The military and civil history of the county of Essex, New York : and a general survey of its physical geography, its mines and minerals, and industrial pursuits, embracing an account of the northern wilderness, Part 41

Author: Watson, Winslow C. (Winslow Cossoul), 1803-1884; Making of America Project
Publication date: 1869
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : J. Munsell
Number of Pages: 551


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The general thought proper to send you this intelligence, that in case he should be so unfortunate, from the delays of the militia, not to have it in his power to give you timely assistance, you might be able to make the best terms left in your power.


The bearer is a sergeant of the Connecticut forces, and if he is happy enough to get in, will bring advices from you. We keep con- tinual scouts going to endeavor to bring intelligence from you. I am, sir, with the heartiest and most anxious wishes for your welfare, your most obedient, humble servant,


E. BARTRAM, Aid-de-camp.


To Col. Monroe, or officer commanding at Fort William Henry.


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APPENDIX B.


MONTCALM.


M. Jean Pierre de Bougainville addressed the subjoined letter to William Pitt:


To the Right Hon. Wm. Pitt.


SIR: The honor paid during your ministry to the memory of Mr. Wolfe gives me room to hope that you will not disapprove of the grateful efforts made by the French troops to perpetuate the memory of the Marquis de Montcalm. The corpse of that general who was honored with the regret of your nation, is buried at Que- bec. I have the honor to send you an epitaph, which the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres have wrote for him, and I would beg the favor of you, sir, to read it over, and if there be nothing improper in it, to procure me a permission to send it to Quebec, en- graved in marble to be put over the Marquis Montcalm's tomb. If the permission should be granted, may I presume, sir, to entreat the honor of a line to acquaint me with it, and at the same time to send me a passport that engraved marble may be received on board an English vessel, and that Mr. Murray, governor of Quebec, may give leave to have it put up in the Ursuline Church. I ask pardon, sir, for taking off your attention, even for a moment, from your im- portant concerns, but to endeavor to immortalize great men and illustrious citizens, is to do honor to you. I am, etc.,


BOUGAINVILLE.


Paris, March 26th, 1761.


REPLY OF MR. PITT.


Sir : It is a real satisfaction to me to send you the king's consent on such an interesting subject, as the very handsome epitaph drawn by the Academy of Inscriptions at Paris, for the Marquis de Mont- calm, which is desired to be sent to Quebec, engraved on marble, to be set up on the tomb of that illustrious warrior. The whole senti- ments expressed in the desire to pay this tribute to the memory of their general, by the French troops who served in Canada, and who saw him fall at their head, in a manner worthy of him and worthy of them, cannot be too much applauded.


I shall take pleasure, sir, in facilitating a design so full of respect to the deceased, and as soon as I am informed of the measures taken for embarking the marble, I shall immediately give the passport you desire, and send orders to the governor of Canada for its recep- tion. As to the rest, be assured, sir, that I have a just sense of the obliging things said to me in the letter with which you honored me, and that I think it a singular happiness to have an opportunity to


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express those sentiments of distinguished esteem and consideration with which I have the honor to be, etc.,


W. PITT. April 10th, 1761.


This correspondence, so graceful and dignified, and worthy the exalted subject, resulted in the engraving of the magnificent epi- taph annexed by the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres of Paris :


GENERAL MONTCALM'S EPITAPH.


HIC JACET.


Utroque in orbe æternûm Victurus LUDOVICUS JOSEPHUS DE MONTCALM GOZON, Marchio Sancti Verani, Baro Gabriaci, Ordinis Sancti Ludovici, Commendator, Legatus Generalis Exercituum Gallicorum. Egregius et Cives et Miles, Nullius Rei appetens, præterquam veræ laudis, Ingenio felici et litteris exculto,


Omnes Militiæ gradus per continua decora emensus, Omnium belli Artium, temporum, discriminum gnarus In Italiâ, in Bohemia, in Germaniâ, Dux Industrius ; Mandata sibi, ita semper gerens, ut majoribus par haberetur. Jam claris periculis, Ad tutandum Canadensem Provinciam missus Parvâ Militum manu, Hostium copias, non semel repulit : Propugnacula cepit viris armisque, instructissima. Algoris, Inediæ, vigilarum, laboris patiens, Suis unicè prospiciens, immemor sui, Hostis acer, Victor Mansuetus. Fortunam virtute, virium inopiam, peritiâ Et celeritate, compensavit.


