1 A batteau is a kind of scow or flat-boat,
used on shallow streams like the Hudson above Waterford.
2 Saratoga. This settlement was near the mouth
of the Fish creek, on the south side. The village of Schuylerville is just
across the stream, on the north side. On the plain, in front of the village of
Schuylerville, was a regular quadrangular fortification, with bastions, called
Foil Hardy. It was erected in 1756, and named in honor of the governor of New
York at that time.
3 On the west side of the Hudson, six or eight
miles below Fort Edward. The river is there broken by swift rapids. During this
campaign, Major (afterward General) Putnam was here surprised by a party of
Indians, and boldly descended the rapids in a canoe, and escaped. It was a feat
they never dared to attempt, and they felt certain that he was under the
protection of the Great Spirit. Here a stream called Bloody Run enters the
Hudson. It is so named because a party of soldiers from the garrison, in 1759,
went there to fish, were surprised by the Indians, and nine were killed and scalped.
SOURCE: Abraham
Tomlinson, Editor, The Military Journals
of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775, p. 16