The following certificates were omitted in their proper places. N^. 1

I do certify that I was returning with John Fitch from Neshamany meeting some time in April, 1785, as near as I can recollect the time, when a gentleman and his wife passed by us in a riding chair ; he immediately grew inattentive to what I said. Some time after he informed me that at that instant the first idea of a sleam-boat struck his mind. JAMES OGILBEE

No. 2 ./in extract of a letter from James Scout.

lou are desirous of knowing from me when the first thought of a steam boat Came in your head ; this I cannot tell, but this you told me, that in the month of April, 1785, you was travelling down Street road in company M"" James Ogilbee and M' Sinton passing you on Street road, that then the first thought occurred to you of a Steam-boat, and the month of May or June following you shewed me a plan of your machine on paper, this truth I shaL seek no further testimony to support; 'tis too generally known; let them that doubt it come and hear more from

Your humble Servant,

April lUh. 1788 SAMES SCOUT

N°.5

This is to certify, that M^" John Fitch called upon WilHam Henry, Esquire, my late husband in his life time, about two years and a half since, when M"" Fitch shewed to him dra/ts and a model of a machine how to propel a boat through the water ; And further, that I have frequently heard M"" Henry applying steam as a mean to urge boats through the water by force of it, and that he haa proposed laying a model of a machine, for that purpose, before Xtm Philosophical Society long before M^ Fitch called upon him.