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Footnote 1:
General Montgomery’s letter of December 18.
Footnote 2:
Dr. Linn’s letter to me.
Footnote 3:
Colonel Meig’s manuscripts, and Dr. Linn’s letter, have furnished most
of the above particulars.
Footnote 4:
See the Marquis de Chastellux’s travels in North America, vol. ii. p.
275.
Footnote 5:
Most of the above from March the 6th, is taken from the manuscript
journal of a gentleman who continued in Boston, while in the hand of
the British generals.
Footnote 6:
Dr. Raffmsey’s History of the Revolution of South Carolina, vol. 1. p.
82, and onward.
Footnote 7:
Mr. Adam’s defence of the American Constitutions, p. 18.
Footnote 8:
Journals of Congress, vol. ii. p. 257.
Footnote 9:
Afterward captain George, of Watertown, near Boston.
Footnote 10:
Major, now col. Fuller, of Newtown, informed me of the particulars in
which he was concerned.
Footnote 11:
Letters of Mr. John Adams to Dr. Calkoen, p. 14.
Footnote 12:
Letters of Mr. Adams, p. 13.
Footnote 13:
The general’s letter to me.
Footnote 14:
It at length occasioned his death.
Footnote 15:
General Lee’s letter to congress.
Footnote 16:
General Washington’s letter.
Footnote 17:
The particulars of the retreat are taken from Dr. Rodgers’s
thanksgiving sermon; from col. Glover’s letters; and from the
information of persons who were present.
Footnote 18:
See M’Fingal, a modern Epic Poem, in four cantos, p. 82, Printed at
Hartford, in Connecticut, 1782. The Author is known to be Mr. John
Trumbull, the American Butler for wit and humor.
Footnote 19:
See queen Elizabeth’s bible, printed 1572, for Jugg, in Powle’s Church
Yard.
Footnote 20:
Colonel Glover’s letter.
Footnote 21:
The board of war.
Footnote 22:
General Washington’s letter to general Gates.
Footnote 23:
Mr. Griffiths, of New-York.
Footnote 24:
The same was confirmed to me by other gentlemen, while at New-York,
August 1785.
Footnote 25:
Col. Glover’s letter, dated North-Castle, Nov. 14, 1776.
Footnote 26:
Colonel Henly told me in the evening of Feb. 26, 1784, that gen. Lee,
when a prisoner asked gen. Howe, why he did not bring on a general
engagement, and received for answer the reason above mentioned.
Footnote 27:
Colonel Glover’s letter.
Footnote 28:
Board of war.
Footnote 29:
Mr. Vanbrugh Livingston, of New-York, told me he had this from major
Ross, of Lancaster in Pennsylvania, who saw the soldier brought in.
Footnote 30:
Loyalist’s letter, Nov. 10, 1777.
Footnote 31:
Mr. Mersereau, afterward an American deputy commissary of prisoners,
was my informer.
Footnote 32:
See Doctor Ramsay’s History, Vol. I. p. 153–161.
Footnote 33:
Mr. Adams’s Defence of American Constitutions, p. 106–108.
Footnote 34:
It is known in the neighborhood by the name of Split Rock only, though
generally put down in the maps Cloven Rock.
Footnote 35:
The general’s words in his own letter.
Footnote 36:
After having been employed some time in similar services, the enemy
grew suspicious of him, and upon that, without proof, put him into
prison, where he was starved to death.
Footnote 37:
Since colonel of horse.
Footnote 38:
In the maps it is put down Pennington: but the Jersey inhabitants in
common, would not know the place meant, unless you called it
Penny-town.
Footnote 39:
What relates to the attack upon the picket, &c. was confirmed to me,
August 11, 1785, at New York, by the Rev. Mr. Van Arsdelen, who had
the story from the Hessian officer commanding the picket.
Footnote 40:
See the letters of a Loyalist.
Footnote 41:
Remembrancer, part IV. p. 307.
Footnote 42:
The major’s letter to col. Harrison, one of gen. Washington’s
secretaries, after being exchanged for major Acland.
Footnote 43:
See col. Allen’s pamphlets, and also the hon. William Henry Drayton’s
publication at Philadelphia, Oct. 24, 1778, addressed to the
commissioners, Carlisle, Clinton and Eden.
Footnote 44:
Since appointed chief justice of Canada.
Footnote 45:
See his letter published in the Gazette, and in the Remembrancer, vol
V. p. 101.
Footnote 46:
Mr. Edm. Burke’s letter to the sheriffs of Bristol.
Footnote 47:
From the general returns of the army.
Footnote 48:
Sir William Howe’s narrative, p. 49.
Footnote 49:
General Washington’s letter of June 17.
Footnote 50:
A letter to gen. Washington, Remembrancer, Vol. V. p. 269.
Footnote 51:
Burgoyne’s State: earl of Balcarras, and earl of Harrington’s
declaration.
Footnote 52:
This account of the killed, and wounded and prisoners, on both sides,
is extracted from the journal of a British officer, who was afterward
taken and who mentioned the names of the officers killed and wounded
on his own side.
Footnote 53:
Consult the Trials of generals St. Clair and Scuyler for many facts
related respecting them.
Footnote 54:
Major Forbes’s account to the house of commons from Burgoyne’s State.
Footnote 55:
When the general was prisoner, he made this acknowledgment to one of
Scuyler’s suit, whom he asked whether he knew any thing of it, and who
pretended ignorance.
Footnote 56:
General Gates has repeatedly said as much in my hearing.
