1. The directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures met at Newark, New Jersey, from July 3 to July 7, 1792. H was present at all the meetings except the one held on July 3. A committee, which had been “appointed for the purpose of fixing upon a proper place on the Waters of the Passaick for the Seat of the Factory, for fixing the Town of Paterson and making the necessary purchases of Land,” reported on July 4 (“Minutes of the S.U.M.,” description begins MS minutes of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, City of Paterson, New Jersey, Plant Management Commission, Successors to the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. description ends 42). On the following day, the directors of the society passed a number of resolutions carrying out the suggestions of the committee.

No evidence has been found that this resolution by H was ever acted upon by the directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. On July 5, 1792, however, it was “Resolved that this Board do immediately take measures to bring the Water from above the Great Falls across the Gap to Station No. 14” (“Minutes of the S.U.M.,” description begins MS minutes of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, City of Paterson, New Jersey, Plant Management Commission, Successors to the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. description ends 44).

2. This space and subsequent spaces left blank in MS.

3. In MS, “supposed.”