1. Harold A. Innis, ed., The Diary of Simeon Perkins 1766-1780 (Toronto, 1948), 109. Hereafter cited as Innis, ed., Perkins' Diary.
2. This is a rather garbled account of the activities of Broughton and Selman in Washington's armed schooners Hancock and Franklin.
3. Margaret's Bay is the first large inlet west of Halifax, and Prospect is a town on its northeast coast near the bay entrance.