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I shall not trespass further on your time and patience, by adding to this letter, which is swelled to an extraordinary length, for which the interesting occasion and subject must be my
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apology, than to assure you, that I am, with the most perfect esteem and regard to yourself and the venerable Society,
Reverend Sir, Your affectionate and humble servant,
CHARLES INGLIS.
The Rev. Dr. Hind.
P. S .- Since the above was written, Dr. Auchmuty is come to town, having, with great difficulty, escaped from the rebels at Brunswick.
... CHARLES INGLIS, D. D., the writer of the foregoing letter, which we borrow from llawkins' Missions, was born in 1734, and conducted a free school in Lancaster, l'a., from 1755 to 1758, when he was recommended to the Bishop of London for orders. On receiving ordination in Eng'and, he returned to America in July, 1759, and entered on his mission as pastor of the church of Dover, Pa. Here he lost his first wife. Sometime after this latter event, he removed to the city of New-York, where he became assistant to the Rev. Dr. Auchmuty in 1765, whom he succeeded as rector of Trinity Church in 1777. Being the only governor of King's Coll. in town, when Washington occupied the city of N. York, Dr. I. loaned the latter, on his application, the telescope be- longing to that Institution. After Galloway, the great Pennsylvania Loyalist, went to England in 1779, Dr. I. became his correspondent, and his letters evince no little harshness towards the American party. Having been included, with his lady, in the act of attainder of 1779, the return of peace rendered it obligatory on him to leave the States. Ile accordingly accompanied some loyalists of his congregation to Annapolis, N. S. Ile was consecrated Bishop of that Province on 12th Angst., 1787, and was appointed member of the Prov : Council in 1809. Ile died in ISIt, aged 82 years. His son John was the third Protestant bishop of Nova Scotia.
XVIII. PRICES OF
Land in the State of New-Dork. 1791.
PRICES OF LAND IN TIIE STATE OF NEW-YORK IN 1791.
Copy of contracts for the sale of lands, made by the COMMISSIONERS
. of the LAND OFFICE of the State of NEW-YORK, in pursuance of an act of the Legislature passed the 22d day of March 1791, entitled, An act to amend an act entitled, An act for the sale and disposition of lands belonging to the people of this Stute, and for other purposes thercin mentioned.
The application of James Parker, in behalf of himself and his associates, being a settlement of Friends, on the West side of the Seneca Lake, for the purchase of four thousand acres of land, situate in the county of Ontario, and bounded westerly on John Lansing Junior's location, northwardly on the south line of Ryckmans reservation, easterly on part of the west shore of the Seneca lake, and extending so far south, as to contain 4000 acres, at the rate of two shillings per acre ; Aeres 1000 £100 0 0
And also for the purchase of another tract of land, sup- posed to contain about eight thousand acres, situate in the said county of Ontario, and bounded westerly on said Lansing's east line, and a continuation of the same to the southward northwardly on the south line of the above described tract of four thousand acres, easterly on part of the west shore of the Seneca lake, and south on part of the line between the counties of Ontario and Tioga, at the rate of one shilling and sixpence per acre, the whole of the consideration money, to be paid on or before the first day of March 1792, being read and considered. (ACCEPTED) Acres S000 £600 0 0
The application of Alexander Macomb, for the purchase of the following tracts of land was read, and is in the words follow- ing, viz. Acres 3,635,200. £121,173.6.8
"To the Commissioners of the land office of the State of New York,
" Gentlemen,
" I take the liberty of requesting to withdraw my application,
