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# Oneida Deels, 9, 517 to 525. + Jeff. R., 253.
Į Equal to $125,356.
¿ Comprising 3 ranges of lots (ex. 772) on east side of Antwerp, and all the company's land in Diana. Jefferson Deeds, ree. Nov. 1, 1809.
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1810, the company sold to him for 145,000 florins, money of exchange, all their interests in lands in America. The lands with Moss Kent were re-conveyed to Le Ray, June 24, 1817, except 3250 acres sold to Win. H. Harrison and T. L. Ogden, in Lewis county, Dcc. 16, 1811.
Mr. Le Ray is said to have been the owner of one hun- dred and twenty-six shares in the Antwerp company, and G. Morris of twenty-six. The former having acquired a title to No. IV., and the Chassanis tract, removed to Le Raysville, where he opened a land-office and procceded to sell land to actual settlers to a very large extent. He also effected with several Europeans sales of considerable tracts, among whom were to Louis Augustin De Caulaincourt, duc de Vincence, October 8, 1805, a tract of 4840 acres ncar Millen's bay, being eleven lots, which were conveyed Janu- ary 28, 1825, to Peter Francis Rcal, known as Count Real, chief of police under Napoleon ; to Emanuel Count De Grouchy, to General Desfurneaux, and to others considera- ble tracts. Several citizens of New York became after- wards concerned in these tracts on their own account or as agents, and extensive conveyances were made ; but as many of these were trusts not expressed, and referred to consid- erations not explained in the instruments of conveyance, or on record, an intelligent history of them cannot be at this time obtained, with sufficient conciseness for publication, should they be deemed of sufficient general interest. Among the lands conveyed were the following :
To William and Gerardus Post, June 3, 1825, for $17,000, 11,880 aeres (with 3503 acres excepted) in the present towns of Wilna and Diana ; 6500 acres were conveyed by one, and the executors of the other of these, to T. S. Hammond, of Carthage, Oet. 2, 1837, by two deeds for $18,000. To Herman Le Roy and William Bayard, for $50,000, Feb. 9, 1820, the interest of J. Le Ray in numerous contracts to set- tlers on Great Tract No. IV.
To Franeis Depau, for $23,280, and $15,000 by two conveyances, a large tract in Alexandria, adjoining St. Lawrence county, now held by L. J. Goodale, of Watertown.
To Cornelia Juhel, Oct. 9, 1821, numerous lots ; and to many others, which, without a map, would be unintelligible.
PURCHASE OF COUNT SURVILLIERS .*
In 1818, Joseph Bonaparte, who in the United States assumed the title of Count de Survilliers, was induced to enter into a bargain with Le Ray, by which he agreed to receive in trust, with a warranty, the conveyance of 150,000 acres of land, including 74,624 acres of the Antwerp Com- pany lands, to be taken in the most remote and unsettled portions, and at the same time Mr. Le Ray received certain diamonds and real estate, the whole rated at $120,000, and to be refunded in 1830, unless he should agree to accept before that time the title of a part of these lands. A trust- dced, with covenant and warranty, was accordingly passed Dec. 21, 1818, to Peter S. Duponceau, the confidential agent of the count, for 150,260 acres, with the exception of such tracts, not exceeding 32,260 acres, as might have been conveyed or contracted to actual settlers. This decd included the greater part of Diana, two tiers of lots from
the southeast side of Antwerp, the whole of Wilna and Philadelphia, a small picce south of Black river, where it makes a node across the Chassanis line into No. IV., a tract of four lots wide and seven long from Le Ray, and nine lots from the casterly range in Theresa. It was recorded with a defeasance appended, in which it is declared a security for $120,000, as above stated, and it provided for an auction sale of lands to meet this obligation .; Diamonds having fallen to half their former price, the fact was made a subject of complaint ; and, in 1820, the count agreed to accept 26,840 acres for the nominal sum of $40,260. These lands lay in the most remote portion of No. IV., and Mr. Le Ray, in a letter to one of the Antwerp Company, dated April 9, 1821, complimented the count upon his taste in selecting a " tract abounding in picturesque landscapes, whosc remote and extensive forests, affording retreat to game, would en- able him to establish a great hunting-ground ; qualities of soil, and fitness for settlers were only secondary considera- tions. . . . He regrets, notwithstanding, that thus far he has been unable to find among the 26,000 acres of land a plateau of 200 acres of land to build his house upon, but he intends keeping up his researches this summer." The count subsequently commenced an establishment near the present village of Alpina, in Diana, where a small clearing was made, but this was soon abandoned.
