Random recollections of Albany, from 1800 to 1808 . ler; and when expressing to him his regret at the eventwhich had happened to his property, Gen. Schuyler desired himto think no more of it, and that the occasion justified it accord-ing to the principles and rales of war. He did more, said Bur-goyne ; he sent an aid-de-camp to conduct me to Albany, in order,as he expressed it, to procure better quarters than a strangermight be able to find. That gentleman conducted me to a veryelegant house, and, to my great smprise, presented me to I^ and her family. In that house I remained duri
Random recollections of Albany, from 1800 to 1808 . ler; and when expressing to him his regret at the eventwhich had happened to his property, Gen. Schuyler desired himto think no more of it, and that the occasion justified it accord-ing to the principles and rales of war. He did more, said Bur-goyne ; he sent an aid-de-camp to conduct me to Albany, in order,as he expressed it, to procure better quarters than a strangermight be able to find. That gentleman conducted me to a veryelegant house, and, to my great smprise, presented me to I^ and her family. In that house I remained during mywhole stay in Albany, with a table with more than twenty coversfor me and my friends, and every other possible demonstration ofhospitahty. He had been elected to congress in 1777, and hewas reelected in each of three followmg years. On his return tocongress, after the termination of his mihtary hfe, his talents, ex-perience and energy were put in inmiediate requisition. In 1781. ABRAHAM VAN YECHTEN. Nat. 1762 ; Ob. 1837. Recollections op Albany. 61 The talents and character of Ahraham VanVechten,^ are still fresh in the memory of the he was in the senate of this state. In 1789 he was elected to aseat in the first senate of the United States; and when his termof service expired in congress, he was replaced in the senate ofthis state. In 1793 he was verj^ active in digesting and bringingto maturity that early and great measure of state poUcy, the es-tablishment of companies for inland lock navigation. He wasplaced at the head of the direction of both of the navigation com-panies, and his mind was ardently directed for years towards theexecution of those hberal plans of internal improvement. In1796 he urged in Ids place in the senate, and afterwards pubhshedin a pamphlet form, his plan for the improvement of the revenueof this state; and in 1797 liis plan was almost literally adopted,and to that we owe the institution of the office of 1797 he was
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