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to your honourable board, of April last, and to substitute the following proposal, for the purchase of the waste and unappro- priated lands comprized within the bounds herein after mentioned, and all the islands belonging to this State, in front of said lands, viz. Beginning at the northwest corner of the township called HIagne, on the river St Lawrence, and thence extending southerly along the westerly bounds of the said township and the township called Cambray, to the most southerly corner of the latter, thence extending easterly, northerly and southerly, along the lines of the said township of Cambray, and of the townships of De Kalb, Canton and Potsdam, and Stockholm, to the castermost corner of the latter, thence north-westerly along the line of the said township of Stockholm, and the township of Louis Ville, to the river St Laurence, thence along the shore thereof to the line, run for the north line of this State, in the 45th degree of north lati- tude, thence east along the same to the west bounds of the tract formerly set apart as bounty lands for the troops of this State, serving in the army of the United States, thence southerly along the same, to the north bounds of the tract known by the name of Totten and Crossfield's purchase, thence westerly along the north bounds of the tract last mentioned, to the westermost corner thereof, thence southerly along the southwesterly bounds thereof, to the most westerly corner of township number five, in the said tract, thence westerly on a direct line to the northwester- most corner of the tracts granted to Oothondt, thence westerly on a direct line to the month of Salmon river where it empties itself into lake Ontario, thence northeasterly along the shore of the said lake, and the river St. Lawrence to the place begin- ning, including all the islands belonging to this State, fronting the said tract in lake Ontario and the river St. Laurence, five per cent to be dedneted for highways and all lakes whose area exceeds one thousand acres, to be also deducted, for which after the above deductions, I will give eight pence per acre, to be paid in the following manner, to wit : One sixth part of the purchase money at the end of one year from the day on which this proposal shall be accepted, and the residue in five equal annual instalments on the same day, in the five next suc- ceeding years. The first payment to be secured by bond, to the
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5 : Win Inmani's I Tract 20
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Tho: Boylston's Tract 817
Peter Chassais Tract 220
James Watson's Tract .61
John Julins Argerstein 210
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821.819 553 020
138.228
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150 950
5 .Wi Inman's I Traet 26,250
6. Win tuman's 2" Trait 74100
Tho: Boylston's Traet 817.155
Peter Chassaints The 1 220 500
James Watson's Tract 61 138
Jolin Julius ersten 210000
1.109 730 3,593,755
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satisfaction of your honorable Board, and if paid on the time limited and new bonds to the satisfaction of the board executed for another sixth of the purchase money, then I shall be entitled to a patent for one sixth part of said tract, to be set off in a square, in one of the corners thereof, and the same rule to be observed as to the payments and securities and grants or patents, until the contract shall be fully completed. But if at any time I shall think fit to anticipate the payments, in whole or in part, in that case I am to have a deduction on the sum so paid, of an interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, for the time I shall have paid any such sum before the time herein before stipulated. I have the honor to be, gentlemen, with great respect, your most obedient servant ALEXANDER MACOMB.
New York, May 2d, 1791.
" I do hereby consent and agree, that the islands called Carle ton's or Buck's islands, in the entrance of lake Ontario, and the isle Au Long Saut, in the river St. Lawrence, and a tract equal to six miles square, in the vicinity of the village of St. Regis, be excepted out of the above contract, and to remain the proper- ty of the State : Provided always, That if the said tract shall not be hereafter applied for the use of the Indians of the said village, that then the same shall be considered as included in this con- tract, and that I shall be entitled to a grant for the same, on my performance of the stipulations aforesaid.
(ACCEPTED)
ALEXANDER MACOMB."
