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They encamped near London. In 1710, Col. Nicholson, 

 and Colonel Schuyler, accompanied by five sachems or 

 Indian chiefs, returned from America to England, to 

 solicit additional force against Canada.* While in 

 London, the chiefs of the confederated Indians saw the 

 miserable condition of the Germans, and commiserating 

 their case, one of them voluntarily presented the Queen 

 a tract of his land in Schoharie, New York, for the use 

 and benefit of the Germans.t About this time, Colonel 

 Robert Hunter, appointed Governor of New York, 

 sailing for America, brought with him about three 

 thousand of these Germans or Palatines, to the town of 

 New York, Avhere they encamped several months, and 

 in the fall of 1710, were moved, at the Queen's expense, 

 to Livingston District. In this wilderness home, it was 

 allotted them, that they should manufacture tar and raise 

 hemp to repaij freightage, from Holland to England, 

 and thence to New York. J In this business, they were 

 unsuccessful. However, they were released of all 

 freightage upon them in 1713. About one hundred and 

 fifty of tlie famiUes, willing to avail themselves of the 

 advantages of their present from the Indians to Queen 

 Anne, moved through a dense forest, to Schoharie, west 

 of Albany, and seated themselves among their Maqua 

 or Mohawk friends. Here their sufferings, for a while, 

 were great; they were deprived of nearly all the neces- 

 saries of life. Their neighbors, like Indians, " are wont 



*His. N. Y. 39, Holmes, An. I. 501. 



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tDiese Teutche Colonie solte Theer brennen und Hanf 

 bauen, fucr Erstattung ihrer Fracht von Holland bis England, 

 und von da bis nach Neuyork.— ^. iW", Muehlenierg, Hal 



