New-York Journal (New York, NY) January 23, 1768; pg. 2.

Died.] Yesterday morning (Oct. 26) about two o’clock, at his house in Piccadilly, Lieut. Gen. Henry Pulteney. He was abroad in Queen Ann’s wars; was promoted to be a Colonel, Aug. 3, 1733; a Major General July 3, 1743; and a Lieutenant-General, Aug. 8, 1747. He was appointed to the command of the 13^th regiment of foot, July 15, 1759; and some time after made Governor of Hull. Upon the decease of William Earl of Bath, without issue, in 1764, he became possessed of his Lordship’s immense estates, both real and personal, some few legacies excepted; and in the year following resigned his regiment and government; the former of which was given to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. William Pulteney, Esq.; son of Sir William Johnstone, who married Miss Pulteney, niece to the late Earl of Bath and the General, who some time ago changed his name to Pulteney, by virtue of his Majesty’s royal mandate, will, by the General’s death, be possessed of a large estate.

            Oct. 29. The following account of General Pulteney’s will is more genuine and accurate than any yet published.

            To William Pulteney, Esq.; (late William Johnson) the Pulteney estates of 9000 l. per annum. To the same Gentleman, and his heirs by his present wife, the reversion of the Bradford estate in Shropshire, 12,000 l. per annum, with the remainder over, in default of such issue, to the Earl of Darlington.

            To the use of the Earl of Darlington 150,000 l. to be laid out in land, the rents, and profits whereof to be received by the Earl of Darlington and his issue male; with the remainders over to his brothers and their issue; in default whereof, remainder over to the General’s own heirs for ever.

            To George Colman, Esq.; an annuity of 400 l. charged on the Pulteney estate.

            To the Hon. Frederick Vane, a like annuity of 200 l.

            To the Hon. Raby Vane, a like annuity of 200 l.

            To the Right Hon. Lady Mary Carr, a like annuity of 100 l.

            To Miss Wroughton, 8000 l. and a long annuity of 200 l. stock.

            To Mr. and Mrs. Burrard, 2000 l. and some houses in Whitechapel.

            To the Rev. Mr. Douglas, his library.

            To his Steward, 1000 l. --- To his agent, 1000 l.

            To his Gentleman, 30 l. per annum, and a contingent remainder of the houses in Whitechapel.

     In pursuance of the laws of the state of New-York, we John Konkle, Eleazer Lindsley and Henry McCormick, having been appointed to make partitien of the estate of Arthur Erwin, deceased in the district or town of Erwin, No. 2, in the 2d range, in the county of Ontario, now county of Steuben. All persons concerned are therefore requested to take notice, that we have appointed the first Monday of September next, to meet at the house of Martin Young, on the premises, to enter upon the said partition. Witness our hands the 6th day of June, 1796.
HENRY McCORMICK, ELEAZER LINDSLEY, JOHN KONKLE, Commissioners

NOTICE is hereby given to all persons interested in township No. TWO, in the second range of towns, in the county of Steuben, and state of New-York, that the subscribers, commissioners appointed to make partition of the said township among the proprietors thereof, have caused the same to be surveyed and divided into allotments, and that true field books and maps of such survey and allotment are filed in the respective offices, agreeable to the directions of the statute in such case made and provided: and that the subscribers will meet on the fifteenth day of March next, at the house of the widow Patterson, in the town of Painted-Post, in the said county of Steuben, to ballot for the several lots of the said township. At which time and place, all persons interested in the said township, are required to attend to see the said ballot. Dated this 23d day of January, 1797.
JOHN KONKLE, ELEAZER LINDLEY, HENRY McCORMICK, Commissioners.

ALBANY, SEPT 25.
     At the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Connecticut, which opened at the city of Hartford, on Monday last, present the Hon. Mr. Justice
CUSHING, and the Hon. Mr. Justice LAW, a Writ of Ejectment was brought by two citizens of Massachusetts, to recover the possession of certain lands, being part and
parcel of a tract of county called the CONNECTICUT GORE, claimed under a grant made by Connecticut in 1796, to Jeremiah Halsey and others, and which are alledged to
lie within the district of Connecticut.*  The council for the claiments were, the Hon. Mess. PARSONS and SULLIVAN (Att. Gen.) of Massachusetts, and Mr. P. EDWARDS, of
Connecticut; and for the defendants (who were defended in the name and on the behalf of the State of Newyork) the Hon. ALEX. HAMILTON, Mr. HoFFMAN, the Attorney General
of this State, and Mr. HOSMER, of Middletown, Connecticut. A motion, on the part of the defendants, that the cause be ontinued till the next term, for the want of
certain material papers and witnesses, and a challenge to the array of the jury, and the demurrer thereto, with the arguments thereon, took up the whole of Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, and the forenoon of Friday. The motion for a continuance was overruled; but the challenge to the array was allowed, on the ground of the deputy-
marshal, who summoned the jury, having an interest in lands in said Gore, depending on the same: the pannel was accordingly quashed, and the cause continued to the
next term, to be holden at New Haven in April next.
     *Note. This tract of country, the State of Connecticut claim in virtue of their charter; it lies within the jurisdiction of this State, in the county of Steuben,
and is bounded on the Pennsylvania line, and the Massachusetts pre-emption line, and is supposed to contain about 150,000 acres. The title of Connecticut to these
lands is said to be precisely the same as to those called the Susquehanna lands, the jurisdiction and consequent right of soil of which was adjudged by the Federal
Court held at Trenton in 1779, to belong to Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia Gazette & Universal Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA) October 5, 1797.

