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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword to the Reissue
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1. Introduction: Background to the Journeys
  8. Chapter 2. Before Departure
  9. Chapter 3. South Carolina and Georgia
  10. Chapter 4. Charlestown to New York
  11. Chapter 5. Return to Britain and End of Story
  12. Appendix 1. William Mylne’s Power of Attorney
  13. Appendix 2. Calendar of Letters, 1773–1775
  14. Main Sources
  15. Annotated Index

Main Sources

ABBREVIATIONS

AO

Audit Office papers, Public Record Office, London.

BAL

British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, London.

DAB

The Dictionary of American Biography. 20 vols. New York and London, 1928–36.

DNB

The Dictionary of National Biography. 22 vols. London, 1921–22.

PRO

Public Record Office, London.

SRO

Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh.

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, London.

Mylne Papers, including William Mylne’s letters from America, 1773–75, Robert Mylne’s diaries, 1762–1810, Robert Mylne’s book of family history, ca. 1775, with later additions, and other letters and documents.

Georgia Historical Society, Savannah.

Colonial Dames of America Collection, including papers regarding Robert and Mary Mackay.

Public Record Office, London.

Loyalist claims and associated correspondence in Audit Office papers of the late eighteenth century.

Treasury series 47/12, concerning Loyalist claims.

Hawks Papers, 5/300 and 310, Colonial Office records.

Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh.

Mylne Papers, GD1/51, comprising letters of Anne, Robert, William, and other Mylnes and sundry other papers.

Copies of Robert Mylne’s diaries and book of family history.

Registers of births, deaths, and marriages, OPRS and IGI.

Register of deeds, RD2/2/214 (William Mylne’s power of attorney).

State of Georgia Archives, Atlanta.

Surveyor-General’s Department.

Records of Commissioners for the Ceded Lands.

Land Grant Books.

Typescript of thesis by M. Cohn, “Thomas Browne: Loyalist.”

Department of Natural Resources.

Typescript by M. F. Norwood, “History of the White House Tract,” 1975.

State of South Carolina Archives, Columbia.

Land Grant Books.

NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS

Annual Register (London)

Gentleman’s Magazine (London)

Georgia Gazette

London Chronicle

South Carolina Gazette

South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine

OTHER PUBLISHED SOURCES

Alden, J. R. A History of the American Revolution. London: Macdonald, 1969.

———. John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1944.

Cashin, Edward J. The King’s Ranger: Thomas Brown and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.

Cashin, Edward J., ed. Colonial Augusta, Key of the Indian Countrey. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1986.

Cashin, Edward J., and Heard Robertson. Augusta and the American Revolution. Augusta, Ga.: Richmond County Historical Society, 1975.

Colvin, Howard. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840. London, 1978.

De Vorsey, Louis. The Indian Boundary in the Southern Colonies, 1763–1775. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.

Griswold, S. Wesley. The Boston Tea Party, 16 December 1773. Brattleboro, Vt.: Stephen Greene Press, 1972.

Harper, Francis. The Travels of William Bartram. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958.

Jackson, Harvey H., and Phinizy Spalding, eds. Forty Years of Diversity: Essays on Colonial Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.

Maitland, William. History of London. 2 vols. London, 1760.

Mylne, Robert Scott. The Master Masons to the Crown of Scotland. Edinburgh: Scott & Ferguson and Burness & Co., 1893.

Richardson, A. E. Robert Mylne, Architect and Engineer. London: Batsford, 1955.

Robertson, Thomas H., and T. Heard. A Bicentennial Map of Augusta, Georgia, and Surroundings, 1735–1781. Augusta-Richmond County Bicentennial Committee, Augusta, 1976.

Ruddock, Ted. Arch Bridges and Their Builders, 1733–1833. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

———. “The Building of North Bridge, Edinburgh, 1763–1775.” Transactions of the Newcomen Society 47 (1974–76): 9–33.

Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert. A London Encyclopaedia. London, 1983.

Williamson’s Directory for the City of Edinburgh, Canongate, Leith, and Suburbs. Edinburgh, annually from 1773–74 onward.

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