He was a Scotchman, and lived on the Paine and N. Howe's ^Howland Farm, &c. Alexander Menzies, son of Major Thomas Menzies, an
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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 of the N.E. end of Robinson's Patent. He went below. The farm was near Quaker Hill and afterwards belonged to the Aikin 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 com- -mission he went before Congress carrying his broadsword. "This sword, gentlemen," said he, "was used by my father and grand-
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-father against the House of Hanover, and I meant 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, Beckman, and New Fairfield in Connecticut. Newtown, in Connecticut, contained only seven whigs, and one of them got so drunk one 4th of July at dinner that he died, and so there remained only six. Adjutant James Grant had been a major in the British service and lived on the place where Osbourn afterwards lived adjacent to old James Grant's who was only a Lieutenant.