STEUBEN COUNTY.
Agreeably to a provision in the law for erecting a part of the county of Ontario into a new county by the name of Steuben, have divided that county into the six following towns, viz.
Bath, Painted-Post, Frederickstown, Middletown, Canisteo, and Dansville.

The Albany Chronicle or Journal of the Times (Albany, NY) March 26, 1798.
FOR SALE,
TWO VERY VALUABLE
Lots of Land,
bordering on the Chocton River, within 5 or 6 miles of the flourishing towns of Bath, county of Steuben, described by lots number 8 and 9 in the third township, and third range; containing 640 acres - - for which a good title will be given. One fifth part of the purchase money to be paid down (or in approved notes at a short credit payable at Albany Bank) - one half of the residue in two years from the first day of October next, and the other half in five years from said first day of October next, with interest.
JOHN HANMER.
Albany, March 20, 1798.

Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser (New York, NY) July 30, 1798.

Sale of Lands, &c.
     On MONDAY the 6th day of August, will be exposed to public sale, at 7 o'clock in the evening, at the merchants' coffee-house in Second-Street, a right derived by deed, under the hand and seal of Charles Williamson, esq. to two tracts of land in Genessee country, in the state of New-York, to wit.
     One thousand acres of land, situate in township no. 6, sixth range, in th county of Steuben, and state of New York.
Conditions will be made known at the time of sale.
WILLIAM SHANNON, auctioneer.

The Philadelphia Gazette & Universal Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA) April 24, 1799.

Valuable LANDS for Sale,

     SITUATE in the west half of Township number two, in the County of Steuben, and State of New-York, (commonly called Gennesse) as follows:
     Two Tracts containing Two Hundred Acres each, Four ditto containing Three Hundred Acres each, and Five ditto containing Five Hundred Acres each. Those Lands are well timbered and watered, and the soil very good, situate in a thriving part of the country, where new settlements are going on rapidly, and are considered well worth the attention of persons who are inclined to enhance their fortune, by the purchase of valuable Lands at a moderate price. For particulars, apply at No. 42, or No. 123, North Third-street, Philadelphia

The Evening Post May 27, 1803.

NOTICE - All persons having claims of demands against CHARLES WILLIAMSON, Esq. of Bath, in the county of Steuben, are requested to deliver a statement of the same to either of the subscribers, at Canadaigua, on or before the first day of July next. THOMAS MORRIS, JOHN GREIG.
Canandaigua, May 14, 1803.

Whereas BENJAMIN FOWLEY, of the town of Bath, in the county of Steuben, and State of New York, DID, on the twentieth day of September, in the year 1796, Mortgage unto Charles Williamson, of Steuben county, Esquire, his heirs and assigns forever, for securing the payment of One Hundred and Forty-nine pounds, Four Shillings, lawful money of the State of New York, with lawful interest - ALL that certain tract of Land, situate in the North-East quarter of township Number Four, in the Fourth Range, in Steuben county aforesaid; beginning at a marked lyn tree on the bank of the Conhocton Creek, and on the South side of said creek; thence South sixty-one degrees, west two hundred and eleven perches to a post; thence North twenty-nine degrees; West one hundred perches to a post; thency by James Harland's lot, North sixty-one degrees, East two hundred and two perches, to a post on the said Creek; thence down said Creek to the place of beginning; containing One Hundred and Thirty Acres of Land, (be the same more or less) as surveyed by William Kersey, Esquire - AND WHEREAS the said Mortgage is vested in the subscriber by assignment, and default having been made in the payment of the principal and interest aforesaid, NOTICE is therefore hereby given, that by virtue of a power contained in the said Mortgage, and in pursuance of the statute in such case made and provided, the above described premises will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, on Wednesday the twenty-seventh day of June next, at the Court-House in the town of Bath, in said county of Steuben, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon of that day and a legal conveyance therefor will be executed to the purchaser. - Dated the 12th day of December, 1803.
WILLIAM HORNBY,
By his attorney, JOHN JOHNSTON.

