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burgh, and he may have wanted to freshen his 

 wits and also to see his friends — one friend in 

 particular, Alice Christie, whom he married the 

 year of his arrival in England, at Kelso, Novem- 

 ber II, 1715. There must have been great la- 

 mentation in the families of Christie and Colden 

 when, the following year, young Cadwalader de- 

 cided to return to America and take his Alice 

 with him. Doubtless he also took cases of books, 

 instruments and drugs when he embarked for the 

 tedious voyage of some months' duration. 



While in London he was introduced to Dr. 

 Edmund Halley, who was so impressed with a 

 paper Colden had written on Animal Secretions 

 that he had him read it before the Royal Society, 

 and made the writer acquainted with many and 

 learned men, who became his good friends and 

 correspondents. 



In 1718 he settled in New York, but soon 

 ceased to practise and became more of a public 

 character, being Surveyor-General for the State 

 in 1719 and Lieutenant-Governor in 1761. Be- 

 fore this latter appointment he obtained a patent 

 for a tract of land in Orange near Newburgh, 

 which he called " Coldengham." Here he lived 

 from 1728 to 1760, and in New York City from 

 1760 to 1763 or 1764, when he built and occu- 

 pied a large house on Long Island, near Flushing, 

 until his death on September 28, 1776. 



