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 Number Nine January 1898 
 
 AN ACCOUNT OF OUR LATE TROUBLES IN 
 VIRGINIA, WRITTEN IN 1676 BY MRS. ANN 
 COTTON OF Q. CREEK. PUBLISHED FROM 
 THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, IN THE RICH- 
 MOND (VA.) ENQUIRER OF I2TH SEPTEMBER, 
 1804. 
 
 A LIST OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN EX- 
 ECUTED FOR THE LATE REBELLION IN VIR- 
 GINIA, BY SIR WILLIAM BERKELEY, GOVERNOR 
 OF THE COLONY. 
 
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 Fort Amsterdam. 
 
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 The Stadt Huys of New Amsterdam. 
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 The Bowery. 
 
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AN ACCOUNT 
 
 OF 
 
 OUR LATE TROUBLES 
 
 IN 
 
 VIRGINIA 
 
 WRITTEN IN 1676 BY MRS. AN. COTTON, OF 
 Q. CREEKE. 
 
 Published from the original manuscript in the Richmond (Va.) 
 Enquirer of 12 September, 1804. 
 
NO 9 JANUARY i8q8 
 
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 Pubiished by GEORGE P HUMPHREY 
 ROCHESTER N Y 
 
VOL.1. COLONIAL TRACTS N0.9. 
 
 OUR LATE TROUBLES. 
 
 To Mr. C. H., at Yardly, in Northampto7ishire : 
 
 C IR : I having seen yours directed to , and con- 
 
 ^ sidering that you cannot have your desires satisfied that 
 way, for the forementioned reasons, I have by his permission 
 adventured to send you this brief account of those affairs, so far 
 as I have been informed. 
 
 The Susquehanians and Marylanders of friends being 
 engaged enemies, as hath by former letter been hinted to you, 
 and that the Indians being resolutely bent not to forsake their 
 fort, it came to this point, that the Marylanders were obliged, 
 finding themselves too weak to do the work themselves, to sup- 
 plicate — too soon granted — aid of the Virginians, put under the 
 conduct of one Colonel Washington, him whom you have some- 
 times seen at your house, who, being joined with the iVlary- 
 landers, invests the Indians in their fort with a negligent siege, 
 upon which the enemy made several sallies, with as many losses 
 to the besiegers, and at last gave them the opportunity to desert 
 the fort, after that the English had, contrary to the law of 
 arms, beat out the brains of six great men sent out to treat a 
 peace ; an action of ill-consequence, as it proved afterwards, for 
 the Indians having in the dark slipped through the Legure, and 
 in their passage knocked ten of the besiegers on the head, 
 whom they found fast asleep, leaving the rest to prosecute the 
 siege (as Scoging's wife brooding the eggs that the fox had 
 sucked), they resolved to employ their liberty in avenging their 
 commissioners' blood, which they speedily effected in the death 
 of sixty innocent souls, and then sent in their remonstrance to 
 the governor in justification of the fact, with this expostulation 
 annexed : demanding what it was moved him to take up arms 
 against them, his professed friends, in behalf of the Mary- 
 landers, their avowed enemies ; declaring their sorrow^ to see 
 the Virginians of friends to become such violent enemies as to 
 
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 pursue the chase into another's dominions ; complains that their 
 messengers, sent out for peace, were not only knocked on the 
 head, but the fact countenanced by the governor, for which, 
 finding no other way to be satisfied, they had revenged them- 
 selves by killing ten for one of the English, such being the dis- 
 proportion between their men murdered and those by them 
 slain, theirs being persons of quality, the other of inferior rank ; 
 professing that if they may have a valuable satisfaction for the 
 damage they had sustained by the English, and that the Vir- 
 ginians would withdraw their aid from the Marylanders' 
 quarrel ; that then they would renew the league with Sir W. 
 B.,* otherwise they would prosecute the war to the last man, 
 and the hardest fend of. 
 
