[Footnote 3: _Ibid._, vol. xxviii., pp. 271, 347; Child, _An Appeal_, p. 144.] [Footnote 4: _African Repository_, vol. i., p. 277.] [Footnote 5: _Report of the Proceedings at the Organization of the African Education Society_, p. 9.] [Footnote 6: _African Repository_, vol. i., p. 276, and Griffin, _A Plea for Africa_, p. 65.] [Footnote 7: _African Repository_, vol. iv., pp. 186, 193, and 375; and vol. vi., pp. 47, 48, 49, and _Report of the Proceedings of the African Education Society_, p. 7.] [Footnote 8: _Ibid_., pp. 7 and 8 and _African Repository_, vol. iv., p. 375.] [Footnote 9: What would become of this plan depended upon the changing fortunes of the men concerned. Kosciuszko died in 1817; and as Thomas Jefferson refused to take out letters testamentary under this will, Benjamin Lincoln Lear, a trustee of the African Education Society, who intended to apply for the whole fund, was appointed administrator of it. The fund amounted to about $16,000. Later Kosciuszko Armstrong demanded of the administrator $3704 bequeathed to him by T. Kosciuszko in a will alleged to have been executed in Paris in 1806. The bill was dismissed by the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, and the decision of the lower Court was confirmed by the United States Supreme Court in 1827 on the grounds that the said will had not been admitted to probate anywhere. To make things still darker just about the time the trustees of the African Education Society were planning to purchase a farm and select teachers and mechanics to instruct the youth, the heirs of General Kosciuszko filed a bill against Mr. Lear in the Supreme Court of the United States on the ground of the invalidity of the will executed by Kosciuszko in 1798. The death of Mr. Lear in 1832 and that of William Wirt, the Attorney-General of the United States, soon thereafter, caused a delay in having the case decided. The author does not know exactly what use was finally made of this fund. See _African Repository_, vol. it., pp. 163, 233; also 7 Peters, 130, and 8 Peters, 52.]