1. Rue du Sault-au-Matelot, rough translation: “Street of the sailor’s leap” [or, “fall”]

2. Sally port: A heavy door in a gate or barricade designed to open only toward the attackers so defenders can emerge and counter-attack.

3. Ephesians 6:10–18 King James Version (KJV)

10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

13Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

15And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

17And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

18Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

4. Tun: an archaic (but still used) term for the measurement of volume. In the eighteenth century, a hand-made wooden cask, built by a “cooper” (or cask-maker) of oak staves and iron “hoops,” to ship a tun of liquid (usually wine or “spirits” such as rum) would hold 216 imperial gallons (260 U.S. gallons).

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