PHILANDER B. PRINDLE,

Clerk of Assembly.

In Assembly, ) AprU 10, 184y, S On motion of Mr. J. W. Beekman, Resolved, That the Secretary of State cause to De printed and bound for the use of this Legislature, the same number of copies of the second volume of the Documentary History of New- York, as have been ordered of the first volume, aad one copy of each volume for euob reporters as the speia.ker shall deaigaate.

Ey tn-dfer,

P. B. PHINDLE,

CONTENTS.

Page.

I. PAPERS RELATING TO LT. GOV. LIESLER'S ADMINI- STRATION, --------- 1

II. EARLY RATE LISTS OF LONG ISLAND, - - - 439

III. iHANUSCRlPTS OF SIR WM. JOHNSON, _ - - - 543

IV. EARLY STEAM NAVIGATION, ----- 1011 V. PAPERS RELATING TO WESTERN NEW-YORK, - - 1103

FORT LA PRESENTATION.

Hon. Louis Hasbrouck, to Dr. O'Callaghan.

Ogdensburgh, St. Lawrence Co., ( ^pril, 1849. ^ Dear Sir,

Observing by the papers that you have been collecting informa tion relative to tlie early occupation of this country by the French, I take the liberty of sending you a copy of the inscription on the corner stone of the barracks at this place, (called I beheve Fort Presentation,) and Avhich was found at the base of one of the stone buildings.

My father was one of the early settlers here (about 1800) and it was given to him as being the " oldest inhabitant." The stone is now in my possession, and corroborates your history.

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