. A tour of four great rivers; the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna and Delaware in 1769; being the journal of Richard Smith of Burlington, New Jersey;. E ° W = RICHARD SMITH nal indicates unusual powers of observation and judg-ment for a man of that age. The immediate purpose of Mr. Smith in his tour,was to make a survey of a grant of land now knownas the Otego patent, comprising 69,000 acres on theupper Susquehanna, in which he, along with manyothers, was interested as a proprietor. He and hisassociates were a few of the many from distant placeswho, in the years immediately following the FortStan
. A tour of four great rivers; the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna and Delaware in 1769; being the journal of Richard Smith of Burlington, New Jersey;. E ° W = RICHARD SMITH nal indicates unusual powers of observation and judg-ment for a man of that age. The immediate purpose of Mr. Smith in his tour,was to make a survey of a grant of land now knownas the Otego patent, comprising 69,000 acres on theupper Susquehanna, in which he, along with manyothers, was interested as a proprietor. He and hisassociates were a few of the many from distant placeswho, in the years immediately following the FortStanwix Treaty of November, 1768, explored andsurveyed the fertile lands bordering on the Susque-hanna immediately south of the Mohawk. Fort Stanwix, the scene of this treaty, of whichno part now remains, occupied the site of the presentCity of Rome, in Oneida County, New York. Ithad been built during the French War, taking itsname from a British general, but it acquired its chiefmilitary distinction in 1777, when, under the nameof Fort Schuyler, it became the scene of a notablesiege, contemporary with the battle of Oriskany,fought eight miles
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