And Methods of Transcription
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AA4 |
Peter Force (ed.), American Archives, 4th series., 6 vols., March 7, 1774, |
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AA5 |
to Aug. 21, 1776, and 5th series, 3 vols., May 3, 1776, to Dec. 31, 1776 (Washington, D.C., 1837-53), |
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AAS |
American Antiquarian Society |
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AHR |
American Historical Review |
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APS |
American Philosophical Society |
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BL |
British Library |
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BPL |
Boston Public Library |
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CAM |
Concord Antiquarian Museum |
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CFPL |
Concord Free Public Library |
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EIP |
Essex Institute Proceedings |
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EIHC |
Essex Institute Historical Collections |
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LC |
Library of Congress |
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LHS |
Lexington Historical Society |
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MA |
Massachusetts Archives |
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MHS |
Massachusetts Historical Society |
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MHSC |
Massachusetts Historical Society Collections |
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MHSP |
Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings |
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NANE |
National Archives, New England Regional Center |
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NDAR |
William Bell Clark (ed.), Naval Documents of the American Revolution, vol. I (Washington, D.C., 1964) |
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NEHGR |
New England Historic and Genealogical Register |
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NEHGS |
New England Historic and Genealogical Society |
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NEQ |
New England Quarterly |
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NYHS |
New-York Historical Society |
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NYPL |
New York Public Library |
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PRMA |
Paul Revere Memorial Association |
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PRO |
Public Record Office, Kew |
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WCL |
William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
Note: In direct quotations, spelling and punctuation have been modernized where necessary to make the meaning clear to a modern reader. The method of transcription in these cases, as in Albion’s Seed (New York, 1989), 906, follows Samuel Eliot Morison’s “modern” (not modernized) text. The rule is to “spell out all contractions and abbreviations in the manuscript, to adopt modern usage as to capitalization, punctuation and spelling,” but scrupulously to respect … language.” The method is explained at greater length in Harvard Guide to American History (Cambridge, Mass., 1954), 94-99.