O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

''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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

"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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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 …

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 …

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

" 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

"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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …