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A History of THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN NARRAGANSETT Rhode Island Including a History of Other Episcopal Churches in the State By WILKINS UPDIKE
With a Transcript of the Narragansett Parish Register, from 1718 to 1774; an Appendix containing a Reprint of a Work entitled America DisseCted by the Revd James MacSpar- ran, D.D., and Copies of Other Old Papers; together with Notes containing Genealogical and Biographical Accounts of Distinguished Men, Families, &c.
Second Edition, newly edited, enlarged, and corrected by the Reverend DANIEL GOODWIN, PH.D., D.D. sometime Rector of St. Paul's Church, Wickford, Narragansett Illustrated by fifty Portraits after old Paintings; together with six Views of Historic Localities, and several Facsimiles
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BOSTON : Printed and Published by D. B. U?DIRE The Merrymount Press 1907
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A History of the Church in Narragansett III Appendices & Index of Names
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Contents : Volume III
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APPENDIX A
A Reprint of America DisseRed, being a Full and True Account of all the American Colonies. By James MacSparran, D.D. (1753)
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APPENDIX B
Reports and Abstracts : Reports of the Missionaries of Rhode Island to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, taken from the Abstracts of their Anniversary Proceedings
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APPENDIX C
Deed of Land known as the Site of the Old Church, on which the MacSparran Monument now stands
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APPENDIX D
Letter of W. Taylor, Secretary of the Venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, dated May 20, 1715, to the Gentlemen in Communion with the Church of England, Inhabitants of Narragansett, New England 95
APPENDIX E
A Letter from Samuel Chace to General George Washing- ton : copied November 13, Anno 1840, by John Barnet Chace, Grandson of Sam' Chace 97
APPENDIX F
Mrs. Anstis Lee's Narrative of a Horseback Journey to Con- necticut, in 1791. Written about 1845, when Mrs. Lee was in her eightieth year 101
APPENDIX G
Letter from William Ellery, of Newport, Rhode Island, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, to Daniel E. Updike, Wickford 109
APPENDIX H
Letter from Dr. Sylvester Gardiner from Poole, England, to James Bowdoin, Boston
APPENDIX I
An Interesting Ceremony in the Narragansett Country. Un- veiling of the MacSparran Monument in North Kingstown. Extract from Providence Journal, Friday, June 25, 1869 113
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APPENDIX J Woodcuts in the Original Edition of the History of the Narragansett Church 117
APPENDIX K
Original Subscription List for the First Edition of The His- tory of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, Rhode Island, by Wilkins Updike, Esq. [1847] 125
INDEX 133
List of Illustrations Volume III
SILHOUETTES
Facing page Madam Lee ( Anstis Updike) and General James Updike. 101
SILHOUETTES 106
Hon. Daniel Updike the Younger, and Alfred Updike.
WASHINGTON'S APPOINTMENT OF WILLIAM EL- LERY 109
As Collector of the Port of Newport, 1790.
Appendices
Appendix A [See Vol. I. pp. 3, 31]
A xib [TE RE ng
AMERICA DISSECTED,
BEING A
FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT
OF ALL THE
AMERICAN COLONIES:
SHEWING,
The Intemperance of the Climates; exceffive Heat and Cold, and fudden violent Changes of Weather; ter- rible and mifchievous Thunder and Lightning; bad and unwholefome Air, deftructive to Human Bodies; Bad- nefs of Money; Danger from Enemies; but, above all, the Danger to the Souls of the Poor People that remove thither, from the multifarious wicked and pef- tilent Herefies that prevail in thofe Parts.
In SEVERAL LETTERS, From a Rev. DIVINE of the Church of ENGLAND. Miffionary to AMERICA, and Doctor of Divinity.
Publifhed as a Caution to Unfteady People who may be tempted to leave their Native Country.
DUBLIN : Printed and fold by S. POWELL, DAME STREET.
1753.
[Price a Britifh Six-pence.]
AMERICA DISSECTED,
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In fundry Letters from a Clergyman there.
LETTER I.
To the Hon. Col. HENRY CARY, Esq.
