Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-02
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You will see have multiplied the mum
Der OF males by elk. think they should
have been multiplied by six and a half O,
seven in this healthy country.
was greatly surprised when I went te
the westward last fall as far as Connecti
cut and rode one hundred miles I'D the
banks OF the river to find they increased 81
fast to the westward as they did to the
eastward. A great number of the towns
that l passed through have one, but many
two, three, four and come five parish
churches. Most families after they have
been married from sixteen to twenty years
have from eight to twelve children. They
generally marry as soon as they are 81
years of age, and most all before they are
The parents generally provide for them
by purchasing of grants from the govern,
ment. They give them a cow or two. 8
horse, yoke of oxen and some swine. I,
is remarked that those who are industri
GUS provide themselves with provisions
after the first year.
Connecticut river according to nv oh.
servation is parallel to the sea coast.
About lOO miles from the entrance, 1t will
soon be filled up between that and the
cotas. We have settled within 20 miles of
Albany beyond the river They are Garry
ing on large settlements on the west side
of Lake George and Champlsin. And
am sure it will surprise you when 1 say
we are settled as far to the Eastward AZ
St. Croix. The Captain of Fort Pownal.
who lives at Penobscot, says, they have
two Thousand men to the eastward of the
fort. 1t fills very fest from Casco bay to
Penobscet.
We have also settled sixty miles on the
kenebeck river, and have hired two com
naniaa n ou ont
northward. One company goes to the east.
the other to the west side of the river. Yen
will think 1t strange that the vegetation is
fourteen days sooner eighty miles from
the sea. owing to ridge In the mountains
to the north, and the goodness of the soil.
We had no more than 400 families IS years
ago on all our Kenebeck tract, and now It
is made into county by the name of Lin
coin, and by the last accounts there are
more than 10000 men from. sixteen to
sixty, including 1000 to the east of Penob-
scot. This number is not all the natural
increase There Is a great number goes
down every year from this, and the neigh
boring governments of New England,
BY this account you can form some idea
OF the growth of this county, and in 80
years you may hear of its being fully set
tied from Albany and the East of the lakes
to our sea coast. Those that are settled in
the neighborhood of the lakes the com
munication with Great Britain will be by
the St.Lawrence river. wrote you Word
that before 100 years were exspired we
should have as many people in the four
governments of New England as you have
In all Great Britain, and beleave you NAV
put Ireland into the Scale, and then it
would be an equal balance
nave made observations of increase
from the natural growth, and found in
many towns they have doubled their num-
bers in fourteen years. 1t is the opinion
OF many Gentlemen in Connecticut that
they double in this time, however the cal
culation made for you supposes that they
double once in Eighteen yeare.
think His Msjesty and ministers have
been m1sinformed with regard to the Con-
necticut river. They suppose it runs north
end have bounded New York as far east as
Connecticut river. The river runs eighty
miles further than Casco bay.
When was at Falmouth the last sum.
mer, they told me they proposed cutting a
road from their frontiers to the Connecti-
cut river. If New York was bounded east
by north line, to begin at a particular
point, where 1t shall be most advantageous
to this Province. New Hampshire and New
York, and the bounds were Justly sscer
tanned, 1t would prevent disputes. and
snedding OF blood, which was the case but
a little while ago.
The foregoing paper was found in an old
house taken down in North Guilford 8 or
10 years ago, by Ira Dudley.
TWO INTERESTING ADvs. OF OLD TINES.
One of the Advs. found in Said paper:
To be Sold by the subscriber of East |
Haven, A likely Negro Wenoh aged about |
- years. Strong and healthy and we'll |
killed in all Bushes suitable for Wench. |
As also Negro Girl between two and |
hree years of age. Ms 1t
Another adv: Late Published, and to be
sold by the Printers hereof Visible Saints
awful right to communion in Christian
'acraments, Vindicated. Qn way of an
wer to sermon Entitled, Christian Bap-
ism, delivered at Hanover in New Jersy
lov. 4th 1894 by the Rev Jacob Green, A.
!. } In letter to friend J
by George Beckwith A. N.