Abbreviations
| AAS | American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA |
| ANB | American National Biography |
| APS | American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA |
| BA | Bristol Archives |
| Beinecke | Beinecke Library, Yale University, CT |
| BL | British Library, London |
| BL, IRO | British Library, India Office Records |
| BLHU | Baker Library, Harvard University, MA |
| Bodleian | Bodleian Library, Oxford University |
| CALS | Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, Chester |
| CHS | Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT |
| CJ | Journals of the House of Commons |
| CSPC | Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies |
| CSPD | Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the reign of William and Mary, 1689–1702 |
| CUL | Cambridge University Library |
| DUL | Duke University Library, Durham, NC |
| HFBL | H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Center for History and Culture, Baltimore, MD |
| HL | The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA |
| HSP | Historical Society of Pennsylvania, PA |
| JBC | Jane Bright Collection, Portsea, VI (Private Collection) |
| JBTP | Journal of the Board of Trade and Plantations |
| JCBL | John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI |
| LCP | Library Company of Philadelphia, PA |
| LJ | Journals of the House of Lords |
| LL | Linenhall Library, Belfast |
| LOC | Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
| MHR | Maryland Hall of Records, Annapolis, MD |
| MHS | Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA |
| ML | Mitchell Library, Glasgow |
| MLHS | Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD |
| NEHGS | New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA |
| NLS | National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh |
| NMM | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich |
| NRO | Norfolk Record Office, Norwich |
| NRS | National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh |
| NYHS | New-York Historical Society, NY |
| NYPL | New York Public Library, NY |
| ODNB | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
| OED | Oxford English Dictionary |
| SHL | Senate House Library, London |
| TCD | Trinity College Dublin |
| TNA | The National Archives, Kew |
| UAA | University of Aberdeen Archives |
| UMA | University of Melbourne Archives |
| WSRO | West Sussex Record Office, Chichester |