History of Montgomery County : embracing early discoveries, the advance of civilization, the labors and triumphs of Sir William Johnson, the inception and development of manufactures, with town and local records, also military achievements of Montgomery patriots . chief executive of the plan and petition for dividing Albany county was first suggestedin 1769, but the bill for that purpose was opposed and defeated. In1772 another petition was sent to the legislature by Sir William, andafter a brief delay he was gratified to learn that the bill had become alaw. This subject will be m
History of Montgomery County : embracing early discoveries, the advance of civilization, the labors and triumphs of Sir William Johnson, the inception and development of manufactures, with town and local records, also military achievements of Montgomery patriots . chief executive of the plan and petition for dividing Albany county was first suggestedin 1769, but the bill for that purpose was opposed and defeated. In1772 another petition was sent to the legislature by Sir William, andafter a brief delay he was gratified to learn that the bill had become alaw. This subject will be more fully discussed in one of the later chap-ters of this work, and yet a brief allusion to it at the present time isappropriate. The original county of Albany was created in 1683, and was con-firmed in 1691, but its jurisdiction then included the entire province ofNew York, together with that disputed territory then called the NewHampshire Grants, but now part of Vermont. The bill which waspassed in 1772 divided Albany county and created three counties—Albany, Tryon and Charlotte. Tryon included all that part of theprovince west of the Delaware river and a line extending thence norththrough what is now Schoharie count), and along the east line of Mont-.
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