We ue foe ea ieee bee Ale Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2025 https://archive.org/details/documentaryhisto0004eboc | or CLINTON & LADY. LI jt o aus by St Memin, inthe possesstonot Ferre Van ioe DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK; ARRANGED UNDER DIRECTION OF THE Hon. CHRISTOPHER MORGAN, , ' Seeretary of State. BY E. B. O'CALLAGHAN, M. D. VOL. IV. RNSEY MEMORIA, LIR …

DESCRIPTION OF NEW NETHERLAND; From Montanus, 1671, siciereioisipte Discovery of New Netherland, 115; Rivers, ib.; Trees and Vines, 116; Fruits and Mines, 117; Animals, 118; Birds, 122; Fishes, 123; Rattlesnakes, ib.; Native tribes, 124; Their clothing and houses, 125; their manners and customs, 126; their language, money and nature, 128; Weapons, laws, councils, 129; Religion and belief, 130…

Clark's answer to the queries of the Board of Trade, 180; Return showing the commerce of the Port of New-York in 1738, 182; Population returns of each county in the Province, 184; Names of the heads of families in Flatbush, 188; in Flatlands, 191; in Brooklyn, 195; in Bushwyck, 198; in Suffolk county, 200; Names of the officers and privates in the several companies of Militia in the Province,…

J. C. Hart wack ywoe oc ne + vor aces mista taieiniere aie nists eraierate 29 May 14. Rey. Mr. Ogilvie of Altay', to Sir Wm. Johnson; necessity of forts among the Indians; Washington surrounded; Pa- TLOOMIS MARU SD ULE bistaws cas) occlelg ein sie viere stnioneve aivieicjela cis epee 301 1761. March 1. Sir Wm. Johnson to Rey. Jean B. Robault, enclosing him ten pounds and requesting him to use…

Johnson, with a report of his progress among the Indians,......-... ib. Isaac, a Tuscarora Indian, and his wife, to Sir Wm. Johnson, 312 Aug. 20. Rev. Dr. Wheelock to Sir Wm. Johnson relative to moving his Indian school from Lebanon,.....-.- SiceldueieietstetnicieteYee steels Sole Sept. 8. The same to the same; obtains a portion of Sir Peter Warren's legacy; the Boston Society desires to set…

Se@hAcess petelehetelerefars Selceechioiscistics AD. The same to Rey. Dr. Barclay, respecting a new Indian : PILRVEN=DOOKS ian wc nietele vine clos nieiae PRG ORE ARES E EON sates Ook 1763. Jan. 20. Dr. Wheelock to Sir Wm. Johnson; some account of Mr. C. Jeffery Smith, and the Lebanon school; Brant. (with,) 322 18. C. Jeffery Smith to Sir W. Johnson; proposes visiting the Mohawk country asa mi…

Barelay te Rev. §. Johnson; the Boston commissioners, offer; Mr. Bennet catechist to the Mohawks; Palmer; PUNGELSONS +0: '0%e'ere 'e'e"etotat erates eele SIO ANUERES siporiviga/elnvers/e ss 0:0. Oct. 20. Mr. Weyman to Dr. Barclay about the Indian prayer-book,.. Dec. 29. Rev. Mr. Lappius to Sir Wm. Johnson; requiring aid,...... {No date.] Rev. Mr. Robaud to the same; hopes the English will reta…

Sir Wm. Johnson to the Society for promoting the arts;\ subscribes and gives an account of the state of Agriculture in the MIGHEWK COUNTY, osccescccrecertvcccrs veces cccescocess Mar. 23. Dr. Wheelock to Sir Wm. Johnson thanking him for his favor to Kirtland; reports the progress of his SCMOOM ns wiglel aie) clereie ere April 29. Dr. Wheelock's address to the sachems of the Six Nations,... The…

Kirtland to the same; with an account of affairs at "Canadesage, ......seee seers th ies 2a meereroleceiotaintals ptsrete Mar. 25. Mr. Weyman to the same; Rey. Mr. Ogilvie will superintend the Indian prayer-book,..++++eseeeseeeeeeeeececseccecee May. V. Dow, Mayor of Albany, to Dr. Wheelock in favor of his efforts for christianizing GNO* MOS «ws <1 .s ore me ralarsa0 6 » , July 4. Dr. Wheeloc…

Arbo, secretary to the Moravians, to the same, praying his protection, ....+++++- soneaoans' Jiais giewitisssce eeeeersceses . Rey. Dr. Burton, Sec. of Society for Propagating the Gospel, to the same; enquiring what would be the proper allowance for a missionary among the Indians,......6.e++seeeeseseee Corporation of Albany to Dr. Wheelock, encouraging him to remove his school to the vicinit…

Brown to the same about the Schenectady church, Memorial of Dr. Wheelock to the commissioners at the treaty of Fort Stanwix,...... REARS IS 53-05 JOO BRDU OTOBUN GOOD Caveat of two New England Missionaries against the treaty at Fort Stanwix, ...-s-+e0s% atathyalay sha aise (eters Siekerayoia varie sree Parson Johnson to Sir Wm. Johnson; isa friend to the Indians, - The same to the commission…

Smith; thanks him for the care of his son, and for his election as member of the Philosophi- Cal: Societys vines wmptertiajelere!e afore caiekd Wetsreteh ies? a's ayoie\s\s x; scaysleyo,s Joseph Chew Esq., to Sir Wm. Johnson; Connecticut Assembly applied to for a deed of the Susquehanna lands; dissenting missionaries excluded from the Indian country,........ CONTENTS. vii PAGE. 1769. Jan. 2…

Harry Munro to Sir Wm. Johnson; proposes to visit the Tndianssl sane aah scacuvicandsaae cape Evicted sone ateloisie%e 22. Hugh Gaine to the same; Indian prayer-book, ....+++..0++s 30. James Adair to the same; origin of the N. A. Indians,..... - {No date.] Same to the same; his otk patronized in New-York, ....... May 10. Sir 'Wm. J bfisodd to Mr. Adair, forwarding subscriptions to Hishyr ork …

Auchmuty to the same; introducing Rev Mr. Forbes, 20. Same to the same; on the principles of a true churchman; American Episcopate; Convention of the clergy,..... secs 27. Sir Wm. Johnson to Rev. Dr. Auchmuty; in answer,...... 2 Noy. Same to Rey. Mr. Inglis; numbers of the Six Nations of Indians; Dr. Wheelock's success; Rev. Mr. Stuart; Mr. Hall, Feb. 28. Same to Dr. Arthur Lee; customs, man…

Dr. Auchmuty to Sir Wm. Johnson; the Lutheran. minister; Mr. Hanna; American Bishop,.:.-++.++++- eNO SbE 25. Rey. Harry Munro to the same; Biant; state of the Ch. at Alb., - July 4, Sir Wm. Johnson to Rev. Mr. Inglis on his memorial for christianizing the Indians,..+srssereeeee vere eeeneeeeenne Vili 1771. July 4. CONTENTS, PACK Same to Rev. Dr. Se genie on the state of religion; the Luth…

Mr. Inglis; on the same subject,.. 465 Rey. Mr. Andrews to Sir Wm. Johnson; grammar school in Schenectady, ie oie 4 -j-'sisis cisiele #4 ciewioies slovesiv's «4 esielcas cove . 466 Rey. Mr. Inglis to the same; on the memorial, ....+++e+++++ 467 Rey. Mr. Andrews to the same; opens an academy,...+«.+-. 470 Sir Wm. Johnson to Rev. Mr. Andrews; in answer,..+.+.-. » ATL Same to Rev. Chas. Inglis;…

Moseley; Narragansett church, ......... dositee waaifaebecreccsscereccnes 485 Col. Henry Babeock to Rey. Dr. Cooper; on establishing an academy in the Indian country,....... OSes ondsnme secceee 487 'Rev. Mr. Andrews to Sir Wm. Johnson; resigns the Schenectady church to Mr. Doty,....-.-+.. Sor. Vac open' COB HOUo 493 Same to the same; reception in Virginia; wishes to be appointed to J ohster, …

PAPERS RELATING TO THE ERECTION OF FORT STANWIX, TAM OE FOSS slestels| cio civic @eteisiaiviee) 0 stg ced BENS ie toaei sh Sis Suche Ose On Sa ONade 521 XIV. PAPERS RELATING TO THE DIFFICULTIES BETWEEN NEW- POR MA NENA Watd AAUP SIRE syle etree os pe siiod ele cle einealeee « 529 1749. Nov. 17. Gov. Wentworth of N. Hampshire, to Goy. Clinton of New- York, advising him that he is about to make…

Wentworth; explanatory of the west bounds of Connecticut and Massachusetts ; The land in Bennington has been already granted by New-York; is surprized that he was in such a hurry in passing that Patent, cceescerececeeceseeees WE amaaawwicls a< sb, awe s 5384 June 22. Gov. Wentworth to Goy. Clinton, is not disposed to have any dispute with New-York; proposes a reference of the matter to Engl…

New England, .... 0. .0ccse cece sececeqeecsasensccsecses 547 Dec. 22. Secretary of the Board of Trade to the agent for the Province of New-York, (enclosing,) ..--++++++eeeeeee bt tai lace . 548 1751. Mar. 23.-Extract of a letter from Benning Wentworth, governor of New Hampshire, to the board of trade, containing his proposal that the line of New Hampshire run as far west as that Of Massachus…

Colden to the Board of Trade reviewing the dispute betweeen New-York and New Hampshire, and sustaining the claim of the former to the territory in question,.+.-+++ The same to the same ; remonstrating. further against the most surprizing and extravagant encroachments of New Hampshire, which has already granted 160 townships west of the Connecticut River; encloses copy of his proclamation, C…

Wentworth complains of the arrest of sundry inhabitants of the town of Pownal by the sheriff of Albany, and signifies his disposition to submit the question of jurisdiction to the king; the Lt. Governor of New-York advised to decline interfering in the matter, as the question is already before his Majesty,....-++..+++ ois) s:0 4:0) s]olainieveterele Order of the government of New-York in fav…

Order of the Governor and Council .of New-York that the claimants under New Hampshire sue out their grants by a Timited dimers. ste cies aiects oe wnatelace ereislecsie erayarelevatale veel smn algal Ordinance establishing courts in the county of Cumberland in the Province of New-York. (Title only given.).....+. Nomination of the civil officers for said county,.....+sssseees Order of the Goy.…

Order of the king in council forbidding the governor of New- York to make grants of any lands already patented by New Hampshire; with the opinion of the council of New-York on the construction to be put on the same, ...seseeeeeeeceeee 609 1768. April 7. List of Judges and other civil officers for Cumberland county,.. 611 1769.. Aug. 10. Gov. Moore to Lord Hillsboro' forwarding petitions from …

Colden to Lord Hillsboro' recommending that the grantees under New Hampshire obtain confirmations from New-York on payment of a reduced scale of fees,......-.. + 619 Feb. 10. Gov. J. Wentworth to Lt. Gov. Colden complaining of being obstructed in his duties as Surveyor-General of the king's forests by Judge Wells, (enclosing,).....+..- aint aE: « 621 Memorial of J. Wentworth to Lt. Gov. Cold…

Colden recommending certain persons to the command of the militia of the county of Gloucester,....+ WUE sPalate ete ee oles ale Tegees Nee. 636 Aug. 9. Petition of Jolin Grout, attorney at law, to Ch. Just. Horsmanden for leave to bring an action for damages against certain persons for injuries set forth in an,....-+s.e+seeeee ibe Xi CONTENTS. 1770. Aug. 9, Affidavit of the same, of false im…

Dunmore for the arrest of Hatheway, Robinson and others rioters, for obstructing the partition of the Wallumschack patent,....- yo beisile Selele 6: deSO eB H eae Petition to the king of the inhabitants of the counties of Cumberland and Gloucester complaining of the riotous obstruetions of the courts of law and other irregularities by the government and people of New-Hampshire, ...-.-+-+++++- …

Dunmore to Lord Hillsborough, stating that the disorders which prevail in the grants are designedly. created. and fomented by persons in New Hampshire ; forwards report of the Attorney-General, (with proofs,) in answer to the New Hampshire petition and calls for a revocation of the order suspending grants of land in that quarter; from the people of which he now transmits a petition. praying …

*Squire Munro to Secretary Banyar, giving an account of ill treatment recently experienced by the 'Yorkers " from the settlers of Princetown, with affidavits in support of his TOPOMtS oie's wemicle delves, bre sielelevele os m Report of the Board of Trade to the Lords of the Privy Council, enumerating the difficulties attendant on the settlement of the various claims to the lands in the north…

with a fraud committed by the persons employed by the N.H. government to survey the upper Connecticut River, GWG) 21 IR A ET eters woietaatole alate ciel «721 Affidavit of Nehemiah Howe in support of the same,........ 722 - Memorial of John Munro praying to be appointed sheriff of the city and county of Albany,..:.-..-.- reer oeeeeee 725 - Deposition of Samuel Gardenier, a settler on the Wal…

EE EY, AE he Rillcttre Sales Boron eels occ wle wesw 744 . Affidavit of Oharles iptutabidséon setting | forth the destruction of his house and property by Allen, Baker, Cochran, and others, as 'a burnt sacrifice to the Gods of the WOLD, 229 iis eu views tere on Deven a el vei acess Maaetnces wow VaR *Squire McNachton to Secretary Fanning (?); the rioters and traitors have gone to the mountain…

Tryon setting forth the title of New- York to the territory west of the Connecticut river, recapitulating the encroachments of New Hampshire, and re-assert- * ing the rightful claim of New-York,.-.-.-.+.-- seccevcese Too . Gov. Wentworth to Gov. Tryon, (enclosing. ) Minute of the New-Hampshire council declining to publish Goy. Tryon's proclamation of the 11th ultimo, ...+++++++. 755 xiv 177…

Tryon acquainting him that he had experienced every assistance from the New Hampshire authorities in arresting the persons who had committed the riot at Putme ys jainvsin gle eine elsheivisiessie st iasehainleisieial' «Cis 0s 5 64-6 00.0% Order of the governors of King's College, New-York, for the division and settlement of their township of Kingsland,.... List of civil officers for Gloucester …

Minute of council setting forth that the rioters had brought to Bennington two picecs of cannon, and a mortar from the fort at East Hoosick, with powder and ball; further outrages, Gov. Tryon to the inhabitants of Bennington, inviting them to send delegates to New-York to explain their PUTC VAD CCSs lala lartare las ntayoha< feist cia Aino) falcini Aisi inlele diets leisia'dieie\a/=\> Examin…

+ Report of the committee of His Majesty's council on the letter received from the inhabitants of Bennington, and recommending that all further prosecutions against them be suspended until His Majesty's pleasure be known, on condition that the said inhabitants do for the future pay respect to'the laws, .s.eress.ses eRe cOUIOR id occ cc cse.es aielpieryx - Report of a public meeting held at Ben…

Tryon to 'Tord Hillsborough, urging a termination of the controversy and that the New Hampshire grants be oonfirmed on half fees,...... OOO UCOOL GOTO PO CODOL BECOGOOL Minute of council setting forth renewed violences committed by Ira Allen and others on Onion river, and recommending a reward to be offered for their arrest,......+ Oe USNODRON xe Jechiel Hawley to Col. Skene, notifying him th…

Petition of the freeholders of Charlotte praying that Skenesboro be the county tow, ,\.-+ +s serewiwicecrercrssccsesces Petition to the king from the inhabitants of Gloucester and Cumberland counties, praying that the grants from New Hampshire in said counties, be confirmed by New-York,...- Affidavit of Capt. Wooster setting forth his experience in endeavoring to eject intruders on his lands …

Order in council that the governor request the commander of his majesty's forces to océupy forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point with a sufficient body of troops for the purpose of aiding the civil magistrate in the execution of the laws,...... Gen. Haldemand to Gov. Tryon, declining to furnish troops as required, unless he persist in his request; in such case demands that the expense attendant on …

Hough, giving details of various illegal acts committed by the Bennington rioters and asking protection, (SALES) SetasioatleMa clefts tls Lake cok No ea siste ice a's sponcs Bc ib. 6. Deposition of Benj. Spencer, Jacob Marsh, Benj. Hough, and ; others, as to various indignities they suffered at the hands of Ethan Allen, Remember Baker, Seth Warner, &c.,..... 858 4. Report of the grand commit…

Tryon declining to furnish the required £LOOPS, - ec escrecesseerencces OOO ETO Leys See + 885 4, Lieut. Gov. Colden to Lord Dartmouth with an account of the events Bbove Narrated sh ww, cv.clelele viele Sisleicis oie aoe osins'e ed ease SSO 1. Petition of the frecholders of Charlotte county, praying to be allowed to elect representatives to the New-York As- , pemblyy. s Wells duntailon Hil …

Lieut. Gov. Colden to Lord Dartmouth, communicating an account of the whipping of 'Squire Hough, and of 'a dangerous insurrection'? in Cumberland county, .....+++e-ee+s 914 7. Petition of Benj. Hough and Daniel Walker, praying for leave to solicit relief from the humane and benevolent,........-. 916 May 4. Petition of Samuel Wells and others; 'Had it not been for the late unhappy difference i…

Memorandum of the opinions of some members of Congress respecting the establishment of a new state on the Connecticut river, .... aysiele's Safsjers sashes tialels eialetelob iei0ie/sie)s sists « Sanne Mr. Clay to the sub-committee at Putney, directing that the opinions of the people of Cumberland county on revolting from New-York be sent to the Provincial Congress,.....-++ Minute of a conver…

Ten Broeck to the president of Congress in opposition tothe pernicious project of those who have fomented insurrection in the State of New-York, .....+.-.++-eeeee . Brief considerations on the subject of the independence of Vermont, .c.-+++ ness tlorersleigty ebeinlvlaiele Siattieis sie). <are1e Sete sisiele Thomas Young to the people of the grants, recommending the constitution of Pennsylvan…

certain members of Congress, ..... wis) wisidls 0.0.0 ele e adie we eeee John Williams to secretary McKisson; the grants declared an independent state by the name of New Vermount,.......+ Resolutions of the Council of Safety of Bir F One of receiving the above intelligence,......+...00. Doietiee te. Seis eles ones Resolutions of the Continental Congress dismissing the application of Vermont f…

Proclamation of Gov. Clinton offering certain terms to the peo- , ple of the grants for the settlement of the said disputed lands in peaceable subjection to the authority of the state of ING WEN OFKG) saa en eitislatelclalsts rate' fale da leibie <(sis1e\eo sie ais sapien GOL Oct. 17. Petition of Col. Spencer and other inhabitants of Durham to the legislature of New-York, complaining of ill-t…

Samuel Minot Esq., to Gov. Clinton, giving an account of the visit of Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain. boys to Brat- . tleborough, and his conduct whilst there,......- Dudanercous ais 29. Gov. Clinton to president Jay, enclosing Mr. Minot's Tetteryes secccves NM Aeenilsidasbnts sloiteercn es elleceiteteces 966 Gov. Clinton to the New-York delegation t in Congress; intends to send an armed…

Clinton to the President of Congress, opiate of the late conduct of Ethan Allen, a colonel in the continental service, and of certain resolutions of Congress; '' The mcasure of the sufferings of this State is nearly full,"'......+-- Gov. Clinton to the New-York delegation in ee on the same subject, ..++++.+++ sere rtioiaukle Sik claieasteleists eile « stetanem vik ae Gov. Clinton to Gen. Wash…

Fidseela nis ele eek, SiRceley adatald atte o.cka «eISSN Sine Petition to Congress of the several towns composing Cumberland county, complaining of various oppressions experienced from the Vermont faction; declaring their allegiance to New-York, and praying that the New Hampshire grants return to, their allegiances «2 sicislesieees sivitihcccceccseseeces Instructions to the New-York delegates …

Petition of Micah Townsend and others of Cumberland county, for compensation for loss of property &e., on account of their | fidelity to New-York,............. Sip EGU 8 ele o's We oid sis 06 Articles of union agreed to at Cah BTL Gipe Nig e ots] «aarssa saveria Judge Yates to Gov. Clinton advising him of the arrest of sundry persons adherents to the state of Vermont; with list of the person…

Clinton to the committees of Cumberland county with an account of the progress of their affairs in Congress, ...+.+-+ 26. Petition of Col. Church and other inhabitants of Cumberland county to the legislature of New-York praying for compensation for their past losses and sufferings under Vermont,... 28. List of civil and military officers in Cumberland: county commissioned by New-York, who have…

Extract from the petition of Theophelack Bache and others, explaining, the mode in which the Vermont controversy with New-York was terminated, /...++.... alaleyaiaiaie)stntel sfarere . April 23. Names of the claimants who are entitled to compensation for losses under Vermont, with the sums allowed them by the New-York commissioners, and the division of the thirty Xxi PAGE, 1020. thousand …

PROCLAMATION OF THE LAST OF THE ROYAL GOVERNORS OF WHEW YORK (sre oes aches od Pe kie C Ue kohis Meo Mgmnes vid 1085 Father White's Indian Grammar. A Relic,..++++ceseceseeees eee 1088 XVIII. MEMORIAL CONCERNING THE IROQUOIS; By Rev. ae Inglis of Trinity Church, No Y., .iecccesccccecssevcccececss Noalsareisveate 1089 CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. . Papers relating to the Iroquois and other Indian tri…

Papers relating to Frontenae's Expedition against the Onondagoes, 1696. . New-York Army List, 1790. - Census of the Counties of Orange, Dutchess and Albany, 1702, 1714, 1720. . Cadwallader Colden on the lands of New-York, 1732. . Papers relating to the Susquehannah River, 1683-1757. . Papers relating to Ogdensburgh, 1749. . Papers relating t6 Oswego. . Papers relating to the Oneida Country …

Papers relating to the Restoration of New-York to the English; and to the Gharges agains- Captain Manning for its Previous Surrender to the Dutch, 1674, 1675. IV. Papers relating to the State of Religion in the Province, 1657--1712. V. Papers relating to Kings County, L. I. VI. Papers relating to the Churches,in Queens County. VII. Papers rélating io Suffolk County. VU. Papers relating to the Cit…

Journal of Rev. John Taylor's Missionary Tour through the Mohawk and Black River Countries, in 1802. XXI. .Rectors of St. Peter's Church, Albany. XXII. Appendix. e XXIII. Medals and Coins. XXIV. Miscellany, | Fi: wearer Net Stlagracg. Sei eas | a er ~ INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PORTRAITS OF GOV. CLINTON AND LADY," BOTS CODEC DOG To face title. (From Plates loaned by Pierre Van Cortlandt Es…

(From Plate loaned by the Vestry of Trinity Ch.) TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE COUNTRY AROUND FORT STANWIX. 1758, PLAN OF FORT STANWIX. 1758,......0-cecceesscoes eeeeeee ry CHOROGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE NORTHERN PART OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK; illustrating the controversy between that State and New Ls byipesbthes Gabsocsudororrscusot ODIdOS Nosevatsi lecetetereiers ed PORTRAITS OF THE GOVERNOR, …

This is a copy of the Royal arms of the House of Sruarrt which Burke thus describes--Quarterly, first and fourth, France and Eneianp quarterly ; second, or, a lion rampant, within a double tressure, flory counter flory, gu. Scortanp; third, az. a harp, or, stringed, ar. IneELanp.* Motto, ' Hont. soir. Qui. MAL. ¥ pense." Legend, Sictru. Provine Novi. Exorac. «Crest, a Coronet composed of cros…

It is described therein as having "on the one side our Royal effigies on Horseback in Arms over a Landskip of Land and Sea, with a Rising Sun, and a Scrole containing this motto, Auruse: et Ineo. And our Titles round the circumference of the said Seal ; There being also engraven on the other side Our Royal Arms with the Garter, Crown, Supporters and Motto, with this Inscription round y@ Circu…

Sloughter, bears date 3lst May, 1690.4 It served as the model for all the Great Seals of New-York subsequently received from 'England, and has, on one side, the effigies of the King and Queen, and two Indians kneeling offering as presents--the one, a roll of Wampum, the other a Beaver skin. Around the circumference are their Majesties titles--Gviimtmvs III. er Marta. II. Den Gra. Mac. Brit. …

Much importance has been attached to this seal from the fact that it was affixed to several patents in this country after the King's death. But the objections made, to the validity of those patents, on that account, must disappear when the fact is understood, that this seal was not superseded until Sept., 17/5--three years and a half after the King's demise. The engraving is from the Seal att…

Fran. er. His. Reena. Frp. Deren. On the reverse, the Sruart arms as already described, (see JIT.)--the escutcheon of Nassau having been removed on the death of the King--with Crown, Garter, Supporters and Motto, and this Inscription, Ste1ttvmM. Provincre. Nostra. Novi. Exoract. rn. America. Motto--Semper Eadem. The Engraving is copied from the Seal in the State Library to a Patent of Anne Br…

VI. Seay or Georce I. This seal was ordered 8th Octob. 1717, and received "by Hopkins" on 1st July, 1718, when that of Queen Anne was broken,? and returned to the Board of Trade.* On the one side are, the effigy of his Majesty, two Indians offering presents ; and around the cireumference the royal titles--Grorervs. D. G. Mas. Brit. Fran. er. Hrs. Rex. Bavy. er. Lyn. Dvx. Sa. Ro. 'Im. Arc. T…

The "Semper Eadem" of the last seal is replaced by Dieu et Mon Droit; and on the escutcheon we have, first, the arms of England empaling those of Scotland ; second France ; third Ireland ; fourth gu. two lions passant. guard. in pale or, for Brunswick ; impaling, or, semée of hearts gu.a lion ramp. az. for Lunenburgh, on a point in point gu. a horse courant ar. for Saxony; on the centre of th…

Exoract. in. AMERICA," are appropriately on the side representing American gifts; whilst the Royal titles--"@xonervs. If. D. G. Mac. Bat. Fr. er. His. Rex. F. D. Brun. ev. Lux. Dux. 8. R. I. Arc. Tu. er. Pr. Ex." surround the Royal arms on the reverse side. These arms are the same as those last described, but their design and finish are immensely Superior. . This engraving is, also, from an im…

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New Nerueranp (so called because it was first frequented 'and peopled by free Netherlanders) is a province in the most northern part of America lying between N. England (which bounds them on the N, E. side) and Virginia lying to the S. W. The Ocean is confined along its whole length by a clean sandy coast, very similar to that of Flanders or Holland, having except the rivers few bays or Harbo…

The character of the country is very like that of France ; the land is reasonably hilly and level. To wit, broken along the coast by small Rocky hills unfit for agriculture ; farther in the interior are pretty high Mountains (generally exhibiting great appearance of minerals) between which flow a great number of Small Rivers, in some places there are even some Lofty ones of Extraordinary Heig…

The animals are also of the same species as ours, except Lions and some other strange beasts, many Bears, abundance of Wolves which harm nobody but the small cattle, Elks and Deer in abundance, Foxes, Beavers, Otters, Minx and such like. The birds, which are natural to the Country are Turkeys like ours, Swans, Geese of three sorts, Ducks, Teals, Cranes, Herons, Bitterns, two sorts of Heath f…

They seem to despise all the torments that can be inflicted on them without once uttering a sigh--go almost naked except a Jap which hangs before their nakedness, and on the shoulders a deer skin or a mantle, a fathom square of woven Turkey feathers or peltries sewed together, they make use now greatly of Duffels, Cloths Blue or Red, in consequence of the frequent visits of the Christians. …

They dwell together mostly from friendship, in tribes over which commands a chief who is General and is generally called Sackema possessing not much authority and little advantage, Unless in their dances and other ceremonies. They have hardly any knowledge of God, no Divine Worship, no Law, no Justice, the Strongest does what he pleases and the Youths are master. Their weapons are the Bow and…

Since the year 1623 the Incorporated West India Company caused four Forts to be erected in that Country--Two on the River Mauritius and one on each of the other [rivers]; the biggest stands on the Point formed by the Mauritius river and the other mentioned heretofore ; their Honors named it New Amsterdam ; and six and thirty miles upwards another called Orange that on the South river is Nass…

Firstly, divers Servants, whose time with their masters had expired, on account of the good opportunity to plant Tobacco here--afterwards Families and finally entire Colonies, forced to quit that place both to enjoy freedom of conscience and to escape from the Insupportable Government of N England and because many more commodities were easier to be obtained hére than there, so that in place …

Amsterdam around the fort, a Hundred families, so that there was appearance of producing supplies in a year for Fourteen thousand Souls, without straining the Country, and were there no want of laborers or Farm servants twice as much could be raised, considering that fifty das/s of Rye and fifty lasts of Peas still remained over around the fort after a large quantity had been burnt and destr…

That created first a division of power of dangerous consequence, in opposition to their Mightinesses' Motto'--produced altogether too much familiarity with the Indians which in a short time brought forth contempt, usually the Father of Hate--not being satisfied with merely taking them into their houses in the customary manner, but attracting them by Extraordinary attention, such as admitting…

Thus laying before them our entire circumstances, and sometimes becoming weary of their work, they took leg-bail and stole much more than the amount of their wages, This freedom caused still greater mischief, for the inhabitants of Rensselaerwyck who were as many traders as persons, Perceiving that the Mohawks were craving for guns, which some of them had already received from the English, p…

Four Hundred armed men knew how to use their advantage, especially against their enemies dwelling along. the river. of Canada, against whom. they have now achieved many profitable forays where before they derived little advantage ; this- causes them also to be respected by the surrounding Indians even.as far as the Sea Coast, who must generally pay them tribute, whereas, on the contrary, the…

E. of the Island Manhatans,} 'perpetrated another murderous deed in the house of an old man? a wheelwright, with whom he was acquainted (having been in his son's service) being well received and supplied with food, pretending a desire to buy something and whilst the old man was taking from the Chest the Cloth the Indian wanted. the latter took up an ax and cut his head off, further plunderin…

The time being come many obstacles arose and operations were postponed until the year 1642, when it was resolved to avenge the perpetrated outrage. Thereupon spies looked up the Indians who lay in their Village suspecting nothing, and eighty men were detailed under the command of Ensign Hendrick Van Dyck and sent thither. The guide being come with the troops in the neighborhood of the Indian…

. bay? came here with one hundred men, passing through all. the Indian Villages} soliciting them to a general War against. both the English and the Duteh,t whereupon some of the neighbouring Indians attempted to set our powder on fire and to poison the Director or to inchant him by their devilry, as their ill will was afterwards made manifest as well in fact as by report. Those of Hackingsac…

Finally, the Commonalty seriously distrusting the Director, suspecting him of conniving with the Indians, and that an attempt was making to sell Christian blood ;} yea, that the will of the entire Commonalty was surrendered to him, and in as much as he would not avenge blood they should do it, be the consequences what they may. The Director advised Pacham the Sachem, who interested himself i…

This opportunity to avenge innocent blood, induced some of the twelve men to represent to the Director that it was now time, whereupon they received for answer that they should put their request in writing which was done by three in the name of them all,t by a petition to be allowed to attack those of Hackingsack in two divisions-- on the Manhatens and on Pavonia. This was granted after a pr…

The Christians residing on Long Island also requested by petition* to be allowed to attack and slay the Indians thereabout ; which was refused, as these especially had done us no harm, and shewed us every friendship--( Yea, had even voluntarily Killed some of the Raritans, our enemies, hereinbefore mentioned) Yet, notwithstanding} some Christians attempted secretly with two waggons to steal m…

This induced one of the proprietors of the burnt houses to upbraid therewith one Maryn Adriaenzen, who at his request had led the freemen in the attack on the Indians, and who being reinforced by an English troop had afterwards undertaken two bootless Expeditions in the open field--imagining that the Director had accused him, he being one of the signers of the petition he determined to reve…

Shortly afterwards some of the Commonalty collected before the Director, riotously demanding the prisoner ; they were answered that their request should be presented in order and in writing, which about 25 men did, they ' therein asked the Director to pardon the Criminal. The matters were referred to them to decide conscientiously thereupon. In such wise that they immediately went forth, witho…

Meanwhile Pachem a crafty man, ran through all the - Villages urging the Indians to a general massacre, thereupon it happened that certain Indians called Wappingers, dwelling sizteen miles up the River,with whom we never had any the least trouble, seized on a boat coming from Fort Orange wherein were only two men, and full four hundred Beavers. This great Booty stimulated* others to follow th…

Finally they took the field and attacked the bouweries at Pavonia. There were here at the time, two ships of war and a privateer who saved considerable Cattle and Grain. Probably it was not possible to prevent the destruction of four bouweries on Pavonia, which were burnt, not by open force, but by stealthily creeping through the brush with fire in hand thus igniting the roofs which are all …

Terror inereasing all over the land the eight men assembled, drewt up a proposal in writing wherein they demanded that delegates should be sent to the North, to our English neighbours, to request an auxiliary force of One hundred and fifty men, for whose pay a bill of Exchange should be given for twenty five thousand guilders, and that N. Netherland should be so long / mortgaged to the Englis…

[An expedition was despatched consisting of soldiers ] under the command of the Sergeant, XL Burghers under their Captain Jochem Pietersen, XX XV Englishmen under Lieutenant Baxter, but to prevent all confusion, Councillor La Montagne was appointed general. Coming to Staten Island, they marched the whole night ; the houses were empty and abandoned by the Indians ; they got 5 or 6 hundred ske…

The people landed at Greenwich in the evening from three Yachts, marched the entire night but could not find the Indians, either because the Guide had given warning or had himself gone astray. Retreat was made to. the Yachts in order to depart as secretly as possible, passing through Stantfort some Englishmen were encountered who offered to lead ours to the place where some Indians were, the…

Meanwhile, we were advised that Pennewitz,? one of the oldest and most experienced Indians in the Country, and who, in the first Conspiracy, had given the most dangerous Council, To wit, that they should wait and not attack the Dutch until all suspicion had been lulled, and then divide themselves equally through the houses of the Christians and slaughter all these in one night--was secretly …

our force was divided into two divisions--Van der Hil 'with fourteen English towards the smallest, and Eighty men towards the largest village named Matsepe, both which were very successful, killing about one hundred and Twenty men ; of ours one man remained on the field and three were wounded. Our forces being returned from this expedition, Capt Van der Hil was despatched to Stantfort, to ge…

W. up over Stony Hills over which some must creep, in the evening about eight o'clock they came within a mile of the Indians, and inasmuch as they should have arrived too early and had to cross two Rivers, one of Two' hundred feet wide and three deep, and that the men could not afterwards rest in consequence of the cold, it was determined to remain there until about ten o'clock. The order wa…

remarked that nothing else was to be done, resolved with Sergeant Major Van der Hil, to set the huts on fire ee the Indians tried every means to escape, not succeeding in which they' returned back to the flames preferring to perish by the fire than to die by our hands. What was most wonderful is, that among this vast collection of Men, Women and Children not one was heard to cry or to screah…

Ox the next day, the party set out much refreshed in good order, so as to arrive at Stantford in the evening. They marched with great courage over that wearisome mountain, God affording extraordinary strength to the wounded some of whom were badly hurt; coming in the afternoon to Stantfort after a march of two days and one night and little rest. The English received our people in a very frien…

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Isaac Joguzs, the author of the following early notice of New York was born at Orleans in France 10th Jany 1607, in which city he received the rudiments of his education. He entered the Jesuit Society at Rouen in Oct. 1624 and removed to the College of La Fletche in 1627. He completed his divinity at Clermont College, Paris, and was ordained Priest in February 1636 in the Spring of which year…

On the 31st July 1648, after a year's captivity he succeeded in evading the vigilance of his captors, and escaped to the Dutch at Fort Orange (Albany) by whom he was most cordially received and most humanely treated. Thither his Savage masters followed him, but the Dutch preferred ransoming to surrendering him and forwarded him to New Amsterdam, where he was suitably received by Gov. Kieft, f…

He set out again on the 27th September for the Mohawk country in his true character, as a Missionary of the Gospel, with a deep presentiment of not returning. He entered Gandawage or Gannawage, the scene of his former captivity, on the 17th October and was received with blows! A revolution "had passed over the Savage mind. Jogues, on his departure in J une, had left a box in one of the lodges,…

His lifeless body was at once decapitated; the head fixed on the palisades of the village and the trunk cast into the Mohawk river. 2 Thus fell, in the 40th year of his age, the first Catholic Missionary in New York. It is supposed that he was slain at Caughnawaga, in Montgomery co., which in the Annals of Religion was afterwards known as the '' Mission of the Martyrs." A copy of the origina…

Its channel is deep, fit for the largest ships that ascend to Manhattes Island, which is seven leagues in circuit, and on which there is a fort to serve as the commencement of a town to be built there and to be called New Amsterdam. This fort which is at the point of the island about five or six leagues from the mouth, is called Fort Amsterdam ; it has four regular bastions mounted with sev…

On this island of Manhate and in its environs there may well be four or five hundred men of different sects and nations; the Director General told me that there were persons there of eighteen different languages ; they are scattered here and there on the river, above and below as the beauty and convenience of the spot invited each to settle, some mechanics however who ply their trades are ra…

Shortly before I arrived there three large vessels of'300 'tons each had come to load wheat ; two had found cargoes, the third could not be loaded because the savages had burnt ja part of their grain. These ships came from the West Indies where the West India Company usually keeps up seventeen ships of war. Wo religion is publicly exercised but the Calvinist, and orders 'are to. admit none b…

On: the other side southward. towards Virginia, its limits are the river Which they callthe South river on which there:is also a Dutch settlement, but the Swedes have at its mouth another extremely well provided with men and cannon. It is believed that these Swedes. are maintained by some merchants of Amsterdam, who are not satisfied that the West India Company should alone enjoy all the co…

The ~ soil is good. Deer hunting is abundant in the fall. There are some houses built of stone; they make lime of oyster shells, great heaps of which are found here made formerly by the savages, who subsisted in part by this fishery. The climate is very mild. Lying at 402° degrees; there are many European fruits, as apples, pears, cherries. I reached there in October, and found even then a …

This colonie is composed of about a hundred persons, who reside in some 25 or 80 houses, built along the river, as each one found it most convenient. In the principal house resides the Patroon's agent, the minister has his apart, in which service is performed. There is also a kind of bailiff here whom they call Sénéschal, who administers justice., All their houses are merely of boards and tha…

_ Trade is free to all, this gives the Indians all things cheap, each of the Hollanders outbidding his neighbor and being satisfied provided he can gain some little profit. This settlement is not more than twenty leagues from the Agniehronons, who can be reached either by land or by water, as the river on which the Iroquois lie falls into that which passes by the Dutch; but there are many sha…

Some nations near the sea having murdered some Hollanders of the most distant settlement, the Hollanders killed 150 Indians, men, women and children ; the latter having killed at divers intervals 40 Dutchmen, burnt several houses and committed ravages, estimated at the time that I was there at 200,000 liv. (two hundred thousand livres) troops were raised in New England, and in the beginning o…

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If any man be disposed to begin either by himself or others, Colonies, Bouweries or Plantations in New Netherland, lying in the Latitude of one and forty degrees anda half, he shall first have to inform himself fully of the situation of the lands lying on rivers, havens and Bays, in order thus to select the most suitable and particularly the most convenient grounds: It is therefore to be bor…

I begin then at the most easterly corner of Long Island, being. a point situate on the Main Ocean, inclosing within, westward, a large inland sea' adorned with divers fair havens and bays, fit for all sorts of craft; this Point is entirely covered with Trees, without any flatts and is somewhat hilly and stoney, very convenient for Cod fishing, which is most successfully followed by the Nativ…

Oysterbay, so called from the great abundance of fine and delicate oysters which are found there. This bay is about a short mile across, or in width at the mouth ; deep and navigable, - without either rocks or sands, runs westward in proportion, and divides itself into two rivers, which are broad and clear, on which said rivers lie fine maize lands, formerly cultivated by the Indians, some o…

Schout's bay, on the East river, also very open and naviganue, with one river running into it; on said river are also fine maize lands, level and not stony, with right beautiful valleys. Beyond said river is a very convenient hook of Jand, somewhat large, encircied by & large valley and river, where all descriptions of cattle can be reared and fed, such convenience being a great accommodatio…

In the Bay of the North river, about two miles from en Hook, lies an inlet or small bay ; on the south shore of said bay, called Neyswesinck, there are also right good maize lands which have not been cultivated by the natives for along time. This district is well adapted for raising and feeding all sorts of cattle, and is esteemed by many not ill-adapted for fisheries; a good trade in furs c…

This district was abandoned by the natives for two reasons ; the first and principal is, that finding themselves unable to resist' the Southern Indians, they migrated further inland ; the second, because this country was flooded every spring like Renselaer's colonie, frequently spoiling and destroying their supplies of maize which were stored in holes under ground. Through this valley pass l…

Boors and others who are obliged to work at first in Colonies ought to sail from this country in the fore or latter part of Winter, in order to arrive with God's help in New Netherland early in the Spring, as in March, or at latest in April, so as to be able to plant during that summer, garden vegetables, maize and beans, and moreover employ the whole summer in clearing land and building cott…

This being done in the winter, some plough right around the stumps, should time or circumstances not allow these to be removed ; others plant tobacco, maize and beans, at first. The soil even thus becomes very mellow, and they sow winter grain the next fall. From tobaeco, can be realized some of the expenses incurred in clearing the land. The maize and' beans help to support both men and catt…

Before beginning to build, it.will above all things be necessary - to select a well located spot, either on some river or bay, suitable for the settlement, of a village or hamlet. This is previously properly surveyed and divided into lots , with good streets according to the situation of the place. This hamlet can be fenced all round with high palisades or long boards and closed with gates, w…

Those in Ne ew Netherland and especially in New England, who have no means to build farm houses at. first according to their wishes, dig a square pit in the ground, cellar fashion, 6 or 7 feet deep, as long and asibroad.as,they think proper, case the earth inside with wood.all round the wall, and line the wood with the bark of trees.or something else to prevent the caving in of the earth ; f…

In the course of 3 @ 4 years, when the country became adapted to agriculture, they built themselves handsome houses, spending on them several thousands. After the houses are built in the above described manner or otherwise according to each person's means and fancy, gardens are made, and planted in season with all sorts of pot herbs, principally parsnips, carrots, and cabbage, which bring gre…

Yoke oxen for the plough, inasmuch as in new lands full of roots, oxen go forward steadily under the plough, and horses stand still, or with a start break the harness in pieces. Milch cows of kindly disposition and good bulls, sheep, sows, etc. Fowls are well adapted to Bouweries. These Cattle are abundant in New Netherland and especially in New England and to be had at a reasonable price, e…

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And as it is found by experience in New Netherland that farmers can with difficulty obtain from the soil enough to provide themselves with necessary victuals and support, those who propose planting Colonies must supply their farmers and families with necessary food for at least two to three years, ifnot altogether it must be done at least in part. Necessary supplies for the farmer. If no whe…

First, a person is necessary to superintend the working men ; he ought to be acquainted with farming. Industrious country people, conversant with the working and cultivation of land, and possessing a knowledge of cattle. It would not be unprofitable to add to these some Highland boors, from the Veluwe,! Gulick,? Cleef,? and Berg. Northerners are a people adapted to cutting down trees and cl…

Andas poor people have no means to defray the cost of passage and other expenses, it were desirable that wealthy individuals would expend some capital, to people this country or at their own expense remove themselves like the English of New England, with funds and a large body of working men, and provide those without means, with land, dwelling, cattle, tools and necessary support : and tha…

The English of New England put this in practice, as is to be seen, after the land had been first brought to proper condition ; they sell their provisions at the Caribbean Islands, staves at Madeira and the Canaries, Masts and Fish in Spain and Portugal, and bring in return all sorts of commodities, so much of which returns as they do not consume are again distributed by them thoughout all the…

The farmer, being conveyed with his family over sea to New Netherland, was granted by the Company for the term of six years a Bouwery, which was partly cleared, and a good part of which was fit for the plough. The Company furnished the farmer a house, barn, farming implements and tools, together with four horses, four cows, sheep and pigs in proportion, the usufruct and enjoyment of which th…

The risk of the Cattle dying is shared in common and after the expiration of the contract, the Company receives, if the Cattle live, the number the husbandman first received, and the increase which is over, is divided half and half, by which means many people have obtained stock and even to this day, the Company have still considerable cattle among the Colonists, who make use on the above co…

Meanwhile I pray the Creator of Heaven and Earth to endow your High Mightinesses with the Spirit of grace and wisdom, so that all your High Migtinesses' deliberations may tend to the advantage of the Country and its Inhabitants. IV. JOURNAL OF THE SECOND ESOPUS WAR; BY CAPT. MARTIN KREGIER. With an account of the Massacre at Wildwyck, (now Kingston,) \ And the names of those killed, wo…

Thomas Chambers, to which they answered--" If peace were to be renewed with them, the Honble Heer Director General should, with some unarmed persons, sit with them in the open field, without the gate, as it was their own custom to meet unarmed when renewing peace or in other negotiations." But they, unmindful of the preceding statement, surprized and attacked us between the hours of 11 and 1…

hawks, and firing on them with guns and pistols; they seized whatever women and children they could catch and carried them prisoners outside the gates, plundered the houses and set the village on fire to windward, it blowing at the time from the South. The remaining Indians commanded all the streets, firing from the corner houses which they occupied and through the curtains outside along the…

Near the mill gate were Albert Gysbertsen with two servants, and Tjerck Claesen de Wit ; at the Sheriff's, himself with two carpenters, two clerks and one thresher; at Cornelius Barentsen Sleght's, himself and his son ; at the Domine's, himself and two carpenters and one labouring man ; at the guard house, a few soldiers ; at the gate towards the river, Henderick Jochemsen and Jacob, the Bre…

After these few men had been collected against the Barbarians, by degrees the others arrived who it has been stated, were abroad at their field labors, and we found ourselves when mustered in the evening, including those SECOND ESOPUS WAR. 4y from the new village who. took. refuge amongst us, in number 69 efficient men, both qualified and unqualified. The burnt palisades were immediately rep…

On their return, the Indians made an attempt, at the first hill, to take the ammunition from these troops. The Sergeant having divided his men into separate bodies, evinced great courage against the Indians, skirmishing with them from the first, to past the second hill, and defending the wagons so well that they arrived in safety in the village. He had, however, one killed and six wounded. Th…

respectfully request your Honors to be pleased to send us hither for the wounded by the earliest opportunity, some prunes and linen with some wine to strengthen them, and whatever else not obtainable here your Honors may think proper ; also, carabines, cutlasses, and gun flints, and we request that the carabines may be Snaphaunce, as the people here are but little conversant with the use of …

Thomas Chambers' negro " on the farm. Hey Olferts re in the gunner's house. SoLpIERs. Hendrick Martensen on the farm Dominicus ; in Jan Alberts' house. Christiaen Andriesen on the Street. SECOND ESOPUS WAR. 43 Women. Lichten Dirreck's wife burnt, with her lost fruit, behind Barent Gerritsen's house. Mattys Capito's wife killed and burnt in the house. Jan Albertsen's wife, big with child, kil…

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Ly SOL Matiyss wncnrss ote sence ee Houses 12 The new village is entirely destroyed except a new uncovered barn, one rick and a little stack of reed. Wounded in Wildwyck. Thomas Chambers, shot in the woods. Henderick Jochemsen, " in his house. Michiel Ferre,? " in front of his house. Albert Gerretsen, «in front of his house. Andries Barents, "in front of his house. Jan du parck, 'jn the house…

Returned to the water side with 60 men, 10 horsemen, and 9 wagons to bring up supplies, but saw scarcely anything on the way. 6th ditto. Made another journey to the shore with 10 wagons and brought up the remainder of the supplies, but did not perceive anything. In the evening went for grass with 12 wagons 30 Soldiers and 10 horsemen ; then-saw 10 or 12 Indians calling to each other but nothin…

To which we answered, they ought to keep at a distance as we could not distinguish one tribe of Indians from another, and if we found that they had not done any injury to the Dutch, we should release them. We told them also, that they must keep away from here, and go home, for if we should meet them in the woods we would kill them as well as the other Indians--if they were desirous to come h…

But this Indian said to us--Go not there, for the Indians have gone thence and dwell now back of Magdalen Island! on the main land in the rear of a Cripple bush on the east side of Fort Orange river, andnumber 8 men 9 women and 11 children ; and he even offered to guide us thither if we had a boat to put us across the river. Whereupon it was resolved by the Council of War to despatch two par…

Monday I marched very early, [with 40 Soldiers] and 10 horsemen to the water side to ride up and planks to construct a Cabin to store the provisions and ammunition. About oclock the two detachments, I had sent out in the evening, to look for craft, came to me at the Redoubt, but they saw neither Indians nor boat. They were marched all together to fort Wildwyck and arrived there about 12 o'clo…

In returning, the horse men on the right flank rode too far from the foot soldiers and alongside the mountain on which 12 to 15 Savages lay in ambush who simultaneously fired a at the horsemen one of whom they shot through the boot, and grazed a horse. On hearing this, we immediatety reinforced the cavalry with 25 men, pursued the Indians through the mountain a good half hour, but they would…

Pieter Wolfertsen & Sergeant Niesser: returned with their troops, bringing with them one Squaw and three children whom they had captured ; they killed five armed Indians and a woman ; the Esopus Captain ( Weldoverste) was among the slain ; they cut off his hand which they brought hither. Had not the Indian Jed them astray and missed the houses, they would have surprized all the Indians who w…

She answered that some Cattskill Indians lay on the other side near the Sagers Kill, but they would not fight against the Dutch; says also that an Indian on the preceding evening before our people attacked them, had brought news from the fort of the Esopus Indians that many Dutch, English and Indians had gone from the Manhatans to the Esopus and that they should be on their guard, for the Ha…

They then concluded to remain there, for the Chief said, Were the Dutch to come to the Fort and we also were in it, we should be all slaughtered ; tis best for us to remain here on the opposite shore ; the Dutch would not learn much of us; States also further, that the Indian had said that 40 Manissing Indians had arrived at their fort, and that 40 more were to come on the next day; further …

and the houses in the fort encircled by thick cleft palisades with port.holes in them, and covered with bark of trees; says that the fort is quadrangular but that the Angles are constructed between the first and second rows of, palisades and that the third row of palisades stands full eight feet off from the others towards the interior, between the two first rows of palisades and the houses,…

Says also that the fort is defended with triple rows of palisades, as the Squaw had stated. Whereupon the council of war decided, firstly to await news either from above or below as to what the Mohawks had resolved respecting the prisoners--whether they could have them restored before our troops should proceed against the fort to achieve the self same thing. On the same day two detachments we…

The Heer de Decker assembled the Council of War and it was resolved that Jan Davets. accompany the 5 Mohawks to the fort of the Esopus Indians to see on what terms the Christian prisoners will be restored, but after divers discourses Jan Davets declined going with them, although the Heer 1 She had been taken prisoner as before stated by the Indians on the ee of the Village of Wildwyck but had…

The Council, concluded that a Captive Girl should be given to the Mohawks and about 63 guilders in Sewan in order to ascertain what they could accomplish thereby ; for it was reported at Fort Orange, as the Heer de Decker informed us, that the Esopus Indians. had said--If they could obtain payment for the land, named the Great Plot (het groote Stuck,) then they should give up all the prisoner…

In the evening about 7 o'clock, the three Mohawks returned from the Esopus Indians. They had brought three Indians and two Dutch women and 2 Children whom they left about two hours from Wildwyck ; said, they had been freely given, and had they not been so tired, we should have brought them with them to the fort; said the Esopus Indians had abandoned the fort, and had ratived to the Mountains …

The prisoners told us that the Esopus Indians had fled to a high mountain through fear of the Dutch, and that they Jay here and there in small bands, and that the prisoners were also distributed and dispersed among them here and there, and were not together and that they would not trust them in their fort, and that the Indians daily threatened them--Should the Dutch come thither, we will giv…

It was accordingly resolved by the Heer de Decker and Council of War, that a piece of duffels should be brought up from the river side and given them; which being done, they took the piece of duffels, cut it into three parts, and thus departed with it about 11 o'clock in the forenoon ; with them went Jan Davets with the Squaw and 2 children who had been captured by us and were released in ex…

Stilwil's Soldiers out of a small house they occupied--he said, he had hired it, though he had, notwithstanding, neither possession of nor procuration for it, I gave him for answer, that I should remove them on condition that he, asa magistrate, would have them billetted in other houses as the men could not lie under the blue sky, and as they had been sent here by the Chief government for the…

Inthe evening Jan Davets and the 5 Mohawks returned from the Esopus Indians--they brought with them a female prisoner ; they would not at present release any more prisoners, evinced great fierceness and repeatedly threatened to kill them, both the Mohawks and Jan Davets told--them they should not release any more prisoners unless they should secure peace thereby, and that Corlaer and Rentsl…

The Heer de Decker left to-day for the Manhatans in the company's yacht, taking with him two of the wounded, and Jan du Parck, Surgeon, and two soldiers to take care of the sick ; two sick Indians left also; sent along with them a convoy and 9 wagons to bring up the remainder of the goods. They returned and saw nothing. Also sent out two detachments with the reapers ; they did not remark any…

The following troops set out against the Esopus Indians, having as a Guide a woman who had been prisoner among them, to wit--of Captain Lieutenant Cregier's Company, 91 men; of Lieutenant Stilwil's, 30 men ; Lieutenant Couwenhoven with 41 Indians ;' volunteers from the Manhatans, 6 ; volunteers from the Esopus, 35 men, of whom 11 were horsemen, and 7 of the Honb!e Company's negroes, with two p…

We then bivouacked until day break. ' 97th ditto. We got on the right road when day dawned» and continued our march. On the way we passed over much stoney land and hills, and had to tarry at the swampy, long, broken and even frequent kills where we halted and must-cut trees 'to make bridges to pass over, and divers mountains were so steep that we were obliged to haul the wagons-and cannon u…

