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  land 
  for 
  that 
  object. 
  Before 
  his 
  arrival, 
  a 
  change 
  had 
  

   taken 
  place 
  in 
  the 
  English 
  ministry, 
  and 
  his 
  friends 
  were 
  

   out 
  of 
  power; 
  he 
  remained, 
  however, 
  nearly 
  ten 
  years 
  

   in 
  fruitless 
  attendance 
  upon 
  a 
  court 
  which 
  seemed 
  to 
  

   have 
  forgotten 
  his 
  services 
  until 
  he 
  had 
  become 
  old 
  and 
  

   dispirited, 
  and 
  was 
  fast 
  sinking 
  into 
  a 
  state 
  of 
  imbecility 
  

   resulting 
  from 
  chagrin 
  and 
  disappointment. 
  Finally, 
  he 
  

   obtained 
  a 
  similar 
  mandate 
  as 
  that 
  of 
  Ogden 
  to 
  the 
  

   governor 
  of 
  West 
  Florida, 
  for 
  a 
  grant 
  of 
  20,000 
  acres. 
  

   Returning 
  to 
  Connecticut, 
  and 
  finding 
  that 
  many 
  of 
  his 
  

   old 
  associates 
  had 
  died 
  or 
  removed, 
  and 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  

   others 
  disinclined 
  from 
  advancing 
  age 
  to 
  encounter 
  the 
  

   hardships 
  incident 
  to 
  new 
  settlements, 
  after 
  a 
  short 
  

   delay, 
  he 
  proceeded 
  with 
  his 
  eldest 
  son 
  Thaddeus, 
  and 
  

   a 
  few 
  friends, 
  to 
  Mississippi 
  to 
  locate 
  his 
  lands. 
  Before 
  

   this 
  was 
  completed 
  he 
  died, 
  and 
  the 
  patent 
  was 
  granted 
  

   on 
  the 
  2d 
  of 
  February, 
  1775, 
  to 
  his 
  son 
  Thaddeus 
  on 
  

   condition 
  of 
  his 
  conveying 
  portions 
  of 
  it 
  to 
  his 
  brothers 
  

   Thompson 
  and 
  Oliver 
  Lyman, 
  and 
  his 
  sisters 
  Elizabeth 
  

   and 
  Experience, 
  which 
  was 
  done. 
  Four 
  thousand 
  acres 
  

   of 
  his 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  tract 
  were 
  also 
  sold 
  in 
  diflferent 
  par- 
  

   cels 
  to 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  officers 
  of 
  the 
  government 
  at 
  Pensa- 
  

   cola, 
  Livingston, 
  Macullogh, 
  and 
  Bay. 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  been 
  seen 
  that 
  the 
  British 
  government 
  was 
  pro- 
  

   fuse 
  in 
  its 
  grants 
  of 
  land 
  in 
  the 
  Natchez 
  District, 
  and 
  it 
  

   becomes 
  interesting 
  to 
  know 
  its 
  actual 
  condition 
  and 
  the 
  

   progress 
  that 
  had 
  been 
  made 
  in 
  its 
  settlement. 
  We 
  

   have 
  the 
  testimony 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  early 
  settlers, 
  who 
  

   survived 
  to 
  an 
  advanced 
  age, 
  and 
  whose 
  statements 
  have 
  

   been 
  preserved, 
  that, 
  in 
  1776, 
  twelve 
  years 
  after 
  the 
  

   English 
  first 
  occupied 
  the 
  fort 
  at 
  Natchez, 
  the 
  town 
  then 
  

   consisted 
  of 
  only 
  ten 
  log 
  cabins 
  and 
  two 
  frame 
  houses, 
  

   all 
  situated 
  under 
  the 
  bluff. 
  The 
  site 
  of 
  Fort 
  Rosalie 
  

   was 
  overgrown 
  with 
  forest 
  trees, 
  some 
  of 
  them 
  more 
  

  

  