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The Palatine Emigration, 



paper, with the principles of liberty for the press then 

 established, has immortalized his name. Gov. Hunter 

 claimed the right and exercised it to have some of the 

 children apprenticed to families, though against the will of 

 their friends. From one hundred and fifty to two hun- 

 dred were thus apprenticed. 



Three months had not elapsed before land was procured 

 for their residence on the Hudson river, one hundred 

 miles from the city. A tract of six thousand acres was 

 purchased for them for £266 sterling out of the 120,000 

 acres constituting Robert Livingston's patent, being 

 the land now embraced in Germantown in Columbia 

 county, then Dutchess county. Another tract of eight 

 hundred acres was purchased for them in what is now the 

 township of Saugerties in Ulster county, then Albany, on 

 the west bank of the Hudson river. In each of these 

 towns to this day are retained the names of East Camp 

 and West Camp, by which the original settlements were 

 called, now represented by two small villages. The names 

 of Hunterstown, Queensbury, Haysbury, and Armsberg, 

 then introduced for the names of the East Camp settle- 

 ments and of Elizabethtown, Georgetown and ISTew Village 

 for West Camp have not been perpetuated. Their breth- 

 ren at Newburgh who had arrived the year previous 

 soon came and ministered to them, and Joshua Kocker- 

 thal, Newburgh's first clergyman became a missionary to 

 the people of the two camps, and it was at West Camp he 

 died in 1719, as the stone over his grave in Saugerties 

 still shows. 1 



Gov. Hunter's duties in the care of them for two years 

 were arduous. They were placed in charge of a commis- 

 sion of five persons. They had given the contract for 

 supplying them with provisions to Mr. Livingston, who 



1 Historical Magazine, N. Y., Jan., 1871. 