I left 40 men there and gave them orders to fortify themselves and set palisades around, which they did,and T followed the preceding troop with the remainder towards 'the Indian fort. On arriving there, found our people in possession of it, as it had been abandoned by the Indians two days before. | Our Indians had caught a Squaw in the corn-field, whither she was coming to eut maize. Now the…

The captured Squaw being asked if she did not know where the Indians had fled to, said they were on a great, high mountain, which she pointed out to them, distant about 2 miles, whither they had fled with the seven prisoners they had with them ; whereupon the officers resolved to go to the other mountain in search of them, which they afterwards"did with their troops, after experiencing vast di…

They unanimeusly resolved to cut down their corn and burn it, together with last year's maize, which they still _had in pits in great abundance in their corn-fields and around ' their fort. Whereupon I went out of their fort with 50 men to a distance of a full half mile ; there cut down several plantations of maize, threw into the fire divers pits full of maize and beans, returned to the for…

But I being close up to his body he could not act as he wished, and I said to him that I should bring him to an account. This said Jan Hendricksen, with one Albert Heymans Roose, acted insolently on the 7» July. Whilst we were examining the two Wappinger Indians, in the presence of the Schout and Commissaries, in Thomas Chambers' room a messenger came in and said that two or three boors were …

About o'clock in the afternoon, Some Indians made their appearance on a high hill near the fort and called out to us, that they would come and fight us on the morrow whereupon we brought the captive Squaw out of the fort to speak. to them, and they called out to her that they should now come and fight the Dutch, for the Dutch had now come and taken their _ fort, cut their corn and burnt all …

In the morning at the dawn of day set fire to the fort and all the houses, and while they were in full blaze marched out in good order, Capt Lieutenant Couwenhoven forming the van cuard, Lieutenant Stilwil's Company the centre, and I with my company the rear guard. . So arrived in safety at our fort about 9 o'clock in the evening with our cannon and wagons. Remarked scarcely anything on the w…

The Heer Secretary departed on his return,to the Manhatans, accompanied by Lieutenant Couwenhoven and the Indians being 41 in the whole, who would not remain any longer ; also 5 of the Honb!e Company's Negroes. Through great intercession and promise of better behavior in future, the Council of - war pardoned Jan Hendricksen the faults committed by him and he is released from confinement Meanw…

" Orprnance made and enacted by the Captain Lieutenant and the valiant Council of war at present commanding the troops and Military in the Esopus or. Wildwyck. ' Wuereas we learn by daily experience that many, as well military as freemen, are removing from the Village Wildwyck, without the consent of the Capt Lieutenant and, Commissaries of this Village, Therefore it is necessary that timely…

" Firstly, That no one, whether military or freeman shall, without the consent of the Captain Lieutenant, Council of war and Commissaries of this place, depart from this Village of Wildwyck, either in large or small bodies, whether to cut grain or for any other business whatsoever it may be, lest any of them may chance to fall into the hands of the barbarous Indians, our enemies ; and if any…

"Tf any one unnecessarily & perversely waste or fire off his powder and ball, be it on the departure or arrival of convoys or otherwise, he shall, for the first offence, pay a fine of three guilders for each shot ; for the second offence six guilders and for the third offence suffer arbitrary punishment, unless when desirous to discharge his gun, being out of order or wet, he shall ask permi…

Thomas the Irishman arrived here at the Redoubt from the Manhatans. Meanwhile nothing was done as it was Sunday, and no detachments were sent out. 6th ditto. Sent a party of 32 men to'lie in ambush, and two detachments with the reapers. They returned in the evening ; perceived nothing. 7th ditto. Three detachments were sent out with the reapers ; returned in the evening without having seen …

Received this morning the letters which the Yachts left at the Redoubt ; had two parties in the field with the reapers ; they returned in the evening without having seen anything. 12th ditto. Sunday. Nothing occured except sending two convoys to the Redoubt to relieve the men who lay there and to bring up some stores with Mr. Gysbert's wife coming from fort -- Orange who brings news that th…

"Wurreas some in this Village of Wildwyck who follow the trade of selling strong drink to the military suffer some of them to get drunk not only on week days but especially on the Lord's Rest and Sabbath day, unfitting them for their proper duties, & more especially creating confusion and disorderly conduct ; the Honble Company's Servants not hesitating to sell, pawn and pledge their own nec…

2. '"' No one, whether military or freeman, following the business of selling strong drink, shall presume to take in pledge or endeavor to embezzle any property belonging to the military in exchange for strong drink, under the forfeiture of the tapped drink and to return to the owner free of cost and charges the receiv ed property and pay in addition a fine of twelve sey as often as he is di…

Tuus pone by the Capt. Lieutenant and Valiant Council of War in the Village Wildwyck, this 13th August 1663." 14'b ditto. Sent out fifty reapers to the burnt village, called the Great Plot, and sent with them about thirty wagonsand Ensign Neissen with a convoy of Eighty men ; gave him orders to remain there all night with the reapers and binders, and the major part of the wagons and forty me…

Two parties are again sent out to the field with the reapers; came back in the evening without having seen anything. <4 17th, Two parties were again sent into the field with the reapers. Returned in the evening without seeing anything, The Heer Decker arrived here at the Redoubt from fort Orange ; had him escorted to the Village Wildwyck, but he did not tarry here long as his Honor was in a…

They went forth from Wildwyck about ten o'clock at night, and had a Dutchman named Jacob Jansen Stoutenborgh for a guide. 19th ditto. Was this morning with fifty men and sixteen wagons to the burnt Village to fetch grain ; came back to -Wildwyck aboyt eight o'clock. Did not see anything. About noon Ensign Niessen returned with his troop from the Indian maize land. Neither saw nor noticed any…

He also writes--That the Indians who lay thereabout on the river side made a great uproar every night, firing guns and kintekaying,? so that the woods rang again ; and he hoped to be with me in two days.--His letter contains divers other circumstances. Christoffel Davids informs us, that he slept one night with the Indians in their wigwams --that some Esopus Indians and Sachems were there who…

Coll. 2d Ser. i. 204. Again in the Breeden Raedt we read, '' The first of these Savages having received a frightful wound, desired them to permit him to dance what is called the Kinte Kaeye, a religious custom observed among them before death. . . . ... He thenordered him to be taken out of the fort and the Soldiers bringing him to the Beavers path. (he dancing the Kinte Kaeye all the time). …

Left ninety guilders in pledge for her; the Council of War disapproved of his having promised the Se in exchange as such was not contained in the Director General and Council's Instruction to him. Says, the Indians promised him to bring in, within two days, all the prisoners they had, and that he should return with her to them within that time. Says also, that two Mohawks coming from fort O…

I victualled the yacht and gave him five Soldiers additional for his defence ; also resolved to give him the two Indians and the Squaw which we had prisoners, but he is not to leave them out of his hands before we-have our prisoners back. Furnished him also with an Instruction as to how he should act therein. It reads, word for word as follows :--- SECOND ESOPUS WAR. 65 "Instruction for Li…

"Therefore, the said Council of War recommend and order Lieutenant Couwenhoven not to surrender nor give up any Indian or Squaw unless our Christian Captives be first released and exchanged and placed in our hands, but he is at liberty to promise the Indians, if they discharge all our prisoners and restore them to us, that they shall then again have and regain their prisoners, either in exch…

Vou. tv. 5 66 JOURNAL OF THE yacht that may come there, in order that we may regulate ourselves accordingly as much as lies in our power so as to surprize and seize them. Donr, Wildwyck, the 21st August 1663." Escorted said Couwenhoven to the Redoubt on the -river's side and he sailed again to the Wappingers in the yacht. A party was also in the field with the boors ; they returned home with…

Nothing else occurred to day, except that the great rain carried away several of the palisades of the fort. 234 ditto. Sent an Order to the Sheriff and Commissaries and directed them to have the palisades of the fort replaced. It reads word for word as follows :-- " Acte. "The Sheriff and Commissaries of this Village of Wildwyck are hereby ordered and directed to have replaced and repaired…

Received a letter at night from Lieutenant Couwenhoven, which he had sent up from the Wappingers creek by an Indian, a Dutchman and two captive christian children belonging to the wife of the gunner who was on board the sloop with said Couwenhoven ; and as the Indian told me he had given the captive Squaw, whom we had entrusted to said Couwenhoven, in exchange for these two children, without a…

Said Couwenhoven's letter was to this effect : That he hopes to get all the prisoners, but that he should be in want of supplies; for the powder he has is good for nothing, and the ery among the Indians is all for powder and brandy ; requests me to send him 'some, as it was for the public good ; that the Sachem had gone with five men into the interior, and had promised him to return with all…

Sent down the Indian and the Dutchman again to the sloop lying by the Wappingers, with some bread. Also 'sent a letter to Lieutenant Couwenhoven, which reads as follows : " Good friend, Lieutenant Couwenhoven. Your letter came to "hand, and I have noted its contents. As regards your surren- , "der of the Squaw before you had in exchange all our prisoners, | "in my opinion it is not well done…

I send you some bread and "request you not to go to the Manhatans, but first come here to "take off the sick and wounded. You can see whether you " will not be able to obtain some sewan and brandy from the " passing sloops, for if I had any and should send them to you, "they would run great risk of being plundered on the way by "the Indians. Dore, Wildwyck the 25th August, 1663." Had three …

Two detachments were out again in the field with the reapers, and one in ambush. Saw nothing. A soldier of Lieut. Stilwil's Company was wounded by his Sergeant in some dispute respecting orders. Said soldier was arrested and afterwards examined by the court martial, and it was found that the Sergeant was as blameworthy as the soldier. The soldier, who is named Thomas Coeck, is condemned by th…

He came on board of Lieutenant Couwenhoven and told the same to him, and said Lieutenant reported it tome. Now, I cannot imagine what there is in it. Convened the Council of War and they resolved and concluded to attack with one hundred and twenty men the Esopus Indians who reside in their new fort about four hours farther than their first fort which we had burnt. We take with us as a guide…

"The Court and Superior officers of this Village of Wildwyck having read the communication sent them by the Captain Lieutenant and Council of War have at their request convoked the farmers and read to them the aforesaid demand, whereunto they gave for answer that they were well disposed to do their best for the public interest, but find at present that the horses fatigued from the harvest, a…

After great trouble they obtained six horses from a few, but spiteful and insulting words from many. One said, Let those furnish horses who commenced the war. Another said, Tl give 'em the Devil--if they want any thing they will have to take it by force. The third said, I must first have my horse valued and have security for it ; and so forth with much other foul and unbecoming language, not…

heavy rain fell. In the afternoon very heavy rain fell again so that we could not stir out. Nothing occurred during the entire day. 34 ditto. About one o'clock in the afternoon we started from fort Wildwyck, having of my company two and twenty men; of "Lieutenant Stilwil's company, four and twenty men, and seven freemen, with two of the Honble Company's Negroes. We took as guide the young W…

Found such high water and swift current in the Kill that it was impossible to ford it ; sent six men immediately on horseback to our fort Wildwyck to fetch rope and axes to make a raft or some other convenience to cross the creek ; they returned to us about ten o'clock ; brought three axes and rope. Passed the rope over the stream in order to hold fast to it so that the people may not be swep…

Divided our force in two--Lieutenant Couwenhoven and I led the right wing, and Lieutenant Stilwil and Ensign Niessen the left wing. Proceeded in this disposition along the hill so as not to be seen and in order to come right under the fort ; but 'as it was somewhat level on the left side of the fort and the soldiers were seen by a Squaw, who was piling wood there and who sent forth a terrible…

In this attack, the Indians lost their Chief, named Papequanaehen, fourteen other warriors, four women and three children, whom we saw lying both on this and on the other side of the creek but probably many more were wounded, when rushing from the fort to the houses, when we'did give them a brave charge. On our side three were killed and six wounded and we have recovered three and twenty Chr…

The Council of war decided that we could indeed cut it down, but were any more of our men wounded, how could they be removed having already one more than we had horses, and this one must be borne, with great trouble, on a litter by two. _ Resolved to let the maize stand for the present ; plundered the houses wherein was considerable booty, such as bear skins, deer skins, notassen, blankets, …

The fort was a perfect square with one row of palisades set all round being about fifteen feet above, and three feet under ground. They had already completed two angles of stout palisades, all of them almost as thick as a man's body, having two rows of portholes, one above the other; and they were busy at the third angle. These angles were constructed so solid and strong as not to be excelled…

The Mohawk departed inthe morning for the Manessings and left a new blanket and two pieces of cloth which fell to us also as booty ; and we came just that day and fell on them. so that a portion of them is entirely annihilated. Wherefore praise and thanks be given to God Almighty. The course lies about South South West to the Indians new fort which is distant about 12 miles'. The way is som…

Started again and arrived about noon at Wildwyck; did not remark any thing by the way. 8th, An escort attended the reapers in the field ; returned in the evening without having seen any thing. Christoffels Davids departed. 9th ditto. Sunday. Lieutenant Stilwil and Lieutenant Couwenhoven left for the Manhatans with the sloop; sent with them seven wounded and some sick, together with seventeen…

, 14t> ditto. Sent an escort to the Redoubt by the river side. . Nothing else transpired, as it rained again nearly the, entire day. 15" ditto. Maet Seeu arrived at the Redoubt with his boat and eight soldiers and some letters from the Heeren Councillors, dated 13 September. Had him conducted up to the village of Wildwyck. An ordinance is enacted by the Council of War ; it reads as follows: …

" That no one shall presume to quit his post or station without "permission of the Segeant or Corporal in command, under the penalty of twenty stivers for the first offence, 40 dtivers for the second, and arbitrary punishment for the third. 2. "No person shall presume to take or steal another's gun, 'powder or lead in any manner whatsoever, on pain of corporal -punishment, according to the …

Lieutenant and valiant Cotincil of War, in Wildwyck, this 15 September, 1663." Nothing else occurred, inasmuch as it was again rainy weather. 16th ditto. Sunday. Nothing occurred and no detachment was sent out. 17h ditto. Maet Seeu left again with his boat; took with -- him two sick, Peter Andriessen and Jan Coppenou and two horses for Monsieur Verlet and sundry empty barrels for the Hon!…

Dons, Wildwyck, 18% Sept -- 1663." Answer of the Court as follows :--' The W. Court hav-_ ing looked around at the request of the Capt. Lieutenant and Council of War for proper lodgings for the coming forces, have induced Pieter Jacobsen to give his mill for 40 to 50 Soldiers, and the W. Court will do its best to find out quarters for the Savages. Done, Wildwyck, this 18 September 1663. (was…

Two detachments went out again; one with the _ ploughers, the other with those drawing home the oats, but they _ did not see any thing. 22¢ ditto. Another detachment was out in the field with the | ploughmen ; saw nothing. Sent a party about midnight along _ the Kill where some maize lay; distant South from Wildwyck _ about 2 hours' march ; but on arriving there found. only a small patch of…

About eleven o'clock that night sent out a party to the Sager's little kill in an easterly! direction from our village of Wildwyck about three miles from our fort, having been informed that there was some maize there, to see if they could not remove it thence, either by land or water. 24t ditto. Monday. The party that was sent out in the night returned home about two o'clock in the afternoon…

They also say that it is beautiful maize land, suitable for a number of bouweries and for the immediate reception of the plough. Had an escort in the field to bring in the oats and buckwheat, and sent one to the Redoubt, as Domine Blom had arrived in the Spaniard's yacht, and some supplies had also been sent from the Manhatans by the Heeren Councillors for the troops in the Esopus. Otherwise,…

Inasmuch as Lieutenant Couwenhoven has arrived at Wildwyck, and the gunner's wife has again brought a quantity of strong drink along, which she retails as well to Indians as to Christians, without making any exception as to habitual drunkards, and furnishes them with so much that they cannot distinguish even the door of the house, and then, coming out, fight with and strike the Indians. There…

The Capt Lieutenant and valiant Council of War do therefore hereby authorize and order Sheriff. Swartwout of this village to notify and forbid the tappers or retailers of strong drink who follow the profession of selling liquor in this village, that they do not under present circumstances sell strong drink to any one, be he Christian or Indian, under the forfeiture of the intoxicating liquor …

Convened the Council of war and resolved and concluded to set out on another expedition against the Esopus Indians next Monday being the 1st of October, and each man shall be furnished with three pounds of biscuit, one pound of powder and one pound of ball for the expedition. An order is also given to the Sheriff and Commissaries as follows--" Whereas by orders from the Director General and …

1st October being Monday, we marched from Wildwyck with these following troops; of the Military 102 men; of the Marseping Indians 46 men ; of the freemen 6 ; with 14 horses obtained from the farmers of Wildwyck for the use of the expedition so as to be able to accommodate the wounded, should we have any. Marched with these troops about 9 hours and arrived in the evening about 7 miles from Wi…

Sent out, immediately a party of Dutch men and Indians four miles beyond the fort in a South westerly direction where our guide presumed some Esopus Indians would be, but on coming there discovered nothing but some wigwams which had been a long time abandoned by the Indians. Meanwhile I had been over the Kill with a party of men and pulled off the corn and threw it into the Kill. The troops …

We pulled up the Indian fort and threw the palisades, one on the other, in sundry heaps and set them on fire, together with the wigwams which stood around the fort, and thus the fort and houses were destroyed and burnt. About 10 o'clock we marched thence down along the creek where lay divers maize plantations, which we also destroyed and cast the corn into the creek. Several large Wigwams sto…

This night one of the farmers' horses strayed away ; searched for it this morning every where, but could not find it. Meanwhile continued our march, and arrived in the evening at Wildwyck. Saw nothing on the road. The course from Wildwyck to the Indians' burnt fort lies mostly South Southwest across several large creeks, some of which are breast-high, some not so deep. The way is very bad - …

Said, she had escaped from an Indian who had taken her prisoner) and who resided in the mountain on the other side of the creek about three miles from Wildwyck where he had a hut and a small patch of corn which he had pulled and had been there about three weeks to remove the corn. The Council of War forthwith resolved to send thither forty men to try and catch him, whereupon Ensign Niessen wi…

Convened the Council of War and resolved and coneluded to send off Lieutenant Couwenhoven and the Marseping Indians and about forty of our soldiers to the Manhatans on the morrow being the ninth of October. The Council of War also resolved to send down all the Indian prisoners likewise to the Manhatans being eleven Esopus Indians, big and little and one Wappinger, making twelve in all, as th…

When one of these shot at him with an arrow but only slightly wonnded him, Louis, having a piece of a palisade in his hand, struck the Indian on the breast with it so that he staggered back, and Louis escaped through the kill, and came thence and brought the news into the fort, whereupon two detachments were instantly despatched to attack them, but they had taken to flight and retreated into…

Brought news that Peter the Fleming, residing on the Hast shore opposite Bethlehem had been' warned by a Mohawk to depart if he wish not to be killed, for he said that all the Indians on the East side of fort Orange river had assembled and were to come in five days to attack fort Orange. This Indian had given him this warning, he being his great Nytap' and the Mahicanders and the Cattskill I…

together ; namely the Mahicanders, the Catskills, the Wappingers, those of Esopus besides another tribe of Indians that dwell half way 'between Fort Orange and Hartford. Now, time will tell what there is herein. He said their place of meeting was on the east side of the fort Orange river, about three miles inland from Claverack, and that they were about five hundred strong. Sent two escorts to…

" Wuereas an Acte dated 234 August has been communicated to the Schout & Commissaries of this Village Wildwyck respecting the repair of this fortress of Wildwyck and nothing resulted therefrom to this date, the Capt. Lieutenant and Council of War do, therefore, again recommend and order the W. Court of this Village of Wildwyck to cause the said fortress to be properly secured by the Commonalt…

fortress being at present incapable of defence--and there appears no disposition as yet to repair it--although the said Capt. Lieutenant and Council of War will perform their duty with the force entrusted to them by the Supreme Government and shall constantly hold themselves in readiness, both in garrison and in the field, to maintain this place for the public interest, trusting that the W. C…

Two detachments were again in the field with the ploughmen, and an escort was also down to the river side. They returned and nothing else happened. i 17th ditto. Two detachments were again abroad with the ploughmen, and likewise one in ambush and had another as an escort to the river side. Nothing occurred to-day. An Ordinance was, this day, drawn up by the Council of War for the Soldiers at …

Lieutenant and Valiant Council of War, therefore, wishing to _ prevent all irregularities and infractions of military discipline. herein order and direct the officer and the military under his. command stationed at the Redoubt, not to remove himself, from the Redoubt, much less to send any of his command hither to 86 JOURNAL OF THE the Village of Wildwyck without proper consent of the Capt. …

Court, therefore, orders and directs that each farmer shall duely set up and repair the old, with new, palisades in front of his lot; and the others, being inhabitants or Burghers oecupying 34 lots: in this village, shall be obliged properly to repair and set up new palisades in place of the old, from the Water gate along the curtains unto the lot of Arent Pietersen Tack, the new palisades b…

Wherefore every inhabitant is hereby notified to appear at 7 o'clock on the day aforesaid , at the gate near Hendrick Jochemsen's, there, as his name is called, to proceed to work aforesaid, and to continue at it until the same shall be completed, on pain, in case of neglect or unwillingness, of paying for the first offence three guilders ; for the second offence double as much, and so on add…

Three detachments were out in the field again with the ploughmen, and one in ambush, but did not remark any thing. An escort was also down to the river side at the Redoubt. 21st ditto. Sunday ; nothing occurred. 224 ditto. Three detachments were again out with the ploughmen, -and one in ambush as scouting. An escort was likewise sent down to the river side ; they did not see any thing. 234…

Two parties were out; one with the wood cutters, the other in ambush--but saw Sonia 30 ditto. A detachment was in the woods with those cutting palisades, and a party to the river side, and also a troop in the woods scouting ; did not see any thing. ~ 81st ditto. Gerrit Abel was tried before the Valiant Court Martial for his offence committed on the 29% October and is sentenced by the Court a…

ber, without leave, escort or any necessary business, but merely to get drunk, as actually happened, which being notified to the Capt Lieutenant, he caused him to be placed under arrest, and to be tried this day, 31st October, before the Valiant Court Martial and prosecuted for this his committed offence, for which the Capt Lieutenant demands the Valiant Council of War duly to punish the accu…

Council of War having maturely considered this matter; that a soldier and more especially one who is in command over others hath deserved punishment for his committed offence according to the complaint and confession ; seeing that the prisoner's excuse hath no foundation, sentence the accused Gerret Abel, to be dismissed from his post of Cadet (Adelborst) and to be reduced to the ranks (Schil…

A detachment was down at the river side to carry rations to the people at the Redoubt, and another party was at the Great Plot, but did not notice any thing. 4th ditto. Sunday. Nothing done 5th ditto. An escort was down to the river side to bring up eel ite all ene "™ SECOND ESOPUS WAR 89 some supplies and people that had arrived from the Manhatans in Lucassen's yacht, they being freemen b…

In the evening Pieter Wolfertsen arrived at the Redoubt with Rut Jacobsen's yacht ; brought with him two Christian children which he had in exchange from the Esopus Indians for a Squaw with a big girl; brought back the other Indian prisoners; brought also the Wappinger Sachem whom Couwenhoven had detained in the yacht ; says a Christian woman is kept a prisoner by the Wappingers, and that he…

Said it was the Sachem of the Wappingers with one of his Indians whom he had brought along but not as a prisoner--had come willingly on board as a friend. Asked him, If he would wish to return home and endeavor to let us have the female christian captive? To which he answered, yes ; says, he will bring her himself in six or seven days. Whereupon the Council of War decided that he and the Ind…

The Company's Yacht arrived ; brings some provisions for the garrison ; also arrived at the Redoubt a Wappinger Sachem with eight Indians, bringing a female Christian Captive whom he had purchased from the Esopus Indians and which he had promised us on the 8 inst. on board Rut Jacobson's Yacht. The Council of War resolved that he and his attending Indians should be brought up to Wildwyck; they …

The Council of War met again and resolved to release the Wappinger Indian, and to give him back to. the Chief with one of the Esopus captive Squaws, pursuant to our previous promise, made on the eight of November to the Wappinger Chief, on board the Yacht at the Redoubt. Invited the Chief and his Indians into the Council chamber and presented him the Esopus Squaw and a little sucking infant, …

Now, what the result will be, when. the ten days are expired, time will tell. So they again departed well satisfied. Gave them an escort to conduct them to the river side, and the Council resolved that the sloop shall remain until the expiration of the time agreed upon between Lieutenant Couwenhoven and the Esopus Sachem on the 5th November, on board the Sloop in, the Wappinger Creek, to wit…

18th Sunday. After Capt Lieutenant Martin Cregiers departure yesterday, Jan Hendricksen Van Baal came the fourth person up to Wildwyck. He arrived from the Manhatans in M'. * That part of the Journal between Asterisks is by Ensign Niessen. Ep. 92 JOURNAL OF THE Abraham's' yacht and reported that two Dutchmen were killed by the Savages between Gemonapa? and the Maize land. Had them escorted, …

Aboutone o'clock in the afternoon a Wappinger Indian came to Wildwyck with a flag of truce ; reports that a Wappinger Sachem lay at the river side near the Redoubt with venison and wished to have a wagon to convey the venison up for sale, which was refused. The said Indian told me that the Sachem had not much to say ; added further, that the Hackingsack Indians had represented that four of th…

He said, he had been to receive the Christian prisoners and should have had them with us before, had he not unfortunately burnt himself in his sleep when lying before the fire ; shewed us his buttock with the mark of the burn which was very large; Also said, that six Christian Captives were together at the river side, and gave ten fathom of Sewan to another Indianto lock up the seventh Chri…

"To be brief, we could not omit advising Your Honours that three Indians arrived here yesterday, being come, as they said, from the -Manhatans, with an open letter, heing a pass not to commit any hostility against their people to this date. But we cannot determine what sinister design these Indians may have recourse to under cover of this pass. We maintain that such and other Indians resort …

ised us, among other things, to bring us hither all the Christian prisoners, within three or four days, according to the entries in our daily journal which Your Honors shall receive from us by the first Yacht. Donr, Wildwyck this first December 1663. (Was subscribed) Curistrarn Niessen, Tuomas Cuampers." 24 ditto. Sunday. Nothing happened, except that on account of the hard frost, I requeste…

"The Military Council decided that it was impossible, in view of the approaching winter, to send the articles down at present as here at Wildwyck we have no smith sufficiently expert to repair the arms, and as the Wappingers come almost daily under pretence of exchanging Christians, to-spy out this place which already hath suffered massacre enough, and consequently, if the articles in readines…

Court to put the fort ina suitable state of defence within the space of three days, and in default or neglect thereof, that he do it with the best means he may at present find at hand, and demand repayment therefor when done from the W. Court at Wildwyck. "The Military Council unanimously resolved that for the due execution of said proposal, it be forthwith communicated to the W. Court in W…

For the two Christian children which he hath brought with him, an Indian child is given him, being a little girl, and three pieces of cloth, with which he was content. .In the afternoon, Jeronimus Ebbing, Nicolaes Meyer and Frederick the Hon!e Company's late carpenter, went down unescorted to the Redoubt, with six wagon loads of grain, not being willing to wait for the writings and letters w…

The flood set in about two hours before day ; ran through the Highlands; having got through which, we caught a southern breeze but at day break it became calm again; so ran by the Kamer and arrived this night about 10 o'clock at the mouth of the Esopus Kill. Despatched a man up with a note to Ensign Nyssen to send down some wagons in the morning with an escort to convey up the Hon>le Company…

Assembled the Sheriff and Commissaries of the Village Wildwyck and handed them the letter sent to them by the Hon?!e Director General and Council and discharged Sheriff Swartwout. from his office and put |Mattheus Capito] provisionally in his place and presented him to the Court of Wildwyck according to order, whom the 'said Commissaries congratulated and were well pleased with; they promised …

The Captain and Lieutenant of the Burghery of Wiltwyck requested to have a drum according to the promise given them by the Heer General. By permission of the Military Council a Drum and appurtenances were given to the officers of the burghery of Wildwyck. A party was down to the river side to see if circumstances would admit of the sloop leaving the kill. The party returned and stated that th…

The answer thereto is as follows--Petitioners' request is granted. Whenever they require it at the public expense or for their own defence, it shall be furnished them from the Hon>!¢ Company's _ Magazine by the officer who will be here. Done, Wiltwyck this - 28th December, 1663. 29th ditto. The Military Council resolved to issue an Ordinance against the gunners who usually run about firing on…

and throughout the day and sometimes to the great danger of each other and to their own destruction, both in wounding or destroying their own persons which frequently occurs therefrom; and whereas there are here many ricks and barns full of grain and straw, and as great disorder and rashness prevail in many places especially on this day, both in the morning and throughout the day, by firing o…

Thus done and enacted by the Captain Lieutenant and Valiant Council of War in Fort Wiltwyck this 29t» Xber 1663." Have been down with a party to the river side to bring away the guns and other munitions of war. Nothing else occnrred. 30'h, Sunday. Nothing done as it rained almost the entire day and the kill became again open. 31st. Left the Esopus again in the Hon>!¢ Companys Yacht for the …

*,* Inthe year 1649, delegates were sent from New Netherland to Holland to obtain redress of various grievances of which the Colonists of the day complained. A number of representations were made by the complainants as well as by the government. Of these Van der Donck's Vertoogh and Secretary Van Tienhoven's answer, haye been published in the Collections of the N. Y. Hist. Soc., 2d. Ser. ii. Th…

Passing over several minor abuses, in order to come to the tyrany which ruins the whole country, you must know that Governor Kieft had for a long time secretly intended to begin a war with the savages of New Netherland, because they had refused, on reasonable grounds, to give him a certain contribution, alleging they were not obliged to give it to the director, or to the Dutch : 1. Not for t…

Item, that when our nation, having lost a ship there had built a new one, they had supplied them with victuals and all other necessaries, and had taken care of them for two winters, till the ship was finished ; consequently we were under obligation to them, not they to us. 4. For that reason they asked why they should supply us with maize for nothing, since they paid as much as we asked, for…

The delegates from all the savage tribes, such as the Raritans, whose chiefs called themselves Oringkes, from Orange, the Hacquinsacks, the Wappenas, Hogelanders, Wicquasgecks, Reckewacke, Mereckewacks, Tappanders, Massapeins, Zinkeeuw, and others, had got as many objections to make, as there were points to discuss. They, however, separated peaceably, contenting themselves with giving us no co…

About the same time there was a feast at the house of Jan Janssen Damen, at which the director, in a significant toast, communicated his intended attack on the savages to three inconsiderate boors, viz : Maryn Adriaensz, Jan Jansz and Abraham Plancy, who presented a (pretended) request, composed by secretary Tienhoven, to the governor, begging him to allow them to take revenge on the savages…

To revenge this man's death several savages had been killed, and our people were again in peace with them ; so that at the time the director ordered this massacre, the same tribe who had killed the deceased Mr. y. Nederhorsts servant, had been visited some weeks before by the director himself, and CALLED BREEDEN RAEDT. 103 supplied with all necessaries ; this pretent was therefore altogether…

The settlers were not so much as thoughtof. The secretary himself went to reconnoitre the camp of the savages the day before the attack, andif the settlers had known what was intended, supposing there had been reasons for it, not one of the savages would have escaped ; but if, as was really the case, there had been no reasons, the director would never have been able to commit such a murder, i…

Some children of from 5 to 6 years of age, as also some old infirm persons, who had managed to hide themselves in the bushes and reeds, came out in the morning to beg for a piece of bread and for permission to warm themselves, but were all murdered in cold blood and thrown into the fire or the water. A few escaped to our settlers, some with the loss of a hand, others of a leg, others again h…

Did ever the duke of Alba do more evil in the Netherlands ? F. Certainly you have such Dutch Governors or directors who. honour and respect the duke of Alba. B. Yes sir, it isa scandal for our nation ; and if silence would have remedied it I should never have mentioned it. But information has been given of it in the proper quarter, and not only it has not been remedied, but it has gone still…

Iam told for a fact that a certain skipper Isaac Abrahamsen, having saved a young boy, and hidden him under the sails in order to give him to one Cornelius Melyn, towards morning the poor child, overcome with cold and hunger, made some noise eager mee tenis ee cal te er EE te en nee CALLED BREEDEN RAEDT. 105 and was heard by the soldiers, 18 Dutch tigers, draggea from under the sails in sp…

We had but a choice of evils. The Director robbed and murdered wherever he could, and in the manner already related 1600 savages were killed in the years 1643 and 1644; some of them were settled among the English, at a distance of from 10 to 20 miles from us, who were most of them surprised in theix sleep, many of them never having seen a Dutchman much less ever having done them any harm. I…

They then took the other four with them in the sailing boat, two of whom were towed along by a ' string round their necks till they were drowned, while the two unfortunate survivors were detained as prisoners at fort Amsterdam. When they had been kept a long time in the corps de garde, the director became tired: of giving them food any longer, and they were delivered to the soldiers to do as …

While this was going forward, director Kieft, with his councillor Jan de la Montaigne, a Frenchman, stood laughing heartily at the fun, and rubbing his right arm, so much delight he took in such scenes. He then ordered him to be taken out of the fort, and the soldiers bringing him to the Beaver's path (he dancing the Kinte Kaeye all the time) threw him down, cut off his partes genitales, thr…

W. point of the fort ; and when they saw this bloody spectacle, they held up their arms, struck their mouth, and in their language exclaimed: " For shame! for shame! such unheard of cruelty was never known, or even thought of among us." The savages have often called out to us from a distance: what scoundrels you Swannekens are; you do not war upon us, but upon our wives and children, whom yo…

The state's general being informed of all those evils, ordered the governors (of the West India Company) to remedy them; and the latter, conscious of having trifled too long with director Kieft, with whom they were thoroughly acquainted, chose a certain Petrus Stuyvesant, formerly director of Curacao, the son of a minister in Vriesland, to supersede him. This same Stuyvesant robbed the daugh…

Neither could he contain himself till he had time and opportunity, but even upon his passage threatened that when he. arrived in New Netherland, he would teach them better to know their plans. As however he had promised their high mightinesses by oath, that he would punish the faults of director Kieft according to their deserts, and properly support the inhabitants; the result however has show…

Indeed when we broke up the seige and retired, without effecting any thing, only because of his leg, which was shot off by the first cannon shot from Fort St. Martin, we left every thing behind, and among other things 5 or 6 field pieces. Was that a fine Roman achievement? Who knows how much that expedition cost the company? Such a prudent hero deserved indeed to be advanced to director, and…

In all that he is just the man he has always been ; and so there is no change to be expected but for the worse. J. What was his reception in New Netherland? B. There was so much shouting on all sides, that they were obliged to send to another place to buy Remar for exercising and in case of need. J. I could have guessed as much, but fin did he treat the inhabitants from the very first? B. …

Stuyvesant, under the canopy of heaven, declared loudly that every one should have justice done to him, which assurance was very agreeable to the community; a few days afterwards, however, being well persuaded and led away by Kieft, Stuyvesant began to assemble a court of justice, had the letter of the 8 deputed petitioners to the chamber of Amsterdam laid before it, and having chosen the si…

And when the arbiters produced divers memorials, points and persons to prove the truth of what was written, their statements were either entirely rejected or a part of what came to light was suppressed. And what was more, the other persons who had riiediteed two letters were prevailed upon and obliged by high authority and severe menaces as also by fair promises, not to divulge what would b…

So director Stuyvesant passed sentence against Joachim Pietersz and Cornelis Melyn, whom he charged with having accused, by libellous letters their legitimate governor and chief director Kieft, in a clandestine and lying way; with having censured and calumniated him, the which he and his counsil desiring to prevent in the well ordered commonwealth of New Netherland, and executing justice in …

of the preceding arguments was found guilty of Crimen laesae Majestatis, crimen falsi, crimen of libeland defamation, and on that account was to forfeit all benefits derived from the company or which he might still claim, a penalty of 300 guilders, to be applied as above, and to be banished from New Netherland for the term of 7 years. So that those who had accused Kieft were kicked out and s…

He also. represented Kieft's affair in so favorable a light, inveighed so furiously against the constant arbiters, that the foam hung on his beard. To show still more clearly that he did not at all intend to follow ' t Mi: % % re > ~= CALLED BREEDEN RAEDT. AT} the orders of their High Mightinesses or fulfil the promises he made them, or to satisfy the community, he immediately appointe…

The Princess was to carry the director and those two faithful patriots away from New Netherland, but coming into the wrong channel it struck upon a rock and was wrecked. And now this wicked Kieft, seeing death before his eyes, sighed deeply and turning to these two, said: Friends, I have been unjust towards you, can you forgive me? Towards morning the ship was broken to pieces. Melyn lost hi…

They then took some planks and pieces of wood, fastened them together and 112 EXTRACTS FROM A WORK CALLED BREEDEN RAEDT. having made sails of their shirts, etc., they got at last to the Mainland of England. As these persons were more concerned for their papers than for any thing else, they caused them to be dragged for, and on the third day Joachim Pietersz got a small part of them, which a…

Those who had always corresponded with those wicked children of Belial, van Beeck Perquin; they got a hearing, - however, and set their affair in such a light before their H. M. that it was resolved to prevent such unrighteous proceedings, dispatched letters of inhibition, ordered Stuyvesant either to appear in person or by proxy, in order to hear his sentence maintained, confirmed or annull…

In front of Newfoundland he took a course directly southwest ; entered a large river ; there [met] two men clothed in Elk skins, and subsequently arrived safe at Amsterdam. New Netherland being thus discovered, divers traders set about establishing a stable trade here. Wherefore they sought for and obtained a charter in the year sixteen hundred and fourteen, from the States General at the Hag…

These are cruel and wicked men, enemies of the Dutch, as well as of the Sanhikans who dwell on the west side. Higher up lie the Makwaes and Mahikans, who are constantly at war with each other : in like manner all the inhabitants on the west bank of the Manhattan river frequently make war on those residing-on the east side. And the latter in like manner entertain. constant animosity against th…

On the river side stand the gallows and whipping. post. A handsome public tavern adorns the farthest point. Between the fort and this tavern is a row of suitable dwelling houses: among which stand out the ware houses of the West India Company. Vew Netherland hath, moreover, divers remarkable water falls tumbling down from lofty rocks, broad creeks and kills, fresh lakes and rivulets and ple…

The Hickory trees furnish a hot and lasting fire, and a curious appearance whenever the bush is cut away either for the purpose of more open hunting or for clearing the ground for abouwery. Someplants sent hither from Hol- Jand thrive better than even in Holland ; namely, the apple, pear, quince, cherry, plum, currant, apricot, buckthorn, medlar, peach and onion. vine grow wild everywhere and…

The barley can be tied above the head. Furthermore, all sorts of flowers havea pleasant odor and appearance. The hills consist of fullers earth, or clay, fit for making dishes, pots and tobacco pipes. There is, besides, abundance of rock crystal and Muscovy glass. Other hills furnish marble, _ serpentine, blue and hearth stone. And although the Dutch have not taken much trouble to dig for m…

Kieft suspected some valuable mineral to be concealed in this operation, proposed to satisfy Agheroense ; subjected it to the crucible ; obtained two pieces of gold worth three guilders. He kept the matter secret ; obtained fortunately from the mountain pointed out by Agheroense,a bucket full of the material, for it furnished gold. Kieft now imagined he had made a great discovery & despatched …

The inhabitants temper the paint with water, and then streak the body ; it produces the most beautiful purple that can any where be found. Their pictures represent canoes, trees and animals, but very indifferently executed. Instead of plumes they bedeck themselves with hair tied with small bands. The hair is of a scarlet colour and surprizing brilliancy which is permanent and ineffaceable by…

Besides, venison is so abundant that the sheep can on this account be the more easily dispensed with. Fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, pigeons and other feathered game are, also, easily obtained. . Lions, whose skins the Indians bring to market, are caught on a high mountain, situated fifteen days journey to the southwest.?. Here, also, are many pitch black Why it failed. Their ornaments. Hor…

On the borders of Canada animals. ~ animals are now and again seen, somewhat resembling a horse; they have cloven hoofs, shaggy manes, a horn right out of the forehead, a tail like that of the wild hog, black eyes, a stag's neck & love the gloomiest wildernesses ; are shy of each other so that the male never feeds with the female except when they associate for purposes of increase. Then they l…

They have broad, branching horns, a short tail, a shaggy neck, variable hair, according to the difference of the season, wide and long ears, prominent lips, small teeth, a thick hide, which cannot be easily pierced. The females separate from the males, when they have shed their horns. Both can be easily tamed. When hunted they spew hot water out on the the dogs. They possess great strength o…

Many learned men dispute respecting the Civets whence civet, namely, whether it be the seed of the civet ; cat: Cardanus so maintains, but he is thoroughly refuted on this point by Julius Scaliger Matthiolus, whose opinions many embrace ; he affirms the civet to be the sweat of the cat, inasmuch asit was gathered most plentifully whenever these animals, wearied by excitement, pant for breath.…

In the meantime cats are embarrassed with their civet, whereof they rid themselves by rubbing against trees, and evince friendship for those who, in the sheepfold, rub it off with a spoon. But in addition to other wild animals WVew Netherland furnishes, according to the occular evidence of Adriaen van der Donk, full eighty thousand beavers a year. Pliny relateshow these animals castrate thems…

no common admiration ; they are thus constructed--the Beavers first collect together all the drift wood which they find along the river, and whenever this falls short, they gnaw away, in the next adjoining wood, the sweetest bark all around with the front teeth, of which they have two in the upper, and two in the lower gum, they then cut right around the trunk until the tree falls; when they…

The beavers go with young sixteen weeks ; they bear once a year four young, which ery and suck like young children ; for the mother rises on her hind paws and gives each two a breast as she has only two breasts between the fore legs ; these legs resemble somewhat those of the dog; the hindmost, like those of geese, lap in some measure over each other. On both sides of the privy parts lie two…

physicians, consists of oblong follicles, resembling a wrinkled pear which are firmly attached to the os pubis of Castor, what. the female beaver; the Indians cut up the little balls of the males with their tobacco as they afford no castor. The air of New Netherland abounds with all sorts of birds. 122 _ DESCRIPTION OF NEW NETHERLAND. Besides falcon, sparrow-hawks, fish-hawks, and Bie N: Ne…

They are excessively lascivious, so that they go together more than thirty times a day, not only with their own kind, but even with the female hawks and she wolves (wolvinnen). They hatch out the large eggs in thirty, and the small in twenty days. They usually breed two to three young, whose eyes they turn towards the sun's rays. If these regard the light of heaven without blinking they bri…

Their breath stinks badly, wherefore the carcasses on which they feed rot rapidly, and though lascivious they are long lived : they die mostly of hunger, as the bill becomes by age so crooked that they cannot open any thing. Whereupon they finally fly to the highest regions towards the sun, tumble down into the coldest stream ; they pluck out their feathers, clammy with sweat, and thus breath…

But this conntry particularly abounds in turkeys, whose number excites no less admiration than their rich flavour and their large size ; for they go together in flocks of thirty and forty : they weigh some thirty and more pounds ; they are shot or are caught with a bait concealing the hook. The waters here swarm, in the spring and fall, with swans, geese, wild ducks, teals, widgeons, divers…

This is variegated, hath a thick head, four long, sharp fangs, and a horny tail with joints doubled over each other, more or less according to age, for the tail increases one joint each year. The shaking of the tail causes a hideous drumming preliminary to its biting. The rattle-snake then opens wide its jaws; the upper one is arched and hath a blue membrance doubled. over, from which it sho…

Water satisfies their thirst; high and low make use of Indian corn and beans, flesh meat and fish prepared allalike. Thecrushed corn is daily boiled to a pap called by them sappaen. They observe no set time for meals. Whenever hunger demands, the time for eating arrives. . Beavers' tails are considered the most savory delicacy. Whilst hunting they live some days on roasted corn carried abou…

In the twinkle of an eye these brought in pigeons they had killed. A fat dog which had been 'very expertly skinned with shells, was laid also on the 'fire. Other preparations were, likewise made for Hudson's good entertainment, but as he did not intend to pass the night there, he did not profit by them ; notwithstanding the Indians broke their arrows and cast them into the fire so that Hudson …

They also wrap the naked body in a deer's skin, the tips of which swing with thin points. A Jong robe fastened on the right shoulder with a knot, at the waist by a girdle, serves the men and women for an upper ornament, and by night for a bed cover. Both go, for the most part, bare headed. The women bind their hair behind in a plait, over which they draw a square cap thickly interwoven with…

The tops are bent together above in the form of a gallery, and throughout the length of these bent poles, laths are fastened. The walls and roof are then, covered with the bark of elm, ash, and chestnut trees; the bark is lapped over each other as a protection against a change of weather, and the smooth side is turned inward. The houses lodge fifteen families together, more or less, according…

And such harmony exists among these, that they are never at variance. Minors do not marry, except with the advice of their parents or friends. Widowers and widows follow their own inclinations: regard is only had to each other's condition and children. The bridegroom must make a present to the bride. On the slightest misunderstanding, the wife, paid right off, is put by the husband out of door…

A passer by ere long releases 'the pig pregnant women, '2 the poke.' When pregnant, the woman takes great heed, in order that the embryo may not be injured. On the approach of the birth of the child, which she precisely knows, she retires to,a lonely place in the woods, even in the severest cold, erects a hut of mats, separates the child with- » out any one's aid, washes it in the water, and…

They then stow wood all around, which they cover with planks; on the planks, which are covered with earth and stones, palisades are fastened in such a manner that the tomb resembles a little house, to which they pay divine reverence; wherefore they consider it a great profanation to violate such places. The men make no noise over the dead, but the women carry on uncommonly; they strike thei…

Finally, they all raise a tremendous caterwauling, when the devil (as they say) appears in the shape of a ravenous or harmless animal: the first betokens something bad ; the other good: both give information respecting coming events; but obscurely, which they attribute to their own ignorance, not understanding the Devil's right meaning when matters turn out differently. They, moreover, bewit…

In other respects they are grave, chary of speech, which, after mature consideration, is slowly uttered and long remembered. The understanding being somewhat sharpened by the Hollanders, they evince sufficient ability to distinguish carefully good from evil. They will not suffer any imposition. No wise disposed to gluttony, they are able patiently to endure cold, heat, hunger and thirst. They…

Mode of war. Fea ah tae: DESCRIPTION OF NEW NETHERLAND. 129 danger, the women and children are placed in a secure hiding place. Their weapons used formerly to be the arrow, bow and war club. They now use the snap-haunce at which they are very expert. .A square shield covers the body up to the shoulders. A snake skin is tied around the head from the centre of which sticks up a fox's or bear…

Notwithstanding misdemeanors are not punished, wicked acts are of rare occurrence. Stolen property, whenever discovered, is ordered by the Chief to be restored. The next of kin of the murdered man may kill the murderer, if he overtake him within four and twenty hours. But if he avenge himself later, he is subject to be slain by the relative of the second victim, within the limit of the stated…

times happens that a ringleader will admit of no 'reasoning, whereupon some of the chiefs strikes the mutineer on the head with an axe. No one is so bold as to dare to mutter a word in such a case. No trace of divine worship Worship can hardly be discovered here. Only they ascribe . great influence to the moon over the crops. The Sun, as all seeing, is taken to witness as often as they take …

After she had thus acted the Universal mother returned up to Heaven, where she enjoys perfect bliss with the Sovereign Lord, whom they know not nor ever saw ; wherefore they will be held less responsible than the Christians ; pretending to acknowledge him a punisher of all wicked deeds which they commit notwithstanding, and it is with more difficulty that they can be. brought from these adopte…

In the year sixteen hundred and fifty six, they shipped accordingly over to Wew Netherland seventy families, to which they added three hundred Waldenses who had been driven out of Piedmont. These embarked on the fifteenth of December by beat ofdrum.? Colonization prospered. Meanwhile, when the war between the English crown and the United Netherlands broke out, the Dutch found themselves, after…

Accordingly, in the year 1624,as in previous years, divers families went from Holland to Virginia in the West Indies, a great portion of them being English, called Brownists, whom King James will not permit nor suffer to live in his land, because they hold and maintain divers points of religion improbated by the present church of England. 1 The preceding part of this article seems to have be…

There is considerable fish in the rivers; good tillage land; here is, especially, free coming and going, 'without fear of the naked natives of the country. Had we cows, hogs, and other cattle fit for food (which we daily expect in the first ships) we would not wish to return to Holland, for whatever we desire in the paradise of Holland, is here to be found. If you will come hither with your …

He was originally a native of Deinse in Flanders, and was selected at the Synod of Dort asone of the translators of the Old Testament--so great was his: reputation as a Hebrew Scholar. He died at Zutphen in 1640, at the age of 66 years. A list of his works will be found in the Biog. Universelle ; Biog. Dict. Watts &. The Gedenkwaardige Geschiedenissen, or Remarkable ecclesiastical and politi…

The Prisoners being brought to the Barr by Allard Anthony, Bherifts of New Yorke, This following Indictmt was read, first against Ralph Hal] and then agst Mary his wife, viz'. The Constable and Overseers of the Towne of Seatallcott, in the East Riding of Yorkshire upon Long Island, Do Present for our Soveraigne Lord the King, That Ralph Hall of Seatallcott aforesaid, upon ye 25" day of Decem…

Moreover, The Constable and overseers of the said Towne of Seatalcott, in the East Riding of Yorkshire upon Long Island aforesaid, do further Present for our Soveraigne Lord the King, That some while after the death of the aforesaid George Wood, The said Ralph Hall did (as is suspected) divers times by yé like wicked and detestable Arts, comonly called Witheraft and Sorcery, Maliciously and …

Childe by the wayes and meanes aforesaid, most. wickedly maliciously and feloniously were (as is suspected) murdered by the said Ralph Hall at the times and places aforesaid, agst ye Peace of Our Soveraigne Lord y° King and against the Laws of this Government in such Cases Provided. , The like Indictmt was read, against Mary the wife of Ralph Hall. There upon, several] Depositions, accusing…

Thou did'st upon the 25th day of December, being Christmas day last was 12 Moneths, and at seu'all other times since, as is suspected, by some wicked and detestable Arts, commonly called witcheraft.and Sorcery, maliciously and feloniously practice and Exercise, upon the Bodyes of George Wood, and an Infant Childe of Ann Rogers, by which said Arts, the said George Wood and the Infant Childe (…

But in reference to the man wee finde nothing considerable to charge him with. The Court there upon, gave this sentence, That the man should bee bound Body and Goods for his wives Apperance, at the next Sessions, and soon from Sessions to Sessions as Jong as they stay wthin this Government, In the meane while, to bee of ye good Behaviot So they were return'd,into the Sheriffs Custody, and u…

That contrary to y° consent & good liking of y¢ Towne she would settle amongst them & she being reputed to be a person lyeing und? ye supposicon of Witchcraft hath given some cause of apprehension to ye Inhabitants there, To ye end their Jealousyes & feares as to this perticuler may be removed, I have thought fitt to ord? & appoint that ye Constable & Overseers of ye Towne of Westchestt do g…

Whereas Complaint hath beene made unto me by y® Inhabitants of Westchestt agt Katherine Harrison widdow That she doth neglect to refuse or obey my late Ordr concerning her removall out of ye said*Towne, These are to require you that you give notice unto the said Katherine Harrison as also unto Ca pt» Richard Panton at whose house she resydeth, That they make their personall appearance before …

Whereas seuerall Adresses haue beene made unto me by some of ye Inhabitants of Westchestt on behalfe of y¢ rest desiring that Katherine Harrison late of Wethersfeild in his Maties Colony of Connecticott widdow at p'sent residing in their Towne may be ordered to remove from thence & not permitted to stay wthin their Jurisdiction upon an apprehension they have of her grounded upon some trouble…

In the case of Katherine Harryson Widdow, who was bound to the good Behaviour upon Complt of some of the Inhabitants of Westchester untill ye holding of this Court, It is Ordered, that in regard there is nothing appears against her deserving the continuance of that obligacon shee is to bee releast from it, & hath Liberty to remaine in the Towne of Westchester where shee now resides, or any w…

Cartes Fontrern : 1 poll, 1 horse of 3 yrs. 2 oxen, 10 cows, 4 ditto of 3 yrs. 6 ditto of 2 yrs. 2 ditto of 1 yr. 4 hogs........ £122 40 morgens of land and valley.......... 80 a 142 ASSESSMENT ROLLS Evert Hepeman : 1 poll, 1 horse, 2 oxen, 2 ROWS ENO sits die Sih «0iy 9 a-die (wo asda - £53 133 morgens of land and valley......... 27 Jaques Cossartr: 1 poll, 2 cows, 1 hog, 5 sheep,. . de …

Cuartes Housman: 1 poll, 1 horse, 3 cows.. £45 11 morgens of land & valley.......... 22 Stas DE GRoorr: 1 poll, 1 horse, 1 cow..... CorvELis JANSEN: 1 poll, 1 horse of 3 yrs. 1 cow 1 ditto of 3 yrs. 1 ditto of 2 yrs.... £37.10 4 morgens of land and valley...... + emake 8 Jan Corneuise Zeuw: 1 poll, 2 horses, 2 cows, D sheep,..*.... er Ta re eS | 17 morgens of land and valley, ......... 34 …

2 morgens of Jand........ a ete: Si; VouckEert Diercxse: 2 polls, 3 horses, 1 d° of 3 yrs. 1 ditto of J yr. 5 cows, 4 d° of 3 yrs. 3 ditto of 1 yr. 6 sheep, 2 hogs... £129 25 morgens of land & valley.......... Ae ig ae , ----. 179 Jan ArtaensEn : 1 poll, 3 cows, 1 d° of 3 yrs. 2 d°of 1 yr. 3 hogs, 2 sheep.......... £44 Simorgens of landise.n sf. 8 ke Ue 6 _-_-- 50 ARIE CornELISE VocEL: 2…