NARRAGANSET, in the Colony of Rhode Ifland, in New England,
SIR,
August 20, 1752.
B Y the Hands of Mr. Robert Hamilton, 885 Son of Bellyfat- tan, near Strabane, I did myfelf the Honour, a few Years ago, of writing you a Letter, giving an Account of myfelf, with a fhort Sketch of the Country where I have refided fo many Years: But, as I am equally at a lofs, whether that Letter reached your Honour, or was acceptable, if it did, I have prefumed once more to put my Pen to Paper, to give you as curt an Account as I can of the English American Dominions; which, if it does not minifter to your Entertainment, will, neverthelefs, from its Intention, entitle me to your Pardon.
The Ifland of Bermuda, lying in Latitude 321/2, and fo without the Tropics, is the first place I shall mention as be- longing to the Crown of England in America. This is but a fmall Ifland, or rather a Congeries of fmaller Iflands, whofe Governor and Council, appointed by the Crown, with the Reprefentatives of the Nine Tribes, whereof it confifts, make up the Court of Legiflature, or General Affembly. The In- habitants are about 15,000, and all (except an inconfiderable Few) Members of the Church of England; and their Clergy maintained by Tax on the Inhabitants, (as all the Clergy with- in the Tropics are) without any Affiftance from England. Its Produce (except the Plat wherewith Womens Hats and Bon- nets were wont to be made) is inconfiderable ; fo that with the Red Cedar, growing on the Ifland, they build fmall veffels for Fifhing, and larger employed in carrying Freights to and from
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all Places acceffible to English bottoms. The Inhabitants are an induftrious and religious People, and, perhaps, retain more of the ancient British Probity and Simplicity than any other of our English Colonies; which, as it may be owing to its being lefs acceflible to Strangers, verifies the Obfervation, That Religion and Induftry go commonly Hand in Hand. This Ifland is remarkably healthy, not only on Account of its Cli- mate, but becaufe, alfo, Luxury and Indulgence are greater Strangers to the Inhabitants than in fome other Places; and many (born there) live to a great Age.
Barbadoes is the windermoft of all the English Intertropical Sugar-Iflands; as Antego, Monferat, St. Christopher's Nevis, Famaico, with many other leffer ones, are called the Leeward Iflands. Your Irish Trade furnithes you with fo diftinet a Knowledge of the Religion, Government, Trade, and Com- merce, of thofe Iflands, that it would be but holding a Candle to the Sun to interrupt you with a Detail of them. As to the Iflands of St. Vincent's, St. Lucia, Dominica and Tobago called Neutral Iflands, and about which there have been fo many Things faid fince the Peace; they are actually fettled, and fo well improved by the French, that one muft be very fanguine and credulous to believe that any-thing under an actual War and Conqueft can wreft them out of their into our Hands. How unequal, at this Time of Day, we are to fuch an Un- dertaking, and at fo great a Diftance too, a Gentleman of your Honour's Penetration, and Acquaintance with the public State of Things, is better adapted to determine than I am.
We have, alfo, a fine promifing new Settlement upon the Spanish Main, moftly inhabited by the Logwood Cutters, and is called the Mufquito Shore : But, as the prefent Ferdinand of Spain has erected a Logwood Company at St. Andero, con- fifting of many and rich Merchants, the Settlements ftipulated and confequent to that Incorporation will greatly diftreff, if not dif-fettle, the English. If this fhould turn out, as it is pro- bable it will, to this Purpofe, that profitable Branch of Trade will be loft to the British Subjects, and the European Markets be fupplied with that Article from the Spaniards themselves. I need not obferve to you how detrimental this would prove to Nations that manufacture so much Wool as Britain and Ireland do.
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As it is common for a Peace, that puts a Period to a long War, to produce Robbers at Sea and Land ; thus, upon the Peace of Utrecht, moft of the Pirates, who infefted the Weft- Indian Seas, pitched upon a Place they called New Provi- dence, as a Rendezvous whither to bring in their Spoils. Thefe rude People, after living awhile under Conftitutions of their own making, took the Benefit of an Act of Grace and fub- mitted themfelves to the English Crown. They are not the only Settlement that has had such a bafe Beginning; for Cape Francois, or the French Settlement on the Inland of Hispaniola, owes itfelf to a like Original. Capt. Woods Rogers, who had been Mate of one of the two great Briftol Privateers who went into the South Sea, took one of the great Manila Ships, (as Ld. Anfon has fince taken another) and failed round the World: I fay, this Woods Rogers was appointed the firft Gov- ernor over thefe piratical Settlements, to whom fucceeded Governor Phinney, to him Colonel Fitzwilliams, and the prefent Governor is Mr. Tinker. As far as I can find, the Inhabitants of thefe Bahama Iflands, whereof New Provi- dence is the chief, the Place of the Governor's Refidence, of the Courts of Juftice, and where the Garrifon is, are greatly polifhed, and as well civilized as fome other Weft-Indian Plantations. Mahogany, Braziletto Wood, and Salt made in Ponds by the Heat of the Sun, are their chief Commodities; together with fmall green Turtle, delicious Food, and forced down on thefe Iflands by the Rapidity of the Gulph Stream, or the Paffage between the very long Inland of Cuba and the Main-Land of America, through which the Waters, drove down by the Trade-Wind, or Current, into the large Bay of Mexico, return, and are difembogued into the Mare del Nort, or great Atlantic, at thefe Inlands. The Independent Com- pany have a Chaplain allowed them at 6s. 8d. per Diem ; but what by Furloe from the Governor, and other Arts, he makes it a Sinecure. Formerly, upon my Recommendation, one Mr. Smith, 8% bred at the College of Dublin, and a Drogheda Man, was ordained by the late Bifhop of London, and was fent, by the Society for Propagation of the Gofpel, as their Miffion- ary there. The prefent Miffionary, who is alfo Schoolmafter there, is one Mr. Carter,867 an Englishman; for what Religion they have is that of our Church. I take this to be a very ne-
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ceffary Settlement, as in Time of War it may be a great Curb to the Spaniards on the Ifland of Cuba, and to their Main-land Settlements on the Florida Shore, whereof St. Augustine is the chief Place, and a Bifhop's See. But for fur- ther Particulars, or even a Correction of thefe, I muft beg Leave to refer you to Colonel William Stewart, who was, and is, (if he has not parted with his Commiffion) the chief Mili- tary Officer at New Providence. I will now pafs over to the Main-Land, where the firft English Province that prefents is Georgia. This Colony has for its Bounds, the Spanish Settle- ments of St. Augustine on the South-West and West, South Carolina Northerly and North-Eafterly, and the Atlantic Ocean in Front, into which you fail from thence through the Mouths of barred Rivers. It was begun in this Reign, and put under the Management of a Body of Gentlemen in England under the Title of the Truftees of Georgia, and has ever fince ad- vanced under the Advantage of a national Expence. Its firft Inhabitants were, too many of them, the Sweepings of the Streets of London, and other populous Places ; and though, as yet, it can boaft of no very profitable Returns to the Mother- Country, it may, however, plume itfelf on this, that it eafed England for that Time of fome ufelefs Hands, which doubt- lefs are a dead Weight upon every Country. To the firft Set- tlers, by After-Imbarkations, have been added Numbers of Moravians, and other Germans: But, poor as it is, it appears not to be poor enough for a filken Plantation ; a Manufac- ture impracticable any-where but in over-populous Places, and where every other Branch of Bufinefs is overftocked with Hands. It is true, that in Georgia, and every other Place in the English America, the Mulberry-Tree, (whofe Leaves are the Food of the Silkworm) will grow and thrive furprizingly; but, as gathering the Leaves, feeding and attending the Worms while fpinning their Balls, and winding them off when fpun, will not equal the Incomes of other Labour, 'tis not to be hoped that a Manufacture of this Kind can turn to Account in any of the English Settlements, where the Necef- faries of Life are dear, and fo great a Paucity of People to clear and to till the Ground. The Moravians are induftrious, and religious in their Way ; in the former whereof, I hope, they will be imitated by their English neighbours, whofe Religion,
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after they have learned the others Induftry, may induce thefe Strangers to lift themfelves under the Banner of our Church. There is, or lately was, a Bifhop of the Moravian Principles there, and Preachers of their own in great Plenty : To thefe the Venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gofpel in Foreign Parts, in London, have added Two Miffionaries, 888 who are fettled at the Towns of Savannah and Augusta, for the Benefit of the Englifh Inhabitants of that Province. To the civil and military Government of this Place (ever fince his Excellency General James Oglethorp went to England) I am too much a Stranger to give your Honour any Ac- count. As it is a Frontier, 'twill be always expofed to Spanish Infults in Time of War; and to Indian Incurfions, whenever their Spanish Mafters have a Mind to incite them to annoy the English. To this latter Inconvenience they are expofed at this very Time ; no good Sign (whatever is outwardly pre- tended) that the Court of Madrid is inwardly over-much de- voted to that of London. I am of Opinion, that, whenever the British Parliament fhortens the Supplies that fupport this Colony, it will proceed and improve flowly; but, fhould they be wholly withdrawn, it muft be greatly diftreffed, ef- pecially on any Rupture with Spain. I fhould think it, there- fore, of great Confequence, that a due Attention were given to the Defence of our American Frontiers, as the more fafe and central Colonies would fourifh the better within the well-maintained Barriers.
Northerly of Georgia, lies the flourifhing Province of South Carolina, not the lefs profperous by Rice's being made an unenumerated Commodity; whereby they have Leave to ex- port it to other Parts of Europe, without entering in the Ports of Great-Britain. This Province was begun, and firft peo- pled, at the Expence of English patentees, in the Reign of Charles the Second, under the Style and Title of the Lords Proprietors of South-Carolina; but it advanced flowly, and was often interrupted by Wars and Incurfions made by the Indian Nations bordering on its Weft Limits, and under Span- ifb and French Influence. You may pleafe to take Notice, that, as the Spaniards are our Neighbours on the South, fo, ever fince the fettling of Louisiana, the French have been extending themfelves Eaft from the Mififippi quite up to the
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Appalatian Mountains; a middle Land rifing, or Ridge of Hills that run from South to North, on the Back or Weft of the English Provinces. Thofe Lords Proprietors, finding them- felves an unequal Match for the Indians in the War, and that the Expence of defending the Province exceeded the pre- fent Profits, or future Expectations, did all (except your Lord Carteret, now Earl of Granvil,) furrender their Powers and Privileges to the Crown, in 1720. I was then in London, and often faw the Provincial Agents at the Lodgings of my great Friend and Patron, General Francis Nicholfon,841 who, in a lit- tle Time after, went over in the Quality of King's Governor. Ever fince that Time, this Province has throve at a prodi- gious Rate; fo that, befides their Home Confumption, it takes above 200 Sail of Ships, and other Top-fail Veffels, to ex- port their annual Overplus. Their principal Produce is Rice; befides which, they export Indian Corn, (alias Maize) Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Beef and Pork barrelled, tanned Leather, raw Hides, and other Articles. As the Plant, from which it is extracted by Fermentation, is plenty in the Province, they have lately entered on the Manufacture of Indigo; but, whether their Latitude (agreeable enough to Oranges and Limes, without adventitious or artificial Heat) is [not ] warm enough, or they are defective in Skill, they are unable yet to vie with the French of Hifpaniola in the Goodnefs of that Commodity. The Church of England is eftablifhed there by Provincial Law; as indeed it is, by the Union Act of Parlia- ment, in all his Majefty's Foreign Dominions, as King of England. There are but a few Diffenters, and thofe of the Independent and Antipædobaptist Perfuafions, who are moftly feated in Charles-Town, the Metropolis. The venerable So- ciety before-mentioned ufed to fend, and affift in maintain- ing Miffionaries, with the Allowance of 50/. Sterling to each
Minifter per Annum: But General Nicholfon having obtained a Law to fecure a Support to the Clergy by a Provincial Tax, the Society now give only 30/. to each Miffionary, and that rather as an Inducement to Gentlemen to go over to a confeffedly fickly Country, than out of any great Need there is of that Addition. Their Parifhes are of valt Extent, refembling your northern Baronies; ten whereof are furnifhed with fo many Miffionaries, befides Charles-Town, which
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maintains a Rector and a Lecturer in St. Philip's Church, at its own Expence. The Inhabitants are gay and expenfive in their Furniture, Clothing, Equipage, and Way of Living; an Obfervation that will but too well apply to all the Eng- lifh Colonies. The Irish, Dutch, Palatines, and other Germans, are as yet the only Exception to this Remark; but I think one may foretel, without a Spirit of prophecy, that, by the Symp- toms beginning to fhoot out on the Offspring of the Wealthy and Thriving among them, their Pofterity will fall into the like deftructive Indulgencies.
