TIMOTHY FLINT AND JAMES FLINT
By WILLIAM H. HILDRETH
There exists in Volume II of the
admirable History of the
State of Ohio a confusion between the American, Timothy Flint,
and the Scotchman, James Flint.* The
following list gives seven
places where the work of James Flint has
been attributed to
Timothy Flint:
p. 123, line 27.
p. 124, footnote 6.
p. 171, footnote 46.
p. 176, footnote 5.
p. 207, line 23.
p. 398, line 4.
p. 402, line 23.
Timothy Flint, author, editor,
missionary and traveller, was
born in Massachusetts. He came west in
1815. James Flint, a
Scotch traveller, came to America in
1818. Apparently the two
Flints were not acquainted. It is
interesting to note, however.
that James Flint dedicated his book to
James Stuart, another
Scotchman. James Stuart, eleven years
later, was to write Three
Years in North America in which he says that he made "great use
...
of Timothy Flint's Geography and History of the United
States." Timothy Flint, as editor
of the Knickerbocker; or New-
York Monthly Magazine, gave James Stuart's book a favorable
review; he and Stuart had become
acquainted in Cincinnati.
* Editor's note.--Libraries and others who wish to correct the
index to their copies
of volume II in this regard may
do so by changing Flint, Timothy, to Flint, James,
and altering the figure 397-8 to 398,
and by writing in the following entry: Flint,
Timothy. 397.
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