Sf, ckeict oO Daas 18 NELTTIE Jans : 2 Cows, 3sheep....sseecece 11 Jan-Jansen Kurper: 1 poll,...... cee sees 18 Dierck VotckersE: 1 poll, 3 horses, 1 of 2 yrs. 2 of 1 yr. 3 cows, 1 of 3 yrs. 1 of 1 WE GC SUCC eee anes fut lores aust be ECO 36 morgens of fil & SAMS Re Jasece DierckseE: 1 poll, 1 horse, 1.ditto of 3 yrs. 1 cow, 1 sheep, i. .Veweiesasett s£43110 5 mongensof land.<). j. dient…

ASSESSMENT OF THE REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY OF THE INHABITANTS OF BREUCKLEN, MADE UP ON THE 20th AUGUST, ANNO. 1675.. Theunes Jansen: 3 polls, 4 horses, 1 ditto of lyr. 2 oxen, 4 cows, 4 ditto of 3yrs.2 | ditto of 2 yrs. 4 ditto of 1 yr. 5 hogs,... £169 23 morgens of Jand and valley, ........ 46 Claes Arense : 3 polls, 1 horse, 4 cows, 1 ditto of 3 yrs. 1 ditto of 2 yrs. 1 ditto of lyr. £…

Jan Cornelise Buis: 1 poll, 2 horses, 2 cows, 1 ditto of 2 yr. 1 ditto of 1 yr. 12 sheep Dierck Stoorm: 1 poll, 2 cows, 1 ditto of 3 yrs. 1 hog, ' ie pie es ges Nicklaes Baceors 1 'poll 1 dee 3 dow 3 ditto of 2 yrs. 2 ditto of lyr. 6 hogs,... £61.10 18 morgens of land and valley, ........ 36. Joost Fransen: 1 poll, 2 horses, 4 cows, 1 ditto of 3 yrs. 3 ditto of 2 yr. : ditto of Be ee eee …

Paulus Mickielse Van der Voortt: 1 poll, 1 horse of 3 yrs., 2 oxen, 3 cows, 1 ditto OL SyFoe Pith OL 7. Ty eae tee ° £58.10. 10 morgens of land and valley ......... 20 Willem Willemse : 1 poll, 2 horses, 2 oxen, 6 cows, 2 ditto of 2 yrs., 4 ditto of 1 yr., OMT Cr earyee were es Oe a es ors £96 134 sdbkebid of Jand: and tee Wetec mat: 1 Incorrectly printed '' Mackenzjg"' in the second volum…

Dierck Pauluse: poll, I horse of 3 yr. 3 cows, 4 ditto of 2 yrs. 3 ditto of l-yr.1 hog, Sees Se eee Ue ne CWite wre tee y ADIOS EU 2 morgens of land and aera Srtdawas 24 Weynantt Pietterse : 1 poll, 2 horses, 3 cows, Laditto of Sir. 2d of Tyre. eevee LOS. 10 pynorgentoftland Oke. of Scase.k Hh oy dD Adam Brouwer : 2 polls, 2 cows, 3 ditto of 3 yrs. 3 sheep, 1 hogs. seas 226% Fe cd, B60 ie…

Lambert Jansen Dortlantt: 1 poll 4 cows... £38 8 morgens of land and valley......... 16 Jerom de Rappallie : 3 ge ae 1 ditto of Lyre PRorse®, setseces. fesscccae: 882-10 8 morgens of land and valley ieee "Le Daniel de Rappallie : 1 poll, 1 horse, 1 cow.. Seimen Claessen : 1 poll, 1 Sah 1 cow 1 d° of 3 yrs. 2 hogs::..: ACE ee ic, See OSI 6 morgens of land............ fe ceies eee Theunes Gi…

PEP DOGS 6 eden Ce thee arate Yes aah neg teead 40 morgens of land and valley......... yoke x94 Susanne Dubbels: 2:oxen, 5 cows, 3 ditto of eayts., 3 ditto Of A Vise, asites paue meeeeien 4 8 morgen of land and valley.......... 16 sh Faetter Corse: 1 poll... . secs «on eA eats St 18 Hendrick Corse : 2 polls, 2 horses, 2 sheep.. £61 10 morgens of land and valley ,........ 20 a Hendrick They…

Jean Aersen : 1 poll, 4 horses, 3 cows, 1 ditto of 2 yrs. 2 ditto' of 1 year, 1 hog ...... 87.10 Juffw Potters: 1 horse, 1 ditto of 2 yrs. 4 cows, 1 ditto of 2 yrs. 2 ditto of 1 yr. 2 hogsiz. gags. ee, Cee CHEE nega nee £44.10 18 morgens of land and valley .......... +36 80.10 Dierck Janse Voertman: 1 poll, 2 horses, 3 COWS 45 cece Shel wasn fo game ¢e Shwe FOOT 9 morgens land and valley.…

Jan Frederickse : 1 poll, 2 cows, 1 morgen of VMPC cane Se nild Oh telors ole Sate ate thas wn Baerent Hegberttse : 1 poll, 1 cow, 3 ditto of 3 yrs. 1 ditto of 2 years, 2 ditto of 1 VOaL oss ss. yeh A nadtie Bs peal & . £40.10 4 morgen of land and valley..... oe dee Jan Hansen : 1 poll, 2 horses, 4 cows, 2 ditto of 3 yrs. 2 ditto of 2 yrs. 1 ditto of 1 yr. AOES 62-05 6 Go oe harp vO» 6 aa S…

28 morgens of land and valley......... 56 -- Jan Gillese: 1 poll, 1 hog .........0c0 eee 178.10 48.10 180 10 150 ASSESSMENT ROLLS Joores Jacobse : 3 polls, 5 horses, 1 ditto of 1 yr. 5 cows, 3 ditto of 3 yrs. 2 ditto of 2 yrs. 4 ditto: of 1 yr. 2 hogs... sie M167 40 morgens of land and valley ......... 80 'Total amount of the valuation of the jurisdiction of Bretickeléit, 5...:cts as ge…

YEP DOS isles os st wee Os oe eee vee LTE 12 morgens of land & valley.....sc.00. 24 4? 152 ASSESSMENT ROLLS Jabecq Hendrickse : 1 poll, 4 horses, 3 cows, 3 ditto of 2 yrs. 1 ditto of 1 year...... '£90 16 morgens of land & valley.......... « pee Eldertt Luberttse: 1 poll, 3 horses, 4 cows, 2 ROSS; @P« sss <v-hea biel 176 16 morgens of ne & allen Pe SAS » Malescliekore Louis Jansen : 1 pol…

Arie Lambertse: 1 poll; 3 horses, 4 cows, 1° ditto of 3 yrs. 2 ditto of 2 yrs. 1 ditto of TAY? AOR « oonen's, Dad cakta eau al + £88.10 24 morgens of land & valley...... Heese . 48 Annetie de Bruin : 2 horses, 2 cows.:...... £34 Tmorgens of laha?? 3°. Pe Fee, hhaamsal& Pietter Loott :.1 poll, 2 horses, 6 cows, 4 ditto of 3 yrs. 2 ditto of 2 yrs. 1 ditto of 1 yr. 2vhogaina es os Segeocceds …

Pietter Guilliamse : 1 poll, 6 oxen, 5 cows, GUIWO OLS VIS. OS NCLS- ss a5 clone c-ca asaie £87 19. morgens of land and valley......... 36 Willem Guilliamse : 1 poll, 2 horses, 3 oxen, 7 cows, 2 ditto of 2 yrs. 3 ditto of l-yr.. £104.10 16 morgens of Jand*& valley........... 32 Panibert danserernd polls «nas. cus-e,8 90's 9 . Jan Streicker: 3 polls, 3. horses, 1 ditto of 1 yr. 12 cows, 2 di…

Gerritt Snedegér: 1 poll, 4 horses, 1 ox, 6 cows, 3 ditto of 2 yrs. 2 ditto of 1 yr. 5 hogs.. BORLA, ee Y £117.10 20 rset of set sc valli reek en sour «4 Cornelis Janse Zeuw : 1 poll, 3 horses, 5cows £79 30 morgens of land & valley.......... 60 Caterine Hegemans : 3 polls, 5 horses, 4 oxen, 10 cows, 6 ditto of 3 years, 4 ditto of 2 yrs. 2 ditto of 1 yr. 4 hogs.......... £229 36 morgens of…

Of Lass: ses -cecaesze «ts: cgioqela ere c-4 6 43.10 Jacob Jansen: 1 polliiwis,.'. seman 18 Cornelis Barense : 1 poll 3 horses, 1 "ditto of I yr. 5 cows, 3 ditto of 3 yrs. 2 ditto of 2 yrs. 3iditto of 1 yr. 1 hogins dase bask £104.10 15 morgens of land and valley......... 36 140.10 Jan Sebringh : 2 polls, 4 horses, 1 ox, 6 cows, 2 ditto of 2 yrs. 2 ditto of 1 yr. 4 hogs.. £132 19 morgens…

19 morgens of land and valley ........ ¢ +08 (34 Seimen Jansen: 2 polls, 4 horses, 1 ox, 8 cows, 3 ditto of 3 yrs. 3 ditto of 2 yrs.3 ditto of 1 yr. 6 sheep, 2 hogs ......... £158.10 32 morgens of land and valley......... 64 mn Coert Steuense : 1 poll, 4 horses, 3 oxen, 6 cows, 2 ditto of 3 yrs. 3 ditto of 2 yrs. 3 ditto ORD css el cigs eae: wacky £134 44 morgens of land & valley...... vs …

Dierckie Roeleffse : 1 horse, 2 cows, 1 ditto of: 2-yrsdshog.... «coeem de winsieia 8% olbosi25 1.0 4 morgens of land.......... a Pe ie . 8 | 33. Willem Dauittse: 1 poll, 2 horses, 1 ditto of lyr. 4 cows, 2 ditto of lyr......... £68 12:morgens of land & valley..... Bless 6 24 une Jan Roeleffse : 2 polls, 4 horses, 1 ox, 10 cows, 1 ditto of 3 yrs. 2 ditto of 2 yrs. 2 ditto of 1 yr. 6 sheep,…

Jan Theunisse, J poll 1 horse,' ..*.... ee CHO TICR ASSUCIMS | 1 DOU cc cs ce eu uc ee Adanmaniioaise: I-poll. sc. ccae ceases vess Fernandes van Cickel: 1 poll, 2 horses, 3 Luyckes Steuense ; 1 poll, 3 horses, 4 cows 1 dittol ofa tyre est o's Bae De Neto LAL 20 morgens of land & valley Be rote A Ripa LO Jan Poppen: 1 poll, 2 horses, leow........ Jan Maerttense: 1 poll, 2 horses, 3 cows, 1 …

Jan Brouwer: 1 ba 1 horse, 1 cow, 1 ditto OfAvyr: é Cet oe Oikos ea eae os Pietter Clacsdehts 2 polls, 4 horses, 1 ditto of 2 yr. 10 cows, 2 ditto of 3-yrs. 3 ditto 2 Vis. 4 sicep, 2 NOs Mewes es eee ane £158 59 morgens of land & valley,.......... 118 189.10 sy 115.10 82.10 36.10 158 ASSESSMENT ROLLS Gilles Jansen : 2 polls, 2 horses,2 oxen, 3 cows 1 ditto of 1 year 48 ae AF BG: £88 .…

32 morgens of land and valley ......... 64 Jacob Bastiaense? Lpoll x .n.cu cs aensih ¢- d% 18 Crein Jansen: 1 poll, 2 horses, 1 ditto of 1 : bare SPP Pa. A) yh a ee £45 12 morgefs of land ....... sis Fa vistdinle di 24 JaliGisberttsce ol noite win. S 18 Jean Van Cleff: 1 poll, 1 horse, 4 cows, 2 ditto OD LWP soo.) eres Mares 9 64s dw age £55 40 morgens of land and valley ........, 80 -- +…

Rutger Joostten : 1 poll, 5 horses, 4 cows, 8 ditto of 3 yrs. 2 ditto of 2 yrs. 2 ditto of 1 yr. 13 Sheep, l hog... eater. bee Ls £144.10 72 morgens of land and valley......... 144 Jan Gerrittse : 24 morgens. of Jand ....... 3 Jacob Gerrittse: 24 morgens of land....... Ackeys Jansen: 12 morgens of land ....... Laurens Jansen ; 1 poll, 2 horses, 2 cows.... £52 24 morgens of land -....... Sa 4…

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-- PROVINCE OF NEW YorK. 1738. STATE OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK - 1738. { Council Min; XVII. ] In Council ; New York 5th Janry 1737. His Honor (Lt Gov Clark) laid before the Board several 'Queries being Twenty ii number relating to this Province, which were sent to him by the Lords of Trade which having been read were ordered to be entered in the Minnits and are as follow vizt. ' Querie…

What is the Trade of the Province, the number of shiping, their tunnage, and the number of sea-fearing men with y® 'yespective Increase or Diminution within ten years past ? 5. What Quantity & sorts of British a. do the 'Inhabitants annually take from hence ? 6. What. Trade 'has the Province under ye Governmt with 'any foreign Plantations or any part of Europe, besides Great Britain, how is…

What fforts and places of Defence are there within your Government, and in what Condition ? 14. What number of Indians have you and how are they inclined ? 15. What is the strength of the neighbouring Indians 2 16. What is the strength of your neighbouring Europeans ffrench or Spaniards ? 17. What effect have the ffrench or Spanish Settlements on the Continent of America upon His Majesty's…

It is Ordered that the two first Queries be sent to Cadwallader Colden Esqt His Majesty's Surveyor General of Land for this Province for him to make an answer thereto and transmit the same to his Honor. That the 4th 5th 6th 7th gth be sent to the Collector of His Majesty's Customs and that he return an answer thereto. As to the 10th Query that Orders issue to the Sherriffs of the several Cou…

Columns for that purpose to be made, the number of Whites, Males and Females above and under Ten, and the number of Blacks, Males and Females above and under that age, so that a particular account may appear not only of the whole number of Inhabitants in each respective County, but also of the particular * species or kind of Inhabitants of both Colours and sexes above and under the age afore…

As to the 12t> Quere--That orders be sent to the Collonells of the several Regiments of militia in the several Countys within this province, for them to send a particular account of the number of Men, Horse and ffoot in each of their respective Regimenis. As to the 14th 15 16th & 17th Queres Ordered that the same be sent to the Commissioners of Indian affaires for them to return an answer the…

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Have those Latitudes and "Longitudes been settled by good Observations; or only by "common Computations, and fort whence are the ae computed 2 No. 2. " What are the reputed Boundaries and are any parts "thereof disputed: what parts & by whom ?" - Tshall, that Answer may be made thereto, mention such particulars as occur to me, from my own knowledge; or the Credible Information of others, on …

toltssurface- 40 miles from the City of New York Northward, a Mountains. chain of Mountains' of about 10 miles in Breadth, commoly called the Highlands, cross Hudson's River running 172 STATE OF THE many miles from the Northeast Southwestward. About 90 miles Northward from New York another body of Mountains rise on the west side of Hudson's River, at about 10 miles from the River, & are com…

I have seen in several parts of the Country large quantities of the Larix tree from whence Venice Turpentine is made, about Albany, & as I am inform'd, 4 great way up the Eastern Branch of Hudson's River, the Land.is generally cover'd with Pines of several sorts. The Mohawk's Country or that part of this Province lying on both sides the Western Branch of Hudson's River, is generally cover'd w…

at the greatest heigth above the sea: for in that The timber. medi part of the Country, at about 50 miles west north mountains above' west from Albany, & 12 miles westfrom the Mohawks River, some Branches of the largest Rivers -in North America, & iol run contrary courses, take their rise within 2 or 3 miles of each other, viz 1st a Branch of Hudson's river, which falls into the sea'near New…

Goods may be carried from this lake in Battoes or flatt. bottomed Vessels, through Pennsylvania, to Maryland & Virginia, the current of the river running every where easy, without any cataract in all that large space, In going down this River two large branches of the same River are met, which come from the westward, & issue from the long ridge of mountains, which stretch along behind Pensyl…

174 STATE OF THE . truely an Inland sca, of greater breadth than can be seen by the eye, communicates with Lake Erie, the Lake of the Hurons, Lake Michigan & the Upper lake, all of them Inland seas, By means of these Lakes, & the Rivers which fall into them, Commerce may be carried from New York, through a vast Tract of Land, more easily than from any other maritime Town in North America. T…

The Soil is less uniform, as the Surface is more unequal, than in the more Southern Provinces ; & consequently there is a great variety of soil in several parts of the Province. It is generally proper for most sort of Grain, as wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats, Maiz or Indian Corn & Buckwheat. The wheat of this Province is generally heavier than that of the Provinces more to the Southward & yields a …

On many of the Branches of Hudson's River, &- near Albany on Hudson's river it self, there is a kind of soil made by the Rivers & extends about half a mile in breadth along the Rivers. This being made by the soil, which the Rivers let fall is exceed- Minerals. Nature of the soil. PROVINCE OF NEW YORK. 175 ing rich, yields large crops of the best Wheat, and the repeated - overflowings of the…

It is much colder in Winter than those parts of Europe, which ly under the same parallels of Latitude, The Alerations in the Thermometer, are very considerable, as great perhaps as in any part of the world: but the changes in the Barometer are not so great, the Mercury seldom descending so low as in Brittain. The changes of Heat & Cold pass through all the degrees of the Thermometer. I have …

Since the Country has been settled & Clear'd the Seasons are become more moderate. The spring comes late, itis seldom sensible before April. This it is probable, is occasioned by great quantities of snow to the northward, which every where are cover'd from the Sun by thick Forests, & by melting slowly produces cold northerly winds. The spring being late of consequence is short, the succeeding…

Albany, the second City in New York & most considerable place for the Fur trade, _ Lat.. 42.48 . Long. 74.24 Ohswego, a Fort on Cadarackuy lake, From whence the Fur trade of Albany is carried on with the Western Indians, Lat.. 48.35 Long. 76.50 Philadelphia, Lat.. 39.58 -- Long. 75.40: Boston, Lat.. 42.25 Long. 71.28 Quebeck, the Capital of Canada Lat.. 46.45 Long. 69.48) Montreal, the…

Those of the other places are computed from their distance & scituation, with respect to some one or more of these that are determined by Observation. The Province of New York is bounded, To the southward by the Atlantick Ocean, & runs from Sandy hook, daries of New Youincluding Long Island & Staten Island, up Hudson's River till the 41st degree of North Longitude be compleated, which is a…

From the Beginning of the 434 degree New York runs westerly, on a Parallel of Latitude, along the Bounds of Pensylvania to Lake Erie, or so far west as to comprehend the Country of the Five Nations, (the French having by the Treaty of Utricht quitted all claim to these Five Nations) Then it runs along lake Erie, & the streights between Lake Erie & Cadarackuy lake, & along Cadarackuy lake to t…

& Pensylvania, that by determining the proper Parallels of Latitude on Hudson & Delaware Rivers, the Boundaries between them may at any time be fixed with sufficient certainty. But as this has not hitherto been actually done, Disputes now in several parts subsist, between the Proprietors of the lands near the line, which is supposed to run between New York & New Jersey, from Hudson's River to…

The building of this Fort deserves the more notice by reason, it isnot at half the Distance from the settlements in New York, that it is from the nearest settlements in Canada. If we are to Judge of the Pretentions of the French, by the maps lately published in France by Publick Authority, they not only claim this part of the Country and the Countries of the Five Nations depending on New York…

It is probable, they may at last make their claim good, by the numerous settlements they ~ have allready & are daily making upon it. Your Honours knowledge of this Country, will easily discover any Errors I may have committed, & will supply the Defects. I have endeavour'd that what I have wrote may be of use to you, in some maters, wherein you are less conversant, & may assist your memory in…

In the town of New York is an old fort of very little defence, cannon we have but the carriages are good for little, we have ball but no powder, nor will the board of ordinance send any on pretence that a larg quantity was sent in 1711 for the Canada expedition which is.27 year agoe, much of it has for many years been trodden under foot in the magazine, the barrells having been rotten. There…

I have been trying to prevail with the Seneca's to let us build a fort at Tierandequat in their country which will more effectually secure the fidelity of the six Nations and better preserve the fur Trade, and I hope at last to prevail. 18. We have no revenue established at present. 19. The ordinary and extraordinary expences of the Government are about £4000 a year. 20. We have a Militia in …

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BO«100 Jan mesnel. 4 fess desd.. £4 $1 4,72 shed raed Pieter Consellie......... 2 12 _ 5... 00:00) 00:06:80 Johannis aberse......... 3-00 6° 1. drxO0 apdhadip J? ot) OUR ol ae Osea Compt: 325 Ziele. hh, A LIST OF FREEHOLDERS IN SUFFOLK COUNTY 27 FFEBRUARY 1737 James Beebe Willam King: Jur Joshua Curtis Charles Glover Thomas terry John King: Jur David Moore Walter Brown Samuel Conk…

Constant king Barnebus Winds John Reeve David Horton John hudson Samuel Clark Junt Caleb Horton David Curwin Gersham terry Daniel Reeve James Reeve Timothy. Hudson Thomas Reeve Jun? John Howel Isaac Howel Thomas Clark Aaron Howel John Cleaves David Cleaves Daniel] Curwin Ezekiel pette James terry Josiah Youngs Daniel Youngs Samuel Wells Daniel Wells Nathaniel Wells Richar…

Eleazer miller Samuel persons John merry Thomas talmage John talmage Lion gardner Samuel hedges Ephraim burnet Samuel hudson John mulford Josiah miller Henry hudson Thomas osmon John hunting Robert moore Jonathan wick Ezekiel hubard James chittester David Kitcham Samuel Smith Daniel Keeley James Keeley Obediah Rogers David Rogers Joseph lewes William Jerves Nathaniel Kach…

_ Nathaniel row Henry robbins Nathaniel brewster John wood Samuel D'henuaz William Jean Stephen Jean STATE OF THE Matthews Jean Josep brewster Nathaniel Liscom Nathaniel Sattirly George Owen Samuel Smith Arter Smith John hellock Beniamin hallock John tucker . Samuel thompson Jonathan Owen Nathaniel bigss William helms Eleazer hockins Amos Dickenson Henry Smith Esq Thomas Ch…

Peter Van Etten William Simon William Scott Michaell Sipperly David Richart Jacob Mowl Mathys Earnest Adam Oostrander Simon Kool Godfreed Hendrick Wendel Yager Jacob Drom Martinus Shoe Jury Adam Soefelt Philip foelandt Andries Widerwox Fran Neker Christophell Snyder Marten Tiel Arnout Viele Lowrence Tiel Jacob Cool Philip More Jan Van Benthuysen Zacharias Smith Josias Ross…

William Lassing Christophell Van Bomell Jacob Van Wagenen Lewis Du Bois Mathys Du Bois Marcus Van Bomell Rudolphus Swartwoudt Mathewis Van Keuren Hendrick Willsie Elias Van Buntschoten Jacobus Van Bomell Thomas Lewis Henry Vandenburgh John Concklin Jacob Low Johannis Van Kleek- Simon Freer Mosis De Graaff Barnardus Swartwoudt Johannis Tappon Myndert Vandenbogart Hendrick Ostro…

Teunis Van Vliet Hendrick Van Tessell Hendrick Ter Boss Robert Britt Jacobus Ter Boss Cornelis Van Wyck Francis Britt Hendrick Rosekrans Thomas Langdon John Baily Christiaan Du Bois Jacobus Swartwout Theodorus Van Wyck Benjamin Hasbrook Willem Schutt George Brinckerhoff Daniell Boss Ephraime Bloome John Brinckerhoff Cornelis Lossee Lowrence Lossee Jonathan Du Bois Jacob Du Bo…

COMPANYS OF FFOOT WHEREOF VINCENT MATHEWS IS COLL'. Vincent Mathews Coll Solle Carpenter Lett Coll: George Ramsen Major Michael Jacson Adejt James Tompson Quarts first Company Ram Remsen Capt Cornelius Smith Livt Eb Smith Ensine Three Sarjents Three Corporalls One Drumer Sixty Three private men--in all 73 2 Company Sam!! Odel Capt Henry Cuyper Livt Benjam: Allison Ensine Three S…

Three Corporalls 7 Company one Drumer Jacob Vander Bilt Capt fifty five private men--in all 65 Andrew Underdonk Livt 5 Company Aron Smith Ensine Nathaniel Dubois Capt -- Three Sargents David Sovtherlon Leut Three Corporalls Isaac Hennion Ensine one Drumer Three Shargents fifty private men--In all 60 = Three Corporalls | Troop of Hors one Drumer Henry Youngs Capt Sixty three private men--…

210 STATE OF THE Sam Williams Elias Dorlon Roba Williams John Bedle Sam Bedle Jerem Bedle John Jonson Willi Langdon Josep Langdon Samv Langdon Samv Carman Deric Brevar Tho Manering Barns Cornelos Davi Pine Edw=t Spragg Jonat Smith Samve Rainer Benia Wood Benia Wood Samve Bertsel Will : Totton Ben's Britsel Jeams Wood Abra® Sovthward Char''s Abrahams John Abrahams Jespe …

LIST OF THE NEW YORK COMPANIES 1738. A LIST OF THE BLUE ARTILLERY COMPANY UNDER JOHN WALDRON. John Brown Capt Lietenant Peter Low first ditto W™ Harmersly second ditto Henry Rew third ditto Willillam Carr William Hillton Vicktor Beekers Zebadiah Hunt Henry Ricke John .Tebout William Floyde John Turner Frances Siluester Andrew Law Junt Beniaman Thomas John Braser John Golett Isre…

James Hill John Bell Phillip Brown Thomas Tateke Richard Barker James Skeliton Richard Jeffers William Deen | STATE OF THE William Boyde Dauid Goodwine Samuel Payton Jespar Bush Vincent Bodine James Fauear William Bryant LIST OF THE COMPANY OF MILITIA UNDER THE COMMAND OF GERARD BEEKMAN. first Lieutenant & Second Ditto John Delamontanje Rich¢ Van Dam & Jacob Miller John Lashly …

Gul Ver Plank, first Lut» John 'Killmaster Tobias Stoutenburgh second Lut» James Harding David Abeel Insigne Andrew Hunter Henry Carmer John Dewint Joseph Hayse Gilbert Rotery Seth Smith Samuel Burling John Man William Freedenburgh William Seatly John Freedenburgh Hannes Snoek Lucas Van Veghte John Burges John Roberson George Ellman John Tennor William Snyder Daniel Dyke Wil…

STATE OF THE' George Arter Samuel Pell John Lawrence John Kingston Peter Degrot Patrick Smith Joseph Doty John Montanjea Esias Smith Peter Wyth Isaac Borea Thomas Wallace Peter Panebaker Simon Breasted--94 _+ + a CAPT. STUYVESANT'S COMPANY. Gt Stuyvesant Asq? Capt Lift Jacobus Kip Insine Phillip Minthorne Sariants John Horn Marten Van Evera Dirrick Benson William Waldron C…

John Myer Jut Sammual Waldron J' John Waldron Van hogt Jocom Cardener Jacob Cardener John Dyckman Lowrance Low Abraham Van Braman John Karsse Abraham Karsse Ressolvert Waldron John Van Oblenes Jacob Dyckmen Jacob Dyckmen Jur John Nagel Jur Harman Van Dewater Addrian Hogland John Anderson Chernalus Dyckman Edde Van Evera Handrick Van Flackra Tunnes Van Flackra William Dickre …

Isaac Twentymen William Hyer Burtoll miller James Best Andrew Clappar John Roerbeck Cornelius seabrean Wandle Horn Richard Anlay Samuell Hazard William Procter John Wright Thomas Brown John basett James Budselott Henriques Wessells Petter vandick Richard vandick Daniell Yow John Rynders John Taylor Jacobus Montanie ~ Seidney Briess Potter Fressneau Anthony Lamb William Gue…

Henry Beekman Insign William de Peyster Sargiants 1 Victoor Heyer 2 Kasper Burger 3 Jn° Roome 4 Jn° Meyer Coarprals 5 'Walter Heyer 6 Wiliam Beek 7 Isack Van Deurse 8 William Baldwin 9 Jn° Coo 10 Jno Parmijter 11 Edward Hiter 12 Jn° Ten Brouk 13 Arond Heyer 14 William Heyer 15 William Oglesbey 16 Oliver Sioert 17 Cornelius Van Den Berg 18 Johannes Aelstyn 19 Samuel Bell 20 J…

Marthen Myer Henry Benson Isack Brazier Aernout Rome 25 Abraham Peltron > Johannes Pool 5 Samson Benson Sams Son John Van Pelt James Hyde Charles Sprangier Abraham Sanders Robbert Provoost Samson Benson Thewes Son 30 Joshua Laplaine James Clerck Samuell Weever 10 Samuel Maghee : Jonathan Peasley Alexander Maghee Peter Vergeroa John Stephens Edward Killey John Evvets 35 Nicolas Murfey …

Richard Durham Cornelus Van Gelder John Saunders Jeremia Sherdevine Alexander Mackdou Robberd Marrell Thomas Bradberry Peter De Groof Wiliam Bartled Thomas Grant Edward Hix Orstin Hix Walter Achter de Long Charles Smith Thomas Sickels Junt Richard Waldron Hendrick Header Daniell Vaun Joseph North John Dunscum Joseph Collett David Schot Wiliam Boyd John Lake Mathew Woodford …

Joseph Leddel Joseph Leddel Junt Stephen Calas Robt Crook Thos Oaks James Bayley Thos Tyte Sam!! Pell Gerardus Duyckinck John M*Mullen Rich4 Ray W™ Shermur John Swilivan W™ Orsban W™ Gale Barant Bush John Wright Elijah Heaviland George Lamb Joseph Watkins Charles Sleigh John Williams Sam!! Myers Cohen Andries Ten Eyck Rich¢ Ten Eyck Peter Telyew Henry Demire Robt Richard…

John EKeuwets franses Barrea Richard hopper Isaac Stoutenburgh John Vredenburgh odreen Deppye Walter De Graau WRAP wwe 8 John oblyne 9 John Stoutenburgh 10 Tobias Stoutenburgh 11 Albartus Van de Water 12 henderyckas Van de Water 13 frerick heyr 14 Richard Warner 15 John Bond 16 Adward Linter 17 John Nicholds 18 Adam Van de Bergh 19 Willm Spoor 20 Aswerus turck 21 Zacharejas Zi…

STATE OF thomas Ellon 58 Pieter Losie 59 Corneles Van Vechten 60 Willm poppelstorf 61 Alexander Willsen 62 gerrit Van gelder 63° Evert pels 64 Samuel pels 65 Marchus Peffer 66 Corneles Cozeijn 67 John Whiler 68 adward kimmel 69 Wilm Croleus 70 Peter Corsieleus ak henderickas oth 72 Johannes Remie 73 Johannes Staat 74 Johannes pieter Kimpel 75 gerret de freest 76 Baltus hejr 17 …

New York ye 10th Aprill 1738. A LIST OF YE INHABITANTS Capt Mathew Clarkson Simon Johnson first Leutenant 28 Cornelius Wynkoop 274 Leutent 29 John Dyer Ensigne John Heyer Sarst John Lesher Z John De Foreest.Corpt fmt HHT ODN OR WD Read Conia ol SCSONIAark WwW WH w wo ww vv Sic se oS Cornelus Bruckman James Symes Adam Dobbs Samuel Johnson James Cammel Daniel Masters John Richar…

David Cox Isaac Maddox Justis Witfeald Henry Witfeald Daniel Effets Gedion Lynsen John De Mercor Henry Carmor William Lewis James Manna Stheven Smith Andrew Breasted William Holton William Dobbs Anthony Yerrenton Francis Harding Dennes Andersin Nicholas Anthony Joseph Simson Thomas Edwards Henry Biffins ' John Bloom Abrahan Van Deursen Jassa De Foreest Adam Beeckman John B…

Thomas De Waite John Brasier John Norris Robert Griffith W™ Griffith W Pritch David Griffith John Thompson W™ Lyell | W™ Pearsley Aron Van Hook John Meckilsa Elias Stanbury David Goodwin John Steinobuck Jacob Peek David Smith John Peterskyder Yost Palden Gisbert Vytden Bogert Jacob Pitt Abraham Pitt ' Peter Lamerse Robert Harris Peter Cobusnyder Saunders Rutson Surt Olive…

68 Cornelius Roomer Junt 84 Peter Van Norden 69 Cornelius Thorp 85 John Elnor 70 John Clarke -- 86 William Peick 71 John French 87 Abraham Blanck 72 Abraham Wheeler 88 Jacob Bennet 73 William Cook 89 Garret Defreest 74 Lawrence Lamerse 90 Thomas Maybourn 75 Elbert Hommerman 91 Roger MeCornet--with. of- 76 Abraham Florentine ficers 98 bal wes LIST OF OFFICERS ISSUED FOR NEW YORK WITH THE…

226 STATE OF THE 4 William Depeyster - to Capt Abram Boelen - - 31 5 John vanderspiegle - to Capt Cornel's Vanhorne Sept 1 6 Henry Rutgers - - to Capt Abram Vanwyck. - 2 7 John Pinhorne - to Capt Guilian Verplank - 4 8 John Dewit - - to Capt Gerardus Beekman 5 9 Edward Hicks - to Capt Paul Richards - - =~ 6 10 Thomas Duncan - - to Capt. Isaac Depeyster - 9 Ensigns. 1 Thos Willet - - to Ca…

Isaac Depeyster - 9 Ensigns. 1 Thos Willet - - to Capt Guilian Verplank - 9 2 Barent Rynders - - to Capt Henry Cuyler - 11 3 Humphry Jones - to Capt Abram Vanwyck - 12 4 Andw Clopper - - to Capt Isaac Depeyster - 13 5 Barthw Lereaux - to Capt Cornelius Vanhorne - 14 6 Robert Bensen - - to Capt Gerardus Beekman 15 7 John Barberie - - to Cap' Paul Richards - = 1G 8 Abram Cortlandt - to Capt…

Hendrickus Krom maker 2nd Qr. M. Johannis De Lamatre 6 Corpor! Solomon Haasbrock Trump? Abraham Constapell Solomon Van Bunschoten 1st Corpor! Richard Wells Jacob Haasbrock 2nd Corpor! Gerrit Elmendorph Cornelis Depue PROVINCE OF NEW YORK. Samuel Bovie Benjamin Depue Egbert Brinck Jan Ffreer Cornelis Ten Broeck Johannis Wynkoope Junt Daniel De Bois Danill Haasbrock Arent Ploegh Samue…

Sarj* Jacobus Van Dyck Corp? Samuel Nights Corp? Nathan Dubois Corp? Solomon Freer Dromer Andries Van Leven ration of Kingston Under the Command of Christian Myre William Legg Jacobus Debois Jn: Samuel Debois William Whittaker Jacobus Whittaker John Davenport Jnt Johanes Schram _ Corne Longing Dyck Abr« Hardenberge Samuel Wood Jacobus Roosa Coenradt Elmenderp Jacobus Persen Pet…

Under the Command -of Capt. Tjrck Van Keuren. Teunis Van Steenbergh Abr Van Steenbergh. Hendrikus Slegh Johannis Dubois Abr De Lametter Johans Ba: De Witt Hiskiah Dubois Evert Winekoop Jur Tobias Van Steenbergh Jan Van Aken Johannis Chonsalisduek Jan Perse Jur /Petrus Low Isaac Van Wagenen Abr Van Kueren Gerett Freer Corn! Perse Robert Beever PROVINCE OF NEW YORK. Mooses Jorck …

Zacryas Hoffman Jur Petrus Edmundus Elmendorp Lenard Hardenbergh Jacob Hardenbergh Peter Leebonte Dirck Shepmoes Johanes Viele Gerritt Van Steenbergh Corn® Van Kuren Jut Johanis Masten John Waters Henry Ellis Jacob Mauris Isaac Wheeler Hump» Davenport Peter Burgar Isaac Dubois Johan' Shepmoes' Gerrett Davenport Art Masten Coenr? Vanburen Albert Beein 230. STATE OF THE Dirck …

Peter Winne Bowdewine Vanderlip Heskiah Schoonmaker Teunis Van Bunschote Teunis A. Swar _ Wilhelmus Demyer Aarent Ploegh Jacobus Van Steenbergh John Wittaker Hendricus Ploegh Jnt Abr2 Burhans Hend Krynse Oosterhout Cryn Oosterhout Petrus Krynse Oosterhout Jan Peterse Oosterhout Hendricus Ploegh Aares Van Steenbergh Abr? Davenport Teunis Oosterhout Petrus Oosterhout Jan Krinse Oosterhout …

Samuel Cock Benj Davis Alexander Ennis Andrew Kernith Tsaac Van Kampe Samuel Mourits Johan' Thomas Moses Cantien Nicholas Keyser ~ William Hine John Wood Johannes Elting Anthony Gerrits Corné Tack Jn* Henry Jansen Thos Bush Fred' Keator Hend* Bush John Price Lambert Bush Moses Depuy Johans Vandermarke Thoms Vandermarke Nicholas Vandermarke Arie Ketor Thoms More John Krom …

Wiliam Wilkins Archabald Hunter Andraw Graham James Hunter George Olloms John Wharrey John North Benj Hins John North Jur John Me Neill Senior Samuel North Mathew Prea James Young William Craford Robert Young Robert hunter James Munall Gors Monull John Munall William Monall Thomas Neils Robert Neils John Neils Mathew Neils Nathaneill jojter John Neily Jur Joseph butteltown Thoma…

John Mings Stevanis Crist * Jacob bush Cronamas falter Richard Gatehouse John boyls Richard boyls John Jameson John M¢Donall James Davis--tot!! 114 234 . : STATE OF THE COUNTY Capt Cornelis Wine Coop Left Antonie Crispel Insin Abraham Ten Eyck Serje Hendrick Konstaple Corp! Solomon ter Willege Corp! Jacob Vanwagene Drom: Marynis Chambers Jan Van Duese Clarke ULSTER 2 4 list of …

Jan Van Deuse Jur Jan Brinck Johannis Oostrander Jur Willem Sluyter Jur Hendrick Ja: Freer Jan Waters Albert Ja: Roosa Willem Burhans Jacop Clyn Jacop Oostrander Tot!! 60. Bins PROVINCE OF NEW YORK. 235 ULSTER it list of the foot Company of Militia of Rocester COUNTY Capt Cornelius Hoornbeck Lieut phillip Dubois Ensign Cornelius B : Low Serj? Johannis Hoornbeck Serj* John Wesbro…

Johannis Oosterhout Jeremia Van Dermerke Jacob Dewitt Jut John Dewitt Cornelius Winekoop Jacobus Terwillige John Terwillige Benj Hoornbeck Dirck Hoornbeck Peter Westbroeck Tobias Hoornbeek Jacobus Hoornbeck Lowrence Cortreght Mathew Cortreght Peter Cortreght Hendrick Cortreght Johannis Ketor Isaac Van Aken Charles Danneson Richard Kittle Benj Roggers Wessel Vernoy Coenradt Ve…

Daniel Winfiel Manewel ter Willige Johannes Terwilige Hendrick Decker Petrus Terwillige Thoms Janson Jur William Rosekrans Josua Smedes Gerett Ja: Decker Stevanis Swart John Robertse Andrew Grames Rober Greams John Blake James Jonston Salamon Isrel Samuel Sampson Roger blamles Richard Davis Lawrence Eldorp Tomas Maccoun John Andrew Arie Terwillege William Schoot Cornelius b…

Huge Freer Jur Hendrick Van Wijak Abra Vandermerke Lewis Sa: Bovier William Armstrong Robert Jong Mathew Jong Robert Cain Robert Hanne John Magdonel John Jemson Johannes Masseker---totl! 94 Jl list of the foot Company of Militia of the presenk. of the Higland Under the Command-of Capt. Thos. Jame Gamble John Gamble Cornelius M°Clean John Umphry Jn? James Umphry Peter Mulinder Ro…

John Clark Lodewick Miller Peter Miller George Waygant William Ward William Ward Jnr John Mattys Kimbergh William Smith Jnr James Edmeston ' Tobias Waygate Jerry Mause Thomas Johnston Casparis Stymas John Monger James Luekey Thomas Williams Robert Banker Thomas Fear Frederick Painter Mosas Elsworth John Marie Jonathan Owens Andrew McDowell Danie] Coleman--Tot. 86 PROVINCE O…

ANSWER TO FOUR QUERIES REFERR'D BY HIS HONOUR THE EIEUT. GOVERNOUR & COUNCILL OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YCRK TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 14. The Six Nations of Indians including the River & Schaachkook Indians are about 1500 fighting men of which number } part Incline to French Interest. Being partly overaw'd by fear, The French have their interpreter continually among the Sinnekes …

About Sixty Leagues S* West thereof is Montreal on the same side of the River which is regularry fortify'd & Surrounded with a strong stone wall, having Batteries within & a Large Trench round the North, East & West Sides thereof & to the South is the River. ) About Seven Leagues South from Montreal is a Village called Chambley scituated ona River running out of Corlaers Lake which is by the…

They have also aStrong Fort at Cadaruchque at the North East End of the Lake Ontario which emptys it self in the River St. Lawrence, made there not only in order to entice the Six Nations of Indians to their Interest & to have an awe over them, but also for a retreat to the French when at any time they should attack or Annoy the Six Nations & likewise to prevent the said Six Nations from goi…

They have severall Settlements & Forts as above observed of Less note among the Upper Nations of Indians on the chief passages as the Indians come from their hunting in order to Intercept the Furr Trade & to keep an awe & command over them. Albany 4'h Febry 1737 | 8 Vo. iv. : 16 < =! o eee +H wai i ae 'aie rome . ~_ a 30 ul rut arpisoort 110 ee m 3 rend aie ee oe dak. mci sting alee …

The consequence was, that the existence of the Assembly generally depended on its subserviency to the local Governor and a new appeal to the People was made, for the most part, only when the popular branch quarrelled with the Executive. Sometimes only a few months intervened between general elections ; sometimes a year, but usually a general election came about biennially, until the administr…

The Assembly, now (Nov. 28), sent an address to the Governor requesting that they may be dissolved, to which Cosby replied, that as it was a part of the prerogative to convéne and dissolve them at pleasure, he was determined to act in the premises as he thought proper, and not as they desired, and in this state of things the session was prorogued. Shortl y after the meeting of the Legislature i…

His Honor returned a favorable answer, and in'compliance, as it were, with his disposition, the Council concurred, and the Bill received the Lieutenant Governor's sanction on the 16th Dec. 1737. Before the Assembly adjourned, they requested Clarke to use his utmost endeavors to obtain his Majesty's assent to the Bill. It was sent to England early in the following year, when the Lieutenant Gove…

That happy Union that is Established between the King and his People under the British Constitution, has so closely connected their Mutual Interests, that whatever tends to the advancement of the peace and prosperity of the People, it may be Humbly presumed will be a Good reason why it should meet with his Majestyes approbation and Encouragement, but it is Conceived that the passing that Law…

upon the Lands undoubtedly belonging to the British Crown - (witness the late Settlements, of the ffrench at Crown Point, and Niagara, and thei late attemps to get a ffooting in the Cinekes Country). That a fatal blow will be given to this British Interest both in Europe and America, if this Country should ever fall into the hands of the ffrench, these and many other weighty considerations, …

It has been deserted by great numbers of its Sea men and other Inhabitants, who have been obliged to Seek their Bread in the neighbouring Colonies, while the Lands in the Country and the Houses in the City, have been seen to sink to near half their fformer Value, and its Navigation Almost wholy fallen into the hands of Strangers, and at the same time, universal Discontent ready to break out…

The Assembly observed, that the Great Declension of this Country in all its valuable Interests, had hapened during the Continuance of the Two last long Assemblies, while at the same time no visible Cause could be assigned, for it but what it was in the power of a ffree and ffrequent Representation of the People to prevent, Especially when at the same time, the neighbouring Colonies of the Ma…

They observed that the long Continuance -of power in the same hands, had. always grown up into an oppressive Domination of a few men, which they found to have been the fruitfull Parent of all those Evils, under which this Country had Visibly Declined ; and which had in some late Instances Proved Exceeding Dangerous to the Peace of His Majesty's Government within this Colony. These are the Re…

Those Colonies have been fflourishing in Trade, and Extending it abundantly while it has been miserably declining among us. Twill hardly be believed in England that those Goverments, have so much the Advantage of us, in the Value of their Lands, as they have, It being a truth Capable of the fullest proof, that the Lands in Connecticut, will sell for three times: the price of the Lands in New…

Yet it is evident, that under the Ease and Safety of the Charter Goverments, Secured Chiefly by their Annual Assemblys These Colonies have flourished to a great Degree in those usefull Manufactures, so Advantagious to the Trade and Safety of Great Britain, while this Colony has been under such Discouragements, as to have done little or nothing in these Manufactures, but has seen the Iron Ore …

It will make this Colony of more Service to Great Britain, by a larger Consumption of its Commodities, by raising of Hemp and making of Iron, and other Naval Stores. It will raise a spirit of Industry among the People, and Extend our Trade, restore our Seamen and Navigation, and remove that Discontent, which has always Increased in proportion to the Age ' of Past Assemblies. It will raise th…

First, For that its the Universal Opinion of the Inhabitants of this Colony that the Long Continuance of Assemblys has been one of the greatest Causes of the present Declining State of this Colony, which is such that while our Neighbours of Pensilvania on the one hand and of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire on the other Hand Do yearly greatly Encrease in number…

Long Assemblys are supposed to be one of the greatest Causes of this Bad State, by their not finding Remedies to prevent or put a stop to this declining State, by their Suffering the People long to Labour under Grievances, without obtaining or Endeavouring to obtain relief against them, In some Counties even their very Representatives have become themselves their greatest Grievance For while …

Domineering in their Counties by Laying them under. a necessity to preserve the Affections of the People in order to preserve their power But will also give the People an Opportunity from time to time to Chuse such men as are Sensible of what Grievances they Labour under and as are Capable to obtain a Redress of them, and of what has Rendered or is like to render the Liberties and properties …

Assemblies in vain endeavoured for might at last be obtained, Tho' they have not been able to hinder this Colony from greatly Declining while its Neighbours with much less Natural Advantages are growing and flourishing Yet they have hitherto in great measure hindered its being intirely-deserted But should his Majestie deny his Royal Assent to this Law its to be feared That great numbers of …

Great Britain will thereby lose the Exportation of Great Quantities of Strouds, Blankets and other Woollen Goods which the Indians now take in Exchange for their ffurs, and ffrance will acquire the furnishing of them with the Same, And also the manufacturing of the ffur and Skins got from the Indians in Exchange, and possibly this Colony may at last become possessed by the French as a Derelict…

252 TRIENNIAL ELECTIONS IN tunity to become almost our Sole Carriers, and should we Decrease in our Shipping as for some years past, they will soon be entirely so-- Fourthly,--If his Majestie will be graciously pleased to give his Assent to this Act its hoped and believed, that by means of it no great Grievance will remain long unredressed, That reasonable Laws will from time to time be made…

This will its hoped, soon invite Back our people that have deserted us--This will induce our neighbors to believe they can be as safe in their Liberties and properties and that they can live as happily under his Majesties immediate Government as under any of their Charter Governments, And when they are so Convinced Its not Doubted but that the Natural Advaritages which this has Beyond those C…

But its hoped that this may still be in great measure retrieved if this Colony be brought into the Circumstances aforesaid For this Colony by its safe and short navigation to Brittain and its safe, short and speedy Inland N avigation to the Indian Nations and Lakes of St Lawrence may be Enabled far to undersel the French amongst the Indians, and thereby Can in time cut them out of all that T…

The Certain Consequence whereof would be That such Colonies under his Majisties immedtate Government would flourish more than the Charter Colonies now do. That would tend to make those Colonies indifferent as to their Charters and in time to give them up and to Chuse his Majesties immediate Government in the place thereof. Whereas while this Colony remains in its past uncertain State as to t…

Sixthly--Its not Charter Governments only that have the priviledge of frequent Election of Representatives for their General Assembly,--For we are well assured that South Carolina and North Carolina have likewise that priviledge the first an Annual Election and the last a biennial, But as to them it may be said, they had those Priviledges while they were Charter Governments, Butas to that we …

And as this Colony has greatly Suffered and now suffers thro' the want of it, It be possible for this Colony to preserve its inhabitants and to prosper, and to keep on a footing with the neighbouring Colonies without that priviledge which 'they'enjoy so much tending to their happyness, advantage and prosperity. And whether the Declining State of this Colony thro' the want of that Law does no…

We have likewise had the opinion of M* Fane one of your Majesty's Council at Law, and are of opinion with him that it is an Infringment of Your Majesty's Prerogative by taking away the undoubted Right which the Crown has always exercised by calling and continuing the assembly of this Colony at such times and as long as it was thought necessary for the publick service, and as no reason has ap…

Wuereas by Commission under the Great Seal of Great Britain, the Governour Council and Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-York, are Authorized and Impowered to make, Constitute and Ordain Laws, Statutes and Ordinances, for the Publick Peace, Welfare and Good Government of the said Province ; which Laws, Statutes and Ordinances are to be, as near as conveniently may be, agreeable to th…

.for Plantation Affairs, The said Lords of the Committee did this day Report to His Majesty as their opinion, that the said Act | ought to be repealed :--His Majesty taking the same into his Royal Consideration, was pleased, with the advice of his Privy Council, to Declare his Disallowance of the said Act, and 256 TRIENNIAL ELECTIONS IN THE. PROVINCE OF NEW YORK. pursuant to His Majesty's Ro…

OF JEREE MEN SENT FROM LAKE GEORGE TO RECONOITRE FORT FREDERICK, OR CROWN POINT FORT THE NEW WORKS, AND ARMY THERE. Set, forward in a Battoe from the Encampment, the 14th Sept-- at about 25 miles distance down the Lake, landed about day light, took the Battoe out & hid it, left two Men of Connecticut Forces there to watch the Battoe, & Provisions till our return-- Saw, that morning, Sundry …

Which Intrenchment begins at the Southwest Corner of the Fort, & Trends Southwesterly, about two rods wide at the Fort, & widens to about 15, at the other End--went into the Trench, & spent the night, for discovery in & about there till morning, & then retired to a Mountain, about a Mile West from the Fort, where there was a Clear view of all the Fort and appurtenances--and saw an addition t…

20th, Set up the Lake, to where we left the Battoe, found that, & the two Men (we left) were gone, and we set homeward. The 234 Jate at night arrived at the great Camp. The land is Rough, and Mountainous from the Lower end of the Lake, to Crown Point. The distance about 20 miles. And we apprehend impracticable to git a feasable Road there--Which is the General Account of the discovereys we h…

OF FIVE MEN SENT FROM THE ENCAMPMENT AT LAKE GEORGE TO RECONOITRE THE ENCAMPMENT OF THE FRENCH AND INDIANS AT TORONDUROQUE. Sept 27th. P.M. Set forward, in a Birch Canoe. Past that night Sundry Indian Fires (their Spyes) by the sides of the Lake. 'Put ashore about 7 miles from the Carrying place, left three with the Canoe--two went forward. Early on the 28 about ten in the morning came in v…

House <i Mov by 80 % of A A i( Sugar Loaves. (al. Moores 3 es Antonys Nose Folley. Soale of Miles. Scale of Miles for the Wedth of the kiver Ee sd the Length of the Kier. 16 p74 Samuel Bladgl deli. Fre sx ENGAGEMENT. C23 CA. C585 qo m Copied from an Engraving inthe VY Stale Library. Dibhished according lo (et wa Virlamnent Setruary the @ 2 756. ------ Lith of Rich® H. Pease; A…

Next day, the 29", returned to our Canoes & found a Large Indian Canoe had passed up the Lake with one Frenchman, & Nine Indians, who on their return we waylayed on a point of the Lake--they came in reach of our small arms, at whom we fired about Forty Guns. Disenabled or killed six of them, & Chased the remaining four, but at their Schrieks three Indian Canoes came to their relief which Pre…

A Return of the persedings of the Detaichment of men ordered on the Scout under the Comand of Philip Lord on Sunday the 4th of october we marched about Teen miles to the Eastward of this incampment and so sent oute parties of 4 and 5 men to the South Easte and North Easte and so Conteneued Begining as 'sun as it was Day Light for the Spase of 3 Days and Returned 'with oute making aney Discou…

In the Evening Embarkt by order from the Camp at Lake George with a partey of aboute 50 men To make Descouery of the french at Atianderogoe & wee went by three or four fires & in sixteen miles sailing I mist one Batoe it being Dark Could Not find it went on with the Rest of the Command And aboute brake Day landed our Batoes on ye East side of y® Lake Georg within Twelve miles of the Caring P…

Evening Capt Hunt Come back with Two men at Night sent of Ens" Putnam with three men and ordered them to make what Discouery they Could with the Borch Conew and to goe to the Cereing Place Tarry their all Night and in ye morning as soon as it was light to Come back To their Command That Night Discouer¢ Several fires on ye shoar of ye Jake 10 Day Sun half an hour highe In ye morning our burch…

Sir , This is the Most Correct account of my agurnale on my Command till my Returne to this Place this with all the Reporte of my Spies I sent oute ; Rogart Ropeers. To the Honarble William Johnson Esqt Commander in Chiefe at Lake. George Which is presented from . Yt Honnours Most obdiont and Humble Servant (Endorsed) A Journal of Capt Rodgers' Proceedings with a Command on Lake Georg d…

