The Documentary history of the state of New-York; arranged under direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, secretary of State. By E. B. O'Callaghan ...

THE SIX NATIONS. 419 I'm hopeful, Sir, that both you and every one of yr extensive & very respectable Family are well: and may the divine bountiful goodness, always, preserve ye, so. Be so kind as to present to each of them, one by one, my continual sincere well-wishes, and very humble respects; and to accept of ye same from. Honble Sir, Your much obliged & very obedt Hbie Servt JAMES ADAIR. Savannah 9br 15th An: 1769. GEORGE CROGHAN TO SIR WM JOHNSON. New York Novbr 16: 1769 Dear Sir the Bearer Mr William Andrews1 is a young Gentleman bread up to the Church well Recommended wh you will find by Mr Achmuty' Leters and is a Relation of Mr Campble2 in Schonectady Mr Achmuty is of opinion that albany & Schonectady should be butt one Living att that M1. Monrow should have it and this Gentleman he preposed for y, Town & the Mohocks I have been pressed on by Several Gentlemen hear to Write yr honour with this Gentleman and hope you will Excuse the Liberty I take in Do itt, for tho I Love ye church very well I know I ought Nott 1 Revd WM ANDREWS was a native of Ireland. He returned home in 1770, when he was ordained by the Bishop of London and appointed Missionary at Schenectady, in which place some of his relatives, it seems, already resided. Having married, in the meantime, he entered on his charge immediately after receiving orders, to the satisfaction of his congregation. He opened a grammar school in the fall of 1771', but the labors attendant on this, with ill health & other causes mentioned in his letter (post) of 16 Aug. 1773, obliged him to relinquish this mission and sail to Virginia. ED. 2 DANIEL CAMPBELL was a native of Ireland, married a Miss SCHEREREHORN, acquired great wealth in Schenectady as a Merchant, portion of which he left to a nephew, a Dr. Campbell of London who resided in this country several years and then returned to England. Daniel D. Schermerhorn, one of the Members of the late Constitutional Convention, having become heir to Mr. C. has since assumed that name.

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The Documentary history of the state of New-York; arranged under direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, secretary of State. By E. B. O'Callaghan ...
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