Western Repository (Canandaigua, NY) Tuesday, February 7, 1804; pg. 4

NOTICE is hereby given, that in default of payment agreed to be made in two certain Mortgages, the first of which said Mortgages, executed to Charles Williamson, Esq. by Daniel P. Faulkner, and bearing date the twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. The second of which said Mortgages executed to Joseph Dunn, by Daniel Russel, and bearing date the twenty-fifth day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety six: And by virtue of a power contained in each of the said Mortgages, there will be sold, at Public Auction, at the Court-House at Bath, in the county of Steuben, on the last Tuesday in February, next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon of the same day, all that certain tract or parcel of LAND, lying in the county of Steuben, (formerly part of the county of Ontario) and state of New-York, being Lots No. twelve in township No. five, in the fourth Range, and No. four in township No. four, in the fourth Range, bounded as follows: Lot No. twelve, beginning at a Spruce tree on the Conochton Creek, and eastern line of lot No. thirteen; thence East three hundred and twenty perches to a post; thence South eighty perches to a Spruce on the western line of lot No. eleven; thence West three hundred and twenty perches to a Hemlock, on said Conochton Creek; thence up along said Creek to a Spruce, the place of beginning, containing one hundred and sixty acres. Also, Lot number four, aforesaid, beginning at a Maple on said Conochton Creek, and eastern line of lot No. 5; thence east three hundred and twenty perches, to a poplar; thence South forty-three degrees east, one hundred and sixty five perches, to an Ash; thence West three hundred and twenty perches, to said Conochton Creek, at a Beach; thence up along said Creek to a Maple, the place of beginning, containing three hundred and twenty acres, be the number of acres in both the aforesaid described lots, more or less, and a title executed to the purchaser agreeable to the Statute in such case made and provided. Dated at Bath, the nineteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and three.

DUGALD CAMERON, Assignee to said Mortgages.

The Albany Gazette (Albany, NY) October 16, 1806, page 4.

LANDS FOR SALE:
Encouragement to Farmers.

     UPWARDS of 500,000 acres of Land, are offered for sale to settlers upon the following liberal terms, viz. the purchase money to be paid in four equal annual instalments, to commence at the end of three years from the date of the sale, with interest after the end of three years and not before.
     The greater part of the above lands are of an excellent quality, well watered and the country remarkably healthy.
     The rivers Cohocton and Chenesteo, which are branches of the Susquehannah, run through the lands, and are navigable in the spring of the year and some times in the fall for arks and boats that will carry from twelve to fifteen hundred bushels of wheat.
     The Susquehannah and Bath turnpike road, and the Lake Erie turnpike road, (which latter is a continuation of the former) will pass upwards of thirty miles thro these lands; and there is every probability that these turnpike roads will be shortly made, and thus a safe and easy communication will opened to Kingston on the Hudson river.
     Roads are already opened and mills erected in different parts of these lands and in the adjacent country, so that the difficulties which first settlers in a new country always experience, are in a great measure removed. The above lands belong to the Pulteney estate. Their title is indisputable, and the subscriber is duly authorised to sell them. For further particulars apply to the subscriber at Bath, in the county of Steuben, in the state of New-York.
SAMUEL S. HAIGHT.
Bath, 25th Sept. 1806.             75ep

Public Advertiser (New York, NY) Saturday, October 24, 1807, page 2.

     The countess of Bath has paid the sum of six thousand pounds for a single stamp, on which were issued letters of administration to the personal estate of her father, the late sir William Pulteney.*
     *Being the legacy duty.

American Eagle (Catskill, NY) Wednesday, March 29, 1809; pg. 4.
    

WHEREAS default has been made in the payment of part of the principal and interest secured to be paid by a certain indenture by way of mortgage, made on the fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, by Joseph Bailley, of Frederickstown, in the county of Steuben, and state of New York, to Dugald Cameron, Esq., of Bath, in the county aforesaid, of all that certain tract of land, situate in Township number five, in the second range in the county of Steuben, and state aforesaid, being lot number five, in the fourth range of lots in said Township, the boundaries and contents whereof as in a Map or Chart and field book of the said Township, returned by William Ewing, who surveyed and laid out the said Township into lots in behalf of the proprietors, in the month of May, 1789, and lodged with the records of said Township, reference thereunto had and will there more fully appear. And whereas the said Dugald Cameron, for a valuable consideration to him in hand paid by Vincent Mathews, did on the eighth day of June, in the year aforesaid, grant assign and transfer unto the said Vincent Mathews, the said mortgage, and the Lands and tenements thereby granted, and the monies due, and to grow due thereon. – Notice is therefore hereby given, that by virtue of a power contained in the said Mortgage, and in pursuance of the statute in such case made and provided, the above described premises will be sold at public venue at the Court-House at Elmira, in the county of Tioga, on Thursday the 15^th day of June next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon of the same day. Dated the 25^th day of November, 1808.

VINCENT MATHEWS.

     And whereas Benjamin F. Young and Peter Faulkner, of Northumberland county in the state of Pennsylvania, for securing the payment of six thousand four hundred and seventy-five pounds ten shilling (of the value of sixteen thousand one hundred & eighty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents) lawful money of the state of New-York, on or before the first day of October, 1796, according to the condition of a certain bond bearing date the 18th day of July, 1795, did execute unto the said Charles Williamson, a mortgage bearing even date with the said bond, upon all those certain pieces of land situate in a strip or gore of land north of and adjoining the upper Canisteo township in the sixth range, in the then county of Ontario, now in the county of Steuben, and state of New-York aforesaid, to wit-lots number five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, and twenty-eight, containing 5396 3-4 acres, as surveyed and laid down by John Smith in the month of August, 1794.
     And whereas the said mortgages were assigned by the said Charles Williamson to Sir William Pulteney, who has since died, has been duly granted by the Judge of Probates of the said state of New-York, to the subscriber: And whereas the said mortgages contain powers for the sale of the said mortgaged premises in case default should be made in the payment of the monies payable by the said bonds, as by the said bonds and mortgages will fully appear. And whereas default has been made in the payment of the monies mentioned in, and intended to be secured by the said mortgages - NOTICE is thereto hereby given, that if the principal and interest monies due and to become due on the said bonds and mortgages shall not be paid on or before the first day of August next, then and in such case the said mortgaged premises will be exposed to sale at public venue on the second day of August next, at one o'clock in the afternoon of that day, at the Hotel, commonly called Powell's Hotel, in the village of Geneva, in the said county of Ontario, for the payment and satisfaction of the said mortgages, pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided. Dated this 25th day of January, 1814.     ROBERT TROUP.
     Joseph Fellows, attorney.

Ontario Messenger (Canandaigua, NY) March 7, 1815; page 4, col. 5

     WHEREAS James Belch of the town of Telcawn, county of Cumberland and state of Pennsylvania, for securing the payment of twenty-five dollars in hand and nine hundred and forty five dollars and fifty cents with interest at the rate of three per cent, did, on the eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-nine, mortgage and convey unto James Hadley of the town of Canisteo, county of Steuben and state of New-York "All that certain tract, piece of parcel of Land situate in the county of Steuben aforesaid and known by lot No. eleven, second division of lots in township No. thirteen the fifth range of towns, beginning at the south east corner of lot No. ten, thence south eighty-five chains set a hard maple stake and marked a white oak tree south No. twelve an on the north No. eleven, sides standing fifteen links south east of said corner thence west one hundred and fifteen chains set a hard maple stake, marked on the south twelve and on the north eleven, thence along the town line north eighty-five chains to south west corner of number ten, thence along the south bounds of number ten, east one hundred and fifteen chains to the place of beginning containing nine hundred  and seventy-seven acres and one half." And whereas default has been made in the payment of a part of the money intended to be secured by the said mortgage - Notice is therefore hereby given, that pursuant to a power contained in the said mortgage, and the statute in that case made and provided, the said mortgaged premises will be sold at public auction at the house of William Mulholan, innkeeper in the said town of Canisteo on the first Monday of July next at two o'clock in the afternoon of said day. Dated Bath, December 15th, 1814.
     James Headley.
By Cruger & Rochester, his Att'ys.

Geneva Gazette (Geneva, NY) September 27, 1815; page 4.

