[1] -- Meing, D.W., "The Delaware Before Pennsylvania", in "The Shaping of America," Vol. I, "Atlantic America 1492-1800." Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986. (Map on p. 132)
[2] -- Test, Merwin Dwight, Personal Communication. Merwin Test is engaged in working up a geneaology for all the Tests in the United States. His present address is 20002 Palo Verde Drive, Sun City, Arizona 85373. He is a descendant of Josiah Test (born 1826).
[3] -- Hammitt, Edmonia Test, articles in Richmond, Indiana Palladium-Item, 1945. Mrs. Hammitt was adescendent of Judge Charles H. Test.[4] -- Hall, Nathan, notes on the descendants of Benjamin Test, son of Francis Test I and grandson of John Test, prepared by Nathan Hall of 81 Price Avenue, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Many of the descendants of Benjamin Test settled in South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska. These notes form part of Test family records compiled by Genevieve Test Peterson of 1633 Dover Street, Worthington, Minnesota 56187 and sent to Mrs. Jack H. Beatty of Indianapolis by Robert N. Test of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1984. The reference material used included copies of the records of Friends Meetings in London and vicinity, the extensive libraries of the Pennsylvania Historical Society and their Genaological Society. But the principal souce of information was William Wade Hinshaw's "Encyclopedia of Friends Monthly Meetings."
[5] -- Test, Frederick Cleveland, biography of his father, Erastus Test; Richmond, Indiana Palladium-Item, 1946.
[6] -- Dunn, Jacob Piatt, "Memorial Record of Distinguished Men of Indianapolis and Indiana," The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York, 1912.
[7] -- Richmond Event Item, February 20, 1901. Obituary.
[8] -- Beach, Eloise, "Local Junior High School Named for German Native," in Richmond Palladium Item, December 26, 1975. Julia Test, for whom the school was named, christened Ann Juliana Christiana Reich, was the orphaned daughter of German immigrants adopted by Alpheus and Elizabeth Test when she was perhaps five years old. She had a distinguished teaching career in the Richmond public schools.
[Link to Julia E. Test Middle School]
[9] -- The Test Building was erected in Indianapolis in 1925. The owners were Skiles E. Test, Dorothy Test Hiatt, and Donald N. Test.
[10] -- This biographical sketch of Erastus Test is reproduced verbatim from a series of articles in the Richmond Palladium-Item in 1946. It served as an introduction written by Dr. Frederick Cleveland Test for his father Erastus' "Random Notes on Early Indiana Life." These unfinished notes are contained in Appendix V.
[11] -- Richmond Palladium-Item, August 10 and 14, 1944.
[12] -- Mrs. Hammitt, op. cit. note 3, says, "John and his brother, Benjamin, went out west, John going to Indiana from Ohio, where he went with Benjamin and others, Benjamin remaining and being the first permanent settler of Salem, Ohio."
[The mention of Benjamin Test in this note reflects a confusion. The Benjamin Test that settled in Salem, Ohio was not the brother of Judge John Test but the son of Zaccheus Test who was an early settler in Columbiana Co. where Salem was founded. Neither Zaccheus nor his son Benjamin were the first permanant settlers of Salem, Ohio -- RWT (webpage editor)]
[13] -- Mrs. Hammitt, op. cit. note 3, "Helen Test Arion has passed on this little anecdote regarding her parents. When her father, John Test, thought he would go and help fight in the War of 1812 against the English, his wife Lydia said, 'You have brought me to the wilderness, but you are not going to leave me here.'"
[14] -- Atlas of Franklin County, "Test rented in the Butler mill property which he operated in conjunction with a carding machine. He was also interested in several schemes for the benefit of the settlement, among which was a mill on West fork, opposite the mouth of Yellow Bank creek."
[15] -- Richmond Palladium-Item, August 10,1944. In this article it is said that John Test ran as a Clay Democrat in 1823, but as a Whig in 1829. He represented the Third Congressional District, then composed of Randolph, Wayne, Franklin, Fayette, Dearborn, Union, Switzerland, Ripley and so much of Delaware County as lay west of a line dividing Ranges 7 and 8 east of the second principal meridian.
[16] --Mrs. Hammitt in a note in her family tree says he was buried in Centerville, Indiana.
[17] --an account of her life by Helen Maria Test (Beeson) Arion, copied by her grand-daughter Lydia Wallace preacher. From a manuscript in the W.H. Smith Memorial Library of the Indiana Historical Society. Reprinted by permission.
[18] --manuscript in the W.H. Smith Memorial Library of the Indiana Historical Society. Reprinted by permission.
[19] --notes from "The Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity," J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1908.
[20]--articles from an unidentified Indianapolis newspaper, probably The Indianapolis News.