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| − | ''' | + | '''Mason leaves the Forks of Brandywine'''<br> |
[[1765#February|February]] 11, 1765.<br> | [[1765#February|February]] 11, 1765.<br> | ||
| − | '''arriving in New-York by way of the Staten Island Ferry | + | '''arriving in New-York by way of the Staten Island Ferry'''<br> |
| − | [[1765#February|February]] 16, 1765. | + | [[1765#February|February]] 16, 1765. |
| − | '''Trinity Church...where he will attend services on Sunday | + | New York City grew in importance as a trading port while under British rule. The city hosted the seminal John Peter Zenger trial in 1735, helping to establish the freedom of the press in North America. In 1754, Columbia University was founded under charter by George II of Great Britain as King's College in Lower Manhattan. The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in October of 1765 as the Sons of Liberty organized in the city, skirmishing over the next ten years with British troops stationed there. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City WIKI] |
| − | on Sunday, [[1765#February|February]] 17, 1765 | + | |
| + | In the 1700s ferry service between Staten Island and the city of New York (then occupying only the southern tip of Manhattan) was conducted by private individuals with "periaugers", shallow-draft, two-masted sailboats used for local traffic in New York harbor. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_island_ferry WIKI] | ||
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| + | '''Trinity Church... where he will attend services on Sunday.'''<br> | ||
| + | on Sunday, [[1765#February|February]] 17, 1765 | ||
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| + | Trinity Church (also known as Trinity Wall Street) at 79 Broadway, New York City, is an historic, full-service parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Trinity Church is located at the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street in downtown Manhattan. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church_(New_York_City) WIKI] | ||
'''But then there is Monday Night.'''<br> | '''But then there is Monday Night.'''<br> | ||
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Mason leaves the Forks of Brandywine
February 11, 1765.
arriving in New-York by way of the Staten Island Ferry
February 16, 1765.
New York City grew in importance as a trading port while under British rule. The city hosted the seminal John Peter Zenger trial in 1735, helping to establish the freedom of the press in North America. In 1754, Columbia University was founded under charter by George II of Great Britain as King's College in Lower Manhattan. The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in October of 1765 as the Sons of Liberty organized in the city, skirmishing over the next ten years with British troops stationed there. From WIKI
In the 1700s ferry service between Staten Island and the city of New York (then occupying only the southern tip of Manhattan) was conducted by private individuals with "periaugers", shallow-draft, two-masted sailboats used for local traffic in New York harbor. From WIKI
Trinity Church... where he will attend services on Sunday.
on Sunday, February 17, 1765
Trinity Church (also known as Trinity Wall Street) at 79 Broadway, New York City, is an historic, full-service parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Trinity Church is located at the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street in downtown Manhattan. From WIKI
But then there is Monday Night.
Monday, February 17, 1765
Presently he has fallen in...
The journals indicate that this is February 19, 1765, since the next day is marked as "In Long Island."
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the inconvenient Dilemma of stepping in as a Gentleman must
inconvenient, once again, as interacting with life, here almost a foreshadowing of what the Chums of Chance do from Inconvenience the airship, in ATD.
bum-bailiff
an officer: The French pousse-cul seems to favour the notion that bum-bailiff is no corruption. These officers are frequently referred to as bums. “Scout me for him at the corner of the orchard, like a bum-bailiff.” Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, iii. 4.--Brewer Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
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The Telescope stands...
map of Brooklyn from 1766
I would guess that they are a little north the "Brookland Ferry" on this map. But, would that be enough elevations that the telescope is pointing "down?"
This drawing from the 1770s shows a veiw from Brooklyn. Might even be the inspiration for the location.
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"We are in correspondence." In 1765, after the Stamp Act, people in the New York area fromed the Sons of Liberty, these gentlemen are probably them. More on the Committees of Correspondence.
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Capt. V.
Captain Volcanoe abbreviated in what seems to be a Pynchon allusion to V. and other V-named characters in his works. See ATD.
Wednesday Morning
Well, February 20th was a Wednesday. However, the Journals show Mason traveling from Long Island back to Staten Island and then the Jerseys on the 21st.
Met some boys,
Sunday,February 24, 1765.
The text of the Journal follows the passage as Pynchon gives it, but adds: "...However I got up as did my Horse after some time and I led him by the Meeting House, (the Friends pouring out) very serene, as if all had been well. But" and it cuts off with with word "But".
All thro' the Monday he lies in bed...
February 25, 1765.<br.
Horses may detect Spirits invisible to human Sensoria
See the mysterious horses in ATD.
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I Corinthians, Chapter 15
here
"39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. 40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body."
See, also Great Chain of Being.