     WHEREAS JAMES IRWIN, for securing the payment of the sum of four thousand dollars, in manner following - six hundred and sisty-six dollars and sixty six cents on th efirst day of July 1803, and the residue in five equal annual payments thereafter, with interest from the said first day of July, according to the condition of a certain Bond bearing date the thirteenth day of October 1802, Did execute unto Sir William Pulteney, a Mortgage bearing even date with the said bond, upon "ALL those certain pieces or parcels of land, situate in township number two, in the first range of townships, in the county of Steuben and state of New-York, and bounded as follows, to wit: - Beginning at a stake and stones in a corner of Stephen Patterson's lot, thence north eighty-seven degrees thirty minutes west, nine chains and thirty links to a stake and stones, also a corner of Stephen Patterson's lot, thence north eighty-seven degrees thirty minutes west, nine chains and thirty links to a stake and stones, also a corner of Stephen Patterson's land; thence north two degrees and thirty minutes east, one hundred and twenty-two chains fifty links to a stake and stones; thence south eighty-seven degrees thirty minutes east seventeen chains and sixty links to a black oak sapling and heap of stones; thence south two degrees thirty minutes west nine chains seventy-five links to a hickory tree; thence south fifty-one degrees east six chains to a white oak tree; thence south thirty-six degrees east two chains and fifty links to an elm tree on the mill creek; thence south forty-six degrees west two chains to a willow sapling on the cove; thence on the same north, fifty-nine degrees west four chains and seventy-five links to a bunch of maple trees; thence south fifty one degrees west five chains and ten links to a maple tree on the south side of the cove; thence south thirty degrees east four chains and fifty links to a stake on the north bank of the river Tioga; thence along the river as it runs south, thirty-four degrees and thirty minutes west five chains and seventy links to a stake on the bank of the said river; thence south thirty-eight degrees west fifteen chains and seventy links to a maple tree on the bank of the said river; thence south fifty-one degrees west eight chains and sixty-five links to a button wood tree on bank of said river; thence north forty chains and seventy links to the place of beginning, containing three hundred and seven acres, be the same more or less, according as described in a Deed from Ephraim Patterson to Charles Williamson, bearing date the 10th day of March 1796. - Also, all that other piece of land lying in said township, and bounded as follows, to wit: - Beginning at a black oak tree standing in the line between land of Bradford Edgeton and Stephen Patterson, thence north eight-eight degrees west twenty-four perches; thence north two degrees east sixten perches; thence south eighty-eight degrees east twenty-four perches; thence south two degrees west sixteen perches to the place of beginning, containing two acres and sixty-four perches, according as described in a deed from said Bradford Edgeton to Charles Williamson, dated the fifth day of June 1796. - Also, all that other piece of land situate likewise in said township, and bounded as follows, to wit: - Beginning at a stake in a corner of John Knox's land, thence by said Knox's land north eighty-three degrees thirty minutes west twelve chains sixty links to a stake and stones in a corner of Fitch Wattle's lands; thence along said Wattle's line south two degrees west to a stone corner, on the road that runs east and west; thence north seventy-nine degrees west eight chains fifty links to a stake and stones at a corner of B. Eaton's lands; thence north two degrees east thrity-three chains sixty links on said Eaton's line to a stake; thence north eighty-eight degrees west six chains twenty-five links to a stake and stones; thence north two degrees east one hundred and thirteen chains six links to a stake; thence south eighty-eight degrees east twenty seven chains eight links to a stake and stones at the corner of Bradley's lands; thence on said Bradley's line south two degrees west one hundred forty-six chains sixty-six links to the place of beginning, containing three hundred seventy-sic acres two roods and nineteen perches, be the same more or less, excepting and reserving nevertheless out of the tracts last above described, ten acres, heretofore conveyed to George Sharp. - Also, all that other parcel of land, bounded as follows, to wit: - Beginning at Captain Thurber's south-east corner, thence south two degrees west twelve chains to a stake on the bank of the Tioga river; thence north seventy-four degrees west twenty-one chains up said river to a stake and stones at a corner of George McCullock's land; thence on said McCullock's line north two degrees east twelve chains fifty links to a stake and stones on the road that runs east and west; thence along said road south seventy-nine degrees east seven chains sixty links to a stake at the corner of - Roberts lands; thence south two degrees west along Sterrett's line three chains to a stake and stones; thence south eighty-three degrees thirty minutes east thirteen chains and fifty links to the place of beginning, containing twenty-three acres one rood twenty-one perches, be the same more or less." - - And  whereas the said Sir William Pulteney has died since the execution of the said bond and mortgage, and administration upon this estate has been duly granted by the Judge of Probates of said state, to the subscriber - - And whereas the said mortgage contains a power for the sale of the said mortgaged premises, in case default should be made in the payment of the monies payable by the said bond; and default having been made in the payment of the said monies - NOTICE is therefore hereby given, that if the principal and interest monies due and to become due on the said bond and mortgage, shall not be paid on or before the fifteenth day of October next, then and in such case the said mortgaged premises will be sold at public vendue, on the sixteenth day of October next, at 10 o'cl'k in the forenoon of that day, at Harris' Hotel, in the village of Geneva, in the county of Ontario, in the said state, for the payment and satisfaction of the said morgage, pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided. - Dated this 4th day of April, 1815. ROBERT TROUP.
J. FELLOWS, Att'y.

     WHEREAS WILLIAM LEE, for securing payment of the sum of two hundred and forty pounds (of the value of the state of New-York, on or before the fifteenth day of January 1802, with lawful interest from the first day of June 1795, according to the condition of a certain bond bearing date the twenty-second day of October 1796, Did execute unto Charles Williamson a Mortgage, bearing even date with the said bond, upon all those two certain lots of Land, situate lying and being in township number two, in the seventh range of townships, formerly in the county of Steuben, but now in the county of Allegany in the said state, and known and distinguished in the survey of said lots made by Thaddeus Baker, by lots number sixty-five and sixty-six, containing in the whole four hundred acres of land. - And whereas the said mortgage was duly assigned by the said Charles Williamson to Sir William Pulteney, who has, since the said assignment, died, and administraion upon his estate has been duly granted  by the Judge of Probates of said state to the subscriber. - And whereas the said mortgage contains a power for the sale of the said mortgaged premises, in case default should be made in the payment of the monies payable by the said bond; and default having been made in the payment of said monies - NOTICE is therefore hereby given, that if the principal and interest monies due and to become due on the said bond and Mortgage, shall not be paid on or before the sixteenth day of October next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of that day, then and in such case the said mortgaged premises will be sold at public auction, at the time last mentioned, at Harris' Hotel, in the village of Geneva, in the county of Ontario, in the said state for the payment and satisfaction of the said mortgage, pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided. - Dated this fourth day of April, 1815.
ROBERT TROUP.
J. FELLOWS, Att'y.

New-York Spectator (New York, NY) Tuesday, July 10, 1821; page 2.
From the Geneva Gazette, of July 4.

     At the Court of Oyer and Terminer lately held at Canandaigua, before the Hon. Mr. Justice Yates, the Grand Jury found a bill of indictment against Abraham H. Bennett, editor of the Penn-Yan Herald, for a libel on Col. Troup, as chief Agent of the Pulteney Estate, charging him with having, at one time, authorized one of his sub-agents to expend three or four thousand dollars, to put down the democratic party, and at another time, with having ordered his sub-agent to expend a large sum of money to oppose the election of the republicans. Slander of the like import has long been circulated to the prejudice of Col. Troup and his agency, and although a public investigation of the charges in the libel could not be necessary to vindicate his character, with all who know him, yet, as many who are unacquainted with him may have received disagreeable impressions on the subject, it gave much pleasure to the friends of Col. Troup that Mr. Bennett was afforded an opportunity of proving the truth of his charges. Mr. Bennet, however, ascertained, on examination, that the charges were wholly groundless, and that they emanated solely from a malicious source; and consequently he pleaded guilty to the indictment.
     Under these circumstances, Col. Troup stated to the court that his only objects in preferring the indictments were to vindicate his own reputation, and the character of his agency, from the foul slander cast upon them; and these objects being completely accomplished by Mr. Bennett's plea, Col. Troup disavowed all vindictive feelings against Mr. Bennett, and prayed the court to consider the ends of public justice as satisfied, and therefore to inflict a nominal punishment on Mr. Bennett. The court thereupon proceeded to admonish Mr. Bennett for his offence; and in delivering the admonition, the court took an opportunity of paying a tribute of great respect to the character of Col. Troup. The admonition ended in complying with the prayer of Col. Troup for a nominal punishment; which was no more than a fine of ten dollars.
     An offer was made by Mr. Spencer, who was specially appointed by the Court to conduct the prosecution against Mr. Bennett, to adduce proof that Col. Troup, instead of authorizing his sub-agents to expend money at elections, had uniformly forbidden them, in any wise, to exert the influence of their situations to promote the interests or views of either of the contending political parties in the state.
     But as Mr. Bennett, by pleading guilty to the indictment, had admitted the falsity of the charges in the libel, the court decided that the evidence offered by Mr. Spencer was unnecessary, and contrary to the settled practice of the court in similar cases; and therefore the evidence was rejected.

The New-York Evening Post (New York, NY) Saturday, November 24, 1821; page 2.

From the Geneva Gazette, Nov. 7.

     A pamphlet has been put into our hands, entitled "A Defence of the Agency of the Pulteney Estate against the Charge of Exerting its Influence in the State Elections. By Robert Troup, Esq." It contains extracts from private and confidential letters, written by Col. Troup to Gen. Haight, on the subject of politics, in the years 1809, 1810, 1812 and 1813, as made use of by the latter to fix upon the former the imputation of perverting his agency to political purposes; together with Mr. Haight's letter to Mr. Bennett, printer of the Penn-Yan Herald, stating the reasons for making public these confidential communications.
     It further contains the letters of Mr. Haight to Col. Troup, on the subject of politics, in the years 1808, 1809 and 1814, in which Mr. Haight, among other things, pledges himself not to use his power as sub-agent to effect any political object. It also contains the instructions of Col. Thorp to the sub agents, to abstain from taking any part in town, county, or state controversies; and the particular instructions of the Col. to Gen. Haight; the certificates of two of the sub-agents relative to the manner in which the agency of that estate has been conducted, with some remarks, by the author, upon the evidence of documents, as presented to the reader.
     Upon the entire view of them, it appears that Col. Troup felt an interest, as a citizen, in common with those of the federal party, (at the times those letters were written) in the politics of the day, and wrote private but earnest letters to Gen. H. stimulating him to be active in the cause of federalism. But we confess that we can see nothing in the extracts of Col. Troup's letters to Gen. Haight, used by Gen. H. himself, to prove that Col. T. ever authorized the expenditure of any money of the Pulteney Estate to aid party politics on the one side, to the prejudice of those on the other, or to use the agency in any manner whatever to accomplish this object. On the contrary, the whole paphlet most clearly and satisfactorily repels any charge or insinuation that the agency of the Pulteney Estate has, under the conduct of Col. Troup and by his authority, been used as a political engine to subserve party views, or political measures.

Boston Commercial Gazette (Boston, MA) September 26, 1822, page 4.

FOR SALE,
THAT PART OF THE PULTENEY ESTATE,
In the Counties of Steuben and Allegany, which fell to the share of the Johnstone family.

     PROPOSALS will be received until the twenty-fifth day of November next, for the purchase of this Estate; which consists of 380,000 Acres of unsettled LANDS, and 340,000 Dollars of DEBT for Lands sold.
     The Lands embrace various Tracts, situate between the north line of the State of Pennsylvania, and the south lines of the Counties of Ontario and Livngston, in the State of New-York.
     Nearly all the Tracts have been surveyed and divided into suitable Farms for settlement; and very considerable sums of money have been expended in opening Roads, building Bridges, erecting Mills, and making other improvements necessary to the settlement and prosperity of the country.
     A large portion of the Tracts is adapted, as well to raising all kinds of Grain, as to grazing Cattle and Sheep; and some parts of the Tracts are covered with valuable groves of pine Timber. The county is remakable for the abundance and purity of its waters, and for the healthiness of its climate; and it is in a course of rapid settlement by a race of hardy and industrious men. The Conhocton and Canisteo Rivers, which form branches of the River Susquehannah, run through the County of Steuben, almost its whole length from north to south; and they afford, from the centre of the county, a cheap and expeditious naviagation, once, and sometimes twice a year to the city of Baltimore; which is among the best markets in the United States for Produce and Lumber. So certain is the navigation to the City of Baltimore, that there has not been a want of sufficient water for its use, except in one year, since the settlement of the country; which exceeds a space of twenty-five years. And when we consider the rivalship now subsisting between the cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore for the trade of this country, and the zeal for internal improvements, already happily begun, and likely to be productive of wide spreading benefits, there is reason for believing that the time is not far distant when the navigation of the Susquehannah will be so improved as to afford a safe and ready medium for conveying the products of this country to those markets, and  for receiving supplies of domestic and foreign merchandize in exchange.
     The Debts are payable by contracts under seal - bear an Interest of seven per cent. per annum - and are due from actual settlers for the purchase of 107,000 acres of Land made within the last fourteen years.
     For the last five years the sales of Land have averaged the quantity of 10,000 acres per annum, at the average price of Dlls. 3 37 cents per acre. The annual receipts of money for the same period have averaged Dlls. 10,000. The Taxes for the years 1820 and 1821 have averaged  Dlls. 4,500; and the expenses of Agency and management of the same years, have averaged Dlls. 2,000.
     The collections of money will increase, and the Taxes decrease gradually with the progressive sales of Land.
     The Title to the property is perfect and indisputable; and the fee simple both of the unsold Lands, and of the Lands under Contract, will be conveyed to the purchasers in a manner that will protect the rights of all parties concerned.
     Companies or individuals inclined to become purchasers, and to that end, wishing to view or examine the property, will be furnished with more particular information respecting it by application to DUGALD CAMERON, Esquire, who has charge of the Pulteney Land Office at Bath, in the County of Steuben, or to ROBERT TROUP, Esquire, who is the Chief Agent of the Pulteney Estate.
     The Purchase Monies must be paid in New-York, or secured to be paid in London, in three equal annual instalments from the date of the purchase.
     Proposals of Purchase are to be addressed to either of the Subscribers, at his place of residence.
     The Subscribers propose meeting in the City of New-York, on the second day of December next, for the purpose of deciding on any Proposals that may be made for the Purchase of the Property, and for negociating the Sale of the same.
Dated at Geneva, in the County of Ontario, in the State of New-York, the 12th August, 1822.
ROBERT TROUP, residing at Geneva.
SAMUEL BAYARD, residing at Princeton, in the State of New-Jersey.}
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     The lands of the Pulteney Estates, in the counties of Steuben and Allegany, in the state of New-York, consisting of farm lots, tracts and townships, are offered for sale to actual settlers, or to companies, on terms offering superior encouragement particularly to actual settlers, who calculate on paying for their lands from the products of the soil they cultivate. From this class of purchasers, Wheat will be received in payment, in lieu of money. The price of lands will be stipulated at from two to four bushels of wheat per acre, or made payable in money, at the option of the purchaser, and on a credit of ten years, and two years free of interest. Companies, or other individuals, not actual settlers, who may be desirous of purchasing, will be accommodated on liberal terms; payments will be required in money, and the terms will be varied according to the situation of the lands, or other circumstances.
     The lands now offered for sale possess superior advantages as to situation and market, and of easy access by good roads, to stores, and mills of every description, mechanic shops, common schools, and places of public worship; and being also in the vicinity, and bordering on the Canisteo and Conhocton creeks, navigable branches of the Susquehannah river, renders the transportation of produce to the Baltimore market, cheap and easy. - Wheat is the staple produce of the country, and Baltimore city affords the best market for wheat in the United States. The expense of transportation from this village to Baltimore, or from any give point on the navigable parts of the said creeks, to Baltimore, does not exceed twenty-five cents per bushel: I state this important truth, from actual experience; I have sent many thousand bushels of wheat from this place to Baltimore, and I have not paid, in any instance, more than twenty-five cents per bushel for transportation, including all charges; and if we take into consideration the extensive improvements now making and contemplating to be made, by the states of Pennsylvania and Maryland, in removing the existing obstructions in the navigation of the Susquehannah, it is reasonably expected that the expense of freight or transportation will be greatly reduced; thus rendering the situation of the country in the vicinity of the navigable branches of the Susquehannah, equal in point of market, if not superior, to any other back country in the United States.
     Good and sufficient warranty deeds will be made to purchasers, after the full payment of the consideration moneys. The title of the Pulteney family to this estate is indisputable. All these considerations, together with the uniform indulgence and good treatment extended towards the settlers on this estate, and which has been in a course of sale and settlement for forty years past, hold out every motive to industrious families, who want new lands, to come and purchase, and settle in this country.
DUGALD CAMERON.
Land Office, Bath, Steuben Co. N. Y. 10th Aug. 1823.}