Imminens Coloniæ Fatum et consilio et manu per quadriennium sustinuit. Tandem ingentem exercitum Duce strenuo et audaci,


Classemque omni bellorum mole gravem, Multiplici prudentiâ, diû ludificatus, Vi pertractus ad dimicandum, In primâ acie, in primo conflictu, vulneratus, Religioni, quam semper coluerat, innitens, Magno suorum desiderio, nec sine hostium mærore extinctus est. Die XIV Septem. A. D. M.DCC.LIX. Atat. XLVIII. Mortales optimi Ducis exuvias, in excavatâ humo, Quàm Globus bellicus decidens, disiliensque defoderat, Galli lugentes deposuerunt Et generosæ Hostium fidei commendârunt.1


1 Hough's Pouchot.


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The letter of Montcalm from which extracts are introduced in the text is copied by Carlyle in his Frederick the Great (vol. v, pages 149-51) from a work by Beatson entitled Plains of Abra- ham which embraces a correspondence ranging from 1757 to 1759 between M. M. Berryer and De La Mole and Montcalm. The genuineness of these letters has been questioned, but Carlyle uses them without dissent, and in my view they are impressed by inhe- rent evidences of authenticity. My limits only permit me to reproduce in addition to the extracts in the text, the closing para- graphs copied by Carlyle :


"So confident am I of what I write that I will allow but ten years after the conquest of Canada to see its fulfillment.


"Thus as a Frenchman do I to-day console myself for the danger so imminent and pressing of seeing this colony lost to my country."


The courtesy of an eminent scholar and jurist of Canada (the Honorable Charles Mondelet of the court of appeals) has enabled me to subjoin some valuable particulars connected with these events.


M. Jean Pierre de Bougainville, the elegant correspondent of Pitt, was brother to Colonel Bougainville, the protege and aide of Montcalm, and the great circumnavigator. In accordance with the wishes of the French troops, animated by their ardent sentiments, in which the memory of Montcalm was cherished, Bougainville caused the inscription to be prepared by the Academy and engraved it is supposed upon a marble slab designed for a mural monument to be placed in the church of the Ursulines at Quebec. It is believed that in pursuance of the assent of the British government, the slab was sent to Canada, but no traces or vestige of it now exist.


APPENDIX C.


CIVIL LIST OF ESSEX COUNTY.


Supreme Court .- Fourth Dis-


trict.


Augustus C. Hand, ..... 1847


County Judges.


Daniel Ross, 1800


Dean Edson, 1823


Reuben Whallon, 1831


Wolcott Tyrill, 1838


Henry H. Ross, 1847


John E. McVine, 1848


Robert S. Hale,. 1856 Byron Pond, 1864


Representatives in Congress, resi- dents of Essex County.


Benjamin Pond, .. 1811 and 1813 Asa Adgate, ...... 1815 and 1817 Ezra C. Gross, ... 1819 and 1821 Henry H. Ross, 1825


Isaac Finch, 1829


Reuben Whallon, 1833


Augustus C. Hand, 1839 Thomas A. Tomlinson, 1841


1847


Orlando Kellogg, 1862


1864


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George R. Andrews, ........ 1849 Geo A. Simmons, 1853 and 1855


Robt. S. Hale to fill vacancy, 1865


State Senators.