The application of Melaneton Smith, in behalf of himself and Marinus Willet for the purchase of a tract of land, bounded on the easterly side by the Chenango river, northerly by the south line of township No. 14, and westerly by a line to be drawn from the southwest corner of the said town, on the same course with the west bounds thereof until it shall intersect the Chenango river, at the rate of four shillings and one penny per acre, the one sixth to be paid immediately, one half of the remainder on the first of April, and the other half on the first day of June next, being duly read and considered ;
(ACCEPTED) Acres 6000 £1,125 0 0
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The application of Leonard M. Cutting, for the purchase of township No. 15, on the west side of the Unadilla river, con- taining 25,000 acres, being one of the townships surveyed by the Surveyor- general, pursuant to an act passed the 25th day of February, 1789, at the rate of three shillings and one farthing per acre; six hundred pounds thereof to be paid on or before the first day of October next, and the residue in two equal payments, the one to be made on or before the first day of April next, and the other to be made on or before the first day of February 1793, which will bring the whole payment within eighteen months; security to be given to the satisfaction of this board, for the pay- ment of the first six hundred pounds, being read and duly con- sidered; (ACCEPTED) Acres 25,000 £3,776 0 0
The application of John Carpenter, for the purchase of one thousand acres of land, lying westerly of Fort Montgomery, in Orange County, at the rate of five shillings per acre, in State securities, to be paid when the quantity of land shall be ascer- tained by a survey, being read and duly considered; (ACCEPTED)
The application of Zina Hitchcock and Philip Smith, for the purchase of about 2000 acres of land, lying on the west side of lake George, near what is called the northwest Bay, at the rate of one shilling and six pence per acre, in specie, being read and duly considered of, but the tract not being particularly described, and no certain time being mentioned for the payment of the consideration money,
(ACCEPTED) Acres 2,000 C150 0 0
The application of James Tallmadge and Ezra Thompson, for the purchase of township No. 10, on the west side of the Una- dilla river, containing 25,000 acres, being one of the twenty townships surveyed by the surveyor-general, pursuant to an act passed the 25th day of February, 1789, at the rate of three shillings per acre; one sixth part to be paid on the first of Oeto- ber next, the remainder to be paid in two equal instalments, the one on the first day of May next, and the other on the first day of January, which will be in the year 1793; security to be given to the satisfaction of this Board, for the payment of the first sixth part above mentioned, being read and duly considered,
(ACCEPTED) Acres 25,000 £3,750 0 0 The application of Michael Meyers, Jedediah Sanger and John
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J. Morgan (for the purchase of townships No 18, and 20, and the parts unsold by the surveyor-general of township No. 19, being three of the twenty townships surveyed by the surveyor general pursuant to an act passed the 25th day of February 1789 The two first townships, to wit No. 18 and 20, at the rate of three shillings and three pence per acre, and the parts of No. 19, unsold as above mentioned, at the rate of three shillings and one penny per acre ; one sixth part thereof to be paid on the first day of October next, and the residue in two equal payments, the one half on the first of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and the remaining half on the first of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three; being read and duly considered, (ACCEPTED) Acres 67,130 £10,908 15 0
The application of John Taylor, for the purchase of the parts unsold by the surveyor-general of Townships No. 16 and 17 of the 20 townships surveyed by the said surveyor-general, pursuant to an act passed the 25th day of February, 1789, at the rate of three shillings and three pence per acre ; one sixth part thereof to be paid in six months, one half the residue in one year, and the other half in eighteen months from the date hereof; being read and duly considered, (ACCEPTED) Acres 43,377 £7,0-18 15 0
The application of Colonel William S. Smith, for the purchase of townships No. 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9, being six of the twenty townships surveyed by the surveyor-general, pursuant to an act passed the 25th day of February, 1789, at the rate of three shillings and three pence per acre ; one sixth of the purchase money to be paid on the first of October next, half of the residue on the first of Jannary, 1792, and the residue on the first of January, 1793, being read and duly considered,
(ACCEPTED) Acres 150,000 £21,375 0 0
The application of the said William S. Smith, for the purchase of the following tract of land, situate between the river Chenango, and its western Branch, and bounded northerly by township No. 13 of the twenty townships, and the south line thereof continued until it meets with township No. 25, called Cincinatus, and the south bounds of said township Cincinatus, casterly by lands agreed to be sold to Melancton Smith and Marinus Willet, and the middle of Chenango river, and westerly by the middle of the VOL. III.
