Tryon County tho' thinly settled, as its extent is great, has many The cultivated parts of Charlotte County are inconsiderable, compared with what remains to be settled and the same may be remarked with respect to the Counties of Cumberland and Gloucester. 3 In the Appendix is a list of the Inhabitants White and Black in the respective Counties, according to the returns of their numbers m 1771, since which they are greatly augmented, but it is to be observed that the new counties of Charlotte and Tryon were then part of Albany. 4 Inhabitants. 2

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Albany County at this date included the present Counties of Greene, Columbia, Albany, Rensselaer, Schenectady and

Saratoga.

2 This County was taken from Albany County in 1772, and named in honour of Wm. Tryon then the Governor of the

Province.

In 1784 it was changed to that of Montgomery.

When formed it embraced all that part of the State lying West

of a line running North & South nearly through the centre of the present County of Schoharie.

Campbell's Annals of Tryon

County, New York 1831. p. 27. 3 Charlotte County embraced what now are Franklin, Clinton, Essex,

Warren & Washington Counties in this State, and

the West half of the State of Vermont ; Cumberland & Gloucester lay on the West bank of the Connecticut river and extended from Canada to the Massachusetts boundary

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the South line of the towns of Tunbridge, Strafford and Thetford being

Westward they ran to the East bounds of Charlotte. Cumberland was erected in 1766 Gloucester in 1770, and Charlotte was taken from Albany in 1772, at the same time as Tryon.