JOSEPHI BONAPARTE.
The following is the petition that procured the act of nat- uralization of Count Survilliers. It is preserved in French and English, in the Assembly papers, vol. xii., pp. 37- 41, secretary's office :
" To the Honorable, the Legislature of the State of New York :
" Joseph Bonaparte, Count de Survilliers, respectfully represents : That he arrived in the State of New York about ten years since, and having the desire to bring his family and fortune to the said State, he made engagements with some proprietors for the purchase of one hundred thousand acres of land : he paid the value of said lands, but could not obtain a title for thewu, as the existing laws were opposed to it. He had, therefore, to be contented with a simple mortgage. Availing himself of a law promulgated at the same time by a neigh- boring State, in favor of aliens, he fixed his residence there, on lands which he was anthorized to hold, leaving New York after having re- inained there more than twelve months. At this time, he is obliged by peenliar circumstances, either to sell his mortgage, or to become the proprietor of the land, and persisting in his desire to acquire property in the State of New York, and to spend there a part of the year, which he thinks cannot fail to be beneficial to the numerous settlers already established on these lands, and increase their num- ber, upon the consideration that a neighboring government rapidly increases its population by the encouragement given to aliens, and not being of the number of those who would wish to abandon this land of hospitality, where the best rights of man prevail, but never- theless bound to his own country by duties which misfortune renders more sacred, and being unable, as many others have done, he avails himself of the law which offers him the honorable and precious titlo of an American citizen ; and presuming that he will find in the State of New York the same condeseension and kindness he has inet with in other States of the Union, the subscriber prays the legislature will grant to him the right to possess and hold lands in the State of New York.
(Signed) " JOSEPH BONAPARTE, " Count de Su-rilliers."
October 29, 1823, Le Ray conveyed to William H. Har- rison, in trust for the Antwerp company, for fifty thousand
# This personage, who held successively the thrones of Naples and Spain, was born iu the island of Corsica in 1768, being the next older brother of Napoleon I. His residence in this country was as an exile, and he returned to Europe as soon as political events permitted.
+ Lewis County Records.
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dollars, two ranges of lots in Antwerp, next to Lewis county, subject to the mortgage to Duponceau, with a large amount of lands in Lewis county. Meanwhile an act was procured, November 27, 1824, allowing Charles Joseph Xavier Knyff, Charles Joseph Geclhand Delafaille, Jean Joseph Reinier, Osy, Pierre Joseph De Caters, and Jean Joseph Pinson, as trustecs of the Antwerp company, to take and hold lands, and to them Harrison conveyed the above tracts. Duponceau and Bonaparte subsequently released a large tract and took a title of cighty-one thousand one hun- dred and eighty acres. The history of these transactions may be traced in the recorded conveyances .* James Le Ray, December 31, 1823, conveyed to his son Vincent all his lands in Jefferson County, and by a similar conveyance his lands in Lewis county, for the benefit of his credi- tors.
Duponceau executed, July 16, 1825, to Joseph Bona- parte (who by an act of March 31, 1825, had been em- powered to hold lands), a deed of all the rights he had acquired in the above conveyances. Bonaparte, by an in- strument dated July 14, 1832, made Joseph Raphincau his attorney, to deed lands contracted by Joseph Boyer, his land-agent. In June, 1835, he sold to John La Farge, for eighty thousand dollars, all the interest of Count Survil- liers in lands in this and Lewis counties.