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west branch of the said river, called Tiochnioga, at the rate of three shillings and three pence per acre ; one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid on the first of October next, one half of the residue on the first of January, 1792, and the residue on the first of January 1793, being read and duly considered, (ACCEPTED) Acres 120,000 £19,500 0 0
The application of Leonard M. Cutting, for the purchase of townships No. 11 and 14, being two of the twenty townships surveyed by the surveyor-general, pursuant to an act passed on the 25th day of February, 1789, at the rate of three shillings and three pence per acre; one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid on the first day of October next, and the residue to be paid in two equal payments, the one on the first day of April next, and the other on the first day of January, 1793, being read and duly considered, (ACCEPTED) Acres 50,000 £8,125 0 0
The application of William Moore, in behalf of himself and as attorney of John Springsteen, Jacob Springsteen, Josiah Stow, David Stow, Daniel Stow, David Hotchkiss and Joseph Beebce, to purchase a certain tract of land, situate in the County of Tioga, partly in the township of Warren and partly in the town- ship of Chenango, beginning at the southeast corner of a tract of land granted to Abijah Hammond, and from thence running along the south bounds of the said tract north eighty-seven degrees, west eighty Chains; thence south three degrees, west about eighty chains, to land granted to William Allison; then along part of his north bounds south, eighty-six degrees and forty minutes cast, one hundred and sixty chains to the west bounds of a tract of land granted to James Clinton and Isaac Melcher; and then along the said last mentioned bounds as they . run, to the place beginning, containing about one thousand acres more or less, at the rate of six shillings per acre; one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid the first day of October next, and the residue in two equal payments, the one on the first day of April next, and the other on the first day of January, 1793, being read and duly considered,
(ACCEPTED) Acres 1,000 £300 0 0 The application of Alexander Webster, Edward Savage, and John Williams, Esquires, for the purchase of township No. 1,
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being one of the twenty townships surveyed by the surveyor- general pursuant to an act passed on the 25th day of February, 1789, at the rate of three shillings and three pence per acre; one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid on the first day of October next, and the residue in two equal payments, the one on the first day of April next, and the other on first day of Jan- uary, 1793, being read and duly considered,
Acres 25,000 £1,062 10 0
The application of Thomas Ludlow and Josiah Shippey, for the purchase of two townships surveyed by the surveyor-general, pursuant to an act passed the 25th day of February, 1789, at the rate of three shillings and five pence per acre; one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid on the first day of October next, and the residue in two equal payments, one on the first of Janu- ary, 1792, and the other on the first of January, 1793, being read and duly considered, (ACCEPTED) Acres 50,000 £8,541 13 4
The application of White Matlack and Jacob Hallet, for the purchase of townships No. 12 and 13, being two of the twenty townships surveyed by the surveyor-general, pursuant to an act passed the 25th of February 1789, at the rate of three shillings and five pence per acre; one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid on the first day of October next, and the residue in two equal payments, the one on the first of January, 1792, and the other on the first of January, 1793, being read and duly considered,
(ACCEPTED) Acres 25,000 £4,270 16 8
The application of John W. Watkins and Augustus Sackett, for the purchase of fifteen thousand acres of land, situate between the military lands and the twenty townships surveyed by the surveyor-general, pursuant to an act passed the 25th day of February, 1789, beginning at the southwest corner of township No. 13, of the said twenty townships, and running thence west to the east bounds of the military townships; then north along the said east bounds six miles ; then east to the northwest corner of the said township No. 13, and then south along the west bounds of the said township No. 13 to the place of beginning, at the rate of three shillings and five pence half penny per acre, one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid in three months ; and the residue in two equal payments, the first in six months
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and the last in eighteen months from the date hereof, being read and duly considered. (ACCEPTED) Acres 15,000 £2,593 15 0
The application of Robert C. Livingston, for the purchase of township No. 7, one of the twenty townships surveyed by the surveyor general, pursuant to an act passed the 25th day of Feb- ruary, 1789, at the rate of three shillings and six pence per acre ; the one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid on the 1st day of October next, and the residue in two equal payments, one on the first of January, 1792, and the other on the 1st of January 1793, being read and duly considered.
(ACCEPTED) Acres 25,000 £1,375 0 0
The application of John and Nicholas I. Roosevelt, for the purchase of the following tract of land was read. and is in the words following, to wit :
" To the honorable the Commissioners of the
land office of the State of New York.
