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The representatives of the Susquehanna Company at Albany were equally as busy as the agents of the Penn family-but in a different way. They held no public conferences with the Indians, but, in a simple, direct and business-like manner, presented to the principal chiefs of the several Indian nations, whom they were able to approach, the Company's proposals for the purchase of the Wyoming lands. Tim- othy Woodbridge was early on the ground, accompanied by Maj. Eph- raim Williams, Jr.,* and Capt. Joseph Kellogg, t as well as two or three of the most prominent members of the Susquehanna Company. "Dea- con" Woodbridge, as the accredited agent of the Company, employed
* EPHRAIM WILLIAMS, JR., was the eldest son of Ephraim Williams, Sr. (born in 1691), of Newton, Massachusetts, who was descended from Robert Williams, who early immigrated from England and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Province. When the Stockbridge mission (mentioned in the note on page 193) was established Ephraim Williams, Sr., was one of those sent by the Massachusetts Govern- ment-under treaty with the Indians-to reside among them, "to anglicize and civilize, and to teach agriculture." In 1737 Mr. Williams (he is entitled "Colonel" by some biographers) removed with his family from Newton-which his father had helped to settle, and where he himself was born-to Stock- bridge. Here he lived and labored until the Summer of 1753, when, on account of failing health, he removed to the home of one of his sons, a practising physician at Deerfield, Massachusetts. There he died in the Spring of 1755. He was the father of seven children-his eldest daughter, Abigail, becom- ing the wife of the Rev. John Sergeant (as mentioned in the note on page 195), and after the death of Sergeant marrying Brig. Gen. Joseph Dwight of Massachusetts.
Ephraim Williams, Jr., was born in Newton and removed with his father's family to Stockbridge. As early as 1751 he had attained the rank of Colonel in the Massachusetts militia. In 1753 he was a Rep- resentative in the General Court, or Assembly, of the Province. In 1754 and '5 there was a chain of rude forts extending along the Housatonic Valley for the protection of the feeble frontier settlements of Mass- achusetts against incursions from the hostile French and their Indian allies, who came down from Can- ada "through a great and terrible wilderness of several hundred miles in extent." These forts were commanded by Col. Ephraim Williams, Jr.
In the expedition led by Maj. Gen. William Johnson against Crown Point in 1755 Colonel Williams commanded the Massachusetts Provincials, and at the battle of Lake George (referred to in the note on page 264) he fell at the head of his troops. The following account of his death is from Buell's "Sir Wil- liam Johnson" (page 145): "Early the next morning [September 8th] Johnson sent out about 800 Pro- vincials under, Col. Ephraim Williams, and the whole force of Hendrick's Iroquois warriors-led by the venerable chief himself-to find the enemy. * * * Dieskau, advised by his Indian scouts of the move- ment of Colonel Williams and Hendrick, arranged an ambuscade, and the detachment, when about two and a-half miles from the camp, walked right into it-the column being led by Hendrick and his war- riors. * * * Volley after volley was poured with murderous effect upon the Indians in front and upon the left of Williams' Provincials. * * Colonel Williams was killed a few minutes after Hendrick [see note, page 264, ante], being shot through the head as he was in the act of mounting a rock in order better to direct the movements of his men, his horse having been shot under him a few minutes before."
By his will Colonel Williams left a bequest for the founding of a free school. In 1793 this school was incorporated as Williams College, at Williamstown, Massachusetts.
+ JOSEPH KELLOGG-known as "Captain" Kellogg as early as 1752-was born at Deerfield, Massachu- setts, between 1690 and 1700. He was a brother of Mrs. Rebecca (Kellogg ) Ashley, mentioned in the note on page 257. Concerning Captain Kellogg and his sister the Rev. Gideon Hawley wrote in 1794 (see "Doc- umentary History of New York," III : 629): "She was captured at Deerfield when that town was de- stroyed [by the Indians] in 1703, and carried away-being three years old. Her two brothers, Martin and Joseph Kellogg, well known in their day, were both older than their sister, and were taken at the same time. The two boys got away before the sister, who lived in Canada among the Caughnawagas until she was a maiden grown. [The Caughnawagas, so called, were the "Praying Indians"-composed of Indians from various tribes in Canada and the several nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Their vil- lage, or "Castle," called Caughnawaga-"at the rapids"-was located near La Chine Rapids of the St. Lawrence River, not far from Montreal. "King" Hendrick went there on an embassy in 1746.] Rebec- ca's brothers, however, lived there long enough to be good interpreters, particularly Joseph Kellogg, Esq., who was the best in his day, that New England had, and was employed upon every occasion. For many years he was at Fort Dummer, on Connecticut River, and was at the Albany Treaty of 1754, which was attended by a greater number of respectable persons from the several Provinces and Colonies than had met on any similar occasion. In 1756, being persuaded by General Shirley to accompany him to Oswego, as an interpreter, he sickened and died, and was buried at Schenectady."
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Col. John Henry Ly- dius* of Albany to assist in consummating a purchase from the Indians, and all the negotiations with the latter, at that time, were conducted at Ly- dius' house.
A skeleton forın of a deed had been pre- pared for the use of the "Journeying Commit- tee" in 1753. Accord- ing to the statements of At the crossing of North Pearl and State Streets, Albany, circa 1830. some writers Eliphalet The building with the terraced gable, at the north-east cor- ner of the crossing, was the home of John Henry Lydius in 1754. Dyer had drawn up that form. The present writer, having compared the same with some original letters now in his possession written by Colonel Dyer in 1776, is of the opinion that the "skeleton form" referred to was written by him. This "form" was pro-
* JOHN HENRY LYDIUS, who was born at Albany in July, 1704, was the son of "Dominie" Johannes, or John, Lydius, who arrived at Albany from Holland in July, 1700, with "Dominie" Bernhardus Freerman, and officiated as minister of the Dutch Reformed Church at Schenectady, New York, from the Autumn of 1700 until some time in 1702 or '3. In December, 1703, in a letter to the Governor of New York, written at Albany, he styled himself "minister at Albany." He had been for about a year a missionary among the Indians, and was to receive for his services from the Governor and Council of the Province, the sum of £60-which he then asked for. He officiated as minister of the Reformed Church in Albany until his death, March 1, 1710.
During his ministry in Albany he occupied the parsonage of his church-later the property and the home of his son John Henry, and shown in the picture on this page. This ancient building with its ter- raced gable, long known as the "Lydius house," was built expressly for a parsonage for the Rev. Gideon Schaetz, who arrived in Albany in 1652 and became pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church. The materials for the building were all imported in 1657 from Holland-bricks, tiles, iron and wood-work. This fine old man- sion was demolished in 1832, when it was believed to be the oldest brick building in the United States. Upon its site Apothecaries' Hall was erected. Upon the opposite corner-shown in the picture referred to above, and long known as "Elm Tree Corner"-stood, in 1754, the home of Philip Livingston, later a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Tweddle Hall was erected in 1860 upon the site of the Livingston mansion.
In early manhood John Henry Lydius entered into business as an Indian trader, and soon acquired considerable trade and good standing with certain tribes. As early as 1746 he was in great favor with "King" Hendrick and his Indians, and had much influence with them.
In the Spring of 1747, during the Old French War previously referred to, Col. William Johnson -then the Indian Agent for the Province of New York-assisted by Lydius, induced the young men among the Mohawks and several straggling tribes in their neighborhood to "take up the hatchet" against the French. In behalf of Johnson and Lydius Col. John Stoddard wrote to Governor Shirley of Massachu- setts setting forth the necessity of the Colonies furnishing £600 or £700 to fit out these Indians for war. "We cannot expect," wrote Stoddard (see "Pennsylvania Archives," I : 741), "that either Colonel John- son or Mr. Lydius should pay this. They have taken a great deal of pains to get the Indians into the war, and have effected more than the Government did in a course of years. If we let this plan drop now it would be fatal for our cause. * * Colonel Johnson and Mr. Lydius are now under a necessity of going forward and fitting out the Indians, so long as they have any substance remaining, and when that is gone the affair will be at an end." Under date of June 1, 1747, Governor Shirley wrote to the Governor and Council of Pennsylvania that the Indians of the Six Nations were "generally engaged in the war against the French, owing in a great measure to the influence and prudent management of Colonel John- son and Mr. Lydius." He also stated that the General Court of Massachusetts had "committed their share of the affair into the hands of Mr. Lydius, and voted £4,000 to Colonel Stoddard to be used to encourage the Six Nations to prosecute the war."
