Barclay told me that Major Alex- Grant, who was killed at Fort Montgomery was sent for by the Commander (Col. C. or Genl. Clinton) who wanted to give some commands to him. He went, received orders, but unfortunately returned by a different route (a shorter and more expeditious one probably), and was killed. He was a Scotchman, and lived on the Same and M. Howe's Farm, Jr. Alexander Menzies, son of Major Thomas Menzies, an

[page break] 663 91 officer with his father in Arnold's legion, but John was then an infant. Major Alexander Menzies lived at Fredericksburg on the Cornell Farm. He was a Scotchman and royalist and died on Long Island. Capt. Duncan Campbell had a very fine farm of 300 acres off the N.E. end of Robinson's Patent. He went below. The farm was near Quaker Hill & afterwards belonged to the Aiken family. James Stuart after the war kept a grocery at Whitehall. Governor Clinton and Genl. James Clinton were intimate with him. Genl. Jas. Clinton used to eat and drink with him (ad ebrietatem). James Mac Intosh persuaded him to hear old Dr. Rogers preach who attacked the Roman Catholics. He exclaimed in Gaelic to Mac Intosh: "The Devil take him! - Do you hear him?" When he received his commission he went before Congress carrying his broadsword. "This sword, gentlemen," said he, "was used by my father and grand-

[page break] 92 664 184. 73 -father against the House of Hanover, and I mean to oppose them with it as long as I have power to wield it." I know Stuart about from 1795 to 1800. I believe he died in New York about 1800 or soon after. [Probably so, J. M. M.] Stuart left a wife and children in Scotland. There were a great many tories in Quaker Hill, Fredericksburg, Dover, Beekman, and New Fairfield in Connecticut.