Illustrations

William Bingham of Philadelphia

From an oil portrait by Gilbert Stuart reproduced by Margaret L. Brown in her article “William Bingham, Eighteenth Century Magnate,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, lxi (1937).

Osgood Carleton’s Map of the District of Maine

From James Sullivan’s History of the District of Maine, published in 1795.

General Henry Knox

From an unfinished portrait by Gilbert Stuart owned by Mrs. Andrew Van Pelt, Radnor, Pennsylvania.

William Kerin Constable of New York

From an oil portrait by Gilbert Stuart owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Thomas Russell, Boston Merchant

From a miniature by Edward Greene Malbone reproduced in M. A. DeWolfe Howe, The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Boston, 1918).

One of the Deeds from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to Bingham

From the original in the Bingham Papers.

Two Maps of Madame de Leval’s Purchases in Maine

From the originals in the Bingham Papers.

Title-page of Bingham’s Pamphlet published to advertise the Maine Lands

From the copy owned by the Boston Athenœum.

Sir Francis Baring, John Baring, and Charles Wall

From an oil portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence reproduced by Ralph W. Hidy, The House of Baring in American Trade and Finance (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949).

Major William Jackson of Philadelphia

From a miniature by an unknown artist owned by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Mrs. William Jackson

From an oil portrait by Gilbert Stuart owned by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Map of Gouldsborough, Maine

From the original in the Cobb Papers.

General Henry Jackson of Boston

From an oil portrait by Gilbert Stuart owned by Henry Jackson Sargent, Esquire, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Alexander Baring, later First Lord Ashburton

From an oil portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence reproduced by Ralph W. Hidy, The House of Baring in American Trade and Finance.