Then lift Capt Rogers upon a neck of Land upon the west side of Lake George and Set out towards tycondorogue to see what Discoveries we Could make and after we had marchd about 7 or 8 miles we came upon a Large Mountain near the Heither end of the narrows, and when we came there we Could make no Discovery at all but after sometime wee espyed three Barke Cannoes Drew upon the Shore upon a po…

SIR WM. JOHNSON'S SCOUTS. 265 we left Capt. Rogers, and after they had passed by us, we Came to the point where we left Capt Rogers, and found all well this is the Chef of the Discovery and best acovnt that I am able to give IsraEL Purnam To Capt Rodgers The Report of Captain Putnen (Endorsed) Capt Pitmans Report who was sent by Capt Rodgers as a Spy to Tiondorogo delivd 12 Oct. REPORT…

traveld Down the Laike gorge within two miles of the Narros or Careing place and se where the friench were at work one the Eas Side of the Lake gorge and one the west side there was an Kincampment of Abovt one Hundred Indiens A gainst the friench Eincampments and the whole that wase one both sids of the Laike we Jvded to be about 7 or 8 Hondred men Heard the shoot sevrel Gons and sce severel…

I left Capten Rodgers by His ord: to geo in the Borch Conow to make Discovereys of the fre at the Careying place or whair they freiench Incampments was and took three men with me wen abovt 5 or 6 miles downe the Laike and discovred severel fiers one the wes side of the Laike one a point and went within twenty Rods of the fers and see the men, by the fiers and thee Espeyed our Conoo and made …

Laike Gorge to Capten Rodgers ; REPORTS OF JOHN TAPLIN AND HENRY BABCOOK. Lake Gorge october the 10 1755 I marched from this place with fifty men and marched a Bout fiue or six mils to the South East and in Camped and sent out - Scouts toward the South Bay and toward wood Crik and we mad No descouery of any Eanmy and Retorned Home this Day ~ october the 13. Joun Tarun. Lake George Octor 18,…

Sir ; We are now Incamped about three miles from you imedeately on our coming here we sent out two Scouts, both came in and did not discover any thing towards Evening I posted Century out one of wh was shot and scalp' a hatched was leftin his head, Shall be glad to receive your farther orders some of my men seem frightened and fear some will run off to night as they seem much frightened Iam…

Johnson Aid Dé Camp to March forward upon whichall Exceptingall to Refused to proced and then I asked my party to go and take their Blanketts and provisions which they Denied Except with their own Officers and I then Called and said all you that are Cowards Come and Ile take y" names Down and they Come so thick that I Could see But 10 or 12: Left of the whole party & they mostly & 268 JOUR…

I had but about 15 men with me, I Looked Back and they Cried out for Gods 'sake call us all togeather or we shall be cut off, upon which I order'd them to spread and march ina half moon in order to Discover y® Ennemy or y® occation of y® Fire and without Further Discovery But ye Loss of all Except about six.or seven Living men which was with meand my Lieutent Then Returned and upon our Retu…

+ SIR WM. JOHNSON's SCOUTS. 269 Comm*s to a Tittle upon my Part, Provided I can have such materials as are fit for y® Purpose, and When Ever I fail Lett me be stigmatized JI Remain Your Hon's Most Dutiful and Obt Humble Servt W Symes. Camp at Lake George Octobt 224 1755. To the Honnorble Will™ Johnson Esq Leutt Gen!! of ye Army at Lake George REPORT OF CAPT. RODGERS' AND CO'S SCOUT. On …

On the fourteenth Day of October 1755 I' Embarked in a Burch Canoe at the Camps on the South End of Lake George with Four Men beside my self & sailed twenty five miles & Land ed on the west side of the Lake then Traveled by Land and on the Eighteenth Day I arived on the Mountain on the West side of Crown point there I lay that Night and all the next Day and observed the Enemys motions there …

270 JOURNALS OF Escape the same Night we Came Right West of Tianarago about three Miles and upon a Mountain in plain sight of their fort & see large Incampments Round it & heard a vast number of smal arms fired Judged there To be Two Thousand men at Tianarago & on the Twenty first Day Got To Our Canoes about Eight of the Clock in the Morning & found all safe & about Nine of the Clock in the…

Octobt 24th 1755 after a tedias march over hills and holes we Indeavoured to Disscover ye french on this side of ye Carrying Place but Could not hear any of ye Choping or Shooting or Druming we went Down To ye Lake but Could not Disscover them Then we Proceeded farther To Tiondaroga where we had a fare View of y® french a little before son set They ware at work Clearing of Lahd and Choping of…

was Prevented by y¢ snow filling yeare we then Proceeded Back on ye 25t to Disscover ye french on this side ye Carring Place if Possable we went to the Lake but not near y™ but Dissern ye Buildings but could not Disscover ye strength nor numbers but saw that it was on ye west side of y® Lake at a verey Narrow Place ye next morning we Determin4 to make farther Disscoverey but was Prevented by…

28 Jest as the Day Brock I went out with 4 men and trauiled 2 or 3 miles North Est and Came to a Camp which Looked varey New and Judged to be made by the Enemey and we went in and thare fier was not all out But we Judged that they had begon 2 ouers or more and they trauiled Right North and maid A Larg Road then I Returned to our Camp and sent out a Scout of 10 men which folowred that Road 3 …

Pursuant to your Orders of ye 29th of October Last I set off with ye Party to me ordered and Went Down ye Lake and ye 31st made a Discovy ofa nomber of fires By night Scituated on a Point of Land on y® West Side of ye Lake, upon Which we Landed and Secured our Battoes upon ye Same Side of ye Lake about a mile & half Distance from their Encampment, Next morning Sent out Spies for further Disc…

Made no further Discovery there and Returnd to My Party, found all well except Capt Putnam and ye Spie with him, who was not returned, The next Morning about 10 0 the Clock Capt Putnam return'd and ye Spie with him who Gave much the Same acct ag above Saving yt ye Enemies Centrys was sett 20 Rods from yt Fires and for a more Crittical examination of y® Enemies Proceedings he went forward ti…

Upon Which I ordered Two Battoes into y¢ Water Leut Grant with 6 men, and I went into ye other with 6 more & Put on Board Each a Wall peice and Went out towards ye Canoes, who seemed to Ly upon their Paddles as tho' they had a Design to Decoy us into some mischief by their Party yt was Designed to Surround our People on Shore, and then attack us by keeping us between y™ an their Land party f…

And Then we made ye Best of our Way to our Head quarters about half Way, We met With ye Reinforcemt--But upon Consultation, Thought Best to report What had happend Without further proceeding, and accordingly arrived here to y® Encampmt ye 34 Instant--All which is Hum Submitted by your Dutyfull Serv's. Rozsert RopeErs Camp at Lake George Novr 34 1755. IsraEL PutTNaM (Endorsed) Report of Capt R…

So according to your Orders of the 31 of Octt Last I put of from the Camp in the Evening of the same Day about four miles Down the Lake I saw a fier on the West Shoar and went Nigh to it being Informed by the people With me that Our Scouts Commonly made fiers Near that place I Proceeded about Seven Miles from hear I saw a fier on the East Side on a Neck of Low Land and passed it at sum Dista…

five miles by four hours hard traveling I allso thought I could see all from their by the Looks of the Land Within a Little Ways of the Narrows and Judged I Could see aney advantagous ground this side the Narrows Where the Enemy Would be likely to post their Guard I could see no Smoak only at a great Distance towards Champlain Which I Judged the Products of the Camp at Carelon finding the Mo…

Sam ANGELL. To Major Gener Johnson cope creer) Lake George Nov 3. 1755 Capt Angells Letter 276 JOURNALS OF THE REPORT OF JAMES CONNOR OF COL. COCKCROFTS REGT WHO WENT IN A BATTOE WITH 5 MEN MORE TO DISCOVER THE POSTURE OF THE ENEMYS ADVANCED GUARD ON LAKE GEORGE. Parted from the Camp 5 Novt in the Evening & lay by near the mouth of the first narrow that night--AIU next day lay still, til…

Saw no Indians. discovered a Breast work round their Incampt with pickets put up like ours here, & several Log houses within it & Suppose there may be between 150 or 160 men there, lay there til it began to rain hard & the Enemy left off working web judge was between 10 & 11 a Clock yesterday morning, then came away & joined the other men at the Battoe lays still till about 12 a Clock at ni…

Having according to Orders Gone the Distance w® we Reach'd: the 6t sent out Two Scouts Imediately one for South Bay the other for wood Crick. the one that went to wood Crick returnd the same Evening and acquainted me they had Discoverd Newly beating Tracts to the st w4 upon w® on the 7h at day break sent four ye same way to reach the falls of wood Creek But being a Rainy day & having no Comp…

On w he returned to his party and Acquainted them of their Numbers, upon w? they Concluded that as soon as it was Dark to go & attack 'em: in the mean Time the person that Had made the discovery went & Lay to watch 'em to see if they sett any Sentrys : he had not sett Long before it Grew Dark: and he Discoverd four of 'em Come'g within a Rod or Two of him, & having a Great Cold Could not re…

278 JOURNALS OF THE REPORT [OF] HENDRICK & NICKLAS TWO MOHAWK INDS MADE; WHO WENT UPON A DISCOVERY TOWARDS CROWN POINT TIONDAROG &c. 1755. Nov" 24. Encamped upon alarge Mountain near the Lake; 34. Still keeping to the westward of Lake George along the mountains, and encamped upon a mountain ealld Tekaghweangaraneghton, heard firing in the Woods but could not dome up with any Parties tho cam…

7*. In the Morning resolvd to discover the Encampment nearer accordingly they went, and found it to their surpriz and amazement so large that they never seen the like and the Encamp! at this Lake was nothing in Comparison did not see any Indians in the Encampmt returned to the Place of Ambush. 8h, Laid there this Day for a scalp 9. Provision growing short resolvd to return and report their …

Sergt Thompson of the Rhode Island regt Went down the Lake yesterday with a Battoe & 4 Men between 6 & 7 a Clock in the Evening rowed abt 4 hours came to a little Island abt 8 miles off halted struck up a little Fire & eat some victuals when Connor in his Battoe joined them, then set off & stopped at a little Island abt one Mile on this side the first Narrows, there went ashoar & reconnoitre…

They say that to the Northward of the s¢ White Flag, they discovered a large Smoak wh appeared to be a Mile long. REPORT OF THE SCOUTS TO SOUTH BAY. Lake george November y® 15" 1755 then set out a Scout with two of ye Mohawk officers and two of their Indians and three of my men went towards y® South Bay to See what Descovéry we Could make of an army Comming against us and traveled about _Ea…

But Saw a Large Body of Ducks and gees and then we Returned to ye party and Lookt out a Conveniant place to Camp and as Soon as Day Light appeard we Set out to y® Bay again with a party to see what Descovery we Could make and marcht Down y° Bay about three miles and saw no Enimy but saw Large Incampments where they Landed their Battos and then we Returned to ye party and found all well and th…

Set out on a Cout In a Botto By his honers ordors Jeneral Jonson his honers horders Was for three Battos and twenty for Men Bot When Came to Be Redy to Go one third Declind to proseed and So I Set of With 2 Battos and 16 men a Bout seuen a Clock at Night and proseded til I came a Boue the first Naros and stoped on a Island for to Rest and Coming to Examin of the popel What prouison the had I…

perposed By his honer on the 16 Day of Instant I lay Stil til Sonset and then I Set out for a Dis Couery and Did prosed as far as the Naros Whar the advansed party Lay the Night Being uery Light I Sopos they Discouer us forst for We Was Betwen the Moon and they and I sopos a Bout three quartor of a Mild Distans When forst Discouered Bov us We Lay a Spel to Consider What was Best Bot they Son …

ORDERS TO LIEUT. RODGERS. You are to proceed with the party under your command to Tiondorogo in order view the posture & strength of the Enemy as distinctly as you possibly can. If you find the Enemy a considerable Body you are to dispatch Two of your party hither with an acct & proceed with the rest to Crown Point where you are to make all the discoveries you can & if possible to take a Pr…

Night as far as the large Bay of the Lake, att 12 or 14 miles from the Camp where we Lay that Night. 17h Travelled on, discovered nothing. ¥ 18' Ditto, heard 3 Canon fired abt 2 or 3 0 Clock afternoon. 19th abt 4 in the afternoon came where the french advanced Guard keeps, Lieuts Rodgers & Claus with an Indian went on top of a mountain opposite the Diontorogo Camp, where. they discovered at…

20th Early in the morning all of us went further down towards Diondarago abt 2 miles from where we encampd and coming toa mountain opposite the Camp went up & laying there a little while heard a Gun near us tried to come up to it but found it to be at the advance Guard. Hendrick the Indian with Lieut Claus went upon an Eminence of the Mountain to view the french Camp, but the Ind= wag surpr…

21t Abt 3 o Clock afternoon came within fair Prospect of Crown Point Fort and the adjacent Plantations, but could make no remarkable Discovery as the Place seemed quite desolate to us we could observe no smoke in the Fort or neighbouring houses tho' we staid till dark, saw no Body stirring, no Craft upon the Lake, heard only 2 or 3 Guns fired in the Woods over the Lake, We thought to interce…

view upon an eminent Rock of a Mountain of Diondaroga, heard firing of Guns & Cutting of Wood, & seen some smokes on the other side of Take Champlain, when the old Indian was convinced of the Enemy's marching backward as he said the smoke of y® Camp was higher up the Lack when he saw it last, as also the firing & beating of Drums ; 23, 24, 25th Travelled homewards under great deal of hardship…

I marched with a parte of men from these Camps and Went on y® Wagon Rod about 3 miles and then tornd to y® East and marched about .7. miles then touren to ye Northerd of the Est and marched about . 20. miles and thar in Campt and a Bout Daylitin I herd a Bout . 21 . grat gones fird a Bout North from us .in y¢ moring I marched to the North .4 or|5 miles and then torned and mad homard Rangen y…

There Take a View of that Fortress & out works & make minnets of the Same if you meet Indieans or any Enemy in your way you are to take them Prisoners or Kill them or distress them any other ways or Means your Prudence shall direct you are to take Good Care of your men and not Expose them too much you are to use all Immaginable Protection not to Loos a man if it should Snow you are to Return…

Set out with a Partey of fifty men with Orders to Look Into Crown Point & the Advance Battreys that is Built Round it the first Day we martd Down the Lake George aboute Fighten Miles & Camp4 so we Proceed by the west" of the Greate Moun: tains And Continud our March until the 2¢ of Febry than Clamb'4 up a greate Mounton to the westtd of Crown Point about one Mile & Gave it the name of Ogdens…

& some of my men pursued them within Gun Shoot of the Fort but could not overtake them So we Being Discouerd thought it needles to waite any Longer for Prisoners but Imedently set fire to the Barns & Houses where was abundance of wheat & other Graiens & we Kill4 there Cattle, Horses and Hoogs in Number Aboute fifty Left none Living in s¢ Village to our knowledg aboute 11 o'clock we march4 Ho…

June y® 20th 1756 Set out with a party of fifty men in five Whale Boats & Proceeded at abt twenty miles to an Island in Lake George were we encamped ye next day went five miles farther Down ye Lake and there landed, halled out our Boats ashore and carried them over a Mountain about six miles to South Bay whare we arrived ye 34 July in the afternoon and ye Same evening went down ye Lake at ab…

Place to be about Seventy Rods--Continued on till Day light about five miles from ye Fort. then halled up y® Boats & Conee cealed all day on ye Same Shore and discovered 30 going loaded : from expwil point to Sundry Battoes, Loaded and unloaded which ware bark canoes with ing ing ye we e i shout 2 Taian, ae ie & going Bpony rg in ye Evening of from Ticondorog, Y° fifth Day Put of again & att…

July 7 about 10 in ye Morn. 30 Boats Passed towards Supose part of those CANda also a Light Schooner of about 35 or 40 Seen the day before. tung--Set out again in ye Evening & went 15 miles farther Down and went ashore about 1 oClock a. m. upon a Point on y® East Side of & Immediately Sent a party farther Down the Lake for Discovery. who Saw a Schooner at Anchor Some Distance from ye Shore a…

ing Some few Casks of Brandy & Wine which we hid in very secure: Places with our Whale boats at Some Distance on ye opposite Shore the Prisners informed yt about five hundred men of which they were foremost, were on their Passage at about two Legs Distance which occasioned us to set forward on our Return y® Morning of the 8t* Currant & persued our March till ye 12tb Where we arrived on the W…

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Arrived in Canada 20 July 1635; Superior from 1653 to 1656; sent to Onondaga May 17 of the latter year; remained there until 20 March 1658; died in the West Indies. _ Frs. Durrrron. Arrived in Canada between 1636 and 1638; returned to France Aug. 23 1650; came out a second time, was missionary at Onondaga from 1657 to 1658, and again returned to France 6 Sept. 1658; arrived for the third ti…

Francois Joseru Bressanr. <A native of Rome; arrived in Canada in 1642 [16382]; prisoner among the Mohawks from Ap'] 30, to 19 Aug. 1644; left for Europe Nov 2, 1650; died at ee 9 Sept. 1672. Pierre JoserpH Mary Cuavmonor. Born near Chatillon sur Seine; entered at Rome in 1632; arrived in Canada 1 Aug 1639. Sent to Onondaga Sept 19, 1655, abandoned it March 20, 1658. Founded Lorette, and died…

1662; was ordained Ap'l 1666; sent to the Mohawks May 17, 1668; passed to oneaeey thence to Seneca; on. the mission sath 1683. He appears to have been one of the Missionaries sent to the Cantons in 1702. "In silvis apud Troquois." Catal. 1703. Ciaupe Darion. Arrived in Canada 1655 when he proceeded to Onondaga, and continued there a few years. He labored afterwards among the tribes of the U…

Sent to the Mohawks, July 1667, & to the Oneidas in Sept. where he spent 4 years; thence he returned to the Mohawks in 1672, and was at Onondaga in 1679, in 1700 and 1701. He was still alive in 1703, at Fort St Louis. Evrenne pe Carneri. Arrived in Canada 6 Aug. 1666; sent to Cayuga 1668--absent in 1671, 2; returned and remained until 1684. Died at Quebec July 1726. He is said to have spok…

At Onondaga in 1671, 2; left it and was sent to Niagara in 1687; at Laprairie in 1690 and in France in 1699. Francois Boyrrace. Sent to the Mohawks in 1668, 9; laboring there after 1673; died at Quebec 17 Dec. 1674. Frs. Variant pe Guests; arrived prior to. 1674. Succeeded Father Boniface among the Mohawks about 1674; accompanied the expedition against the Senecas in 1687; on the 31 Dec. of …

Jacques D'Hev was a Missionary among the Onondagasin 1708; and in 1709 among the Senecas; is said to have been drowned in 1728. Aytuony Gorpon, founded St Regis in 1769, with a Colony from Sault St. Loui Sulpitians. Francis Picquer. Came to America in 1733; founded Oswe gatchie in 1748; abandoned that place in 1760, and died in France 15 July 1781. Pierre Paut Frs. pe ta Garpe. Succeeded A…

I have thought Sir, that it would be more for the good of the Planta tions in the present Circumstances, if the Cost, wich must be spent to the Carrying on of a War, were imployed for transporting settlers, and providing for them for one year at least, besides parchasing of Implements and Cattle and that a Circling Line might be improved and at convenient Places and Distances Forts and Towns…

cient for its own Defence should be granted and assigned, with Power sufficient for the Defence thereof, wich at set Times should be subject to a Visitation of a Commission of his Majesty, whose Power must be more extensive in the Beginning in order to make Tryal and subject to Limitations from his Majesty as oceasion should offer. .This i conceive is the Method, by wich the German Emperors …

But then i would also advise That such Borrough Graves or Guard a limits must settle first in the Fixt Line one towards the other, and that in defensible Towns, so that the settling must begin at their respective Residences and so round about and extending first and principally as much as possible from the Residence of one Borrough Grave to the other and to secure the Communication of the Bur…

If Your Honour approves of my scheme and promoteth a Subscription of the Indians to the Inclosed Petition i shall, God willing undertake a Voyage to England and promote the scheme, _ with all my might. I wish that i might be so happy to speak with your Honour about it, or to obtain an Answer in Writing 296 PAPERS' RELATING TO But Circumstances bid me conclude Recommending Sir, Your Honourab…

And i have. forgotten in the Letter to observe that the Inhabitants, who must be obligd, by Turns to guard the Forts and defend the Frontiers must be exempt from taxes and from bearing a share in the Expenses belonging to the Government of the Provinces to wich they are the Barrier. I hope Sir you will improve these Raw Hints, wich to Day expecting your arrival are come in my. mind and that…

But i- forbear, saying more about it, least i should perhaps make the Wound, wich beginns to heal soar and bleed again. Let it be to your Comfort: That he died in a good Cause as a faithfull allie and a brave Captain, and sleepeth on the Bed of Honour, where his Name will be a good Savour, as long as a Free Englishman and faithful Mohawk remains over - Andas he hath been your Brother your Fa…

That your Heart might not be as a stone but be moved with Compassion and on hearing of the more then barbarous Treatment your Brethren ° the English in Pensylvania & parts. adjacent have met with. And as to the Cognawaghes who are of your Blood, let them know that it would have been 100 Times' better for them, to have accepted your Generous offer of Peace and Friendship then to Reject' Iton…

Lastly my Brethren, Let my tears be wipd of, for the Death of my Brother Henry, by a letter to Great King George, wich i beseech you to subscribe in my Behalf, lest i might loose the Fruit of so many years' toil, trouble and charges. And i assure you, as soon as the Lord shall enable me, you shall not find me ungratefull. And as I have not been unmindfull hitherto, but remembered you at the Th…

from the Insults and Attacks of their Ennemies, but also of your Majesty's Faithfullness in Performing your Coyenants with your Majesty's alliance and Protection a that of the French King against all attemts of the latter to intice and move us to the Contrary and therefore both formerly and now in particular lately, being moved thereunto, by our Brother General Johnsen have renewed the Coven…

Hence, and from many considerations more it is morally impossible for us, That we should undertake, do or advize any thing, to the Hurt of Your Majesty's' or our Brethren's Your Faithful Subjects Interest. And whereas We, who live between Your Majesty's and the French Kings Territories naturally must know better, what is conducive to the Defension of the Fronteer of Your Majestys Dominions i…

is done in other Paris of the Country, to Fortify, Garrison nd defend such Towns, to settle and maintain Ministers of the Gospeland Schoolmasters, both for themselves and the Indians living | about them: and to free such Towns and Precincts from allother public Taxes Expenses and troubles, wherein they should not particularly be concerned. - And whereas we find John Christopher Hartwick minis…

And whereas both by Reason of the great Distance from markett and because of the Nearness to the Enemies Country and the Adjoining Wilderness of the people that would undertake to settle it must labour under great Hardships and Difficulties, arising from the above mentioned Circumstances easily to be conceived and too tedious to mention to Your Majesty and whereas the far greater part of the T…

THE SIX NATIONS. 301 Large being confident Your Majestys Wisdom will from this Hint easily infer them. If Your Majesty shall be pleased to grant these our Prayers we shall thanckfully acknowledge it, as a Token of Your Majestys especial Grace and Favour towards us, and use our best Endeavours by a Faithfull Attachment to Your Majestys Crown to deserve it allways praying to the Heavenly Fathe…

Care of our Brother Johnson hath been joined with us and linek to the Covenant Chain in particular we pray That Your Majesty would be pleased to provide for us, to the Glory of God and our Souls Wellfare a Church and a Minister residing among us; that we may more fully enjoy the Light of the Gospel, wich hath begun to dawn upon us; That we delivered from the Power of Darkness may walk in it--…

Y heard Geni Shirley say that he would order _ Montrosure to plan a Defensible Fort which he intended to send to you, as a Model for the Forts among the Indians, and that he would order them immediately to be built as he looked upon it the only Measure left to secure the Alliance of the five Nations : For my part I thought Mr Shirley's Zeal for the public would not have left this Measure to …

I am vastly diverted to see Alexander pursuing §r John.where ever he goes. Iam Sensible their Accounts puzzled them confoundedly. I am this minute inform'd That the French & Indians had surrounded Winchester & that Washington was there only with fifty Men but that the Militia of Ten Counties were on their March for it's Relief. Major Sparkes sends his Compliments, Mrs Ogilvie joins in our be…

I wish it had been in my power when in Canada, to have made you more sensible of my good inclination to serve you, or any gentleman in your then unhappy scituation, as nothing could ever afford me a more Sensible happiness than to be able to reward merit & relieve ye distressed. Your very Generous and gratefull Sentiments, expressed on ye occasion, far exceed any thing I could have done for so…

Thave on my arrival last Autum acquainted the Loups of Orange also the Siz Nations with wt passed between me & the Abanakis your Flock, concerning that unlucky affair, and desired they would all remain quiet until the Spring of the year, when, I assured them proper satisfaction would be made for what had been done by the Abanakis, they all acquiesced, and now expect the arrival of said India…

The good disposition of ye Indians y* way gives.me great pleasure, and hope they will be sensible enough to continue it, as it will be for their own Interest. You may assure them Sir, from me, that as long as they behave well, they will have my good wishes, and interest with whatever generel may be here, and I flatter myself while they have you 304 PAPERS RELATING TO for their guide, they wi…

I hope you have not acquainted the Indians of my Design of coming, or if you have, shall esteem it as a Favour if you will let the Interpritor acquaint y™ of my Reason for Not coming. Major Rogers who favour's me with this, will acquaint you of all the News stiring, shall therefore to avoid giving you farther Trouble beg leave to subscribe myself Yt most obedient Hum: Servant Albany Friday…

I expect they will return, and hope will make such progress in the English Language, & their Learning, as may prove to your Satisfaction, & the Benifit of the Indians, who are realy much to be Pittied-- my absence these four month, has prevented my design of encourageing some more Lads going to you, and since my return (which is but Lately) I have not had an opportunity of seeing either Old …

2 This was the celebrated Josren Brant, Thay-en-de-nea-ga, since so well known through Col. Stone's elaborate biography of him. We find the following account of his introduction to the Rey. Mr. Wheelock in the latter's Narrative of 'the Indian School at Lebanon, 1763. '' Taz Honourable Scorcu Commissioners in and near Boston, understanding and approving of the Design of sending for Indian Chi…

Sampson Occom, going on a Mission to the Oneidas, that said David be supported on said Mission for a Term not exceeding 4 Months; and that he endeavour on his Return to bring with him a Number of Indian Boys, not exceeding three, to be put under Mr. Wheelock's Care and Instruction, and that 201. be put into Mr. Wheelock's Hands to carry this Design into Execution; and that when said Sum shall…

They arrived here August Ist, 1761, but had so much Caution in the extraordinary Enterprize, that they brought each of them an Horse from their own Country. Two of them were but little better than naked, and could not speak a Word of English. The other being of a Family of Distinction among them, was considerably cloathed, Indian-fashion, and could speak a few words of English. They let me kn…

He continued with me till the Fall, when the Physician I employed advised me, that his Disorders threatned his Life, and prevailed te such a Degree that he looked upon him to be incurable, and that he judged it best to send him back to his Friends, and that soon, or it would be too late to send him at all j and according to this Advice I sent him away with Negyes, having furnished them with M…

ing, advise them To Send as many as is required also endeavour to Send one To the Rev¢ Mt Graves,' whose offer (if they have any common Sence) they will look upon in the friendly & Geng: rous light it Deserves. As Iam very much hurried at present, must beg leave to refer you to Kirtland for any perticulars you may choose to. be informed of as I had a good deal of Conversation with him, rega…

Commissioners of the State of the Case, and by a Letter from the Reverend Dr. Cuauncy, Chairman of their Committee, in the Name of the rest, was desired to let them have in their Pay and under their Direction these two who came last with Joseph, which I consented to, provided they would remit the necessary Charges which I had been at in procuring and cloathing them, and give me as I afterward…

in everij Castle by choosing uijt two jung boijs for to be send in nieu engelland to be instructed there and them should instruct the others in proper learning. now learning is good en is most necessarij amongs the haddens that cannot be contradicted but ij want to know to what design as it is to introduce their own Presbijteren Church than can it not be allowed, en as it prejudice our Churc…

P. S. ij hope en think Sir Williamsen en humble Servant Your Honour shall be for our churches Joun Jacog OEL. Seithe dadjeu as ij can have an Answer thro of by few lines ij shall take it for a great Honour. ' (Addressed) These Letter is directed to the honorable Sir Baronet William Johnson overseer over the Indien affairs en present now att Cunad Schoharrij ¢ @ Mr. Oel was appointed…

Nothing can be more agreeable to me than to Grant any Religious Community such priviledges as are in my power ; And, as the Forrage house near the Main Guard is not at present wanted, you will, agreable to the Request of the Presbyterian Congregation, Acquaint them, they have my Leave to make use of the said House for their place of worship. I am, Sir, your most Obedient Servant, JEFF : AM…

Bennet for his zeal to promote the interest of Religion, where it is so much wanted, but at the same time I must observe that it is not in my power to do more than countenance so pious an. 310 PAPERS RELATING TO undertaking as there is no allowance for that service, except what is made to Mr. Ogilvie who In my opinion should, and I make no doubt will be readily induced to consider the Gentle…

Peters Iam to inform you that I was obliged to take an Indian Guide to shew me the way to Wyomink as the whole country was covered with snow and the weather the severest I ever knew I agreed to give him three Pounds for himself and his horse and to find provisions for him, weh with other Expences hath cost me five Pounds this Journey and I hope you will not think five pounds too much for my…

It hapens so that I Cant at this time Come my Self and thefore must rely on your own Goodness : but I have sent by as trusty a hand I thinck as any I Could Geet for indeed he seems to be the truest to me of any of them and he is a Christian if there is one any where amongst them: St. I owe to the value of three pounds which I have taken up since I begun to teach these people: and I have had …

S'I have been at onidia and had there 18 Scholars and I have teached so long that the are Come to 4 Shurly s*. you know as well as I that at this Time of the year the are scattered Every where, but I believe when the minister Comes there will be a Great many more that will Learn our tongue. but St there has been here at onidia som o the other sort of people which told them that the English w…

St Pray pardon me for being to tedious if your honour Pleaseth to send: if you Pleas to send it by the bearer Isaac or his father and one line to let me know what and How much Sr Powder is very scears and Provision not very Pleanty if you Pleas to answer this S« I rest Myself your humble Servant Epwarp JoHnson St The Scholers are Gone to hunting and I am Gowing to Isaacs hous at Connosomoth…

this Day Isaac spoake to me to write To your honour Concern ing the Christian religion As he himself told you: and as you told him : when He was last at your house Brother: Sais he: I am now in the very same mind that I was when you Saw me Last and I Do intend to keep this same rode as Long as God shall Give me life and breath that is with his assistance: Brother Just before the Minister Cam…

Now Brother I want your advice in this and I shall here what you Say In this case, the say also it is very hard that I Dont mind them and their ways. Sr I thinkIf I may Speak one word that as there is a Division amongst themselves it would be proper for them that follow the Christian religion to live by themselves. S* Concerning the Stories that your honour has hard of me if you pleas to as…

David informs me that the Youth of whom I-wrote you, and for whom I sent him, viz George Haxton was imployed at the Royal Block House at Onoyada Lake by one Reggens a Trader who lives at Fort Stanwick, and that Mt Occom informed him, that the youth was inclined to Come but his obligations to Reggens, and Reggens' violent opposition to it forbad him for the present, And that the Youth appears…

In a letter I wrote you last Fall I proposed that if way could be made for setting up of this School in some convenient Place, And the Settlement of three or four Towns round about it, I would remove with it, and bring Several Ministers with me of the best Character and take Care to people the Place with Inhabitants of known Honesty, Integrity, and such as Love Indians, & will seek their Inte…

Pe Your Honour has no doubt been informed of a Legacy of Sir Peter Warren of about Seven hundred and fifty Pounds Sterling left in the hands of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, it being the Sum due to him from that Province, as his Commissions for their pay from the Crown for taking Cape Breton some Years ago, and which he gave to be by them improved at Six p' Cent for the Education of…

But there is since in and about Boston a Society incorporated for Indian Affairs, which includes all the Scotish Commissioners, many more to the Number of Eighty, and they have lately found out, as I understand by Doct Chauncy, that the method Tam taking is not the best way to promote Religion and Learning among the Siz Nations, but a much likelier one is, by setting up English Schools among…

Your Honour best of any man knows what methods have the greatest Probability of Success among the Six Nations, and if you think with me that it is best to continue these Boys as they are, and will please to write your Mind to Governt Bernard with the Reasons of it, I doubt not but as it is generally understood that your Uncle designed a Testimony of his Respect to you in. that Donation, so t…

I understand that some of our People are about to settle our new Purchase on Susquahannah River, if it does not disoblige and prejudice the Indians I shall be glad, and it may be if that settlement should go on a Door may open for my Design on that Purchase, but your Honour has full understanding of the affair, and interested therein, and I can rely with greater Safety on your Judgment and C…

Wheelock, of your forwardness to encourage the Indian School, under his care emboldens me to trouble your Honr with a Line, or two, in Favor of that truly noble, & charitable Design--and as I am perswaded, you will rejoice at an opportunity to do good to your fellow-men, advance the Interest of Christs Kingdom among the Heathen Nations, and more firmly attach them to the Crown of great Brit…

Debert, Merchant In London ; The perusal, whereof may possibly give you all the satisfaction, at present necessary, and excuse from troubling you any further, Him, who is, with the utmost Respect : Your Honour's most sincere, most obedient, and very Hum!e sernt ; Bensamin Pomroy. To Sir William Johnson Baronet. *,* Rey. Dr. Pomroy, brother-in-law of the Rev.Eleazer Wheelock, graduated at Ya…

We Ministersof the Gospel, and Pastors of Churches, hereafter mentioned with our Names, having for a number of years past heard of, or seen with pleasure the Zeal, Courage, and firm Resolution of the Rev4 Eleazar Wheelock of Lebanon to prosecute to Effect, a Design. of spreading the Gospel among the Natives in the Wilds of our America, and especially his Perseverance in it amidst the many pecu…

318 PAPERS RELATING TO tunity so to turn the course of Endeavours into another Channel as to defeat the design of spreading the Gospel among the Heathen, to prevent which, and encourage Unanimity, and Zeal in prosecuting the design, we look upon it our Duty as Christians, and especially as Ministers of the Gospel to give our Testimony, that as we verily believe, a disinterested Regard to the…

We have also some of us at his desire examined his Accompts, and find that beside giving in all his own Labour and trouble in the Affair, he has charged for the Support, Schooling &ca of the Youth at the lowest rate it could be done for, as the price of things have been, and still is amongst us, and we apprehend the generous Donations already made, have been, and we are confident will be la…

THE SIX NATIONS. 319 Nathaniel Whitaker, Pastor of the Church at Chilsea in Norwich ; Benjamin Pomroy, Pastor of the first Church in Hebron Elijah Lathrop, Pastor of the Church at Gilead in Hebron Nathaniel Eells, Pastor of a Church in Stonington Mather Byles, Pastor of the first Chh in New London Jonathan Barber, Pastor of a Chh in Groton Matthew Graves, Missionary at New London Peter Po…

Joseph Fowler, Pastor of a Chh in East haddam Benjamin Boardman, Pastor of the 4! Chh of Christ in Middletown John Norton, Pastor of the 6 Chh of Christ in Middletown Benjamin Dunning, Pastor of a Chh of Christ in Marl- _ borough . The above and foregoing is a True Copy of the Original examined by us, SaMuEL Gray SAMUEL KirRTLAND 320 PAPERS RELATING TO SIR WM. JOHNSON TO REY. DR. POMROY.…

I shall be always ready to do any thing in my power for the public good and the promoting knowledge and instruction amongst the Indians, and am very glad to find a Gentleman of your pious sentiments and abilities is in some measure concerned in the School with Mt Wheelock concerning whom I have always entertained the most favourable Sentiments, and therefore have not the least doubt of his Qu…

as those Gentlemen cannot but observe on due consideration the advantages which the one plan hath in preference to the other » Whilst the Indians remain in their present Sentiments it will be highly improper to attempt any Settlement in their Country as they are greatly disgusted at the great Thirst which we all seem to shew for their Lands, and therefore I must give it as my opinion that an…

Iam glad to hear that the Boys prosecute their studies with diligence and hope you haveperfectly recovered of your late indisposition, as I am Sir Your well wisher and very humble Servant The Revd M® Wheelock Wo. Jounson. i> SIR WM. JOHNSON TO THE REV. DR. BARCLAY, RESPECTING A NEW EDITION OF THE INDIAN PRAYER BOOK. Johnson Hall Oct® 16t 1762 Dear Sir When I was last at New York I acqu…

In order to bestow on principal People, I would chuse:to have 2) Setts out of the beforementioned 400 printed on a fine Paper & type and neatly bound, Lettered on the back and gilt, of two Setts of which I must beg your acceptance, & that you will make any alterations or additions which you may think necessary thro'out the work ordering the same to be bound in such manner as you shall judge …

It is surmised that his father was Henry §., who died in 1747, He was ordained at Lebanon in J une, 1763, and was ordered to proceed to Onohoghquage asa missionary, but he had not time to effect much good in that quarter, as his labors were interrupted by the Pontiac war. He returned in consequence, and went to Brookhaven where he resided in 1766. He afterwards itinerated in the south and was …

And the estate left to this young Gentleman, he supposes to be sufficient to' support himself and an Interpreter in the Business of a Missionary among the Indians, to which Purpose he seems inclined to devote it. J esteem him remarkably turn'd for that Business. And make no doubt your Hon will have much satisfaction in him when you shall have opportunity to know his worth by personal acquaint…

Smith first proposed to me his taking him for his Interpreter, I opposed it, fearing it would obstruct his Studies, and expose him to get into a roving unsettled State ; but upon further Consideration Iam of Opinion it will be best, as Mr Smith is apt and able to teach, and proposes to bed and board with him. If it should prove otherwise and be a mean to prevent his pursuing his Studies after…

And there has been some Talk of fixing it in one of the New Townships in the Province of the Massachusetts which lie upon New York Line near Albany. But whether either of those Places, or here where it now is will be best for the Furtherance of the general Design, is not yet determined. I much want to consult your Honour in the Affair, but must wait upon providence. and remain with sincere …

Smith Designs to take the journey with him. : Tam Yours ut ante E. Wueetocx. THE SIX NATIONS. 325 MR. SMITH TO SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. ze Lebanon January 18 A. D. 1763. ir Though I have not the Honor of personal Acquaintance with you, yet the important and repeated services you have _ done Your Country, have long made me acquainted with Your Charecter, which shines with such distinguished …

Wheelock) I have contracted an intimate Acquaintance with Joseph who I understand is high in your affection and esteem, and has the Wisdom and Prudence to resign himself to your Direction and Conduct--as He is a promising Youth, of a sprightly Genius, singular Modesty, and a Serious Turn, I know of none so well calculated to answer my End as He is--in which Design He woud very Willingly and…

occasion to learn, when he is constantly with me, and I ean devote myself so much more to his Service, than when in the School where a large Number are to be taken care of in conjunetion with Him--and perhaps this woud be a Spur to Him, as well as an additional Motive with Me, to take particular Pains in accomplishing Him for such a Service, and so the general Design of His Education be rathe…

The present Excursion is designed only for a few months, after which He can return again to this School, so that I imagine if its of no Advantage, it can be but of little disadvantage to Him. but if there shoud be farther occasion for Him and it shoud %e agreable to You" to have Him continued in such a Service, T trust that I shall do Honourably by Him. If Your Honour woud be pleased to acqu…

He served his time to Wm. Bradford in Philadelphia, and in Jan. 1753 became a partner of John Parker of New York. Weyman managed the concerns of this firm which published a newspaper called the N. Y. Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, and several books. <A piece entitled '' Observations on the Circumstances and Conduct of the people in the counties of Ulster and Orange in the Prov'ce of New York," f…

In Nov. 1766 he printed in his paper the address of the Assembly to Goy. Moore, in which the House said, among other things, '' Your Excellency has done us no more than justice in supposing that we will cheerfully co-operate with you." Weyman by some blunder omitted the little word ''no," and for this was arraigned again before the representatives of the people. He threw the blame on one of hi…

On the 15th January following he resigned his office as public printer and after a lingering illness, which had for some time rendered him incapable of business, he died in New York on the 18th July 1768. It appears by one of the letters in this series, that he died bankrupt. Ep. * The Journal of the Assembly of the Prov. of New York for the Session of 1766, being unfortunately omitted in the…

That a tract of land, about fifteen or twenty miles square, or so much as shall be sufficient for four townships, on the west side of Susquehanna River, or in some other place more convenient, in the heart of the Indian country, be granted, in favor of this School. The said townships be peopled with a chosen number of inhabitants of known honesty, integrity, and such as love and will be kind…

That those towns be furnished with ministers of the best characters, and such as are of ability, when incorporated with a number of the most understanding of the inhabitants, to conduct the affairs of the school, and of such missions as they shall have oceasion and ability for, from time to time. That there be a sufficient number of laborers upon the lands belonging to the school ; and that …

And that there be a moderate tax upon all the granted lands, after the first ten or fifteen years, and also some duty upon mills, &c. which shall not be burdensome to the inhabitants, for the support of the school, or missionaries among the Indians, &c. By this mean much expence, and many inconveniences occasioned by our great distance from them, would be prevented, our missionaries be much…

I am with sincerest duty and esteem May it please your Excellency your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, ELEAzZAR WHEELOCK. 330 PAPERS RELATING TO SIR WM. JOHNSON TO THE REY. DR. BARCLAY. CONCERNING THE INDIAN PRAYER BOOK, Johnson Hall Apr! 29th 1763 Sir, T have been favored with yours of the 12th inst. which needed no Apology as I never in the least doubted your assid…

REV. MR. WHEELOCK TO SIR WM. JOHNSON. Hartford May 16th 1'763 Sir, May it please your Honour, Ireceived last Evening a Paper with your Seal inclosing a Letter to Joseph from his Sister 3' wrote, I suppose in the Mohawk Language ; and by which he informs me, he is ordered to come directly home; that the Indians are displeased with his being here at School, that they don't like the People &c…

And inasmuch as there was nothing wrote to me manifesting your Pleasure in the Affair, I presume your Honour did not know the Contents of the Inclosed though it came under your Seal ; and how to conduct in the Affair Iam at a great Loss--Mr Smith is now gone to New York &c to prepare for his Mission ; I expect him back soon, and if he comes & finds Joseph gone, whom he depends upon for a Pil…

Nor have I any intimation of any valuable End that may be served by his going before the Time proposed--And as Joseph desires to put himself under your Honour's Conduct, as what he apprehends most safe & prudent for him to do, so I. should be glad your Honour would as explicitly as you please let me know your Pleasure, And upon the whole think it advisable to detain Joseph (if he will be cont…

The design is a very commendable one, and I should be extremely happy in having it in my power, to be any ways instrumental in civilizing the Indians, and promoting seminaries of learning in this country ; but as the disposal and settlement of the conquered lands in America must be determined by His Majesty, and that there is reason to beleive the same is now under consideration at home ; I …

Cornelius Bennet, Catechist to the Mohawk Indians, inclosed in a letter from the Revd. Mr. Apthorp, dated 12 March, 1764, we learn that Mr. Bennet has entered upon the work of instrueting the Indians, and has a fine company of children under his care, who are very orderly and ingenious. They hear prayers morning and evening, learn to read English, are. catechised in the Mohawk Tongue, taught …

I have not time to write to M* Bennet now but shall as soon as I have a certain acctt of the State of Things amongst the Indians. If he ventures, I shall comply with my proposal as to Lodging and Board, till such Time as I conclude a Bargain with Sir William Johnson who is treating with me for my Farm, fora Glebe for the Indian Missionary, as I have before informed you please inform M* Bennet…

Apthorp recommends him to the continuance of the Societies Favour as a person well, qualified for the service he has undertaken." Rev. Mr. East Apthorp was the Society's Missionary at Cambridge, Mass., which charge he resigned at the date of the. above letter, and returned to England, were he died in1816- Mr, Bennet did not continue long among the Mohawks, for his name does not appear on the S…

I send a 24 Proof to be revised by you.--I apprehend ye Corrections on our Side be not so exact as I could wish.--Please to peruse it a 24 Time.--We are put to prodigious Difficulty to print such Language (in form) in North America, where we have . hot the Command of a Letter-Maker's founding-House to suit ourselves in y® particular Sorts required, such as--p's--k's--y's--- &c.--&c. when had …

1 Esenrzer Punprrson, graduated at Yale Coll. in 1726, and was a Congregational Minister at Groton, Conn. He conformed to the Church of England about the year 1732. Having received orders in London in 1734, he organized a congregation, on his return, in Norwich, at the village of Poquetanuck about the year 1738. His name appears on the Society's lists as ' Itinerant Missionary in Connecticut,"…

The good opportunity I have by M« William Seeber my friend, gives me encouragement to trouble your Honour with these few Lines, to beg the favour of sending me by him a bottle of brandy & some Raisins, which your Honour would have send long ago, if you had a good opportunity, as I am resolved to Trye that Cure with old Peer, I have drank this 4 weeks an ugly Drink of what the Germans Call Lo…

Cloathing & my house is vere cold & most open, & so poor in cash &c: that I can not for this time supply this Want, your Honour would oblige your old faithfull Servant, if you would Trust him a cupple new planckets for making a new, warm Coat, to cover his Cold sick poor body, till he shall turn wel or able to Do Your Honour satisfaction for them. 336 PAPERS RELATING TO I farder must Compla…

Finally do I wish your Honour & the whole your Noble Family a blessed & happy Exodum to this-most Ended year, & a prosperous Transitum & over step into the New year near by, The God of heaven & Eart Grant your Honour upon a New His Godly Patronage, favour Mercy, Wisdom, Strength & all Requisita, with which he has been pleased to Endow your Person this Manny Years to the best of Land & Church,…

I had not heretofore the honour to be acquainted with the English Nation. Born in the midst of France without being natural Subject of the French King, I had hitherto hardly known any but Frenchmen. But how truly can I affirm that Inever have seen in any one of them, any thing that approach in the least, of or Like that noble generosity, (or the great characteristick of the English,) so Rem…

These generous proceeding have so far gained Upon me, that Ihave not hesitated on moment, but Gave general Amherst all the knowledge and Lights, which my Stay in Canada, and my connections, Especially, with the late French generals, have enabled me to procure. These papers are of the utmost consequence, Yowll Judge thereof on their Titles. You shall hereafter be acquainted with the motives, w…

Nation in Acadia, and the other among the Six Nations. I show therein the means, and at the same time declare the Immense Benefit, that would Accrue to the British commerce, from this kind of Transmigration. Jam so bent for that same, that if canada be restored to the French, and Gener! Amherst, from whom I daily Expect an Answer to some former Letter, don't give me a Call, I will certainly …

If these papers concerned you in the least, I would gladly transmit them to you, but I could not very soon comply, because, besides the Extraordinary length of the contents of these papers, Iam now busy in completing the canadian Code of Civil law, but I should have remitted you indeed the discourse to General Amherst, wherein Are contained many Anecdotes relating to the Indians. You will be…

Indians cannot set out for your place these ten days, poverty hath lengthened their hunting Season, and is the real cause of this delay ; which Excuse, I pray you to accept for your self, and to cause it, to be accepted of also, by the Loups and the Six Nations. They will on return bring me your Answer and what may be your pleasure in regard to what I have had the honour to impart to you abo…

I dare to subjoin, Sir, that I am not all together Unworthy, and that if I merit such distinction, I merritt it by these sentiments of respect devotion and atttachment, which will End with my Life. This is my way of thinking. it is the heart that dictates all I write, therefore pardon my spinning this Letter to such unusuall length. When the heart is Engaged with a person thoroughly Esteemed…

I am very certain that some take great Delight in having their children instructed, and taught to read and write, and for such I shall use more than common zeal to perform the Trust in me reposed. I wish you could send me two of our printed Books, for I want them very much for two of my Scholars that are pretty fur advanced in their Learning. please to send them with my Father or Mother I am…

Your Excellency's request with Regard to the Indian Prayer Book, I can only answer by saying That the long Indisposition and Death of Dr Barclay (which since yé writing of yours no doubt you heard of ) put a total Stop to its Progress, more than you have now inclosed, it not being in our Power to revise or correct it at any Rate ; so that 'twill require your appointment of some proper Person…

y® Language much since his Call here ; and partly had forgot it, but was determined to do his best--adding withal, That there was some Gentleman (he mentioned his name to me but I forgot it) who had a more perfect Copy than his, and who understood y® Language at this time better than he did ;--I think he told me it was your Son, or one by ye Name of Claus, or Closser who then was absent at Q…

1 Samson Occom, an Indian clergyman, was born at Mohegan, near Norwich, Conn., in the year 1723. He was the first Indian pupil educated at Lebanon, by the Rev. Mr. Wheelock, with whom he entered in 1742, at the age of 19, and remained with him 4 years. In 1748 he taught school in New London, and about the year 1755, went to the east end of Long Island, where he opened a school for the Sheneco…

But when M'. Occum came to N. York and heard that you was got Home, he was thereupon advised to return, and accordingly did so ; by which Means I was prevented such a supply of proper youth for this school as I hoped he, with your assistance, and Direction, might obtain from Tribes more remote than I have yet had. Which Disappointment is, in part, the occasion of the present trouble given you…

On Occum's return he labored among his countrymen, and removed eventually in 1786 to Brotherton, near Utica, N. Y., whither many Mohegans and Montauks accompanied him, and where he died in July 1792, aged 69. He was accompanied to the grave by upwards of 300 Indians. An account of the Indians of Montauk, by Occum, is published in the Mass: Hist: Coll. He pub: lished a sermon at the execution …

Smith, on his return to his previous post at the Susquehannah river, but he fell sick at Cherry Valley, and died in the course of the same year. He is represented as of an amiable disposition and polished manners.--Ep. THE SIX NATIONS. 343 Sioners in Boston, for an English Education. If Your Honr advises to any, or all of these, and they may be obtained, I will take them, or any others you …

Kirtland can inform you. I look upon myself in particular, as well as, upon my country in general, to be much indebted to Your Honour for Your indefatigable and (hitherto) successful Labors, to establish a Peace with the Natives, upon a sollid and lasting Foundation. May God requite Your Labour and Fatigue with that peace which is the peculiar privilege of his chosen. I am with most sincere …

She was kind to forward it down to me this Day ; and I now inelose it, imagining, (unless yonr Excellency has some Gentleman here to undertake its Inspection) that its being transcribed in a very fair legible Hand under your own hye, and by ye Assistance of your Son's Copy, the Book can still be finished ; as, by being transmitted to me, in a fair Manuscript, or other plain Alterations to be m…

A very laudable Spirit for promoting the Welfare of this Colony, begins to prevail here--A Society is already formed, consisting of Persons of all Ranks, who propose to advance husbandry, promote Manufactures, and suppress Luxury--Several Hundred Pounds are already subscribed, and paid into the Hands of Mr. John Vanderspiegel, the Treasurer--Other necessary Officers are appointed, and several …

As diffusing a Zeal for this Undertaking throughout the Province, will probably be attended with the most beneficial Effects, permit us to urge you to Form a Society in your Neighbourhood, to meet as often as they conveniently can, to correspond with us, and to furnish us with useful Hints relative to what may be proper to fall under the Society's Notice ; and particularly what Branches of Hu…

You may be assured that I shall think myself happy In any opportunity of promoting the Welfare of this Province, & of encouraging as far as in me lyes a laudable Spirit for that purpose, which can not be better effected than by the Suppression of Luxury & the promoting Husbandry and Manufactures, the former has not as yet crept in to the parts where my Interest & acquaintance chiefly lyes, t…

I am far from thinking the suppression of Luxury, an unnecessary article, on the Contrary I most earnestly wish that the people of America may be prevailed upon to live with» the bounds prescribed by their Rank & fortune, and so far as that it would give me great' pleasure to support the undertaking as well as to encourage Husbandry in all its branches. And altho' I am persuaded you will not …

The Nature of my Department likewise affordsme little time to advert to matters of this nature which I presume you will readily allow when I assure you that so far from having leisure to attend to any domestic concerns, I cannot command the ordinary hours, of refreshment amply enjoyed by every Labourer in the province, & tho' I might give myself more Ease I could not do so consist- THE SIX N…

I shall do the Duty at Albany on Sunday next ; but propose being at the Mohock Castle the Sunday following. shall therefore be obliged to you to acquaint the Indians of it. As for News we expect all from you; we are quit dull & stupid inthis Place. I see you laugh & say to y"self when was you otherwise. However the Weather being Dull & Heavy I think it add's to my dullness likewise, so shall c…

The state of Agriculture in this country is very low, and in short likely to remain so to the great Detriment of the Province, which might otherwise draw many resources from so extensive and valuable a Country, but the turn of the old settlers here is not much calculated for improvement, content with the meer Necessaries of Life, they don't chuse to purchase its superfluities at the expence …

If afew of the Machines made use of for the breaking of hemp was distributed amongst those who have Land proper for the purpose it might give rise to the culture of it--or if one only properly constructed was sent as a model, it might Stir up a spirit of Industry amongst them, but Seed is greatly wanted, & Cannot be procured in these parts, and the Germains (who are the most Industrious peop…

I have formerly had pease very well split at my mills, and I shall set the same forward amongs't the people as far as I can, I have Likewise sent for Collections of many Seeds, and usefull grasses which I shall Encourage them to raise, and from the great wants of stock, even for home use, & Consumption, I am doing all I can to turn the intention of the inhabitants to raising these necessary…