Reuben Sanford, 1828


Augustus C. Hand, 1844


James S. Whallon, 1847


Eli W. Rogers,. 1852


Ralph A. Loveland, 1857


Palmer E. Havens,. 1863


Matthew Hale, 1867


Members of Asembly.


Wm. Gilliland (Clinton and Essex,).


1800


William Bailey, 1802


Thomas Stower (Essex,) 1803


1804


Theodoross Ross, 1805


1806


Stephen Cuyler, 1807


1808


Benjamin Pond,


1809


1810


1811


Delavan DeLance, Jr., ... 1812


Manoah Miller, 1813


Levi Thompson 1814


1815


Reuben Sanford, 1816


1817 1818


John Hoffnagle,


1820


1827


Ebenezer Douglass, 1821


Isaac Finch, 1822 and 1824


Asa Adgate,. 1823


William Smith, ... 1825 and 1826


Ezra C Gross, ... .. 1828 and 1829


William Kirby, 1830


Joseph S. Reed, 1831


Isaac Vanderwarker,. 1832


Almerin Smith, 1833


Barnabus Myrick,. 1834


Thomas A. Tomlinson,. 1835


Thomas A. Tomlinson, .. 1836


1837


Gideon Hammond, ..


1839


1844


1840


George A. Simmons,


184I


1842


Samuel Shumway, .. 1843


John C. Hammond 1845


Caleb D. Barton, .. 1846


William H. Butrick, ( 1847


1848


George W. Goff, 1849 and 1850 Abraham Weldon, ( 1851 1852


1853


Jonathan Burnett,


1854


Nathaniel C. Boynton, 1855


John A. Lee, .. 1856


Ralph A. Loveland, 1857


Monroe Hall, 1858


1859


Martin Finch,


1851


1862


Palmer E. Havens,


1863


1867


1864


William H. Richardson,


1865


1866


Samuel Root,


1869


Sheriffs.


Thomas Stower, .. 1799


Jonathan Lynde, ... 1802


John Hoffnagle, Jr.,. 1806


1808


William Kirby, ..


1821


1822


Delavan De Lance, 1812


George Throop, . 1813


Luther Adgate, 1819


Coughton Lobdell, 1815


$ 1825


Samuel Murdock, 1831


1868


1819


1850


1838


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Leander J. Lockwood, 1828


Solomon Everest,. 1831


John Harris, 1837


Alanson Wilder,


1840


Chilion A. Tremble,. 1843


Norman Page,


1846


Aaron B. March, 1849


Charles W. Ensign,


1852


Jacob Parmerter,.


1855


Elisha A. Adams,


1858


William W. Tabor, 1861


Ransom L. Locke,


1864


Abijah Perry,


1867


County Clerks.


Stephen Cuyler, 1799


Simeon Frisbee, 1808


William Kirbey,


1813


Thomas Stower


1815


Ashley Pond,


1821


Leonard Stow, 1827


Edward S. Cuyler,


1833


Edmund F. Williams,


1839


George S. Nicholson,


1848


Byron Pond,


Nov.


1858


Elisha A. Adams, ...


1851


Robert W. Livingstone, ...


1857


William E. Calkins, ........ 1860


County Treasurers under consti- tution of 1846.


Safford E. Hale, Nov ... 1848


John L. Merriam,


..


1857


Charles N. Williams, " ..... 1860


Surrogates.


William Gilliland, Mar. 24, 1800 James McCrea, Oct. 29, 1801


Thomas Treadwell, Mar. 14, 1807


Ezra C. Gross,


Feb. 13, 1815


Ashley Pond,


Mar. 2, 1819


John Calkins, Mar. 3, 1821


Augustus C. Hand, Apr. 15, 1831 Orlando Kellogg, Jan. 24, 1840 Robert W. Livings- tone, Jan. 24, 1844


In 1846 duties assigned to County Judge. Special Judge and Surrogate.


Martin F. Nichol-


son,


Nov.


1857


Office abolished,


Jan.


1860


District Attorney.


