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The balloting for the township of Galen resulted as follows :
Acres.
600 Lot No.
I to John Coventry, Hospital mate.
300 66 2 " Stephen McCrea, Physician and Surgeon.
600
3 " John Young, Surgeon's mate.
500
4 " Thomas Lyon, Lieutenant.
600 66 5 " Isaac Ledyard, Physician and Surgeon.
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Acres.
600 Lot No. 6 to William Pitt Smith, Surgeon's mate.
500
7 " Capt. Edward Lounsbury.
8 " Daniel McLean. 500
600 6: 9 " John Cochran, Director of Hospital.
500 66
66
IO " Samuel Woodruff, Surgeon's mate.
600 66
II " Samuel Stringer, Director-General. 66
500 13 66 66 " Cornelius Oknoyata, Lieut. Independent. 14 " Isaac Ledyard, Physician and Surgeon.
600 66
66
15 " John Winn, (unpatented)
600 66 66
16 “ Dirck VanIngen, Physician and Surgeon.
500
66 66 17 “
18 " Stephen McCrea, Physician and Surgeon.
600 66 66
66 19 " John Smedis, Surgeon's mate.
500
" Samuel Stringer, Director-General.
500 66 66 2I
" Matthew Potan, Ensign.
600 66
22
Henry Moore, Surgeon's mate.
500
23
" Samuel Woodruff, Surgeons' mate.
600 ¥
24 " Dirck VanIngen, Physician and Surgeon.
600
.6 25 " John Ball, Lieut.
600
26 " Samuel Stringer, Director-General.
500 66 66 27 " Thomas Lyon, Lieutenant.
600
66 66 29 " John Rice.
30 " John Cochran, Director-General.
600 66
3I " John Smedis, Surgeon's mate.
500 600
66
32 “ Isaac Ledyard, Physician and Surgeon.
600
33 “
Peter Blossom.
500
66 34 “
600 66 66 35 “ Isaac Ledyard, Physician and Surgeon.
500
66 66 36 " William Saxbury.
50
66 66
38 " Samuel Stringer, Director General.
600
66
41
600
66
42 " John VanDyck, Lieutenant.
600
" John Coventry, Hospital mate.
500
60
43 44 " Samuel Woodruff, Surgeon's mate.
600 66 66
45 " Reserved for Gospel and schools.
600
66
46 " Stephen McCrea, Physician and Surgeon.
600 66
47
48 “ William Pitt Smith, Surgeon's mate.
600
49 " John Cochran, Director-General.
600
66 50 " Reserved for Gospel and schools.
500
66 51 " Matthew Potan, Ensign.
600
66
52 " Stephen Saddore.
500
600
66 37 “
Joseph Young, Physician and Surgeon.
600
28 " Joseph Young, Physician and Surgeon.
500
Reserved for Literature.
66 66 39 " James Joyce.
40 “ Samuel Stringer, Director-General. 66
600
600 12
Perius Demmick,
20
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Acres.
500 Lot No. 53 to J. Cochran, Director-General of Hospital. 66
600
55 " John Young, Surgeon's mate.
500 66 56 " John VanHuysen .:
600 66 57 " Drick VanIngen, Physician and Surgeon.
600
58 " Henry Moore, Surgeon's mate.
600
59 “
500
66
60 " John Smedis, Surgeon's mate.
500 66 61 " Captain Edward Lounsberry.
600 66 62 " William Copeland.
600
66 63 " John Cochran, Director-General.
600
64 " Reserved for Gospel and Schools.
600 66 66 65
600 66 66
66 " John Young, Surgeon's mate.
500
67 " Michael Bason.
600 66 68 " Reserved for Gospel and Schools.
600
66
69 " John Cochran, Director-General.
450
66
71 " William Pitt Smith, Surgeon's mate.
600 66 66
72 " John Cochran, Director General.
600
66 66 73 “
Abraham Lambert.
500
74 " Captain Edward Lounsberry. 66 66 75 " Micajah Sherwood.
600 66
79 “
80 " Malachi Treat, Physician and Surgeon.
600
66 81 " John Ball, Lieutenant.
500
66 82 " Nathaniel Jervis.
600
66 83 " John VanDyck, Lieutenant.
600
66 66
84 " John Coventry, Hospital mate.
500
66
85 " Nicholas Plugh.
600
86 " Christian House.
600
87 " Joseph Young, Physician and Surgeon.
500
88 " Thaddeus Smith.
300
66 66 90 " John Cochran, Director-General, &c.