Before I set the Examples, no farmer on the Mohock River ever raised so much asa single Load of Hay, at present some raise above one Hundred, the like was the case in regard to sheep, to which they were intire strangers until I introduced them, & I have the Satisfaction to see them at present possess many other articles, the result of my former Labors for promoting their welfare and interests…

Your Excellency's Favour of February 19th by David and Peter came safe to Hand. I thank your Excellency most heartily for all your Condescension, and repeated Favours shown me ; and particularly, for your love for, and kindness to, my dear Mr Kirtland. I have been concerned, lest, through the Zeal and Vigour of his youth, the natural Sprightliness of his Genius, and Unacquaintedness with the…

We expect to have Opportunity to recommend to your Excellency's favourable Notice, two likely young Gentlemen, in the capacity of Missionaries, this spring ; and three young Indians of this School, in the capacity of school masters. I purpose also, that all your five first Boys shall come home this Spring, or by some Time in June, to visit their Friends, and return to me in the Fall. It is pr…

I think it will be a great Pity if Party Names, and circumstantial Differences, in Matters of Religion, should by any Means obstruct the Progress of this so great and important Design of Gospelizing the Heathen. Please to let the Parents of these Boys, know, that they are all well ; and also inform them of their proposed Visit to them. I hope your Excellency will be able to obtain the Grand …

She not only threw open her private residence to, but built chapels in various parts of England for the accommodation of their followers, and erected a college in Wales for the education of persons intended for the Ministry. She was the patroness of Occum whilst he remained in England, and not only hospitably entertained him in her house but introduced him to the notice of several of the Nobi…

I have pitied you on account of your wordly poverty, but much more on account of the perishing case your precious souls are in, without the knowledge of the only true God and Saviour of Sinners. I have prayed for you daily for more than thirty years, that a way night be opened to send the gospel among you, and you be made willing to receive it. And I hope God is now answering the prayers that…

After I had educated Mt Occum, and saw no other way to help the perishing Indians, there being no door open to send missionaries among them, I determined on setting up an Indian School to teach their Children, that when they had got their learning, they might return home, and in their own language teach their brothers, sisters and friends the way of Salvation by Jesus Christ. And accordingl…

me to help forward the great design of Christianizing the Indians, have examined them, and recommend two of them with Joseph Woolly, to be school masters, where they can find the Indians willing to have their children taught: the other six, though they can read and write well enough to teach a school, yet we think they are too young to be masters. We are afraid your children will not mind th…

Two ministers are coming to you from my schoo , who are sent to you by the commissioners, and they are men of learning, have had a liberal education, and are able to teach you the way of salvation by Christ. And they love you much; they do not come to get money, nor to get away your lands, nor to cheat or wrong you in any thing, but only todo you good. And you may depend upon it, I will neve…

In June, 1761, he accompanied Sampson Occom to the Oneidas and returned in August with three Indian youths. He was approved as an Indian teacher in March, 1765, and set out accordingly for the Oneida Nation on*the 29th of April. He shortly after wrote Dr. Wheelock the following letter from his new residence :-- '«Kanayarohare, in Oneida, June 15, 1765. '« Honored and Rey. Sir "This is the t…

I hope you will be kind to him as one of your-own people, and help him to live among you. I hope you will help him to get a house, and let him have some of your land to plant and sow; and he will, besides teaching your children, help and instruct you in managing husbandry ; which you must learn if you expect God will increase your number, and build you up, and make you his people. I hear tha…

They take great pleasure in learning to sing. We can already carry three parts of several tunes. I am well contented to live here, so long as Iam in such great business. I believe I shall persuade the men in this castle, at least the most of them, to labour next year. They begin now to see, that they could live better if they cultivated their lands, than they do now by hunting and fishing. ''…

And after man had sinned, God told him he should get his living by the sweat of his face, and he has commanded us in the fourth commandment to work six days in the week. And often in his word testified his displeasure against those who will not work for a living. This earth is all God's land, and he will have it all cultivated. So long as there are not people enough to inhabit the earth, God…

And when your game is gone, you will not have occasion to remove to another place, or to go a great way to catch wild creatures to live upon as Indians have been forced to do; but you will live as well without them as with them, by the produce of your own farms. And then you will be under circumstances to have ministers and schoo] masters settled among you ; and will be able to support them a…

I thank you for the kindness, which some of you have shewn to my dear M' Kirkland, whom I sent into your country last fall. His heart is bent todo good to the Indians. He denies himself all the pleasure and honors which he might have here among his friends, only to do you good. JI hope you will continue your kindness to him, and treat him as my child. I hope God will make him an instrument of…

The Bearer, David Fowler, has been for some Time in this School ; and is a youth of good Abilities, whose activity & Prudence, Fortitude & Honesty have much recommended him to _ me. He comes with Design if he meets with proper encouragment to settle down among the Oneyada's (unless some other place more inviting presents) in the capacity of a School Master; and also {so far as that Business wi…

If M' Kirtland's Conduct, in Indian Affairs, has been agreable to you, and the Prospect of his usefulness be such as is worthy Encouragment, a Recommendation from vour Excellency would be of great service therein. I conclude you have seen in the public Prints, the Resolves of this Board of Corrispondents on the 12' ult, to send severel Missionaries, and School Masters into your country. But …

Mr John Smith Mercht in Boston is going to England in May or June, who will be employed in the affair so far.as may be consistant with his Business and Character, if no Clergyman can be obtained for that purpose. And a Recommendation of the Affair to Gentlemen at Home, by your Excellency, may be of very great service to the Furtherance of it, and likely of much greater service to it thanany …

Joun Brainerp was brother tothe celebrated David B. and like him an Indian Missionary. He graduated in Yalein1746. His labours were chiefly among the Indians of New Jersey. He died in 1780. 358 PAPERS RELATING TO And that Almighty God may support you under all your Toil & Labours for your King & Country, and late, very late, reward the same with himself is the Prayer of, May it please your …

The Sachem knew nothing of their Sending yt large belt for Provisions &c. was surprised to hear of their unreasonable demands. The Sachem and several others do really appear friendly. in general they treat me with no more respect than they would shew to a dog--but this is equal to me. I believe a little more Provision than I'm like to get here, will be necessary for my subsistence this summer…

Could I have a plenty of fresh venison & bears flesh, I would do without bread, ye staff of Life. but to have little of either & ye most of y' little rotten, I think may be call'd coarse fare. It was said in ye ancient puritanick times, yt man should not live by bread alone,--The Modern ages it seems have degenerated, especially in these parts, for we are like to be denied any bread at all. …

I submit it wholly to your Excellency, whose direction and advice I esteem infinitely preferable to my own; also for whose former undeserved kindness and condesention, I desire to renew most humble thanks. . That Success & Prosperity may crown all your Excellency's undertakings. is ye sincere wish of him.--who is with greatest esteem Your Excellencys most obedient & obliged humble servant…

I am not acquainted with their Case only by common Fame and it has been often said that a number of that Tribe appear more spirited to cultivate their Lands, and live by the Produce of them, than heretofore they haye been, but that they are like to be prevented therein by a drunken Sachem who has got in Debt, and is selling their Lands fast to the English, Your Excellency no doubt knows their…

Tam obliged to write in utmost Hurry & Confusion or not embrace this Favourable opportunity of Conveyance which your Goodness will readily enough consider as an Excuse for what is so unfashionably offered by Honé Sir. Your Excellency's much obliged and most Obed! Humble Servant ELEAzAR WHEELOCK. Sir Wilim Johnson. SIR W. JOHNSON TO REV. THOMAS BARTON. Johnson Hall Nov« 7t4, 1765. Sir I h…

In 1754, the Society for the Prop. of the Gospel, erected a Mission for the counties of York and Cumberland, Pa, and appointed Mr. Barton to it, he haying brought over with him, and laid before the Society a certificate from the Trustees and Professors of the Philadelphia Coll., that he had been more than two years employed as an assistant in that Institution, and discharged his duty to their …

He continued thusa prisoner two years, and at last found himself under the necessity of leaving his family and parish, after a service of 20 years, and withdrawing to New-York, where he arrived in November, 1778. His long confinement to his house impaired his health, and brought "on a dropsy, under which he languished until the 25th May, 1780, when he yielded to his fate at the age of 50 years…

Sir As the Congregation of the Church of England have come to a Resolution to petition his Excellency the Governor to grant them a Charter to Secure their Rights and privileges in the Church built here, they beg leave to lay their petition before you for your approbation, and likewise beseech you Sir to Honour them with an Acceptance of beeing one of the Trustees in the Charter if one can be…

I wrote your Honour sometime past by Onuhsocktea & yetwo white men from Niagara,. weh I hope has come safe to hand.-- We have no news of consequence stiring among us at present. I've heard by some of ye Indians yt your Honour has had a very easy happy time thro' the winter--No Visiters no Company excepting Cap Monteur, no Letters from abroad. Nothing to do but to set down & enjoy ye Comforts …

I desire you wou'd consider ye present disposition & intention of my warriors to visit ye old Enemies yé Cherokee. you are well acquainted wth our ancient Customs & Traditions, yt ye late Breach in my family cant be fully made up in any other way. I know not wt your present stores are, nor how you are disposed towards these things. I ask only this yt you woud take it into consideration. You …

I have been at much Expence for what is done, and assure myself of your consideration of ye Affair. I shall wait your Motion with Pleasure ;--No doubt occurrences prevented its farther Progress with you. The Reverend M* Ogilvie, who is now Curate here, will no doubt undertake its Correction, if you doubt my Carefulness from sticking close to a legible Copy ; and, I think, Sir, he will readily…

The affair is of so much importance, that it claims our most serious and deliberate consideration, and the little time allowed from the speedy return of Mr. does not permit us to send our proposals by him: we shall however embrace the earliest opportunity to convey them to you, and we hope that when you get them, they will be such as will meet with your approbation, and merit the considerat…

I gratefully acknowledge the Receipt of Your Excelleys Favour by David Fowler--I much regrett the loss of Goak, who, as David and others inform me, was a man of great Consequence, both with respect to their religious, and Secular Interest. And I am indeed much affected with the accot (which you referr me to David for) of the occasions given to several Tribes to revive their old Prejudices, a…

M' Kirtland seems inclined to take McCluer to Onoyada with him; But whether the learning of that Language will be of such Consequence as that it will be worth his spending his Time for it, Your Excellency is best able to judge. I have thought it might be best for Joseph Johnson, who is a Mohegan,? and is too young to have the government of a school, to be employed, as an Usher under David F…

On his return to Pittsburgh from this, what turned out to be a fruitless mission, he spent seven months among the scattered white settlements in Western Penn. In the summer of 1774, in company with Messrs. Dean and others, he visited the Canada Indians. During, and for some time after the revolution, he was minister of Northampton, N. H., and in 1786 removed to East Windsor, where he died Jun…

He was afterwards licensed to preach among the Six Nations, and was very faithful to the American cause during the revolution. It is said that he was not inferior to Samson Occum as a Preacher. Axren. See also Wheelock's Narrative, 1775. 3 Jacoz Fowzer, a Montauk Indian was born in 1750. He was approved asa Teacher in 1765, and taught for several years after among the Six Nations and N.E. tr…

They will also be able to acquaint you with the favourable Reception, Mess's Whittaker & Occum, & the Design they Recommend, meet with at Home ; and the Prospect I have of any Favour I can reasonably desire from the Board of Trade, if only the Place for the School was once determined. and as J would act in every step agreable to your mind, for I apprehend you are ahle above any man in this L…

William (Major as we call him for distinction sake) is a very good Genius, and capable of making a very likely man; but his Pride and the Violence of his Temper have sometimes rendered him troublesome ; and obliged me to use severity with him, of which my son can inform you perhapsa Line or Message from You might be of Special service to him. I ordered him. to write a few lines (which I inclo…

I have the Honour of y's of the 10 Instant pr master Peter, wherein I find no particular Instructions in Regard to his schooling, conclude therefore that you leave him to me on that Head. Depend on it I shall take the same care of him in every Respect as my own Child. I shall be prepared to meet his Excellency y'self & the rest of the Fraternity on the earliest notice. My Discourse to my India…

I acknowledge Rev4 Sir that the Fact mention'd in their Report is too notoriously conterary to the Practices of Christians of every Denomination to gain Credit amongst any but Indians and the most ignorant and crudilous Part of the white People, confident therefore that this Report is intirely Groundless I have thought it imprudent to apply to any Gentleman to have it refuted but to yoursel…

The Prudence of this Measure the Advantage it gives to the common cause of Christianety and its utility to the Nation so far as we consider the natinal Interest as connected with the scheme christinising the Heathen in these Parts must appear to every considerate Person upon the least Reflection but if the forementiond Report obtains we are obviously under a Necessity either to leave the Indi…

You may depend upon it Sir that Iam disposd to treat every man in a christian Manner who act like a Christian and to use them with all that Deference and Respect which either their Age or Carracter or any Distinction can claim from me and shall therefore be entirely silent about the above Report till I see whether an Answer to my Request is to be expected from you and after that shall endeave…

** THEoPHILUS CHAMBERLAIN was ordained at Lebanon, on 24 April, 1765, and set out on the 19th June following for the country of the Six Nations. He established several schools among the Mohawks, visited the Oneydas, made a tour among the Onondagas, and preached to them. He returned to Lebanon in October, accompanied by two Oneida youths to be placed under Dr. Wheelock's charge. He returned ag…

Lyne--when in New York waited on his Excellency to know the result of our _ petition, and we have the pleasure of hearing that it was laid before the Council where it met with a favourable reception, agreeable to which the Charter will shortly be sent up with his Excellencies subscription money and Church furniture. Mr Lyne has also procured a Clerk to officiate in the Church, who we are pe…

I never doubted may it please your Hont but that his Exelency the Govenor had a Right to ask and obtain M* Browns assistance in Conferring his Name upon whome he pleasd and this without transgressing the strictest Rules of Christianity, and was far from thinking that his Exelency or any Gentleman in the Civil Government would interpose his authority with a clergyman to oblige him to rebaptize …

I mentiond the Presence of his Exelency the Govenor, the Honle Sir William Johnson and other Gentlemen and the Indians with no other view than to give the Report the airs with which I several Times heard it told not suspecting that the Letter would be proposed to any one as what was designed to fault the conduct of my Rulers, for to this I dont give myself.a License in any case but especiall…

They beg of me to return with them to Barrington for a Sunday, but as my Duty call's me to the - Mohawks cannot think of going without your consent. A Line from yon will Determine the Case. I hope you will not let yr Foridness for master Peter keep him too long from his Studies as a misapplication of his Time will make him forget what he has learnt. Jam S* with Respect - | y« most obedient …

ethem in this Life: You are therefore to look for your Reward where the most of Good Benifectors have done before you, viz in Heaven ; But can assure you, that I*bear a sincere & grateful Sense of your Kinnesses in my Breast & shall never forget them while I am mindful of myself: particularly your last Letter to the Governor in my Favour which was of Singular Service to me. ' Sir, Since my …

Robert Smith's School at Pequea, Pennsylvania, and graduated at Princetown College. In 1759 he received the degree of A. B from Kings College, New York, and that of Master'of Arts, in 1765, from the same institution. He was licensed to preach by the Litchfield Presbytery, Connecticut, 28 May, 1760. He became pastor of the Presbyterian Church organised for the first time in Albany in 1762, of …

Auchmuty's letter (post) of the 11th June 1771, thought it would not do for them to recommend him for ordination, but suggested his application to Lord Baltimore. He thereupon proceeded to Morylaikt and having been furnished with letters to Col. Washington and other leading gentlemen of Virginia, he went next to the latter Colony. His reception, here, was so favorable that he, forthwith, sailed…

True it is, the Troubles and Calamities attending the late Indian War, in which the Missionaries and their Converts met with such a Variety of Distress, Vicissitudes and Interruption in their Labours, as even threatened their total Extirpation ; Yet it has nevertheless pleased the Almighty GOD in his great Goodness, after very many of them had departed this Life in Faith and Love to Jesus Ch…

The first Vol: Containing a Description of the Country and the natural Curiosities of that cold Climate, I flatter myself, may not prove Unentertaining and the second, I imagine will convey to Your Excellency the truest and best Idea of the Brethrens Method of propagating the Gospel amongst the Savage Nations. For this Purpose also this History has been presented to their Majesties the King …

We had good hope that some of the more approved & experienced among the Clergy in your parts, who from their knowledge of the Indians, & their acquaintance in the neighbourhood, & especially from that countenance which you would naturally give them, might become -- likely to have the best Success, would not have been unwilling to have taken this appointment; especially when they had some kin…

D., chancellor of the diocese of Oxford and Rector of St. Peter's Poor, London, was for many years Secretary to Dr. Secker, Archb. of Canterbury, to whose will he was also executor. He was raised to the dignity of Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, on 24th June, 1760, and in 1761 succeeded Dr. Bearcroft as Secretary to the Society for propagating the gospel, which office he held until 1773, when…

Since the Letter which the Mayor did Please to write you, our annul Election for the Aldermen and Assistants to serve in this Corporation having taken place and some other adventitious Circumstances Intervening have Concurred to delay our answer to your favour of the 27th August last, these being now happily removed we Embrace this oppertunity to answer your Letter It gives us much, pleasure…

Hind. WHarriot Burton, his only daughter, married (Aug. 15, i778,) the Hon. John, afterwards Lord, Trevor, Minister plenipotentiary to the diet at Ratisbon, in 1780, and to the court of Sardinia in 1788. This nobleman dying (1824) without, issue, the title is now extinct. Dr. Burton died on the 28d April, 1775. He, had the character of a very pious, sensible, diligent, careful and disinterested…

them are all of distinguished Characters Emminent for Cherishing and Cultivating the Social Virtues their Circumstances and _ Situation in life such as sets them above the suspicion of sinister or selfish views, and the many oppertunitys they have had of being acquainted with our moral Character from the Frequent Intercourse with us Which their profession Necessarly engages them in Constitutes …

THE SIX NATIONS. 379 are Inhabited by farmers whom if we may be allowed to Judge of their skill Industry and Occonomy from the affluence of their Circumstances acquired only by Husbandry, we shall not hesitate to rank them in the first class of husbandmen and as these Children will not require to be taught any other manual arts then such as will serve towards procureing the immediate necessar…

We have read your published account of the School since its beginning it has confirmed our opinion that your whole Conduct has been with a view to Promote religion and the happiness of . mankind may God In whose holy worship you are attempting to instruct the uninformed Savages Crown all your endeavors with success and Give you to see the accomplishment of your Good work and when it shall Pl…

I amsorry that my unguarded manner of expressing myself in a former letter respecting the objection so often made against fixing my school in the vicinity of your City (viz the bad morals of the place) was received in any other light than was simply and honestly intended : my design was only to advice you, that such an objection had been frequently and strongly urged ; and to Give you an op…

Ishall take the earliest opportunity to transmit your letters, to the Earl of Dartmouth &c, and also. Cap» Lansing's generous proposal at Stoneroby It gives me sensible pleasure Gentlemen that your sentiments are the same with mine as to the expediency and propriety of proceeding, only with the advice and approbation of the Earl of Dartmouth, and the other Worthy Gentlemen of the Trust at h…

cannot say, and how Gentlemen at home will have light to satisfie them, or what expedient they will think proper to obtain light. sufficient to act understandingly and safely in determining. the important point, I cant tell, I desire to do all on my part to be done, and submit it to and wait upon the Great Governor and disposer of all events to direct and determine the same according to his o…

I suppose, before now, William has again seen his Native Soil, & delivered you my last Letter--I had such Expectations from this Lad, that I am sorry I could not prevail upon him to stay & prosecute his Studies a little longer; but he got so uneasy at the violent Proceedings in these Parts, that he apprehended himself in Danger indeed no Wonder!--Some People here are grown so insolent and da…

Now I humbly request the Favour of you to permit me to take this Plantation under my Care, and to sow one of the clear Fields untill it is claimed by, & wanted for the Use of the proper Owners--lI ask this Favour because the Land is convenient to me (being only seven miles from Lancaster,) and as Iliveinatown, where I-have no Land of my own near, & where Grain of every kind is sold at a most…

The Hon>'e Sir William Johnson, Baronet. P.S. As it might give some Offence to the Proprietary Agents that this Application was not made to them, I would beg to receive the Favour I ask, as if from yourself, who thought it necessary that this Plantation should be put under the Care and Protection of some Person who lived near it--May I hope for an Answer as soonas your Avocations will allow …

Our Congregation begs to know wether there is any reason to Expect M* Murray" soon here. if not if your Honour approves of it, we would give him an Invitation to come here, that if this place is agreeable to him and he to us. we will then Subscribe yearly as much as lies in our power for him, tho' IJ really think it will not exceed £40 this Currency but however if Mt Murray comes and you thi…

to the breaking out of the Revolution, when all the Episcopal Churches in Pennsylvania' were closed. .He withdrew to England, in1778. Ep. 2 Rev. AnprEw Bay was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to Maryland where he married a Miss Hall. He belonged originally to the Newcastle Presbytery. He succeeded Mr. Hanna as Presbyterian Minister in Albany which charge he filled for the space of five years…

Weyman's Papers after his Decease, a Number of the Sheets of the Indian Common Prayer that you employed him to print off, came to Hand, but ina very imperfect State: He had got as far as the 74th Page which completes only 9 sheets ; but as Part of several of the sheets are not to be found, the exact Number of each is as follows, viz _A - - 280 sheets Dit ae}? G - -- 400 B - - 436 Bi- 4413 GH…

Bay's appeal, and after mature deliberation, confirmed that part of the Presbytery's judgment which dissolves the union between Mr. Bay and his congregation; and with respect to the latter part of said judgment, the Synod are of opinion, that it would, have been proper to have recommended to the parties, to leave the settlement of all matters respecting the glebe and its appurtenances, to arbi…

willing I should compleat the work, I am satisfied to abide by his. Ido suppose the Number he intended to print must have ~been 500; if so, and that Number must be completed, the whole must be done over again ; but if 400 would suffice, that Quantity could be compleated by only reprinting the Letters A & H. As this Matter entirely depends on you, whatever Orders you may think proper to tra…

Having printed in his paper of Novy. 12, 1753, a part of the proceedings of the Assembly, he was brought to the bar of the House and reprimanded. He printed the Journals of the Assembly from 1691 to 1765, 2 y. fol., and in January 1768 succeeded Weyman as public printer. Sir Wm. Johnson, for whom he printed the Book of Common Prayer inthe Mohawk Tongue, patronized him, and in the collection of…

Vou. rv. 25 386 PAPERS RELATING TO SIR. W. JOHNSON TO HUGH GAINE. Johnson hall Sept 8th 1768. Sir I have Just received your Letter concerning the Indian prayer book,which was put into the late Mt' Weymans hands, The Multiplicity of business prevented my Writing to him About it for some time past, Tho' I heartily wish it was Completed. I cannot recollect whether M* Weyman was Advanced any th…

Neither do Iremember what were the conditions of our Agreement tho' to the best of my remembrance there was Something proposed in that way, but that so usefull a Work might not be Longer delayed, I should be glad you weuld inform me what would be the Expence of re-printing the Letters A. & H. so as to Complete 400 Copys (which I think may be sufficient) ina Good Legible Character & on Suitabl…

"In this Size [which is marked on a Sheet of Paper,] it will make 20 Sheets in 4to, which on account of the Difficulty of the Tongue or Language, cannot be done for less that 36s per Sheet, and Sir William must pay for the Paper besides, which will be THE SIX NATIONS. 387 from 12s to 18s per Ream, and each Ream will scarcely make 450, the whole therefore will amount to £36: 0:0 for printing …

Honé Sir I Received your Interesting Letter, which I immediately Communicated the contents which regards the Church to the Vestry which made us all very happy, but as we want words to Express our gratefull Sentiments to you as we ought we must be silent we shall instantly sett about finishing the Church, tho I fear it will be too late in the season to Plaister the walls. According to order I…

That said School was founded with a single view to promote the knowledge of the only true God, and our common Salvation, especially among the Savages of this Land; thereby to deliver them from their present miseries, make them good Members of Society, loyal Subjects to our rightful Sovereign, and especially cordial subjects to the King of Zion. and the Plan has sihce been well approved, and …

Some attempts have * also been already made among the Onoidas, and not without some encouraging Prospect that, their Lives and Manners may be soon formed to rules of decency, civility and religion.--Some endeavors have also been used by your Memorialists the last spring to introduce Missionaries and School-Masters among the Onondagas and Tuscaroras, which proposal they appeared to approve ;…

And he has therefore sent the Rev4 Ebenezer Cleaveland! and Mt Allen Mather on purpose to solicit your favour and assistance in this matter, by recommending to them the design of sending Missionaries and School-Masters among their several Tribes ; or by any other ways or means, which your great wisdom and prudence shall dictate--relying on your Candour and the Nature of the Cause to excuse t…

Your Excellency having receiv'd a Letter lately from the tev' Dr E, Wheelock as also seen his Instructions for propegateing the Gospel among the Indss &c. Pursuant wherunto These are humbly to desire & importune your Excellency, That in as much as your Excellency hath been pleased more publicly, & privately to manifest an approbation, & goodliking to the Drs plan, and laudable design of prope…

And in order to prosecute the same to effect, that your Excellency (as a tender Father to these perishing Indians) Ww ould be pleased, of your most generous & benevolent disposition, 80 to befriend their cause, aS to prevent their setting themselves off from their Lands ; therby to frusterate the afors¢ design of propegateing the Gospel among them, which undoubtedly will be the Sad consequence…

And for this end, that your Excellency would be pleased to recommend, out of your clemency, and goodness, the above design of propegateing the Gospel among them, To the Heads & Chiefs of the Nations that may be present. at this "Congress And finally, that we may have an oppertunity, by order of your Excellency, to lay the same before the Heads & chiefs that may be here. And in so doing, your…

Davin Avery, after his return from Fort Stanwix, graduated at Yale College and went in 1771 to preach to the Indians on Long Island. He was ordained at Hanover 29th August 1771 as assistant to the Revd Mr. Kirtland at Oneida whither he immediately proceeded. After spending a year there he was obliged to abandon the Mission, in consequence of the Indians in that quarter being entirely disincli…

Was partly oweing to my being unwell that day and partly by misinformation of the Time when upon my hearing of the Condolence &c I much regretted my absence and especially since I have heard some ill improvement has been already made of it by Monsir Mountour which may possibly yea probably prejudice the minds of the Indians against me & even the Protestant Religion which Sir is very affectin…

Jn as much as I am a minister of Christ, & my Work principally to preach the Gospel to the lower rank of people: I have not used my self much to the company, & converse of Gent" of the Civil & Military order especially in the pleasure and practice of drinking Healths, Loyal Toasts &c wherfore I may easily offend in this respect, with no ill meaning--And in as much as in drinking the Kings heal…

And I mean to drink such a Health to his British Majesty, when occasion serves, so long as his Royal Majesty shall govern his British, & American subjects according to Magna Charta, or the great charter of English Liberties, and hears the prayers of his American Subjeets, when properly laid before Him--But in case his Bitish Majesty (which God in great mercy prevent) should superseed & procee…

It is with some apprehension 'of Concern I write--I am sensible of the great. propriety of Your Excellencys forbidding the Ind»s intoxicating Spirits (at this Time)--and besides the other Ind2 in gen!!, It may be observ'd the Seneca's who have been a great while in coming--come arm'd--while we at the Fort & round about are naked--& defenceless--They have also (it is s¢) their Romish Priests a…

As I am aseer, I may be knowing to some things--Your Excellency possibly may not--which occasions me thus to write-- ' 394 PAPERS. RELATING TO REY. MR JOHNSON TO THE COMMISSIONERS. To Sir W™ Johnson Governour Franklin Col Grahom Col] Butler and. other Respectable Gent» Intrested & concerned at their Congress Honle & Respectable As I am here in behalfe of Dt Wheelock in the cause of Propeg…

preached and Schools set up that we may know where to find them & not have to ramble all over the world after them or Find them vassals on other mens Land And as we propose to propegate the Gospel in the most open christian & catholick manner imaginable we are quite unwilling to be circumvented in any way whatsoever being assured our Design is good whatever our success may be And therfore pra…

Know Ye That Whereas The Rev4 Dr Eleazer Wheelock of Lebanon in the Colony of Connecticut in New England Minister of Jesus Christ is about to Set up a College or Great School for the benefit of the Indians which generous & good design is favourd by your Royal Father the King of Great Britain The Ear] of Dartmouth together with many wise as well as great & good men And a place is now Searchin…

These are therfore to ask of you Fathers & Brethren if it be your minds and what you would choose to appropriate & devote acertain tract of your Land or country for this great & good purpose on or near The Mohawk River or wherever you in your Wisdom may think most convenient of such extent and worth as may be sufficient with what monies & other Benefactions & Charities may be given to endow …

Your answer to the above Proposal is Desird By Jacob Ws Johnson Minister of Christ & Missionary to the Onoida Indians & others. . 396 PAPERS RELATING TO HUGH GAINE TO SIR WM JOHNSON, CONCERNING THE INDIAN PRAYER BOOK. Sir Your favour of the 12th ultimo from Fort Stanwix, is now before, which I should have answered much Sooner, had JT not well known you were deeply ingaged in Business of gr…

With Regard to the Price of the Printing I will only say this, that when the Bargain Mt Weyman made, is completed, the Printer will have but very little for his Trouble, and that there would be a much greater Benefitt resulting from English at half the Price. However I,want no more than what is reasonable which I am very certain you will allow me. The Difference to me in an Impression of a 10…

The Indians insisted 'on their Title to the Lands as far as the Cherokee River, which they Cede to the King and I was contented to admit it in the Deed & Transactions, notwithstanding any pretended Claim of the Cherokees, because it puts an End to the Claim of the Northern Indians, and leaves it only to be settled by the Cherokees shod the latter appear to have any Colour of a title thereto, …

It will be impossible for you to Judge in the least of my Trouble and the difficulties I had to overcome from the Extracts I have sent or indeed from a Copy of the whole, for the most Material Points are settled at private Congresses with the Chiefs of weh no minutes can be taken, and these I was engaged in Night & Day, for as we came to Argue the Continuation of the Boundary Northward from …

The New Englanders have had Missionaries for sometime amongst the Oneidas & Oghquagaes and I was not ignorant that their old pretensions to the Susquehanna Lands, was their Real, tho' Religion was their assumed: object, but knowing that any steps I could take with these Missionss would from the Inds conceptions be deemed violent I treated them with silent contempt, Tho I think you should kno…

As T had often visited Mt Gaine abt the Inda Prayer Books I was w'h him this Day, he says all that he has to do wth them THE SIX NATIONS. 399 will be finishd in a few Days then will send them to the Binders so that in less than a fortnight you may have some of them up. I have made bold to tell him not to let any go out of his hands till you have the whole that you want, for he spoke as if M…

Letter to Lord Hillsborough I gave to Mt Adams as I understood he had Liberty of sending y* Dispatches by a private Ship if none of ye kings Pacquets were here: there is a new Pacquet for y* kings us Comanded by Cap' Goodridge advertis'd this Day to go in December. Gen! Gage not yet returnd tis said he is by the Way on the Land Richardsis arriy'd in ten Weeks no material news can I gather fr…

On the receipt of your Letter you hon' me with dated 24th October, we immediately wrote to Mt Murrey but have not yet recd an answer we could not go on at that time with Ceiling the Church as there was not one Plaisterer in Town, so concluded to stay till the Spring when Mauffet as Promised to do it, we shall give Mr Sutton the offer of the Joiners work as any recommendation from your Hont Ou…

I believe his present Circumstances are very indifferent but he conceives he has a prospeét of some advantage in view from the Publication of a manuscript he has wrote on the Manners, Customs & History of the Southern Indians, tending to prove their descent from the Hebrews, which performance shews him a man well acquainted with the Languages, and very Curious in his Remarks, His design is t…

JOHNSON TO THE REVD. WM. SMITH. . Johnson Hall Jany 34 1769. ir The return of M* McClay affords me a good opportunity of answering your favor of last month on the subjects you mention on some of which M? Peters & I have conversed, and to whom I have wrote fully the other day as well concerning M* Murray, as of the Two Young men you mention for Orders your Sentiments on which I greatly appro…

The Line as I before observed is not closed to the Northward so that Lands there must lye till his Majestys pleasure is known, and for the rest it is Ceded to the King by the late Treaty, so that it is hard to know what will be the Channell for Patents in future, and the fees here. are Extremely high--at the late Treaty nothing was done with regard to Lands but what related to the boundary, …

He then immigrated to this country, and on being invited to take charge of the College in Philadelphia, returned to England and received orders in the church of England in December 1753. In May following he was placed at the head of the Philadelphia institution. He revisited England in 1759 when the degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the University of Oxford. After a life of much usefulnes…

I was at New Haven last week where the General Assembly. of this Colony were setting and heard Cole Dyer make his application to them for a Deed of the susquehanna Lands--in doing this he was pleased to say somethings that I knew were not true and informed several of the House of it & Could I have'stayed untill he Came out should have told him so--I have since heard the-Assembly did not Choos…

Some Gentlemen that may be depended on who I have seen within these few days from Boston Report that the People there who were such Hero's in August & Sept. last are now under the most terrible apprehensions for fear of being Called to Great Britain by virtue of 1 Lord Chief Justices Warrant--for Calling & meeting at a Famous Convention and other matters of the same Nature--Some Letters from …

404 PAPERS: RELATING, TO Gentleman & party therein mentioned, relative to which I by. the same post received some farther accounts of a personal Nature which obliged me on his lately applying for my Interest at the ensuing Election, to address him particularly on, the score of the Liberties I heard he had taken, which in a letter in Answer he denys and explains his Conduct in that matter, ho…

There will probably be more time given should there be another Election soon, & some persons may start up as Candidates worthy encouragemt, but I have had such long Experience of the Views and Interests of some partys amongst you, that I imagine one or two Members from hence however otherwise inclined would prove of little service as to any thing to be done in the House, particularly as to …

THE SIX NATIONS. 405 HUGH GAINE TO SIR W™ JOHNSON INDIAN PRAYER BOOK COMPLETED. Sir This yowll receive by Col]. Croghan, who will at the same Time deliver you one of the Indian Common Prayers: Agreeable to my Promise I had them compleated by Christmass, and they are now in the Hands of the Binders, and I expect to have them ready to send up by the first Sloops that go up in the Spring. On …

Ou Thursday last we Recd the inclosed Letter, by which you'll understand, that all our Expectations, as to M* Murray are at an End, you can't. immagine how the Disappointment affects us, and willbe attended with the Consequences of losing some part of our Congregation by their Joining the Dissenters, as they have provided themselves with a Gentleman who is much admired, And as we areata Loss…

Jn consequence of some Letters that passed betwixt Sir William Johnson & the Revd Dr Smith of Philad# I wrote the Society in January last for leave to Remove to Schenectady, & accordingly obtained their Consent Summer last: But hearing nothing in the Interim from the People as I expected from what Dt Smith wrote Sr William when I applied the Society, I was obliged to drop all farther thought…

Wuerras, Mess's Danforth and Willard, Professors of the Mathematicks, are going to observe the transit of Venus in Lake Superior ; The officers commanding as abovementioned at and on the Communication to Missilimakinak, are required to treat them with all such Convenience as their respective Posts will afford, and to give all such aid and assistance, as may be in their Power to forward the a…

The otficer. wanna at Missilimakinak, is further required to acquaint the Indians, with the design of these Gentlemen proceeding to Lake Superior, to reconcile them to their Intentions and to prevent any Jealousy that might be conceived by them, either from their Errand, or the use ofthe Instruments they carry along with them : He is likewise to Inndeayor, to engage some of the Indians Inhah…

W. coast of Hudson's Bay; and by Abbé Chappé at California. Dr, Harris of Cambridge informs me, that Tuomas Dan- ForTu, mentioned above, was probably the son of Hon. Judge Samuel Danforth, of Cambridge, (Saml. was son of Rey. John, of Dorchester, and Rev. John was son of Rey. Saml. of Roxbury--all distinguished for mathematical attainments,) --graduated at Harvard College, 1762, was Tutor the…

my Removal thither may be favorable to my Design of entering into Holy Orders: for which office may I be better prepared--I Tam now engaged by the Rev' Mr Avery in the Service of the Society for propagating the Gosple in foreign Parts--from which Venerable Society I understand that you St have Instructions with Respect to Fort Johnson,--Now all things considered it is my Resolve with Respect…

B. from Yale College, and in 1767 received that of Master of Arts from the King's College, New York. His mother, it is said, was Deborah Avery, afterwards wife of John Gardiner, of Gardiner's Island, and subsequently married to Major Gen. Putnam. Mr. Avery succeeded Mr, Punderson as minister of Rye in 1765, and continued in charge of that church until the Revolution, when he became so obnoxiou…

You will please inform me by first opportunity, what time will be most Agreeable to you, & I will endeavour to come up accordingly ; but whitsunday you know, is a particular festival on which I must administer the Sacrement to my Congregation at Albany. very little News at New York; The Packet was not arrived. Mr Cruger is chosen Speaker in the Assembly, to the no Small mortification of a ce…

His mother was Ann Munro of Peaceen a distant cousin of her husband. Being the second son of the Laird of Killichoan his father was bred a surgeon and in that capacity joined Lord Loudon's army in 1745, and died the next year from injuries received in that campaign, leaving two sons, Harry and Alexander Munro. Harry was then a lad of 16, & shortly after his father' s death entered the Univers…

He was accordingly recommended for orders by a Convention of the clergy of that denomination which met at Perth Amboy on 20th Sept 1764, and he sailed for England in the course of the month of December following. He returned to America the next Spring with an appointment from the Soc: for prop: the Gospel to St John's Church, Yonkers, of which he was the first Pastor--He was connected two year…

Iie applied personally in Augnst 1776 to the Albany Committee for a Pass to go to New Jersey or Pennsylvania, but this was refused ; he obtained perinission, the following year, to remove to Canada and at the close of 'the war returned to Scotland, became Rector of a church at Edinburgh. where he died in the year 1801, aged 71 years. He is buried in the West Church yard of St Cuthberts church…

This lady died 'in *1810, leaying one. son, Peter Jay Munro, a distinguished member of the bar, and one of the framers of the Constitution of this State of 1822. Peter J.M. died 2 22. Sept 1838, aged 66 years. Letter of E. F. De Lancey, Esq. © sl ' 412 PAPERS RELATING TO City. The Prayer Books that are to be bound in Morroco, must be delayed for some Time, as I must send to Boston for the L…

All ranks of ye learned, here, have subscribed to their being publish'd in London, a half year, hence; And y* two volumes, Octavo, wh they consist of, Ido myself' ye particular honour, from an innate generous principle, to dedicate to you & Sir Henry Moore ; For tho' he has not seen y® manuscripts, yet, on y® strong recommendations of ye Learned, he has patronised me, both here, and in ye Is…

Opposition makes honest men, only, the more intent: and ther's a certain time for every thing; As y® two letters I did myself ye pleasure to write to you, from ys place, sufficiently indicate, according to my opinion. Please to excuse ys' hurry'd-off scroll and to give my sincere & lasting respects to y™ honble extensive family, one by one ; and to accept the same, from, Great Sire y* oblig…

In a great measure, I ascribe to you my Meecenas, that ye Rev Mess's Inglis and Ogilvie, ye Professors of y® College, and a good many of ye Learned, here, including, in a very particular manner, the good-humourd, the sensible, the gay, ye witty, & polite, Sir Henry Moore, have taken me into their patronage ; Tho' 'm sorry to say, that Gent! Gage paid so little regard to y" friendly' letter in…

As His Excelly has not only induced ye Hon»le members of His Majestys Council to give a sanction to my performance, and engaged to perswade ye Comons House of Assembly to follow their Copy ; But, likewise to continue to take in subscriptions, till ye Books are published, and remit me a Bill, on ye agent, at London, as soon as he has heard, by y° public accounts, of their being in the Press ; …

M. will, thro' a true benevolence of heart, recommend me to the notice of y° President of y® Society for propogating y® Gospel, in order to obtain a missionary for our old friendly Chickosahs ; and likewise, their patronage in ye publication of my Indian work. When you're writing to my Lord Hillsborough, shonld yr own public spirit induce you to recommend me to his patronage. it would provea…

J have received two of your Letters since your departure, a third which you speak of, never came to hands, but from the others I find with pleasure that you have met with the Countenance & patronage of the Gentlemen you mention & I sincerely wish they may prove of Service to you, tho' lam concerned that you met with any neglect from the quarter you speak of however I am hopefull that the prote…

I return you your printed proposals, Subscribed to by myself & family with Two or Three others, which are as many as I have hitherto had an opportunity of Laying them before, & the time you spent in these parts has enabled youl presume to know 416 PAPERS RELATING TO enough of its Inhabitants not to be Surprised that a. Work of that Nature shod meet with such Small encouragement. Sir John. C…

Began to Open School April ye 17h 1769. Augt 28'51769 A List of The Indians Children belonging to the Free Schoo] at Fort Hunter near the Mohawk River in the County of Albany and Province of New York with their Tribes. Bear Trize David, David, Abraham, John, Jacob, Peter, Joseph, Adam, Brant, Kreenas, Johannes, Peter, Nellithe Nellithe (Females) .... 15 Wour Trize Thomas, Paul, Jacob, John, …

Inclosed you have your own Account, as also the whole Expence of the Common Prayers, binding, Paper, &c. which I hope you'll think reasonable. Had it been English, the Printing Work could not have been done cheaper. I have not charged you with the News-Paper, as I am at a loss to know when you began, but I imagine 'tis not less than 10 years This, Perhaps you ean remember yourself, as the sa…

Wright & Lieut Govern' Bull, to ye Lords of trade, if it lyes in their sphere of action, a total abrogation of that most pernicious custom of granting Licences ; Without which, 'tis ye universal opinion of all us, who have gain'd sufficient skill in Indian affairs, that, when the Creeks have made peace with ye Chocktah nation, they'll fall on our valuable weak Colony of Georgia, as they des…

'public good should incile you to write any thing, in my behalf, to my Lord Hillsborough or y° Lords of trade and remit it tome directed either to y® care of James Parsons Esq' Attorney at Law, in Charlestown ; or to that of Mess'* Tellfair, merchts or M: Johnson, Printer, in Savannah, I shou'd readily receive it : And it wou'd be of great service tome; For your interest is very great, in Lo…

the Bearer M: William Andrews' is a young Gentleman bread up to the Church well Recommended w" you will find by M: Achmuty' Leters and is a Relation of Mt Campble? in Schonectady Mt Achmuty is of opinion that albany & Schonectady should be butt one Living att that M*. Monrow should have it and this Gentleman he preposed for y', Town & the Mohocks I have been presse4 on by Several Gentlemen he…

He opened a grammar school in the fall of 1771, but the labors attendant on this, with ill health & other causes mentioned in his letter (post) of 16 Aug. 1778, obliged him to relinquish this mission and sail to Virginia. Ep. 2 Danint CaMpBeLy was a native of Ireland, married a Miss SoHERMERWORN, acquired great wealth in Schenectady as a Merchant, portion of which he left to a nephew, a Dr. …

T have seen the Gineral Several Times Since I came to Town he has No Late News of any Disturbence to y® Westward butt Says itts Expected that some broyles will hapen in y® Spring he Dose Nott See he Says any Service My going this Time of the yeer as ye Indians are all out a hunting But thinks I should send Some belts to Lett them know that I will be up in ye Spring he Says y® provinces will …

the Ship Dutchess of Gorden is aRived things in England in nthe Greatest Confuson Nothing But peticions from all y® Counteys prepairing to prevent y® King Backing the Midlesex & Livery of London one Mt Musgroves Leter Just as ye paice was Made Makes a great Noise this is y° Leter wh L--d Egermont Shott himself about there is Now a Suplement printing to yesterday paper w the Berer will Take u…

He is in hopes of being called for the Church of Schenectady, and carrys recommendatory Letters from Doctor Auchmuty and Colonel Crogham. I understand his character is unexceptionable and his Education liberal. If you can be of any service to him you will oblige me in giving him Countenance, and your Civilitice I shall acknowledge with Gratitude I am indebted to you for a Letter; but it shal…

A late Abstract of the Society, informs us of the Want of Clergy even in several parts of England, oceasion'd probably by the Students diverting their Education to more profitable Pursuits. And the Candidates for holy Orders, educated on this side the Atlantic, are by no means enabled to perform the Service of the Church, and discharge their Duty with so much Satisfaction to their Congregation…

Besides Jet me add, that the American Candidates are subject to the Danger and Expense of doubly traversing a large Ocean, and incumbred with Charges, which they are scarce enabled to bear before they can obtain their desire. Now, if this Plan shou'd be found agreeable to the Society, I believe I cou'd prevail upon some of those Gentlemen to come over, and settle in these Vacancies, whose C…

inclos'd on Mr Mortier, from whom I have receiv'd Fifty one pounds Currency; For which I return you sincere thanks and shall when able repay you. _ Accompanying this I send you a letter from my good Friend M' Barton, who recommends me to you, & points out in my letter an Indian Mission--I intended after my Return here to have receiv'd instruction in their Language with the intention of deli…

The reason of my troubling you at present is, at the request of a worthy Brother the Bearer of this, Mr. Forbes, who is rambling about to satisfy his curiosity. He intends to pay his respects to you considering his good character, and agreeable behaviour I venture to recommend him to your notice ; you will, as he isa Gentleman and scholar be greatly pleased withhim, He is now waiting for this,…

Our great men, instead of being careful pilots, and anxious for the safety of the Nation, are inveloped iu false politie's--rack their invention, & exert their utmost abilities to aggrandize themselves, and their Families, and suffer, for want of true principles, their Sovereign and their Country to be tossed to and tro with every wind of popular discontent, without guiding the Helm with prud…

The opposers of a monarchical Government (toc many of which our Nation are cursed with) are a direct contrast, which very man's experience, if he has ten grains of sense or five of honesty, must convince him of. These men are ever assuming a power, have once had it--made a diabolical use of it, & yet have the audaciousness--the wickedness,. to attempt usurp it again, under the best of princes…

We have still to beg, that the discouragements you have met with, may not slacken your generous Ardor ; or provoke you to cease your applitation at Home in our favor--i e. for the preservation of the present happy establishment in Church and State, which ought to be as firmly settled here, as in Great Britain. we most ardently wish you every Temporal and Spiritual Blessings; & beg leave to …

I cannot however avoid agreeing with you in the truth of your Remarks on the present unhappy state of affairs, which greatly contribute to check the growth &:prevent the Success of the National Church, I hope the Government will at last discover the Importance of giving it all possible Countenance, & that whenever party shall so far Subside as to enable them to act without the apprehension of…

would be hard to say which were best pleased, The Boy with his finery or the parents with that Token of your remembrance & the Letter which they think greatly of, The Father was greatly distressed how to Express his thanks to you but at last wrote the Letter weh I now enclose, and after Lamenting that it was not in his power to make you a return suitable to his Inclinations he begged that I m…

The Information you gave me concerning, the appropriating the Quit rents to these uses, is I apprehend a matter that may rather be wished for, than Expected, as the Quit rents are greatly encreased by so many late Grants, and altho' they are but very irregularly paid must far Exceed the Sum you Mention, however if you could procure the ann!' amount of them, and let me know it, I shall consid…

It must have been thro' hurry that I neglected giving you in my former Letter, the Numbers of the other Indians which T am well acquainted with. The Onondagas can muster about 200 fighting Men, The Cayugas about 260, The Senecas, including those of this about 1000. but there are besides, many of every Nation Settled with other Tribes at and about the Suquehanna &ea which if added to their re…

Dt Wheelock has been so sanguine in these matters that he has made no advances worth mentioning in that way whatever may be reported, as to Smiths they are so necessary to them that they would readily admit them and indeed they were formerly allowed them in their villages at the Expense of the Government, & perhaps Carpenters might also be agreable for if these Mechanics were well inspected …

Yet I fear it cannot be attempted, such Arts as are necessary tu their present mode of Life will not alarm them, but any that will tend to introduce a Change therein, must bedeferred for a time, as there is nothing which they so much dread as the alienation of their peoples minds from those pursuits & Exercises by which alone they apprehend that their Liberties are preserved. I thank you tor…

Tho' Thad been promised the assistance of others but the times did not admit of it, and as that village is equal in zeal & attachment to the Mohocks and is 30 miles farther up the Country, M: Halls establishment & success there will contribute greatly to enlarge the design of the plan, and to point out its benefits to the public, which so soon as these persons are properly Seated and have a…

I am much obliged to the worthy Dt Johnson for his kind remembrance and sincerely wish him all happiness. My Son, who desires his Complements to you purposes to visit N York soon Col: Johnson also desires to be kindly remembered, and be assured that I am always with perfect regard Dear Sir &c. The Rev4 Mr. Chas Inglis. 1 An account of monies expended by John Danl. Muller in building a Church…

I am only apprehensive that any account in my power respecting such enquirys amongst the unlettered Indians will prove inadequate to the Expectations formed in your Letter, notwithstanding my long residence in this country, |" ot more than thirty eight years," | the Nature of my office and the most diligent enquirys into these curious particulars, I find all researches of that sort for reason…

Previous to the Revolution, he acted as agent in England for the Provinces of Massachusetts and Virginia, and in that capacity acquitted himself as a zealous and sound friend of American liberty. In 1776, he was appointed, conjointly with Dr. Franklin and Silas Deane, Commissioners to France onthe part of the United States, and assisted in negotiating the Treaty between these countries. He reé-…

These are general observations as generally known To shew wherein they are defective and to accot for, by setts forth the present state of the sev' Indian Nations is a subject of greater importance it will lead to other matters more Interesting. I must therefore observe that the customs and manners of the Indians are in sev! cases Jiable to changes, which have not been thoroughly considered …

Again, Those Indians who are a degree farther removed hayg still a good deal of Intercourse with our Traders and havé altered their system of Politicks, tho' they still retain many Ancient Customs, they are much at a Loss to account for them, whilst those who are far removed from any intercourse with the whites (a few Traders excepted) are stil] im possess™ of the greatest part of their prim…

Write very well, When therefore they subscribe an ordinary Deed, they frequently make use of a Cross, after the Example of the Iliterate amongst us & sometimes with their names; but in things of much Consequence they usually delineate a Steel, such as is used to strike fire out of Flint, which being the symbol of their Nation, This Steel they call Canntah--& themselves Canniungaes, but from h…

The Oneidas who inhabit the Country a little beyond the settlements, are in the next Class for altho', some efforts have been made to Civilize and Christianize them, a great part are still in the primitive way, but being also reduced in numbers & their political system much changed, their Intercourse with the more remote Indians is lessened, and their knowledge of ancient usages decayed, The…

Towns & Symbols from wch however little can be understood. and leaving this Confederacy we shall find that the Nations to the North West tho they have their Symbols, _ they are not able to Explain to any degree of Satisfaction, for as they scatter more in quest of a livelyhood they have not the same _opportunitys or inclination to Cultivate & Explain oral Tradition. To the South West the Indi…

And indeed this humility is judged the best policy; for wanting coercive power, their commands would perhaps occasion assassination, which sometimes happens., The sachems of each tribe are usually Ghosen in a public assembly of the chiefs and warriors, whenever a vacancy happens by death or otherwise; they are generally chosen for their sense and bravery, from among the oldest warriors, and a…

This is now the fact among the most remote Indians. Butas, since the introduction of fire arms, they no longer fight in close bodies, but every man is his own general, T am inclined to think this has contributed to lessen the power -- of achief. This chief of a whole nation has the custody of the belts of wampum, &c. which are as records of public transactions: he prompts the speakers at all …

On their haunts, as on all other occasions, they are strict observers of meum and tuum; and this from principle, holding . theft in contempt; so that they are rarely guilty of it, though tempted by articles of much value. Neither do thé strong attempt to seize the prey of the weak; and I must do them the justice to say that, unless heated by liquor, or inflamed by revenge, their ideas of rig…

I believe they are put to the English schools too late, and sent back too soon to their people, whose political maxim, Spartan like, is to discountenance all pursuits but war, holding all other knowledge as unworthy the dignity of man, and tending to enervate and divert them from that warfare on which they conceive their liberty and happiness depend. These sentiments constantly instilled int…

The words Goronta and Golota which you mention aré not of the Six nations, but of a Southern language. It is curious to observe, that they have various modes of speech and phrazes peculiar to each age and sex, which they strictly observe. For instance, aman says, when he is hungry, Cadagcariax, which is expressive both of his want and of the animal food he requires to supply it ; whilst a ch…

enquiring into their distinct Origin, for the Indians north of the St Lawrence those West of the Great Lakes with the few who inhabit the Sea Coasts of New England, & those again who live about the Ohio notwithstanding the respective distances between them Speak a language Radically the same & can In gen! communicate their Wants to each other; Whilst the Nations. who live in the midst of them…

The Indians taken Collectively did Certainly a few Centurys ago live under some more Order & Govt than they do at present--this may seem odd, but it is the Truth for their Intercourse in gen' being with the Lower Class of our Traders they learn little from us but Vices, & Their long Wars together with the Immoderate use of Spirituous Liquors have so reduced them as to render that ord* weh w…

But tho it does not appear that they had the use of Letters yet the traces of Government may still be seen, and there is reason to believe that they made use of Hieroglyphics Tho they Neglect them at present, for Hieroglyphicks are understood to be figures, intended to conceal somewhat from the Vulgar, But theirs are drawn to the utmost of their skill to represent: the thing intended, for In…

The case is this, every Nation is divided into a Certain Number of Tribes, of which some have 3. as the Turtle, Bear & Wolf, to weh others add the Snake, Deer, &ca, each of These Tribes form a Little Community within the Nation, and _as the Nation has its peculiar Symbol so each Tribe has the peculiar Badge from whence it is denominated, and a Sachem of each Tribe being a necessary party to …