It has been said with much probability, that Count Sur- villiers hastened to dispose of this estate, that he might be the better prepared to take advantage of any fortune which the revolutions of Europe might turn up ; and the political aspect of the continent at that time apparently favored the hopes of the Bonaparte family, who have but recentlyt re- gained the sceptre of France. The count first urged the sale upon Judge Boyer, his agent, and came within a few thousand dollars of closing a bargain. Mr. La Farge is said to have cleared a large profit in this purchase.
In October, 1824, the Antwerp company appointed J. N. Rottiers, their agent, to receive and convey lands, and he was directed, by parties interested in clainis, to commence a prosecution against Le Ray, which was donc. The extreme depression in the price of land and cessation of sales which followed the completion of the Erie canal and the opening of the western states to emigration, operated disastrously to all parties who had based their plans upon expectation of reccipts from land sales ; and although the estates of Mr. Le Ray were both extensive and valuable, he could not at that time encounter the combination of circumstances which bore so heavily upon all landholders throughout the northern counties, and he found himself compelled to apply for the benefit of the insolvent act, and to surrender his cstates to lis son, in trust for his creditors. As a justification of his course, he published for distribution among his foreign creditors a statement,į in which he vindicated in a satisfac- tory manner the course he had adopted, and set forth the kind and quantity of property at his disposal to mect his liabilities. He had at that time the following lands in this State :
Jeff. Deeds, rec. November 7, 1845. + 1851.
¿ Acte de Transmission, par M. Le Ray de Chaumont, a son fils de ses propriétés, etc., 4to. Paris, pp. 70.
In Franklin county ... 30,758 acres, valued at $22,500
" St. Lawrence county .... 73,947
106,000
" Jefferson ... 143,500
574,000
" Lewis
100,000
133,000
Of his Jefferson lands, one-eighth were subject to con- tracts of settlers, upon which were three grist-mills, three saw-mills, and various clearings, with buildings. At Le Raysville, were a grist-mill, store-houses, ctc., valued at twenty-six thousand dollars, and in Pennsylvania, Otsego county, and in France other properties of large amount. In closing up this business, a large amount of land was con- firned to Vincent Le Ray, and the settlement of the affairs was so managed as to satisfy in full the claims of Ameri- can creditors. Our account of these transactions has been necessarily brief and imperfect, yet the attention we have given it has convinced us that there is nothing in the matter but that will bear the closest examination.
A considerable amount of the Antwerp company's lands, remaining in scattered parcels, was sold in 1828 by the agent to John La Farge, but this sale was subsequently set aside by the court of chancery,§ and Feb. 15, 1836, 24,230 acres, being most of the remaining lands of the company, and situated in Theresa, Antwerp, Alexandria, and Orleans, were sold to Samuel Stocking, of Utica, and Norris M. Woodruff, of Watertown, for one dollar per acre. Wm. H. Harrison acted in the latter sale as the agent of the com- pany, and the tract lias been nearly all sold off by Jason Clark, Esq., of Plessis, agent of the proprictors.
Mr. La Farge, July 28, 1846, sold to Chas. L. Faverger, for $48,513, a tract embracing the two eastern ranges of lots in Antwerp, and one hundred and twenty-two lots in Diana, excepting parts previously conveyed, amounting to 48,513 acres, and a great portion has since been sold in large and small tracts to settlers. There is at this time (1854) but a comparatively small part of great tract No. IV. in this county, but that is under cultivation, and held as freeholds by the occupants. Dr. John Binsse, of Pa- melia, is the present agent of La Farge.
LANDS SOUTH OF BLACK RIVER.