600 66 91 " Malachi Treat, Physician and Surgeon.
600
66 92 " Chas. McKnight, Physician and Surgeon.
500 66
94 " Cornelius Oknoyata, Lieutenant Ind.
600 66
95 " Jacob House.
300
66 96 “ Malachi Treat, Physician and Surgeon.
600
66 97 "
300
98 " Chas. McKnight, Physician and Surgeon. 66 66 99 " John Chace.
600
100 “ Samuel Stringer, Director-General, &c.
450
66 77 " Drick VanIngen, Physician and Surgeon.
600
78 " Chas. McKnight, Physician and Surgeon.
600
66 76 " John Cochran, Director-General.
600
66 70 " Joseph Young, Physician and Surgeon.
600
500
600
66 89 " Malachi Treat, Physician and Surgeon.
600
93
600
300 66 54 " Stephen McCrea, Physician and Surgeon.
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In the cases where a claimant received a Patent for less than six hundred acres, as above shown, there were left un- divided portions of lots, the title to which remained in the State of New York until subsequently sold.
The Patents for the above lands were delivered as follows, according to the record in the office of the Secretary of State :
For John Coventry, 1200 acres to himself.
Stephen McCrea, 2700 acres to himself.
John Young, 1500 acres to Joseph Young.
66 Thomas Lyon, 1000 acres to Gen. John Williams for L. Lyon.
Isaac Ledyard, 2400 acres to himself.
Wm. Pitt Smith, 1800 acres to himself.
Capt. Edward Lounsberry, 1500 acres to Michael Connolly for said Lounsberry.
Daniel McLean, 500 acres to John McLean.
66 John Cochran, 5100 acres to himself.
Samuel Woodruff 1500 acres to John M. Watson.
Samuel Stringer, 3650 acres to Hugh Boyd.
Cornelius Oknoyata, 1000 acres to Michael Connolly for C. A. D. VanSlyck.
John Winn, 600 acres, unpatented.
.. Dirck VanIngen, 2250 acres to himself.
Perius Demmick, 500 acres to Benjamin Pelton ad- ministrator.
" . John Smedis, 1500 acres to Archibald Currie.
Matthew Potan, 1000 acres to himself.
Henry Moore, 1800 acres to James H. Kipp.
John Ball, 1200 acres to Flamen Ball.
Joseph Young, 2250 acres to himself.
John Rice, 500 acres to Simon Veeder.
Peter Blossom, 509 acres to Daniel Pelton.
William Saxbury, 500 acres to Michael Connolly.
James Joyce,500 acres to Thomas Nickerson, admin- istrator.
John VanDyck, 1200 acres to himself.
Stephen Saddore, 500 acres to Josiah Masters.
John VanHuysen, 500 acres to Peter Christie for Hermanus VanHuysen.
William Copeland, 600 acres to Michael Connolly.
· Michael Bason, 500 acres to Andrew Billings.
Abraham Lambert, 600 acres to Wm. J. Vredenburgh.
66 Micajah Sherwood, 500 acres to Elijah Hunter ad- ministrator.
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For Charles McKnight, 1500 acres to his widow.
Malachi Treat, 1500 acres to Anthony Lamb.
66 Nathaniel Jarvis, 500 acres to his widow.
Nicholas Plugh,500 acres to John Dill, Atty. for Teu- nis Dill, administrator.
Christian House, 600 acres to Michael Connolly.
66 Thaddeus Smith, 500 acres to Daniel Delavan.
66 Jacob House, 600 acres to Michael Connolly.
John Chase, 600 acres to Zephanich Platt's order.
Of these men only a small number actually came to this section and settled here.
Hugh Boyd received the Patents for lands drawn by Samuel Stringer ; 3,650 acres on Lots No. 11, 12, 20, 26, 38, 40, 41 and 100. He is understood to have settled here.
John Van Dyck received the Patents for the lands which he drew, consisting of Lots 83 and 42, on which he is thought to have settled.
William J. Fredenburgh is also thought to have settled on the land for which he received the Patent originally granted to Abraham Lambert, Lot No. 73, and to have been about the first settler north of the creek in the present town of Savannah.
The name Stephen Saddore was undoubtedly the family name still existing in this section. Hon. H. H. Wheeler mentions Peter Mills and William Moulton as having drawn bounty lands.
The military township of Sterling was also located partly within the present county of Wayne. Its western boundary was a north and south line passing half a mile or more east of the present village of Wolcott; therefore all the territory east of that line in the towns of Wolcott and Butler belonged to the millitary township of Sterling.