 This was fair play from foul gamesters. But the proposals 
 not to be allowed of as being contrary to the honor of the 
 English, the Indians proceed, and, having drawn the neighbor- 
 ing Indians into their aid in a short time, they committed 
 abundance of unguarded and unrevenged murders, by which 
 means a great many of the outward plantations were deserted, 
 the doing whereof did not only terrify the whole colon}/, but 
 supplanted what esteem the people formerly had for Sir W. B., 
 whom they judged too remiss in applying means to stop the 
 fury of the heathen, and to settle their affections and expecta- 
 tions upon one Esquire Bacon, newly come to the country, one 
 of the council, and nearly related to your late wife's father-in- 
 law, whom they desired might be commissioned general for the 
 Indian war, which Sir William, for some reasons best known to 
 himself, denying, the gentleman, without any scruple, accepts 
 of a commission from the people's affections, signed by the 
 emergencies of affairs and the country's danger, and so forth- 
 with advanced with a small party, composed of such that own 
 his authority, against the Indians, on whom, it is said, he did 
 signal execution. In his absence he, and those with him, were 
 declared rebels to the state, May 29th, and forces raised to 
 reduce him to his obedience, at the head of which the 
 governor advanced some thirty or forty miles to find Bacon 
 out, but not knowing which way he was gone, he dismissed 
 his army, retiring himself and council to Jamestown, there to 
 be ready for the assembly, which was now upon the point of 
 
 * Sir William Berkeley, the Governor of Virginia. 
 
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 meeting, whither Bacon, some few days after his return home 
 from his hidian march, repaired to render an account of his 
 services, for which he, and most of those with him in the 
 expedition, were imprisoned ; from whence they were freed by 
 a judgment in court upon Bacon's trial, himself readmitted into 
 the council, and promised a commission the Monday following 
 (this was on Saturday) against the Indians ; with which 
 deluded, he smothers his resentments, and begs leave to visit 
 his lady, now sick, as he pretended, which being granted, he 
 returns to town at the head of four or five hundred men, well 
 armed, and resumed his demands for a commission, which, 
 after some hours' struggle with the governor, being obtained, 
 according to his desire, he takes order for the country's security 
 against the attempts of sculking Indians, fills up his numbers 
 and provisions according to the gage of his commission, and so 
 once more advanced against the Indians, who, hearing of his 
 approach, called in their runners and scouts, betaking them- 
 selves to their subterfuges and lurking-holes. The general, 
 for so he was now denominated, had not reached the head of 
 York river, but that a post overtakes him and inform.s him that 
 Sir W. B. was raising the train-bands in Gloucester, with an 
 intent either to fall into his rear, or otherwise to cut him off 
 when he should return, weary and spent from his Indian ser- 
 vice. This strange news put him and those with him shrewdly 
 to their trumps, believing that a few such deals or shui^les, 
 call them which you will, might quickly ring both cards and 
 game out of his hands ; he saw that there was an absolute 
 necessity of destroying the Indians, and that there was some 
 care to be taken for his own and the army's safety, otherwise 
 the work might happen to be wretchedly done, where the 
 laborers were made cripples, and be compelled instead of a sword 
 to make use of a crutch. It vexed him to the heart, as he said, 
 to think that while he was a hunting wolves, tigers, and bears, 
 which daily destroyed our harmless and innocent lambs, that 
 he and those with him should be pursued in the rear with a 
 full cry, as more savage beasts; he perceived, like the corn, 
 he was light between those stones, which might grind him to 
 powder if he did not look the better about him, for the prevent- 
 ing of which, after a short consultation with his officers, he 
 countermarched his arm)^, about five hundred in all, down to 
 
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 the middle plantation, of which the governor being informed, 
 ships himself and adherers for Accomack (for the Gloster men 
 refused to own his quarrel against the general), after he had 
 caused Bacon, in these parts, to be proclaimed a rebel once 
 more, July 29th. 
 
 Bacon, being sate down with his army at the middle 
 plantation, sends out an invitation to all the prime gentlemen 
 in these parts, to give him a meeting in his quarters, there to 
 consult how the Indians were to be proceeded against, and 
 himself and army protected against the designs of Sir W. B., 
 against whose papers of the twenty-ninth of May, and his 
 proclamation since, he puts forth his replication and those 
 papers upon these dilemmas. 
 
