1. Noted physician and surgeon Dr. John Jones (1729–91), a Patriot who was a longtime friend of Colden’s, left New York City when it was occupied by the British and was then a Kingston resident whose house and barn were burned when the British attacked the town on 16 Oct. 1777. The Surgical Works of the late John Jones, M.D. . . . (Philadelphia, 1795; Early Am. Imprints description begins Early American Imprints, series 1: Evans, 1639–1800 [microform; digital collection], edited by American Antiquarian Society, published by Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc. Accessed: Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 2006–8, http://infoweb.newsbank.com/ description ends , no. 28909), 2–48; Schoonmaker, History of Kingston description begins Marius Schoonmaker, The History of Kingston, New York (New York, 1888) description ends , 524; Fingerhut, Survivor description begins Eugene R. Fingerhut, Survivor: Cadwallader Colden II in Revolutionary America (Los Angeles, 1983) description ends , 64, 76.

2. John Cumming or Cummins, a prominent Loyalist who lived in Catskill, Greene County. Like Colden, he had been imprisoned at the Kingston jail, then paroled for a week into the custody of Kingston resident Henry Sleght. The Council of Safety had now consigned Colden and Cumming and six other prominent Loyalists to the Fleet Prison. Cumming escaped from the ship with the rest of the group, except Colden, but was recaptured and ultimately exiled. PPGC description begins Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York (10 vols.; Albany, N.Y., 1899–1914) description ends , 9: 242; Fingerhut, Survivor description begins Eugene R. Fingerhut, Survivor: Cadwallader Colden II in Revolutionary America (Los Angeles, 1983) description ends , 71, 72, 73–74, 91, 111, 129.