For convenience of reference to those living upon that tract and along the border of Cayuga county, we give the drawing of the entire township, including, of course, con- siderable territory east of Wayne county.
In the case of this township, we give only the drawing- and do not add a list of those to whom the Patents were delivered -- partly because quite a portion of the township lies beyond the line of Wayne county, and partly from the
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fact that the connection between the drawing and the delivery of deeds seems to be more obscure and not as easily traced as in the case of Galen.
A copy of the balloting book is kept in the County Clerk's office at Lyons, and therefore easily accessible :
TOWNSHIP OF STERLING-Drawing.
Acres.
No. I 600
Christian Tappenwine.
No. 2 450 Samuel Cooley.
150 Elizabeth Hamilton, Southeast corner.
No.
3 450
Gershom Corwin.
Samuel Cooley.
No. 4 500
68 51100
Joseph Eadle.
No.
400 6 600
Jacob V. Egberts, Captain. John Wood.
No. 8 500 IO0
Thomas Mumford, Southeast corner. Lewis Dubois.
No. 9 200
Samuel Brown, West side.
No. IO 595
Thomas Mumford.
No. II 500 Lewis Dubois, Colonel.
100
Thomas Mumford, Southeast corner.
No. 12 600
John Cooper.
No. 13 500
IO0
James M'Call, Southeast corner.
Lewis Dubois, Colonel.
No. 14 500
Thomas Mumford.
No. 15 450
Thomas Hattes, etc.
150 No. 16 200
Mary Southwick, (heirs of J. Wool,) South- east corner. John Pettit, West side.
200 200
William Hollett, East side.
No. 17 606 No. 18 500 100
Henry TenEyck, Captain.
Thomas Macdonough, Southeast corner. James Bynders.
No. 19 500
IO0
Thomas Macdonough, Southeast corner.
No. 20 500 Charity Wright and Anthony Barton.
100 Elizabeth Hamilton, South part.
No. 21 600 John Harper.
814 10 68.6 10
Joseph Eadle.
John Olmstead.
No. 5 200
Heirs of Jacobus Van Orsdell, West side. Thomas Macdonough, East side.
No. 7 500
100
Thomas Macdonough, Southeast corner.
James Duggan.
Eli Lyon, middle.
Reserved for Gospel, &c.
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Acres.
No. 22 600
David Hill and S. Sayre, as (trustees of E. Hill.)
No. 23 200
John Winn, North side.
200
Archibald McKinley, middle.
200
Heirs of Henry Dubois, East side.
No. 24 200
John White and others, (heirs of Samuel White,) West side.
200
Phineas Weed, middle.
200
James Wasson, South side.
No. 26 600
Adam Coppernoll.
Janet McFarland and others.
100
John Cooper, Northwest corner.
No. 28 450
Samuel Crawford.
No. 29 500
Lewis Dubois, Colonel
No. 30 200
Stephen Alling, West side.
200
Edward Conkling, middle.
200
Daniel Reed, East side.
No. 31 500
David Bates.
100
Giles Wolcott, Southeast corner.
No. 32 600 Appropriated for roads (sold to T. and J. White.]
No. 33 500
William Feagan.
No. 34 600
C. M'Veah and N. Conner, (heirs of J. Gil- christ.)
No. 35 500
Christian Hartwick.
437% 22 78 100
John W. Sawyer.
No. 36 200
Elizabeth Miller and Mary Dear, (heirs of Abm. Rickon) Square Northwest corner. John M'Fadden, (assignee of John Cooper) East side.
No. 37 500
William Moulton, Captain.
100
Elenora Feick, Southeast corner.
No. 38 600
Elias Willard, Surgeon's Mate.
No. 39 500
Ichabod Coe.
No. 40 500
John Welch.
872 122
Henry Brewster, Southeast corner.
Giles Woolcott,
No. 41 200
Thomas Hughes, West side.
200 200
Heirs of Samuel Shirts, East side. Giles Woolcott.
No. 42 600
William Kincaid, West side.
No. 43 200 200 James Dunlap, middle.
200 Henry Brewster, South side.
No. 44 500 John Dusenbury.
No. 25 600
Elizabeth Hamilton.
No. 27 500
Heirs of Thomas Filer, middle.
John Dusinberre.
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Acres.
No. 44 100 Jacob Sammons, Southeast corner. John Wood.
No. 45 500
IO0 Jacob Sammons, Southeast corner. David Bates.