 First, whether persons wholly devoted to the king and 
 country, haters of sinister and by-respects, adventuring their 
 lives and fortunes to kill and destroy all in arms against king 
 and country ; that never plotted, contrived, or endeavored the 
 destruction, detriment, or wrong, of any of his majesty's sub- 
 jects, their lives, fortunes, or estates, can deserve the names 
 of rebels and traitors. Secondly, he cites his own and soldiers' 
 peaceable behavior, calling the whole country to witness against 
 him if they can ; he upbraids some in authority with the mean- 
 ness of their parts, others, now rich, with the meanness of 
 their estates when they came into the country, and questions 
 by what just ways they have obtained their wealth, whether 
 they have not been the sponges that have sucked up the 
 public treasury ; questions what arts, sciences, schools of 
 learning, or manufactories, have been promoted in authority ; 
 justifies his aversion in general against the Indians ; upbraids 
 the governor for maintaining their quarrel, though ever so 
 unjust, against the Christians' rights, his refusal to admit an 
 Englishman's oath against an Indian, when that Indian's bare 
 word should be accepted of against an Englishman ; said some- 
 thing against the governor concerning the beaver trade, as not 
 in his power to dispose of to his own profit, it being a monopoly 
 of the crown ; questions whether the traders at the heads of 
 the rivers, being his factors, do not buy and sell the blood of 
 their brethren and countrymen, by furnishing the Indians with 
 powder, shot, and firearms, contrary to the laws of the colony ; 
 he arraigns one Colonel Cowell's assertion, for saying that 
 
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 the English are bound to protect the Indians, to the hazard of 
 their blood ; and so concludes with an appeal to the king and 
 parliament, where he doubts not but that his and the people's 
 cause will be impartially heard. 
 
 To comply with the general's invitation, hinted in my former 
 letter, there was a great convention of the people met him in 
 his quarters, the result of which meeting was an engagement, 
 for the people (of whatsoever quality, excepting servants) to 
 subscribe to, consisting of three heads : First, to be aiding, with 
 their lives and estates, the general in the Indian war ; secondly, 
 to oppose Sir William's designs, if he had any, to hinder the 
 same; and lastly, to protect the general, army, and all that 
 should subscribe to this engagement, against any power that 
 should be sent out of England, till it should be granted that the 
 country's complaint might be heard, against Sir William, before 
 the king and parliament^. These three heads being methodized 
 and put into form by the clerk of the assembly, who happened 
 to be at this meeting, and read to the people, they held a dis- 
 pute from almost noon till midnight, pro and con, whether the 
 same might, in the last article especialy, be without danger 
 taken. The general, and some others of the chief men, were 
 resolute in the affirmative, asserting its innocency, and protest- 
 ing, without it, he would surrender up his commission to the 
 assembly, and let them find other servants to do the country's 
 work ; this, and the news that the Indians were falling down 
 into Gloster county, and had killed some people around Carter's 
 creek, made the people willing to take the engagement. The 
 chief men who subscribed it at this meeting were Colonel 
 Swan, Colonel Beale, Colonel Ballard, Esquire Bray, all four 
 of the council. Colonel Jordan, Colonel Smith of Purton, Col- 
 onel Scarsbrook, Colonel Miller, Colonel Lawrance, and Mr. 
 Drommond, late governor of Carolina, all persons with whom 
 you have been formerly acquainted. 
 
 This work being over, and orders given for an assembly to 
 sit on the fourth of September, the writs being issued in his 
 majesty's name, and signed by four of the council, before 
 named, the general once more sets out to find the Indians : of 
 which Sir William having gained intelligence, to prevent Bacon's 
 designs by the assembly, returns from Accomack with about 
 one thousand soldiers, and others, in five ships and ten sloops, 
 
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 to Jamestown, in which were some nine hundred Baconians, 
 for so now they began to be called for a mark of distinction, 
 under the command of Colonel Hansford, who was commis- 
 sioned by Bacon to raise forces, if need were, in his absence, 
 for the safety of the country. Unto these Sir William sends in 
 a summons for a rendition of the place, with a pardon to all 
 that would decline Bacon's, and entertain his cause. What 
 was returned to this summons I i<now not, but in the night the 
 Baconians forsake the town, by the advice of Drommond and 
 Lawrance (who were both excepted in the governor's summons, 
 out of mercy), every one returning to their own abode, except- 
 ing Drommond, Hansford, Lawrence, and some few others, 
 who went to find the general, now returned to the head of 
 York river, having spent his provisions in following the Indians, 
 on whom he did some execution, and sent them packing a great 
 way from the borders. 
 
