1. Bayless E. Hardin, “Dr. Samuel Brown, 1769-1830 His Family and Descendants,” The Filson Club Historical Quarterly 26 (1952): 5.
2. Ibid., 6, Peter, Robert, A.M., M.D., “Doctor Samuel Brown,” in Some of the Medical Pioneers of Kentucky, ed. Joseph Nathaniel McCormack (Bowling Green, KY: Kentucky State Medical Association, 1917): 53.
3. Ibid., 7.
4. Brown, Samuel. Letter to John Coulter October 5, 1788.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. Letter to Boyd Lee Spahr, Esq. February 20, 1939.
8. Samuel Brown. Letter to John Coulter. October 5, 1788.
9. Bayless E. Hardin, “Dr. Samuel Brown, 1769-1830 His Family and Descendants,” The Filson Club Historical Quarterly 26 (1952): 7; James M. Phalen “Brown, Samuel,” in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. III., ed. Allen Johnson (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1946).
10. Bayless E. Hardin, “Dr. Samuel Brown, 1769-1830 His Family and Descendants,” The Filson Club Historical Quarterly 26 (1952): 7.
11. Ibid.
12. Brown describes the case in a November 10, 1800 letter to a Dr. Miller. Later published as part of The Medical Repository of Original Essays and Intelligence, Relative to Physic, Surgery, Chemistry, and Natural History vol. 4, issue 3 (New York, 1801): 223
13. The full title is, “A Description of a Cave on Crooked Creek with Remarks and Observations on Nitre and Gunpowder.”
14. Ibid., 12.
15. Phalen dates the marriage to 1809.
16. Bayless E. Hardin, “Dr. Samuel Brown, 1769-1830 His Family and Descendants,” The Filson Club Historical Quarterly 26 (1952): 8.
17. Ibid., 9, 12.
18. Samuel Brown. Letter to Margaretta Brown. February 1, 1813. Included in Bayless E. Hardin, “Dr. Samuel Brown, 1769-1830 His Family and Descendants,” The Filson Club Historical Quarterly 26 (1952): 9.
19. La Roche, R., M.D., “Samuel Brown,” in Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons, ed. Samuel D. Gross, M.D. (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blaskiston, 1861): 236.
20. Bayless E. Hardin, “Dr. Samuel Brown, 1769-1830 His Family and Descendants,” The Filson Club Historical Quarterly 26 (1952): 10; James M. Phalen “Brown, Samuel.” In Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. III., ed. Allen Johnson (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1946).