12. The paragraph, to this point, was later covered by a strip of paper pasted over the text, probably by Caroline Amelia Smith de Windt, who omitted this text from her edited collection (AA2, Jour. and Corr., 3:141).
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/