APPENDIX. 



Note A. 

 I insert the following interesting document, which is a literal 

 transcript of the original draft ot a memorial to Congress by Mr. 

 Gilliland, that I found among his papers. I preserve it, be- 

 cause it throws important light upon the colonization of Essex 

 county, and the progress and period of its first agricultural im- 

 provements, and because it is illustrative of the events and suf- 

 ferings of the revolution, but more especially from the exhibit it 

 contains of the conduct of Arnold, and its singular and prophetic 

 comments upon his character. I am able to fix the date of the 

 instrument, as in the summer of 1777. 



To the Hon'ble members of the 

 Continental Congress 



The Memorial of William Gilliland late of Willsborough on 

 the west side of Lake Champlain 



Most Humbly Sheweth. 



That in consequence of near twelve years, close application, 

 deligence & industry & at very great expence, your memoralist, 

 accomplished his arduous undertaking of forming & establish- 

 ing, the first English settlement ever attempted, in the dreary 

 wilds of Lake Champlain, then almost a hundred miles from any 

 Christian neighborhood. Thati besides his own improvements on 

 three several farms, your memoralist had 98 other Inhabitants on 

 his land, who were very considerably indebted to your mem's.j 

 the preservation of whose crops, being the only prospect of pay- 

 ment which your mem^t had 



That from some discoveries, which Gen Carlton made of your 

 mem'^ political sentiments in June 1775, he offered a reward of 



