Both Samuell Gorton, Sr., and his eldest son, spelled their first name with the double “L.” Footnote 2: “Beniamin Gorton Killed A woolfe And brought ye head & Skine to my house ye 21st day of December, 1674.”—[_Unpublished Town Records, of Warwick._] Footnote 3: The site of the block-house has usually been placed on the North Side of the Mill Pond, at Old Warwick. Recent investigations, however, strongly favor the more natural site at Conimicut. I am told that Judge Brayton was convinced that this was the true location, before he died. Footnote 4: Notes to “Simplicities Defence against Seven-Headed Policie,” by Judge W. R. Staples, [_R. I. Hist. Soc. Coll._] Also “A Defence of Samuel Gorton,” By George A. Brayton, late Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. [_Providence: Sidney S. Rider._] Footnote 5: Report on the Settlement of Warwick, 1642, and the Seal of the R. I. Historical Society, by William D. Ely and John P. Howland, (Proceedings, 1887-88,) and Report of the Committee on the Library, (Proceedings, 1890.) Footnote 6: Fuller’s “History of Warwick” also contains some sympathetic allusions to Gorton’s story. The Hon. William P. Sheffield, in an address before the R. I. Historical Society (1893), does him less than justice. Footnote 7: Mackie, et al. A letter of Gorton’s seems to fix this date with reasonable certainty as the year of his birth. Footnote 8: A Defence of Samuel Gorton and the Settlers of Shawomet, p. 5. Footnote 9: In a letter to Nathaniel Morton, Gorton says: “I was not bred up in the Schoole of humane learninge, and I bless God that I never was.” Footnote 10: _Vide_ Mackie, and others. Gorton himself refers to his father as “a merchant of London,” which would possibly imply an earlier removal. Footnote 11: Calendar’s Historical Discourse, p. 9. I have not yet found this letter of Gorton’s in the original. Footnote 12: The fact that he subsequently returned and spent some time in London, unmolested, also militates against this charge. Footnote 13: 1636, O. S. Footnote 14: The trial of Wheelwright was in progress when Gorton arrived. Footnote 15: Under date of June 7, 1637, his name appears on the roll of a company of volunteers from Plymouth to aid Massachusetts in the Pequot war. He probably saw no service. Footnote 16: