[239] American Colonization Society, First Annual Report (Washington, 1817), 6, 7. [240] "The Life of Benjamin Lundy" (Philadelphia, 1847), 16. The manuscript record is in the archives of the Ohio Historical and Philosophical Society. [241] American State Papers, Miscellaneous, II, 278, 279. The Petition reached Congress January 18, 1816. It was referred to the Committee on the Public Lands and reported on adversely. Annals of Congress, 14th Cong., 1st session, 691. [242] These resolutions are printed in American State Papers, Miscellaneous, I, 464. [243] Archibald Alexander, "A History of Colonization on the West Coast of Africa" (Philadelphia, 1846), 75-76; _Niles' Register_, XI, 275, 296; James Mercer Garnett, "Biographical Sketch of Charles Fenton Mercer" (Richmond, Va., 1911), 15. [244] Mercer's resolutions were passed by the House of Delegates, December 14, 1816, passed with amendment by the Senate, December 20, and concurred in by the House, December 21. Annals of Congress, 15th Congress, 1st session, II, 1774. Indiana, Georgia and Tennessee, all a little later, passed similar resolutions. _American Quarterly_, IV, 397. [245] American Colonization Society, First Annual Report, 8. [246] Isaac V. Brown, "Biography of the Reverend Robert Finley, of Basking Ridge, N. J." (Philadelphia, 1857), 60. [247] Printed in Brown, _Finley_, 60, 61. See also _African Repository_, II, 2, 3, and Matthew Carey, "Letters on Colonization and its Probable Results addressed to C. F. Mercer," Philadelphia, 1834, 7. [248] _Niles' Register_, XI, 260. Colonel Ercuries Beatty president at the meeting. The committee appointed to secure signatures to the memorial consisted of the following names: Elisha Clark, John G. Schenck, Dr. E. Stockton, Dr. J. Van Cleve, and Robert Voorhees. Byron Sunderland in his "Liberian Colonization," _Liberian Bulletin_, No. 16, 18, says this meeting was virtually a failure. The memorial may be found in the Cuffe manuscripts. It was sent to Paul Cuffe by Robert Finley when the latter was in Washington seeking to bring about some general deportation movement. [249] Gardiner Spring, "Memoir of Samuel John Mills" (Boston and New York, 1829), 10. [250] Sunderland, "Liberian Colonization," _Liberian Bulletin_, No. 16, 18. [251] Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, Second Series, II, 1. [252] Report of a missionary tour through that part of the United States which lies west of the Allegheny Mountains (Andover, 1815). [253] Thomas C. Richards, "Samuel J. Mills, Missionary, Pathfinder, Pioneer and Promoter" (Boston, 1906), 190, 191; Spring, "Memoir of Mills," 129. [254] Spring, "Memoir of Mills," 125, 126; _African Repository_, I, 276. A school based on these principles was established in New York also, in October, 1816. While the above quotation was written by Mills in July, 1817, it is a fair representation of his idea for several years previous. [255] An editorial in the _North American Review_, XXXV, 126.