Memorandum that on the ffifth day of October One Thousand Seven hundred and Ten appeared before me Peter Schuyler Esqi' one of lier Majesty s Councill for the Province of New York the within named Allida tlie wife of the within named Robert Livingston Esq^ & being Secretly and apart Examined by me Declared her Consent to the w ithin written Deed and that she Executed the same ffreely and voluntarily without any Compulsion from her said husband and further that tlie Avithin named Robert Livingston then Likewise appeared before me and acknowledged that he Executed the within written Deed. P. Schuyler.

M^ DU PRE TO M^ VERNON.

[Lond. Doc. XVIII.]

N. York, 4 Oct. 1710 Honored SIr

By the Kingsail Man of War I gave myself the honor to

write, but could not then entertain you with any steps taken

for settling the Palatines, since that time the Governor having

found insuperable difficulties in settling of 'em down in the

lands that w^ere thought upon, more from the Scituation than

otherwise, they being at a great distance from the River, thei

charge of making the necessary magazines had possibly surpassed

the original value so that liis Excellency hath been obliged to

Cast his Eyes elsewhere and offers having been made to liim, by

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one Robert Levingston who hath a great Tract of good manuring Land, on his Progress to Albany he viewed the same with the adjacent Pine Lands & upon his likeing thereof hath contracted with the said Levingstone for 6000 acres good improveable Land with the liberty of making use of the Pines adjacent where the Palatines may find work enough for 2 or 3 score years to come Others as tlie Patrone (as he is called here) & Collonel Schuyler whom you have seen, have done the like, so that the experience M^ Bridges hath had of making Tar from the Trees as prepared by him, makes him confident that it cannot fail of good success, and nothing else than the want of support from home can prevent it.