Footnote 13: Schenectady.[(Back)]
Footnote 14: Alarum, or alarm.[(Back)]
Footnote 15: Schenectady.[(Back)]
Footnote 16: Provincial troops, or American soldiers. The English troops were called regulars.[(Back)]
Footnote 17: Massachusetts Bay troops. The Massachusetts colony was called Massachusetts Bay until after the War for Independence.[(Back)]
Footnote 18: Fort Edward was situated upon the east bank of the Hudson, about fifty miles north of Albany. The fort was built by General Lyman, of Connecticut, in 1755, while that officer was encamped there with about six thousand troops, awaiting the arrival of General William Johnson, the commander-in-chief of the expedition against the French at Ticonderoga and Crown Point. A portion of the site of the fort is now (1854) occupied by the flourishing village of Fort Edward. Some of the embankments are yet visible near the river. It was near this fort that Jane McCrea was killed and scalped, in 1777.[(Back)]
Footnote 19: Near Waterford, on the west side of the Hudson river, thirteen miles north from Albany.[(Back)]
Footnote 20: Niskayuna, a short distance from Waterford, and remarkable as a settlement of Shaking Quakers.[(Back)]
Footnote 21: On the Mohawk, about five miles above Cohoes Falls. It was the chief crossing-place for troops on their way north from Albany. There the right wing of the American army, under Arnold, was encamped, while General Schuyler was casting up entrenchments at Cohoes Falls, a few weeks before the Saratoga battles, in 1777.[(Back)]
Footnote 22: Stillwater is on the west bank of the Hudson, in Saratoga county, twenty-four miles north from Albany. The battle of Bemis's heights was fought near there, in 1777, and is sometimes known as the battle of Stillwater. Opposite the mouth of the Hoosick river, at Stillwater, was a stockade, called Fort Winslow.[(Back)]