Conrad Weiser was, personally, in favor of using the Iroquois against the French, but he was jealous of Colonel Johnson and Lydius and their management of Mohawk affairs ; and, after he had had an interview with Shikellimy, he wrote Secretary Richard Peters (see "Pennsylvania Archives," I : 749) : "Thus far I know, that the Mohocks are the people Colonel Johnson and Mr. John Henry Lydius engaged in the war against the French, and among them some young straggling fellows of the other nations. * * If these two gentlemen had as much judgment as they have pride, they would never have persuaded the Mohocks into a war in a private way ; for it may turn out that both their scalps may be taken and carried to Canada." After the close of the Old French War Lydius was generally entitled "Colonel." Whether or not, at any time, he held this rank in the militia of New York the writer has not been able to ascertain.
According to Pearson's "Genealogies of the First Settlers of Albany" serious charges were brought against Colonel Lydius by the Provincial Council of New York in 1747, to wit : for abjuring his Protestant religion in Canada ; for marrying a woman there of the Romish faith ; and for alienating the friendship of the Indians from the English. His wife was Genevieve Masse, or Mazie, and they were the parents of three sons and two daughters. Colonel Lydius retired to England in 1776, and died at Kensington, Lon- don, in 1791, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. There is a biographical notice of him in The Gentleman's Magazine (VI : 383), which has been described as "containing more poetry than truth."
Balthazar Lydius (born 1740) was the youngest child of Colonel Lydius, and spent his life in the Lydius house previously depicted and described. He was an eccentric old bachelor, the terror of all the boys in his neighborhood. He was a tall, thin Dutchman with a bullet head. He was fond of his pipe and his bottle, and gloried in celibacy until his life was in the "sere and yellow leaf." Then he gave a pint of gin for an Indian squaw, and, calling her his wife, lived with her as such until his death in November, 1815.
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duced at Albany (the names of the members of the Susquehanna Com- pany, as grantees, having been previously inserted in the document, but not by Colonel Dyer), and, certain changes and additions having been made in and to it by other hands-which will be referred to in detail here- inafter-the deed was duly executed on July 11, 1754, by fourteen Indian chiefs and sachems of various tribes. What purport to be copies of this deed may be found on pages 383-392 of Stone's "Poetry and History of Wyoming," mentioned on page 19, ante, and on pages 147-158 of Vol- ume II of "Pennsylvania Archives," First Series. Those copies, how- ever, are not only dissimilar, but neither one is an exact or complete copy of the original document-which is now, and has been for a con- siderable number of years, in the custody of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. The following is a full and accurate copy of this Indian deed ; and, in addition, reduced photo-reproductions of pages 11 and 12 of the original-specially made for this work-will be found facing page 276, post.
"TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING : Know Yee that We, KAHIK-TOTON, ABRAHAM PETERS, WILLEM TARIGJORIS, BRANT CON- WIGNOGE, HENDERIK PIETERS (TEJANOGE), CANAGEOGAISE, COGSWIGTJONE, SET JEST- ARARIE, JOHANIS SOGEHOWARIE, JOHANIS CANADEGARIE, NIKES CARIGIAKTADIE, CANAGQUAIESE, JOHANIS SIGNAGERAT, CARIS-TAGO, SENOSSES, A-GWE-IOTA-Being Cheifs Sachems & Heads of The five Nations of Indians called the Irequois and the Native Proprietors of a large Tract of Land on about and adjaicent to the River Susqueannah between the fourty first & fourty Third degrees of North Latitude and being within The Limits and bounds of The Charter and Grant of His late majesty King Charles 2nd To the Colony of Connecticutt And Whereas a large Number of tlie Leige & good subjects of His Royall Majesty George 2nd of Great Britain &c King, Inhabitants of His Majesty's English Colony of Connecticutt &c. to the Number of about six hundred Have applyd to us for the purchase of sd above mentioned Tract of Land for a Plantation to settle upon-
"THEREUPON, WHEREAS a Constant and Cordial friendship from the Time of our Progenetors & Predecessors to this day hath allway been subsisting between us & our Brethren the English subjects of His sd majesty King George & of His Royall Predeces- sors Kings & Queens of Great Britain &c The Continuation of which we heartily Desire, and whereas The Enabling & Incourageing our sd English Brethren to plant & settle in a nearer neighbourhood to us than heretofore may greatly Contribute To our safety and Defence against The unjust encroachments and Insults of The French & Indians in alliance with Them and to The Benefitt and Increase of our Trade and also may be very conducive to our obtaining a more full & Clear knowledge of The True God and the Christian religion and thereby fix and Establish a more firm Solid & Lasting friendship with His Majesties English subjects.
"NOW THEREUPON for and in Consideration thereof as also for the further full and ample consideration of The Sum of Two Thousand pounds of currant money of the province of New York To us to our full Satisfaction before The Ensealing hereof Con- tented & paid, the Receipt whereof to full Content we do hereby acknowledge And There- upon Do Give Grant Bargain Sell Convey And Confirm Unto
Hezekiah Huntington, Esq., Moses Barnett, John Backus, Noah Briggs,
James Dixon, Nathaniel Daniels,
Roger Wolcott, Jr., Esq., Col. Elisha Williams,
Phinehas Lyman, Esq.,
Caleb Bates,
Samuell Dorrance, Richard Downer,
Daniel Edwards, Esq., Col. Samuell Talcott,
Jonathan Baker,
Josiah Dean, Jun.,
George Wyllys, Esq.,
Ezra Belding,
Asa Douglass, Gideon Demming,
Thomas Wells, Esq.,
William Buck, Jehiel Barnam,
Joshua Elderkin,
Eliphalet Dyar, Esq., Jabez Fitch, Esq., John Smith, Esq., Ezekiel Peirce, Esq.,
Robert Crery, Jun.,
Elias Frink, Elijah Francis, John Gaston,
Thomas Seymore,
Christopher Crery,
Abijah Crery, Giles Churchel,
Ebenezer Grosvenor,
Robert Dixon,
Stephen Gardner,
Barnet Dixon,
Stephen Gardner, Jun.,
David Downing,
