Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine . heir destruction is probablyexaggerated, there is no room to doubt that the Statesuffered heavily on this occasion. The county records escaped the fire, but some por-tions now missing may not have been brought back toKingston after the Rochester journey. The min-utes of the Kingston Trustees for the year 1777 weredestroyed with the papers of Christopher Tappen,their clerk, as appears from an entry in their books inhis own handwriting. The injury done to the inhabitants was more thanmost of them could well bear; many persons in com-fortabl
Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine . heir destruction is probablyexaggerated, there is no room to doubt that the Statesuffered heavily on this occasion. The county records escaped the fire, but some por-tions now missing may not have been brought back toKingston after the Rochester journey. The min-utes of the Kingston Trustees for the year 1777 weredestroyed with the papers of Christopher Tappen,their clerk, as appears from an entry in their books inhis own handwriting. The injury done to the inhabitants was more thanmost of them could well bear; many persons in com-fortable and even affluent circumstances were rfeducedto almost absolute want, and all were forced to seekshelter at some distance from their late pleasant homes. The conduct of the cruel foe met with an indignantcry from all parts of the continent, and it steeled thehearts and nerved the arms of our countrymen to pur-sue with unabating energy the course of resistance toBritish Tyranny. {To be continued)204 The Clinton Obseqvties By the Editor of Olde Ulster. URING the month of September, 1907,while the editor of this magazine wasin New York, Dingman Versteeg, whohad translated the old Dutch recordsin the ofBce of the clerk of Ulstercounty in Kingston, suggested that itwould be a most appropriate memorialif Kingston celebrated the two hund-red and fiftieth anniversary of its founding on May31st, 1658. In the opening article for December, 1907,Olde Ulster called attention to the matter ; theidea was taken up by the Board of Trade of the Cityof Kingston and a meeting was called to be held atthe City Hall on December 10th, 1907. At this meet-ing the writer was called upon to tell the story of thefounding of the town one quarter of a thousand yearsbefore, and the initiatory steps were taken that even-ing to celebrate the anniversary. The writer thenspoke of the death of George Clinton, the first gov-ernor of New York, while in Washington during hissecond term as Vice-President of the Unit
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