn., 1970)

    Banning, To the Hartford Convention

    Lance Banning, Jr., To the Hartford Convention: The Federalists and the Origins of Party Politics in Massachusetts, 1789-1815 (New York, 1970)

    Beckley

    Gerard W. Gawalt, ed., Justifying Jefferson: The Political Writings of John James Beckley (Washington, D.C., 1995)

    Bell, N.H. Bench

    Charles H. Bell, The Bench and Bar of New Hampshire (Boston, 1894)

    Belsham, Theophilus Lindsey

    Thomas Belsham, Memoirs of the Late Reverend Theophilus Lindsey, M.A. including a brief analysis of his works; together with anecdotes and letters of eminent persons, his friends and correspondents: also a general view of the progress of the Unitarian doctrine in England and America (London, 1812)

    Bemis, Jay’s Treaty

    Samuel Flagg Bemis, Jay’s Treaty: A Study in Commerce and Diplomacy (New Haven, Conn., 1962)

    Burnett, Continental Congress

    Edmund Cody Burnett, The Continental Congress (1941; reprint, New York, 1964)

    Cabot

    Henry Cabot Lodge, ed., Life and Letters of George Cabot (1878; reprint, New York, 1974)

    Clayton, York County

    W.W. Clayton, History of York County, Maine (Philadelphia, 1880)

    Cohen, “Harvard College”

    Sheldon S. Cohen, “Harvard College on the Eve of the American Revolution,” in Sibley’s Heir: A Volume in Memory of Clifford Kenyon Shipton (Boston, 1982), pp. 173-90

    Congressional Directories

    Perry M. Goldman and James S. Young, eds., The United States Congressional Directories, 1789-1840 (New York, 1973)

    Cutler

    William Parker Cutler and Julia Perkins Cutler, eds., Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler (2 vols., Cincinnati, 1888)

    DeConde, Entangling Alliances

    Alexander deConde, Entangling Alliances: Politics and Diplomacy under George Washington (Durham, N.C., 1958)

    DeConde, Quasi-War

    Alexander DeConde, The Quasi-War (New York, 1966)

    DHFFC

    Charlene B. Bickford, Kenneth R. Bowling, Helen E. Veit, and William C. diGiacomantonio, eds., The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 (22 vols., Washington, D.C., 1972-2017)

    DHFFE

    Merril Jensen, Gordon DenBoer, Lucy T. Brown, and Robert A. Becker, eds., The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790 (4 vols., Madison, Wis., 1976-90)

    DHROC

    Merrill Jensen, John Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, and Richard Leffler, eds., The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (20 vols. to date, Madison, Wis., 1976-present)

    DHSCUS

    Maeva Marcus, James R. Perry, James M. Buchanan, et al., eds., The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800 (8 vols., New York, 1985-2007)

    “Diplomat’s Wife”

    Bradford Perkins, ed., “A Diplomat’s Wife in Philadelphia: Letters of Henrietta Liston, 1796-1800,” WMQ, v. 11, 4(Oct. 1954):592-632

    Drinker

    Elaine Forman Crane et al., eds., Diary of Elizabeth Drinker (3 vols., Boston, 1991)

    Dubin, Congressional Elections

    Michael J. Dubin, United States Congressional Elections, 1788-1997 (Jefferson, N.C., 1998)

    Elkins and McKitrick, Federalism

    Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism (Oxford, 1993)

    Emerson, “The Second Church”

    J.D. Emerson, “The Second Church, Biddeford, Maine,” The Congregational Quarterly, New Series, v.11, 2[April 1869]:241-48.

    Faris, Old Churches

    John T. Faris, Old Churches and Meeting Houses in and around Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1926)

    “Fenno Letters”

    John B. Hench, ed., “Letters of John Fenno and John Ward Fenno, 1779-1800—Part 2: 1792-1800,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, v. 90, 1(1980):163-234

    Fischer, American Conservatism

    David Hackett Fischer, The Revolution of American Conservatism: The Federalist Party in the Era of Jeffersonian Democracy (New York, 1965)

    Folsom, Saco and Biddeford

    George Folsom, History of Saco and Biddeford (Saco, Me., 1830)

    Graham, Revolutionary in Exile

    Jenny Graham, Revolutionary in Exile: The Emigration of Joseph Priestley to America, 1794-1804, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, v. 85, 2(1995):1-213

    Griffin, Maine Press

    Joseph Griffin, ed., History of the Press of Maine (Brunswick, Me., 1872)

    Harvard Graduates

    John Sibley, Clifford Shipton, Conrad E. Wright, and Edward Hanson, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University (18 vols. to date, Cambridge, Mass., 1873-present)

    Hill, William Vans Murray

    Peter Hill, William Vans Murray, Federalist Diplomat: The Shaping of Peace with France, 1797-1801 (Syracuse, N.Y., 1971)

    Holbrook, Old Yarmouth

    Charles A. Holbrook, ed., History of Old Yarmouth (1884; reprint, Yarmouthport, Mass., 1975)

    Hünemörder, The Cincinnati

    Markus Hünemörder, The Society of the Cincinnati: Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America (New York, 2006)

    JAH

    Journal of American History

    JCC

    Worthington Ford, Gaillard Hunt, John C. Fitzpatrick, and Roscoe R. Hill, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 (34 vols., Washington, D.C., 1904-37)

