FOREST. FISH AXD GAME COMMISSIONER. Ill 



Saint Lawrence. Warren, and Washington, in the Adirondacks; and the 

 counties of Delaware. Greene. Ulster, and Sullivan, in the Catskills, except 

 i. Lands within the limits of any village or city, and 

 2. Lands not wild lands acquired by the State on foreclosure of mort- 

 gages made to loan commissioners. 



The area of the Forest Preserve at this date is: acres. 



Adirondack Preserve 1,415,775 



Catskill Preserve 104,524 



1,520,299 



The increase in acreage, over that given in my last report, is due to 

 purchases made during the year. 



Of the total acreage in the Preserve, 1,296,852 acres are situated 

 within the Adirondack Park, and 94,468 within the Catskill Park. The 

 lands outside the parks have a total area of 128,979 acres, and each lot or 

 parcel was acquired by the State through a tax sale. These outlying, 

 scattered lands are located as follows: acres. 



Adirondack counties 118,923 



Catskill counties 10,056 



128,979 



Tt>e John grown Farm rloase 



By a deed of gift dated March 29, 1895, Henry Clews and wife conveyed 

 to the people of Xew York the tract of Adirondack land situated in North 

 Elba. Essex county, known as the John Brown Farm, and this deed was 

 subsequently accepted by an Act of Legislature. 



John Brown lived on this farm prior to his participation in the slav- 

 ery war in Kansas, and his family were living there at the time 

 of his raid at Harper's Ferry. After his death his body was brought 

 there from Virginia for burial, in accordance with a request made by 

 him shortly before his execution, which occurred at Charlestown, Va , 

 December 2, 1859. 



In 1870, an association of twenty persons was formed through the 