Wm. Constable, Dec. 18, 1792, conveyed to Samuel Ward, for £100,000, 1,280,000 acres, it being the whole of Macomb's purchase, in Nos. V. and VI., out of which was excepted 25,000 acres sold to Wm. Inman, Samuel Ward, Dec. 20, 1792, conveyed to Thomas Boylston (of Boston) for £20,000, a tract commencing at the extreme southern angle of Lewis county, as now bounded ; running thence to the mouth of Salmon river, and along the lake to Black river, and up that stream to the north bounds of the present town of Leyden, and thence to the place of beginning. The course of Black river was then supposed to be nearly direct, from the High Falls to the lake, and this tract was believed to contain about 400,000 acres, but when surveyed around by Wm. Cockburn & Son, 1794, it was found to include 817,- 155 acres ! Ward also sold 210,000 acres to John Julius Angerstein, a wealthy merchant of London, which the lat- ter afterwards sold to Gov. John Brown, of Providence, R. I., and which has since been commonly called Brown's Truct,
¿ Paige's Chancery Reports, i., p. 574, where a rehearal is declined.
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and is yet (1854) mostly a wilderness. He also sold 50,000 and 25,000 acres to Wm. Inman, who afterwards figured largely in the titles of Lewis county ;* with the exception of 685,000 acres thus conveyed to Boylston, Angerstein, and Inman, he reconveyed, Feb. 27, 1793, the remainder to Constable.
On May 21, 1794, Boylston gave a deed of trust of eleven townships to George Lee, George Irving, and Thomas Latham, assignees of the firm of Lane, Son, and Fraser, of London, and they conveyed them to John Johnson Phyn, of that place (June 2, 1794), in whom, by sundry convey- ances and assurances in the law, the title became vested. April 10, 1795, Plyn appointed Wm. Constable his attor- ney to sell and convey any or all of the Boylston tract, who accordingly sold, July 15, 1795, to Nicholas Low, Wm. Henderson, Richard Harrison, and Josiah Ogden Hoffman, a tract of 300,000 acres, since known as the Black River Tract. This purchase comprised Hounsfield, Watertown, Rutland, Champion, Denmark, Henderson, Adams, Rod- man, Pinckney, Harrisburg, and Lowville. On April 1, 1796, Phyn confirmed this title. The tract was found by measurement to contain 290,376 acres, to make up which deficiency, Constable, in 1796, conveyed town No. 2 (Worth), excepting 948 acres in the southeast corner, which he reserved to himself. On the last-mentioned date, Phyn conveyed to Constable 401,000 acres, being the remainder of the Boylston tract. . The present town of Lorraine is in this conveyance.
William Constable gave to his brother James a power of attorney to sell lands, March 16, 1798; and, to secure the confidence of Europeans and others in the validity of his title, he procured from Alexander Hamilton, Richard Har- rison, J. O. Hoffman (attorney-general of the State), Dan- iel McKinnen, and other eminent lawyers a certificate that they had examined his conveyances and believed them per- feet.
March 22, 1797, Constable conveyed to Marvel Ellis, of Troy, the town of Ellisburg, in accordance with an agree- ment dated April 11, 1796, except three thousand acres, conveyed March 17, 1797, to Robert Brown and Thomas Eddy, in the southwest corner of the town. This tract was long without a resident agent, and, from being settled by squatters, it acquired the unhallowed name of No God.
In June, 1804, Brown and Eddy sold half of the tract to George Scriba, and the latter to William Bell. The re- mainder was exchanged for a farm in New Jersey, by Lord Bolingbroke. Ellis' purchase, according to Medad Mitch- ell's survey of August, 1795, was 51,840 acres, but by a subsequent survey of B. Wright it covered 52,834 acres. A part of No. 10 (Sandy Creek) was conveyed Nov. 16, 1796, to Mrs. H. M. Colden, for the Earl of Selkirk. Ellis, on the day of his purchase, mortgaged it for the pay- ment, and in 1801 he became insolvent. In January, 1802, Constable filed a bill in chancery against Ellis and his creditors to foreclose for equity of redemption. On May 22, 1803, William Constable died, and his executors, James Constable, John Mc Vickar, and Hezekiah B. Pierre-
pont, were advised that the title was perfected by the answer to the bill in chancery, but, to put all questions forever at rest, they deemed it advisable to proceed to fore- close. It was accordingly advertised, and sold, under the direction of Thomas Cooper, master in chancery, at the Tontine coffee-house, New York, March 1, 1804, to Dan- iel McCormick. March 2 the executors of Constable con- veycd the town to McCormick, and on the 3d the latter re- conveyed to the executors. April 26, 1819, a deed of re- lease from the heirs of William Constable was executed to II. B. Pierrepont, from whom the title of the unsold por- tions passed to his son, William C., who has in like manner acquired the title of Lorraine from Constable.
