1. BL IOR/H/411, pp. 55-79.
2. SHC Guildford HT Baptisms and Burials 1558-1783, SHC GUHT1/1-2;SHC Guildford St. Mary Baptisms and Burials 1698-1753 GUM/1/3; SHC Guildford St. Mary Baptisms and Burials 1755-1812 GUM/1/4.
3. PRO, PROB 11/1513/130; PRO, Duties Paid on Apprentices' Indentures, IR1/22, Aug. 18, 1759.
4. BL IOR/L/MAR/B/482G; BL IOR/N/1/5, 1797-1801, f. 64; BL IOR / D/156, 1802, ff. 229-30; BL IOR /D/157, 1803, f. 248; BL IOR /E/1/55, Apr, 11, 1771, ff. 368-369v; Hodson, List of the Officers of the Bengal Army; Farrington, EIC Register, India Office List, Indian Army List, Savannah 2012.
5. Will of Joseph Smith, BL IOR/P/416/98, p. 3a; Bombay Proceedings, June 28, 1779, BL IOR /P/417/37, pp. 676- 80.
6. Bombay Proceedings, June 28, 1779, BL IOR /P/417/37, pp. 676- 80; BL IOR/N/3/3, p. 362.
7. Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, p. 785.
8. J. Smith, The Heraldry of Smith in Scotland; Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, vol. 1, pp. 1487- 88.
9. Spencer, Memoirs of William Hickey, vol. 1, p. 218.
10. Quincy, The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw, pp. 163, 241- 42.
11. Nightingale, Trade and Empire in Western India, p. 24.
12. Letter Book of David Scott, BL IOR /H/731, pp. 125, 191-92, 135-36, 200, 206-7; Bombay Proceedings, June 28, 1779, BL IOR /P/417/37, pp. 676- 80;SHC BR/T/1266/7.
13. Love, Vestiges of Old Madras, vol. 3, pp. 137, 229, 370, 402, 424, 537, 554-56, 568.
14. PRO, PROB/11/1700/378, Will of George Moubray.
15. Anglican Parish Register, Woking, Surrey: England, SHC, 1764-1803.
16. Spencer, Memoirs of William Hickey, vol. 1, pp. 197-98.
17. Van Dyke, The Canton Trade, pp. 103- 4.
18. Van Dyke, “Floating Brothels and the Canton Flower Boats”; Spencer, Memoirs of William Hickey, vol. 1, pp. 198-200.
19. Spencer, Memoirs of William Hickey, vol. 1, pp. 198-99.
20. Bulley, Free Mariner, p. 73.
21. Spencer, Memoirs of William Hickey, vol. 1, pp. 201-2; Bulley, Free Mariner, p. 73.
22. John McQueen, 1757-59, BL Mss Eur D675.
23. Bulley, Free Mariner, p. 73.
24. Bulley, Free Mariner, pp. 78-79, 175; Spencer, Memoirs of William Hickey, vol. 1, pp. 201, 209; John McQueen, 1757-59, BL Mss Eur D675.
25. See Richard, “Uncovering the Garden of the Richest Man on Earth in Nineteenth-Century Canton.”
26. Bulley, Free Mariner, p. 175.
27. Van Dyke, Merchants of Canton and Macao, vol. 2, pp. 61- 66.
28. Spencer, Memoirs of William Hickey, vol. 1, pp. 223-24.
29. Van Dyke, “The Shopping Streets of Canton in the Foreign Quarter at Canton.”
30. M. Mok, “Trading with Traders”; Van Dyke and Mok, Images of the Canton Factories, p. xxi; Conner, The Hongs of Canton, p. 2.
31. Nov. and Dec. 1772, BL IOR /R/10/9; Jan. 22, 1773, BL IOR /R/10/9; Nov. 18, 1774, BL IOR /R/10/7; Nov. 9, 1776, BL IOR/G/12/59; Feb. 1777, BL IOR/G/12/61; Nov. 1777, BL IOR/G/12/62; Jan. 22, 1779, BL IOR/G/12/64.
32. Aug.-Oct. 1775, BL IOR /R/10/8; Oct. 16, 1779, BL IOR/G/12/68; Jan. 15, 1779, BL IOR/G/12/64; Jan. 15, 1779, BL IOR /R/10/8.
