9] NOW PORT JERVIS, formerly called MOHOCKAMACK FORK, at the
junction of the Neversink and Delaware Rivers. The route taken appears
to have been over the "_old mine road_" as it was called, constructed
by the early Dutch settlers of Esopus to reach a copper mine in
Walpack Township, Warren Co., N.J. It follows the Mamakating Valley,
the first north of the Shawangunk mountains, and continues in that of
the Mahackamack branch of the Delaware river, and penetrates the
Minnisinks east of that river. The mine was about three miles
north-west from Nicholas Depew's house.

[20] John Adams, while attending Congress during its session at
Philadelphia, as late as 1800, passed over this same "Mine Road" as
the most eligible route from Boston to that city. He was accustomed to
lodge at Squire Van Campen's in the Jersey Minnisinks.

[21] DECKER'S FERRY at Flatbrookville, about thirteen miles from Fort
Penn at Stroudsburg.

[22] SAMUEL DEPEW'S, in the town of Smithfield, Monroe Co., Pa., on
the west side of the Delaware, three miles above the Water Gap, where
he settled prior to 1730. He was one of the Walloons who came to New
York about 1697. Rev. H.M. Muhlenberg, who lodged at his house in
1750, states he had been Justice of the Peace, was a prominent man in
Smithfield, and at that time advanced in life. The river is fordable
at the head of Depew's Island, a little above the house. The old
homestead is still in the Depew family; Nicholas, one of Samuel's
sons, is well known in provincial history between 1750 and 1770. On
the Pennsylvania side of the river on Depew's land, stood the
_Smithfield_ or old _Shawne_ church, removed about 1854.

[23] Ft. Penn, at Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pa., built in 1763, on
the site previously occupied by Ft. Hamilton, built in 1755.

[24] LARNED'S log tavern, north-west of Stroudsburg, twenty-eight
miles from Easton. The main army encamped here June 19th, at camp
called Pocono Point. This was the last house on the road between
Easton and Wyoming. On the 3d of July, 1781, Mr. Larned was shot and
scalped near his house, as also was his son George. Another son, John,
shot one of the Indians who was left on the spot where he fell. The
Indians carried off George Larned's wife, and an infant four months
old, but not wishing to be encumbered with the child, dashed out its
brains.

[25] The 2d New York Regiment, Col. Van Cortlandt, and Col. Spencer's
N.J. Regiment were ordered to precede the army an