The eleven towns were divided by ballot between the company, Aug. 5, 1796, Harrison & Hoffman receiving numbers 1, 4, 5, 8, and 10, or Hounsfield, Champion, Denmark, Rodman, and Harrisburg, and 1283 acres of Constable's, No. 2 (Worth), which had been added to make up the amount purchased, and was used in "making change;" Low received 2, 7, and 11, or Watertown, Adams, and Lowville, with 1576 acres of the present town of Worth; and Henderson 3, 6, and 9, or Rutland, Hender- son, and Pinckney, with 649 acres in Worth.
These proprietors disposed of their towns as follows: No. 1 was sold, the north half to Henry Champion and Lemuel Storrs, June 30, 1797, and the south part (15,913 acres) to Peter Kemble and Ezra Hounsfield, for $4000, March 10, 1801, who have sold the most to actual settlers, through the agency of E. Camp. The sales of the north part will be given in our account of that town. Numbers 2, 7, and 11 were sold by S. Stow, M. S. Miller, and I. W. Bostwick, of Lowville, agents for Low. No. 3 was first partly con- veyed to actual settlers by Asher Miller and Abel French, when the remaining interest of Henderson was conveyed to Dr. Isaac Bronson, of Greenfield, Connecticut, who gave its agency to his brother, Ethel Bronson, with whom it continued till his death, when it was transferred to George White, who completed the settlements with settlers. No. 4 was sold to Champion and Storrs (with the north half of 1), and by N. Hubbard and A. Lathrop, agents, it was sold to settlers. No. 6 began to settle under the same agents as 3. In 1806, Jesse Hopkins was appointed agent, and con- tinued about fifteen years. Certain lots amounting to 5716 acres were sold to Isaac Bronson, June 10, 1807, for $10,003.44, and settled by the agents of the latter. . No. 8 was settled for the proprietors by I. W. Bostwick, agent at Lowville. Harrison and Hoffman continued tenants in common of 5, 8, and 10 until May 1, 1805. In July, 1809, an instrument was executed, securing certain inter- ests of Hoffman to Thomas L Ogden and Abijah Ham- mond, and January 5, 1810, Hoffman conveyed to Harri- son his interest in these towns.
The greater part of township 2 ( Worth) fell to the share of Harrison and Hoffman. It was laid out by Medad Mitchell in 1695; and Dec. 23, 1797, these proprietors made a partition, and Harrison conveyed the north half to Hoffman, who, July 16, 1798, made a conveyance to Daniel MeCormick and Charles Smith, in trust, to sell and convey and to keep the money till certain debts were paid. Several subsequent transfers were made, which we have not deemed
# Inman was the father of Henry Inman, the celebrated artist.
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of sufficient public interest to tracc. The title to the south part remained with Harrison for many years.
WRIGHT'S REMARKS ON THE ELEVEN TOWNS.