Ralph Hascall,


Jun. 13, 1818


Dean Edson,


Mar. 3, 1821


David B. McNeil, Oct. 2, 1828


Gardner Stone,


Apr. 11, 1833


Moses T. Clough, Sept. 24, 1844


Edward S. Shum-


way, resigned, Nov. 1850


James P. Butler, Apr. 12, 1852


Hiram M. Chace, Nov.


1855


Martin Finch,


1864


Arod K. Dudley,


1867


Delegates to Constitutional Con- vention.


Thomas


Treadwell


(Clinton and Es-


sex), convention of,


1801


Reuben Sanford, Es-


sex, convention of,


1821


George A. Simmons,


1846


Mathew Hale,


1867


Regent of University.


Robert S. Hale, Mar. 29, 1859


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APPENDIX D.


The census returns of Essex for 1865 embrace the following stat- istics :


Acres.


Land improved, ..


246,824


Lands unimproved,


442,186


No.


Sheep shorn,


62,201


Milch cows,


9,219


Pounds.


Wool,


252,226


Butter,


654,174


Tons.


Tons of hay,.


48,712


Spring wheat,


26,388


Oats, ......


913,912


Winter rye,


63,68


Buckwheat,


38,110


Indian corn,.


101,324


Potatoes,


400,574


Pounds.


Maple sugar,


92,940


Bushels.


Beans,


13,943


Bushels.


My limits will not permit the reproducing the elaborate statisti- cal tables, which will be found by reference to census returns.


Table showing the Aspect of Population in Essex County.


TOWN.


1810.


1825.


1830.


1835.


1840.


1845.


1850.


1860.


Chesterfield, taken from Willsboro', 1821,


631


1,151


1,671


2,083


2,697


3,022


4,171


3,179


Crown point, ...


1,082


1,728


2,041


2,189


2,212


2,261


2,378


3,552


Elizabethtown, taken from Crown Point, 1798,


1,362


1,029


1,015


856


1,061


1,194


1,635


1,343


Essex, taken from Willsboro,' 1805, .


1,186


1,288


1,543


1,529


1,681


1,720


2,351


1,633


Jay, taken from Willsboro', 1792,


1,164


1,216


1,729


1,732


2,260


2,431


2,688


2,514


Keene, taken from Elizabethtown and Jay, 1808, ..


642


707


287


700


730


809


798


734


Lewis, taken from Willsboro', 1805, ..


537


1,101


1,305


1,358


1,500


1,681


2,058


1,807


Minerva, taken from Schroon, 1817,. .


371


358


335


455


496


586


903


Moriah, taken from Crown Point and Elizabethtown, 1808,. .


584


1,251


2,742


2,293


2,595


2,807


3,065


3,406


Newcomb, taken from Moriah and Minerva, 1828,


62


46


74


126


277


157


North Elba, taken from Keene, 1849, ..


. .. .


....


. .. .


... .


....


210


366


North Hudson, taken from Moriah, 1848,


561


297


St. Armands, taken from Wilmington, 1844, .


129


210


131


Schroon, taken from Crown Point, 1804,.


689


1,290


1,614


1,723


1,660


1,705


2,031


2,550


Ticonderoga, taken from Crown Point, 1804,.


985


1,833


1,996


2,080


2,168


2,309


2,669


2,271


Westport, taken from Elizabethtown, 1815,


. . . .


1,322


1,513


1,724


1,932


2,094


2,352


1,981


Willsboro',.


663


1,166


1,316


1,253


1,667


1,424


1,932


1,519


Wilmington, taken from Jay, 1821, ..


...


637


895


798


928


894


1,176


861


Total,.


9,525


15,993


19,386


20,699


23,620


25,102


31,148


28,214


...


...


..


.


...


. .


.


.. . .


.


.


APPENDIXES.


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INDEX.


Abercrombie, his antecedents, 84; Arnold, continued -


expedition against Ticonderoga, 85 ; conduct at Ticonderoga, 92 ; retreats to Lake George, 95. Abraham, Plains of, 114. Adams, H. J., 275, 280, 287.


Aerial currents, 370.


Agassiz, Prof., 351, 426.


Agriculture, 477; how affected by lumbering, 478; by teaming, 478; by conflicting titles, 11; products of, 479; stock, 481; statistics of, 495.


Aiken, C. H., 238.


Albany, convention at, 39.


Allen, Ebenezer, takes Mt. Defiance, 187; captures English near Es- sex, 188.


Allen, Ethan, captures Ticonderoga, 134; at St. John, 139; notice of, 140; defeated and captured at Montreal, 145; his treatment, 145. Allen, W., 238.


American army, its condition, 147, 152; sickness of, 153; sufferings at Crown Point, 162.


Amherst repairs to Lake George, 102; character, 102; delay, 104; occupies Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 104; constructs road to Charlestown,


105; expedition of returns to Crown Point, 109 ; relics of, 109; works of at Crown Point and Ticon- deroga, 112; advances against Montreal, 114, and captures it, 116.


Archer, Lester, 253, 256. Armstrong, Thomas, 292.


Arnold, Benedict, holds commission


from Massachusetts, 133; at Ticonderoga, 133; seizes vessels at St Johns, 139; constructs fleet, 163; attacked at Valcour, 168; defeated and burns his ves- sels, 171; expedition to Quebec,


149; fails to surprise it, 151; leads a column at Quebec, wounded and repulsed, 155; superseded by Thomas, 159; governor of Montreal, 160; re- treats from Montreal, 160.


Arnold, R. W., 244. Arnold, Silas, 484.


Asbestos, 415.


Assembly, members of, 493.


Attorneys, district, 494.


Au Sable pond, 325; valley, 437; walled banks of, 331 ; saw mills at the mouth of, 453, horse nail company, officers of, 457. Aurora borealis, 370.


Bacon, Major, 262.


Baker, G. J., 238.


Baker, J. L., 238.


Baker, Remember, 134.


Barker, A., 262.


Barker, E. J., 258, 263, 264, 272.


Bartlett, L. A., 238.


Bates, H. J., 238.


Beaches, the, iron sand and gravel on, 422.


Beaman, Nathan, 120.


Beaumont, C. D., 231, 236.


Beaver meadows, 125.


Beaver, the, 388.


Bees, wild, 360.


Belding, J. W., 245, 248.


Bellamy, C. F., 238.


Benedict, Joel, 257.


Benedict, Professor F. N., 484.


Benzel, Adolphus, 120.


Bissell, E. L., 238.


Boice, Colonel, 273.


Boquet valley, 459.


Boudrye, L. N., 261, 273.


Bougainville, 490, 492 ; at Quebec, 111.


Boulamarque in command at Ticon- deroga, 104; burns bridges near Lake George, and retreats, 86.


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INDEX.


Boynton, J. H., 275.


Bradstreet, at Ticonderoga, 94; at Frontenac, 95.


Brown, Colonel John, 133; at Que- bec, 154; attacks Ticonderoga, 187.


Brown, John, notice of, 220 ; his ca- reer, 222 ; at Harper's Ferry, 224; capture and execution, 227; re- marks on, 227; Mr. Vallingdig- ham's opinion of, 227 ; Governor Wise's opinion of, 228.


Bryant, L. S., 274, 289.


Brydon, J., 274, 288, 290.


Buck, Hiram, 231, 233.


Burgey, Daniel, 231, 237, 238.


Burgoyne succeeds Carleton, 174; his army, 174 ; his subordinates, 175; treaty at Boquet, 175 ; proclama- tion, 176; attacks Ticonderoga, 180; erects battery on Mt. De- fiance, 180; pursues Long to Skeensboro', and defeats him, 183.


Butrick, G. M., 274.


Cadwell, M. P. S., 231, 237.


Calkins, A. F., 238.


Cameron, D., 238.


Campbell, G. F., 274, 286.


Campbell, G, W., 252.


Canada, exhaustion of, 98; corrup- tion in, 99 ; feelings towards the French in, 99; suffering, 79; population of, 79 ; corruption in, 79.


Canadians favorable to Americans, 142, 145; zeal of, 81; friendly receive lands from New York, 162 ; their bravery, 100.


Carillon, 50, 51.


Carleton, escapes to Quebec, 147; pursues, 163; builds a fleet at Valcour, 168; takes Crown Point, 173; returns to Canada, 173; humanity of, 162.


Carleton, Major, takes Forts George and Ann, 190. Carter, J. M., 283.


Cartier, discovers the St. Lawrence, 3; sees mountains of New York and Vermont, 3; kidnaps In- dians, 4.


Caughnawaga Indians, claim of, 204. Cedars, the, disaster at, 161. Cement water, 422.


Champlain, 5 ; early life, 6 ; voyages of, 9, 10; founds Quebec, 10; discovers Lake Champlain, 12;


Champlain, continued -


battle with Iroquois, 15; re- turns from France, 19; battle at the Richelieu, 19; on the Ot- tawa, 20, 21; at Nipissing, 21 ; sees Lake Huron, 21 ; attacks In- dian fort, 22; wounded, 23; builds castle St. Louis, 24; de- fends Quebec, 24; death and character, 24.


Champlain canal, 434.


Champlain, Lake, 1; names of, 3; opening and closing navigation, 371 ; former trade on, 434.


Charlotte county organized, 129. Chasm at Port Kendall, 332; at Split Rock, 333.


Chastes, Aymer de, 5.


Chauvin, 5.


Chesterfield, account of, 211.


Chipman, Nathaniel, 197.


Choiseuls, predicts injury to England from cession to Canada, 116.


Civil list, 39, 482. Clark, Robert, 374.


Clerks, county, 494.


Chmate, 370; and winds, 368.


Clinton county organized, 203.


Coates, G. B., 239, 293, 294.


Cochrane, Mrs.,letter on Lord Howe, 88. Colonies dissatisfied and alarmed, 45, 48.


Colonies, English, conditions of, 80 ; inferiority of British officials in, 82.


Colonies, French, 81 ; feudal system in, 81 ; character of French offi- cials, 82.


Colvin, Alvin, 109, 371. Commerce, 487.


Compact, written, of 5th Cavalry,257. Congress, action of, on capture of Ticonderoga, 137; decides to attack Canada, 137; represen- tatives in, 492.


Constitution formed at Chatham, Canada, 224.


Conventions, delegates to, 494.


Cook, H., 238.


Copper, 418.


Copperas, 422.


Corlear, Arent, 29.


Corlear's lake, 37.


Courcelles attacks Mohawks, and suffering of, 28.


Crown Point described, 41; army for reduction of, 49 ; ruins at, 112; early importance of, 117;


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INDEX.


Crown Point, continued -


description of, 118 ; attention of English government to, 120; siege of, 203; account of, 211; supplies troops, 231, 265. Cullen, Colonel, 253.


Cunningham, J. L., 275, 276.


D'Avignon, F. J., 250, 254. Davis, C. H., 245. Dean, Silas, 132. Deer, 247.


DeForest, O., 258.


Delany, P. H., 275.


Dellius Grant, 38.


DeMonts, 8; colony of, 8; explores New England, 9.


DePontbriand, Bishop, he defends Montcalm, 111.


DeTracy, expedition against Mo- hawks, 31.


DeTrèpesée, fight at Ticonderoga and death, 86.


Dickerson, M. J., 289.


Dieskau, 51; advances to attack Johnson, 56 ; defeated and cap- tured, 60; danger of assassina- tion, 61; death and character, 61. Dobie, D. F., 288.


Dodge, Daniel, horse nail machine, 454; account of, 455.


