[42] A deity of the woods.
[43] A New England name for a horse, mare, or gelding.
[44] A cant appellation given among the soldiers to the corps that has the honor to guard his Majesty's person—a body-guard.
[45] William Cunningham, the veteran provost-marshal at New York.
[46] Rev. James Caldwell, an earnest Whig of New Jersey, and pastor of a church at Connecticut Farms. His wife had been shot by a newly enlisted soldier in her own house, when the British, under Knyphausen, made a raid upon Springfield in 1778.
[47] Calling himself, because he was ordered not to do it, Earl of Stirling, though no sterling earl. (See foot-note, page 71.) In a winter expedition to Staten Island a larger proportion of his soldiers were frost-bitten.
[48] Lafayette.
[49] Now Jersey City, where the British had a redoubt. This Major Henry Lee surprised, in August, 1779, and carried away one hundred and fifty-nine of the garrison prisoners.
[50] Mrs. Susannah Livingston, a daughter of Governor William Livingston, of New Jersey, who was suspected of political authorship.
[51] It so happened that when André was taken to Tappaan he was delivered to the custody of Wayne. The latter was not a member of the board of inquiry. Frank Moore says that, under André's signature to a MS. copy of the "Cow-Chase," some one wrote: