Emigrant Labor, 45 



£10,000 and entered into a contract to put the project into 

 operation.^ 



When Colonel Hunter arrived in New York with his Pala- 

 tines, in the summer of 1710, he found it no easy task to carry 

 out his plans. The first difficulty was to find lands suitable for 

 the agricultural needs of the settlers near enough to the pine 

 lands, which, in turn, must be contiguous to navigable rivers.^ 

 The lands at the disposal of the Crown offered no such combina- 

 tion of advantages, and Hunter was forced to purchase 6,000 

 acres of the Manor of Livingston on the Hudson, for which he 

 paid £400 (£266 English money)." Here he settled the majority 

 of the Palatines in three villages, and the rest in two villages 

 on the west side of the river. Mr. Bridger, who came to New 

 York to assist Colonel Hunter, selected the first site and ap- 

 proved the other.* 



Robert Livingston, the proprietor of the Manor, perceived an 

 excellent opportunity for making money out of the settlement 

 on his estate. There being a flour-mill and a brew-house con- 

 nected with the Manor, he induced Colonel Hunter to give him 

 the contract to " victual " the Palatines ; that is, he engaged to 

 furnish each person, daily, with one-third of a loaf of bread 

 (4^ pence size) and one quart of "ship's beer."^ The settlers 

 were provided with meat also, but I do not understand that Liv- 

 ingston arranged to furnish anything but bread and beer.® On 

 the 14th of November, 1710, Governor Hunter wrote to the 

 Board of Trade that the settlers had already built comfortable 

 huts and were clearing the land, so that by spring he hoped to 



18 Anne c. 14, Sect. 35. Roberts, "New York," Vol. II, p. 235. 



2Doct. Hist, of New York, compiled by E. B. O'Callaghan, Vol. 

 Ill, p. 651. 



^Doct. Hist, of New York, Vol. Ill, p. 644. 



^Letter from Bridger, B. T. Letters, November 10, 1710. Doct. 

 Hist, of New York, Vol. Ill, p. 560. 



^Doct. Hist, of New York, Vol. Ill, p. 653. 



'•The following account of the subsistence of the Palatines from 



