PAPERS RELATING TO THE SIX NATIONS.
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GEORGE CROGHAN TO SIR WM JOHNSON.
Dear Sir the Bearer M r William Andrews* is a young Gentleman bread up to the Church wellRecommended w h you will find by M r Achmuty’ Leters and is a Relation of M r Campble 2 inSchonectady M r Achmuty is of opinion that albany & Sehonectady should be butt one Living att thatM r . Monrow should have it and this Gentleman he preposed for y r , Town & the Mohocks I have beenpressed on by Several Gentlemen hear to Write y r honour with this Gentleman and hope you willExcuse the Liberty I take in Do itt, for tho I Love y e church very well I know I ought Nottto Medle with Church Maters I think he is a Modest Young Man & one w h you May bring up Toanswer the Discription of Such a Won as you formerly Chose only he has No Wife But that want yourhonour No Doubt Soon Suply him with of the fruitfull Loanes of your Estate.
I have seen the Gineral Several Times Since I came to Town he has No Late News of any Dis-turbence to y e Westward butt Says itts Expected that some broyles will hapen in y e Spring he DoseNott See he Says any Service My going this Time of the yeer as ye Indians are all out a huntingBut thinks I should send Some belts to Lett them know that I will be up in y e Spring he Says y eprovinces will Neaver Do any tiling that was Expected & that Everything Must Return in itsproper Chanel this Winter under y r honors Direction or things will Neaver Do Right he Tould meyesterday that I must Stay here Till Next Week as he was buscy this when he wold have a LongConversation with Me, he Recomended to Me to Memorial the King a bout my Grants & one of hisfamily Tould me he wold Recomend it if I asked him after I have hard what the General has tosay to Me I will write y honer More fully.
the Ship Dutchess of Gorden is aRived things in England in the Greatest Confuson Nothing Butpeticions from all y e Counteys prepairing to prevent y e King Backing the Midlesex & Livery ofLondon one M r Musgroves Leter Just as y e paice was Made Makes a great Noise this is y c Leterw>* L—d Egermont Shott himself about there is Now a Suplement printing to yesterday paper w hthe Berer will Take up to you w b will Contain y e Leter & all y e News this vesel has brought y epacket is Nott yet aRived butt hourly expected.
Plese to present my Complem ts to all the Gentlemen with you & blive me with the greatestRespect your Honors Most obedient & kum ble Servant
Geo : Croghan.
To the Hon ble Sir William Johnson Bar*.
*»* Geo. Croghan late of Passyunk, Pa. made his will on the 12th June 1782. His daughter Susannah, married Lt.Augustine Prevost . He does not seem to have left any male heirs. His will is recorded in the office of the Clerk of theCourt of Appeals Albany, N. V. Ed.
1 Revd Wm Andrews was a native of Ireland . He returned home in 1770, when he was ordained by the Bishop ofLondon and appointed Missionary at Schenectady , in which place some of his relativesdt seems, already resided. Havingmarried, in the meantime, he entered od 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*n 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 Schbrmerhorn, acquired great wealth in Schenectady as aMerchant, portion of which he left to a nephew, a Dr. Campbell of London who resided in this country several years andthen returned to England. Daniel D. Schermerhorn, one of the Members of the late Constitutional Convention , havingbecome heir to Mr. C. has since assumed that name.