 Before that Drommond, and those with him, had reached 
 the general, he had dismissed his army to their respective 
 habitations, to gather strength against the next intended 
 expedition, excepting some few reserved for his guard, and 
 persons living in these parts, unto whom, those that came with 
 Hansford being joined, made about one hundred and fifty in all. 
 With these. Bacon, by a swift march, before any news was 
 heard of his return from the Indians, in these parts, comes to 
 town, to the consternation of all in it, and there blocks the 
 governor up, which he easily effected by this unheard of 
 project : he was no sooner arrived at town, but by several 
 small parties of horse, two or three in a party, for more he 
 could not spare, he fetcheth into his little Leagure all the prime 
 men's wives, wiiose husbands were with the governor, as 
 Colonel Bacon's lady, Madame Bray, Madame Page, Madame 
 Ballard, and others, who, the next morning, he presents to the 
 view of their husbands and friends in town, upon the top of 
 the small work he had cast up in the night, where he caused 
 them to tarry until he had finished his defense against his 
 enemies' shot, it being the only place, as you do know well 
 enough, for those in town to make a sally at, which when com- 
 pleted, and the governor understanding that the gentlewomen 
 were withdrawn to a place of safety, he sent out some six or 
 seven hundred of his soldiers, to beat Bacon out of his trench. 
 
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 But it seems that those works, that were protected by such 
 charms while raising, that plugged up the enemy's shot in their 
 guns, could not now be stormed by a virtue less powerful, 
 when finished, than the sight of a few white aprons, otherwise 
 the service had been more honorable and the damage less, 
 several of those who made the sally being slain and wounded, 
 without one drop of blood drawn from the enemy. Within 
 two or three days after this disaster, the governor reships him- 
 self, soldiers, and all the inhabitants of the town, and their 
 goods, and so to Accomack again, leaving Bacon to enter the 
 place at his pleasure, which he did the next morning before 
 day, and the night following burned it down to the ground, to 
 prevent a future siege, as he said, which flagrant and flagitious \ 
 act performed, he draws his men out of town, and m.arched 
 them over York river, at Tindell's point, to find Colonel Brent, 
 who was advancing fast upon him from Potomack, at the head 
 of twelve hundred men, as he was informed, with a design to 
 raise Bacon's siege from before the town, or otherwise to fight 
 him, as he saw cause ; but Brent's soldiers no sooner heard that 
 Bacon had got on the north side of York river, with an intent 
 to fight them, and that he had beat the governor out of the 
 town, and fearing if he met with them that he might beat them 
 out of their lives, they basely forsook their colors, the greater 
 part adhering to Bacon's cause, resolving with the Persians to 
 go and worship the rising sun, now approaching near their 
 horizon ; of which Bacon being informed, he stops his proceed- 
 ings that v/ay, and begins to provide for another expedition 
 against the Indians, of whom he had heard no news since his 
 last march against them ; which while he was a contriving, death 
 summoned him to more urgent affairs, into whose hands, after 
 a short siege, he surrenders his life, leaving his commission in 
 the custody of his lieutenant-general, one higram, newly come 
 into the country. 
 
 Sir William no sooner had news that Bacon was dead but 
 he sent over a party, in a sloop, to York, who snapped Colonel 
 Hansford and others with him, that kept a negligent guard at 
 Colonel Reade's house, under his command. When Hansford 
 came to Accomack, he had the honor to be the first Virginian 
 born that was ever hanged ; the soldiers, about twenty in all, 
 that were taken with him, were committed to prison, Captain 
 
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 Carver, Captain Wilford, Captain Farloe, with five or six others 
 of less note, taken at other places, ending their days as Hans- 
 ford did ; Major Cheesman being appointed, but it seems not 
 destined to the lil<e end, v/hichhe prevented by dying in prison, 
 through ill-usage, as it is said. 
 
