MILES MARK FISHER

FOOTNOTES:

[1] This spelling seems more correct than either the short form, _Lot
Cary_, used by the Rev. D. Stratton, D.D. of St. Albans, West
Virginia, in his "Life and Work of Lot Cary, Missionary in Africa," or
the longer form, _Lott Carey_, used by the Rev. James B. Taylor in
"The Biography of Elder Lott Carey" and by many other writers for the
following consideration: There is no trace of Cary spelling his name
Lot Cary. In the American Baptist Magazine and Gammell's "A History of
American Baptist Missions" there are letters from or references to
Cary marked Lott Carey, which are no doubt presumptions on the part of
the printer or writer that the name is spelled like that of the Rev.
William Carey. If, on the other hand, Lott Cary spelled his name
either _Carey_ or _Cary_, that would only argue that his name would be
better spelled Lott Cary as a means of distinction from the Rev.
William Carey. "The Biography of Elder Lott Carey" written in 1837 is
the source of much that is known of the man but seems to draw heavily
from the "Life of Jehudi Ashmun, late Colonial Agent in Liberia, with
an Appendix Containing Extracts from His Journal and Other Writings,
with a Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Lott Cary," written in
1835 by Ralph Randolph Gurley, Secretary of the American Colonization
Society. Many incidents of the life of Lott Cary are taken from the
life and writings of Mr. Ashmun. It would therefore seem consistent to
follow his spelling of the name. In this work, the name, Lott Cary, is
used frequently--even signed to a letter to Mr. Gurley--and many
references are made to it by Mr. Ashmun who probably knew Cary better
than anyone else. Only once in the entire work, on page 126, never in
the "Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Lott Cary," is the name
spelled _Carey_. This could be a typographical error. Furthermore, Mr.
Randall who went to Africa as Governor of Liberia about a month and a
half after Cary's death said, respecting a native settlement, "I
propose to have it called after him, Carytown." (_The African
Repository_, Vol. V, p. 1.) Appletons' _Cyclopaedia of American
Biography_, Vol. I, p. 548, follows this spelling.

[2] This name is also variously spelled--Collin or Colin and Teague or
Teage. The above spelling is from the American Baptist Missionary
Union in their Missionary Jubilee volume, pp. 215, 267.

[3] _Proceedings of the Fifth Triennial M