Footnote 3: To take carts for the military service. Under martial law, any private property may be used for the public good. A just government always pays a fair price for the same.[(Back)]
Footnote 4: Probably General Lyman, who was the commander-in-chief of the Connecticut forces at that time.[(Back)]
Footnote 5: In Litchfield county, Connecticut.[(Back)]
Footnote 6: Cornwall.[(Back)]
Footnote 7: Canaan.[(Back)]
Footnote 8: Livingston's manor, in Columbia county. The estates of Livingston, Van Rensselaer, and others, who received grants of land from government, on certain conditions, in order to encourage immigration and agriculture, were called Patroon Lands, and the proprietors were entitled Patroons, or patrons.[(Back)]
Footnote 9: Kinderhook.[(Back)]
Footnote 10: Now East Albany, on the east side of the Hudson river.[(Back)]
Footnote 11: Schenectady.[(Back)]
Footnote 12: Billeting-money—that is, money to pay for lodgings at private houses. When soldiers are quartered at private houses, it is said that such ones are billeted at such a house, &c.[(Back)]