Jonathan Gardner,
David Griswold,
Elijah Griswold,
Samuell Gray, Esq., Jedediah Elderkin, John Abbe, William Andruss,
John Dixon, John Dorrance,
John Grosvenor,
William Pitkin, Jun., Esq., Eleazar Fitch, Esq., John Fitch,
Benjamin Crery,
Joseph Eaton,
Gideon Bingham,
Edward Ewings,
Nehemiah Barker,
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Robert Hunter, John Hunter, Henry Hewitt, John Howard, Sarah Huntington, Stephen Harden, John Hough, Josiah Horsford, Daniel Horsford, John Judd,
Simon Tubbs,
Joseph Taylor,
Philip Turner,
Lemuel Taylor, Judah Wright,
Eliphalet Whittelsey,
Joseph Walden,
David Waters,
Isaac Warner,
William Williams,
John Wiley, Jun.,
Thomas Howard,
Zebulon Waterman, ,
Ebenezer Leach,
Penuel Bowen, Israel Dimock, Abiel Abbott,
Jeremiah Kenney,
William Whiting,
Thomas Stedman,
Moses Kenney,
William Churchil,
James Stedman,
Gideon Kenney,
Josiah Curtice,
Ebenezer Griffin,
Nathan Kenney,
John Kenney,
Ichabod Welles,
Thomas Stephens, Jun.,
Spencer Kenney,
Phinehas Judd,
Benjamin Lee,
John Kagwin,
Stephen Skinner,
William Fitch,
Seth Kent,
Matthew Patrick, Jun.,
Nathaniel Wales, Jun.,
James Douglass,
John Leavins,
Nathaniel Hovey,
John Campbell,
Ebenezer Larnard,
Prince Tracy,
Hugh Wyley, Jun.,
Stephen Lee,
Noah Gilbert,
Benjamin Parke, Bartholomew Arthur,
Edward Mott,
William Huston,
John Montgommery,
Gaun Miller,
William Chandler, Esq.,
Nathaniel Warner,
John Montgommery, Jr.,
Gershom Durrance,
Joseph Moffitt,
Thomas Pierce,
Manassah Minor,
Samuel Chandler, Esq.,
Thomas Mansfield,
Nathaniel Berry,
John Manning, Jr.,
Nathaniel Wales, Esq.,
Josiah Orcutt,
Zebadiah Farnum,
David Dewey, Gershom Breed,
Matthew Patrick,
Jonas Shepard,
Jacob Patrick,
Matthew Talcott,
Joseph Phillips,
Joseph Church,
Benjamin Pierce, Jun., Robert Parkes,
John Humphry, Esq.,
Nathan Parkes,
Roger Hooker,
Jeremiah Ross,
Alexander Wolcott,
Isaac Tracy, James Hide,
Stephen Rude,
Samuel Talcott,
Obadiah Rhodes,
Thomas Hosmore, Esq.,
Asa Waterman,
Noah Stantly,
Jonathan Hale, Esq., Abner Moseley,
Elijah Backus,
Timothy Stantly, Thomas Snell,
Daniel Goodwin,
Christoplier Palmer, Thomas Anderson,
Lemuell Smith, John Stephens,
Jonathan Humphry,
Isaac Shepard,
Jesse Spalding,
David Phelpes,
Hezekiah Humphry,
Hezekiah Phelpes,
John Vietes, Joseph Welles,
Timothy Seymore,
Russell Woodbridge,
William Stantly, Samuell Welles,
John Watt, Benjamin Callwell, Alexander Gaston,
Rowland Barton, Alexander Phelpes, Niles Colman, David Barker, Benjamin Pumroy,
John Fitch, Jun., Joseph Warren, Seth Dean, Samuell Hunter, Noah Webster,
William Jackson,
John Jenkes, Joseph Kyle, Archibald Kasson, Samuell Kason,
Hugh Wiley,
James Wiley,
Ebenezer Wright,
Adam Kason,
Isaac Woodworth,
Nathan Booth,
Thomas Stephens,
Hugh Kennedy, Jr.,
Thomas Kennedy,
James Bradford,
Stephen Fuller, Pault Holt, Benjamin Collins, James Willson,
James ·Kasson,
Isaac Lee,
Daniel Knolton,
James Montgommery,
Moses Fish,
John Johnson, Jun.,
Thomas Jones, Joseph Taylor, John Read,
William Swetland, Peter Swetland, Jonathan Harris Elisha Scovill,
