"Well," said Jefferson, "if you are decided, I will do as well as I can."Adams concluded, "Very well. When you have drawn it up, we will have a meeting."[76]

^ Franklin, seated beside the author, observed him "writhing a little under the acrimonious criticisms on some of its parts."[82]

^ The entail laws made it perpetual: the one who inherited the land could not sell it, but had to bequeath it to his oldest son. As a result, increasingly large plantations, worked by white tenant farmers and by black slaves, gained in size and wealth and political power in the eastern ("Tidewater") tobacco areas.[90] During the Revolutionary era, all such laws were repealed by the states that had them.[91]

^ the immediate successor to the Second Continental Congress

^ These included Russia, Austria, Prussia, Denmark, Saxony, Hamburg, Spain, Portugal, Naples, Sardinia, The Papal States, Venice, Genoa, Tuscany, the Sublime Porte, Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.[118]

^ An example can be seen at the Library of Congress website.

