of Wampum as his speech on that head-Sovereign Lady ANNE by the Grace of God I spoke to Bears Oil Chief for Wm. Johns- of Great Britain, France and Ireland, ton to help him, as the white People thinks Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c. BeNothing of us, Then Johnston spoke and tween His Excellency Robert Hunter, told him he would help him, and for (told) Esqr; Capt. General and Governour_in him to go home and tell his Worriors & Chief of the Provinces of New York, New Children to go to work, plent Corn & Git Jersey, and Territories depending thereon their living-I then spoke to Bairs Oil my- in America, and Vice-Admiral of the same self to make his mind Easy & go home, &c. of the one part, And William Bradand if he See (saw) any of the Western ford of the City of New York Printer of Nations Going to war, to tell them not to the other part, Whereas his said Excelenterupt any Body about French-creek or lency in Council having determined the any where in that Country, and if he putting out of the Orphans of the Palatines Should see them, to tell them to go Back, (and some of those other Children whose to those that ware at war-I told Bears Parents have too many to look after them Oil afterwards that if You dont see any of and mind their Labour) for a certain time, them, & they do any Mischief we cannot upon the Conditions following, (to wit) help it-Then after that I Considered & The Boys till they arrive at the Age of Dispached Runners to Oswego & to Buff- Twenty one years, and the Girls till they low-creek & to the Genessees for all the arrive at the Age of Nineteen years; The Chiefs to Rise and Likewise Gen' Chapin Supirent of Indian affairs. en Persons taking them entring into Indentures, and Bond with Surety, in the SecreThen Mr Johston spoke & said if the six tary's Office, to provide them with Good Nations went, he would Go with them.- and Wholesom Meat, Drink, Lodging and Their is but Eight Days to Com when they Cloathing, and at the Expiration of the will meet at this Place if they like what I time to Surrender them to the Governhave said-Brothers at French-creek if it ment; his Excellency and Council should happen that they dont come You gaging they shall respectively serve till must not Blame me, for it is not my fault, they arrive at the Ages aforesaid. Now Because you know very well I am almost this Indenture Witnesseth, That John Tired of talking, because, none of you will Peter Zenger of the Age of Thirteene hear me -It will be but a few Days Before I will know whether they are Coming, & if they are Coming, you will Know it Imeadeatly Years or thereabouts, Son of Hannah Zenger Widow One of the Palatines aforesaid, of his own free and Voluntary Will by the Consent of his said Mother and also By the consent and approbation of his Excellency, hath put him self out to the said William Bradford his Executors and Administrators with him and them to dwell and serve from the day of the date hereof for and during and unto the full end and term of Eight years from thence next ensuing and fully be compleat and Ended, for all which said Term of Eight years the said John Peter Zenger the said William Bradford his Executors and Administra tors well and truly shall serve his & their Commands lawful and honest every where he shall do; The Goods of his said Master his Executors or Administrators he shall not waste or destroy, nor from the Service of his said Master his Executors or Ad ministrators day nor night shall absent or was one of a hundred horsemen (Life prolong him self, but in all things as a good Guards) who escorted Washington to Mt. and faithful Servant shall bear and behave Vernon at the close of the Revolution. him self towards his said Master his Exe- Mr. Armstrong subsequently published cutors & Administrators during the said this statement, and it was, I think, geneTerm aforesaid. And the said William rally credited. My father (who had preBradford for him self his Executors and viously published several articles to show Administrators and every of them doth that the Life Guards were INFANTRY and Covenant, Promise and Grant to and with not mounted men) discredited the statehis said Excellency and his Successors, that ment of Gibson as to the escort to Mt. he the said William Bradford his Execu- Vernon. This led to a controversy in the tors & Administrators shall and will during Newburgh papers