The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-08
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A Legacy from George ITI.-ITow Fenimore
Cooper'p Father became n Landed ire
rrieior-The Rev. Mr. Hartwick's VIII.

A Legacy FROM George III.-Ifow Fenimore
Cooper's Father became n Landed Fro
rrietor-The Rev. Mr. Hartwicks VIII
The Hartwick Seminary is an institution
Of theological learning In the town OF Part
wick, Otsego county, State OF New YORK. III
was founded in 1915 pursuant to the last VIII
and testament OF the Rev. John Christopher
Hartvick, Il Lutheran minister from sake
Gotha, in Germany. who came to the American
shores NJ chaplain to body of German soldiers
In the service Of England during the French
and ENGLISH war Hartwick obtained license
from the English Government TO buy i"hus
from tie Indians, and for one hundred pou"us
received deed conformity with TWO or tnrce
| others from three Indian CHIEFS 10 tiact Oh
tvcnty-threc thousand acres OF lano iorn''hs
| % plot xix miles square on the west bank oil tine
| s,snuchnuna river. This decd was subsequent
| /, authorized and rendered valid by letters
| uatent from George the Third IN ifbl; M
| lJnirwtck \ share Of the land was l0NVo acres;
| lie retained this thirty yctrs, ana Iht iinveu
| iiO1 acres by power of attorney In INC hahuS
! OF william Cooper, father OF James fen'lnnrg'
| the novelist, with the rant 10 ie"sc anu V,,,f, =,
| WISE dispose OF 1t. CoOpcr's disposition OF ~
was such that in course OF time he ucc3mc s1ie
| proprietor OF T.. Coopcrstown IL said 10 pe
| founded On par OF this tract. ..
| Ilaltwick ret med ownership Of only 5000
| acres sup 1nscd at that time TO be worth only
| about iwo dulllrs IN ucrc. This he devised, to-
gcthcr with biz personal properly. CONSISTING 81
| foundation Of n Theological seminary at which
| urth sdux Lutheran doctilnes should DE eN-
pounded. lie Lad previously ntSnueq 70 ss ,a,,
small farms, uf which the tenants we're To hind
themselves TO accep. him az Their paste tu AZ
| tend regularly 1T divine aeivlce ana liriruc-
unn. Ieiformcd and given by him, AMI u asst
ih building and supporting church and scnoo' y,
Tais project he abandoned IA consequence OF
Conpef's lieuation Of The land.
| unrtwtck was very singular man IN menv re-
spocts. unilftunatel, for his pions purposes
h. drew np his own will, and made an eAtraor.
binary incss of II. He wimie - dlstinsnishe !
law er Of that da! Peter ave- a, S :, n'
mot stand the test Of law" being " legally ue-
iecuye In every page and almost every sen sen
drawn up, but he did nothing iui.h'r iiai
make the old will still worse h' adding Ahuuel
incongruous 60 oicil tn II. lie died a. loo age,
~ Uartwick WAS never married. lie was salo
t. have had a great aversion 20 female snolSb
but he enjoyed the lIcndship OF a.. t,hInls,,eU
families. such the LNiugstOns, Van hensse
iaeis, aud Nuhlenuergs.
he will opened thus:
man lead OF nc ChGr,i q whca have been Ilsd,
5 na1 .S6 o 'ss s st ~ nv %no
sg's1Gi al Is ' ois5so Whose Si s AID WHOM
vit AL ~, powsr tscG s. sH1 eau S pytS S he ee
: | y OF whiting thi, humSe sddress 10 Thee &c
, IL has eight codicils, Of which the frs. pursu
ant to his original intent, gives az nlA lGn'
=, | to be laid out in u town, clOs,ly bulit' 20 u
| GATED the New jerusalem, wttli building ana
hall for gymnasium, which he calls Gt,a'u
ErtngclicaI Chriss;drdl ,,,igionfs Ii'r Gcn.N,s.
. roe inst codicil appoints Frederic Aug: Nui
7 lenhcrr. then speaker oi the House ~ het re-
sentatiyts. executor aud President oi the soclet
q ! for Establishing us seHinafy.
= ruc heirs al law Of HLrtwic made 10 ifol'lt
Tor they made no ap UIrance Ncverthelcss
was twenty ycare hCior. iITtwicS SEMINARY
the oldctt theological In utu;o IN Ne" hosA
4, WA set on foot. since tn"u D. has pruip trca
;. lImlNick personal PROF , was worth neari
i. ! nftCoa thous,Nd dollars aud the luc 81 u
=. land has Of course increased 2 hundred iui,
a | hcinc to-day estimated to lie worth nearly
T. million.
N And now. sixty years after the foundation
IA tn" seminary. and eighty sftcf hartwicA
# death. the heirs at law step forward TO ciai.
a | their properly. 1NCuty-eeNen ma NUMBER. IN,
4 ! liyc in The dlkcGom II SsNc -cotha, ~ &c
N | many where Joha CHrst, pacl hartwick tim
/ self was born, and are IS poor ls p or can @
l. | The husband Of one Of the / male hSiIs-
a. | man by the rame of ieng-witn power. ~ q
ne torLey from all the others, ha- come 1" Ne
York 40 tnsiitLte suit. anu uts retal ltu W MA
D. II. Diuyea. the lawyer no is prosecuting 8
- great NRntre fnit Tor million ana h hall ere
10 Of nj In -Aikausa7, To present lie claini-
A tbs vito and the Other hei.s. TIE uciiun
e ba ed upon toe ice.l aefcct- ~ the all. IA 10
A. the isud Vas not devised 10 particular iicf~o'
ls ia trust Tor the tc-t.tnI's purpose au4 uro
IS the consequent rights Of the ht.fs al law.