History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . rriedby Du Pre. Hunter wanted money, and this report was favorable to hisobject. But it was discovered, and had been so reported to the Englishboard of trade by John Bridger and others experienced in tar making, thattar could not be produced from the pine trees short of two years. Not apine tree had been touched by the Palatines and in the report of GovernorHunter, from which the above extract is taken, he writes: I computethat £15,000 a year for two successive years will be sufficient to d
History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . rriedby Du Pre. Hunter wanted money, and this report was favorable to hisobject. But it was discovered, and had been so reported to the Englishboard of trade by John Bridger and others experienced in tar making, thattar could not be produced from the pine trees short of two years. Not apine tree had been touched by the Palatines and in the report of GovernorHunter, from which the above extract is taken, he writes: I computethat £15,000 a year for two successive years will be sufficient to defray theexpense of their subsistence. The two years were to commence at mid-summer, 1710. This changed the unlimited compassion and constant goodness ofsome of the lords to limited compassion and inconstant goodness. LordCornbury, now Earl of Clarendon, the Queens cousin, thought as muchnaval stores could be made and brought to England without the Palatinesas with them, that Hunter had made a mistake in purchasing lands of Liv-ingston, as Livingstons object was to make money out of his brewery and. WILLIAM MASSEY.[See Lineage.] 128 HISTORY OF PINE PLAINS. victualing of those Palatines; that there were better lands for the pur-pose in other places; that Livingston would get all the money; that afterthe two years are expired, subsistence for two more will be wanted, andsoon; that no person that has his limbs, and will work, can starve inthat country, as every man or woman above 15 years of age may earntwo shillings and three pence New York money per day; that joiners,smiths, masons, and other handicrafts can earn five shillings, and thatnothing but willful laziness will bring those people into danger of starv-ing. He claimed also that Hunter had made no deduction in his bills forthe deceased, because it is certain many of them are dead. (The priceper day allowed the Palatines for sustenance was a York shilling for thoseover ten years of age and 8 cents for those under ten—an
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