AThis chapter was written in June, 1867, and I give it here as it first came from my pen.

BRev. Mr. Pierpont, who afterwards did good service, was absent in Europe during 1835.

CSee Appendix.

DSee Appendix.

ESee “Right and Wrong in Boston,” by Mrs. M.W. Chapman.

FI have been told, and I record it here to his honor, that Hon. Joshua A. Spencer made an earnest, excellent speech, in behalf of free discussion.

GSee Appendix.

HOf Leicester, England, who first demanded “immediate emancipation.”

ISee Appendix.

JOn that occasion, or another, I am not sure which, Mr. Adams announced another very pregnant opinion which he was ready to maintain; namely, that slaveholders had no right to bring or send their slaves into a free State, and keep them in slavery there; but that whenever slaves were brought into any State where all the people were free, they became partakers of that freedom, were slaves no longer.

KElizabeth Heyrick, of Leicester, England.

LI am most happy to preserve and make known the fact that Dr. Henry Ware, Jr., then at the head of the Divinity School, and Professor Sidney Willard, of the college in Cambridge, were also members of that Convention.

MWould that justice would allow shame to wipe forever from the memory of man the disgraceful fact that, on the 27th of July, 1840, the Rev. John Pierpont was arraigned before an Ecclesiastical Council in Boston, by a committee of the parish of Hollis Street, as guilty of offences for which his connection with that parish ought to be dissolved,—and was dissolved. His offences were “his too busy interference with questions of legislation on the subject of prohibiting the sale of ardent spirits, his too busy interference with questions of legislation on the subject of imprisonment for debt, and his too busy interference with the popular controversy on the subject of the abolition of slavery.”

NThe one of which Rev. Baron Stow, D.D., was pastor.

OSee Appendix.

PI advertised my request in “Notes and Queries” for August, 1859.

QSee “The American Churches the Bulwarks of American Slavery,” by J.G. Birney, “Slavery and Antislavery,” by W. Goodell, and “The Church and Slavery,” by Rev. Albert Barnes.

RSee Appendix.

SOf the Theological Institution at Andover.

TPresident of Harvard University.

UProfessor of Greek in Harvard University.