Niagara Falls 



1784 Petition of Josh. Shurtliff, John Elliot, junr., and Wm. Col- 



brath for a lease of the Carrying Place at Niagara, and as much 

 of the land adjacent as may be thought proper. 



1791 



1791 Calendar of N. Y. colonial mss. indorsed land papers; in the office 



of the secretary of state of N. Y. (1643-1803) Albany. Weed, 

 Parsons & Co. 1864. P. 865. Dec. 1,1791. 52:72. 



Proposal of Walter Livingston, attorney of John Livingston, to 

 pay $1.00 an acre for a tract of land one mile wide, and from 

 forty to fifty miles long on the east side of the straight betv/een 

 lakes Erie and Ontario, including all the islands, but exclusive of 

 the Fort of Niagara. 



1791 Calendar of N. Y. colonial mss. indorsed land papers; in the office 

 of the secretary of state of N. Y. (1643-1803) Albany. Weed, 

 Parsons & Co. 1864. P. 866. Dec. 12, 1791. 52:82. 



Letter from John Livingston to Walter Livingston expressing 

 his surprise that he should have offered a dollar an acre for the 

 tract along the Niagara river and directing that the proposal be 

 changed to 75 cents an acre. 



1792 



1792 O'Callaghan, E. B. The documentary history of the state of New 

 O'Callaghan Y ork. Albany. 1849. 2:1165-68. 



Captain Charles Williamson's account of the route and distance from 

 New York to Genesee county and thence to the Falls of Niagara. Beside 

 the account of the taverns and distances there is some description of the 

 country. 



. . . Capt. Charles Williamson, who came to this country 

 as the Agent of Sir Wm. Pulteney and Governor Hornby, for 

 the settlement of their Lands in the Western part of the State of 

 New York, in the year 1 792. He remained as their Agent until 

 the year 1802 when he returned to Europe. He afterwards 

 made occasional visits to this Country until the year 1807, when 

 he died of the yellow fever on a mission from the British Govern- 

 ment to the Havanna. 



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