More North, and North-Eafterly, and on the Atlantic Shore, lies North-Carolina, granted alfo in 1663, by King Charles the Second, to a Company of Proprietors. Their Char- ter provides, That the Church of England fhall be the only eftablifhed Religion, and entitled to the public Encourage- ments. This Province does not contain more Inhabitants than from 15,000 to 20,000, who live in Plantations fcat- tered at great Diftances. They have but few compact Towns, befides the fmall ones of Edentown, the Metropolis, and Cape Fear; by which Means Religion has gained but little Ground. Two Clergymen, who are the Society's itinerant Miffionaries here,489 are.all the Advantages they are yet under refpecting Religion; and, though their Travel and labours are exceffive, it can't be fuppofed but the greater Part of the Peo- ple are neceffarily rude and illiterate, irreligious and prophane. There are a very fmall Number of Prefbyterians, with fome Quakers; and wherever thefe latter are, at leaft predominate, you fhall never fail to find Immoralities and Diforders pre- vail. Believe me, Sir, wherever Diftinction of Perfons is de- cried, as among that People, Confufions will follow : For Lev- elifm is inconfiftent with Order, and a certain Inlet to An- archy; as, when there was no King in Ifrael, every-one did what was right in his own Eyes. There are, however, fundry well-difpofed Gentlemen, who from Time to Time have made laudable Efforts to promote True Religion among their neighbours ; but what with their Colony Confufions and an Indian War fome Years fince, they have been able to make no great Advances. The Climate fubjects the Inhabitants, efpecially New-Comers, to vernal and autumnal Agues and Fevers of the mortal Kind. They export Indian Corn, and
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Pork, fatted in the Woods, with what, by a general Name, is called Maft; that is, Acorns, Walnuts, Cheftnuts, other Nuts and wild Fruits ; which makes it oily and unpalatable. But their greateft and moft profitable Produce is of the Te- rebinthinate Kind, viz. Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine, which they fhip off in great Quantities; as alfo Whalebone and Oil, some Seafons, from Cape Fear. Upon the whole, this Province may ftill pafs for a pretty wild and uncultivated Country ; and, excepting a few of the better Sort, its white Inhabitants have degenerated into a State of Ignorance and Barbarifm, not much fuperior to the native Indians.
Along the fame Shore, and North-Eafterly, lies the old famous Colony of Virginia ; fo called from the Virgin-Queen Elizabeth, in whofe Reign it feems to be firft fettled. The firft Adventurers to thofe Parts were moftly Gentlemen of Family and Fortune, and firmly attached to the English Church : For it was not then fo fafhionable and meritorious (as fanciful Men have fince thought it) to form themfelves into religious Factions; nor could they, with Impunity, feparate from Cath- olic Communion for Trifles. This was the laft of all the American English Plantations that fubmitted to Oliver's Yoke; nor was it without, a Struggle and Force, at laft, that they put on that Ufurper's Chains. This Country is regularly divided into Counties and Parifhes, where an Epifcopal Clergy (fub- ject to the See of London, as all the American Clergy are) are legally eftablifhed and well-provided for. There is a fmall College for the Education of Youth at a Town called IVil- liamfburg ; and, excepting fome fingle, inconfiderable Perfons, the Inhabitants are profeiled Members of the Church of Eng- land. The Parifhes are fo large and extenfive, that in many Places, 'tis no unufual Sight to fee the Gentry, in their Coaches, and lower People on Horfes, ride ten, twenty, thirty, and more Miles, to Church; fo that the Chriftians here may be, in more Senfes than one, called Cavaliers, it being impracticable for the lower Infantry to foot it often to their Parifh-Church. To remedy this, as the whole Province, between the moun- tains (200 Miles up) and the Sea is all a Champain, and without Stones, they have Plenty of a fmall Sort of Horfes, the beft in the World, like the little Scotch Galloways; and 'tis no extraordinary Journey to ride from 60 to 70 Miles, or more,
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in a Day. I have often, but upon larger-pacing Horfes, rode 50, nay 60, Miles a Day, even here in New-England, where the Roads are rough, ftony, and uneven. This Province is well watered with many large, long Rivers, navigable, fome 100, others 150, and 200 Miles up into the Country, which facilitates their Exportations. Thefe Rivers do not empty themfelves immediately into the Ocean, but into a large, ca- pacious Bafon, of great Breadth and Extent, called Chefapeak Bay, into which you fail through a narrow Channel, between Cape Henryand Cape Charles. From this Province, and Mary- land, its next Neighbour, all Europe is fupplied with Tobacco; except what is brought from the Brazils, belonging to the King of Portugal, in South- America. Befides Tobacco to Europe, they export, to the Portuguese Iflands in the Atlantic and on the African Coaft, and to the English Charibbee Iflands, and other Places, Wheat, Indian Corn, and great Quantities of Pork, fatted with the Majt already mentioned : And as for Beef, which is plenty enough in all the Places to the Southward of it, the Climate is too hot to fave it by Salt; so that they have little more than what is fufficient for their Home-Confump- tion, and to victual their own trading Ships; but as for the Tobacco Ships, they come victualled from England and Scot- land, where they chiefly belong. There are many Gentlemen of large Demefnes and Fortunes in Virginia, and are as re- markable for their open and free Hofpitality, as for their great Numbers of Negro Slaves; feveral having Hundreds, and fome above a Thoufand, of fuch Servants, fothat I believe the Blacks do in number equal, if not out-do, the Whites. As Hanging feems to be the worft Ufe Men can be put to, it were to be wifhed, that a Period were put even to the Tranfportation of Convicts from England and Ireland to Virginia and Maryland. Though fome of thefe Felons do reform, yet they are fo few, that their Malverfation has a bad Effect upon the Morals of the lower Clafs of Inhabitants: Great Pity, therefore, it is, that fome Punifhments worfe than Death or Tranfportation could not be contrived for thofe Vermin; and, fure, fome hard Drudgeries might be found out, which Idlenefs, the Inlet to their Villanies, would dread more than Hanging or Tranf- plantation. The civil Government of this Province is vefted immediately in the Crown; and, in Confideration of the vaft
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Revenue arifing at Home from their Tobacco, they are the only Colony whofe Governor is paid by the King. The Gov- ernor of Virginia is commonly a Nobleman. He has 1500/. fterling from the Exchequer, and as much from him who has the Favour to be fixed upon for the Lieutenant-Governor; by which Means it is a Sinecure worth 3000l. per Annum. The late Duke of Hamilton's Uncle, viz. the Earl of Orkney, was Governor of Virginia when I was in England laft, in 1736, and, after the Death of Colonel Spotfwood, Lieu- tenant-Governor Gooch was his Deputy : But he died while I was there, and who fucceeded him I can't tell; though the prefent Lieutenant-Governor is one Mr. Dinwooddy, my Clafs-Mate at the College of Glasgow. There has lately been made, upon and behind the Mountains of Virginia, a new Irish Settlement, by a 'Tranfmigration of fundry of thofe that, within thefe thirty Years paft, went from the North of Ireland to Pennfyl- vania. As the Soil in that new Irish Settlement is natural and friendly to Grafs, they will, for many Years to come, raife great Quantities of neat Cattle, as the Climate is benign, and their Outlets on Commonages large; but they are too far from Places fitted for Water-Carriage, to hurt other Cattle-breed- ing Places by their Exportations abroad.
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