No. 46 500 IO0
C. J. Rumsey and G. F. Rumsey, (assignees of J. Dole) Southeast corner. Amos Hutchings" heirs.
No. 47 500 100
Thomas Macdonough, Southeast corner.
No. 48 200
Matthias DeCamp, West side.
Heirs of Henry Dubois, East side.
John McLean.
Elizabeth Flagler, West side.
Giles Woolcott, Northeast corner.
Heirs of Andries Longyear, Sub. 2.
John Longyear, Sub. 3.
200 200
Robert Gillespie's heirs, West side. John and Samuel Garrison, middle. Josiah Goldsmith, East side.
No. 52 600
Jacob V. Egberts, Captain.
No. 53 200
Nathan Smith, West side.
200 200
William Thompson, middle. James Ivory, East side.
No. 54 500 100
James Bradley, Southeast corner.
No. 55 500
Israel Reeve.
22 No. 56 200
Philip Ketch, West side.
200
Agnes Youmans, middle.
No. 57 450 97
Jacob L. Lazelere, Square Southeast corner. Lewis Dubois, Colonel.
No. 58 500 No. 59 500 No. 60 200
Peter and James Miller.
Peter Boise, West side.
200
John G. Wilson, middle.
200
Magdalen Rynms and John Springsteen, East side.
No. 61 500 100
Simeon Knight, Southeast corner.
No. 62 600
Appropriated for roads
John Smith, West side.
William Waddle, and others, middle.
Jacob Crafts, East side. Elizabeth Hamilton.
John Hammond, West side.
David Lambert, middle.
200
Archibald Burgess, East side.
No. 66 200
James Scholifild's heirs, West side.
400 No. 49 600 No. 50 200 12}
. 100 200 No. 51 200
Cornelius Ackerson.
Cornelius Ackerson.
John Pope.
Henry Ten Eyck, Captain.
No. 63 200
300 200 No. 64 600 No. 65 200 200
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Acres.
No. 66 200 James Rose, middle.
200 Phebe Luddington, East side.
No. 67 500 James Blake.
100 Thomas Macdonough, Southeast corner.
No. 68 250
Moses Dean, West side.
200 James Downs, heirs, East of Dean.
Peter Mills.
No. 69 500 100 J. Wools, heirs, Southeast corner Thomas Wilson.
No. 71 200 200 100 No. 72 500
Richard Satterlee's heirs, West side.
Francis Van Tine's heirs, middle.
David Carswell, Southeast corner,
Jane Ann Mancius.
100 Samuel Sherwood, Southeast corner.
No. 73 600 Mary Southwick and others, (heirs of J. Wool.)
No. 74 500 50 50
William Lighthall.
Thomas Macdonough.
Sold for survey.
William Lighthall.
Sold for survey, Southeast corner.
Samuel Sherwood, East side.
No. 76 50 280 FOTO No. 77 500
Cyrus Baldwin, Northwest corner.
John Wood, Captain.
100
Francis Cole.
No. 78
Reserved Lot.
Sold for survey, Southwest corner.
Michael Francisco, Southeast corner. Jonathan Weed's heirs, West side.
No. 80 50 No. 81 500 100
Jesse Adams, Southeast corner.
No. 83 500
Henry TenEyck, Captain. John Bishop's heirs, West side.
William Whitehead's heirs, middle.
Elizabeth Hamilton, East side, Sold for survey, Southwest corner.
Jacob V. Egberts, Captain. Sold for survey, Southwest corner.
Philip Cole's heirs, West side.
50
No. 87 500
No. 84 200 200 150 50 No. 85 600 No. 86 50 I50 200 Robert Van Tine, middle. 100 James Bradley, East of Van Tine. Philip Cole's heirs, Southeast corner. Elizabeth Hamilton.
50 100 No. 79 200 50
Sold for survey, Northeast corner.
Sold for survey, Northwest corner. William Dugban.
No. 82 500 100
Jesse Adams, Southeast corner. William Moulton, Captain.
No. 75 500
No. 70 500
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MILITARY HISTORY OF WAYNE COUNTY.
Acres.
No. 87 50
Sold for survey, Northeast corner. Literature Lot.
No. 88
50 Sold for survey, Northwest corner.
No. 89 500
Thomas T. Jackson, Lieutenant.
50 Sold for Survey, Southwest corner.
No. 90 500
Peter Mills.
100 Thomas Mumford, Southeast corner.
No. 91 500
Thomas T. Jackson.
