This consisted of a plot of forty-four ten acre lots, six lots deep from north to south, and eight lots deep from east to west, forming an oblong square, intersected by central highways and necessary roads. The center lots being reserved for public buildings. Here, the village was to have been located, but it had been ordained otherwise. ',The settlement was made at " The Falls," and nothing but the name in legal papers now survives to show that this was once intended to be the center of local population. In 1763 the first attempt was made towards the permanent settlement of the Town of Queensbury ; later on the first religious, structure in the town, the original Friends' church, was erected of logs on the lot standing on the southwesterly side of the " Halfi THE HALF-WAY BROOK IN HISTORY. 1 85

Way Brook," on the Bay road, and here, also, was located the first burial place in Queensbury. iHere the founders and earliest settlers of the town were laid to rest, their place of sepulture being to-day unmarked and unknown. During the Revolution the name of the " Half-Way Brook " appears in the lime-light of history but a few time^, although the buildings still standing there were doubtless used by the troops passing to and fro between Lake George and Fort Edward, till the time of the Burgo>Tie Ckmipaign. There, too, was located a ford for watering horses and cattle, which was in use up to the present century. According to William L. Stone, the well-known historical writer and authority, General Burgoyne detached Baron Riedesel with three battaHons to *' John's Farm between Forts George and Edward," in order to keep open the roadway between the two places, and also to look after and progress the provisions, stores and supplies from Lake George to Fort Edward, preparatory to Burgoyne's advance south.