1. Frank W. C. Hersey, “Tar and Feathers: The Adventures of Captain John Malcolm” (Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, April 1941), 427–73;
2. Wallace Brown, The Good Americans: The Loyalists in the American Revolution (New York: William Morrow, 1969), 134–36;
3. R. S. Longley, “Mob Activities in Revolutionary Massachusetts,” The New England Quarterly 6, no. 1. (March 1933): 98–130.
4. Robert McCluer Calhoon, The Loyalists in Revolutionary America 1760–1781 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973), 191–93.
5. Henry J. Young, “Treason and its Punishment in Revolutionary Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 90 (July 1966): 287–91.