110] "Sept. 27.--A large fatigue party was sent up the river nine
miles, where they loaded nine boats with corn and other vegetables and
brought them down. This evening Mr. Lodge and five men from Col.
Butler came and informed us that the Col. was about 10 miles from
camp."--_Jenkins' Journal._

[111] Col. VanCortlandt says he went above Painted Post.

[112] TIOGA POINT, below present Athens. See note 63.

[113] FORT SULLIVAN, built on the narrow isthmus between the two
rivers in present village of Athens. See note 70.

[114] VAN DER LIPPES. See note 58.

[115] LACKAWANNA. See Note 55. The site of Coxton, ten miles from
Wyoming at the upper end of the valley.

[116] _Wyoming_, fort and village on the east side of the Susquehanna
below present Wilkesbarre. See note 44.

[117] BULLOCK'S, deserted house, seven miles from Wyoming at the Great
Meadows, and fifty-eight miles from Easton,--called also Sullivan's
camp, from his encamping there June 22. Nathan Bullock resided here at
the time of the Wyoming massacre. He had two sons, Amos and Asa, one
of whom was a lawyer, both killed in the battle. The father was
captured and carried to Canada in 1780.

[118] SHADES OF DEATH, so called from being a dense forest. Several
places in Pennsylvania bore the same name. See note 31.

[119] WHITE OAK RUN, or RUM BRIDGE, 33 miles from Easton. See note 36.

[120] BRINKER'S MILLS, or Sullivan's Stores, so called "on account of
a large house built here, and a quantity of provisions being stored
therein for the use of the forces under Major General Sullivan's
command."--_Rogers' Journal._ Captain Patterson was in command; 19
miles from Easton in present town of Hamilton, Monroe county.

[121] Encamped near Heller's Tavern at the foot of Blue Mountain, at
present Hellerville in town of Plainfield, Northampton county, 12
miles from Easton.

[122] "EASTON consists of about 150 houses. There are but three
elegant buildings in it, and about as many inhabitants that are any
ways agreeable. Take them in general they are a very inhospitable
set--all High Dutch and Jews."--_Shute's Journal._

[123] MARBLETOWN, a town in Ulster Co., N.Y., west of the Hudson. They
appear to have taken the road through Warren and Sussex counties, N.J.

[124] WARWICK on Wawayanda creek in south west part of Orange county.

[125] NEW WINDSOR on the Hudson, in Orange county.

[126] NEW PALTZ, a post village, on the Wallkill in Ulster County,
N.Y.