    JER

    Journal of the Early Republic

    King

    Charles R. King, ed., Life and Correspondence of Rufus King (6 vols., New York, 1894-1900)

    Kurtz, Adams Presidency

    Kurtz, Stephen G., The Presidency of John Adams: The collapse of Federalism, 1795-1800 (1957; reprint, New York, 1961)

    Kurtz, “French Mission of 1799-1800”

    Stephen G. Kurtz, “The French Mission of 1799-1800: Concluding Chapter in the Statecraft of John Adams, Political Science Quarterly, v. 80, 4(Dec. 1965):543-57

    LDC

    Paul H. Smith, Ronald Gephart, Gerald W. Gawalt, Rosemary Fry Plakas, and Eugene R. Sheridan, eds., Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789 (26 vols., Washington, D.C., 1976-2000)

    McLellan and Lewis, Gorham

    Hugh D. McLellan and Katherine B. Lewis, History of Gorham, Maine (Portland, 1903)

    Maier, Ratification

    Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 (New York, 2010)

    Maling, Mellen Descendants

    N.P. Maling, Descendants of Simon Mellen, c. 1636-1694 (Seattle, Wash., 2012)

    Marsh, “Thomas Wait”

    Philip M. Marsh, “Maine’s First Newspaper Editor: Thomas Wait,” New England Quarterly, v. 28, 4(Dec. 1955):519-34

    MHSC

    Maine Historical Society Collections

    MHSP

    Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings

    Morison, Harrison Gray Otis

    Samuel Eliot Morison, Harrison Gray Otis, 1765-1848: The Urbane Federalist (Boston, 1969)

    Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard

    Samuel Eliot Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936 (Cambridge, Mass., 1946)

    “Obituary”

    “The Late Judge Thacher,” Boston Commercial Gazette, 15 April 1824

    PAH

    Harold C. Syrett and Jacob E. Cooke, eds., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (37 vols., New York, 1961-78)

    Park, Savage Descendants

    Lawrence Park, Major Thomas Savage of Boston and His Descendants (Boston, 1914)

    Parsons, Theophilus Parsons

    Theophilus Parsons, Jr., Memoir of Theophilus Parsons (Boston, 1849)

    Perley, Convention Debates

    Jeremiah Perley, ed., Debates, Resolutions, and other Proceedings, of the Convention of Delegates . . . for the purpose of forming a Constitution for the State of Maine (Portland, 1820)

    PGW:Presidential

    W.W. Abbot, Dorothy Twohig, Jack D. Warren, et al., eds., The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series (15 vols. to date, Charlottesville, Va., 1987-present)

    PGW:Proceedings

    Dorothy Twohig, ed., The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793-1797 (Charlottesville, Va., 1981)

    PJM

    William Hutchinson, William M.E. Rachal, Robert A. Rutland, et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison (17 vols., Chicago and Charlottesville, Va., 1962-91)

    “Priestley Letters”

    Charles Deane, ed., “Letters of Joseph Priestley,” MHSP, 2nd Ser., 3(1886-87):11-40

    Princetonians

    Ruth Woodward and Wesley Frank Craven, eds., Princetonians, 1784-1790, A Biographical Dictionary (Princeton, N.J., 1991)

    PTJ

    Julian Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (33 vols. to date, Princeton, N.J., 1950-present)

    Rosenfeld, Aurora

    Richard N. Rosenfeld, American Aurora (New York, 1997)

    Sadik, Portraits at Bowdoin College

    Marvin S. Sadik, Colonial and Federal Portraits at Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me., 1966)

    Sayward, Sayward Family

    Charles A. Sayward, The Sayward Family (Ipswich, Mass., 1890)

    Schofield, Joseph Priestley

    Robert E. Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804 (University Park, Penn., 2004)

    Smith, New York

    Thomas E.V. Smith, The City of New York in the Year of Washington’s Inauguration 1789 (1889; reprint, Riverside, Conn., 1972)

    Spalding, Maine Physicians

    James S. Spalding, Maine Physicians of 1820 (Portland, 1928)

    Stinchcombe, XYZ Affair

    William Stinchcombe, The XYZ Affair (Westport, Conn., 1980)

    “Thatcher Papers”

    William F. Goodwin, ed., “The Thatcher Papers,” The Historical Magazine, 2nd Ser., v. 6, nos. 5-6(Nov.-Dec. 1869):259-73, 337-53

    Totten, Thacher-Thatcher

    John R. Totten, Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy (New York, 1910)

    Ulrich, Midwife’s Tale

    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale (New York, 1990)

    Waterman, “Whitman’s Disappearance”

    Bryan Waterman, “Elizabeth Whitman’s Disappearance and her ‘Disappointment’,” WMQ, v. 66, 2(April 2009):325-64

    Willis, Lawyers of Maine

    William Willis, History of the Law, the Courts, and the Lawyers of Maine (Portland, Me., 1863)

    Willis, Portland

    William Willis, History of Portland, from its First Settlement, with Notices of the Neighbouring Towns (2 vols., Portland, Me., 1833)

    WMQ

    William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser. (1944-present) unless otherwise noted

    Wright, Revolutionary Generation

    Conrad E. Wright, Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence (Boston, 2005)

    Yale Graduates

    Franklin Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (6 vols., New York, 1885-1912)