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In memory of George Washington, son of John W. and Mary Rockwell, who died January 5, 1820, aged 11 years and 6 months.
In memory of Mary Ann, daughter of John W. and Mary Rockwell, who departed this life on the 11th March, 1818, aged 2 years, 11 months and 8 days.
In memory of Utilly, wife of Jedediah Rogers, who died October 28, 1820, aged 39 years, 9 months, 6 days.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
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In memory of Hannah Rude; who died February 5, 1840, in the 81st year of her age.
Elizabeth P. Sanford, died September 23, 1833, aged 22 years and 7 months.
Mourn not because the righteous pass away; to them it is not death. Nathaniel Sawyer, died February 20, 1851, in the 71st year of his age.
Orpha Batchelder, wife of Nathaniel Sawyer, died June 16, 1848, in the 64th year of her age.
George Sidney Sherman, died August 27, 1832, in the 3d year of his age.
Sarah L. Turner, wife of Watts Sherman, departed this life August 4, 1838, in the 21st year of her age.
She is not dead, but sleepeth.
Erastus Corning, son of Watts Sherman, died August 9, 1841, aged 5 years and 3 months.
Henry Gibson, son of Watts Sherman, died September 15, 1843, aged 5 years and 8 months.
In memory of Caroline Watson, infant daughter of Bennington and Sidney P. Sill, who died November 7, 1829, aged 14 months.
In memory of Theodore Paul, son of Bennington and Sidney P. Sill, who died November 4, 1829, aged 5 years, 2 months and 17 days.
Sacred to the memory of Erastus D. Skinner, who died July 22, 1843, aged 19 years.
Sacred to the memory of Joseph Spencer, born in East Haddam, Conn., December 29, 1789; counselor at law, in Rochester, and senator from 8th district of the state of New York; died at Albany May 2, 1823, aged 33.
In memory of Sophia C. Spring, Petersham, Mass., who died in Albany, December 2, 1824, aged 28 years.
Sacred to the memory of Harriet, daughter of A. P. and E. A. Smith, who departed this life August 2, 1840, aged 1 year, 1 month and 11 days.
In memory of John Stafford, who died October 12, 1819, in the 51st year of his age.
Be ye also ready.
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In memory of William, son of Chandler and Hannah Starr, who died December 28, 1824, aged 4 years, 8 months and 11 days.
In memory of Walter, son of Chandler and Hannah Starr, who died November 4, 1824, aged 1 year, 1 month and 13 days.
In memory of Sally Steel. She left this world, which she adorned by her example and blessed by her charities, in the joyful hope of a better, in March, A. D. 1821, aged 33 years.
Sweet is the scene when virtue dies; When sinks a righteous soul to rest
William Barnett, son of James and Frances Stevenson, died November 17, 1850, aged 2 years, 1 month and 1 day.
This tender bud, so young and fair, Called hence by early doom, Just came to show how sweet a flower In paradise to bloom.
In memory of Irena Stewart, wife of Adam Stewart, died August 5, aged 30 years and 29 days.
Sacred to the memory of Job Tabor, who died September 12, 1822, aged 35 years.
Thomas Tate, died August 19, 1832; in the 74th year of his age.
In memory of Irsael Tuffs, born in Brookfield, Mass., March 30, 1774, died November 22, 1834, in the 61st year of his age.
Joseph, infant son of Lucian and Joanna Tuffs, died 9th of April, 1839, aged 6 months and 18 days.
To the memory of Joshua Tuffs, who died on the 14th of November, 1843, aged 58 years and 4 months.
Sacred to the memory of Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren, who departed this life on the 5th of February, A. D. 1819, in the 36th year of her age. She was a sincere Christian, dutiful child, tender mother, and affectionate wife. Precious shall be the memory of her virtues.
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works to follow them.
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Frances, wife of Rev. J. M. Van Buren, and daughter of Uriah Marvin, died April 2, 1842.
The evening heavens around me shine With beams of sacred bliss. I run with joy the shining way, To meet my dearest Lord.
Sacred to the memory of Mary McConnell, wife of Teunis Vandeveer, who departed this life August 25, 1823, in the 28th year of her age.
Died, Myron G., son of Samuel and Mary A. Wait, November 14, 1847, aged 1 year and 5 months.
Died, Georgianna, daughter of Samuel and Mary A. Wait, November 17, 1846, aged 2 years, 6 months. In memory of Mary Louisa, daughter of Abraham A. and Hester Waterhouse, who died 11th July, 1824, aged 18 months.
Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth, wife of Nathan Webb, who died January 6, 1824, aged 26 years, 7 months and 2 days.
In memory of Elizabeth, daughter of Jane and J. E. White, died March 4, 1835, aged 3 months and 3 days. In memory of Deacon Nathan Wilcox, of Ogden, Monroe county, N. Y., son of Jesse and Thankful Wilcox, N. H., who died suddenly in this city, June 6, 1825. Ephraim Wilder, Jr., died April 25, 1838, in the 53d year of his age.
In memory of David Laurence, son of John and Mary Ann Willard, who died 1st March, 1816, aged 1 year, 8 months and 15 days.
In memory of Joseph Laurence, son of John and Mary Ann Willard, who died December 20, 1821, aged 1 year and 9 months.
In memory of Catharine, daughter of John and Mary Ann Willard, who died on the 9th day of September, 1829, aged 11 months and 26 days.
In memory of Edward Kirk, infant son of John and Mary Ann Willard, who died on the 11th day of Feb. ruary, 1831, aged 1 year, 1 month and 8 days.
In memory of Francis Burdet, infant son of Denison and
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Maria Willams, who died January 25, 1820, aged 5 months and 3 days.
Sleep on sweet babe, and take thy rest.
In memory of Douglass Platt, infant son of Denison and Maria Williams, who died Jan. 12, 1827, aged 1 year and 8 months.
He has gone; the lovely, blooming flower has fled to realms of bliss.
Erected, November 29, 1828, in memory of Mrs. Jane, wife of Samuel Wilson, globe manufacturer, who died May 8, 1827, in the 28th year of her age.
That frailties and foibles are inherent in the human breast, is not to be denied; and if the lamented subject of this brief memoir possessed them they were few, and lost in the natural good qualities of her heart, and in the splendor of those virtuous attainments which distinguished her fair fame as a philanthropist, a wife, and a mother.
Also, in memory of an infant son, who died April 28, 1827, aged 2 months and 19 days.
Erected, November 29, 1828, in memory of Mrs. Abigail, second wife of Samuel Wilson, globe manufacturer, who died August 28, 1828, in the 25th year of her age.
The many exalted virtues which conspicuously adorned the character of this amiable woman, will render her long remembered and lamented by a numerous circle to whom she was allied by the tenderest ties of consanguinity, friendship and affection; by whom her society was ever hailed with delight, and joy, and esteem, as a balm to sooth their sorrows and afflictions.
In memory of William, son of Richard and Mary Wins- low, who departed this life November 6, 1838, aged 20 years, 9 months and 25 days.
In memory of Mary, infant daughter of Richard and Mary Winslow, who died December 14, 1824, aged 1 year and 7 months.
John Worcester, died July 17, 1847, aged 48 years.
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In memory of Joseph Clement, son of John and Jemima
C. Worcester, died January 16, 1841, aged 6 months and 22 days.
Sacred to the memory of Ellen. daughter of William and Margaret Worth, born October 9th, 1830, died October 3d, 1833.
The tears that bedew thy early grave, dear child - the agony of heart-stricken parents - tell how loved, how mourned thou art.
In the bosom of him who gave and who has taken away, the gentle and spotless soul rests in peace. " Blessed be his name."
Mary Jenkins Worth, daughter of the late Thomas Worth, of Hudson, died November 6, 1839.
Dearly beloved in life, thy memory is sweetly cherished in death.
In memory of George Young, who died April 12, 1828, aged 43 years.
May we die the death of the righteous, and may our last end be like his,
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EARLY ATTEMPT TO LOCATE UNION COLLEGE AT ALBANY.
BY F. B. HOUGH.
At the commencement of the Revolution, there had spread throughout the northern section of the colony of New York, a general feeling, that Kings (now Columbia) College, was insufficient for the wants of the colony, and that another institution located in the interior was required to supply the wants of that growing section. The earliest notice of this movement which we have met, is a record in the journal of the Assembly, that on the 26th of August, 1779, a petition was presented to that body then in session at Kingston, from John Cuyler, and eight hundred and forty-two other inhabitants of the counties of Albany and Tryon, and another from Thomas Clark and one hundred and thirty-one other citizens of Charlotte county, praying that a number of gentlemen might be incorporated in a body politic, with power to erect an academy or college in the town of Schenectady, and to hold funds for its support.
These petitions were referred to a committee appointed the day previous on the affairs of the town of Kingston, consisting of Mr. Schoonmaker, Mr. L'Hommedieu and Mr. Palmer, to which Mr. Gordon, Mr. Tredwell, Mr. Benson, and Mr. Harper, were added. On the 20th of October, Mr. Benson from this committee reported, favor- ably, and recommended that the petitioners be allowed to bring in a bill at the next session, but the emergencies of the war appear to have diverted attention from the measure, which was for a time forgotten.
On the return of peace the plan was revived, and
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application was again made to the legislature for aid in securing an endowment of the proposed college, as shown by the following petition on file in the office of the secretary of state .* An academy had at this time been established but not chartered by the regents :
To the Hon'ble the legislature of the state of New York.
The petition of John Glen, Nicholas Veeder, Cornelius A. Van Slyck, and others, the managers of the acade- my in the town of Schenectady, in the county of Albany,
Humbly sheweth. That a very considerable number of the citizens of the state, have for a number of years been fully convinced of the necessity of a public semi- nary of learning in the northern part of this state, for training and fully preparing youth to fill the important stations in society.
That the citizens of the town of Schenectady, influ- enced by the importance of the object, and a conviction of their central and advantageous situation for such insti- tution, have heretofore, and about the close of the late war and before the passing of the statute for instituting a university within this state, made very liberal proposals to the legislature for endowing a college if one could be established in this town of Schenectady, since which an ancient suit has been revived in the court of chancery of this state, relative to the subject of such proposals as aforesaid, which has hitherto deprived the inhabitants of realizing and appropriating the proposed estate to the advantage of education, and thereupon soliciting the privi- leges set forth in the statute, for instituting a university within this state.
That Derick Van Ingen, Esq., of the town of Schenec- tady, with two other gentlemen having lately, that is in October last, obtained a lease from the Oneida nation of Indians, for the term of twenty-one years, of all that tract of land situated, lying and being in the Oneida reserva- tion known and distinguished in said treaty by the name of the residue of the Oneida reservation.
* Assembly papers, Miscel. vol. iii, p. 474.
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The said Dirck Van Ingen, Esq'r, with the other two gentlemen lessees, did on the 26th day of November last, convey by lease ten thousand two hundred and forty acres of said residue of the Oneida reservation for the benefit of a college in Schenectady, reserving therein for the said Oneida Indians, the annual rent of two hundred and fifty Spanish milled dollars, the first payment to com- mence five years computed from the 18th day of October past, until the full term of twenty and one years are com- pleted.
That said Dirck Van Ingen, Esq'r, did afterwards fur- ther convey by lease to the said gentlemen and for the said benevolent purpose 5120 acres more of his third part of the remaining leased lands, reserving the annual rent of one shilling only.
That the income which will arise from the said leased lands will be gradual and at best temporary, and of con- sequence can not afford the respectability and permanence requisite to give energy and character to an institution of learning which will coincide with the views and wishes of the judicious and enlightened people of the state of New York.
Your petitioners therefore, that they may be enabled to make the earliest application to the regents for the privilege set forth in the statute for instituting a univer- sity in the state of New York, humbly pray that power may be granted by law to any three or more of them at their own expense, to purchase from the said Oneida na- tion of Indians, their reversion to said 15360 acres of said leased lands, and in such manner as the honorable legislature shall in their wisdom think proper to direct. And your petitioners as in duty bound shall pray.
Garrit S. Vedder, Jr.,
Joseph Shurtliff,
John Glen, Abram Oothout,
Mynd. S. Ten Eyck,
Andries Van Patten,
Cornelius A. Van Slyck,
Corn's V. Dyck,
Barnardus T. Schermerhorn,
Arent A. Vedder, Nicholas Vedder.
Schenectady, Dec. 30, 1791.
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We the subscribers fully approving of the contents of the above petition, humbly pray that the prayer thereof may be granted :
Alexander Vedder,
James Van Ingen,
Albert S. Vedder,
James Elliott,
Harmanus Van Slyck,
Robert McClellen,
Jno. W. Brown,
P. S. Van Rensselaer,
John Mynderse,
Joachem I. Staats,
C. Vandervolgen,
Jacob Mynders,
Thomas B. Bancker.
Jno. B. Van Eps,
Corn's Z. V. Santvoord,
Rem. Van Slyck,
John Sanders,
Nicholas V. Petten,
Ryer Schermerhorn,
Harmanus Bradt,
Joseph Yates.
Charles Martin,
Isaac Newman,
Wm. Corbett
Cornelius Vrooman,
Abram Yates, Jr.,
Daniel Campbell,
Ab'm Ten Broeck,
Abraham Fonda,
Henry Glen,
Jacob Ten Eyck,
Abraham Cuyler,
Nicholas A. Van Patten,
Jno. Jas. Backman,
Francis Vedder,
Corn's Van Schelluyne,
Aha's Meras, Lancaster Conner,
Jno. R. Bleecker,
Wm. White,
Abraham Ten Eyck,
John Cuyler,
Wm. Van Ingen,
John Van Allen,
D. P. Ten Eyck,
Jno. B. Schuyler,
H. Woodruff,
W. Van Schaick,
S. H. Wendell.
Maus R. Van Vranken,
Corn's Wendell,
Ab'ın A. Lansingh,
Teunis Van Vechten,
Garret G. Lansing,
Volkert A. Douw, P. W. Douw,
John Given. F
Endorsed, "A petition of John Glenn and other mana- gers of an academy at Schenectady, relative to a lease and the purchase of the reversion of part of the lands re- served for the use of the Oneida nation.
"In assembly, Jan. 16, 1792. Read, and referred to Mr. J. A. Fonda, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Hasbrouck, Mr. H. Liv- ingston, Mr. Barker.
"Feb. 13, 1792, Mr. Fonda reported, that the prayer of the petitioners should be granted if it was not dero- gatory to the interests of the state .*
* The following is a copy of the report :
" Mr. J. Fonda, from the committee to whom was referred the [ Annals, vii.] 12
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The house resolved that it was derogatory to the inter - ests of the state.
"N. B. Interest, in this report, means Dignity, Honor, Interest, Peace, and Public Faith. Rejected and ended."
Meanwhile the citizens of Albany took active measures to secure the location of the college, which it was felt must erelong be established; a subscription was opened, and on the 4th of January, 1792, the corporation resolved to convey for this purpose a part of the public square. On the 29th of January, 1793, the regents of the univer- sity granted a charter to the Schenectady academy, and in this and the following year, the efforts of both parties were continued to secure the necessary funds for the pro- posed college. We are indebted to Prof. Jonathan Pear- son, of Union College, for a copy of the Albany subscrip- tion for this purpose, a transcript of which, in the hand- writing of Col. John Taylor, the first professor of the college, is among the papers belonging to that institution.
" The subscribers severally promise to pay the sums annexed to our respective names to John Tayler in trust to be paid by him to the trustees of any college which may be founded in the city of Albany, the payment of one half of the said sums to be made whenever the regents of the university of the state of New York shall by an instrument under their common seal approve of the plan on which and the funds with which it is intended to found and provide the same college. And the remain- ing half in six months thereafter, to the said John Tayler, having given security to the Mayor, Aldermen and Com- monalty of the city of Albany, for the payment of the subscription money to such trustees, or refunding to us petition of John Glenn and other managers of an academy at Sche- nectady,
Report, That by an investigation they find that the commissioners appointed by law to hold treaties with the Oneida Indians respecting their lands, have guaranteed said lands to them and their posterity forever, for their own use and cultivation, and that if it would not be derogatory to the interest of the state, the prayer of the petitioners ought to be granted.
Thereupon, Resolved, that it would be derogatory to the interests of the state to grant the prayer of the petitioners."
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the sums which we respectively subscribe if the college should not be founded in three years from the date hereof. 24th December, 1794.
Stephen Van Rensselaer, .... £500
Dudley Walsh,. £15
Stephen Lush, 100
Thos. Hun, . 20
Samuel Stringer, 100
Abm. Hun, . 10
John Tayler, 100
Isaac Hutton, . 10
Abm. G. Lansing, . 100
Hars. Ten Eyck, . 20
T. V. W. Graham, 100
Nicholas Bleecker, 10
Abm. Van Vechten, 100
Philip S. Van Rensselaer, .
59
Abm. Ten Eyck, .
80
John V. Henry,
40
John Jauncey, .
40 Stewart Dean,
40
Jacob Van Derheyden,
40 Peter Edmd. Elmendorp, . .
40
Dirck Ten Broeck,
40 Abm. A. Lansing, . .
60
Daniel Hale,
40 Abm. Schuyler, . 10
10 40
John Stevenson, . .
50 John C. Cuyler, . 20
John D. P. Ten Eyck,
40
Barent Bleecker, . 40
10
John N. Bleecker,
40 James Verner,
30
Leonard Gansevoort,
40 Wm McClelland,
12 .
John B. Schuyler,
40 Geo. Johnson,
12
Garret Van, .
40 John Bogart,
6
Barent G. Staats,
30 Elias Kane, ..
20
Francis Nicoll,.
10 Henry Guest, Jr., . 10
20
Richard Lush,
40 Arie Lagrange,
20
Teunis T. Van Vechten,
40 James Bleecker,
20
W. Woodruff,.
25 Robert McClelland,
20
John Fondey, Jun.,
Enoch Leonard,
20 Corn. Van Schelluyne, . ... 25
12
Sanders Lansing, .
20 Seth Lansingh,
15
Henry Spencer, .
10 George Merchant,
15
John R. Bleecker, Jun., .
40 Jno. Jac. Beekman, . 10
Hugh Boyd,
10 Sebastian Visscher, 10
J. H. Wendell,
10 John Shepherd, 20
W. Mancius,
20 Isaac Denniston,
8
Matt. Trotter,
10 Thos. Ellison,
6
Nicholas Fondey,
10 Abm. Bloodgood, 10
Spencer Philpot,
15 Elisha Crane,
4
James Murdock,
3.4s Jas. Warren, 2
David Newland,
2 Charles Chestney, .
6
Jacob G. Lansingh,
3 John Given, . 10
Jno. D. P. Douw,
40 Lucas Van Vechten,
Elisha Kane, .
40 Isaac Truax, .
Gold. Banyar, ..
100
John Kirk,
David Fonday .
40 Thomas Spencer, 14
Barent Ten Eyck,
40 Robert V. Henry,
12 Jas. Dole, ..
12
John Bassett, ...
15 John R. Bleecker, .
Henry Bleecker. 10
Abm. Ten Broeck, 100
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William Fryer, 3
David Blackley, . 10
Christian Miller, ,
4 James Mc Gouch, . 8
James Kershaw,
8 Luther Trowbridge. 3
Danl. McEvers,
8 Corns. Wandell,.
8
Saml. Hill, ..
5 John' McMillan, .
5
Warner Scoville. 8
Several applications having been made, at first to the legislature, and after the institution of the Board of Regents to that body, for the incorporation of a college at Schenectady, a meeting was held at Albany, Dec. 16, 1794, for the purpose of uniting upon a plan that might be best calculated to secure the desired object. At this meeting the name of the institution and the outline of its organization were agreed upon, and the names of those who were to form its first board of trustees were selected. A subscription headed by Abraham Oodthout, dated Jan. 7, 1795, obtained £1,390, among 231 subscribers,* and on the 8th of February, 1795, the Regents created Robert Yates, Abraham Yates Jr., Abraham Ten Broeck, John Glen, Isaac Vrooman, Joseph C. Yates, James Shuter, Nicholas Veder, Goldsbrow Banyar, John V. Henry, George Merchant, Stephen Van Rensselaer, James Con- dict, Jacobus V. C. Romeyn, James Cochran, John Frey, D. Christopher Pick, and their associates a body corpo- rate by the name of the Trustees of Union College in the Town of Schenectady.
* This subscription list is published in the " First Semicentennial Anniversary of Union College," 1845, page 172. The appendix of the book cited contains the application and charter, with other inter- esting details of the origin of the institution.
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NOTES FROM THE NEWSPAPERS.
Continued from vol. vi, p. 130.
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1818.
Charles Smith advertised that he would transmit merchandise from New York to Pittsburgh, for five dollars per hundred weight.
The festival of thanksgiving, so long observed annually in New England at the close of the harvest was celebra- ted first in 1817, it is believed, in the state of New York, and repeated this year. De Witt Clinton has the honor, as the chief magistrate, of introducing the custom, which has continued ever since.
The trustees appointed in pursuance of the law for establishing a public library at the seat of government, had at this time made considerable progress, and ap- pointed John Cook librarian; an individual who had long conducted a circulating library in the city, without much profit to himself, and was at this time keeping a reading room.
Benjamin F. Butler was appointed cashier of the Washington and Warren Bank, at Sandy Hill.
Nov. 16 .- The common council of the city resolved that all debates and proceedings of the board should in future be public, and that arrangements should be made in the council room for the accommodation of the members and attendants.
A line of stages from Albany to Montreal, on the west side of Lake Champlain, commenced running early in December of this year, by which the mail was trans- mitted three times a week.
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Dec. 17 .- The copartnership of Thomas Carson and Green Hall was dissolved. The former continued business at the old stand 34 State street, and the latter continued to manufacture silver work and jewelry, at No. 11 Plain street.
An application was made to the legislature, for the passage of a law to separate the fifth ward of the city of Albany, from the said city, and restore it to its ancient rights and privileges, by the name of the town of Colonie.
1819.
The expense of erecting the Capitol, and the manner in which the different apartments were occupied at this time, appear from some papers accompanying a message of the governor to the legislature.
The building appears to have been erected at the joint expense of the state, the city, and the county, in the fol- lowing proportion.
Paid by the state, city,
county,
$73,485.42 34,200.00 3,000.00
Total cost, $110,685.42
All the rooms on the first floor were occupied by the state, except the northeast corner, which was used as the common council room of the city. The rooms in the second story were occupied by the court of chancery, supreme court. common pleas, general sessions, and may- or's court, except the one immediately above the lobby of the assembly room, which was used two or three times a year by the supervisors of the county. All the apart- ments in the third story were unoccupied except the south- west corner room, which was appropriated in 1812 to the use of the society for the promotion of the arts. The base- ment, was occupied, the southeast corner by the county clerk and the northeast corner by the keeper of the Capitol.
By the annual report of the treasurer of the Lancaster school, it appears that the expenses of the institution were $1719 for the year ending February Ist; of this
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sum $500 was paid out of the city treasury, $676.34 out of the county treasury, $150 by subscriptions, $345.51 by collections for tuition, and the remainder out of funds on hand. The number of students entered during the year, 723, of whom 390 were then in attendance.
Gov. Clinton, in his annual message, estimated that the expense of transportation from Albany to Buffalo by the canal when finished, would not exceed $10 a ton!
About this time it was proposed to establish a line of post coaches from Albany to Niagara, to accomplish the distance in four days. It was thought by this means to connect New York with Detroit, so as to occupy 7 or 8 days only in the transit.
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