Ebenezer Williams, Abel Griswold, Stephen Jenkins,
William Parkes,
Daniel Stoughton,
John Newton, John Grant, Ephraim Gardner,
Ezekiel Williams,
Gershome Hinkly, Joshua Randsome, Miles Gordon,
John Baldwin,
John Stantly,
Peletiah Mills,
Phinehas Holden,
Jonathan Pettibone, Andrew Robe,
Allen Willey, John Rathbone, Daniel Ely, David Dodge, Jun., Ebenezer Watson,
Thomas Stewart,
John Streater, Nehemiah Stephens, .Andrew Stephens, Benjamin Stephens, Solonion Stoddard, Ebenezer Smith, Jun., Ebenezer Smith, Uriah Stephens, Joseph Smith, Jun., Samuell Silsby,
Samuel Stoughton, Samuel Welles, Jun., Isaac Sheldon, Ebenezer Beacher,
Oliver Wolcott, Elisha Sheldon, Ebenezer Marsh, Esq., Samuell Cochrin, Benjamin Green,
Samuell McFarland,
Thomas Wiley,
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Ephraim Andruss, Daniel Turner, George Palmer, Capt. Uriah Stephens, Samuel Orten, Jacob Hensdell, Thomas Williams, Zebulon Stephens, Thomas Wattson, Joseph Bird, Esq.,
Wate Henman, Zachariah Clark,
Peter Curtice,
James Levingworth,
Jedediah Mills,
Simon Huntington, Isaac Tracy, Jun.,
Samuel Defouest,
Elisha Mills,
Francis Hawley,
Edmund Lewis, Jun.,
Daniel Hide,
Josiah Lewis, Jun.,
Jonathan Gennings,
John Laboree,
Joseph Billings, Jr.,
Ephraim Judson,
Daniel Lathan,
John French,
Thomas Boles,
Joshua Whitney,
Josiah Robinson,
Benedict Arnold,
Samuel Slaughter,
Nathaniel Baker,
Rachel Milliner,
Robert Hannis,
Joseph Arnold,
Christopher Starke,
Noah Stephens,
Benjamin Thompson,
Jonathan Stricklen,
David Whitney, Esq.,
Daniel Morriss,
Seth Alden, Macock Ward,
Jonathan Smith,
Benjamin Rhumsey, Jr.,
Elizar Tallcott,
Thomas Parmely,
Josiah Wakeman,
Samuell Barnes,
Oliver Sanford,
Daniel Sherwood,
Jedediah Norton,
Azariah Orton,
Cornelius Hull,
Asahel Drake,
Josiah Everitt,
Stephen Wakeman, Jun.,
John Webster,
Francis Everitt,
Thomas Couch,
Isaac Mosely,
Josiah Everitt,
Josiah Beardsley,
Nathan Pason,
Timothy Rose,
Ephraim Bennit,
Benjamin Newcomb,
Timothy Everitt,
Matthew Curtice,
Walter Hewit,
Silas Storey,
Jonathan Boothe,
Simon Backus,
Hezekiah Hooker, Jedidiah Richards,
Jonathan Willard,
John Choate,
Peter Gransan,
Doctor Moffitt,
Elisha Tracy,
Richard Reat,
Thomas Stantly,
William Lothrop,
Ebenezer Gransan,
Joshua Wills,
Nathaniel Parkes,
Daniel Berry,
Joseph Hulbart,
John Edgerton,
John Franklin,
Isaac Sawyer,
Thomas Wallworth,
Robert Walker,
Samuell Flagg,
John Bliss,
Edward Spalding,
Daniel Lothrop,
John Birchard,
Josiah Cleaveland,
John Elderkin,
Jacob Drake, Jun.,
Samuell Lee, Elier Andruss,
Jeremiah Clements,
Constant Catlen,
William Fellows, Seth Norton,
Benjamin Gale,
Barnabas Hatch,
Levi Watson,
William Whitney,
John Cook,
Eliphalet Ensign,
Barzillai Hendee,
Jonathan Laneton,
Lemuel Orten,
Isaac Lawrance,
Oliver Badcock,
Eliezer Gooden,
Joseph Palmeter,
Joseph Lippitt,
Daniel Willcocks,
Malachi Butler,
Henry Stephens,
Samuel Gooden,
Joseph Follet,
Ebenezer Grover,
Turbel Whitney,
John Spencer, Jun.,
John Williams,
James Bird, Thomas Bird,
Nathaniel Cushman,
Joseph Tracy, Jun., Daniel Rockwell,