Their belts are mostly black Wampum, painted red when they denote War they describe Castles sometimes upon them as square figures of White Wampum, & in Alliances Human figures holding a Chain of friendship, each figure representg a nation, an axe is also sometimes described weh is always an Emblem of War, The Taking it upisa Declaration | of war] and the burying it a token of Peace, Butas I …

I am unable to make a Suitable return for the Warm Wishes you Express for me, but I feel them very sensibly, and you have every thing in Answer that the strongest friendship can dictate, and I cannot but greatly regret your distance & the peculiarity of your situation which deprives me of the opportunity of a more friendly intercourse, often Wishing that you could partake in the pleasing pro…

M Stewart has been for some time at his mission where he is much Esteemed not only by the Indians but by the Dutch Inhabitants who constantly resort to his Church his situation enables me to see him often, and I have great hopes from his appointment, Mr Hall? has an allowance from the Society and is to reside at Canajoharie (where at my Cost I have built a handsome Church) until he is of age…

We have taken the liberty to inserf them, with this explanation, in order to furnish to the reader all Sir Wm. Johnson's observations on this interesting subject. 1 Graduated at Philadelphia Coll. and was sent to Canajoharie to learn the Indian language, '' that he may be qualified to be Catechist and Schoolmaster in that place untill such time as he shall be able to come over to take orders …

I hope by this time that the Connecticutians are pretty easy and that you are reinstated in your places in the New Purchase, but whether, or not I am in nowise apprehensive that you want Philosophy enough to support Losses, you could not give such a Chearful Description of your agreable Homestead unless you were superior to Disappointments, I hope you will allways Continue so, but Iam much mo…

Whatever objections, on account of his family, or otherwise might have induced him to reject Schenectady must Certainly operate in as high a degree against this place, as it is not only ore retired, but must in some degree depend upon myself, I am therefore at a Loss what to say in favor of that Gentleman's present Desire as well from the Circumstances Ihave mentioned, as from the Expectatio…

Hawks,) '"'he was thoroughly American; he thought the Colonies wronged by the Mother Country, and throughout the struggle for Independence, he advocated their cause. Hehad deliberately cast in his lot with the great majority of his countrymen, and inthe alternations of storm and of sunshine, through which they passed in the achievement of their liberties, he was ever found true to his princip…

I am, with true esteem Gentlemen &c Mess's Cooper & Ogilvie. P. S. The great regard which I shall always pay to your Judgment & recommendation obliges me to observe that I drew my observations from what passed with respect to the Schenectady Mission, In which I may have been mistaken, for I have no objection to M* Griffiths Character or abilities, neither can I have any whensupported by aut…

should think that a plan of that sort would come with great Weight & strict propriety from His Grace of Canterbury, or the Bishop of London, in their Ecelesiastick Capacity, and I am really concerned at reading that part where you say That similar applications from the Society first, have been frequently postponed and neglected because it is a proof that my apprehensions are but too well foun…

For those of Consequence amst them, tho' many of them are Libertines in their sentiments, yet all of them are strongly interested in whatever regards their profession, and in this Country they foresee that if the Established Church is encouraged, its Comeliness may witht much Efforts of our Missionaries draw many of their people to it as well as regain sev! of its old Members who for want of …

Tho' in truth they can boast of no superiority if the members of the Church, The Foreign Protestants, Quakers &c. are taken together as they may be for these havs no design agt us, Do not in fact Joyn them in opinion or , entertain any apprehensions so Injurious to the Chh of England, so that as I formerly observed this artfull false representation should be enlarged on at home, and Eradicate…

I cannot think that the plan can be in better hands, or prepared so well by any other than a Gentleman of your abilities and zeal, and therefore I hope you'll frame it yourself :--as to the motives to be enlarged on that should Induce Govt to Countenance it, I think (amst others) That it will have a happy Effect in removs many Circumstances of Jealousy & displays his Majestys tender regard f…

' 444. PAPERS RELATING TO from our Enemys, who constantly observe to them that we take no care of their salvation, & by the Proselytes they made to the Church of Rome were enabled to & yet may distress us greatly Add to this that it isperhaps the only opportunity for many-reasons that ever may offer, which occurring in the Reign of a most virtuous & Pious Prince will reflect much Glory on …

Between ourselves (for it shoud not be Comunicated to some people) I sho 'tell you that the German Lutheran Minister at Stoneraby (a fine settlement near this) has Expresed a desire to me of taking orders in our Church, & what is more Extraordinary his Whole Congregation desire to become members of the same This Shews what the chh might Expect with due Countenance I intend to mention this affa…

I see M* Stewart frequently he is learning the Indian language and Seems pleased with a Study so necessary to a man in his Situation. And he is much esteemed by the neighbouring White people who frequent his church, and even some of them have sollicited him to perform the rites of baptism and burial, tho' they have a Minister of their own Church. The Indians seem pleased & the School goes on…

Dr Burton has not lately wrote me any thing material So that I know not what has been done, respecting my offer of land, or any other matter, perhaps the paquet now daily Expected may bring us something, on these heads. Whatever zeal we want is made up by the abundance of it amongst the Dissenters, who (tho many of them have.as little Religion as any of their neighbours) Support their Cause w…

The great difficulty is That, they will be with out a Minister during his absence, and that it will be attended with an Expence which from their great Occonomy, they do not chuse to Incurr, Especially as they have some Charitable Establishments amongst _ themselves, that are Chargeable.--If therefore any thing could be fallen upon, or that the Society would take it into Consideration, and tha…

England and become a Missionary, he has entreated me to befriend him in his application and delivered me the Originals together with a Copy which I now inclose you of Sundry Testimonials In favor of his Abilities & Character.--he complains that the Presbyterians who had a great esteem for him whilst he was their pastor are since warm against him, & he professes much Zeal & inclination for the…

To all whom it may Concern, the Bearer W™ Hannah lived several Years under my Inspection & read the Latin & Greek Classicks under my Tuition : has taught the Latin for the Space of a Year past & began to teach the Greek Classicks to the good acceptance of his Imployers; & as he has well acquited himself in the Former, I doubt not his Capacity to teach the Later upon Due Prelection to which I…

the approbation of the Trustees & would have been admitted to the Honours of the College had he attended at the Commencement last ; For he left the College only for a Season by Permission of the authority of it, & was as well Qualified to stand a second Examination as any one of his Class who were all admitted without Exception. So that the only reason of' his not geting ty Degree was his ab…

A. offered himself to Examination in Order to obtain Licence to Preach the Gospel, who was accordingly examined & this Association having examined him according to our Stated Rules look upon him competently Qualified to Preach the Gospel & accordingly the said William Hanna is hereby Licensed to Preach the Gospel under the Conduet & Direction of this Association & do recommend him accordingly…

William Hanna was regularly appointed to the Pastoral Care of this flock : that he performed the Ministerial Functions for the space of about 5 years amongst us ; and mentained an unblemished Moral & Religiuus character during his incumbancy ; but as he has lately taken a civil Commission from the Governor which we apprehend must naturally call off his attention from his Pastoral Duties : an…

[ deferr'd answering your favor of April the 4t, in hopes of having some Letters from the Society concerning your generous offer, or other business of consequence, to communicate to you. I have at length received two, one from the Bishop of London, 1 Col. Jonn McCrxa was the brother of the celebrated, though unfortunate Jane McCrea, He removed in 1773 to the town of Northumberland, Saratoga C…

"Tt would give the Society a very sincere pleasure, if they. were able to return a satisfactory answer to. the several recommendations which they receive, and make a suitable allowance to the persons recommended: But having already gone to the very utmost of our abilities, and even beyond them, we are now under the necessity of giving refusals in several instances: For as I have said in other…

But this he must not altogether depend upon. Suppose (if he and his people continue in the same mind) that you should be so good as to represent his Case to the Society, and though they will not erect new missions, they may either as a public Body, or as private persons, who ought to promote the Interests of the Church, make him a present of as much as will defray his Expences: but this assur…

Ihave consulted with several of my Brethren on the Subject, some of them know him ; they are unanimous in thinking it will not do for us to recommend him for many reasons, which we can inform you of, if desired. If the Gentleman is, from a motive of Conscience desirous of taking the Gown, I then would recommend it to him to get recommendations to my Lord Baltimore, who can provide for him at …

Before I conclude, I must just observe to you that his Lordship of London & Dr. Burton are both silent with regard to an American Bishop ; and indeed, such are the confusions at Home and Religion so little adverted to, that I see no prospect as yet of sueceeding ; unless, the late applications of the Maryland clergy, backed by their Brethren of Virginia, which I have reason to think is now a…

much esteemed & likes his present situation. Sir Wm Johnson. REVD. H. MUNRO TO SIR WM. JOHNSON. Albany June 25, 1771. Honble Sir, Having' so favourable an opportunity, by my good Friend Mt Joseph Brent, I beg Leave to present my best Respects to you &all the family, and to inform you, that the Rev4 Mr? Inglis of New York has wrote you by me; The Letter has been Sent by your Post, & I hope, …

will Suspend any Judgement of the matter, till you hear my: Story--audi et alteram partem.--I shall only mention at present, that my' Congregation is in perfect peace,-and Quietness ; not- " THE SIX NATIONS. 453 withstanding any malicious Reports to the Contrary. I remain with great Esteem & Respect, Honble Sir, Your most Obedient Servant. Harry Munro. To Sir William Johnson. SIR WM. JOHNS…

The principal difficultys in the way of Christianizing the Indians does not depend on them, but remain with ourselves, First, The Want hitherto of a thorough knowledge of their Genius and _ Disposition, or of the proper means to be pursued, Secondly, _ the want of zeal and Perseverance, Sufficient for such an arduous undertaking which has often rendered many attempts abortive, and that wher…

You propose, (and I think it will Illustrate your design) That one of your heads shall be a short Historical and Topographical account &c¢ as most pieces that have appeared on this Subject are very deffective, and as none of them could when Written or from the then State of Information be Correct, It will greatly add to the merit of your Work to place these points in their true Light, but as…

They have been in some Measure & should allways be taught THE SIX NATIONS. 455 to place their Confidence in & Look up to his Majesty as their Common Father & Protector who is disposed to redress their grievances and to Contribute a portion of his Royal bounty and Authority to the making them happy ; His patronage of a plan calculated for their prosperity here & hereafter as it will be the s…

T delivered your Letter to Odeserundy who was made very happy by the rect of it, and Expressed his most Grateful Acknowledgments I am now in the utmost hurry, having sometime since sent to call a few Chiefs of each Nation, in order to enquire into some Informations I rec¢ from the Southward, 300 Inds a much larger number than was required have accordingly come here,--Two days ago we entered u…

Halland that at Johnstown is Established but both are still vacant tho' from, their situation if Supplied _with Good Men they w4 greatly Extend the Christian faith on this frontier, and prove a vast addition to the Church, which already begins to bear a respectable appearance in this Country, As for Johnstown, I can find no body for it, tho the Congregation last Sunday to hear the Lutheran mi…

Iam intirely of your opinion with regard to the Lutheran Minister and shall after some further conversat2 with him most willingly mention the affair in my Letters, and would have you Do the same after you hear next from me to the end that some subscription may be set on foot or some assurance obtained previous to his undertaking it, to prevent disappointments, and indeed this point should be…

THE SIX NATIONS. 457 never lose sight of, and I am persuaded that perseverance will at last obtain it. I am sorry the recommendat" of his Grace of Canterbury, & the Bishop of London, has met with so little notice from a certain quarter, which I understand to be the case from the close of your Letter, perhaps it is owing to his being of different Religious Sentiments, or to a total Indiffere…

In truth what he says coincides exactly with what I have always thought & have often said. Providence seems to mark you out as the proper Instrument in its Hand, to civilise those poor savages, & bring them out of the Bosom of Heathen Darkness into the Fold of his blessed son; & I am confident that this will add Lustre to your memory amongst Posterity. Lustre superior even to that you have so…

I can scarce ever sit at it two Hours at a time--several Days pass without being able to devote a single minute to it. However it will be done I hope ina Fortnight; & I shall then send it to you by some safe Conveyance. JI have taken a good deal of Pains with it, & could I have consulted you on particular occasions, it had been better executed. However it will undergo your Correction. After …

He is a Gentleman of excellent Sense, as you may see by the answers to the addresses presented to him ; his Life is most exemplary, & he is a warm Friend to Religion, to the CHurch of England & the Society. From his well known Character, I have not a Doubt but he would zealously second our Design ; & from private Information J learn that he has considerable tnthrenes with Lord Hillsboro, wh…

The topographical account of the Indian Country, as you justly observe, would require a very accurate knowledge of the Relater--much more accurate than I am master of. You will find I have only given a short & general Account, merely with a View to make the plan more intelligible in England. If you can inform me, I should be glad to know whether the Bishop of Quebec has Permission to ordain …

Kirkland being now in town & attending the Commis- || sioners & inform'g them. That he had lately seen S' William | and had related to him those passages in his Journal to. which the vote of the Board and the Governors letter in consequence | thereof referred ; and had likewise acquainted him, that the whole of the matters which he had laid before the Board, he had | represented as coming fr…

T have just received a Letter from Gov" Hutchinson inclosing some papers from the Committee at Boston for propagating Christ» faith, they relate toa Journal you have lately transmitted to them, The particulars of which are not ment I must desire to know from you what was the occasion of your Writing, & that you will send me the whole particulars as I am given to understand, that it contained…

As Tbelieve I must acknowledge the Compliment therein as Intended for me, I am bound in Gratitude to declare to you my obligation to that Worthy Prelate for the Distinguished honor he has conferred on my little endeavors in his excellent Discourse before so Worthy & respectable an audience. I can affirm with Truth that besides my own heartfelt Satisfaction I have no motive, or occasion to Spur…

Intentions, (or perhaps pretences) of all Gov's in planting America seemed to haye the Christianizing the Natives as a principal object. It has 462 PAPERS RELATING TO been declared in Charters & I believe in the Gov's Instructions, but tho' it may have been long considered as matter of form, & Consequently little regarded, It may nevertheless have a good effect, and meet with more serious a…

I think that a Map of the Country you speak of freed from the errors of' all those that have been published would greatly Illustrate your Work but no Regular surveys have been made thereof. The most accurate~sketches that have been obtained are in the hands of Col. G. Johnson who has taken much pains in these matters, and will readily contribute his assistance by sending you such a one as ma…

Indeed' your-Zeal is what chiefly animates the Friends of that Scheme with Hopes of its Success : Andit is evident that Bishop Lowth only intended to give a Testimony in his Sermon of the Sense that He & the Society have of your Zeal in this good cause, & how much depends upon you. For my part,I am free' to declare, as I always have, that next to Providence, my chief THE SIX NATIONS. 463 Ex…

Whatever you judge proper notwithstanding, will readily be acquiesced in by me; & I shall punctually follow your, Directions. The Hint I formerly gave you of a Fund to support the Indian Missions, I received from His Excellency Governor Franklin. I had warmly recommended him to the Society for Admission as a Member. Accordingly he was elected; & upon recieving _ notice of this from Dr Burton,…

464 PAPERS RELATING TO which I impute to the Governor's being much perplexed at present with Business. However, as the Corporation for the Relief of Clergymen's Widows, &c is to meet at Amboy the Week after next, where I shall attend ; I intend to go from thence to Burlington to confer with his Excellency on the Subject, if I should not hear from him before that Time. [I shall communicate to …

If none such can be specified, the Memorial must even take its Chance. There is no Doubt that the Ministry will pay great Regard to whatever comes from you on this Head. Your Recommendation will draw their attention, if any Thing can ; for it is not only my Opinion, but that of every one besides, that there is no person whatever whose Influence is more essential to the Peace & Welfare of Amer…

Clause I suppose is not yet returned from Canada. THE SIX NATIONS. 465 If you do not find it necessary to make any very great Alterations in the Memorial, perhaps the most expeditious Method, & what would be attended with least Trouble to you, would be to make those Alterations, Interlineations, &c in the Copy I sent You ; & after you have had it transcribed fair, to return it to me. From i…

Your last favor was so long by the Way that I have scarcely had leisure to give your Memorial a perfect reading as my son & Col: Johnson were going for N York, I thought it the best opportunity I could have for returning it safe to y™ hands and for the same reasons shall omit.some particulars which otherwise I should have enlarged upon. I am yastly pleased with y? Work & I do assure you that…

Iam not under the apprehension that you will condemn my freedom in pointing out this, for I shall allways treat you with that Candor which is due to Your merit and friendship. I send herewith a Letter to Lord Hillsboro' wherein I have endeavored to do some Justice to your Work, which at the same time obliged me to Introduce you as the author, Tho' this was but an Act of Justice T had sev! ot…

The Favors I have received from you, & the Civilities you have from Time to Time been pleased to shew me, induces me to take the Liberty of informing You, that I have very lately opened a Grammar School in this Town, and that I may make it the more generally useful, I shall give Instructions, in Writing, THE SIX NATIONS, 467 'Reading and Arithmetic.--At present I haye Ten sites and as the P…

REVD MR. INGLIS TO SIR WM. JOHNSON, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE MEMORIAL. New York, Octob. 23, 1771. Dear & worthy Sir, I received your last Favour by Col. Johnson, & intirely acquiesce in the Method you propose the Memorial should be transmitted to Lord Hillsborough, you are indisputably the best Judge of the properest Manner, as I am fully persuaded that no person can have the success of the Me…

Every thing relative to them, except Smiths, is struck out. I confess it was more out of Compliance with common Prejudices that induced me to insert any thing about Farmers & Carpenters, than from a Conviction of their utility. But your Hint determined me immediately to leave out every thing that was said about them. The article concerning Smiths is retained ; because you did not object to it…

And lastly, I have thrown out a Hint near the Conclusion, how much more agreable to the Indians the solemnity of our Worship is than that of the Dissenters--that the Indians esteem the National Religion most, being professed -by the King ; & that it wonld be more eligible to entrust their Conversion to Clergymen of the Chuch of England, by which their Fidelity to the Crown would be indubitabl…

as to approve it & I believe recommended it to Lord Hillsboro : Your Letter however is what I place all my hope on of having any attention paid to this Scheme by Government; altho I thought it my Duty to write the Society that they would join in urging this Business; particularly the Lord Bishop of Oxford, who has lately favoured me with a Letter, & to whom I have communicated largely my Sen…

Indeed their Friends were so glad to see them, after so long an Absence, that they were almost continually out, & I could only spend a Couple of Evenings with them. There is an affair relative to Kirtland, the Indian Missionary, which I have mentioned to Col. Johnson to be communicated to you, not thinking it safe to commit it to writing. You are the only Person that can accomplish it, and it…

I lately took the Liberty of acquainting You, that I had opened a Grammar School in this Town, and since that, I have determined on forming it into an Academy, and propose giving Instructions in Reading, Writing, Arithtnetic, Geography and History to those who may be designed to fill the Stations of active Life, exclusive of those who may be taught the Learned Languages --Book-keeping, and M…

When I left London I positively saw my Salary settled in the venerable Society's Books at £50 Sterling a year, and I then express'd my-surprize that it exceeded my Expectations by £10, as I knew you had been pleased to have had even that annexed to what it formerly was --But by a Letter from Doctor Burton, & from the Abstracts for this Year, I learn it really is no more than £40, which togeth…

What ¥ only wish for, is, that the venerable Society wou'd please to add something to My Income, either on Account of the School, or because of the Poverty of the Mission.--For, I believe I may safely pronounce it to be one of the poorest Missions on the Continent.--Still I wou'd not wish to appear discontented, for I am far from being so--I only desire to have my Income so settled, in a moder…

You may therefore be assured, of such encouragement & recommendation as it is in my power to afford you. I am really concerned at your disappointment of the additional £10 per annum, being thoroughly persuaded of the reasonableness of what you say concerning your present situation which I wish it was in my power to improve, by anything I can say in your behalf, and with that View shall menti…

& most humble Servt, The Revd Mt W™ Andrews. SIR WM. JOHNSON TO REVD. CHARLES INGLIS. Johnson Hall Jany 27th 1772, Good Sir : I have been lately favored with your Letter of the 4th Inst on the subject of which I wish it wasin my power to afford you satisfaction, For it would give me pleasure to be the Instrument in procuring suitable relief for a Lady of the Character & merit you describe…

There is such a fund in Ireland as you describe which as I have allways understood was used Chiefly for the support of Ladies whose Husbands or near Connections had served the state, and at the disposal of the Lord Lieutenant; whether Mr" Ellis is within the predicament I have mentioned; or not, I suppose that with proper Interest she might be placed on the List, but really Tam unluckily a mo…

cannot shew you how much I am inclined to serve Indigent merit, & to oblige you Iam hopefull that by this Time you may have heard of the safe arrival of D: Cooper in England, and sincerely wish success to every thing that is committted to his charge, Tho' I dont know all the objects of his voyage, I make no doubt but that he will prove an able Sollicitor, & that the Indian Memorial will meet…

I shall remember you to Mr Stewart, and have S' John & Col: Johnsons kind Compliments now to transmit you. I shall.also Let the Indian know your farther remembrance of his Son which wilkbe taken very kindly. At present I can only add farther that lam Most Sincerely The Revd M* Chas Inglis. HO >--_------ ---- MR. JOHN COTTGRAVE TO SIR WM. JOHNSON, RESPECTING THE CHURCH &c. 4 Johns Town 18t…

are very troublesome--The next thing I consider of the utmost importance to the General wellfare of this Patent, is the Clothing of the Poor Children, with something low priced for a suitable uniform, to be worn at no other Time but on the Sabath--this would encourage and Command the Childrens attendance. and engage their Parents: and when Care is taken of the Childrens Cloathes, the expense…

And as the particulars refered to, generally atract the attention of Gentlemen of the first rank; and as your Honour is capable of giving the foremost of them a Pattern, its a pitty any hurry of Business shou'd so far interfere, as to set aside your Honours intention therein --and the only reason why - [have been so very troublesome at times to your Honour as I have been, is owing to my bein…

After being long in expectation of procuring a Missionary, for this place, of such a Character as I could wish to see seated here, thro' the kind endeavors of the Society, and finding that such a person had not been found out, but that they wished me to use my endeavors to get one that was fitting, I accordingly wrote to some of my acquaintances (whose enquirys I thought might be attended wi…

has been encouraged to expect by the Gentleman whom I impowered. If therefore this should prevent me from gratifying your * Wishes, I can only say that Iam hopefull it will be no material disappointment to you but that the slenderness of your present Mission may be made up by the Success of your Academy, and the great use which I am persuaded you ean be of in your present situation will enco…

At the same Time let me know, that at Present, there was nota vacant Parish in Maryland, butif I inclined to persue my Design, he would recommend me to his Friends in Virginia where I could have a Title to a vacant Parish; & if any became vacant in Maryland ; he would use his Influence for my Interest ; and thought it premature to apply to Governor Eden, for a Living till I was in holy Orde…

who remembring a few Days we spent togithér with you at the Hall before the general Treaty ; and understanding that I was recommended by you on this Occasion were pleased to take a particular Notice of me on your Account: and introduced me to some of the first Families in this Place: by whom I was treated with much Kindness & generosity & intertained with much Splendor. And when I informed Mr…

Easy of access, courteous to all, of fascinating accomplishments, he was respected if not beloved even by his political enemies. Hence he was permitted to remain in the province even after the establishment of a provincial government which, by express rule, exempted him and his family from its authority. Whilst enjoying this immunity some despatches from Lord George Germaine to his address we…

In 1782 he became Chief Secretary of Ireland under the Earl of Carlisle, with whom he had visited this country, and a privy Chancellor in 1783. In 1785 he was named Minister to France; in 1786 he was one of the Lords of Trade, and in 1788, Ambassador to the court at Madrid. In 1789 he was raised to the Peerage as Baron Auckland, and was Minister to Holland in 1793. He died 28th of May, 1814, H…

In short M* Wharton is on such good Terms with most of the Lords that whatever he asks for his Friends he readily obtains with the greatest ease. M* Wharton took me one Day into the House of Lords tho' Strick Orders are against any Persons being permitted to enter it during the sitting ; where I saw the King in his royal Robes, seated on his Throne, & the Lords in their proper Robes, & was p…

I was also at the Cockpit, when the Lords of the privy Council took into Consideration the Expediency of granting a large Tract of Land & settling a Government on the Ohio ; agreeable to a Petition of the Right Honourable Thos Walpole, Brother to Lord Walpole, Mt Wharton, Major Trent, & of many Lords: to the granting of which Petition Lord Hillsborough alone objected, that Part of the Lands …

This is looked upon THE SIX NATIONS. 479 here as a most Extraordinary Matter: And what no American ever accomplished before. Indeed no one from America, ever had so much Interest, and was so attended to by the great Lords as Mt Wharton. cannot conclude without doing him the Justice, of saying, that he has the greatest Respect for you & in all Companies Speaks in the highest Manner of you, an…

I spent some Days in viewing the Monuments in Westminster Abbey, & taking off some of the Inscriptions in a Journal. amongs the rest I viewed with particular Attention, a magnificent Monument of white Marble erected to the Memory of that Gallant Admiral, your Uncle, Sir Peter Warren: done by the Masterly Hand of Rubiliac; close by the Wall is a large flag hanging to a Flag-Staff, & spreading …

To obviate some peculiar Disadvantages, under which I labour in my present Situation, I made personal Application to You lately for the Mission at Johnstown;--not but that I had turned my views that Way a considerable Time past,--only I was prevented by some Circumstances, which till then had not determined me. However, that there is now a Prospect of having shortly a Gentleman qualified, fr…

But the very Thing which enables me to continue in this Mission, is the Grievance I complain of : For my constant Attendance on the School, prevents me from paying that Attention to my Congregation which I cou'd really wish, and from my being obliged to write two Discourses every Week I am confined from taking that Recreation which I find my Health requires. _ Indeed, when I offered myself …

THE SIX NATIONS. 481 SIR WM JOHNSON TO THE REVD DR. BURTON, RESPECTING THE REV. MR. MOSELEY. Johnson hall Oct? 24 1772. Sir, It is now a considerable time since I had the pleasure of writing to, ur of hearing from you, and the venerable Society ; a Variety of business, together with my bad state of health, & the want of any thing very material, was the occasion of this omission of my part.…

I must therefore beg Leave to recommend him to the approbation of the Society ; upon this occasion I ought to observe that the Missions established at £40 Ster p Ann, are found by Experience in this Country inadequate in the present age, Some of these in the old Settlements, near the Sea, where the Circumstances & Inclinations of the People are more favorable, may enable a Missionary to liv…

One of the Judges said, 'It is high time to put a stop to the usurpations of the Bishop of London. and to let him know, that though his license be lawful, and may empower one of his curates to marry in England, yet it is not so in America; and if fines would not curb them in this point, imprisonment should.' (Peter's Conn. 148.) On experiencing this rude treatment Mr. Mozley removed to Jobnsto…

I have already. mentioned M: Andrew's situation Mt Stuart at the Mohawks is much esteemed and regularly attended by the Indians, besides which he has added to the Number of Whites of his Congregation, and the School is very promising he sometimes visits the Conajoharees, but Mr Hall has long since declined coming to that place, and I can hear of no other to supply it, so that that necessary …

The Associated churches of Jesus Christ, the son of God and coequal with the Almighty Father, the great Creator of all things in heaven, earth, and seas who are particularly distinguished in America, in those territories bordering on the Sea, and under the Sovereignity and Dominion of our great and good Father 'THE SIX NATIONS. 483 George the third king of Great Brittain, France and Ireland.…

Anno Domini 1707, and hath constantly met year by year and every year since either in Philadelphia aforesaid or in the city of New-York, as the same hath been adjourned or previously appointed. Next we declare and make known. That this association at this time consists of forty christian churches, all situate within the several Provinces of Pennsilvania, Maryland, East and West New Jerseys …

And further, We do declare and testifie That the bearer hereof' David Jones aged about thirty six years of age, about five feet ten inches in 'hight ofa spare habit of body, is at this time the regular ordaind Pastor of the baptist church of Jesus Christ in Upper F freehold in the county of Munmouth, within the province of East New Jersey. | And that he isin full and comfortable communion in…

For the furtherance of this his most christian undertaking, we wish him god-speed and take our present leave of him praying with him and for him, that the Almighty Potentate of heaven, earth and seas will preserve, protect and defend him from all evil and danger; That he will own and bless his endeavors to promote the final happyness of immortal souls; And that at his return to his endearing…

I have been lately in New York, where I collected one hundred Pounds among friends & Connections, for our poor Church at Albany, which now makes a decent appearance; The old windows being taken down, & new Sashes put in their place. The inside also is [altered] for the Better; & peace & harmony generally prevails amongst us; Notwithstanding [the] malicious Efforts of a certain Cabal [to] di…

The Rev¢ Dt B[urton] is to resign, & one Dr Hide is to [be] appointed Sectary next Christmass. The Propriety & Expediency of sending Bishops to America is now the general Topic | of Conversation in England. Our Governor his been extremely ill, but is now recovered, & gone to Philad. That the Almighty may long preserve your Life in [health] & happiness, as a Blessing to [your] family, & to th…

I am sorry ye Society have been ill advis'd by a certain Lawyer in these Parts about 40 Acres of Land, given by ye Indians of Narraganset to y® Society for encouraging our Religion among them in ye very words following--"I Geo. 'Ninegret Chief & Prince of y° Narreganset Indians &¢ for securing & setling ye Service & worship of ye church of England among them have given &c to ye Use of ye Soc…

Now if ye Society wow'd authorize me, I wou'd serve him w'h an Ejectment, & if J lost ye suit, it show'd "be at my cost--if I recover'd it, they shou'd pay me & let me have ye Land for attending those poor Indians, who wow'd rejoice under my Ministry. I wish you wou'd condescend to weigh this affair. Wishing you all Happiness in Time & Eternity, I presume to subscribe myself, ees: Yr Honor'…

Graves remained in New London until the following years, subjected to many straits, '' during which for the support of his family, he has ~ been obliged to sell almost all his property and to take up money on very disadvantageous terms." He withdrew to New York in which city he died unmarried, in 1780. In person he was ungainly; of low stature , rather corpulent, with particularly short legs. …

I now set down to write to you, upon an affair that appears to me of the utmost Consequence.--must confess I am somewhat at a Loss, in what manner to address myself to You--but presuming upon our former Intimacy, and Acquaintance, and that Friendship. which you have honoured me with, shall without any farther Preface, beg leave to say, that I have long resolved in my mind, a change of the man…

488 PAPERS RELATING TO almost cut to Pieces. One third killed, one third Wounded, and one third run away which, as Gen! Burton who was in the action afterwards assured me, was as near the Truth of the matter as he could relate. Gen! Shirley at that Time was at Oswego. The City of Albany would have instantly fallen a sacrifize to that very enterprizing General the Baron who was a very great …

Inglis, & M* Ogilviee and if the good Rector and the rest of the very respectable Clergy of your City should approve of the thing and would allow of Contributions being given in their Churches on a Christmas Day or any other Time that would be tho't most Proper, which from their Example might and IJ verily believe would become general throughout the Colonies; by which means a larg Fund might…

The good Baronite observed that if your answer to my Letter which (shall communicate to him, agreeable to his desire) should it succeed agreeable to my Wishes (and should meet with that favourable Reception that I flatter my self it will,) He would push the affair with Gov' Tryon, Gov" Franklin, & Gov Penn to his utmost all three of the Gov's I am well assured would take very particular Ple…

IJ observed farther to Sir W™ that it would be the means of expediting the sending of a Bishop into America who assured me nothing could [afford] him greater Pleasure; and that he would recommend it in the strongest Manner to the Ministry at Home, and farther very justly observed that there were several Gen" in orders now at New York that were fit to personate the Character of a Bishop and w…

490 PAPERS RELATING TO cas, Oneydas, Onondagoes, Cayugas, Tuscoraras, & Mohawks, may joynin their Observations with the Queen of Sheba and with the same Truth say, that not one half was told them. This in a great Measure might prevent the Presbyterians, who are tucking and squeezing in every possible Crevice they can, their Missionarys amongst the Indians, who from their Solemnity, and ungr…

I verily believe that five or Six Thousand pounds Sterling might with St Ws Influence be easily raised in the Colonies and abundantly more in England and Ireland and some in Scotland-- and altho Sir W™ settled the Line between the English & the Indians in the year 1768 was he to ask grants of Lands for the above purpose, they would very readily give large Tracts of Lands; which in Time would…

Admiral, not far from Boston, who for the most part has a Stiffness, Violence, and Rudeness that renders even the best of his Actions offensive--I am very confident that St William would THE SIX NATIONS. 49} refuse doing a Favour with an infinitely better grace than Admiral Montagu would confer one. but I must confess that I am greatly prejudiced against Mt Montagu for which I have very goo…

refuse doing a Favour with an infinitely better grace than Admiral Montagu would confer one. but I must confess that I am greatly prejudiced against Mt Montagu for which I have very good Reason and therfore will say no more about him.--I shall write to Gov' Franklin myself as well as Govt Hutchinson and Govt Wanton! the former & the latter I have the honor of an intimate Acquaintance with an…

Luxe Baxzcock was the youngest son of Chief Justice Babcock, of Rhode Island ; he was born about 17388. He graduated at Yale College in 1755, "and afvudwabd commenced the study of divinity. In 1771, the Rev. Luke Babcock was recommended by the clergy of New-York, being lately ordained by the Bishop of London as a proper person for a Missionary, and Col. Philipse having requested that the missio…

Seabury) I know not a more excellent man, and I fear his loss, especially in that mission, will scarcely be made up." '"' He was not only (adds Mr. Inglis) exemplary in his life and assiduous in his pastoral duty, but distinguished by his steady loyalty and warm attachment to the constitution in Church and State." His remains w2re deposited i in the family vault of the Van Cortlandts. By his …

Be so good as to let me hear from you as soon as you conveniently can upon this most interesting Subject in which the Happiness and Usefulness of Thousands yet unborn may so much depend -- . Iam with the utmost Sincerity & Truth Revd & Dear Sir Your most Obedient & most humble Servant Rev M* Miles Cooper. " H. Baxcock?! left two sons, Cortlandt and Frederick ; the latter was the father of…

In 1761, he went to England, where he spent a year, and soon after his return married and settled at Stonington, Conn., and commenced the practice of the law. [It seems by the above letter, he was seston to enter orders, We find him afterwards engaged in the Lake Superior copper speculations.] When the revolution broke out, he joined the whig party, and in 1776 was appointed by the Legislatur…

When I left home, I had an Intention of taking the Liberty of waiting upon you, & presenting myself as a fit Object of your further Recommendation. -With this View, I went to Sir John, a few Days before my Departure, that I might, if not improper, learn where you was to be found; also upon my Return I communicated my Designs to Colonel Johnson, who promised from himself to second my Applicati…

He was taken prisoner twice, and at length deemed it prudent, in the fall of 1777, to apply for liberty to remove to Canada which he obtained. He thereupon proceeded to Montreal where he was appointed Chaplain to his Majesty's Royal regiment of New York. When he left, his congregation at Schenectady numbered only 59, exclusive of slaves. Of those 12 were communicants. In 1780, the number was r…

The Venerable Society's Bounty, & an uncertain Subseription, which is daily lessening by the Removal of some of the Congregation to the Country, is a very insufficient Support for a Family at Schenectady, & more so-as House-rent must be deducted from that Pittance. . These Circumstances when combined together, will clearly evince the Hardships I labor under, & render, I hope, my conduct just…

D. continued missionary at this place until 1798.' It is with concern (says the Society) that it has received information that they are deprived of the useful services of this worthy Missionary, Mr. John Doty, by his removal into his native country, to take charge of St. Anne's church at Brooklyn on Long Island in the Province of New York, (Abstract of 1794 b.) His connection with this church m…

I send this inclos'd in Mt. Wallaces packet, who tells me he purposes leaving this on a Visit to you next Thursday, & before then expects being honored with your Letters. At the same Time, I intend accompanying him & his Lady, & thereby have an opportunity of recovering my Health, & explaining myself further on this Subject, but lest my Health shou'd not permit doing myself that Honor, shou'…

The Circumstances of the Parishes here, I shall endeavor to explain to you, as well as the little knowledge I have acquir'd will enable me. In the first place, there isan Act of Assembly for the Payment of 16000 Weight of Tohacco to the Rector of each Parish, reckon'd equal to £200 Virginia Currency, which approaches the nearest to Sterling, I believe, of any Money on the Continent. The She…

When a Vacancy happens the Power of Presentation is in the Vestry for twelve Months after, & then it elapses to the Governor, who seldom inducts, (unless in new-form'd Parishes,) as there are a number continually waiting for Provision. The Impossibility of effecting the Removal of an Incumbent, & the ill Conduct of some Ministers, has made the Vestry, who are the Voice of the Congregation, so…

And more especially so, as He seems to have little Acquaintance with the Vestry, & less Concern for my Interest. The very Day I left New York, I met M: Stuart, on his Way to Pensylvania, who told me Mr Mosley intended relinquishing the. Mission at Johnstown, finding it impossible to continue longer in the State of Health he then was in, & that he was apprehensive of his Disorder's inereasin…

There is no doubt from the Letter you inclosed to me that the Clergy at Boston would wish well to a design so laudable in speculation, but after giving it much attention I am inclined to apprehend that there is more difficulty in the execution than you seem aware of; success is no Constant attendant on Lauda- . ble designs, they often owe it to party, or to the favorable operation of lucky Ci…

Sir I was honoured with your Favour of the 19 Nov' which have now before me, and have read it with the greatest attention; and altho' I am very loth to be troublesome to you, with my Letters, yet have presumed once more to write to you.--I observe you are pleased to say, that " Perhaps in a little Time 'the Scheme may bid Fairer for Success, when however loth "to renew applications, I would …

I will readily allow, that there are Difficultys'in the Way (particularly in establishing a Fund) but Industry & Perseverance will surmount them--I would, could I be authorised by you, next Spring chearfully make the Trial throughout the Colonies, in the same manner that I did in he Town of Newport. THE SIX NATIONS. 499 and should it meet with the favourable Reception, that I flatter myself i…

Success (as you may justly observe) is no constant Attendant "on laudable Designs, they owe it often to Party and,the favourable opperations of lucky Circumstances" and may we not venture to add that it's often owing to the invisible hand of God.--The Story of Joseph and his Bretheren, as mentioned in the old Testament does not appear more striking to Me than your first settling in this Count…

Please to accept of my sincerest Thanks, for the kind Manner in which you are pleased to express yourself in my behalf; and return my Compliments to Sir John, & the rest of the Gentlemen of your vicinity--am not determined, whether I shall do myself the Honour of paying You a visit this Winter, but if I do not this Winter fully intend it in the Spring. . I am with greatest Esteem Your most …

As I have in my last, and former Letters so fully shewn the Importance of this Mission in many essential points It is unnecessary to observe that it must suffer great disadvantage should it continue long unsupplied Ihave therefore no doubt of the Society's care & attention to promote true Religion in this Infant Settlement by endeavouring to procure some fitting person to undertake that Charge,…

within the Pale of the Church, but here the Inhabitants are for the most part very ignorant, & have been chiefly invited by the fertility of the Soil, & the advantage of fine Communicats for transporting their produce. and as they were of the poorer & lower Class of Adventurers from difft Countries they have in general very little acquaintance with any Religion, & a Minister can not be accus…

D., son of Dr. John Hind, rector of Fendon, Sus. sex, was born at Boddington in Northamptonshire, in 1715; entered Oxford about 1780, and obtained his degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1749; became rector of Shering, Essex 1754, and of St. Anne, Westminster, 1766, both of which he vacated in 1778 for the Vicarages of Rochdale, Lancashire, and Skipton, York. shire. on account of a dispute which …

A Copy of this address we sent immediately, and hope it has been received previously to the Anniversary Session. Soon after the first we sent a Second Copy in ease the former should miscarry ;, and as we thought it proper to acquaint the Reverend Clergy of New York with our Intention we enclosed it to them unsealed, requesting that after they had perused it they would be so kind as to seal and …

In answer to this Dt Auchmuty inform'd us that "no other opportunity offering he had sent it by the Pacquet." The reason of this Evident Contempt of the latter part of our request we are at a loss to assign, unless it may be collected out of a Letter which we received from Mr Andrews soon after he left us dated at New York in which he says "I really am somewhat afraid the Society's Salary wi…

As we labour under many disadvantages for want of a charter, we embraced the happy opportunity of addressing His Excel- Jency the Governor on that subject by St John who generously promised us his benevolent offices, and at whose return we are in no Doubt of receiving a very favourable answer. We beg your Indulgence in thus detaining you as we are prompted to it by a sense of the Duty which …

George's Church, and was the first to cause Stoves to be introduced into that edifice, an innovation which disturbed the minds of many who did not approve of such novelties. Mr. Clench took the oath of allegiance to the United States on the 25th July 1778, & died in the latter part of 1781. His will bears date 10 Sept. and it was proved on 21st Dec. of that year. His wife survived him seven ye…

Iam at aloss to express my Gratitude to You 3 for Your unbounded Goodness to me during My Residence at Johnstown: and particularly at my Departure--I shall allways retain a most gratefull sense of Your Generosity : And that it may please God long to prolong your Life, and possess you with a good state of Health will be the Constant prayers & wishes of One who has the Honor of subscribing Him…

The government of New York did not make any effort to christianize the Five Nations further than to pay, for some time, a small salary to the clergyman at Albany to attend to the wants of such Indians as might apply to him. The Rev. Mr Freeman of that city translated a great part of the English liturgy, the morning and evening prayers, the litany, the Athanasian Creed, with some passages of …

506 MEMOIR OF THE and Hawley visited successively the tribes on the Mohawk and Susquehannah rivers.'. The commencement of the French war, soon afterwards, interrupted all missionary efforts west of Albany, which were not renewed until 1761, when the Rev? Dr.Wheelock directed his attention to that quarter, and endeavoured: by introducing Indians, as missionaries and schoolmasters, to reclaim …

Of all the number before mentioned, I dont hear of more than half who have preserved their characters unstain'd, either by a course of intemperance or uncleanness, or both; and some who on account of their parts, and learning, bid the fairest for usefulness, are sunk down into as low, savage, and brutish a manner of living as they were in before any endeavours were used with them to raise the…

The family mansion in which he first saw the light was yet standing in 1836, His father, Andrew Stuart, came to America from the town of Omagh in Ireland, about the year 1730; besides the subject of this memoir he had three sons, James, Andrew & Charles. The first died young ; the others--Andrew and Charles--died some years ago, both at an advanced age, in the Western part of Pennsylvania, h…

In the afternoon, he officiated in the Mohawk Chapel, to the white people, most of whom were Dutch, and who had no stated place of worship*. In 1774, he was able to read the Liturgy and the several offices of baptism, marriage &c. to his flock, and converse tolerably well with them, on common subjects in their own language, but he found great difficulty to convey to them any distinct ideas o…

Service was read to the Mohawks at Canajoharie by Paulus Sahonwadi, the Indian Schoolmaster. Some idea of the difficulties attendant on conveying elementary instruction to the Indians in those days may be formed from:the circumstance that the teacher had no elementary books. Paulus & the other Mohawk teachers taught the Alphabet &¢ by means only of little manuscript scraps of paper. It was no…

Stuart however did not experience any inconvenience at first; indeed he remained undisturbed at Fort Hunter, for some time even after the Declaration of Independence, and constantly performed divine service without omitting the prayers for the king, as prescribed in the Liturgy. In the Spring of 1777, Gen! Herkimer received intelligence that some persons belonging to Tryon County intended to…

Leger had raised the siege of Fort Schuyler ; Burgoyne had surrendered ; the Indians, who had hitherto protected their Minister, had abandoned their homes, & with Brant were laying waste the country between the Susquehanna and the Mohawk rivers. Mr. Stuart's connexion with the Johnson family and his relations to the Indians rendered him particularly obnoxious to the Whigs. His house was attac…

Stuart would have it in his power to convey Intelligence from that Place to the Indians, and 'as he had always been a declared Enemy to the Liberties of America, it would be necessary to Order him down the Country." This information was received on the 11" June and on the 25th Mr Stuart was ordered to "repair with his family forthwith to the State of Connecticut until his exchange could be p…

performance of such matters as might be enjoyned him." It was therefore resolved that he "enter into Parole not to do or say any Thing in opposition to the Measures pursued by the Congress of the United States of America, or by the Legislative or executive Powers of either of the said States, and that he shall and will not hold any correspondence by word or Deed upon Politikal Matters with a…

In the spring of 1780, the Indians again made their appearance on the Mohawk river, infuriated rather than humbled by the punishment which Gen. Sullivan had inflicted on them in the course of the preceding summer. The situation of affairs in the neighborhood of Schenectady obliged Mr Stuart early in June once more to abandon his house and take sanctuary in Albany. So imminent was the danger t…

Hearing a remark from a bystander flattering to the personal appearance of the orator, M' Stuart unguardedly made a caustic though humorous remark on the same subject, and then proceeded to his Lodgings. The observation circulating through the crowd, aroused considerable indignation and the meeting adjourned for the purpose of inflicting personal chastisement on the person who had been so bold…

The particulars you have heard I suppose,--they retreated with the loss of about 30 taken, & few or none killed. **** Considering the present situation of affairs in this part of the Province, I am fully persuaded, that I cannot possibly live here secure, either in regard to ourselves or property during the ensuing season ;--this place is likely to be a frontier, & will probably be burnt if the…

therefore presumed to apply to your Excellency for Permission to be exchanged for Some Citizen of this State now a Prisoner in Canada, and that I may be allowed to go under the Protection of the first public Flagg.--I will do myself the Honor to wait personally upon your Excellency at any Hour that may be convenient.--An Answer from your Excellency will much oblige *¢ Your most obedient '"& …

We are to proceed from hence to Fort Ann in waggons and from thence in Batteaus. Believe me, Dear Sir, I have had occasion to exert all my resolution before I gould venture on the difficulties that presented themselves as the probable concomitants of this journey ; But from a variety of circumstances, peculiar to my personal and local situation, I had no alternative; therefore, let the event …

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 Socie…

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 for…

But his application is represented as having been subsequent to the confiscation of the glebe, and this is stated to have taken place in May, 1781. "Asa last resource he then proposed to open a Latin School." Now, he applied for, and obtained leave to emigrate in March, 1781--and we have. seen that he had determined to emigrate in Nov. 1780. How then can it be stated that he intended to open …

M Stuart set out with his family, then consisting of his wife and three-small children, on his long and tedious voyage, on the 19th September 1781 and arrived at St Johns on the 9 of the following month--thus accomplishing in three weeksa journey which is now performed in twelve or fifteen hours. As there was no opening for him to exercise the duties of his profession at Montreal, he took ch…

This season has been uncommonly rainy and we have had frost in July and could sit very comfortably at a good fire early in August or even some times in June. This you will think pretty cold ;--But aa people of our description are supposed to have some warm particles in our composition we must let the heat and the cold combat and balance each other. How; ever the climate and the soil are extrem…

To obviate the difficulty under which they labored, the Revd Mz White came out with a pamphlet entitled, "The Case of the Episcopal Churches considered," in which he proposed among other things, a temporary organization eonferriag on a Convention composed. of representatives, to be elected from the Vestry or congregation of the several churches within a given district, the power to choose a …

Ihope the present complexion of the times will free you from having recourse to such an expedient which I am confident nothing but necessity can have forced you to adopt." The subsequent acknowledgment, by England, of the Independence of this country having obviated all existing difficulties in the case, Mr, Stuart's friends entertained the hope of winning him back to labor among them, and Dr. …

Griffith's friendly remembrance of me, altho' I despair of being able to aecept of his kind proposal. The time has been when the chance of obtaining a settlement in that part of Virginia wou'd have gratified my utmost ambition. But, at my time of life, and with such riveted prejudices in favor of a government totally different from that of the United States, Iam resolved not to look back. hav…

Seabury are in Nova Scotia but Ihave as yet no correspondence with them, the distance not being less than 400 miles." As a relief from such thoughts as these he turned to the active duties of his calling. "TI shall not, (said he) regret the disappointment and chagrin I have hitherto met with, if it pleases God to make me the instrument of spreading the knowledge of his Gospel amongst the hea…

Even the windows of the church in which he officiated were crowded with those who were anxious to behold again their old pastor from whom they had been so long separated. He officiated also at Cadaraqui where he found a garrison of' three companies, about thirty good houses and some 1500 souls who intended to settle higher up the lake. He next proceeded to the bay of Kente, where 1 Letter of…

The town increases fast; There are already above 50 houses built in it & some of them very elegant; it is now the Port of transport, from Canada to Niagara, having a good harbor to contain vessels of ldrge burden--we have now just at the door a ship a scow and a sloop besides a number of small craft, And, if the communication lately discovered from this place, by water, to Lake Huron & Michil…

The greatest inconvenience I feel here is there being no school for my boys, but we are now applying to the Legislature for assistance to erect an Academy & have great reason to expect success; if I succeed in this I shall die here contented." In the concluding part of this letter he adds, ''notwithstanding all my philosophy and Christian resignation to my fate I must express that even writing …

''T embarked in a Battoe with six indians commanded by Capt, Brant and coasted along the north side of Lake Ontario about 200 miles; and from the Head of the Lake we went 25 miles, by land, to [New Oswego] the Mohawk village in the Grand river which empties into Lake Erie. These people were my former charge, & the Society still stiles me their Missionary. I found them conveniently situated on …

And indeed, I was so pleased with that country, where I found many of my old parishioners, that I was strongly tempted to remove my family to it. You may suppose it cost me a struggle to refuse the unanimous & pressing invitations of a large settlement, with the additional argument of a subscription & other emoluments amounting to near £300 York currency per annum more than I have here. But, on…

But, for reasons which will readily occur to you, T returned it to Lord Dorchester who left this place a few days ago. The mention of these circumstances you, perhaps, will call vanity, But as any anecdotes concerning you wou'd give me much pleasure to hear; so I flatter myself that my friends will be glad to find that even this wilderness has its Politics, its competitions, which, altho' on a…

He occasionally visited, and officiated for the Mohawk. villages at the bay of Kente where still were preserved the Communion plate and furniture given by Queen Anne to the Mohawk Chapel at Fort Hunter. But "notwithstanding the laudable exertions of the Society, and the partial indulgence of the British Government to this tribe, no flattering accounts can be given either of their religious …

He had secured about 4000 acres of valuable land to which he occasionally made additions, his circumstances more than equalled his most sanguine expectations, and he felt that, in the enjoyment of health with such prosperity, his situation was as happy 'as. it possibly could be. 'How mysterious," he exclaimed, "are the ways of Providence! How short sighted are we! Some years ago I thought it…

In personal appearance D: Stuart resembled the other members of his family; he was about six feet four inches in height, and from this circumstance was known among his New-York friends as "the Jittle gentleman." His manners were gentle and conciliatory, and his character such as led him rather to win ' men by kindness and persuasion, than to awe and alarm them by the terrors of authority. His…

James, his third son, studied law under Jonathan Sewell Attorney General of Lower Canada, and is now Chief Justice of that Province." Charles the fourth son, was Sheriff of the Midland District, and Andrew Stuart, the youngest of these boys, was an eminent lawyer in Quebec, which city he represented many: years in the Colonial Legislature. He died Solicitor General of Lower Canada D: Stuart's…

"A good Post to be made at the Oneida Carrying Place capable of Lodging 200 men in the Winter and for 3 or 400 men in the Summer for its Defence, with Loggs--A Parrapet of such a thickness as the Engineer shall think necessary according to the scituation. "A Ditch to be made to serve to thicken the Parrapet--Barracks to be made underneath the Rampart, with Flues of the Chimneys to come throug…

less (if so little) than 300 ft we' procures but a verry small Defence from its flank, & will make an Exterior Circuit of Logging of nearly 1420 ft by at the very least 14 ft high, according as the Scituation may be, & in order to admitt of Barracks under the Rampart, to which the Retaining & Bracing Logg Works, as well as the Logg work fronting the Interior Area, must in course be considere…

Aslam ignorant of the Scituation conceive that any form of a Work, that does not take up more in its Exterior & Interior Circuit, Attention, being made to an equal Flank Defence must be as cheap and as good as a Square, as it might not be in my power strictly to adhere to that Figure--As to the thickness of the Parapet, being informed Cannon can be brought there by the Enemy it cannot be les…

His Excellency General Abercrombie is pleased to Observe in His Letter of the 16 of July to the following Purpot--that He does not find himself vested with ye Power of Building Forts, and that His Excellency does not think that it would be right for Him to Undertake the Building of those He proposed &e. &e. I humbly conceive that the Plan Ordered for the Post at Oneida Carrying Place is in …

To be Built with being only peculiar to the Country and Scituation, and can no ways affect the Intention of that Work, and as to its capacity in point of Size, and the proper Strength requisite in the Execution, when considered, it is Ordered To be made, a good Post for 200 Men to 400 men IJ should think it my Duty to execute it with Propriety, Care, and Attention, in order that it might answ…

And lastly, The Practibility of executing this post before the Winter sets in, Must still further be judged, not only by the number of artificers that would be Requisite to Compleat it in due time, but by considering it is one of the Reasons inter alia His Excellency General Abercrombie Himself Gives for laying aside the Scheme of Building a Fort there--By observing as follows ' Besides when …

And having since been advised, instead of that Post or Fort, to build one more extensive, pursuant to a Plan laid before me, I have accordingly sent that plan to Lt Williams now at Albany with directions if his health should Permit him to undertake the same, immediately to join you and set about it; my Reason for sending Lt Williams is that he is acquainted wh that part of the Country, and a…

Green's Bad state of health, and the Difficultys he started to the former Plan, wch was not near so extensive as it is morally certain he would not execute it within proper time which as I observe before would be doing nothing at all; Wherefore, upon Lt Williams arrival, you will allow Capt Green to return to Albany, for the sake of his health, from whence he may forward every thing that may…

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The orders for building a Post or Fort at Oneida Carrying Place were so plain that they did not seem to want any Explanations, except in the Scituation, we» not being exactly known the figure of Course is subjected by it, and tho' called a square, has often its four sides unequall, and as part may be unattakable by a Swamp, morass &ca. that side has a Parapet and Rampart less strong than the …

24 The winter sets in there as in the oy" parts of the Province of New York, and not sooner; and as to the Practability of executing this post or Fort before the winter Majt Eyres begun fort W™ Henry in Sept and it was finished by the end of Noy« follows being an Irregular square of about 300ft each side with Provincials alone and that without any Expence. Fort Craven burnt by Gen! Webb. . …

P, A Sluice and Dam to raise a head of water to float Batteaus to Fort Bull. Q. A wood Dam made by a Prodigious number of trees thrown there Promiscuously by Freshes R. The Oswegagie Indian Path. be 2 bd EO bd 526 PAPERS RELATING TO The Black Mold of this Land in general goes to 4 or 5 feet deep, then for about 2 foot deep a Blew Pipe clay, then a gravelly and Sandy Bottom. All the ground…

Thro' the Swamp O runs severall small Creeks weh being joined at P make what is called Stoney Creek, weh at midling dry Seasons is too shallow to float Batteaus to Fort Bull for which Reason a little above P there isa Dam and Sluice to Raise a head of Water in the Swamp O. TheSluice is shut 6 or 8 hours before the Batteaus are to go to and from Fort Bull, when ready, it is opened weh gives wa…

All within the Line of trees as marked in the Plan is cleared ; all the rest of the Country is covered with tall Timber Trees, and but little underwoods ; The Swamp on the the S, Wt of Ft' Stanwix, is chiefly Pine and some White Cedar ; There are also some white Pines in the Swamp on the East side of the Fort, all the rest of the woods are Elm, Beach, Rock Maple, Birtch, Popplar, and a few T…

The Fort is built on a Level spot of Ground Composed of Pebble stones mixed wt Gravel and Sand and is to the Eastward and Southward 19ft above the Level of the Swamps and Low lands. To the Northward the Ground is much on a Level with the fort, but to the Westward it descends gradually for three Quarters of a Mile to Fort Niewport to the Common Level of the Swamps. To the West, North, and Eastw…

The War hitherto has prevented me from making So great a progress as I hoped for, on my first appointment; but as there is a prospect of a lasting peace with the Indians, in which Your Excellency has had a great Share, people are daily applying for Grants of Land in all Quarters of this Government, And _particularly Some for Townships to be laid out in the Western part thereof, which will fal…

In Consequence of his Majesty's Determination of the boundary's between New Hampshire and the Massachusets, A Surveyor and proper Chainmen were appointed to Run the Western Line, from three Miles North of Pautucket Falls, And the Surveyor upon Oath has declared, that it Strikes Hudsons River about eighty poles between, where Mowhawks River comes into Hudson's River, which I presume is North o…

Meer Motion, have thought fit, to Constitute and appoint and by these presents do constitute and appoint you the said Benning Wentworth to be our Governor and Commander in chief of our province of New Hampshire, within Our Dominions of New England in America, bounded on the south side, by a simular Curve line pursuing the Course of Merrimac River, at three Miles distance, on the North side th…

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Given at Whitehall July the 34 in the 15th Year of His Majesty's Reign. Attest . THEODORE ATKINSON Sec'ry. Province of New Hampste Portsmt Nov? 17, 1749. In Council New York, 3 April 1750. Ordered that his Excellency do acquaint Governor Wentworth That this Province is bounded Eastward by Connecticut River The letters Patent from King Charles the 24 to the Duke of York Expressly granting al…

J have the Honour of your Excellency's letter of the 9th Inst. before me, in which you are pleased to give me, the opinion of His Majesty's Council of your Government, that Connecticut River is the Eastern boundary of New-York Government, which would have been entirely Satisfactory to me, on the Subject of my Letter, had not the two Charter Governments of Connecticut, & the Massachusetts Bay…

Altho' I am prohibited by his Majesty's Commission to interfere with his other Governments, Yet it is presumed that I should Strictly adhere to the Limits prescribed therein, and I assure you that I am very far from desiring to make the least incroachment, or Set on foot any dispute on these points. It will therefore give me great Satisfaction, if at your leisure, you can inform me by what Auth…

I have received your Letter of the 25 April last in answer to mine of the 9t of same month, respecting the Eastern Boundary of this province wherein you desire to be informed by what Authority Connecticut and the Massachusetts Governments claim so far to, the westward as they have Setled. As to Connecticut, their Claim is founded upon an agreement with this Government, in or about the year 16…

From the Information I have, there is Reason to apprehend that the Lands within the Township you have lately granted, or part of them, have been granted here; And as my answer to your Letter might probably have furnished you with objections against any Grant which might interfere with this Province I am Surprised you did not wait 'till it came to hand, before you proceeded therein. If it is …

Sir As soon as your Letter of the 6 instant came to my hands, I tho't it proper to have the Sense of His Majesty's Council thereon, who were unanimously of the opinion, not to commence a dispute with your Excellency's Government, respecting the Extent of Western Boundary to New Hampshire, until His Majesty's pleasure should be further known; Accordingly the Council have advised, that I shal…

When I first wrote you on this Subject, I tho't I had given Sufficient time to receive an Answer to my letter, before I had fixed the Day for passing the grant refer'd to in your Letter, & as the persons concern'd therein lived at a great distance, it was inconvenient for them to be Delay'd, beyond the appointed time; I was not apprehensive any Difficulty could arrise by confineing my Self to…

I have taken the Sentiments of his Majesty's Council on your Excellency's Letter of the 22 Ulto. respecting the extent of the Western Boundary of your Government, who think it highly expedient I should lay before his Majesty a Representation of the Matter on the part of this province, and as you propose to do the like on the part of New Hampshire, they are of opinion it will be for the mutua…

Humbly Sheweth That in obedience to your Excellency's order in Councill of the 24th of July last past; I have Perused and Considered the papers laid before me by your Excellency's Said order, Relating to the Eastern Boundarys of this Province of New York; North of the western Bounds of the Colony of Connecticut, in order to discover and ascertain the bounds between this Government and the G…

That the line between this Government and the Colony of Connecticut is within about 20 miles of Hudson's River is' Certain ; but then the claim of the Colony of Connecticut to that line, is founded upon an agreement made with this Government in or about the year 1684, which agreement was afterwards Confirmed by King William and thereupon the Lines between the two Governments were run and the …

Government of Connecticutt ; tis true, that the Government of Massachusetts bay, have under pretence that this Government ought to be Confined to the Same bounds, Intruded upon and taken possession of the Lands Eastward of that distance from Hudsons river ; but that they have So done, without pretence of right, I think will manifestly appear by Considering the words of their Charter which as…

These words seem to me very Plainly to Express that the bounds of that Government is to extend from the western ocean on the East to the Eastern bounds of the Colony of Connecticut on the west and no further. And altho that Goverment have Endeayoured to construe the words vizt Westward as far as our Colonies of Rhode Island, Connecticut and the Naragansetts Country ; To intend and mean that t…

I Conclude therefore, that supposing the above words in the Grant may be Taken to two Intents as I have shewn above, that as the Intention or Construction of those words Contended for by me is most Beneficial for the Crown, as Loss of the Lands belonging to the Crown will pass by such Construction ; I conceive such construction ought to take place ; and not the Construction'eontended for by t…

" All that Island or Islands "commonly known by the name of mattowacks or Long Island 'Scituate and being towards the west of Cape Cod and the Nar- "row Higgaasetts butting upon the Main Land Between the "Two Rivers there called & known by the several names of "Connecticut and Hudsons river together also with the said "River called Hudsons river and all the Lands from the west 'side of Conn…

Yet I findno one Instance in which the Crown has so much as Described the Government by any Particular Bounds much less abridged or confined it to any Narrower Limitts than it had at the time it Belonged to the Duke of York so far from that, that the Crown has all along and continue Even to this day, to appoint Governours of this province without Describing it by any bounds whatever; which s…

I know it will be objected to this, that King James the first in the 18 year of his Reign did Grant the land in Question with them unto the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon for the Planting Ruling ordering and Governing of - New England in America ; and to their Successors and assigns and That that Council in the third year of King Charles the first, Granted to Sir Henr…

Three English "miles to the Northward of the said River, Called Monomack "alias Merimack or the Northward of any or every part Thereof, "and all Lands and Hereditaments whatsoever lying within the "Limits aforesaid North and South in Latitude and in Breadth "and in Length and Longitude of and within all the Breadth "aforesaid, throughout the main Lands there, from the Atlantick "and Western…

To which I answer, that the Patent to the Council of Devon &c. Contains this Proviso. " Provided also that the Said Lands "Tslands or any the Premises by the Said Letters Patents 'Intended and meant to be Granted were not then actually pos- 'sessed or Inhabited by any other Christian prince or State &e. And the patent from King Charles the first To their Grantees contains this Proviso, " Pr…

Company settled a Colony here & called it New Netherland, how far Indeed the Dutch Extended their Claim does not Clearly at this day appear to me but 'tis very probable, that as they Extended the same to the South as far as Delaware River they also Claimed North Easterly as far as Connecticut River near which I doubt not it may be made appear many Dutch people were settled and I Believe tha…

544 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE Better acquainted with at that day, than I can possibly be supposed to be at this time and Indeed it is very Improbable That the duke of York should at that day when the Lands were of so Little value, take a Grant of these lands in the manner he did, which he must have been very Sensible must Interfere with the Former Grant made to the. Grantees of the Council o…

The Consequence of which, must be that as the Crown after this Government Came into its hands, never Granted any part of it away (for the reason I have shown above) that the Government of Massachusetts Bay by their Grantin 1693, Can have no Legal Right to the Lands Entred upon by them Northward of the bounds of Connecticut Government, and westward of Connecticutt river; and Therefore their En…

It appears by the records of this Province, that the Duke of York, In pursuance of his right, actually Sent over Governours to take and keep possession of what Belonged to him in America, who Accordingly Entred upon and took possession of this Government for him ; and tho' they did not actually settle upon the Northern Parts of the Government, yet as they Settled the Southern part of it unde…

Tis True that by the Abdication of the Crown by the Duke of York ; afterwards in the year 1688; this Government became vested in the Crown (If not before) but I believe no record or other writing Can be produced, whereby it Can be made appear, that the Crown Ever Intended to abridge the Northern bounds of this Government or to confine it to any Bounds ; but what it had, when under the Govern…

Relating to a matter, which I must confess, myself, very much VoL. Iv. 35 546 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE unacquainted with. But hope these few Hints, may be of Some use in the affair, and doubt not but his Majesty's Surveyor General, who I suppose is much Better acquainted with the Bounds of this government, than I can pretend to be; will give your Excellency much further Light Relating to …

That the line lately run by the Government of New Hampshires to Hudson's River as their Southern boundary comes (as Iam informed) within 8 or 10 miles of the City of Albany. That so far as I can learn Albany is a place more considerable in the numbers of its inhabitants & for trade (having a communication by water with the Sea for vessels of Burthen) than any toun in New Hampshire and that th…

That several tracts of land to the Eastward of Hudson's River & above twenty miles distant from it towards the Massachusetts bay are held by the inhabitants of New York by grant from. the Governours thereof & paying yearly rents to the Crown; and likewise several other tracts to the Northward of the line run by New Hampshire as their Southern boundary and above twenty miles eastward from huds…

Dated August the 14th 1752. On the State of the Case + with respect to Certain Townships and Tracts of Land Granted by the Governments of the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut in New England. "There are also about 60,000 Acres of Land situated on the West Side of Connecticut River which were purchased by private persons from the Government of Connecticut, to whom that Land had been laid out…

Iam directed by the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations to send you the Inclosed Extract of M' Wentworth's Letter to their Lordships containing his Proposal for running a Boundary Line between the Provinces of New York & New Hampshire & to desire that you would transmit the same to your Constituents by the first Opportunity, that their Lordships may be informed 'of their sentiments up…

One Ranesslaer claims twenty four miles square on the East, & twenty four miles square on the West side of Hudsons River, a Tract of Land sufficient for thirty two Townships of six Miles Square each & comprehends more good Land, than any other subject in His Majesty's Dominions, but Renesslaer has not thought fit to contend with the Massachusetts for the four miles, presuming it will be His…

It will also be for the Peace and Benefit of both Governments, if it should be His Majesty's Pleasure to determine the Northern as well as the Eastern Boundary of New York, that it may be ascertained how many Miles North of the City of Albany that Government extends, as it will in its Northern & Eastern Boundary interfere with the Western Boundary of New Hampshire which will keep both Governm…

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. To the Honorable James Delancey Esq' his majesty's Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of New York and the Territories depending thereon in America. The Representation of the Committee of his Majesty's Council of the Province of New York and the Commissioners appointed to examine into the Eastern Boundaries of the said province. May it …

That on the 3¢ day of Aprill 1750, Governour Clinton Laid before the Councill of this province a Letter from Governour Wentworth, desireing information how far north of Albany this province extends, and how many miles to the Eastward of Hudson's River, To the Northward of the Massachusetts Line ; that he might Govern himself accordingly in the Grants he was to make in New Hampshire and that t…

worth of Aprill 25h, owning the receipt of Governour Clinton's Letter, with the said opinion of the Councill, which he declares would have been satisfactory, had not the two Charter Governments of Connecticut and the Massachusetts Bay, extended their Bounds many miles to the westward of the said river; and requesting to Be informed by what Authority Connecticut and the Massachusetts Governmen…

On which the Councill of this province advised Governor Clinton, To make a Representation to his Majesty on the part of this province, and To acquaint Governour Wentworth with such his Intentions, and that it would be for the mntual advantage of Both Governments, if they exchange Coppys of each others Representation To his Majesty on that head ; and thereuponit was ordered, that coppys of a…

I shall therefore as soon as mine is perfected Trans- "matt you an authentick Coppy thereof, and shall Indeayour To '' make it as short and plain as the Nature and Circumstances of " the case will admit." Upon which Letter we beg leave to observe that we are well assured no coppy of any Representa- : tion by Governour Wentworth on that matter ever came To Governour Clintons hands, untill we …

That in pursuance of the Order of the 24th of July 1750 the Then Attorney Generall of this province prepared and delivered a Representation to Governour Clinton Concerning the Eastern Boundarys of this province which was read in Councill the 29t® day of September 1750 and Referred To a Committee of the Councill or any three of them to consider : That on the 18" of October 1751 the Committee …

1st Tho' the Eastern Boundarys of this province and the Western Boundarys of New Hampshire so far as they Bound on one another (Being Both under his Majesty's immediate government) intirely depend on his Majesty's pleasure, Yet as the Eastern Boundary of this Province, was by the Grant of King Charles the Second to the Duke of York, 1663-4, fixed at Connecticut river, now near ninety year ag…

Qdly Governour Wentworth is pleased To Say that, "the Massachusetts Bay have allowed the Government of New York To extend their Claim also Twenty miles East of Hudson's River." On which we observe that this is a Very new kind of Title that Governour Wentworth says his Majesty has to a great part of this his province the allowance ef his Subjects of the Massachusetts Bay, We apprelend that no…

34y We think that Governour Wentworth has Been greatly misinformed as to the Manor of Renselaerswyck, By his suggesting that it is claimed By one person, whereas great numbers of persons are owners of lands within it and the whole city of Albany Situated within the Boundaries of it. 554 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE Again. We know of no such Extent of Land within this province that has so much…

4thly Governour Wentworth is pleased to express- himself thus, " presuming it will Be his Majesty's pleasure that a North and South line should divide both the Massachusetts and New Hampshire from the Government of New-York" On which we Observe that had Governour Wentworth been Informed, as We Believe the Truth is, that a North and South Line from the Northwest Corner of Connecticut Colony w…

"I haye " extended the Western Boundary of New Hampshire as far West "as the Massachusetts Bay have done theirs, that is within "Twenty miles of Hudson's River" On which we Beg Leave to observe that his having done so, after Being informed of the Boundarys of this province by the Minute of Counecill of the 34 of April 1750 before mentioned, and by the Minute of June 5th 1750 that the Massac…

Viz. of March 12 1663|4 and June 29t" 1674 Both which do grant to him in ffee, " All that Island or Islands Commonly called '"' by the several name or names of Matowacks or Long Island, Situate and being towards the West. of Cape Codd, and the " Narrow Higgansettes abutting upon the Main Land Between "the Two rivers there called or known By the several names of " Connecticut and Hudson's Riv…

Upon the whole Sir, We humbly Conceive it is highly necessary that this Representation and Copies of the necessary Papers referred to therein should be laid before the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations that their Lordships may be informed of the objections which we conceive may with good Reason be made to the Line Gouvernour Wentworth points out to be fixed as the Division Line betw…

And heress the Fortress now erecting at Crown Point, is in great forwardness, and His Excellency Major General Amherst hath assured me, that he is determined it shall be so far finished before the Troops go into Winter Quarters, as to answer the Purpose of covering and protecting the Country: and as an Encouragement to Settlers, he has desired I would make known, that those who with the leave…

And as an inducement to such as shall be inclined to settle on any or either of the three Spotts of Ground above described: I do hereby promise his Majesty's Grant thereof to any Persons who shall apply for the same, on condition of immediate settlement thereof in the form of a Township, with a sufficient quantity of Woodland adjoining for that purpose; and that I will use my Endeavours to ob…

the rest of the Persons with them were also (as was said) of that Colony, that these Persons declared that they came thither to Lay out Lands, and a man that appeared to be a principal person among them Declared that Crown point was in their Government, the reason of his speaking it was a Dispute about the value of New Hampshire money which he said ought to pass for as much there -as nearer h…

Wuereas King Charles the Second, by his several Letters Patent bearing Date the 12th Day of March, 1663-4, and the 29th June, 1674, did give and grant in Fee, unto his Brother, James Duke of York, certain Lands, of which the Province of New-York is a Part; containing, among other Tracts, " All that Island or Islands, commonly called by the several Name or Names of Matowacks, or Long-Island, …

And whereas the Government of JVew-Hampshire, by the Letters Patent of his late Majesty, given at Whitehall, the third Day of July, 1741, is described in the Words following ; " Our Province of Mew-Hampshire, within Our Dominions of JWVew- England in America, bounded on the South Side by a similar Curve Line, pursuing the Course of Merrimac River, at three Miles Distance on the North Side th…

And whereas it manifestly appears by the several Grants or Letters Patent above recited, that the Province of New-York is bounded to the Eastward by the River Connecticut: That the Province of New-Hampshire, being expressly limited in its Extent Westward and WNorthward by His Majesty's other Governments, is confined to the same River as to its Western Boundary ; and that the said Government …

To prevent therefore the Incautious from becoming Purchasers of the Lands so granted ; to assert the Rights, and fully to maintain the Jurisdiction of the Government of this His Majesty's Province of Wew-York; I have thought fit, with the Advice of His Majesty's Council, to issue this Proclamation, hereby commanding and requiring all Judges, Justices, and other Civil Officers within the same,…

GIVEN under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Fort-George, in the City of New-York, the Twenty-eighth Day of December, 1763, in the Fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. By his Honour's Command, CapwALLApER CoLpEn. Gw. Banyar, Dep. Secry. Gop save THE Kine. % LT. GOV.…

In April 1750 Governor Clinton communicated to the Council a Letter of the 17m Novr from Mt Wentworth Governor of New Hampshire, representing that he had it in Command from his Majesty to make Grants of the unimproved Lands in New Hampshire, and Desiring Information how far North of Albany this Province extended, and how many miles to the Eastward of Hudson's River, to the Northward of the M…

M Wentworth in his Answer of the 25th April, says that he had Communicated to his Majesty's Council of that Government, the above opinion of the Council of the Province, which he ° declares would have been satisfactory had not the two Charter Governments of Connecticut and the Massachusetts Bay extended their Bounds many miles to the Westward of Connecticut River, and desired to be informed …

In July 1750, Mt Wentworth's Letter of the 224 June preceeding was laid before the Council, declaring that his Majesty's Council of that Province were unanimously of opinion not to commence a Dispute with this Government respecting the Extent of Western Boundary to New Hampshire, until his Majesty's pleasure should be further known, and accordingly the Council had advised that he should on the…

I find the Representation on the part of New York was not approved of by the Council until the 18 of October 1751, when it was entered on the Minutes together with a letter of mine on the same Subject, But before this period Mt Wentworth had in his letter to the Board of Trade of the 234 March 1750|1 suggested to their Lordships what he thought proper to urge on this Subject in behalf of his …

they lately Discovered that New Hampshire had since the Transactions above recited, granted upwards of Thirty, some affirm one hundred and Sixty Townships, Each six miles square, Westward of Connecticut River; a Fact which had probably been still concealed from the knowledge of this Government, had not the Grantees or persons employed by them Travelled thro' all parts of this, and in the Neigh…

The Limits of Connecticut were settled by the Agreement with this Province confirmed by the Crown and tho' the possession and claim of the Dutch, might have been offered as an argument to confine the Limits of that Colony to the River Connecticut, Yet as the Tract might thereby have been rendered too inconsiderable for the establishment of a Colony, and the People had so early extended their …

These facts were well known at the time, and therefore, in the Grant to the Council of Plymouth in 1620, of the lands within the 34 and 48 Degrees of North Latitude, on which the Claim of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut was originally founded, all Lands which were held or Possessed by any other Christian Prince or State are expressly saved and excepted. Hence it appears that the Grant to th…

I have not till lately seen an extract of a Report of the Commissioners appointed by the Crown in 1664 to visit the New England Governments, who declare they find " the Limits of Massachusits Bay to be Seconnet Brook on the South west, and Merimack River on the North East and two Right Lines drawn from each of those two places till they come within Twenty miles of Hudsons River," Nor an Extra…

I look therefore upon all the Rest as Empty Names and places possest forty years by former Grants, and of no consequence to your Royal Highness ; except all New England could be brought to submit to your Royal Highness's Patent." If any Settlement was then made by the Commissioners and the Massachusetts Bay, it appears not on Record, altho' that with Connecticut in the same year, is Register…

This Reasoning is Justified also, from the Consideration that the Crown did not by any act Ratify or approve the opinion of the Commissioners, or of Governor Nicholls who was one of them, but on the contrary, after the Dutch had in 1673 reconquered this Province, and by the Treaty of Breda in 1674 yielded it to England, made a second. ° Grant to the Duke of York in the Same Terms with the fi…

duals to a confirmation from the Crown of the Lands they actually possess, rendering to His Majesty the usual Quit Rent reserved in this Province, but cannot be offered as conclusive on the part of the Crown in respect to its Interests arising either from its Revenue of Quit Rents, which by computation at 2|6 p 100 acres would amount to near £1200 sterling p annum, or from Escheats ; neither …

Hudson's River being navigable by Vessels of considerable Burthen to Albany, the Trade of that part of the Country will probably center there, to which place the Transportation or Carriage will be much Easier than to the Ports of New Hampshire, and where the Inhabitants are likely to meet with a better market for their Produce. The Revenue to the Crown, if the lands are settled under this P…

As the settling the limits of Jurisdiction of the gov's of New York and New Hampshire absolutely depends on his Majesty's Pleasure, should his Majesty, on any Consideration extend the limits of New Hampshire Westward of Connecticut River, I humbly presume to hope the Right of Property and the Right of Jurisdiction will be saved to this Province in Respect to all Lands before granted by this …

The whole proceedings of the Governt of New Hampshire, in this'case, if what is told me be true, are shameful and a discredit to the King's authority, under which they act. Tho' it be not in my power to beauthentically informed, it is in your Lordsrps for it is evident from the low price shares are sold at, it is not for the benefit of persons who design to settle and improve. Your Lordprs by…

I endeavour to distribute His Majesty's Bounty in the manner most agreable to the officers, and so that the grants may pass with the greatest dispatch and least expence, as will appear by the minute of Council which I inclose. Since that time in a few days, near one hundred Commissioned and noncommissioned officers and privates have applied for Grants of Land, so that from this Province, all …

The only thing which can make any person prefer the grants of New Hampshire to those of this Governt is the difference of quit rent ; for as the Commerce of that Country must be carried on by Hudson's River, it must be more convenient for the Inhabitants to be under the jurisdiction of New York. The quit rent of New Hampshire, I am told, is at the rate of one shilling sterling for every hund…

The Officers and Men of the Provincials, all live in this Country, have their friends and Relations to assist them, and as the Colony Troops were levied annually, and received annual bounty, different Officers and Men were employed in different years ; their numbers will be very great, and the trouble to the Civil Officers of this Governt become very heavy ; for the charter and Proprietary G…

Wuerras His Honor Cadwallader Colden Esqt Lieutenant Governor and commander in chief of His Majestys Province of New York hath lately issued a Proclamation of a very extraordinary nature, Seting forth that King Charles the Second, on the 12th day of March 1663|4 and the 29th June 1674, did by his several Letters patent of those dates, grant in fee to his Brother the Duke of York among other T…

When New York Government extends her Eastern Boundary, to the Banks of Connecticut River between New York and the Colony of Connecticut, & to the Banks of said River, between New York & the province of the Massachusets Bay, it wou'd have been full early for New York to declare that the Government of New Hampshire was fully apprized of the Right of New York under the before recited Letters p…

The said proclamation, carrying an air of Government in if, may possibly affect & retard the Settlement of His Majesty's Lands granted by this Government, for preventing an Injury to the Crown of this kind, and to remove all doubts that may arise to persons holding the Kings Grants, they may be assured that the patent to the Duke of York is Obsolete, and cannot convey any certain Boundary to…

And I do hereby require and command all Civil Officers within this province, of what Quality soever, as well those that are not, as those that are Inhabitants on the said Lands to continue & be diligent in exercising Jurisdiction in their respective Offices, as far Westward as Grants of Land have been made by this Government, and to deal with any person, or persons, that may presume to interu…

The numerous Grants of Townships by New Hampshire on the West side of Connecticut River, in so short a time as since the last Peace, cannot be with any view, in the persons who have recd those grants, to settle and improve those lands, but with a sinistrous view in a few persons to put large sums of money in their pockets, by jobbing and selling of Rights thro' all the neighbouring colonies, …

I ain perswaded that upon your Lordpps mature consideration of this matter, it will evidently appear on the principles of Justice, policy and public utility, that the Jurisdiction of New York ought to extend to Connecticut River, as the Duke of York's Patent does. The Commerce of the whole Country on the West side of Connecticut River is by Hudson's River, and the produce of the Northern par…

People of all sorts who intrude on His Majtys Rights in America are very assiduous in prosecuting every measure that serves for their purpose, the case of the King's rights in this Provee is left to [the] Govt alone without a single farthing to defray any expence that may become necessary for that purpose ; for this reason the Gov" has no method but by applying to your Lordpps The multiplicit…

These things I flatter myself will excuse these repeated solicitations on this subject from » My Lords, ete. CADWALLADER CoLDEN. ORDER IN COUNCIL FIXING THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN NEW YORK AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. ( L.S. ) At the Court at St James the 20th Day of July 1764. PRESENT. The Kings most Excellent Majesty. Lord Steward Ear] of Hilsborough Earl of Sandwich Mr' Vice Chamberlain Earl of Halifax …

His Majesty taking the same into consideration was pleased with the advice of his privy Council to approve of what is therein proposed, and doth accordingly hereby Order and Declare the Western Banks of the River Connecticut, from where it enters the Province of the Massachusets Bay, as far North as the forty fifth Degree of Northern Latitude, to be the Boundary Line between the said two Pro…

Last Fryday morning an Express arrived from Hoseck, acquainting that the New Hampshire people had turned Hans Jurry Creiger, an Inhabitant under the Proprietors of Hoseck Patent, out of Possession of his Lands and Tenements; drove off his Cattle and took off with them a Parcel of Indian Corn, and for the Redemption of his Cattle compelled him to pay forty five Dollars; And the said Express f…

And inorder the more effectually to enable me so to do, I thought it proper to take with me two of the Justices and a few other good People of this Province, and I arrived with them at Hoseck at the Houses of the said Peter & Bastiane on Saturday Morning. where I was told the New Hampshire People would not come untill the Monday following. Accordingly that day very early in the morning they s…

The two last, pretended owners of the Lands of the said Peter & Bastiane. All whom I brought down to the Jail in Albany; where I shall Safely keep them untill Bail be given for their appearance & good Behaviour; or untill your Honours further Pleasure shall be known respecting them. Iam, May it please your Honour Your Honours most Obet & most Hble Servant Har: Scuvyter, Shireff. (Endorsed…

His Honour communicated a Letter to him of the 17» ultimo from Governor Wentworth (of New Hampshire) representing that several of the Inhabitants of the Town of Pownall, at a Time when the Deputy Sheriff was executing a legal Precept, were set upon by the Sheriff Albany, and more than thirty armed men on Horseback, and that the Deputy Sheriff with three other Principal Inhabitants, were seiz…

The Council advised his Honor to acquaint Governor Wentworth with the circumstances of this Affair as reported to him by Letter from the Sheriff of Albany ;'and that as the Parties were committed for an offence within the undoubted Jurisdiction of this Province, for which they are to answer in a legal course of Justice, he can do nothing further therein, than to recommend that the Bail demand…

that the dispossessing of such Persons might be ruinous to themselves and their Families, is of Opinion, and it is accordingly ordered by his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, with the Advice of the Council, that the Surveyor General do not, until further Order make Return on any Warrant of Survey, already, or which may hereafter come to his Hands, of any Lands so actually possessed under such…

some of us that it is necessary for the better administration of Justice as for the Convenience and encouragement of the Settlers that the Northern part of this province should be Divided into Several Counties your Petitioners therefore Humbly beg leave to propose five Counties, To wit, Two Counties on Connecticut River, and three Counties on the West side of the Hight of the Mountains, That…

The fourth County running thence Northerly along the said line so far as that a Due West line from thence will strick the waters of the North end of Lake George and to continue as far Westerly as your Honour shall think proper And for the fifth County from thence running North to Latitude forty five, from thence Easterly along said line of latitude untill it stricks the Western line of the S…

And That the fifth County may be calfed Pitt and that the County Town thereof be situate on Hospital Point on the East side of Lake Champlain near Crown point. 580 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE Your Petitioners therefore in behalf of themselves and their, associates Humbly pray your Honour will be favourably pleased to take the above proposal into your wise consideration and that the same may b…

The Subscribers your Honors' Petitioners Humbly shew That whereas there has been a Petition preferd to your Honors desiring that the Northern part of the Province of New York may be set off and divided into five separate Counties, and as it has been represented to your Petitioners that your Honors Judge that it is unnecessary that there should be so many Counties at Present in that part of t…

Your Petitioners Humbly pray that if it be agreeable to your Honors that there may be a County Erected within that part of the Province of New York aforesaid which lies adjoining to Connecticut River and to Extend as far West from said River. til it comes to the Height of Land about twenty six miles West of said River and to Extend as far North as ye 45th degree of North Latitude and to Exte…

Read and referred to the same Comme. to whom the former Petition on the same Subject is referred. PETITION ON THE SAME SUBJECT. To The Honourable Cadwallader Colden Esq? Lieutenant Goyernour and Commander in Chieff, in and over His Majestys, Province of New York & And to the Hone His Majesty's Council] now Convened. May it please your Henours, , We the Subscribers for our Selves and the Res…

It is Now near Six months since to our knowledge, we became inhabitants of this Province, and have been ever since without Law, Notwithstanding we have made application to be protected, but as yet are not answered, Should we be annexed to the County of Albany, as proposed by some, we shall still lye under such a Disadvantage that Justice Cannot be had, and to appoint Justices in some few of …

We would further Suggest to your Honours, that unless there be a County made as prayed for, instead of good wholesome Inhabitants comeing and Settling amongst us, the Land will be filled with Nothing, but Villins and Murderers, as being an out Law'd place, and the present Good Inhabitants must be obliged to forsake their Habitations & Improvements, we can assure your Honour, that many good w…

In obedience to your Honours orders in Council referring to this Committee, three several Petitions, exhibited by Thomas Chandler and others, in behalf of themselves and their associates, Inhabitants of the Northeastern part of this Province, praying that for the better administration of Justice, and the greater Convenience and Encouragement of the Setlers there, One or more Counties may be e…

ment of proper and fit persons as Justices for the Conservation of the Peace: the Mode of Justice to which they have been accustomed, having had no other Jurisdiction among them since their first Settlement and being always obliged to travel to Portsmouth; where all the Courts of Justice in the Province of New Hampshire are held, a distance far more Considerable, than to the Courts in Albany.…

eee Se To His Excellency Sir Henry Moore Baronet Capt General Governor and Commander in Chief in and Over the Province of New York and Territories Depending thereon in America. Tn Council According to your Excellency and Honours orders of yesterday to give an accot of the Names of the severall persons Living on the Severall Townships of Land we Represent and according to what we can recolle…

Safford, Samuel Montague, John Burnum, John "Burnum Jun", Stephen Storey, John Wood, Oliver Scott, Labens Armstrong, Barnebas Harmon, Jonathan Eastman, Thomas Henderson, Thomas Smith Eben: Harwood, Peter Harwood, Thos' Storey, Timothy Prat:. Jacob Hide, Sam! Tubbs, Benajah Rood, John Smith Junt, Henr Walbridge, Samuel Attwood, Johnson Cleaveland, Sam!! Pratt, Joseph Weakwize, Cornelius Cady,…

Jehiel Hawley, Ebenezer Wallis, Isaac, Wallis, Ebenezer Wallis Junt Wallis, David Williams, John Sear], Sam! Adams, Zacheus Malary, Gideon Sear], Pindle, Hail, Moses Peck, John Pray, Ames, W™ Searl, Remembrance Baker, Doct" Burton, and many more persons whose Names we cannot Recollect, 586 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE In Sunderland, Lievt Gideon Worrin, Isaac Hill, Gideon Brunson, Timothy Brun…

May it please your Excellency According to your Directions on Saturday Last, I have with the assistance of Mr Stone, Computed the Number of Men fit to bear armes in the Limits of A Proposed Regiment, to be under my Command, and find the same to be about six Hundred, that we account for. And in the Limits of the Proposa Regiment for Cole Bayley, about Three hundred. from your Excellency's m…

De Lancey. he Board having under Consideration, sundry Petitions for Lands; lying on the West Side of Connecticut River, which were formerly granted by Letters Patent under the Seal of the Province of New Hampshire, but were then: actually, and do now by his Majesty's Order in Council of the 20 day of July 1764 appear to be within the Limits of this Province: It is ordered by his Excellency …

588° CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE A Nomination of the Crviz Avuruority for the County of Cumberland in the Province of New York. Surrogate Thomas Chandler studges of the Pleas. & Justices Joseph Lord _ of the Quorum in ye Commis- Samuel Wells ( sion of y® Peace Nathan Stone Oliver Willard )assisan Justices in the Commis- John Arms sion of the Pleas and Justices James Rogers of ye Quorum in …

The Couneil having under their Consideration the Petitions of sundry Persons for certain Tracts of Land on the West side of Connecticut River, which have heretofore been granted in Townships by the Government of New Iampshire under the Great Seal of that Province ; and conceiving it' improper to proceed on 'such Petitions until one or more of the principal Proprietors in each Township, duly …

Two Petitions having been most humbly presented to the King in council, One by the uncorporated Society for the propagation of the Gospel, and the other by Samuel Robinson of Bennington, in behalf of himself, and more than one theusand other grantees of Lands on the West side of Connecticut River, under certain Grants issued by Benning Wentworth Esq't® Governour of New Hampshire & praying fo…

Ini my letter of the 11" Dect I was very Explicit upon the point of former Grants you are therein directed to "take care " that the Inhabitants lying Westward of the Line, reported by "the Lords of Trade as the Boundary of the Two Provinces be "not molested on account of Territorial differences, or disputed " jurisdiction for whatever Province the Setlers may be found to " belong to, itskoul…

The unreasonableness of obliging a very large Tract of Country to pay a Second Time the immense sum of thirty three thousand pounds in Fees according to the allegations of this Petition for no other reason than its being found necessary to settle the Line of Boundary between the Colonies in question is So unjustifiable thdt his Majesty is not only determined to have the strictest Enquiry mad…

As Iam persuaded that when the truth is laid open it will fully appear that I have neither perverted the Power lodged in my hands, nor acted in any manner derogatory to my station, and that so far from deserving the least imputation of oppression, I have made disinterestedness the characteristic of my administration as I thought it Incumbent on me to support in every shape the dignity of th…

On Wednesday the 22¢ day of May 1765 the Council having taken into their consideration the case of the persons who are actually settled under the Grants of New Hampshire, and being of opinion that the dispossessing them of their Lands, would be ruinous to them and their Families gave it as their opinion to the Lieut Gov" that the Surveyor general be directed not to make any return till furth…

On my arrival here which was on the 12 day of November 1765, I found the Province in so much Disorder occasion'd by the frequent Riots which prevail'd at that Time, that no business of any kind was transacted, all the offices were shutt up and of course no application for Lands made, for I was determined not to issue any papers except such as were stamped and the people here refused to take th…

No sooner was the Stamp act repealed and the offices opened again, but Petitions were preferred by many of the Inhabitants here for grants of Lands on the Connecticut River, but as I apprehended it would be highly improper to issue any till the Rights of those persons were ascertained who set up claims under New Hampshire Charters, an order was published by the advice of the Council requirin…

This had the desired effect, 'and altho' it was not strictly complyed with as to the Time limited, no advantage was taken of such Delay, and in a few months, Petitions Memorials &«« were lodged by Persons sent up from thence setting up claims to ninety six Townships; of this Number no less than twenty one were deemed to be in this Government before his Matys order in Council for fixing the Li…

Proceedings have been had on 24 of the remaining number so far as Warrants of survey in pursuance of the orders in Council for that purpose, but although by His Majestys Instructions the Warrants of survey are directed to be returned within six months after they are issued some of these have been issued above Eighteen months and no return yet made. Four Townships have gone through all the Fo…

J have taken as much pains as I possibly could to come at the true State of those Townships, but cannot discover by any means, I have as yet made use of, that any Settlements have ever been made in the country supposed to be covered by these last mentioned claims but that the Land still remains in the same desert and uncultivated state in which it was at the first granting of those Charters.…

As soon ag the Riots and disturbances here had subsided, and the common business of the Province had returned into the usual Channell, I took the first Opportunity of enquiring into the state of that Part of the Province which lay on the Connecticut River and having got together some of the principal Claimants of the Lands, I desired to be informed of the Progress already made in the settlement…

NEW HAMPSHIRE' GRANTS. 595 they themselves for these reasons alone declined it. I afterwards issued out Commissions for forming a Militia in those parts, and in some months afterwards a return was made to me of the Regiment formed there, which amounted to upwards of 600 men. I could not help expressing much satisfaction at seeing so large a Return, and expected to find that the number of fami…

The same steps could not be taken for the service of that part of the Country to the North of the County of Cumberland, for although the District was large enough to form a County of the same extent, very few Improvements had been made in any of the Hownshipe except in that of Newberry, the Inhabitants of which were desirous of having another County formed as they imagined it would be the me…

distance from the North Line of the County of Cumberland, and on a spot neither granted by New Hampshire nor claimed by any persons whatsoever. I then made public my Intentions of giving the Land in certain proportions to the Families inclined to settle thereon, and that no rents or profits should be reserved for myself, but that the whole of them should remain with the proprietors on conditi…

But as the giving of Lands alone to these people was not sufficient without other assistance I have at their request ordered a Saw Mill and Grist mill to be built for their use, and as their is no building in that part of the Country yet appropriate for divine Worship, I have directed a Church to be built at my sole expence in the Centre of the Township, and shall set apart a large Farm as a …

This was our Situation when J had the honor of receiving your Lordships Letter signifying His Majesty's Commands that no more Grants should be made in that part of the Province, till His Pleasure should be made known, and although I apprehend that the Lands claimed under the New Hampshire charters were the only Lands intended to be included in this injunction, yet as I would not presume to p…

No advantage could possibly arise to me but by keeping the Lands in my own hands the profits of whicheven in this case would be distant and precarious, The Expence immediate & certain ; By granting them in the manner already mentioned I flatter myself that I shall have the satisfaction of setting on foot manufactures highly beneficial both to this Province and Great Britain and my utmost amb…

A few days before the Petitionrs left this Place I had some imperfect information of their Intention & endeavoured to get a sight of the Petition and the Names subscribed to it but could not succeed:in either as it was kept so very secret I thought it my duty togive what information I could of some Persons concerned in it to. the Lords Commrs for Trade and Plantations and wrote a Letter to t…

Colden desiring him to give me the best Informations he could on those Heads, I have herewith transmitted his letter, together with the Copy of the Proclamation he issued, and likewise the Extract of a Letter James Duane Hsqr¢ a Barrister at Law here, and a man of so good a Character that his Testimony carries the greatest weight With it, who being acquainted with some of the Proceedings of …

I never had any other application from him of any kind but as an humble Suitor to desire I would assist him in the distress which he had brought on himself by settling on the Lands which were ordered to be granted some. time before under this Govern™t to other People; when his pretensions were examined before the Council I was his Advocate there, altho' he did not stand much in need of one fo…

For this they appeared very thankful and when I thought they were retiring, Cole requested that the Council would add one good Deed to another and let them have these Lands without paying any Fees of office I took upon me to assure them both in the presence of the Board, that their request should be granted and their Patents made out to them without paying any Fees; This seemed to have such …

I have signed but six Patent since I came into the Province for which I have received Fees and five are now preparing on which I have the same Rights, but have promised to give them up for the reasons I have just mentioned; I do not speak of this from ostentation, for I think that no Parade should be made of acts of this kind, as the satisfaction they give is a sufficient reward in itself a…

The assertion in the ninth Paragraph, that there are now upwards of one Thousand Families settled on the West side of Connecticut River in consequence of the said Grants is as great.an untruth as any set forth in the whole Petition; There is not the half of that number there, nor do I really believe the quarter part ; I have already shewed in what manner the settlements there are. carrying on…

matter of doubt as to. great numbers of them, whether they ever had any intentions of residing there or not ; Two persons agents for some others who came to Town yesterday to solicit a Grant of two Townships under the New Hampshire charters, (whose claims have been laid above a Twelve month but were never proceeded on) have confirmed what I now write in regard to the number of Families, and …

I can give no opinion or account of their being engaged in the actual service of His Majesty in the late War, which they sett forth being a stranger to it, but Robinson can plead but little merit, from his service, which J am told here was nothing more than that of driving an Ox cart for the Suttlers, and I think it must be obvious to every one that very few Levies could be made at that time…

How far any credit is to be given to this assertion will be left to your Lordship to determine after itis made to appear how much has been the real original expence of these Charters, for as to the Improvement of the Lands as the greatest part of those now Petition4 for are still uncultivated, certainly no claims can be made for money laid out on them. From the best informations I have been a…

been from Twenty to forty Pounds New York Currency for each Township so that at an average, Thirty Pounds (about 17! sterling) may be deemed the real expence of a Township which was to include a Tract of Ground six Miles square, but very often took in a great deal more; it is very obvious that on this Plan,-the Expences of a Township being divided among sixty or seventy persons (according to…

Mr Wentworths Fees were secured to him by his reserving for himself a Farm of Five hundred acres in each Township, and the spot where it was to be taken up was in all the charters marked with the Initial Lres of his name. Besides this, other Reservations were made of particular Lots under the Names of some members of the Council and public officers, which in some of the Townships amounted to …

This Request was occasioned by the apprehensions they were under at that time, that these Shares would still be reserved, and appropriated to the use of the Governor and Council here, but we soon relieved them from any uneasiness on that head by declaring all those shares on which no Improvements had been made to be revested in the Crown and the greatest part of them have since been granted t…

I can make no doubt but at present it sufficiently appears that there was as little Foundation for asserting so barefaced a Falsehood as that of having pay4 so large a sum for their Charters as there was for saying that I had made any demands on them. If there had been real claimants of the ninety six Townships and they had joined together in this Petition, the whole of their expence would …

The merits of 28 have been already-examined before the Council and am assured are not concerned in this Petition, four of which have passed the Great Seal, three more are ready but were stopped on this occasion and the rest are surveying and laying out as fast as the Surveyor Gen! can find proper men to execute his orders so that it should seem as if the only persons who had. not complyed w…

The Complaint in the 10 Paragraph of the distance from the Capital has been already Answered by what has been related of the new County of Cumberland, which was erected on purpose to serve that part of the Country, but even in such a trifling circumstance as this they have not confined themselves to Truth, for it will appear on inspecting the Map, that they have exaggerated the distance at le…

As for my Part I have been taught to treat with so much. respect, those whom His Majesty is pleased to honor with his Confidence, that Tam persuaded they will do that which is best for his Service and the good of his People, without standing in need of such able Councellors as either M*. Robinson or myself. I have: the honor to be with the greatest respect My Lord Your Lordship's most Obed…

That a man of so notorious a Character as Robinson should deviate from Truth in any representation of Facts, is no kind of Surprize to those who know him here, but that so respectable a Society as that for propagating the Gospel should present a Petition supposed to be grounded on Facts which are not true in themselves has astonished every one here who has been informed of it. By some simila…

How far the settlements have been carried on has been already shewed, and I shall leave it to your Ldp. to judge of their intentions in regard to the remainder when I take upon me to assert that notwithstanding the appropriation of these Shares for public uses and Expressly so described in the Body of the Charters, The Petitioners had so little design to serve any body but themselves that the…

I have already had the honor of acquainting your Lordship that there have been proceedings only on 28 of these Townships ; In 24 of them the Rights of the Society and all the grants in the first Charters for public uses have been expressly reserved for the uses therein mentioned. No failure has been made but in the four first Grants which passed the Council, and as I am informed that the Chart…

The only way this assertion can be answ? is by. denying it flatly, and I am extremely sorry to be under the necessity of declaring to your Lordship that there is not a word of truth in it; When the first Petitioners for these public Shares could not obtain them for their own uses, as I have already mentioned they desired that the Society might be Charged with a Share of the Expenses which wo…

I am sorry to say that our suspicions of these names on the back of the Charters were but too well founded and it has since appeared that some of the Charters which have made their appearance in great Form and under: the claims of sixty or seventy proprietors have been found in reality to belong to no more than six or seven Persons, which will be a great Detriment to the settling of that par…

I have enquired of D* Auchmuty the Rector of Trinity Church here (who is I am informed the principal correspondent of the Society in this Province) from whence this extraordinary information could be sent, but he tells me that he is entirely ignorant of it, and as I have the greatest reason to imagine that the Society have not founded their petition on better authority than what they have rec…

I have the honor to be with the greatest respect, My Lord, Your Lordships most most obedient and humble servant, Rt Hon>le Earl of Shelburne H. Moore. *,* In Counc. Min. xxv. There is an entry substantially of the same purport as the above, dated 10 June 1767; & in vol. xxix , 250 will be found a Royal order dated 26 June 1767, disallowing an act passed by the New York Legislature in 1766 er…

" Your Majesty having been pleased to refer unto this Com- "mittee the humble Petition of the Incorporated Society for "the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Setting "forth among other things, that Benning Wentworth Esquire "¢ Governor of New Hampshire in New England, made several "Grants of Large Tracts of Land lying on the West side of " Connecticut River, which were incorporated…

* Samuel Robinson of Bennington in North America on behalf of "himself and more than one thousand other Grantees of Lands "on the West side of Connecticut River, under Certain Grants "issued by the said Governor of New Hampshire Setting forth " amongst other things, that the said Governor made Grants to 'the Petitioners of several Tracts of Land lying as aforesaid on '" the Western side of t…

The Lords of the Committee in obedience to "your Majesty's said Order of Reference, have taken the said "Petitions into their Consideration, together with' a Report "made by the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations "upon the former of the said Petitions, and do thereupon agree "humbly to report as their opinion to your Majesty, that "the most Positive ordets should be immediately se…

On Reading and due Consideration Whereof, [20th October 1769] his Honour the Lieutenant Governor was pleased to require the opinion of the Couneil, whether his Majesty's said order extended to restrain the Granting of any Lands formerly claimed by New Hampshire, but which have not been granted by that Government: the Council thereupon"declared they were of opinion his Majestys said order prohi…

concerning the Lands on the 'Connecticut River, with much greater reason should I do it now in offering any thing more on the same subject. The inclosed petitions were preparing at the time the last Pacquet sailed, and notwithstanding I have informed the persons concerned in it, of what your Lord? was pleased to mention in your letter by ¢his last, Packquet concerning those lands, they still…

Hampshire, or included in the above mentioned Petition; as some Townships were sup- 'posed to be laid out on the west side of Lake Champlain (altho' there was no other foundation for such a supposition than a Map printed in the Province of Connecticut), I observed the same rule in regard to that part of the Country, notwithstanding there was not the least appearance upon Earth of a survey -…

the possession of officers and soldiers, not being charged with any quit Rent for the first ten years, remain still in the same _ uncultivated state, as when they [were] first granted, and of course will be always an obstruction to the making of Roads on the side of the Lake till some settlers can be fixed there. Our .precarious communication with the province of Quebec at certain seasons of…

My intention was to have taken a view of the whole stream from Newberry to the Massachusetts line, and to have made an attempt to render those falls and rapids (if possible) less dangerous and inconvenient for the floating of Timber down, for, I have been informed, that several Masts have been so far shattered either by the mismanagement of the Conductors or by choosing improper seasons for s…

Whereas it has been expected, that the Lands to the Westward of Connecticut River, which were granted by Benning Wentworth Esquire late Governor of New Hampshire, (in which the Society for propagating the Gospel &¢2 have considerable Interest) would be erected into a new Government and considerable Interest has been made in Favour of Partridge Thatcher Esq the Bearer hereof, that he might be m…

Misstonarigasite Exsenezer Digester Ricuarp MANSsFIELE the. honorable So- Josep Lamson Curistopuer Newton ciety for the Pro- Esenezer Kyeeuanp James Scovit pagation of the Ricarp CLARKE SAMUEL ANDREWS Gospel in foreign Beta Hupparp Parts. Joun TyLer ) Sotomon Patmer. To His Excellency. Sir William Johnson Bart % NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 615 PROCLAMATION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF NEW-YORK, FOR SE…

Whereas, in Pursuance of an Act of the Legislature of this Province, entitled, "An Act for the more effectual collecting his Majesty's Quit-Rents in the Colony of New York, and for Partition of Lands in order thereto," Commissioners and a Surveyor were lately appointed to make Partition of certain Lots, Parcel of a larger Tract of Land, situate on the East Side of Hudson's River, in the Count…

616 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE broken the King's Peace, and set a dangerous Example to others, ° but have defeated the Operation of the said Act, in the Division of the Land aforesaid : And it appearing by sufficient Evidence, that James Brackenridge, Jedediah Due, Samuel Robinson, Nathaniel Horner, Henry Walbridge, and Moses Robinson, all of the said County of Albany, Yeomen, were among the…

Council to issue this Proclamation, hereby strictly commanding and requiring the Sheriff of the City and County of Albany, to apprehend and take all, and every the before-named Rioters and Offenders, and them to commit to safe and secure Custody to answer for their several Offences, and to be dealt with according to Law : And for that Purpose if it shall be necessary, to raise and take to his…

Leut James Breakenridge went with his hired men To his Field and Some others to'gathering corn and Some more People asembled a few of whitch had guns: & John Munro Esq Come their & in a friendly manner told him the S4 Breakinridge the Gentlemen from Albany were acoming to Run a Line their and Told him not to Stop them By Force if he Did he would Expose him Selth to the Law and Read the Law …

Lansing Saith Robinson I am glad to see you But what means so many People together and some with arms our People Being in Sight about Sixty Rods off we told them we could not tell we had no connection with their Being together and had Desired them to withDraw out of the field : and hoped they would not take any advantage : for our People Did Not understand Law Mr Lansing Seith we were afraid…

in a friendly manner To see By what authority they Run in our Possession and claim : they say they will not Take any advantage against us upon their words and say if we will go with them to Mr Perces where their things was they would show us; accordingly we went, they shew us an act of the Assembly to Divide their Great Pattens so that his Majesty might have his Quit-rent : and an act of the …

Distance they called us Back and ask us if our People Intended to stop them they would Be glad they would do it, then to which we answered we Did Not think they would stop them But Did Not No: for we Did Not intend to Break any Law or Expose our selves : they say we had Beter stop them if we intended to we Returned the answer as Before we would not : unless they would Tell us what way we co…

done and advise by no means to stop them to whitch they agreed if we would Take Two-or three as Evidences and desire them Not to Run only as Disputed Lands then went Back and met them in the field and Returned the answer as above they Told us then Break our chain or compass or Tread on our Chain to whitch we answered we should not Tread on their chain Nor Break it or compass Nor Meddle with …

His Majestys order in Council of the 24th July 1767 restrains me from granting the letters Patent prayed for by the inclosed Petition. Iam well assured that the facts are as set forth by: the Petitioners, and whatever equitable claim those persons may have who took grants of Lands from the Governt of New Hampshire, lying Eastward of any lands granted by this Province certainly cannot extend t…

I find, My Lord, that the Settlement and Cultivation of the Country lying West of Connecticut River, which was formerly granted by the Governt of New Hampshire is entirely retarded by the Controversies which have arisen between those Proprietors and this Government. When I formerly held the Administration, I had resolved on measures respecting these Lands which I was then assured would give en…