" Gentlemen,-Instead of our former proposals for the pur chase of the following tract of land, we beg leave to substitute the following to wit : 'We propose to purchase the unappropri- ated lands comprised within the following boundaries, to wit : All that certain tract of vacant land, bounded northerly by the tract lately purchased by Alexander Macomb, easterly by Oothoudt's patent and Canada creek, southerly by the Wood creek, the Oneida lake and the Onondaga river, and westerly by the said Onondaga river and lake Ontario ; and also the Islands belonging to the State in front of the said lands, upon the follow- ing conditions, to wit, at the rate of three shillings and one penny for each acre ; one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid, with lawful interest, in six months from the date of the contract, and the remainder in two equal instalments, one instal- ment in one year, and the other in two years from the aforesaid date. When the first yearly instalment is paid, then a patent shall issue for one half of the land to be laid out in a square as · nearly as possible, on such end of the tract as the commissioners shall think proper ; and when the second yearly instalment is paid, then a patent shall issne for the right of the said tract : But if we think proper to pay the purchase money before the times above specified, then patents to issue for the same, and a
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discount of four per cent. per annum to be allowed for the time of payment so anticipated.
" JNO & NICHOLAS I. ROOSEVELT. Acres 500,000 £77,083 6 8 New York, August 1791.
"P. S. Out of the above described lands we consent to except the lands and fisheries reserved by the deeds of cession from Oneida and Cayuga Indians to the State, and the lands at the falls called Oswego Falls, on the Onondaga river, and the lands at Oswego on the north-easterly side of the said river, where the same falls into lake Ontario, which by any former laws of the State were inhibited from being granted ; and also such locations as have been already made : On any of the said lands should the above proposals be acceded to, we expect that an allowance will be made for all lakes whose area exceeds one thousand acres.
(ACCEPTED) JNO & NICHOLAS I. ROOSEVELT."
The application of John M'Kesson, for the purchase of four thousand eight hundred acres of land, situate in the county of Herkemer, and bounded easterly by the former line of property, established in the year 1768, being the west bounds of Coxburgh, and by lands granted to John I. Bleecker, northerly by lands granted to John Francis Perache, westerly by the easterly line of reservation of the Oneida Indians, and southerly by the land granted to the said John I. Bleecker and the lands granted to James Deane, at the rate of three shillings and six pence per acre ; one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid or secured agreeable to the advertisement of this Board, and the residue in one year from the 1 4th of July last ; and if the whole money be paid before that day, then the patent to issue for the said land ; being read and duly considered; (ACCEPTED) Acres 3800 £665 0 0
The application of James Watson for the purchase of all the unlocated part of the following tract of land, to wit : Beginning at the south east corner of Ryckman's reservation on the Seneca lake, and running thence southerly along the shores of the said lake to the south end of the same ; from thence in a west course to the pre-emption line : thence northerly along the said line to the southwest corner of Ryckman's reservation aforesaid, and from thence along the southerly bounds of the said reservation
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to the place of beginning ; and also, all the unappropriated land lying and being in the southwest part of the township Chemung, and southwesterly of the Tioga river, at the rate of three shillings and sevenpence per acre; the one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid in six months from the date hereof, with lawful interest, and the residue in two equal instalments, the first to be paid in one year, and the second in two years from the date hereof; being read and duly considered,
(ACCEPTED) Acres 60.000 £10,750 0 0
The application of John W. Watkins and Royal Flint, for the purchase of all the unlocated part of the following tract of land, to wit : beginning at the northwest corner of the township of Chemung ; thence running easterly along the northern boundary of the said township of Chemung, until it strikes Owego river, being the west bounds of the ten townships added to Massachu- setts, thence northerly along the said bounds to the township of Dryden, being one of the military townships appropriated for the use of the troops of this state; thence westerly along the southern boundary of the townships of Dryden, Ulysses and Hector, to the southwestern part of the Seneca lake; thence west until a line strikes the pre-emption line (which line is also the south boundary of a tract this day sold to James Watson) and then southerly along the said pre-emption line to the place of beginning, at the rate of three shillings and four pence per acre ; the one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid, with lawful interest, in six months from the date hereof, and the residue in two equal instalments, the one in nine months, and the other in eighteen months thereafter ; being read and duly considered, (ACCEPTED) Acres 300,000 £50,000 0 0
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