Notice of Peter Hasenclever. 



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man Flats, 40,000 acres in Nova Scotia, and 11,500 acres on 

 Lake Champlain north of Crown Point. The land on 

 Lake Champlain he bought jointly with Gen. Gage, Gen. 

 Philip Schuyler and others. His title to this land in Es- 

 sex county was probably never perfected. 1 As late as 1815, 

 1,000 acres of this land in Orange county was sold for non- 

 payment of taxes to the amount of $115, which had been 

 due since 1767. 



A portion of the land in the Hasenclever patent in Her- 

 kimer, which was dated February 27, 1769, was sold by 

 the state for the uon-payment of taxes as late as 1822. 

 The land was in the towns called Herkimer and Newport, 

 afterwards Schuyler, and was bounded northeast by Cana- 

 da creek, south by Cosby manor and Colden's manor, and 

 bordered on the Mohawk river. This land which it was 

 kindly allowed to him to purchase, originally was part of 

 a large purchase of 140,000 acres made from the Indians, 

 by Gov. Moore and Sir William Johnson. He was a 

 frequent visitor at Johnson Hall, and there are numerous 

 letters from him among the Johnson papers in the N. Y. 

 State Library. Gen. Gage, in a letter, speaks of him very 

 favorably to Johnson. In his letters to Johnson, Hasen- 

 clever expressed in the strongest language his convictions 

 that it was not for the interest of Americans to engage in 

 manufactures, but only in raising raw material. 



During the year 1770 he was endeavoring with much 

 hope and expectation to find purchasers in England for 

 his land that he might get free from his troubles. What 

 became of his lawsuit after 1773, I have no information 

 other than that proceedings were had in the case in the 

 Court of Chancery as late as twelve years after, in 1785. 

 He returned to Germany, and introduced at Landshut, in 

 Silesia, the linen manufacture, which he conducted with 

 great judgment, till the year 1792, when he died much 

 lamented. In at least one place in this country where his 



1 Watson's History of Essex County, N. ¥., Albany, 1869. 



