Footnote 3: Mrs. Charles Warren Lippitt. Footnote 4: Secretary-General of the Society. Footnote 5: See Updike’s History of the Narragansett Church. Footnote 6: History of Bristol. Footnote 7: This name appears in the writings of the subject of this paper both as “MacSparran” and “McSparran.” In his work “America Dissected,” he repeatedly spells it “MacSparran,” while on other occasions he frequently uses the abbreviated form “McSparran.” Footnote 8: In Mac Sparran’s time great latitude was exercised, even by educated people, in the matter of orthography, including proper names. Footnote 9: It will be noticed that Dr. Mac Sparran never uses the cant term “Scotch-Irish.” His education, good sense and patriotic spirit raised him above such a subterfuge. Footnote 10: Dean Berkeley, the famous “Kilkenny scholar,” located near Newport, R. I., in 1729, and on various occasions visited MacSparran. Berkeley was subsequently made Anglican bishop of Cloyne, in Ireland. Footnote 11: Recently deceased. Librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society. Footnote 12: A small remnant of the Narragansett nation still exists, chiefly at or near Westerly, R. I. Few, if any, of these survivors, are of pure Indian blood. Footnote 13: The claim has been made that the slaves were kindly treated in Rhode Island. No doubt they were in many cases, but so, in some instances, were those in the South. Still, at the best it was slavery, and the very nature of this traffic in human beings must have been equivalent to injustice, oppression and cruelty. Footnote 14: This Dr. Giles Goddard was the father of William Goddard who, in 1762, established the Providence (R. I.) _Gazette_, the first paper ever printed at Providence. Footnote 15: Captain Wilkinson was an Irishman who resided at Newport, but was an intimate friend of Dr. MacSparran, Col. Updike and other prominent Narragansett people. Footnote 16: In Narragansett, R. I. Footnote 17: This was Gilbert Stuart, who afterwards became the famous painter. The name in MacSparran’s time appears to have also been spelled Stewart. Footnote 18: “America Dissected.” Footnote 19: “America Dissected.” Footnote 20: A monument to MacSparran stands in North Kingstown, R. I. A hill in that section of the state also bears his name. Footnote 21: On the staff of the _Boston Daily Globe_. Footnote 22: Treasurer-General of the Society, and State Insurance Commissioner of New Hampshire. Footnote 23: