MDDM: Ch 33 - Notes and Questions Part 1

[Scott Badger]

Chapter 33

327.2 'Mary Janvier'  Merry January? Not unless you're sitting before a
roaring fire, pipe in one hand, mug of your favorite brew in the other...

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rebajames/rebathomas1.htmMary :
'Mary Janvier, married Joseph Hill, born in Philadelphia 1693, died
04/05/1762'  William Penn, New Castle, Presbyterians and some interesting
information on property rights of the time, but no mention of a coffee
house.

327.2 'Christiana Bridge'  Between New Castle and Newark, about 5 miles west
of New Castle.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rebajames/rebaisaac1.htm :
'ISAAC JANVIER, I, child of Thomas I and Sarah Janvier, was born in 1697 in
New Castle, Delaware.  He married REBECCA WELCH in Christiana Bridge County,
Delaware.

http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/history/timeline.html :
'September 3  Lord Howe's troops reached Pencador 4 miles east of Elk on
road to Christiana Bridge. Americans made a stand at the bridge, but
retreated to main body.

328.1 'In the Summer, toward Evening, Thunder-Gusts come slashing
down[...]whilst Ducks of all sorts, lounging in the Weather as if 'twere
sun-shine, fly into a frenzy at each blast of Lightning and Thunder, then,
immediately forgetting, settle back into their pluvial Comforts'  Dig that
'pluvial Comforts'! This passage echoes the atmosphere inside MJ's,
obviously, and, M&D's behavior while wintering at the Harlands, 'Apologize,
scream, apologize, scream'. The ability to forget/repeating history is one
of several threads that bind this chapter tightly to the next.

328.12 'Proprietarian politics'  OED - proprietarian: '1. ? An advocate or
supporter of proprietary government in the N. American colonies.'

OED - proprietary: '4. Amer. Hist. The grantee or owner, or one of the
grantees or owners, of any one of certain North American colonies: see B. 3.
Also lord proprietary.'

http://www.fee.org/freeman/99/9905/alexander.html :
'What individuals gained from holding property was not independence from
government, but rather independence from the swings and roundabouts of the
marketplace. With this independence, however, came a duty to use property to
further alleged societal interests. If one failed to properly use his
property, the state could compel him to act for the public good. This is the
"proprietarian" view of property.'

328.26 'a field of Duck-Green, not to mention reliable Magenta'  VERY
reliable.  Like the other obscure, and not so obscure, contemporary cameos -
Spock, Clinton, Peter Higgs, Pat O'Brien -, a nod to the writer, Thomas
Pynchon?

328.33 'Teutonical dispensation'??

329.4 '"Astronomer, if it pleases you", corrects Mr. Mason, without quite
considering.'  Why not "Surveyor,..."? Dixon seems to be enjoying a new
dispensation, himself.

329.35 'Succedaneum'  Substitute.

330.14 'Mechanics'  OED: 1. a. Pertaining to or involving manual labour or
skill. Now rare

330.15 'Wenches emerge[...]and in brogues thick as oatmeal recite their own
list of British sins.'  Irish? Scottish? Any particular sins?

330.18 'The attempt to relieve Fort Pitt continues'
http://www.fortpittmuseum.com/History.html :
'Though never attacked by the French, Native American forces from May 27 to
August 9, 1763 besieged Fort Pitt.'  But this is January...?

330.19 'massacres at Conestoga and Lancaster'
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/FFchp5.html :
'On December 14, 1763, fifty-seven vigilantes from Paxton and Donegal, two
frontier towns, rode into Conestoga Manor, an Indian settlement, and killed
six of twenty Indians living there. Two weeks later, more than 200 "Paxton
Men" (as they were now called) invaded Lancaster, where the remaining
fourteen Conestoga Indians had been placed in a workhouse for their own
protection. Smashing in the workhouse door as the outnumbered local militia
looked on, the Paxton Men killed the rest of the Conestoga band, leaving the
bodies in a heap within sight of the places where the Anglo-Iroquois
alliance had been cemented less than two decades before.'

And so, Pitt's request, '"What about Indians?"', in absentia, is granted...

330.22 'Braddock's Defeat'
http://www.nationalcenter.org/Braddock'sDefeat.html (Washington's letter
home to mom)

For a more detailed version:
http://www.publicbookshelf.org/public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_
Historians_Vol_I/generalbr_ei.html (WTW)

330.23 'The smell of a burn'd cabin grows familiar again, the smell of
things that are not suppos'd to be burn'd.'  ...and again...