[34] Sir Peter Parker's breeches were carried away by a round shot at Fort Moultrie.
[35] His charming but abandoned mistress.
[36] The house stood in the forks of the Albany and Schenectady road.
[37] Catherine. Her shrine is at Auriesville—the Lourdes of America—where many miraculous cures are effected.
[38] Haghriron, of the Great Rite, in the Canienga dialect.
[39] Captain Watts was left for dead but ultimately recovered.
[40] The historian, J. R. Simms, says that Benjamin De Luysnes and his party strung up Dries Bowman, and then cut him down and let him go with a warning. Simms also gives a different date to this affair. At all events, it seems that Bowman was cut down in time to save his life. Simms, by the way, spells De Luysnes' name De Line. Campbell mentions Captain Stephen Watts as Major Stephen Watson. We all commit error.
[41] Angelica Vrooman sewed the winding sheet for Lieutenant Wirt's body.
[42] A letter written by Colonel Butler so designates the place where the ancient Butler house is still standing. The letter mentioned is in the possession of the author.
[43] Now the town of Fonda.