Alan Keyser original annotations, section one.

I do not remember anything about my grandfather on my father’s side. But as an old house stood Down in the (alt house Schwemmel) [3] which must have stood there perhaps a hundred years before the war in 1776.[4] it stood there. It was made of Logs Square about as long as a Rail we use to have our (hanf Land there) [5] But in 1777 when the Soldiers came they tore it all up and burnt it Except the Slippers. I remember when we were married in 1787 the Slippers were there yet over the cellar, But afterwards it fell in & Now they plow over it but the Slippers that fell in were left in.