ALLEGANY AND STEUBEN. - The settlers on the Pulteney and Hornby Estates in these counties are pursuing a course similar to that which produced such important results on the Holland Purchase. They recently met in convention at Bath, and published a statement of grievances addressed to John Greig and Robert Troup, agents of those estates. They allude to the diversion of the tide of emigration to other quarter, occasioned by the reduced prices of the lands of the government and of the Holland Company, by the construction of the Erie Canal, &c.
     The consequent depreciation in value of the Pulteney and Hornby Lands, is then noticed: the great amount of debt due for those lands, it is said, exceeds the whole value of real estate, including improvements, in the hands of the settlers; this, with the impossibility of selling their lands at their estimated value, and inability to discharge their debts, compels them to seek relief. They then suggest to the Pulteney and Hornby Agents the propriety of pursuing the policy which has recently been so beneficiently exercised by the Holland Company towards the settlers on its lands - a policy mutually advantageous to the company and its debtors, and which reflects credit on the Agent, (the Hon. David E. Evans) whose instrumentality led to its adoption. - Rochester Daily Adv.

     On the night of the 8^th instant, a band of fifteen or twenty men in disguise, broke into a house in the town of Canisteo, and beat its occupant, James Feenaughty, in a most shameful manner. They also robbed him of a gold watch and some sixty of seventy dollars. The man had been threatened with violence in case he did not deed to one Upson, a piece of land which he had purchased of a man by the name of Sweetland. After having been dreadfully beaten, he was told that his life would be taken if he did not deed the land to Upson by a specified time. The party then left with their plunder.

     Feenaughty had bought a farm of Upson. Adjoining the farm was a piece of land which had formerly been held under contract by Upson’s father with the Pulteney estate. The elder Upson died without having paid for his land, and Sweetland purchased it from the Pulteney estate, and took a deed for it, and in turn deeded it to Feenaughty. It was claimed by the anti renters that this land, which was never paid for by the elder Upson, should have descended to the son; that Sweetland, having purchased it direct from the office in violation of anti-rent law, had no right to sell it, and Feenaughty had no right to purchase it, and that he should be compelled to transfer to the younger Upson the piece of land which he purchased and paid for in good faith, not from the land office, but from a third party.

     Feenaughty could not see it, and is being put through a course of sprouts. He has been robbed and badly beaten, and is threatened with death if he does not comply with the demands of these freebooters.

     H. J. Wynkoop, agent at Bath, N.Y., of the Pulteney estate, announces that the estate is to be closed, for its owner, Sir Frederick Johnstone of England, has decided to dispose of his interests in this country, of which there are still remains unsold about 2000 acres in New York and a lumber tract in Virginia. The estate has been in existence more than 100 years, and many hundreds of farms about Bath, are a portion of its original territory. Nearly $6,000,000 have been derived from the sale of thes lands, for the estate originaly comprised more than 1,000,000 acres.