1. James Wilkinson to ?, Camp on Pedee River, North Carolina, 9 January 1781, The James Wilkinson Papers, Chicago Historical Society.

2. As with much of his life, the details of Wilkinson's activities during the Revolutionary War are sketchy. This account depends largely on Bodley's introduction. See Bodley, introduction to Reprints of Littell 's Political Transactions In and Concerning Kentucky, vii-x.
(3)Bodley, x
4. Ibid., vii-viii.

5.	James Ripley Jacobs, Tarn islied Warrior: Major-General James Wilkinson (New
York,:Macmillan, 1938), 70.
6. James Alton James, The Life of George Rogers Clark (Chicago: U. of Illinois Press, 1928), 374.
7. Jacobs, 71.
8.	Ibid.