. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. ssion of their ill-gotten wealth. During Sir William Johnsons residence at Fort Johnson heespoused the cause of the Indians in their desire to have thispatent annulled. After a number of years he succeeded inhaving this grant reduced to about 23,000 acres, whichembraced the land in what is now known as the town of Am-sterdam, east of Guy Park, and the town of Perth. Un-doubtedly the contest over this patent and the attendanthostility of the Mohawks retarded settlements in Amsterdamfor more than half a century, and the fact that Sir Williamcoul
. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. ssion of their ill-gotten wealth. During Sir William Johnsons residence at Fort Johnson heespoused the cause of the Indians in their desire to have thispatent annulled. After a number of years he succeeded inhaving this grant reduced to about 23,000 acres, whichembraced the land in what is now known as the town of Am-sterdam, east of Guy Park, and the town of Perth. Un-doubtedly the contest over this patent and the attendanthostility of the Mohawks retarded settlements in Amsterdamfor more than half a century, and the fact that Sir Williamcould not procure lands near his estate at Fort Johnson on ac-count of the Kayaderosseras grant was probably the reasonthat he concluded to build the town of Johnstown on lands heowned in that vicinity, instead of in the valley. In 1788 all of the land in Montgomery County north of theMohawk River was called Caughnawaga. Previous to thattime this district and the land on the south side was calledMohawk. In 1793 this town was divided into the towns of. a:< o< Z<U << a: o O a wz < z < Lf in C LI Early History of Amsterdam ^ 279 Caughnawaga, or Fonda, Amsterdam, Broadalbin, Mayfield,and Johnstown. In 1810 old Montgomery County was thelargest county in the State, its area being at that time 1,767,-680 acres. Up to 1772, what is now Montgomery County was part ofAlbany County. In 1691 there were but nine counties in theState, and Albany included all north of Ulster and attempt was made to divide this county in 1769, but second petition was sent to the Assembly by Sir WilliamJohnson in 1772, and a new county was formed called TryonCounty, which embraced all of the State west of a line runningdue north of the Delaware River through and along the easternlimits of the present counties of Montgomery, Fulton, andHamilton to the Canadian line. It was named Tryon fromthe governor of the colony, and Johnstown was designated asthe county seat on May 10, 17
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