On the loyalists and their treatment, the able essay by Rev. G.E. Ellis, in Winsor's seventh volume, is especially rich in bibliographical references. See also Sabine's _Loyalists of the American Revolution_, 2 vols., Boston, 1864; Ryerson's _Loyalists of America_, 2 vols., Toronto, 1880; Jones's _New York during the Revolution_, 2 vols., N.Y., 1879. Although chiefly concerned with events earlier than 1780, the _Journal and Letters of Samuel Curwen_, 4th ed., Boston, 1864, and especially the _Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson_, 2 vols., Boston, 1884-86, are valuable in this connection. For the financial troubles the most convenient general survey is to be found in A.S. Bolles's _Financial History of the United States_, 1774-1789, N.Y., 1879; Sparks's _Life of Gouverneur Morris_, 3 vols., Boston, 1832; Pelatiah Webster's _Political Essays_, Phila., 1791; Phillips's _Colonial and Continental Paper Currency_, 2 vols., Roxbury, 1865-66; Varnum's _Case of Trevett v. Weeden_, Providence, 1787; Arnold's _History of Rhode Island_, 2 vols., N.Y., 1859-60. The best account of the Shays rebellion is G.R. Minot's _History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts_, Worcester, 1788; see also Barry's _History of Massachusetts_, 3 vols., Boston, 1855-57; Austin's _Life of Gerry_, 2 vols., Boston, 1828-29. A new and interesting account of the northwestern cessions and the Ordinance of 1787 is B.A. Hinsdale's _Old Northwest_, N.Y., 1888; see also Dunn's _Indiana_, Boston, 1888; Cutler's _Life, Journal, and Correspondence of Manasseh Cutler_, 2 vols., Cincinnati, 1887. In the _Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science_, the following articles bear especially upon subjects here treated and are worthy of careful study: II., v., vi., H.C. Adams, _Taxation in the United States_, 1789-1816; III., i., H.B. Adams, _Maryland's Influence upon Land Cessions to the United States_; III., ix., x., Davis, _American Constitutions_; IV., v., Jameson's _Introduction to the Constitutional and Political History of the Individual States_; IV., vii.-ix., Shoshuke Sato's _History of the Land Question in the United States_. For the proceedings of the Federal Convention in framing the Constitution, and of the several state conventions in ratifying it, the great treasure-house of authoritative information is Elliot's _Debates in the Conventions_, 5 vols., originally published under the sanction of Congress in 1830-45; new reprint, Phila., 1888. The contents of the volumes are as follows:-- I. Sundry preliminary papers, relating to the ante-revolutionary period, and the period of the Confederation; journal of the Federal Convention; Yates's minutes of the proceedings; the official letters of Martin, Yates, Lansing, Randolph, Mason, and Gerry, in explanation of their several courses; Jay's address to the people of New York; and other illustrative papers.