No. 92 500
Reuben Smith.
50 50
Thomas Macdonough, Southeast corner. Sold for survey.
No. 93 450
Benjamin Chatsey.
100.
Elizabeth Hamilton, Southeast corner.
50
Sold for survey, Southwest corner.
No. 94 300
John M'Kinstry, West side.
200
David Hodges, East of M'Kinstry.
5C
Sold for survey, Southeast corner.
No. 95 500
No. 96 200 200
John Thompson's heirs, West side. Benjamin Gillett, middle.
50
48.63
Benoni and Billings Burch, Southeast cor. Reserved Lot.
No. 97
50
Sold for survey, Northwest corner.
No. 98 300
James Thorne and others, (heirs of Daniel Thorne,) West side.
200
Henry Impson, East of Thorne.
Silas Winans, Northeast corner.
Sold for survey, Southeast corner.
No. 99 400
Silas Winans.
T. Mumford, Southeast corner.
150 50
Sold for survey, southwest corner. Peter Mills.
No. 100 500 50
36%
Sold for survey, Southwest corner. T. Mumford.
50 50
Sold for survey, Northeast corner.
100
James Newell.
CHAPTER VI.
BRITISH INVASION OF WAYNE COUNTY IN 1794-GOVERNOR SIMCOE HAUGHTY AND THREATENING - HIS MESSENGER RECEIVED BY CAPTAIN WILLIAMSON AT SODUS POINT-DEMAND THAT SETTLEMENT STOP ON THIS TERRITORY- WILLIAMSON'S BOLD REPLY-GENERAL WASHINGTON'S LETTER RELATING TO THIS AFFAIR.
T HE "Invasion of the Genesee County " is the decidedly warlike name given by previous writers, and particu- larly by Turner, in his History of the Pultney Estate to certain transactions which occurred in the year 1794, at Sodus Point. Actual fighting in the Revolutionary war closed with the battle of Yorktown in the fall of 1781, though it was not until the spring of 1783, that the treaty of peace was proclaimed and the Independence of the United Colonies acknowledged. Many sources of irritation existed for several years subsequent to that date,
Great Britain and the United States, each complained that the other had violated the stipulations contained in the treaty. Great Britain was accused of having carried away negroes at the close of the war, of having retained in her possession certain military posts which interfered with the Americans in securing their share of the fur trade, and of inciting the Indians to make incursions upon the border settlements. The United States were accused of preventing loyalists from regaining possession of their estates, and British subjects from recovering debts contracted before the beginning of hostilities.
Western New York was within the field of this disturb- ance. The British Government had held this territory from the time it was wrested from France, in 1760, to the close of the Revolution, about twenty-four years. It seems scarcely possible now to understand that they continued to put for- ward a claim to it for ten years longer.
That the British were allowed to hold the important forts of Oswego and Niagara, for ten years following the date of
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MILITARY HISTORY OF WAYNE COUNTY.
the treaty by which they had agreed to surrender them, can only be explained on the ground that this now fair and beautiful country was almost an unknown land. It was only when the first pioneers began to make their way into this wilderness, in 1788-'89, that the jealousy of the British authorities in Canada, began to develop into overt acts. The treaties between the State of New York and Massachusetts ; the purchase of the Genesee country by Philips and Gor- ham, and their associates; the sale of the territory west of the Genesee river, to the Holland Land Company ; the sale of the territory between Seneca lake and the Genesee river, bounded north by Lake Ontario, and south by Pennsylvania, constituting afterwards the Pultney Estate ; all followed in rapid succession. The appointment of Captain Williamson as agent for the sale of these lands ; his arrival here with a large force of surveyors and workmen ; his energetic move- ments at Bath, at Geneva, at Lyons, and at Sodus, occurring during the period 1790 to 1794, were all critically observed by the Governor of Canada. He saw that thorough and systematic plans for the settlement of these lands were being . executed. The American authorities at this time had con- siderable reason to suspect that a British and Indian alliance was being perfected, having in view the actual repossession of all of Western New York, and threatening with fire and slaughter the families of the scattered settlers. All these dangers were finally terminated by the Jay Treaty, negotiated with the English Government in 1794. This treaty con- tained several provisions that were violently opposed by many Americans, both in Congress and out. President Wash- ington was, himself, severely blamed for favoring it. The treaty was not ratified by the American Government, until 1796, and there was only a majority of three in Congress, in favor of the appropriation, necessary to carry it into effect.
