MDDM Ch. 66

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Thu Jul 25 15:54:06 CDT 2002


635.9 the Presence itself, unbounded

Cf. the description of "the Old Gentleman" haunting the Party at 604-5

The paragraph at 635-6 seems to pull together some of the themes and images
from earlier in the novel, "as if" the text itself is now being propelled
"backward in Time".

636.10 ... 1767 will be their last year upon the Line

On the 17th day of June, 1765, the party had reached the Susquehanna River,
where they received instructions to carry the line "as far as the provinces
of Maryland and Pennsylvania are settled and inhabited," and on the 27th day
of the following October they reached North Mountain, from the summit of
which they could see Alleghany Mountain, and judged it, "by its appearance,
to be about fifty miles distant, in the direction of the line."

On the 4th day of June, 1766, they reached the summit of Little Alleghany,
but, as the Indians now began to give trouble it became necessary for the
surveyors to stop work for nearly a year.

Sir William Johnson negotiated a treaty with the Six Nations in May, and on
the 8th day of June. 1767, the surveyors took up their work where they had
left off the year before.

"On the 14th of June, they had advanced as far as the summit of the Big
Alleghany (Savage), where they were joined by an escort of Indians, with an
interpreter, deputed by the chiefs of the Six Nations to accompany them,"
but the Indians soon became restless, dissatisfied and suspicious of so much
gazing into the heavens and marking on the ground, so, on the 25 of August,
the surveyors' notes tell us: "Mr. John Green, one of the chiefs of the
Mohawk Nation, and his nephew, leave them, in order to return to their own
country." This action on the part of the Indians seems to have aroused
suspicion among the members of the party, for, on the 29th of September,
twenty-six of the assistants left the work through fear of the Shawnees and
the Delawares, and Mason and Dixon, with only fifteen axemen left, sent back
to Fort Cumberland for more men, and kept on towards the setting sun.

Finally they reached a point two hundred and forty-four miles from the
Delaware River, some thirty-six miles from the end of the line, when they
came upon an Indian warpath at Duncard's Creek. Here the Indians of the
escort told the surveyors that it was the desire of the Six Nations that
they should stop, so the party returned to Philadelphia, reported to the
commissioners under the deed of 1760, and were honorably discharged on the
26th day of December, 1767.

From: 'Evolution of the Mason-Dixon Line'

Investigation into the Origin of the Historic Demarcation Dividing the North
and the South in the Civil War in United States First Established to Fix
Exact Boundaries Between Lands of William Penn and Surd Baltimore in 1763.-
Exhaustive Researches

BY
MORGAN POITIAUX ROBINSON
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

Published in _The Journal of American History_, 1909

http://www.ls.net/~newriver/md/masondixon.htm

636.12 Sir William Johnson ... deputies from the Six Nations ... at German
Flat, upon Mohawk

http://earlyamerica.com/review/fall96/johnson.html

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/swj.html

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/johnson/Chap01.html

http://www.publicbookshelf.org/public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_
Historians_Vol_I/sirwillia_ej.html

636.25 Yoder Boy's Hardware-Joaks  ?

636.36 Schnitz und Knepp

http://www.turkeyhill.com/kitchen/recipes/snitzandknepp.htm

637.1 Shoofly Pies

http://www.turkeyhill.com/kitchen/recipes/shooflypie.htm

638.5 Vent-Picks

http://www.freetrapper.com/blackjack/tools.htm

638.13 Thomas Cresap (Michael ... Zack ... Megan ... Daniel)

http://users.erols.com/rsleem/Cresap_pic.html

http://www.weta.org/potomac/regions/region3/detail1.html

http://www.irvinallen-michaelcresapmuseum.com/history.html

638.22 "Got-damn'd Lancaster Sheriff...Old Smith [...] Sam/Samuel Smith"  ?

641.22 "Nemacolin and I put that road in, years earlier"

http://www.bartleby.com/65/ne/Nemacoli.html

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0835175.html

http://www.grantsvillemd.com/signlong.html

644.21 "*Queues du Rat aux Haricots*" = Tails of rat with Beans

644.28 Glacis  n. 1. a slight incline or slope  2. an open slope in front of
a fortified place


Book on Thomas Cresap and Evan Shelby:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0961999551/inktomi-bkasin-20/102-7990
506-8527355

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0961999551/reader
/2/102-7990506-8527355#reader-link

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