 This execution being over, which the Baconians termed 
 cruelty in the abstract, Sir William ships himself and soldiers 
 for York river, casting anchor at Tindell's pointy from where 
 he sent up one hundred and twenty men, to surprise a guard 
 of about thirty men and boys, kept at Colonel Bacon's house, 
 under the command of Major Whaley, who, being forewarned 
 by Hansford's fate, prevented the designed conflict, with the 
 death of the commander-in-chief, and the taking some prisoners ; 
 Major Lawrence Smith, with six hundred men, meeting with the 
 like fate at Colonel Pate's house in Gloster, against Ingram, the 
 Baconian general, only Smith saved himself by leaving his men 
 in the lurch, being all made prisoners, whom Ingram dismissed 
 to their own homes ; Ingram himself, and all under his com- 
 mand, within a few days after, being reduced to his duty, by 
 the well contrivance of Captain Grantham, who was now lately 
 arrived at York river, which put a period to the war, and 
 brought the governor ashore at Colonel Bacon's, where he was 
 presented with Mr. Drommond, taken the day before in Chicka- 
 hominy swamp, half famished, as he himself related to my 
 husband ; from Colonel Bacon's, the next day, he was conveyed 
 in irons to Mr. Bray's, whither the governor had removed, to 
 his trial, where he was condemned, within half an hour after 
 his coming to Esquire Bray's, to be hanged at the middle planta- 
 tion within four hours after his condemnation, where he was 
 accordingly executed, with a pitiful Frenchman. Which done, 
 the governor removed to his own house, to settle his and the 
 country's repose, after his many troubles, which he effected 
 by the advice of his council and an assembly, convened at the 
 Green spring, where several were condemned to be executed, 
 prime actors in the rebellion, as Esquire Bland, Colonel Cruse, 
 and some others, hanged at Bacon's trench. Captain Yong of 
 Chickahominy, Mr. Hall, clerk of New Kent court, James Wil- 
 son, once your servant, and one Lieutenant-colonel Page (one 
 that my husband bought of Mr. Lee, when he kept store at 
 your house), all four executed at Colonel Read's, over against 
 
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 Tindell's point, and Anthony Arnell, the same that did live at 
 your house, hanged in chains at West Point, besides several 
 others executed on the other side of James ri\-er — enough, they 
 say, in all, to outnumber those slain in the whole war on both 
 sides, it being observable that the sword was more favorable 
 than the halter, as there wsls a greater liberty taken to run 
 from the sharpness of the one than would be allowed to shun 
 the dull emibraces of the other, the hangman being more dread- 
 ful to the Baconians than their general was to the Indians, as 
 it is counted more honorable and less terrible to die like a 
 soldier than to be hanged like a dog. 
 
 Thus, sir. have I rendered you an account of our late 
 troubles in Mrginia, u-hich I ha\-e performed too wordishly, 
 but I did not know how to help it. Ignorance in some cases is 
 a prevalent overture in pleading for pardon ; I hope mine may 
 have the fortune to prove so in the behalf of. 
 
 Y DEAR : Although those who have depicted that fickle 
 
 goddess, Fortune, ha\-e represented her under various 
 shapes, thereby to denote her inconstancies, yet do I think 
 there is not anything sublunary subjected to the vicissitudes of 
 her temper so much as is the condition and estate of mankind. 
 All things else partake something of a steadfast and permanent 
 degree except man in the state of his affairs. The sun is con- 
 stant in his annual progress through the zodaic, the moon in 
 her changes, the other planets in their aspects. The produc- 
 tions of the earth have a fixed constant season for their growth 
 and increase, when that m.an, in his creation little inferior to 
 the angels, cannot promise unto himself a fixed condition this 
 side of hea\-en. 
 
 How many hath thou and I read of, that the sun hath shined 
 upon in the east, with honors and dignities, which his western 
 beams hath seen clouded with po\-erty, reproaches, and con- 
 tumelies. The same moment that saw Cssar chief man in 
 the senate, beheld him in a worse condition than the meanest 
 
 Sir, vour friend and ser\-ant. 
 
