[121] _Pennsylvania Evening Post_, March 18, May 27, 1777.
[122] _Boston Gazette_, February 3, 1777; _Connecticut Courant_, April 7, 1777.
[123] _Pennsylvania Packet_, April 15, 22, 1777. This anonymous article was written by Dr. Benjamin Rush and reprinted as a pamphlet.
[124] Potts Papers, vol. 2, folios 158, 159.
[125] _Pennsylvania Ledger_, October 10, 1777; _Pennsylvania Evening Post_, October 14, 18, 1777.
[126] _Pennsylvania Evening Post_, November 1, 8, 13, 1777, April 29, 1778. (A large number of advertisements announcing thefts appeared during the British occupation.)
[127] _Pennsylvania Evening Post_, January 10 through April 20, 1778, and _Pennsylvania Ledger_, April 4, 15, 1778. [Yeldall advertised his "Anti-Venereal Essence" only once under American occupation, but at $4.00 per bottle (_Pennsylvania Evening Post_, August 26, 1777).]
[128] _Pennsylvania Evening Post_, June 25, 1777.
[129] Gibson, _op. cit._ (footnote 2), p. 149.
[130] It was in February 1778 that Dr. Potts assumed his office as purveyor general for the hospital department of the Continental Army with the duty of purchasing and distributing all supplies and medicines (_ibid._, p. 154).
[131] Potts Papers, vol. 1, folio 24. (This apparently is the list prepared by Brown, even though it is not signed by him. The item "Medicines, Vials, Cork &c £20,000" was added with the statement "The above enumerated articles should be purchased immediately," and both were in the handwriting of "W. Shippen, D.G." The document is undated.)
[132] _Ibid._, vol. 4, folio 419; Brown to Potts, March 11, 1778.
[133] _Ibid._, folio 428; Cutting to Potts, March 25, 1778.
[134] _Ibid._, folio 432; Cutting to Potts, March 30, 1778.
[135] _Ibid._, folio 441; Cutting to Potts, April 16, 1778.
[136] _Ibid._, vol. 2, folio 151; Tillotson to Potts, February 22, 1777. [Cutting served as Assistant Apothecary under Craigie at Cambridge and Roxbury. The feud has not been explored in any of Craigie's biographies.]
[137] _Ibid._, vol. 4, folio 429; Craigie to Potts, March 27, 1778.
[138] _Ibid._, folio 437; Craigie to Potts, April 4, 1778.
[139] _Ibid._, folio 411; Potts to Gates, February 24, 1778.
[140] _Ibid._, folio 441; Craigie to Potts, May 1, 1778.