I can dispose of all my effects either for cash or good bills on Canada, my negroes being persona] property I take with me, one of which being a young man and capable of bearing arms I have given £100 security, to send back a white prisoner in his stead."'2

Before proceeding farther with this narrative it is necessary to notice, for the purpose of correcting, some errors into which the Society for propagating the Gospel has fallen in its account of the circumstanecs attendant on Mr Stuart's emigration. .

- 1 For these Doe's. see N: Y; Col. MSS. Vol. CIT.

2 Sims' Hist. of Schoharie, 185, says, Mr. Stuart sold one of these negroes in Montreal for $275 to one Conyn who brought him back to the Mohawk Valley.

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REV. JOHN STUART, D. D. 513

"At length in May last (it says) his little farm, though belonging to the Society, became forfeited to the State, and was taken away from him. Asa last resource, he then proposed to open a Latin School for the support of his family, but he was not permitted, nor to follow any lucrative occupation whatever. Upon this he applied, and with much difficulty obtained leave to remove into Canada, on giving a bond of four hundred pounds with security, either to send a Rebel Colonel in exchange, or to return to Albany, and surrender himself a prisoner whenever required."1 _

Now, in the first place, the "little farm belonging to the Society"--or in other words, the Glebe at Fort Hunter--never became forfeited. There is no instance of the State having confiscated church lands, because the occupants--who were mere Trustees--happened to be itsenemies. All the clergy of Trinity church, New York, adhered to the crown, and even one of them was attainted. Yet Trinity church still holds its vast property.