The forts were surrendered and a substantial peace fol- lowed favorable to settlement until the difficulties occurred prior to the opening of the war of 1812. It was during that troublous period that the so-called " Invasion of the Genesee county occurred." The following account is from the papers left by Thomas Morris, and is found in the "History of the Pultney Estate :"
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"Gov. Simcoe had, from his first assuming the govern- ment of Upper Canada, evinced the greatest jealousy of the progress of the settlement of our western country ; he was even said to have threatened to send Captain Williamson to England in irons, if he ever ventured to come into Canada. In 1794, Captain Williamson had commenced a settlement at Sodus Bay.
" In the month of August of that year, Lieutenant Sheaffe, of the British army, (now Major-General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, who during the last war, commanded at the battle of Queenstown, after the death of Gen. Brock,) was sent by Governor Simcoe, with a protest to be delivered to Captain Williamson, protesting against the prosecution of the settle- ment of Sodus, and all other American settlements beyond « the old French line, during the unexecution of the treaty that terminated the Revolutionary War. Finding there only an agent of Mr. Williamson's (a Mr. Moffat,) Lieutenant Sheaffe informed him of the nature of his mission, and requested him to make it known to Captain Williamson, and to inform him that he would return in ten days, when he hoped to meet Captain Williamson there. Mr. Moffat came to me at Canandaigua to acquaint me with what had taken place, and induce me to accompany him to Bath to confer with Captain Williamson in relation to this very extraor- dinary protest. I accordingly went to Bath, and it was agreed between Captain Williamson and myself, that we would both meet Lieutenant Sheaffe at Sodus, at the time he had appointed to be there. Accordingly, on the day named by Lieut. Sheaffe, we were at Sodus; and shortly after our arrival there, we perceived on the lake, a boat rowed by about a dozen British soldiers, who after landing their officer, were directed by him to pull off some distance in the bay, and remain there until he made a signal to return for him.
" Capt. Williamson, in consequence of the threats imputed to Gov. Simcoe, in relation to himself, did not think proper to expose himself unnecessarily to any act of violence, if any such should have been meditated against him. He therefore requested me to receive Lieut. Sheaffe on the beach, and to accompany him to the log cabin where Capt. Williamson was, with a brace of loaded pistols on his table.
" The ordering his men to remain at a distance from the shore, shows that the precaution that had been taken, though proper at the time, was unnecessary, and that no resort to force was intended.
" The meeting between the Lieutenant and Mr. William- son, was friendly ; they had known each other before ; and
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while in the same service, had marched through some part of England together. The Lieutenant handed to Capt. Williamson the protest, and was desired by the Captain to inform Gov. Simcoe that he would pay no attention to it, but prosecute his settlement, the same as if no such paper had been delivered to him; that if any attempt should be made forcibly to prevent him from doing so, that attempt would be repelled by force. Lieut. Sheaffe having, during the interview between them, made some allusion to Capt. Williamson having once held a commissison in the British army, he replied, that while in the service of the Crown, he had faithfully performed his duty; that having since renounced his allegiance to that Crown, and become a citizen of the United States, his adopted country, having both the ability and inclination, would protect him in his rights and the possession of his property.
" I asked Lieut. Sheaffe if he would be so good as to explain what was meant by the old French line, where it ran, and what portion of our country we were forbidden in Gov. Sim- coe's protest, to occupy. He replied, that he was merely the bearer of the paper ; that by the orders of his superior officer, he had handed it to Capt. Williamson; that no ex- planation had been given to him of its purport, nor was he authorized to give any. After about half an hour, I accom- panied him to the beach, where he had landed ; and on a signal having been made by him, his boat returned for him, and he departed.
" This is what my father, in his letter of the 10th of Sep- tember, 1794, alludes to, and terms a treaty, and for which he hopes that Simcoe will get a rap over the knuckles from his master. So many years have elapsed since the complaints made both by the British and our own Government, were adjusted by negotiation that an explanation is necessary as to what Governor Simcoe meant when he spoke of the inexe- cution of the treaty that terminated our Revolutionary strug- gle. The complaint on the part of Great Britain, was, that certain laws in several States by which British subjects were prevented from recovering debts due to them prior to the Revolution, had not been repealed,-as by the treaty they ought to have been ;- and also that British property had been confiscated since the period limited in the treaty for such confiscations, and no compensation had been made to the injured parties.
" On our part, the complaint was, that after the cessation of hostilities, negroes and other property were carried away by the British army, contrary to stipulations entered into by the preliminary treaty of peace. The British retained pos-
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