1. Elaine Crane, A Dependent People: Newport, Rhode Island in the Revolutionary Era (Fordham University Press, 1992), 3.
2. See Crane, A Dependent People; Also, Lynne Whithey. Urban Growth in Colonial Rhode Island: Newport and Providence in the Eighteenth Century (State Univ of New York Pr, 1984).
3. See Jacqueline Barbara Carr. After the Siege: a Social History of Boston 1775-1800 (New York: UPNE, 2005).
4. Crane, 126.
5. Crane, xi-xii. Crane acknowledged this weakness of her approach in the introduction to the 1992 paperback edition of A Dependent People.
6. James Bowden, The History of the Society of Friends in America, vol. 1 (London: Charles Gilpin, 1850), 19.
7. James N. Arnold, The Narragansett Historical Register, vol. 5 (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1887), 307.
8. Crane, 4.
9. Whithey, 18.
10. Whithey, 14.
11. Charles Blaskowitz. A Plan of the Town of Newport in Rhode Island (London: Faden, 1777). Hand-colored engraving. Geography and Map Division, G3774 .N4 1777 .B5 Am 6-5 (9).