Acknowledgement

This long and complex project benefited from the support of many agencies and individuals. The Professional Development Fund and Grants in Aid Fund at Okanagan University College (now the University of British Columbia-Okanagan) provided travel and other expenses, and the Arts Colloquium at Okanagan ran two seminars on the material. The encouragement and friendship of my colleagues in the History Department at Okanagan made the delays in the completion of the manuscript less problematic than they might have been. Special thanks are due to the members of the Pacific Northwest Early Americanists Workshop for their advice on the Introduction. The staff of the Massachusetts Historical Society helped with the detailed work on this project at every turn and my connection with that institution is one my professional pleasures. My wife, Vicky McAulay, was with the project from its inception and read every version of the text, notes, appendices and chapter headings and helped make the text clearer. Anne Cecere’s superb collations of the transcribed documents clearly add luster to the volume. The Colonial Society of Massachusetts is to be applauded for funding this important project and for seeing it through. Finally, we are all especially indebted to Editor of Publications John Tyler for his industry, expertise and good will. His patience with this project and his commitment to scholarship are the reasons this volume is in print.

Eric Nellis

Boston and Vancouver, 2005

1 On some of the MS pages this column is titled “Where born.”

2 Marked for entry at this point is the interlineation “Absent a few days Remitted.”

3 The edge of the page is torn away.

4 In this and the following entry the edge of the manuscript is torn.

5 The year was interlined above “Do.”

6 An entire entry has been effaced.

7 Above the surname the clerk interlined and then canceled the name “Carswell.”

8 The bottom left corner of the page is torn, resulting in the loss of several letters in this and the following entry.

9 Closing parentheses supplied.

10 This entry written in pencil and by another hand than the rest of the register.

11 This word is interlined. I.e., the child of Hannah Hollis.

12 A stain obscures the year.

13 The bottom left corner of the page is both torn and effaced, resulting in the loss of the surname for this and the following entry.

14 The MS is stained, obscuring a portion of this and the following entry.

15 The bottom right corner of the page is torn off, resulting in the loss of text here and in the next entry.

16 The bottom left corner of the page is torn, resulting in the loss of text in this and the next two entries.

17 These two words are entered in a column titled “age.”

18 The edge of the page is worn, resulting in the loss of some text in this entry as well as the next.

19 The edge of the page is worn away resulting in the loss of text at the beginning of the entry.

20 Mrs. Sadler’s given name is interlined above the canceled text.

21 The previous two words are interlined and marked for insertion at this point

22 The edge of the page is worn away, resulting in the loss of text in this and the following entry

23 Thus in MS.

24 Entered in a column titled “age.”

25 Entered in a column titled “age.” The edge of the page is worn away.

26 The remainder of the entry is covered by a strip of paper pasted to the MS to repair a tear.

27 The edge of the page is worn away, resulting in the loss of several letters in this and the next two entries.

28 Entered in a column titled “age.”

29 Entered in a column titled “age.”

30 Entered in a column titled “age.”

1 Heading supplied from the final MS page of Notifications.

2 Written along the left margin of the MS.

3 The corner of the MS is worn away, resulting in the loss of text in this line and the next.

4 This entry written on a slip of paper interleaved at this point in the volume.

1 Thus in MS.

2 10 and 11 of the MS are missing.

3 Pages 28 and 29 of the MS are missing.

4 This is the last page numbered in the MS.