The “bath tub” Nathanael is looking at (a “half cask”) is about four feet in diameter at its bottom and nearly six feet in in diameter at its “mid” (or in this case, “top”). It is about three and a half feet high and likely holds about 120 gallons of water plus a person.

On the bottom there is a brass drain fitting connected to a ceramic pipe beneath the floor allowing waste-water to gravity-drain from the cask, through a ceramic-pottery clay pipe, over the ledge behind the warehouse into the St. Lawrence River.

5. Carte blanche: Complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best.

6. Samuel Kirkland was a Presbyterian missionary to the Oneida peoples living in Northern New York. He graduated with a divinity degree in 1765 from the College of New Jersey [now, Princeton University]. Kirkland’s “Study Master” was Rev. John Witherspoon—the same professor [and college president] who became Study Master to young James Madison, now known as “father of our Constitution.” All three men—Kirkland, Witherspoon, and Madison—were unabashedly pro-independence in their political perspectives as were most all the Oneida tribal leaders.

7. French for “bastards.”

Postscript

POSTSCRIPT

Those you now know who affected the lives of Daniel Morgan and Nathanael Newman for good or ill

Samuel Adams – Prolific polemicist of the Revolution, he was a key leader of anti-British Massachusetts radicals, founder of Secret Committees of Correspondence, delegate to Continental Congress (1774–81), signer of Declaration of Independence, and governor of Massachusetts (1794–97). Died, October 2, 1803.

Ethan Allen – Explorer, farmer, firebrand who served in the French and Indian War and American Revolution. He attained the rank of colonel in the Continental Army, advocated Vermont becoming an independent colony, state, country, and even part of Canada. Allen was held as POW in England after a failed attempt to capture Montreal in 1775. Died, February 12, 1789.

Benedict Arnold – Promoted to Brigadier General after Quebec disaster, had serial victories over British at Valcour Island, NY (October, 1776), Danbury, CT (April, 1777), Fort Stanwix, NY (August, 1777), and Saratoga, NY, where he was with Morgan and wounded again (September 19–October 7, 1777). Promoted to Major Gen. and given command of forces defending Philadelphia (June, 1778). Initiated intrigues with British to defect (May 9, 1779) and did so (September 24, 1779). Treason compounded by heinous crime of leading British troops killing hundreds of Americans in Virginia (December, 1780–May 20, 1781) and Connecticut (September, 1781). Died, June 14, 1801.

Timothy Bigelow – Ardent Patriot and initially a farrier. He was a delegate to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, member of Sam Adams’s Secret Committee of Correspondence. Bigelow was a major in Massachusetts Militia at Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775), captured at Quebec, New Year’s Eve (1775), POW in Canada, and paroled in a prisoner exchange along with Morgan. He was promoted to colonel, Continental Line (February 8, 1777), and was Commanding Officer of 15th Massachusetts at Saratoga (October 7, 1777). He served with Washington at Valley Forge (1777–78), West Point, Monmouth, NJ (June 28, 1778), and Yorktown, VA (October 19, 1781). After the war, Officer in Charge, Springfield Arsenal, Massachusetts. Died, March 31, 1790.