The boundaries of the Eleven Towns were surveyed by Benjamin Wright in April and May, 1796, and from his field-book, the original of which, received from Robert McDowell, Esq., is before us, the following interesting memoranda are quoted. These notes enabled the purchasers to estimate the relative value of the several townships, and formed the first accurate data possessed in relation to the country south of Black river. The remarks on the towns in Lewis county are omitted :
1. {Hounsfield.] This township is poorly watcred along the southerly line, but is very fine soil of land, and quite level. There is only one swamp, which is near the three-mile stake [south side], and is a dead, marshy spot of thirty chains in width, and appears to extend north and south on the line for some distance. The timber is, near the lake, oak, hickory, chestnut, and some beech, maple, ash, birch, and ironwood. On the east line of this town there are many small streams of very fine water. The land is descending westerly, and a very fine soil, except a large swamp near the four-mile tree, which is some marshy, and timbered with ash, hemlock, etc. There is some exceedingly good pine timber on this line. The other timber is beech, maple, bass, elm, ash, ironwood, birch, etc. Pretty level, some gentle ascents and descents. Along the river there is an excellent body of pine timber of fine quality. The land along the river is handsome, but not more than four or five inches to a rocky, flat solid stone, which has large vacancies or seams, where you may find cracks in the rocks of ten feet to the bottom, and not more than four inches wide. Along the bay, there is a pretty good country, except some marshes, where the streams come in. The shore in many places along the bay, is a perpendicular rock of twenty-five or thirty feet, and a very bold, deep shore, some flat, and almost all is very stony. Some marshes along the lake, near to the peninsula, and some small streams, which make a meadow or marsh, where they enter the lake. Contains 26,048 acres.
2. [Watertown.] Along the river there is some pretty good land, and some that is broken and rocky. The river is amazing rapid, and rocky ; some falls along the river which may be made good mill-seats, and some excellent pine timber along the river. On the east line is a fine country. Near the three-mile tree is a swamp of very fine ash timber, which will make excellent meadow. There are some steep ascents and descents, which are all excellent soil. Timber-beech, maple, bass, elm, ash, birch, and some pine and ironwood ; near the river soruc oak and walnut. On the south line is maple, bass, ash, beech, birch, and elm. A very fine soil and pretty well watered with small streams, and some large ones. The west line is of a good quality. There are some fine mill-seats in this town, which on the map are marked " falls" and " rapids." To speak generally, I think this to be an excellent township, and scarce any poor land in it. Will settle very fast if laid in lots, and sold to settlers. Contains 26,804 acres.
3. [Rutland.] Along the river very rocky, and some good land ; very few streams emptying into the river. There is a fine mill stream and various mill-seats, uear the Black river, where it falls into the river, a fall of six feet, very eurious, indecd, for mills. Along the river there are two falls of fourteen and six fect, which, together with the rapids that exteud for a number of miles, make up a great fall in the river. The cast line is a very fine country, and handsomely tim- bered with maple, beech, bass, ash, butternut, elm, pine, and hemlock. On the south line there is a pretty good country, timbered with maple, becch, bass, ash, elin, birch, and hemlock. Along the line on the west side is a very good tract of land, well timbered. This town appears to be exceeding good ; all the waters are clear and good, and are forined altogether from springs which arise on the land. The town in general is most excellent soil, well watered with large and small streams, and I think would answer any person's expectation for settling. Contains 27,604 acres.
4. [Champion.] The west line of this town is in general excellent
land, and has no steep ascents and descents of consequence, but gentle slopes interspersed with small streams of excellent water. There are some fine mill streams, which have good mill-seats. A fall on a con- siderable stream of water, which runs northerly, and falls into Black river, is a most excellent mill-seat. The country is timbered with maple, beech, basswood, birch, ash, elm, butternut, and some hemlocks. Along the river there is a good country a small distance from the river, timbered with maple, becch, bass, ash, elm, and butternut, pine, and hemlock. The Long falls may be made good mill-seats. This township is exceedingly good soil, beautifully timbered, watered ex- ceeding well and with excellent water; somc limestone along the river, and some few ledges of other kinds of stone, of excellent quality for building. I have not traversed the interior part of this town, but from every appearance it is an excellent township. It has almost every good quality that can be fixed in one township of land. Con- tains 25,708 acres.
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