Footnote 57:
See the letters on this subject between Howe and Washington, and
others, in the Remembrancer, Vol. V. p. 214 to 220, and p. 250.
Footnote 58:
The board of war.
Footnote 59:
When the royal army quitted German-town, the Americans found in one of
the chimney hearths, some papers torn to pieces, and observing figures
upon them, certain officers attempted putting them together, and found
them to be the returns of the killed and wounded at German-town
battle, amounting to about 800.
Footnote 60:
They afterward diverted themselves and gen. Scuyler with this
relation. Many of the foregoing particulars were communicated to me by
the Rev. Mr. Kirkland, who was part of the time at Fort Scuyler, with
some of those Indians that were friendly to the Americans.
Footnote 61:
This is the substance of the relation given by Mrs. M’Neil who was in
company with Miss M’Rea when taken by the Indians.
Footnote 62:
See Marquis de Chastelleux’s Travels in North-America, Vol. I. p. 417.
Footnote 63:
Earl of Harrington before the house of commons.
Footnote 64:
Lincoln’s letter.
Footnote 65:
He was lieut. col. of militia, when he gave evidence on the trial of
the soldiers at Boston, in 1776.
Footnote 66:
Lieut. col. Kingston before the house of commons.
Footnote 67:
The board of war.
Footnote 68:
Burgoyne’s State of the Expedition from Canada.
Footnote 69:
Item.
Footnote 70:
Captain Money’s declaration in the house of commons.
Footnote 71:
Idem.
Footnote 72:
Earl of Balcarras.
Footnote 73:
Lieut. Col. Brooks was my informer.
Footnote 74:
Burgoyne’s State.
Footnote 75:
General Glover’s information given me at Boston, March 18, 1785.
Footnote 76:
Earl of Balcarras in the house of commons.
Footnote 77:
Idem.
Footnote 78:
Mr. James Beekman, an eminent merchant belonging to New York, and who
quitted Æsopus when Vaughan approached it, informed me of these
particulars, Sept. 29, 1783, at his house in Morris county, New
Jersey.
Footnote 79:
See the Loyalists’ Letters.
Footnote 80:
See James M. Varnum’s letter of Aug. 2, 1786, in the Providence
Gazette, who was the commanding general on the Jersey side.
Footnote 81:
General Washington mentioned it to me, when at his table; June 3,
1784.
Footnote 82:
She never reached her port, and has never been heard of since sailing.
Footnote 83:
When gen. Gates’s letters were examined by me, at his seat in
Virginia, the latter end of 1781, there was not a single paragraph to
be met with, that contained any intimation of his being concerned in
such a plan.
Footnote 84:
Dr. Ramsay’s History, vol. i. p. 129–138.
Footnote 85:
Capt. Vincent’s letter of March the 17th. Remembrancer, vol. vi. p.
143.
Footnote 86:
Lord Howe in the house of commons.
Footnote 87:
Gen. Washington’s letter of July 1, 1778, to congress.
Footnote 88:
In the London Gazette Extraordinary, Aug. 24, 1778, Sir Henry Clinton
is represented as writing in his official letter—“Having reposed the
troops till ten at night, to avoid the excessive heat of the day, I
took advantage of the moon-light to rejoin lieut. gen. Knyphausen.”
Poor Will’s Almanack, printed at Philadelphia, by Joseph Crukshank,
tells the public that the new moon was on June 24th, at ten in the
morning, and that on the 28th of June it set 55 minutes after ten at
night. Sir Henry could have had little advantage from the light of the
moon but four days old, and that was to set in an hour’s time, had he
marched off his troops precisely at ten; but if at about twelve, as
gen. Washington writes, and which is most likely to have been the
case, the moon light, below the horizon, could not have been of any
advantage.
Footnote 89:
General Washington’s letters.
Footnote 90:
In compiling several of the preceding pages, recourse has been had to
the public letters of Sir Henry Clinton and gen. Washington, to
various private letters and information, and to gen. Lee’s trial.
Footnote 91:
Hartley.
Footnote 92:
Pine-knots are so replete with turpentine, that they are fired and
used at night to illuminate the room; and lighted splinters are often
carried about in the houses of the Carolina planters instead of
candles.
Footnote 93:
This was a private letter; but was afterward published in Rivington’s
Royal Gazette, as written by the president of congress, Henry Laurens,
esq. It was known by several to contain a strong mark of
authenticity—the truth.
Footnote 94:
Dr. Ramsey’s History of the Revolution in South-Carolina, vol. I. p.
1.
Footnote 95:
The Massachusetts council.
Footnote 96:
Dr. John Erskine’s Considerations on the Spirit of Popery, p. 31.
Footnote 97:
Advocate M’I——’s Political Memoirs.
Footnote 98:
Political Memoirs.
Footnote 99:
Political Memoirs.
Footnote 100:
Mr. H—b—t’s declaration. Gentleman’s magazine for 1780, p. 109.
Footnote 101:
Gentleman’s magazine for 1779, p. 421–423.
Footnote 102:
The Paris account of the taking of Grenada.
Footnote 103:
The account printed in the Courier de l’Europe of November 5, 1779,
signed Paul Jones, states the matter so as to imply a denial of what
asserted in the Gazette account signed R. Pearson; but from the known
vanity of Jones, and the utter improbability of the Alliance’s
remaining totally inactive for so long a time, it is highly reasonable
to conclude, that the first account is erroneous.
Footnote 104:
Captain Jones’ account.
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