Along the upper Hudson River the first of the great log drives gets underway, despite the unsettled military situation to the north. Education is not overlooked. And the New York regents charter the Albany Academy. For boys, of course. Pioneering can only go so far.
Some previous acquaintances reappear.
Joseph Ellicott, former surveyor for the Holland Land Company, is appointed professor of mathematics at West Point's military academy. And war has not left Philip and Anna Church unaffected. Trapped in England by hostilities, he will naturally worry about Anna, as reports of military activities to her north, on the Niagara frontier, begin to filter back. Any fears will be groundless.