[15] _Cyclopedia American Biography_, Vol. I, p. 511. Compare with Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, edition 1790-1793, pp. 332-333. [16] Cathcart's _Encyclopedia_, Vol. II, p. 749, and compare article of John Houston in Appleton's _Cyclopedia of American Biography_, Vol. III, p. 273. [17] Appleton's _Cyclopedia of American Biography_, Vol. IV, p. 219. Compare Vol. III, p. 273. See article, Savannah in Appleton's _American Cyclopedia_, Vol. III, p. 646. [18] See Drayton's letter in Gibbes' _Documentary History of American Revolution_ (South Carolina), Vol. I, p. 162, and for distance from Silver Bluff compare letter of Tennett, p. 235, note in Lossing's _Field Book of Revolution_, Vol. II, p. 484. [19] Gibbes' _Documentary History of the American Revolution_ (South Carolina), Vol. I, pp. 235-236, letter of Tennett, of September 7, 1775. [20] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1770-1773, pp. 332-337. [21] _Ibid._, 1790-1793, p. 344. [22] White's _History of Georgia_, pp. 246-247; Jones, Vol. II, p. 137. [23] _State Papers, Indian Affairs_, Vol. I, G. No. 2, p. 32. [24] See Jonathan Odell, Appleton's _Cyclopedia of American Biography_, Vol. IV, p. 556; Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1790-1793, p. 481; Bill's _History of the Canadian Baptists_, pp. 26, 176, 653, 657. Compare with Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_ for 1798-1800, p. 336. [25] Sabine's _American Loyalists_, Vol. I, p. 127. Compare pp. 122-123. [26] G. W. Hervey, _Story of Baptist Missions in Foreign Lands_, p. 596. Compare article on Sierra Leone in Appleton's _American Cyclopedia_, Vol. XV, p. 32; also article on Nova Scotia, Vol. XII, pp. 524-525; See Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1790-1793, pp. 481-483. See also article on Sierra Leone in _The Earth and its Inhabitants_--Africa--Vol. III, p. 207. [27] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1790-1793, pp. 481-484. [28] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1790-1793, pp. 473, 544-545; 1791, p. 336; 1793, pp. 540-541. [29] Joseph T. Wilson's _Emancipation_, pp. 36-38; Dunmore's Emancipation Proclamation issued 1775. [30] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1793, pp. 540-541. [31] _Ibid._, 1791, p. 336. [32] White's _Historical Collections of Georgia_, p. 316. [33] Benedict's _History of the Baptists_, p. 170. [34] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1798-1801, p. 367. Compare 263. [35] _Ibid._, p. 263. [36] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1790-1793, p. 476. [37] Benedict's _History_ (edition 1848), p. 723. [38] Benedict's _History of the Baptists_ (edition 1813), Vol. II, p. 193. [39] Article on Augusta, Georgia, First Baptist Church of, Cathcart's _Baptist Encyclopedia_, Vol. I, p. 49. [40] James M. Simm's _First Colored Baptist Church in North America_, p. 57. [41] _Ibid._, pp. 58-59. [42] Benedict's _History of the Baptists_, edition 1813, Vol. II, p. 193, quoted from Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_. [43] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1791, p. 336.