Dominy, L. S., 280, 284, 289.


Donohoe, Col., 287. Doolittle, L. L., 231, 239.


Douglass, W., 244.


Drift and diluvial formation, 423. Dunder Rock, 37. Dwyer, S. C., 232, 241, 242.


Easterbrooks, A. L., 238. Edgerly, E. F., 231, 236, 237, 238. Elizabethtown, 211, 334. Elmore, Mrs., anecdote of, 172. English boats repulsed at Ticon- deroga, 65. English colonies, exactions on, 102. English policy, 36, 44.


Essex and Clinton, population of, 208; account of, 211. Essex and Vermont, comparison of, 215.


Essex county organized, 207; ori- ginal county shire, 208; in war of 1812, 208; origin and habits of the people, 209; in season of 1816, 210; volunteers, 294; dis- bursements of, 295.


Fairman, J., 250. Farnsworth, J. H., 244. Feldspar bed, Spalding's, 421. Fertilizers, 426; phosphate of lime, 426; marl, 427; muck and peat, 428.


Fifth New York Cavalry, history of, 256.


Fire on Whiteface mountain, 320. First settlers, George and William Trimble, 203.


Fish of interior lakes, trout, 357; small, 358; white or frost, 358. Fish of Lake Champlain, 351; chaou- sarou, 351; salmon, 351; shad, 352; pickerel, 353; sturgeon, 354; smaller, 355; ling, 355; smelt, 356.


Fishing by torchlight, 356.


Folsom, Capt., at Lake George, 61. Foot, W. T., 465.


Forest trees, 364; changes in growth, 366; diseases of, 367.


Forty-fourth Regiment, 243.


Francis, Col., killed, 185.


French claims, 39; names, their beauty, 47; policy, 26, 42; set- tlements on Lake Champlain, 117. Frisbie, Col., 236.


Frontenac, Count, attacks Mohawks, 35. Fruit, 482 ; apples, plums, 486 ; Adi- rondac grapes, 486; pears, 486 ; huckleberry, 486.


Galena, 416 ; Indian's visit to bed of, 417. Gall, Adjutant, 264. Game, 125.


Garden Island, account of, 170.


Gas, inflammable, 135.


Gates at Ticonderoga, 173. Geology, notice of rocks at Port Henry, 419. Gibbs, N. J., 275, 287, 289. Gilliland, James, 128.


Gilliland the younger, 130.


Gilliland, William, locates lands, 122 ; colonized the Boquet, 124 ; narrative of, 127; account of, 154 ; collision with Arnold, 165 ; Hartley prefers charges against, 165; denunciation of Arnold, 166; misfortunes, 202; death, 203.


Glass, 468.


Glen's Falls Republican, 290.


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INDEX.


Goodhue, Rev. J. T., 134. Grace, C. A., 275.


Grants and patents, account of, 296 ; Abeel, 299; Benzel, 300; Ben- son, 300; Bruyn, 301; Camp- bell, Allen, 301; Campbell, D., 301; Connelly, 301; Deal, 302 ; Field, 302; Friswell, 303; Frelegh, 303; Gilliland, 303; Gilliland & Watson, 303 ; Grant, 303; Guise, 304; Hicks, 304; Judd, 305 ; Kellett, 305 ; Kelly, 305; Kennedy, 305; Legge, 306 ; Miller, 307; Mallory's, 308 ; Ma- thews, 308; Maule, 308; Mc- Intosli, 308 ; McBride, 308; Mc- Donald, 309; McKensie, 309; Montressor, 309; Old Military Tract, 309; Ord, 310; Porter, 310; Potts, 310; Ross, 310 ; Ry- erse, 310; Stoughton, 311 ; Skene, 311; Small, 311; Sutherland, 311; Springer, 311; soldiers rights, 312; Stevenson, 313; Stewart, 313; Summervale, 313; Totten & Crossfield, 313; Tom- lin, 316; Wharton, 316; Wries- burgh, 316.


