Footnote 7: Sarah Leland was the daughter of Mrs. Southgate’s half-sister Dorcas King, Mrs. Joseph Leland. Footnote 8: Arixene and Robert Southgate, Eliza’s younger sister and brother. Arixene married Henry Smith, of Sacarappa, Maine. Footnote 9: William King, the son of Richard King by his second wife Mary Black, was a large land-owner near the town of Bath. Mr. King was elected the first Governor when the District of Maine was changed into a State with a government of its own. Footnote 10: Eleanor Coffin, afterwards Mrs. John Derby, was the daughter of Dr. Coffin, a neighbor of Dr. Southgate’s. Martha Coffin, another daughter, had lately married Mr. Richard Derby. The Mrs. Codman mentioned in the previous letter was a sister of Dr. Coffin’s. Footnote 11: Peony (vulgarly called Piny). Note by M. B. L. Footnote 12: Ann, daughter of Cyrus King (Mrs. Southgate’s half-brother) and his wife Hannah Stone. She was named after her aunt, Mrs. William King, Ann Frazier. She afterwards married Mr. Bridge. Footnote 13: Mr. Jewett married Sally Weeks, a friend and neighbor of the Misses Southgate. He was a grandson of Aaron Jewett, who built the first sawmill on Algers Falls, Dunstan, in 1727, and carried on what was then considered an extensive lumber business. Footnote 14: Moses Porter was Eliza’s cousin. He was the oldest son of Mrs. Aaron Porter (Paulina King). Footnote 15: Miranda and Arixene Southgate were at this time aged respectively twelve and eight years. Their cousin Sally Leland was about the same age. Frederic Southgate, born in 1791, became a tutor in Bowdoin College, and died unmarried in 1820. Footnote 16: _Isabella Boyd_, second child of Isabella Southgate and Joseph Coffin Boyd. She died of consumption, the fatal disease which carried off so many of her aunts, sisters, and cousins. Footnote 17: _Rufus King_, oldest son of Richard King and Isabella Bragdon, and brother of Mrs. Southgate. He was born in 1755 and married Mary Alsop. He was delegated by the State of Massachusetts to the Convention for framing the Constitution of the United States, was a member of Congress from Massachusetts, Senator of the United States from New York, and at this time Minister to the Court of St. James. Footnote 18: _Mary Alsop_ was born in 1786. She was the daughter of John Alsop and Mary Frogat. Footnote 19: Mr. and Mrs. Southgate’s “profiles” hung in Mr. King’s house at Jamaica until about 1875, when they were given by his granddaughter to Mrs. Southgate’s grandson, Mr. Lawrence, of Flushing, L. I. Footnote 20: _Broads_, a tavern near Portland, to which gay parties of young people went on frolics. Footnote 21: The manuscript which was under the seal was so torn as to make this sentence illegible. Footnote 22: