| CTSR | Comptrollers Tax Sales Records, New York State Archives (NYSA) |
| Du Bois Papers | W. E. B. Du Bois Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ECCO | Essex County Clerk’s Office (archives, land and court records), Essex County Courthouse, Elizabethtown, NY |
| FCA | Franklin County Archives, Franklin County Courthouse, Malone, NY |
| GSLB | Gerrit Smith’s Land Book, v. 88, or, Account of My Distribution of Land among Colored Men, ca. 1846–53, GSP |
| GSP | Gerrit Smith Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries, Syracuse, NY |
| HWHC | Harry Wade Hicks Collection, John Brown Farm State Historic Site, North Elba, NY |
| JB/BBS Coll./WVMP | John Brown/Boyd B. Stutler Collection, West Virginia Memory Project (https://archive.wvculture.org/history/wvmemory/imlsintro.html) |
| JBF | John Brown Farm State Historic Site, North Elba, NY |
| JBJr | John Brown Jr. Papers, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH |
| JBjrKS | John Brown Jr. Papers, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka |
| JBjrOH | John Brown Jr. Letters, Charles E. Frohman Collections, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library, Fremont, OH |
| JBMA | John Brown Memorial Association/Harry Wade Hicks Collection, John Brown Farm State Historic Site, North Elba, NY |
| LOC | Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
| LPPL | Lake Placid Public Library, NY |
| NARA | National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC |
| NE | North Elba, NY |
| NYHS | New-York Historical Society, New York City |
| NYPL | New York Public Library, New York City |
| NYSA | New York State Archives, Albany |
| NYSC | New York State Census, NYSL, Albany |
| PIA | Peebles Island Archives, Bureau of Historic Sites, Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, Peebles Island State Park, Waterford, NY |
| SLFL | Saranac Lake Free Library (Adirondack Research Room), Saranac Lake, NY |
| SUNY | State University of New York |
| USFC | United States Federal Census, NARA |