Grants, French, 121. Graphite, 380, 415, 416.


Graphite Company, American, 470. Gray, C. O., 250, 251.


Hagar, C. L., 275. Haldimand documents, 201.


Hale, Colonel Nathan, notice of, 184. Hale, F. C., 299. HIall, Hiland, 201.


Hammond, C. F., 426 ; supplies horses to cavalry, 258. Hammond, John, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 264, 266, 267, 268, 484. Hand, A. C., 134. Hasbrook, Captain, 263. Haviland advances from Crown Point against Montreal, 115. Hayward, E. B., 258. Hayward, J. F., 245, 249.


Henderson, J. A., 244. Hendrik, 56; killed, 58.


Hendrik's speech at Albany, 49. Herrick, Captain, seizes Skeensboro', 135.


Hessians, the, 174. Hetzil, S., 244. Hinds, G. W., 250.


Hinman, Colonel Benjamin, takes command at Ticonderoga, 141.


Hochelaga named Mont Royal, 3. Holbrook, A. H., 238. Holden, A. W., 238. Horicon, 50.


Horicon, corporal, 249.


Howe, Lord, his zeal, 84; Howe & Stark, 86; killed, 87; effect of his death, 87 ; his burial, 89. Hoystradt, W. H., 238. Hubbardton, battle of, 183.


Hudson, 19. Huff, William, 281. Hunter's Pass, 333. Huntley, C. W., 231, 237, 238.


Hyperstene, 379, 420.


Indian Pass, 329.


Indian wars, 27 ; fraternity, 57; bat- tle at Elizabethtown, 216; land purchasers prohibited, 313.


Indians at Boquet, 175 ; at Valcour, 169 ; valuable aid of, 68 ; at Lake George, 72 ; contract small pox from the dead, 77; unreliable to the French, 101. Industrial pursuits, 432. Inland navigation, state aid, 434. Iron manufactories, 436, 437; Wills- boro', 438; Boquet, 439; Ticon- deroga, 439; Elba works, 439; Au Sable Valley, 440; Wilming- ton, 440; J. &. J. Rogers, 441; Lower Jay, 444; Clintonville, 448; at Keeseville, 453, 454, 458; at Elizabethtown, 459, 463; in. Westport, 461, 463; in Wills- boro', 461, 463; In Lewis, 461, 462; Essex, 462; Moriah, 463; Port Henry Furnace, 464; Fletcherville, 466; Hammond, 467; Irondale, 468; Ticonde- roga, 469; Schroon, 472, Mi- nerva, 473; rolling mills, 453, 456, 462.


Iron ore beds, 372; Adirondac dis- trict, 372; remarks on, 377; in Minerva, 380; Schroon, 382; Crown Point, 383; Arnold, 439, 441, 448; Finch & Winter, 448; New Russia, 459; in Lewis, 461. Iroquois, their eloquence and pro- gress, 2; armor, 16; engaged in the royal cause, 143; confede- racy, 57.


Jay, 213. Johnson, William, at Lake George, 53; at battle Lake George, 62; want of magnanimity, 63; at


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Ticonderoga, 90; appointed to command army, 44; desires to relieve William Henry, 73. Johnson, Col., joins Brown at Ti- conderoga, 187.


Johnson, Sir John, expedition against Mohawk valley, 189. Judges, Supreme Court, 492 ; county and Special, 494.


Kaolin, 420; factory, 459. Keene, 212. Keese, Oliver, Jr., 274, 284.


Keeseville, horse nail works, 452 ; Twine factory at, 458; hosiery factory, flouring mills, and mi- nor works, 459. Kelley, J. E., 250, 251.


Kellogg, R. C. 275, 284.


Kingsley, G. C., 238.


Knox, Gen. Henry, moves cannon to Boston, 138. Knox, M. V. B., 274. Krom, Capt., 266, 272.




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