between Mr. E. and Mr. all the said Term of Eight years find and A. as to the fact whether the Guards were provide for the said John Peter Zenger footmen or horsemen. The former wrote good, sufficient and wholesom Meat, Drink to George Washington Parke Custis, then and Cloathing; And also shall and will at at Arlington House, detailing the statethe end and Expiration of the said Term of ment of Gibson as to the escort, and also Eight years Surrender and deliver up the asking him as to the military character of said John Peter Zenger, well Cloathed to the Guards. It brought the following his said Excellency, or to the Governour or letter, which was conclusive upon both Commander in Chief of the said Province points. of New York, for the time being. In Witness whereof his said Excellency and the said William Bradford have hereunto Interchangeably set their Hands and Seals the day and year first above Written. WILL BRADFORD [Seal.] The real survivor of the Life Guards was for many years) were subsequently deposit- MY DEAR SIR, JOHN M. EAGER. ARLINGTON HOUSE, April 2, 1852. THE LAST SURVIVOR OF WASHINGTON's LIFE GUARD.-Among the papers of my father I find the following letter. It will be remembered that about 1852 a revolutionary soldier named Gibson died in Orange County, and it being supposed at the time that he was the last of the Life Yours is received. The story told by Guard of Washington, he was buried in Gibson, "the old Life Guardsman," of Greenwood at the expense of one of the Washington's being escorted to Mt. Vernon New York City Regiments and with mili- in 1783 by a hundred horsemen is a fable. tary honor-having lain in state during the The Life Guards was A CORPS OF IN day prior to the burial in the Governor's FANTRY. When the Chief had taken leave Room in the City Hall. He claimed for of his officers in the memorable scene at many years before his death that he was Francis' Tavern, he proceeded himself on not only one of the Guard, but a short his way to Annapolis, then the seat of Gotime before his decease stated to the Rev. vernment, and there to resign his commisRobert Armstrong, of Newburgh, that he sion, accompanied only by two aide-de camps and three servants. Not a soldier looking to that German word I find he inof any sort! He tarried with Robert tended the Irish forminst! Morris-called at his head-quarters when Energize, citizenize, funkify, noncomir. Philadelphia, and then on to Annapolis. mittalism, and many similar words abound, After the resignation of the commission, and the pages bristle with such expressions Washington, as a private citizen, accom- as fork over, hurry up the cakes, the jig is panied by Colonel Humphries (one of his up, jiminy, killing, to kick up a row, aide-de-camps at Yorktown), called at my kinder, kilter, loaf, lovyer. grandfather's, the Honorable Benedict Spunk, underwood, improperly called in Calvert, at his seat in Prince George's some parts punk, is given only in the incorCounty, Maryland, and stayed one night, and rect form. then reached Mt. Vernon on the next day. The Indian sled, tabogan, is given tarDuring the journey the beloved chief boggin. I. was greeted by the love, gratitude, and The book is worth a closer examination acclamation of the people, who turned out than I have taken time to give it, by any as volunteers to bid him welcome to their student of Americanisms. hearts and homes, and everywhere escorted him from place to place; but not a single Continental soldier escorted him anywhere. Very respectfully, sir, GEORGE W. P. CUSTIS. THE JURISDICTION OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON IN AMERICA.-In 1786, Owen Salisbury Brereton, Esq., exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries of London an impression of a seal used prior to the reign of George I. by the Bishop of London for American documents. It bore the legend, "SIGILLUM EPISCOPI LONDINENSIS. PRO COMISS. AMERICANIS." It is stated in Notes and Queries that in the reign of George I. AMERICANISMS IN GERMAN ENGLISH this question was referred to the law offiDICTIONARIES.-German English Diction- cers of the crown: "Whether America aries have always been noted as receptacles was so far to be deemed within the diocese for slang, inserted not as slang but as of London, that the bishop thereof had all genuine English. Taking up Elwell's New power in America ?" They decided that and Complete American Dictionary of the a royal patent was necessary to sustain English and German Languages, New such a power, but Dr. Gibson, Bishop of York, 1851, I have been amused to see London, refused to take out a patent. what amount of vulgarisms has been thrust into it as English. Not by a jugfull, is favored with an especial heading. Clamshell, is given as one of the equivalents of mouth, but the word clam, as the name of a shell fish, is not. Boss, is given as a noun and as a verb. Bubbler, a word unknown to me, is given as the name of a fish in Ohio. Buster. REVISED STATUTES.-At page 225, vol. 1, of the 5th ed. of this work, the beginning of the town of Lewis, Essex Co., is stated to be "where the river Raquette crosses the town line." There is no river "Raquette" in Essex County. The river of that name is in St. Lawrence Co. The Essex County river is called Boquet, and it ought to have been so printed in the Statutes, for it is so written in the minute Burgoo, is given as a preparation of oat- of the Board of Supervisors, which is meal. Carpet wed, as a creeping plant. Cisco, as a small fish. Frough, is given as meaning rancid. quoted. In the same vol., p. 206, the town of Gilboa is described as beginning at the mouth of the "Mauer" Kill. It should have been printed Manor Kill. RESOLVED WALDRON'S will was proved those who undertake to form or revise our 1st June, 1761. He left the following laws should know something of the early children: John, Jacob, Adrian, Anne, history of the country? Elizabeth, Peggy, Caty. Anne m. Strauts Springstein; Elizabeth m. Patrick Kine; EARL BELLOMONT-JOE DAVEISS.— Peggy married Abraham Lent, and Caty Although the New York Colonial History m. Alexander Buleen. Jacob settled even- and Colonial documents give the name of tually at Haverstraw, Orange County, near Earl Bellomont correctly, as above, in acStrong Point, on lands inherited from his cordance with his own custom, for I have his father. It may be well to preserve these handsome autograph before me, the earlier particulars of the descendants of one of writers, such as Hutchison, and even some Gov. Stuyvesant's ambassadors to Vir- as late as Grahame, Sparks, and Hildreth, ginia. E. B. O'C. write it Bellamont. The title is, inverted, that of one of Napoleon's Generals, the Duke of Montebello, and exists even in England in the French form Beaumont. How the incorrect letter came in is not easily explained. CLOCKVILLE, MADISON Co., N.Y.-This is an instance where the misspelling of a word destroys the only link whereby correct information may be obtained of the origin of the name of the place. It was Jos. H. Daveiss, who was killed at the called "Klockville" after John Klock, the battle of Tippecanoe, in 1811, and after original grantee of lot No. 10 in the town whom several counties in various states of Lenox, in which the village is situated, have been named, spelt his name as I have and has no connection with those timepieces called "clocks," as one would be led at present to infer. E. B. O'C. written it. In the official list of post-offices it is uniformly spelt Daviess. These particulars are not important, but it is pleasant to see names correctly printed. WASHINGTON, D. C. J. B. R. DYING IN THE LAST DITCH.-This ex "DURING MEN."-This name, as I was informed by the late Samuel Stevens, a son of Gen. Ebenezer Stevens, of Revolutionary memory, was used to distinguish the troops pression, so frequently used by the Rebels, enlisted to serve through the War of originated with the Prince of Orange, in Independence, as contra-distinguished from his reply to the Duke of Buckingham in those called out for a limited time. G. G. AN ANTIENT LANDMARK.-One Thomas Jones petitioned in 1709, for 2000 acres of land in Orange County, the bounds of which are described as beginning "at a certain wiggwam on the North side of Murderer's Creek, about seven miles from its mouth." It is evident from this that the Indians inhabited the Highlands in the neighborhood of Westpoint, at the above date. o'c. 1679. "There is one certain means," said the prince, answering the remark that the Commonwealth was ruined, "by which I will die in the last ditch." Hume's Hist. can be sure never to see my country's ruin; of England, vol. iv., page 261. I ANECDOTE.-The A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL visitor to the British Museum who pauses at Show-case VIII., in the King's Library, where specimens of the early English press are displayed, may notice, quite at THROGS NECK.-This name is most ab- the end, an open volume, bearing the folsurdly converted into "Frogs neck" in lo wing label: the Revised Statutes of our state. It is de- "The book of St. Alban's. The bokys rived from that of John Throgmorton, who of Haukyng and Huntyng, and also of obtained a patent for the land as far back Coot armuris. Written by Dame Juliana as 1658. It is about time, is it not, that Barnes, or Berners, Prioress of Sopwell Nunnery. Printed at St. Alban's in 1486. and offered 57. for it. Sir Charles had no The following adventures which befell a friend to obtain for him the refusal of it, this very volume before it found its present and had undertaken to give a little more secure resting-place, are, I think, worthy than Sir Charles might offer. On finding of a place in the first rank of bibliographi cal romance. The story has never, so far as I know, been published; and originally formed part of a letter written on bibliographical matters by the Rector of Pilham, in 1847, to the Rev. S. R. Maitland. By the kind permission of the latter gentleman, I have been allowed to copy it : that at least 57. could be got for it, Smith went to the owner and gave him two guineas, and then proceeded to Stark's agent and sold it for 77. 78. Stark took it to London, and sold it to the Rt. Hon. T. Grenville for 70 or 80 guineas. "It must now be stated how it came to pass, that a book without covers of such extreme age was preserved. About fifty "In June, 1844, a pedlar called at a years since, the Library of Thonock Hall, cottage at Blyton, and asked an old widow in the parish of Gainsboro', the seat of the named Naylor whether she had any rags Hickman family, underwent great repairs; to sell. She said, "No!' but offered him and the books were sorted over by a most some old paper; and took from a shelf The ignorant person, whose selections seem to Book of St. Alban's and others, weighing have been determined by the coat. All 9 lbs., for which she received nine pence. books without covers were thrown into a The pedlar carried them through Gains- great heap, and condemned to all the purboro', tied up in a string, past a chemist's poses which Leland laments in the sack of shop, who, being used to buy old paper to the Conventual Libraries by the visitors. wrap drugs in, called the man in; and, But they found favor in the eyes of a literate struck by the appearance of The Boke, gardener, who begged leave to take what he gave him three shillings for the lot. Not liked home. He selected a large quantity of being able to read the colophon, he took Sermons before the House of Commons, local it to an equally ignorant stationer and pamphlets, tracts from 1680 to 1710, opera offered it to him for a guinea; at which books, &c., &c. He made a list of them, price he declined it, but proposed that it which was afterwards found in his cottage; should be exposed in his window as a and No. 43 was Catermouris.' The old means of eliciting some information about fellow was something of a herald, and drew it. It was accordingly placed there, with in his books what he held to be his coat. the label-"Very old curious work." A After his death, all that could be stuffed collector of books went in, and offered 28. into a large chest were put away in a gar6d. for it. This excited the suspicions of ret; but a few favorites, and The Boke the vendor. Soon after Mr. Bird, the among them, remained on the shelves of Vicar of Gainsboro', went in and asked the the kitchen for years, till his son's widow price, wishing to have a very early spe- became so stalled of dusting them that she cimen at a reasonable price; not knowing, determined to sell them." however, the great value of the book. Here ends the material of the story. While he was examining the book, Stark, The volume was afterwards splendidly a very intelligent bookseller, came in, bound, and is now the only copy in the to whom Mr. Bird at once ceded the British Museum. right of pre-emption. Stark betrayed such visible anxiety that the vendor, Smith, DESCRIPTION OF A FASHIONABLE LADY declined settling a price. Soon after, Sir 107 YEARS AGO. C. came in, and took the book to collate; and brought it back in the morning, having found it imperfect in the middle, THE PETITION. Artful Painter, by this Plan |