Joseph Allen,
Obadiah Newcomb,
George Denniss,
James Dunham,
Joseph Bingham, Jun.,
Samuell Walworth,
Robert Wincott,
John Strong,
Stephen Billings,
Thomas Stephens,
Noah Dewey,
Samuell Hunn,
Joshua Rothbone, John Rothbone,
Jonathan Hall,
Ashbel Woodbridge,
Elijah Dean, John Read,
Joseph Wight,
Edward Waldow,
Obadiah Gore,
Jacob Drake,
Jacob Rothbone,
Abel Clarke, Seth Smith,
Reubin Swift,
Jonathan Wealder,
John Birchard, 3d,
John Paterson,
Daniel Rothbone,
Solomon Grant,
Daniel Miner,
Valentine Rothbone,
Joseph Denison, Esq., Samuell Tracy, Ephraim Bill,
Samuel How, Hubbard Pride,
Agur Judson, -"All of The aforesd Colony of Connecticutt in New England,
Thomas Welles, Thomas Fish, Thomas Branch, Jun., Benjamin Wentworth,
John Wood, Oliver Spuer, Benjamin Giles, Thomas Giles,
John Holmes,
John Dean,
Increase Moseley, Esq., John Hutchinson, Esq., Ebenezer Fletcher,
Jabez Sommers,
Isaac Saben,
Jedediah Stephens,
John Andrews,
Caleb Baldwin,
Robert Kenady,
Stephen Beckwith,
Silas Wells,
Samuel Gore,
Elisha Hale,
Elijah Hide,
Jacob Kimball,
John Miner,
Caleb Hide,
Joseph Skiff,
Robert Boyington,
Jabez Dean,
John Wells, John Hensdell,
Josiah Cowles,
Isaac Gallop,
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AND TO
Jabez Bowen, Esq., Jonathan Nicolls, Esq., Francis Collgrove, Daniel Ayrault, Michael Dorrance, Jonathan Randall, Esq., Robert Hazzard, Martin Howard,
Benjamin Bowen, Philip Wilkison,
Samuel Dorrance,
Amos Stafford, Jun., Simeon Draper,
Thomas Mattison,
Thomas Burt,
William Sheldon,
George Dorrance,
Beriah Brown,
Elnathan Warker,
Jonathan Reynolds,
Daniel Lawrence,
Job Randall, Esq., -of The Colony of Rhodisland In New England aforesd, AND TO
Daniel Shoemaker,
Benjanıin Shoemaker,
Abram Fencump, Esq.,
John Adkins, Esq.,
Daniel Henshaw,
John Panather, Esq., Solomon Gennings, -all of The Government of Pensylvania, To
Timothy Woodbridge, John Wing, Jun.,
John Wing,
-of the Province of The Massachusetts Bay, AND TO
Hendrick Burghart, Jr.,
Aaron Sheldon,
Benjamin Ashley,
Jacob Roseboom,
Abraham Lansing,
Jeremiah Hogeboom, John Rosa,
Samuel Drown, Jonathan Morey, Eliakim Warker, John Reynolds, Benjamin Sheffield, Amos Stafford, John Bucklin, Charles Harris, Richard Charnton, John Reynolds, Jun., Jonathan Hamilton,
Joseph Skinner, Samuel Depew, Esq., Aaron Depew,
David King,
Joseph Woodbridge, Kiliaen De Ridder, Jonathan Buck,
all of the Province of New York-being all five hundred and Thirty four in Num- ber. To EACH AND EVERY of The persons before and above mentioned & named Two twelve hundred and Twenty Four parts of the large tract or parcell of Land as hereafter described and Bounded.
"AND WE DO ALSO for and upon The Considerations aforesd Give Grant Bargain Sell Convey And Confirm Unto (here } rights begin) Eliphalet Newell,
Joseph Fellows,
Thomas Steal,
Jacob Dana,
Henry Bass,
Thomas Warner,
John Webb,
Benjamin Follit,
Zachariah Bicknall,
Oliver Parish, Paul Hebard,
John Steal,
Samuel Douglass,
Hezekiah Huntington,
Elisha Steal,
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