The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . an Afiairs for a long time. Prom 1684 to 1715 he had, fromtime to time, purchased of the Indians, and secured by patents from theEnglish crown, large tracts of land in the present Columbia land was then mostly wild and unprofitable, but became the basisof great family wealth. In the year 1710 Livingstons grants were consolidated, and Hunter,the royal governor, gave him a patent for a tract of a little more thanone hundred and sixty-two thousand acres, for which he was to pay intothe kings treasury an annual rent of twenty-eight shillings
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . an Afiairs for a long time. Prom 1684 to 1715 he had, fromtime to time, purchased of the Indians, and secured by patents from theEnglish crown, large tracts of land in the present Columbia land was then mostly wild and unprofitable, but became the basisof great family wealth. In the year 1710 Livingstons grants were consolidated, and Hunter,the royal governor, gave him a patent for a tract of a little more thanone hundred and sixty-two thousand acres, for which he was to pay intothe kings treasury an annual rent of twenty-eight shillings, lawfulmoney of New York, a trifle over fourteen shillings sterling! Thismagnificent estate was constituted a manor, with political privileges. THE HUDSON. 167 The freeholders upon it were allowed a representative in the coloniallegislature, chosen by themselves, and in 1716 the lord of the manor, byvirtue of that privilege, took his seat as a legislator. He had alreadybuilt a manor-house, on a grassy point upon the banks of the Hudson, at. OLD CLERMONT. the mouth of Roeleffe Janscns Kill, or Ancram Creek, of which hardly a vestige now remains.* The lord of the manor gave, by his will, the lower portion of hisdomain to his son Robert, who built a finer mansion than the old manor-house, and named his seat Clermont. This was sometimes called the * In the year1710 G-ovenior Hunter, by order of Queen Anne, bought of Mr. Livingston 6,000 acresof his manor, for the sum of a little more than £200, for the use of Protestant Germans then in England,who had been driven from their homes in tlie Lower Palatinate of the Rhine, then tlie dominions of acousin of the British Queen. About 1,800 of them settled upon the manor lands, and at a place on theopposite shore of the river, the respective localities being known as East and West Camp. TheseGermans were called Palatines, and are represented as the most enlightened people of their native them was the widow Hannah Zenger, whose
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