 From 0, Creek, 
 
 AN". Cotton 
 
 To his zi'ife. A. C. jA 0. Creek: 
 
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 slave in Rome ; and in less than six hours Phoebus eyed the 
 Marquis of Ancrey, in the midst of his rustling train of servi- 
 tors, not only streaming out his blood, but spurned and 
 dragged up and down the dirty streets of Paris, by the worst 
 of mechanics. It is but the other day that I did see N. B.* in 
 the condition of a traitor, to be tried for his life, who but a few 
 days before was judged the most accomplished gentleman in 
 Virginia to serve his king and country at the council table, 
 or to put a stop to the insolencies of the heathen, and the next 
 day raised to his dignities again. Thus doth fortune sport her- 
 self with poor mortals, sometimes mount them up into the air, 
 as boys do tennis balls, that they may come with the greater 
 violence down, and then again strike them against the earth, 
 that they may with ye greater speed mount up into the air, etc. 
 From Town, ]une g, 'yd. 
 
 Nathaniel Bacon. 
 
A LIST 
 
 OF THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN EXECUTED 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 LATE REBELLION 
 
 .IN 
 
 VIRGINIA 
 
 By sir WILLIAM BERKELEY, GOVERNOR OF THE COLONY. 
 
 Copied from the original manuscript (Harleian collection, codex 6845, 
 page 54) in the Library of the British Museum, London, 
 by ROBERT GREENHOW, ESQ., of Virginia. 
 
A LIST OF THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN EXECUTED FOR YE 
 LATE REBELLION IN VIRGINIA. 
 
 1. One Johnson, a stirrer up of the people to sedition, but 
 no fighter. , 
 
 2. One Barlow, one of Cromwell's soldiers, very active in 
 this rebellion, and taken with forty men coming to surprise me 
 at Accomack. 
 
 3. One Carver, a valiant man and stout seaman, taken 
 miraculously, who came with Bland, with equal commission , and 
 two hundred men to take me and some other gentlemen that 
 assisted me, with the help of two hundred soldiers; miracu- 
 lously delivered into my hand. 
 
 4. One Wilford, an interpreter, that frightened the Queen 
 of Pamunkey from ye lands she had granted her by the 
 Assembly, a month after peace was concluded with her. 
 
 5. One Hartford, a valiant, stout man, and a most resolved 
 rebel. 
 
 All these at Accomack. 
 
 AT YORK WHILST I LAY THERE. 
 
 1. One Young, commissioned by General Monck long be- 
 fore he declared for ye king. 
 
 2. One Page, a carpenter, formerly my servant, but for his 
 violence used against the royal party, made a colonel. 
 
 3. One Harris, that shot to death a valiant loyalist prisoner. 
 
 4. One Hall, a clerk of a county, but more useful to the 
 rebels than forty army men, who died very penitent, con- 
 fessing his rebellion against his king and his ingratitude to me. 
 
 AT THE MIDDLE PLANTATION. 
 
 One Drummond, a Scotchman, that we all supposed was 
 the original cause of the whole rebellion, with a common 
 Frenchman, that had been very bloody. 
 
 CONDEMNED AT MY HOUSE, AND EXECUTED WHEN BACON 
 LAY BEFORE JAMESTOWN. 
 
 1. One Colonel Crewe, Bacon's parasite, that continually 
 went about ye country extolling all Bacon's actions and 
 justifying his rebellion. 
 
 2. One Cookson, taken in rebellion. 
 
 3. One Darby, from a servant made a captain. 
 
 WILLIAM Berkeley. 
 
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 TRAVELS in the Years 1791 and 1792 in Pennsylvania, 
 New York, and Vermont. Journals of John Lincklaen, 
 agent of the Holland Land Company. With a biographical 
 sketch and notes. 8vo, cloth, uncut. New York, 1897. 
 Five hundred copies only printed. $2.00 
 
 Any of the hooks above will he forwarded on receipt \ 
 of price hy George P. Humphrey, 25 Exchange 
 Street, Rochester, New York. 
 
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