33. Nov. 17, 1775, BL IOR /R/10/8; Aug. 23, 1775, BL IOR /R/10/8.
34. Sept. 27-Oct. 1775, BL IOR/G/12/58; Aug. 1, 1774, BL IOR /R/10/7.
35. Aug. 23, 1775, BL IOR /R/10/8.
36. Dec. 31, 1775, BL IOR /R/10/8; Aug. 23, 1775, BL IOR /R/10/8; Sept. 1, 1775, BL IOR/G/12/58; Nov. 17, 1775, BL IOR /R/10/8; Dec. 31, 1775, BL IOR/R/10/8; Jan. 1, 1776, BL IOR /R/10/8.
37. Aug. 25, 1775, BL IOR /R/10/8; Jan. 1, 1776, BL IOR /R/10/8; Dec. 4, 1775,BL IOR/R/10/8; BL IOR /H/411, pp. 55-79.
38. BL IOR/H/411, pp. 55-79; Aug. 24, 1775, BL IOR/G/12/58.
39. Jan. 29, 1779, NAH, Canton 88. Thanks to Paul Van Dyke for sharing and translating this reference; Bombay Proceedings, June 21-28, 1779, BL IOR/P/417/37, pp. 645-54, 676- 80.
40. Bombay Proceedings, June 28, 1779, BL IOR /P/417/37, pp. 683- 84;Bombay Proceedings, May 17, 1779, BL IOR /P/417/37, p. 522.
41. Bulley, Bombay Country Ships, pp. 182, 187, 200-202.
42. George Smith to the Company Supercargos, Jan. 19, 1779, BL IOR /R/10/8.
43. BL IOR/H/411, pp. 55-79.
44. Feb. 3, 1781, BL IOR/G/12/20ff. 300-301.
45. Feb. 17, 1781, BL IOR/G/12/20, ff. 304-5; Feb. 26, 1781, BL IOR/G/12/20, f. 306.
46. Feb. 26, 1781, BL IOR/G/12/20, f. 306.
47. Apr. 7, 1781, BL IOR/G/12/20, f. 307.
48. Nov. 10, 1781, BL IOR/G/12/20, ff. 308-9.
49. Ibid.
50. Nov. 26, 1781, BL IOR/G/12/73; Jan. 2, 1782, BL IOR/G/12/73.
51. Feb. 10, 1781, BL IOR/G/12/20, ff. 302-3.
52. SHC Guildford HT Baptisms and Burials 1558-1783, SHC GUHT1/1-2;SHC Guildford St. Mary Baptisms and Burials 1698-1753, SHC GUM/1/3;SHC Guildford St. Mary Baptisms and Burials 1755-1812 GUM/1/4.
53. Dec. 31, 1781, BL IOR/G/12/73; Jan. 22, 1782, BL IOR/G/12/75; BL IOR L /MAR/B/319B.
54. Sept. 24, 1782, BL IOR L /MAR/B/319B.
55. Oct. 1782, BL IOR L /MAR/B/319B.
56. Journals of the House of Commons, May 12, 1794, vol. 49, pp. 585- 86.
57. Hoppit, Risk and Failure in English Business, p. 41.
58. Smith to Cathcart, Nov. 16, 1787, BL IOR/G/12/90, p. 39; Journals of the House of Commons, May 12, 1794, vol. 49, pp. 585- 86.
59. Journals of the House of Commons, May 12, 1794, vol. 49, pp. 585 - 86.
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid.; Hoppit, Risk and Failure in English Business, pp. 35-36.
62. John Crichton's letter to the Hoppo, July 8, 1779, BL IOR G /12/68.
63. Hoppit, Risk and Failure in English Business, p. 36.
64. Ibid.
65. John Crichton's letter to the Hoppo, July 8, 1779, BL IOR G /12/68.
66. Smith to Dundas, May 7, 1794, NLS MS 1069, ff. 100-101.
67. Ibid.
68. London Chronicle, Saturday, Dec. 23, 1782, issue 4067.
69. Ibid.; Public Advertiser (London), Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1783, issue 15191;London Chronicle, Saturday, Feb. 8, 1783, issue 4088; London Chronicle, Saturday, Mar. 15, 1783, issue 4110; Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, Saturday, Mar. 22, 1783, issue 4320.
70. London Gazette, Saturday, May 10, 1783, issue 12439.
71. London Gazette, Tuesday, July 6, 1784, issue 12558; Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, Monday, May 16, 1785, issue 4993; General Evening Post (London), Tuesday, May 23, 1786, issue 8200; London Gazette, Tuesday, July 4, 1786, issue 12766; London Gazette, Saturday, Apr. 14, 1787, issue 12847;General Evening Post (London), Saturday, June 14, 1788, issue 8516; World (London), Monday, Nov. 23, 1789, issue 899; London Gazette, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 1790, issue 13249; London Gazette, Saturday, June 18, 1791, issue 13318.
