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Excerpt from Memorial of Charles H. Marshall
Had been driven by persecution a century before, was not thought of as an asylum, but the border counties of New York offered a good climate, and cheap land, capa ble of being easily cleared of the forest and reduced to cultivation. In 1779, a number of families broke up at Nantucket, and crossing to New Bedford, made their way to the Connecticut River, and thence northward, through its valley, to Vermont, and across the Green Mountains to the State of New York. They took up a section of land lying between Troy and Whitehall, in what was then known as the Saratoga Patent, embracing a portion of what is now the richest part of Washing ton County. This exodus embraced the heads of some fifteen families with their children and household goods. It was Six or seven years in advance of the emigration to Claverack Landing, which transferred to the banks of the Hudson so much of the enterprise and wealth of the people of Nantucket, and laid the foundations of the city of Hudson.
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Had been driven by persecution a century before, was not thought of as an asylum, but the border counties of New York offered a good climate, and cheap land, capa ble of being easily cleared of the forest and reduced to cultivation. In 1779, a number of families broke up at Nantucket, and crossing to New Bedford, made their way to the Connecticut River, and thence northward, through its valley, to Vermont, and across the Green Mountains to the State of New York. They took up a section of land lying between Troy and Whitehall, in what was then known as the Saratoga Patent, embracing a portion of what is now the richest part of Washing ton County. This exodus embraced the heads of some fifteen families with their children and household goods. It was Six or seven years in advance of the emigration to Claverack Landing, which transferred to the banks of the Hudson so much of the enterprise and wealth of the people of Nantucket, and laid the foundations of the city of Hudson.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - William Allen Butler
Hardback
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ISBN - 9780267685226
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm
Page Count - 96
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ISBN - 9781332059102
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm
Page Count - 98
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