Sketch of the Munro Clan

NOTES.
I. "In 1789 President Washington visited the Eastern States. He
travelled in a post-chaise with four horses. He was accompanied by
Major Jackson, official secretary, and by Tobias Lear, his private
secretary, and attended by his famous man, Billy, who makes a con-
spicuous figure in the forged letters. A disagreement arose between
the Governor (Hancock) and the Town's Committee to which of them
belonged the honor of receiving the President at the line of the town.
From this cause there was a long delay, during which the President
was exposed to a raw north-east wind, by which exposure he was
visited by a severe cold. Many other persons were exposed and
affected in like manner, and the affection became so general as to be
called the Washington influenza." — Familiar Letters on Public Char-
acters, etc., second edition, Boston, 18J4, p. 14.
"The Influenza, which has raged in the Southern states, is so pre-
vailing in the town, that nine-tenths of the citizens now labour under
it." — Massachusetts Centinel, Nov. J, I'jSg.
"The Influenza, as it is termed, which is now so common among
us, has raged greatly in Europe, as well as in the Southern States of
America, and to some has proved fatal." — Independent Chronicle, Nov.
12, Ij8<).
z. Jonas Clarke, minister of the church at Lexington from 1755 to
1805, married Lucy Bowes, grand-daughter of Thomas Hancock,
minister of the same church from 1698 to 175Z. Governor John
Hancock was a grandson of this Reverend Thomas. As to this
famous attack of the gout, which forced the governor to absent himself
from the state banquet given in Boston to Washington, Lodge says :
"Hancock, as the chief officer of what he esteemed a sovereign State,