This was so agreable to the people that the Proprictors of several Townships immediately proceeded to take the necessary steps, for obtaining the new Grants, but I was prevented from puting the Seal to any of them by the arrival of Sir Henry Moore. He afterwards took his full NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 621 fees for one of those Grants which had been very near ready for the Seals before he came; …

That it will immediately produce the settlement of that large and valuable Tract of Country, and greatly increase His Majestys Revenue. The difficulties which have obstructed the grants of those lands for some years past being removed, will most effectually promote the grant of that Tract of Land, designed as I am informed for the Society for propagating the Gospel, and of other Tracts which…

It is hence unnecessary to add any further Instance of prejudices excited against these Laws, as injuring the property of Landholders in general--or of " Spightful" -prosecutions--Those Calumnies, the first will be despised when duly considered, the second, my conduct does and shall refute: but attempting to mislead an Officer, countenancing open, daring Trespassers, & aiding, in throwing th…

Supported by Abilities that are an honor toa Court, and the highest Blessing to a Country. Toward the just and effectual prosecution of these Trespassers, it is my Duty herewith to transmit to your Honour & the Council, a Memorial praying that the Lands, where the Trespass was committed (being then the property of the Delinquents) may be escheated to the King; according to the Express Tenor o…

I very sincerely join with you in regretting the unhappy state of that District under your Government as communicated to me, in your Letter of the 20 December; and will with the greatest pleasure & most immediate readiness exert every Influence of mine, that can possibly avail the King's service, or tend to promote a peaceable and wise subordination to the Laws among any of his subjects--I sh…

Permit me, therefore to assure you, that I shall chearfully embrace & zealously pursue every measure for the King's service and that I cannot be more obliged than in your suggesting to me, expressly; any efficient aid that may be in my power therein--I have the Honor to be very respectfully Sir your most humble Servt -- J. WENTWORTH. 624 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE P: S: Since the foregoing …

That your Memorialist being by His Majestys Commission Surveyor General of His Majesty's Woods in all and singular His Majesty's Colonies & Plantations in North America; did in virtue of, and obedience to his said Commission,» discover William Deane, Will™ Deane junt & Willard Deane Husbandmen all of - Windsor in the County of Cumberland in the Province of New York trespassing against His Ma…

lard Deane, to have been guilty of cutting White pine Trees as aforesaid; and to have incurred the penaltys of the Statute in that case made and provided--as by the Decree of said Court may at large appear but the Execution for said Penaltys being directed only against the Goods & Chattels of the aforesaid Trespassers, which it appears were alienated (while the suit was yet pending) to Samuel…

Wherefore your Memorialist (being also informed that the said Lands have not been granted under the public seal of the Province of New York) prays that it may be declared they are forfeited, and such public Reservation of the Premises made as may to your Honors seem meet--whereby Your Memorialist apprehends, that. the Statute for preserving White pine Timber to His Majesty will be in some de…

Beysamin Wuitine Esq! of Newbury in the County of Albany and Collony of New York of full age Testifies and says that on the twenty eighth day of August 1769 he Received several Writs which had been Granted by the Honble Richard Maurice Esq? Judge of the Court of Vice Admiralty for the Province of New York, against several persons for Committing Trespasses in the King's Woods (by destroying W…

Provost Marshall of the said Court of Vice Admiralty for said Collony and on the 29th day of said August the said Whiting proceeded to Windsor in the said County and by virtue of two of the above mentioned Writs which he had against Williard Dean and William Dean Junt he apprehended their bodies and the day following Cammitted them to the care and keeping of Benjamin Wait and James Rosebroo…

The said Wells then asked the depont which way he propos'd to go with his prisoners to New York, the depot said he did not know, but that he should go thro' the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, the said Wells said he did not think the deponent had power to hold them in that province the depot said he did not know which way he should go, but determined before he set out to ask advice, The s…

The deponent then proceeded to Hinsdale with said prisoners Where he found John Groutan Attorney at Law in the County aforesaid advising with the before mentioned Deans; said Grout desired to know of the deponent which way he determined to Travell with the said Deans to New York, said Grout said he thought it best to go Thro' the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, Where provision was made by…

lard and William the said prisoners were and after said Wells having Opportunity to advise with said Willard and William, said Wells came and asked the deponent which way he had determined to go to New York, the Deponent told said Wells that he had determined to go across the mountains and Woods to Albany, the said Wells then said the deponent had better go thro' the Massachusetts, that he I…

The Deponent then told said Wells that he thought it was the duty of a man in his Station to aid and assist an Officer in the. Execution of his Office and not Impede him. The same Day the Deponent proceeded to Marlborough with the said Willard and William and in the Night time, the small Log house where the Depot with his prisoners Lodged was beset with a large number of Riotous men from Brat…

Chief Justice of the Province of New York and being duly sworn on the holy Evangelists deposeth and saith that he is a* Resident in Windsor in the County of Cumberland in the Collony of New York that on the 29th day of August last past One Certain Willard Dean and one Certaine William Dean Jun™ were taken into Custody by Benjamin Whiting by virtue of process Issued out of the Court of Vice …

Directed the said Rosebrook and the deponent to meet him with the said prisoners at Hinsdale in the said County of Cumberland, and that the said Benjamin Whiting then went in pursuit of other persons against whom he had other processes. That the said Benjamin Whiting left a pistol:and some ammunition. with Each of them the said Rosebrook and the deponent for their defence in Case any Injury …

That on the next morning the second of September before the Deponent and the said Rosebrook with the said Prisoners did set off on their way from Westminister to Hinsdale the said John Grout told the said prisoners not to go with the deponent and the said Rosebrook unless they Carried them by force and told the Deponent that they would have a Right to buing their Action against him, That the…

That the said prisoners Consented to go and did go with the deponent and the said Rosebrook to Hinsdale where they again found the said Grout, and that the said Benjamin Whiting Came there that Evening with another person a prisoner, That the said Grout at Hinsdale Endeayoured to persuade the said Whiting to go with the said Prisoners Through part of the Massachusetts & Connecticut Governme…

That early the next day Samuel Wells Esq* one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for the said County of Cumberland Came to Hinsdale at the Instant the said Benjamin was Going across Connecticut River to one Jones a Lawyer to ask council That the said Wells took the said prisoners into the Orchard and had some conversation with them during which time the deponent stood before the doo…

That after the said Whiting Returned the said Wells asked the said Whiting in the deponents presence which way he Intended to go, that Whiting answered he believed he would go across the woods, upon Which the said Wells ask'd him what would make him go that way, and told him that he would never get across the Woods and had much better go down the River where he could go ina Canoe or have a …

and Either said arrest or attach him, That on Next day, which was the fifth day of September the said Whiting with the said Willard Dean and William Deane Jun™ in his Custody, and the deponent and the said Rosebrook in his company were met in Brattleburrough by the said Wells, that the said Wells in conversation asked the said Whiting whether he did not Intend to have gone down the River when…

That in the Night of the said fifth Day of September a Riotous Number of Men Came about a small log house. Where the said Whiting with his prisoners and the deponent. and the said Rosebrook Lodged, and broke into the Lower part of, the house and threatened to pull it down and Rescue the said prisoners with many Violent threats against the Life of the said Whiting, but that after so much outra…

Amos Ture of Hinsdale of full age Testifies and says that some time in the month of August or September Anno Domini 1769 The Deponent went to Brattleborough with Benjamin Whiting Esq: in order to assist said Whiting in taking one Ebenezer Fisher who said Whiting told the Deponent he had a Writ against for destroying the King's Timber and after said Whiting had arrested said Fisher and was ab…

further saith not. Amos Ture. Province of New Hampshire. December the Thirtieth day Anno Domini 1769. Amos Tute of Hinsdale in the County of Cumberland the Within deponent appeared personally before the Subscriber One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Province of New Hampshire being first Cautioned to Testify the whole Truth made Solemn Oath that the written Deposition by him s…

Setting forth, among other things, that there is avast and valuable Country between Connecticut River and Lake Champlain, and extending from the County of Cumberland on the South, to the Latitude of forty five Degrees North, capable of subsisting many Inhabitants, to the great Increase of the Strength and Prosperity of the Empire in general, and the Province of New York in particular. That t…

And that it is impossible to obtain Justice while they remain a part of the County of Albany as the Magistrate can have no Eye upon those distant Parts, nor can the Petitioners procure officers to come thither, or they in their present state go to them: That there are upwards of seven hundred souls to the Northward of the County of Cumberland, and that such is the Quality and situation of th…

On reading and due consideration whereof it is ordered by his Honour the Lieutenant Governor with the advice and consent of the Council that his Majesty's Attorney General of this Province do forthwith prepare and lay before his Honour the Lieutenant Governor in Council the Draft of an Ordinance Erecting into a separate County by the Name of Glocester, with such Powers as are necessary for t…

oo OFFICERS FOR "GLOCESTER COUNTY. List of Judges, Assistant Justices and Justices of the peace for the County of Gloucester appointed by Commission Dated March 1770. ; John Taplin ° Samuel Sleeper >} Judges. Thomas Sumner Abner Fowler Samuel Penox } Assistant Justices. Israel Smith, Thomas Chamberlain John Peters Justices of the peace. Jonathan Sumner 636 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE' …

As your Honor has been so very obliging as to desire Judge Sleeper to call upon us for our approbation, of the Gentlemen he has named to you, to be appointed Military Officers in Glocester County; a Township of which is granted by your Honor to the College in this City ; we beg leave therefore, to inform your Honor, that besides Judge Sleeper's recommendation, we have received a Letter from …

Humbly Sheweth That your Petitioner is advised and doth conceive that he hath Gcod Cause of Action against David Stone, Samuel Stone, NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 637 Elisha Hawley, Enoch Judd, Ebenezer Curtis, John Benjamin, Andrew Norton, Elnathon Strong, Joseph Thompson, David Getchel and Steel Smith, for their assaulting Detaining and Imprisoning your Petitioner at the several times and in the…

AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN GROUT. City of New York ss. Joun Grout of Chester in the County of Cumberland attorney at Law practising in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the said County came this day before me and made Oath That sometime in the month of May last past Daniel Whipple Esquire High Sheriff of the County of Cumberland came to this Deponents House and demanded his Assistance as one of …

ed to raise in order to Retake one Joseph Wait and others who had escaped out of his Custody being Rescued by a number of armed men, That the said Sheriff Insisting upon this Deponents attendance this Deponent accordingly accompanied the said Sheriff as one of the Posse which amounted to abont 15.or 16 Persons to the House of the said Joseph Wait and he not being at Home and being informed t…

ral fell upon the said Sheriff and his Posse which they soon overpowered, and forceably and Violently Seized this Deponent and others of the said Posse, and Carried them to the House of the said Joseph Wait where the Sheriff was informed by the said. Rioters that one at least of his said Posse so taken they would hold Prisoners until he the said Sheriff, this Deponent and some NEW HAMPSHIRE GR…

others should enter into Bond for Five hundred Pound according to the best of this Deponents Remembrance and Belief to be forfeited if the matters for which the said Sheriff was then attempting to take them were any further prosecuted, or if any of the Inhabitants of Windsor should be prosecuted at the then next General Sessions for any Crimes whatsoever, And further that the said Sheriff sho…

640 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE Charlestown aforesaid that by means of the abuses this Deponent Received as aforesaid the great fatigue he underwent & the Grief and anxiety of mind & fear he laboured under, this Deponent felt himself much indisposed and Intreated that his ill state of Health might excite Compassion, notwithstanding which the said Rioters often threatned this Deponent & could …

Charlestown aforesaid that by means of the abuses this Deponent Received as aforesaid the great fatigue he underwent & the Grief and anxiety of mind & fear he laboured under, this Deponent felt himself much indisposed and Intreated that his ill state of Health might excite Compassion, notwithstanding which the said Rioters often threatned this Deponent & could hardly be prevailed on to allow …

And further this Disponent saith, that from Chester to Charlestown the said Rioters were Commanded by Joseph Wait and from thence to Windsor by Nathan Stone. And further this Deponent saith not Joun Groor. Sworn before me this _ ninth day of August 1770 Dani HorsmManpen. NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. : 641 AFFIDAVIT OF SAMUEL WELLS. City of New York ss: Samvet Wexts of Brattleborough in the Cou…

Trying Causes, that there was no Justice to be obtained in the County by means of the Corruption of the Judges Justices and other Officers, that they were ruled intirely by John Grout Attorney at Law, that he was determined to oppose their Authority, while he had a Drop of Blood in his veins; That friendship to this Deponent Induced him to bear this Deponent Company until he had passed by mo…

To which the said Stone replied that he had formed no Resolution about the matter on a Sudden, that his Resolution to oppose Writts being executed had been fixed at least five or six months before, and that while he had life he would oppose the Sherif, and that the people of that Place (meaning Windsor) and some other places would joine and stand by him to the last drop of their blood, That …

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 643 appointed for the meeting of the said Court, the said Nathan Stone together with Joseph Wait, Benjamin Wait, Israel Curtis, Enoch Judd, Joseph King, Steel Smith and a number of others amounting to about thirty as this Deponent believes appeared at the place where the Court were to sit in a Riotous and Tumultious manner the said Nathan Stone being armed with a sword, …

Then Stone demanded of the Court what business they had to sit there as a Court and said that he made this Demand in behalf of the Publick, in this he was seconded by the said Joseph Wait and the said Israel Curtis, and were answered by some of the Judges that the Letters Patent or Ordinance erecting the County and the Commission of the Pleas which were always read at the opening of the Cour…

Court apprehended it not prudent that the said Rioters should be then put on Tryal, as the Court and Jury could not be without fear if they were convicted, nor safe to refuse them a Tryal at that time, and oblige them to enter into Recognizance to appear at the Next Term, least they should resent it by some immediate act of violence.' Therefore the Court informed them they might depart withou…

However if they had any thing to accuse him of they might apply to the Grand Jury and the Clerk of the Peace would assist in drawing any necessary Bill, or they might apply toa Higher Court, That Mt Grout if accused of any offence had a right to a Tryal, that the Court had not lawful authority to Comply with theig Request and forejudge M* Grout on a bare suggestion that he was a bad man supp…

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 645 Court Immediately adjourned to the next day, Soon after which tie said Stone and 'his Party seized the said John Grout in presence of some of the Judges of the said Court and forceably carried him away, and that the High Sherif of the said County at the same time made Proclamation for the said Rioters to disperse but to no effect. And further this Deponent saith not…

That these Papers respect certain Complaints against Samuel Wells Esq', one of the Judges of the inferiour Court of Common Pleas and one of the Justices in the Comunission for the Peace, in the New County of Cumberland; which is Part of that Territory formerly claimed by New Hampshire, but by his Majestys Order in privy Council of the 20th of July 1764, declared to belong to the Province ot …

Upon examining these Papers, we cannot see sufficient cause © to advise, either a Removal of M' Wells from the Places he holds, or any Prosecution against an Officer, who we are informed sustains a fair Character, even in a District, where there are not wanting some Persons, to whom, from their attachment to the unjustifiable Claim of the Province of New Hampshire, & his zeal in asserting th…

With Respect to the "Request that the Lands granted in the Township of Windsor, under the seal of New Hampshire, may be declared to be forfeited for a Breach of one of the Conditions in the Patent, the Committee conceive, that advantages of broken Conditions expressed in Royal Grants, are to be taken in a legal course, by regular Prosecutions against the Patentee ; and that it would be manif…

under which they settled, in articles injurious to the Crown, & such also as have been guilty of Infractions of the Laws for the Preservation of Masts for the Royal Navy, are unworthy of his Majesty's Bounty, & that their applications for Lands in this Government ought to be rejected, All which is nevertheless humbly submitted this 25th Day of September 1770--By order of the committee Wm Sm…

That he being a Resident in Windsor, and having the Later part of August last, taken a journey from there to Springfield in Massachusetts Bay, Mt John Grout on the fourth Day of September last, came to him (the Deponent) and Informed him, that the Deponents two Sons Willard & William were made Prisoners by one Benjamin Whiting on a Process that Issued out of the Court of Vice Admiralty for th…

Deponent could not see them, without following them to Albany; as said Grout told him (the Deponent) That Whiting had not Promised to Tarry at Hinsdale longer than tuesday noon: And likely would then set out for Albany. (That the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas was then sitting at Springfield, in which Court the Deponant had a Cause then Depending, and was obliged to attend the Tryal; which …

That on this Morning, News came to the Deponent & said Wells, of a Party of men that had followed the said Whiting, & said Prisoners, The said Wells with Mr Arms the then high Sheriff, set out on horseback to Disperse the People: And both said Wells and Arms shew'd a great Disposition to prevent any Violence &¢ and appeared much concerned at hearing that the people, in a Tumult had followed …

The Deponent agreable to M Wells's advise, set out for the City of New York, to surrender himself for tryal: And about thirty miles before he reached the City, met M* Whiting Deputy Marshall who turn'd about, & accompanied the Deponent to the New Goal in the City where he was committed. The Deponent further say's, That the said Grout was so far from making his journey to Springfield to arres…

That by Whitings Discourse it seem'd, he was ata loss whether to ~ carry the Prisoners thro' a Part of Massachusetts Bay, or thro' the Woods to Albany, whereupon said Wells told him, that it was his opinion, That he had no right to carry them thro' Massachusets, (tho' says he that would be the best Rhoad if the Law would justifie it) and advised him said Whiting, to go with the Prisioners, a…

dont know that Grout is gone on that buisness, for I have not seen him: but I understand he-has gone that way, Perhaps that may be his business.» After Whiting was gone and a Number of People ina Tumultuous way, followed him, asI was enformed, I understood that said Wells Issued his warrant to arrest some of them: and arrested them accordingly: and several times afterwards, I heard him said W…

Wells, said Whiting Told said Wells that he (said Whiting) had Two Prisoners at Hinsdale (viz) William and Willard Dean, which he was going to Carry to New York By vertue of writs from the Court of vice Admiralty cf New York, said Wells asked said _ Whiting if he was agoing to Carry Them Down the River through the Massachusetts and Connecticut Governments, To which said Whiting answered tha…

Said Wells further Told him he could cross the woods without any Great Difficulty, if he gota Pilot Part of the way--said Whiting was very urgent to have said Wells meet him at Hindsdale on monday morning the next. This Deponent was at Hindsdale on the Monday next following said Second Day of September Said Wells, Whiting, & his two assistants Benjamin Wait and one Rosebrook--Present, Likewi…

And threatened to be shot, beat, & the Sd Whiting sent the Deponent, and his Brother William (then a Prisoner) under the care of one Benja Wait, & James Rosebrook, from Windsor, to Hinsdale, that passing thro'? Westminister, where the Depot his 'S¢ Brother & their §4 keepers lodged, Viz. at Mr Ranneys: we there found M" John Grout Attorney at Law, and this Deponent & his S¢ Brother . told hi…

M* Grout then advised Said Wait & Rosebrook, to unload their Pistols, and to treat the prisoners with Tenderness, & kindness, and furthermore told the prisoners both, in hearing of Wait, and Rosebrook, as well as out of their hearing by all means to be Submissive to their S¢ keepers, & that the escaping from them would be no advantage, but a great Disadvantage to the deponant, & his Sd Broth…

M* Grout informed Whiting of his Business to Springfield & desired him to tarry 'till he came back, even tho' it should be until Tuesday Night. Mr Grout left the prisoners, & Whiting to pursue the said Journey to Springfield, on Sunday Morning. Whiting with the Prisoners set out on Tuesday after Noon, and before Grouts return. That after Grouts departure, viz: on the fourth of Septem™ Sam! We…

Mt Wells told him that (in his opinion) he had no Right to go with the said Prisoners thro' that Province & on Discoursing with Benjamin Wait, one of Whitings Assistants, M: Wells expressed himself in the same manner, Representing it as his opinion that Whiting had no Right to take s¢ Prisoners across the Massechusetts (tho says he) if the Law would Justify it, it would be much the best Road…

Mr Wells thereupon s¢ he did not know that he meaning Grout would do so for he had not seen him before he went down & only had heard he had gone down the River, perhaps that may be his Business, surely (says he) If I had desired that such a Thing should be done, I should not advised you, not to go that way, (or to that purpose) This deponent further says that he has not the least reason to …

any other Person as he knows of, that as to a Number of People following Whiting, & others this Deponent, had not the least expectation of such a thing, and cannot guess what moved the people to it unless it was this, that when Whiting moved off with the Deponent & his said Brother he rode on Horseback, & the Prisoners went on Foot, they did not Travel so fast as he inclined to ride, upon wh…

Samven Wexus of the Township of Brattleborough in the County of Cumberland and Province of New York Esq' being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God deposeth and saith that on the Second Day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty nine Benjamin Whiting Esqt came to his House and told him he was going to Doctor Wells's and about an hour and an…

That this Deponent then replied he knew of no such Law that if there was any such it would be much the easiest Way but advised him to be certain of it before he went that going thro' the Woods to Albany would be attended with great Difficulty and put him to the Expence of a Guide for Part of the Way and this Deponent further saith that upon asking the said Benjamin Whiting what 'Ground ther…

Jones on which he was prosecuted appeared to this Deponent to be malicious and vexatious That this Deponent then asked the said Benjamin Whiting whether he had Power to release the said Ebenezer Fisher if he could be satisfied, he had cut no Timber fit for his Majesty's Navy upon which the said Benjamin Whiting replied he believed that Mr Jones had such Power and desired this Deponent to meet…

nesses and who the Witnesses were and that the said Benjamin answered and said that he had with him Subpcenas but that there were Blanks for the names which he was to fill up with such as he found capable of proving what was alledged against the Prisoners, and then serve them That this Deponent then enquired whether he had any Directions to give the Witnesses money for defraying the Expense …

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 657 probably cause him to be arrested if he travelled with his Prisoners that Way But the Deponent denies he ever knew that Mr Grout was gone before that Time and this Deponent further saith that on the next Day being Tuesday the fifth Day of September aforesaid in the afternoon the said Benjamin Whiting with two of his Assistants Wait & Rosebrook and the said Willard an…

probably cause him to be arrested if he travelled with his Prisoners that Way But the Deponent denies he ever knew that Mr Grout was gone before that Time and this Deponent further saith that on the next Day being Tuesday the fifth Day of September aforesaid in the afternoon the said Benjamin Whiting with two of his Assistants Wait & Rosebrook and the said Willard and William Dean his Prisoner…

Nor did he know M: Grouts Business there but barely suspected that that might be it. And that he the said Benjamin did not do well in suspecting the Deponent had sent M' Grout on such an Errand since he the Deponent had all along told him the said Be jamin Whiting that he apprehended that he had no legal Right Vou. Iv. 42 ° 658 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE to go with Prisoners that way that t…

And this Deponent further saith that while upon the Road the said Benjamin Whiting complained to this Deponent that the Prisoners did not walk fast enough upon which the Deponent advised them to make as much Haste as they could and be obedient to the commands of the said Benjamin Whiting and they would fare the better for it and more particularly gave them a strict charge not to attempt an …

of the said Benjamin Whiting Captain Dean Father of the aforesaid William and Willard Dean against whom as the said Benjamin Whiting told this Deponent Process had also issued from the said court of vice Admiralty came to Brattleborough that the Deponent advised him to go to New York and surrender himself for Trial which he promised he would do and did go with that Intent but was taken on hi…

City of New York ss: James Duane of the City of New York 'Esqt being duly sworn by the direction of his Honour the Lieutenant Governor and Council Deposeth and saith That in the month of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty nine he was applied to by William Dean and his sons Willard aud William Deane whom he understood to be Inhabitants of Windsor in the County…

they could not on such a Prosecution be held to Bail moved tliat they should be discharged on entring their appearance but they were ordered by: the court to be held to Bail ina large sum for want of which they remained in close custody That after some time they complained that the little money they had brought down with them and received from the sale of their Horses was expended and that t…

That this Deponant is not certain whether the sale so intended was first mentioned to him by William Deane or Mr Wells but this Deponent well remembers that M' Wells advised with him on the measure and that this Deponent approved of it as legal in itself and as an act of Humanity towards Deane and his children whom he considered as in the greatest distress and this Deponent further saith tha…

And this Deponent saith That the transfer to M* Well's of the effects of the said William Deane was drawn by one of the Deponents clerks and that he verily believes from what passed at that time and from the Behaviour and. Conversation of Mt Wells that it was an Act of Benevolence and Humanity in Mr Wells to Deane and his two sons without which this Deponent verily believes they must have su…

Whereas in pursuance of An Act of the Legislature of this Province, entitled An Act for the more effectual collecting his Majesty's Quit-Rents in the Colony of New-York, and for Partition of Lands in order thereto; Commissioners and a Surveyor were appointed to make Partition of certain Lots, Parcel of a larger Tract of Land, situate on the East Side of Hudson's River, in the County of Albany,…

662 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE schaack, directed the Commissioners to resume and complete the , Partition aforesaid ; who on the twenty sixth Day of September now last past, in the Execution of the said Trust, were again opposed and prevented from effecting the said Partition, by a riotous and tumultuous Body of Men, openly avowing, in Opposition to the Title and Jurisdiction of this Province…

And it further appearing by Proof on Oath, that Simeon Hathaway, Moses Scott, Jonathan Phisk, and Stlas Robinson, all of the County of Albany, Yeomen, were among the principal Authors of, and Actors in the last mentioned Riot and Breach of the Peace: In order therefore to bring the said Offenders to condign Punishment, and that others warned by their Example, may be deterred from the Commissi…

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 663 suppressing all future Riots and Disorders of the like dangerous Tendency. GIVEN under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Fort George, in the City of New York, the first Day of November, One thousand seven hundred and seventy, in the eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defend…

King Charles the Second to James Duke of York in 1663] 4 comprehending in express terms; "All the lands from the West side of Connecticut River to the East Side of Deleware Bay ;" While your Majestys Government of New Hampshire, the Limits whereof were first ascertained about the year 1739 is confined in its @xtent westward to your Majesty's other Governments. That notwithstanding this clear d…

That in the year 1768, an ordinance was passed in your Majesty's name and under your Majestys Seal of New York, erecting part of the Lands on the west side of Connecticut river into a new County by the name of Cumberland ; and on the 16'" of March in the present year, a like ordinance passed erecting another county to the northward of the former, by the name of Gloucester ; in consequence wh…

That in the month of June last, a number of disorderly persons seated in the township of Windsor in the County of Cumberland, assembled in a riotous manner, & by threats obstructed the proceedings of the Court of Common pleas; pretending that the Magistrates & Civil Officers were unauthorized ; that no obedience was due to them ; that the Jurisdiction belonged to the Government of New Hampshir…

While your Petitioners have the greatest reason to think it will if adopted prove highly dissatisfactory and prejudicial to the Body of Inhabitants in general, who beginning to feel the eminent advantages of a settled Government, view with concern even the prospect of an alteration that may again expose them to the difficulties and hardships, with which they so lately contended, at the same …

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668 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE PETITION FOR THE CONFIRMATION BY NEW YORK-OF CERTAIN N. H. GRANTS. To His Excellency the Right Hon»!e John Earl of Dunmore Captain General & Governor in chief in & over the Province of New York & the territories depending - thereon in America, Chancellor & vice Admiral of the Same. The Petition of the Subscribers inhabitants of certain lands on the West side …

That your Petitioners have respectively seated themselves and families upon the Lands so granted to them on the West side of the river Connecticut, cultivated and improved the same in pursuance of and agreeable to their said Grants, conceiving their Title to be good and effectual untill after the arrival of His Majesty's royal Order in his Privy Council of the 20t day of July 1764, ascertaini…

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray that, as they have expended their worldly substance upon the Premisses, and are thereby rendered wholly unable to pay the Patent fees demanded by the late Governor in chief of this Province for the Lands so cultivated, that your Lordship will be favourably pleased in tender Compassioh to your Petitioners, and their helplessand distressed families to…

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His Excellency laid before the Board a letter from Henry Ten Eyck Junior Esq, Sherif of Albany of the 34 Inst signifying that in obedience to his Excellency's proclamation of the 1st ultimo for apprehending -certain Rioters therein named, he proceeded to Bennington and on the 29'» November in company with John Munro Esquire, and his Under Sherif, went to the House of Silas Robinson one of th…

The Humble Petition of Your Majesty's loyal, faithful obedient subjects, whose only hope of Relief from immediate poverty distress and ruin, with there helpless' Wives and Children, depends entirely on your Majesty's lenient and paternal Interposition, which unless your Majesty shall be graciously pleased to vouchsafe, they must suffer an inevitable ruin, Therefore they Humbly pray, to represe…

miles Eastern distance from Hudsons River 'till it intersects the Wood Creek Lake Champlain & That by virtue of Patents issued by Benning Wentworth Esgr late Governor of your Majestys said Province of New Hampshire, under the Seal thereof and granted to your Petitioners whose Names are Enter'd in a Schedule annexed to each respective Grant, and in full Faith of the said Governors authority to…

Iv. 43 674 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE Enemy that they have in all things and at all Times, been obedient to the Laws of your Majesty's Dominions, & ever obeyed yout Maijestys Royal commands--that our Fortunes Interest and Lives are wholly devoted to your Sacred Person. They therefore humbly prostrate themselves, and pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased, to preserve them from the…

As your Majestys Petitioners in Duty and Loyalty bound shall ever pray. Province of New York ss. Wuituarp Srevens of Charlestown or number four in New Hampshire Government, a person well known to me, and worthy of Good Faith and Credit being by me duly Sworn did depose and say that the foregoing is a true copy of the Original petition delivered me and carried by Benjamin Whiting from Portsmo…

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I speak of that: large District between Hudsons river and the Lakes George and Champlain on the West and Connecticut River on the East ; and between the North line of the Massachusetts Bay and the 45th degree of Latitude, assigned for the partition between this and the Province of Quebec. This is a fine country, capable of great cultivation, and of subsisting many thousands of useful subjec…

I am oblidged on the contrary, to complain that there seems to be too much reason to believe, that the disorders in that Country owe their origin and progress to the intrigues of persons in power in the Province of New Hampshire, with aims of inhancing their private fortunes, out of the Crown Lands; and the vain hope that His Majesty may be moved to annex this territory to the Province of New…

I must at the same time apprize your Lordship that a great majority of the settlers are not only disposed toa peaceable submission to the decision of 1764, but very averse to the change projected in New Hampshire, as will appear by their Counter petition communicated to me, to be transmitted in their favor. Nor can I omit mentioning that it is in this District that many of the reduced office…

The inhabitants now amount to between six and seven hundred families, of which number 450 odd have signed a Petition to me, which Ihave by this Packet transmitted to your Lordship, praying to be continued in thisGovernment ; there is another Petition, as I understand, sent home by Governor Wentworth, signed by about 200, praying to be under the Government of New Hampshire ; but how these name…

I have to inform your Lordship of the death of Joseph Reade Esq". one of his Majesty's Council in this Province, I also inclose to your Lordship three affidavits which I have 678 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE lately received, which confirm our belief that the disorders above mentioned are promoted by people of the greatest power in the Province of New Hampshire. SURVEYOR-GENERAL'S CERTIFICATE …

I Avexanper Corpen Esq ; Surveyor General of Lands for the Province of ew York ; do hereby certify, to all whom it may concern, that on or about the twenty second Day of May, One Thousand Seven hundred and sixty five, I received an attested Copy of an Order of the Lieutenant Governor of the said Province, made in his Majesty's Council for the said Province, on the said twenty second Day of M…

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 679 Order in Council hath been hitherto strictly and duly observed : And I do further certify, that Ihave not made any Return of the Survey of any Lands known to be held under any Grant of the Government of Vew Hampshire, Eastward of the Ridge of Mountains commonly called or known bythe Name of the Green Mountains in order to be granted, unless for the Grantees or Perso…

That between Seven and Eight years ago he purchased some Rights in a Tract of Land called Shaftsbury, under a,Grant thereof by the late Governor of New Hampshire--That he settled thereon six years ago last spring, and was one of the first who settled in Shaftsbury under the Grant aforesaid That between this Deponents Purchasing and Settlement above mentioned, Governor Colden issued his Procl…

That by far the greater Part of the Settlers at this Day . which this Deponent believes are at least Five to One to the number of Settlers at that Time, are purchasers since the notification of the Determination of the Boundary at very small Rates, and who have seated themselves there under the New Hampshire Grants knowing the claim of this Province, and his Majesty's Determination aforesaid, a…

That within a Short Time after the notification of the Royal Determination as afs¢ the Inhabitants in general of that Part of the County claiming under New Hampshire concluded to keep up and maintain the Privileges mentioned in their Grants from New Hampshire, and not to submit to any Laws Customs or usages of the Government of New York imagining this would strengthen their Pretensions, whic…

That he has always understood and is satisfied that it is true, that the Proprietors under New York, have always been, disposed to treat the Settlers on their Lands under New Hampshire, with Tenderness, and to give them better Terms than to other Persons, which Tenderness and Forbearance has been constantly construed by the settlers to arise solely from the Proprietors under New York doubting…

That the siad Archibald Campbell was then making Surveys in that Part of the Country and offered to several Persons in the Deponents Presence to survey their Possessions and divers others have confessed to the Deponent, that the said Campbell had made the said offers to them, but all of them except this Deponent and about a Dozen Persons more retused to shew their Boundaries, or take any no…

I, That this Deponent remembers that about a year ago nine Ejectments were brought under New York for Lands to the Westward of the Green Mountains, one of them against the said Isaiah Carpenter, another against Justin Olin, who had settled on Major Smalls said Grant, knowing it was granted to Major Small having purchased under New Hampshire since the passing of the Majors Grant, and upon Con…

That this Deponent attended the Circuit Court held last Junein the City of Albany, when four of these Ejectments were tried, viz those agt James Breakenridge Samuel Rose one of the prince Town Def's Isaiah Carpenter, Josiah Fuller one of the Inhabitants on the Grant to Revd Mt Slaughter--that Breakenridge made no Defence, his Possession being within Twenty miles from Hudsons River, against th…

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 683 L. That many of the Claimants under New Hampshire in consequence of these Trials proposed settling their Dispute with the New York Proprietors; but the writs of Possession being delayed, they in general changed their minds, and declared the New York Proprietors dared not to serve them--and from the common and public Conversation of those Inhabitants it was manifest…

And this Deponent saith that he has never heard of any other Ejectments being brought for any Lands to the Westward of the Green Mountains under New Hampshire, except one agt one Colvin, which was served, but not further prosecuted. O. That the Deponent is acquainted in general with all the Inhabitants of the Lands formerly claimed by New Hampshire on the West side of the Green Mountains fro…

returned with Encouragements to the People, that he would soon get them annexed to New Hampshire, and this Deponent is well assured that if they had not received Encouragements from the s¢ Governor Wentworth, they would in general long since have submitted to the Laws and Jurisdiction of the Province of New York, and the Disputes concerning Titles have been at an End--That something above a …

And this Deponent further saith that at the time of the notification as abovementioned of his Majestys Determination of the said Boundary, the two Southermost Townships were more cultivated than any other of the New Hampshire Grants to the Westward of the Green Mountains, and even with respect to those the Cultivation was exceeding small, that the four Townships to the Northward of. those la…

Joun Munror of Fowlis in the County of Albany, Esquire, one of his Majestys Justices of the peace for the said County being duly sworn maketh Oath, that he lives on the East side of Hudsons River about seventeen miles Distant from the said River, as the Surveyor employed by him lately, to measure the Distance to that River informed him that he began to build there near four years ago, and ha…

That this Deponent is well acquainted with the Country thereabouts, and verily believes that since he has lived there, the number of Settlers under the New Hampshire Grants to the Northward of this Deponents Habitation have increased at least three fold--And from the General Accounts he has received in that neighbourhood he is well satisfied that since the Notification of his Majesty's order…

ing the Laws of New York or submitting to its Jurisdiction and that in general they have regulated themselves by the Laws of New Hampshire, and the Charters granted by the late Governor Wentworth, in order as this Deponent hath always understood, the more easy to bring about the annexing that Country to New Hampshire, and the Confirmation of the Grants of that Government, 'That they according…

And this Deponent further saith that in the winter of the year 1770, by Virtue of a Law of this Province he issued as one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for the County of Albany, on the application of two of his Majestys Subjects Process against four Persons, all of whom this Deponent understands dive on the Patent of Wallumschack, and claim Lands there under one of the New Hampshire…

them to disperse and surrender up his Prisoner, telling them they were acting against Law that thereupon they damned the Laws of New York, and said they had better Laws of their own, and finally obliged the said Constable and his assistants to fly for their Lives. F. And this Deponent further saith, that since the obstruction given to the Commissioners as abovementioned the universal Report …

And this Deponent further saith that on the Twenty ninth Day of November last to this Deponents best Remembrance Henry Ten Eyck Esq the Sheriff of the County of Albany came to this Deponents House with a proclamation of his Excellency Lord Dunmore of the 1st Nov" last, by which the said Sheriff was commanded to apprehend Silas Robinson and others for a second Riot and obstruction to the Part…

688 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE House of Capfain Cornelius Van Ness at Sanchoick That towards morning the House was surrounded by a number of armed men about Forty as this Deponent has been Informed--That this Deponent asked them what they wanted and was answered they demanded Silas Robinson forthwith and that they would have him.--That the Persons in the House prepared for Defence, and this…

New York against the settlers under New Hampshire--against Samuel Rose and three others in Prince Town--Isaiah Carpenter and Justin Ollin on a Tract Granted in New York to Major Small a reduced officer, James Breakenridge in Wallumschack Patent, and against two other Persons on a Tract of Land granted to Rev4 Michael Slaughter a Reduced Regimental Chaplain. That soon after this Deponent hea…

That upon this Deponents return home from the said trials, and for some time thereafter, he' found the claimarits under New Hampshire in his neighborhood fond of coming to a settlement with the proprietors under New York, but that afterwards repeated encouragements being received in that Quarter from the present Governor of New Hampshire as the Universal Report was in that Part.of the Country…

That about the Fifth Day of January last, the Sheriff of Albany with one of his Deputies and another person in his Company came to this Deponents House and this Deponent having some short time beforeseen the said Sheriff in Albany 'with Writs of Possession in his Hands, in the four Actions of Ejectment tried at Albany as aforesaid the said Sheriff now told him he had been trying to execute t…

on Monday the Seventh of January last the said Deputy Sheriff with this Deponent and Twelve other men whom the Deponent had procured to aid the Deputy Sheriff who feared alike violent Resistance, proceeded*to the House of the said Isaiah Carpenter in order to serve the said writ of possession against him--That when they came there they found the House shut up, tho' it was "early in the Morni…

NV. That after this on the same day this Deponent with the said Deputy Sheriff, and another went to serve the writ of Possession | against the said Samuel Rose and on the road picked up two other men whom they took along with them to assist them--That the Sheriff went on before and got into the said House the Persons, therein not knowing he was the Sheriff--But by this Time the neighbouring …

O. 'That as soon as Possession was gained here the defendt being from home, Possession was restored to His Wife and Family by the Direction of one of the Proprietors, on condition that it should be held under them--that the said Tsaiah'Carpenter has since voluntarily gone off his Farm, and that Samuel Rose still is in Possession of his. ( P. That this Complainant has never heard of any other…

Dan : HorsmManpen. _A. City of New York ss: Simon Stevens an Inhabitant of the Township of Charles Town in the Province of New Hampshire, and at present one of the Members of the General Assembly or House of Representatives of the said Province, maketh oath upon the Holy Evangelists and saith, 'That very soon after M' Wentworth the present Governor of New Hampshire arrived from England as Gov…

That he proposed to promote Petitions from the People to accomplish that End, and asked the Deponent if he would be . concerned in facilitating and circulating a Petition of that kind. That the Deponent refused to be concerned in any such measures, That the said Governor has broke the same subject to the Deponent at several Times since, Declaring that if the People could be induced to sign Pet…

That the Deponent has also seen an attested Copy of another Petition to his Majesty, of the like Import with that above mentioned, which has been lately circulated in that County, and which he also for the Reasons above mentioned believes was drawn by the said Governor. E. That the Deponent has known Lands granted under New Hampshire on the East side of Connecticut River, to be regranted to …

That at the Time last mentioned there were every few Settlers to the Eastward of the Green Mountains, claiming under New Hampshire, this Deponent. believes there were not seventy Families, and those were scattered in about a Dozen Townships on that River, and the Chief of them in Brattleborough, Westminster, Pultney-and Rockingham, and that in all the rest of the numerous Tracts granted by Ne…

That since that Time this Deponent verily believes the Settlers in that Country, have increased Ten fold under the Claims of New Hampshire, and that.they are almost altogether Purchasors of the New. Hampshire Titles at a very.small consideration, and this Deponent believes they settled there in general, expecting they should be obliged to obtain New Grants under the Province of New York--That…

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And this Deponent further saith, that for more than two years past, the People between the Green Mountains and Connecticut River, have been continually encouraged to extend their settlements under the Claim of New Hampshire and to believe that this Country would soon be annexed to that Government, which Encouragement by the universal Report among them, came from Time to Time from Governor Went…

Wentworths Patents for Lands on the West side of Connecticut River, and is very certain he had not the advice of his Council for issuing that Patent further than the general advice above mentioned. Q. That the nearest Part of this Country to Portsmouth in* / 6.96 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THF New Hampshire is one hundred and Twenty miles as the Road goes, which this Deponent thinks cannot be …

That very soon after Governor Coldens Proclamation asserting the Jurisdiction of the Province of New York in that Country, it was Public there being fixed up in Print in Divers Places, and that soon after the issuing of the Proclamations by the Governments of New Hampshire and New York, notifying his Majesty's Determination of the Boundary between these two Governments of the 20 of July 1764…

That this Deponent believes there are now ten times as many Settlers in the Tract formerly claimed by New Hampshire aforesaid, than there were at that Day, and that these are almost altogether Purchasers under the New Hampshire Patents since the notification of the Kings Determination of the Boundary as aforesaid a great many of whom settled in expectation of taking out new Grants from the P…

That this Deponent never hath heard of any Ejectments:. served by any Person claiming under New York nor of any other action brought by any of them, against any Person to the Eastward of the Green Mountains except in two or three Instances: for Debt & is satisfied if-any such thing had happened he musthave heard of it. That some few of the Inhabitants of that country have been -arrested in Civ…

That something above a Twelvemont ago a Petition to his Majesty was circulated thro' that Country for Subseriptions for that End as this Deponent understands and believes, which Petition was at that time and ever since generally reported there to have been drawn by Governor Wentworth--That this Petition was generally reparted and this Deponent believes the same to be true, to have been subscr…

That Jast Fall another Petition to his Majesty for the like purpose, was carried about thro' that Country for Subscription as this Deponent understands and believes that this Deponent saw the original thereof as it was Called of which he took a copy, which original was wrote in a very fair Hand, and was currently reported there to have been drawn at Portsmouth by the present Governor Wentwor…

That this Deponent believes that very few if any of the Settlers on the Southerly part of this Tract to the East of the Green Mountains, signed the said Petition last mentioned, as they are almost universally desirous of remaining in the Province Ofo New York, and this Deponent is well convinced: that: of the whole Inhabitants of the Counties of Cumberland and Gloucester aigudal majority are…

jw AltyiefoNems: York ss:° Oxrrver Wirrarp Esquire one of: the Assistant Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for thei CematysdfyGumberland in the Province of New York makes Qath upanithe Holy Evangelists; That he isan Inhabitant of the Tew pons <dlentiord in the said County, formerly granted by Rate nto under the Province of New Hampshire, and since by Pateyfamdey the; Province of …

That some time in the latter End of December last, the Deponent received a letter from the said Mt Hurd, in the words and figures following--* Portsms 20th Deer 1770 Sir, I have "received your Letter per Capt Wheatly whose good Characte "will I believe obtain for him the Commission desired--Your "make no mention nor have { heard any thing from you about "the Right in Belham for which I have …

And the Deponent verily believes that the true reason why his application for a Grant of the said Islands will not probably succeed, is from a disgust excited by the Deponents conduct: and known Zeal for maintaining the authority of the Government of New York, on the West side of Connecticut River, in Conformity to the Royal Order of the Twentieth of July one thousand seven hundred and sixty…

That this was usual in the Patents issued in that Province, That he has himself been concerned in sueing out five Patents under the Great Seal of New Hampshire, and that he always understood that the Governor and Council of that Colony paid no Proportion of the Fees, but that, that Burden was born by other Patentees, That the same Rights and Shares secured in the New Hampshire Grant of the …

That this Deponent has been an Inhabitant of Hertford aforesaid for eight years last-past, and well remembers that the Proclamations by the Governments of New York and New Hampshire, notifying his Majestys Determination of the Boundary between those Governments were very Publickly known in that Country soon after they issued. That at that Time he believes there might be about one hundred Fami…

That this Deponent was well acquainted with 'the late Governor Wentworth, and knows his manner of. granting the Crown Lands, the said Governor told this Deponent when he sued out the first of the five grants above mentioned, that there was no need of calling the Council for their advice therein, as he had obtained about the Close of the last War their general advice for granting the Lands on…

Action brought against any Person on the East side of the Green Mountains, by any Person Claiming under New York, nor of, any Person there being imprisoned, except for Criminal Matters, and in Suits brought by the Inhabitants of that Country against each other, nor of any Persons property being wrested. from him, except that he has heard that some of the Lots reserved by the late Governor Wen…

Majesty's Commands to Sir Henry Moore to grant no more of these Lands until further Order, as from the encouragements continually cireulating thro that, Country to that Import, which were there universally said and believed to come from Time to Time from Governor Wentworth, and this Deponent has no doubt that had it not been for those repeated Encouragements, the People would have been long …

Portsmouth in New Hampshire, and was desired by George Jeffries Esquire Treasurer of New Hampshire to breakfast with him, which he did--That the said M' Jeffries desired this Deponent to attend while he read a Representation on the part of New Hampshire respecting the Lands on the West side of Connecticut River in the Province of New York, and the Distresses of the Settlers there under New Ham…

holding Jands under the Grants of this Government of New York in the Patents of Hosick and Renslaerswyck or one of them, that they had seized and drove off the Cattle of some of the said Tenants and had seized the Grain of one of them named Bostian Deal, and that they intended to distress every person holding within their Claim, who would not submit to hold under them That thereupon Hermanus…

That they left the City of Albany on Saturday and arrived on the Sunday at Hosick where they were again inform- _ ed of the Proceedings of the Rioters as above set forth and they were gone to Bennington and threatened to return again on Monday Morning and accordingly about the break of the Day on Monday Morning the Sheriff and his Party were informed that the Rioters were returned, and immed…

Circulated a Petition addressed to his Majesty in the month of December last in Westminster to be subscribed by the Inhabitants thereof, praying that the Lands situate Westward of the River Connecticut in this Province might be reannexed to the Province of New Hampshire, shewed this-Deponent the said Petition and told him the deponent that the Sollicitors for subscriptions to the said Petition…

_€, That this deponent was also informed that one of the said Petitions was handed about for subscriptions in Rockingham Westward of the said River Connecticut in the Month of December last by one Peter Bellows a son of one of the New Hampshire Magistrates but that very few of the Inhabitants of said Tract would subseribe the same, That Robert Heavens of Sharon in the County of Cumberland she…

That Nathan Stone one of the Rietors of Windsor in the County of Cumberland shewed this Deponent another of the said petitions which he said .was delivered him in order to be subscribed ag aforesaid but that there was no subseribers thereto at the Time the said Stone shewed the same to this Deponent. D. That this Deponent has in his possession a map which he and another person procured from…

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November 1761, Waybridge Nov' 34 1761, Middleborough 24 November 1761, Salsbury 34 November 1761, Charlotta June 24th 1762, Hindsborough 21st June 1762, Ferrisburgh June 24th 1762, Monckton 24 June 1762, Averell, June 29 1762, Lewis 29% June 1762, Pocock June 26% 1762, Luninbourgh 5 July 1763, Burlington 7 June 1763, Williston 7 June 1763, New Huntington 7 June 1763, Duxsbury 7 June 1763, Mo…

That. this.Deponent is well acquainted thro a great part of that Country.and saith that of those numerous Tracts a small proportion of. them have any Inhabitants Claiming under New Hampshire.and that these in-General-are on some of the Tracts on and near Connecticut River; and on some Tracts to the Westward of .the Green Mountains And that in these Tracts to the East of the Green Mountains th…

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NEwBuRY Robert Johnston Err Chamberlin Thos Chamberlin Danl Tillotson Jacob Bayley David Weeks Jonathan Fowler Ephraim Bayley Peter Powers Thomas Johnson Samuel Hale Ephraim Spafford Moses Thursten Frye Bayley Gideon Smith Elisha Johnson Uriah Chamberlin John Foremon Abial Chamberlin Venice Heath Nathaniel Chamberlin Stephen McConnall Saml Barnett Hagness Johnson Jonathan …

THETFORD Samuel Gillett Jonn Howard Noah Sweetlon John Colson Joseph Downer Joseph Horseford. Benj Colborn Raben Strong John Strong . William Moore Israel Smith Saml Wise Saml Osborne Ebenezer Green Abner Chamberlin David Chamberlin Elijah Howard Edwd Howard Thos Chumley. Bnj. Chamberlin Timothy Bartholomew Jon: Sumney Abner Howard Peter Grant Edwd Howard Junr John Chamberli…

I inclose you different affidavits taken before me concerning the conduct of the Inhabitants of this County in order that the Government may do something Speedily to prevent their Riotous behaviour every person that pretends to be a ffriend to this Government are in danger of both Life and property, for my own part I have done every thing that might be means to prevail, but all to no purpose …

Albany County ss: Personally appeared before me one Samuel Willoughby one of His Majestys Constables for the County aforesaid and made Oath that on the 16 day of this Instant May he was overtaken on the Kings highway by Thomas Frinch Charles Bullin and Martin Powel of Prince Town with a number of other Rioters whoes Names to this defendant is unknown (all armed with Clubs) that the said Frenc…

Albany ss: Personally appeared before me Samuel Willoughby one of His Majesty's Constables for the County of Albany aforesaid and made [oath] that on the night of the 23¢ day of this Instant May, being under the necessity of going to Bennington to serve some Executions, he lodged at the House of Samuel Saford in said Town, that about the hours of nine or ten of the clock at night the family w…

Albany County ss: Personally appeared before me one David Wing of lawfull age and made Oath, that on or about the 21% day of May last, he was commanded to the assistance of Samuel Pease one of his Majestys constables for the county aforesaid, in order to take Thomas French of Prince Town for Rioting, with several others that upon their comming within the bounds of said Town they were met wit…

Sworn before me at Fowlis this 24 day of June 1771 Joun Munro Justice. In Councit 34 Juty 1771--Ordered that the Deputy Secretary do write to the Sherif of the County of Albany, enclosing him copies of the preceding affidavits, and signifying his Excellencys Directions that he should apply to Mr Justice Munro for a Warrant or Warrants for apprehending the said Rioters, and that he should e…

the humble Petition of several officers and Soldiers who served in North America during the late war, and were reduced at the peace setting forth, " That in pursuance of His Majestys Royal "Proclamation of the 7 of October 1763, they did obtain war- "rants from the Lieutenant Governor of his Majesty's Province "of New York for sundry tracts of Land to be surveyed and "also patents for divers…

Your Lordships are already apprized by former Reports of 714 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE this Board of the very extraordinary circumstances accompanying the Grants made within this District by the late Governor of New Hampshire and when we consider how extravagant those Grants are with respect to the quantity of Lands they contain and combine that consideration with the many irregularities and…

We are sensible how difficult it will be ina case where so many opposite interests, depending upon Claims under very different circumstances, are to be considered to suggest any propositions that will coincide entirely with the hopes and expectations of all parties but when we reflect how important it is to all to have some speedy determination We cannot but flatter Ourselves that they will re…

The Claim that seems to us to deserve attention in the first place is that of those persons who possess Lands in this District under Grants legally and properly obtained from the Government of New York antecedent to any pretence' set up by the Government of New Hampshire to exercise the power of granting Lands to the westward of Connecticut River and before any such Grants weremade From the b…

The claim that in the second place seems to us to merit attention is that of those persons who in consequence of the Grants from the Governor of New Hampshire, have made actual Settlement and Improvement of any Lands not comprehended within the limits of the possessions above stated; for however disputable their titles may be upon the Ground of the Grants themselves yet there always has been…

The third Claim and indeed the only remaining one which appears tous to merit particular indulgence is that of the reduced: officers and Soldiers, as well those comprehended within the petition referred tous by your Lordships as all others under the like circumstances who may have obtained warrants from the Government of New York for the survey of Lands to them in this district the possessio…

With regard to the remainder of the Lands contained in this extensive District which if the foregoing propositions can by consent of the parties interested be carried into effect will remain for His Majestys diposal they are on all hands represented to be of great value & Importance not only from theirnatural situation ' & fertility but as including very extensive Tracts containing large gro…

'When this service shall have been executed we see no reason why the residue of the Land may not be laid open to settlement & improvement from his Majesty; but we can by no means recommend to your Lordships to advise his Majesty to suffer the Governor and Council of New York to dispose of the said Lands either upon the terms or in the manner in which they have hitherto exercised that power. …

We have hitherto avoided stating to your Lordships the pretensions of those persons who claim the possession of Lands in this district under the exorbitant Grants from the Governor of New Hampshire but who have not taken any steps towards acquiring possession of the Land or for seating or improving the same We are persuaded your Lordships will agree with us in opinion that combining this cir…

We are aware that the Claims of persons under this general description must vary in their Circumstances ; and that a greater regard and attention may be due to one than ought to be shewed. to another ; but it is we fear impossible to distinguish any different Case ; and we humbly conceive it is the less necessary in as much as these General Regulations will not preclude any parti- 718 CONTROV…