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it A an adtertifement hath appeared in the Pennfylrania Gazette of the cth, izth and 10th inftant, under the fignaturcs of William Cooper and Andrew Ckaic; for felling at private fale '40000 acres of land, fitu ate in the county Montgomery, ftate of New York, at lake' Otfego, where Colonel George Croghan formerly 'Notice is hereby given, that the claims cf faid Cooper and Craig to thofe land are involved in difputes, and in alaw fuit in chan cerynow depending at New York, which may prove an expen five job to hafly purchafers. For.the benefit of foch perfonsjas might otherwtfe be liable to be taken in by the volubility, verfatilky and induftry of William Cooper, to appropriate. to himfelf. and partner thofe lands, and to undermine the juft claims of others in the fame, before a decifion in the court of chancery takes place, it is thought advife able the following, particulars, for the confederation of thofe.whom they may tempt to become puTchafers under them. Firft.Of the Otfego trar, belonging, to the eftate of Colonel George, Creghan, (whereof the 0,000 acres above advertifed are part) aoove 6coo acres were fold to Augudjri Provoft, before any roortae was given to.

the. Burlington upon which Meflrs. Cooler ad Craig found their claim to fay nothing of 33,000 acres fold to Governor William Franklin, ,24.083 acres to Cadwallader 'and David Col den, and from 30 to 40,00 acres, or upwards, to other perfonj and the faid land is bound with other lands of Colonel Croghan, for the payment of different motgages of 40,00 and of with judgment bonds to' the amount of more than 20,000 1. to which circumftance add that the map cf the land which, Mr. Cooler produced at thein tcned ShenfTs fale, January 13th lafi (and which, it is pre fumed, is the kme one they have lately advertied to ihew to fuch as wifh to purchafe) is palpably erroneous, and therefore a deception a copy whereof is alfo in the of the fub fcriber.

idly. As to the judgment bonds, every prudent purchaiet it aviled to attend to tne, following certificate, viz. 1 do hereby andfincke; in. the fublio room of the tavern, to walk in the open aip fora the by 'their btlMfj to vrhjcj kt paid rnoreobedienca than to the writor1 his own duty, pnt it up aain tba rtfpectibU pa.rtof the compaynav uiei manner 10 jviejim vooperar $ort ofl ooolj of itbfumritSadJbeer5 or JJ50U itisiiranneiccjwn wine: LafllviTha faid Yilliam Cboccr: lliiiiSlfiPlliiS To the I C. 4 Jtafonable caution to all erf on whom it hall concern, which, if duly attended to, may prevent their being mtfled, through ignorance trmijlake, to purcbajt a Jaiv fyit in chancery in place of a bar gainojjanas emerm jorjat.

mejjrs. rriuitm cooper ana sin fcifcf.7i, turcbaind MenZ CoobtrMd "CrZrtadveJilemtnt; made his'fubrnifilon and renounced' that itJund of tTatntr Upon1 what pretext, tKeh he ridhu partner hovf afluihe i right to' fell the land by privaie iTale, muft be liU with a cOutt of chancery to determine. i u. remove an plea oj ignoranct jtcm tboje zobo may te ae drew Uatg, fbop heepcrx in Surltngton, in tbt ftate cf iftw fcrmbn And brttd i the news. papers at irtnttn, JNcw lork and Albany, ana Jent up to tot county tobere the lands lie to which all terfoat concerned will do well to tf pay due attention.

JOHN MORGAN, acting by power of attorney from the Executors of Thdmas Wharton, and for himfelf and others interefted is mortgagees In ftid land. Philadelphia, April 22, 1786. WILLIAM Cdp PER; ANDREW CR A 10, Merchants, of their RefpeSs JOHN MORGAN, M. to hU Advertijement of April rd, 7 the tkird, heretofore foverelgn of North A me ku ft Ammmm mAmrm money, to enable Cou Croghan td pay the patent fees and other charges, 3000 1. Jerfey currency, whicfc were paid into the handa ceitify, that in the Secretary's office of the ftate of New York, of Col.

Croghan by Richard Wells. Franklin alfo lent or are filed the following judgment rolls wherein William Peters and John Motton, and his Excellency Efquires, are plaintiff and George Croghan, Efq defsndent 177a. enn. ur. A judgment in Tan.

term for the. pJaintifTW. Peters, for iC 53 l7 8 Ditto in October ditto for ditto John Morton, York currency, Ditto January I773r for ditto Franklin, New Jerfey, Ditt July ditto ditto, granting the aforefa Peters exe. cution for recovery of the afoce faid debt, ir 1 .1 A 1050a 1 3600 6 4 Given, tinder my at, Poui.tepue, the 26th day 178X. ir 'j ROBERT' HARPUR Dep.

See. of faid StateA There are other judgment.bo'ndi, which I at prefent pafs over 3'dly. The to the Burrrngton'company, in the name of his Excellency William Fpnklija, and to Thomas, Wharton and others, 40 and 20,000 acres land as they are now depending Jn I ihall fay nothjog? upon, but that tbofe wb are Jo ajb. at to purcbajt laiv fuitsfi wilf do, well ttfei down Jtffi dnd court tbe cojls. i i 4thly.

By anirdentue of covenants made in April 1775 be tween his Excellency Franklin, Thomat. Wharton, John Morton and George Croghan, Efquires (alfo filed in chan ce) Jhn Moron havng obtarned crrTarn.wnt of TeftatUm advanced for Col. Croghan upwards of 1. more The mortgage was immediately recorded in the coOQty where the lands lie. Before the patent waa expedited, to wit on the 3th of 1768, Col.

Croghan had majtgagtd his Indian right in the whole trail of 100,000 acres, to Gov.Ttanklln, and by him the mortgage was next day, vix. 14th of, December, 1768, affigncd to the Burlington Company aforefaid, Col. Croghan mortgage to Tfiomat Wharton, fen. nder which Dr. Morgan claims and.

endeavour? to raifc a dud, is dated a few days after Gov. Franklin fecund mortgage of March 10, 1770. and the fame mortgage of March 10, 1770, icon feflWIy prior to any other1 and alfo antecedent to any judgment obtained Croghan, or ether incumbrance whatfoever, fave only a judgment of William Peters, a attorney, for another which judgment was fatisfied upwards of ten.years ago by the fate of a cdofiderable tradr belonging to Col. Cihan iu another patent," kaown by the' name of Alex ander. M'Kee.

a patents of this (late, at the fuir.otL William Franklin, againft Bernard: parties ha it Gratf, executor 5 of Jthe; Jaft will teftament of George it iti Croehan. deceafed. and to medirefltei and delirered. on Fri Willla ys wfm aWBH "and.ofc Cadwalader Qoldep, Efq; thence eafterly, along, BUl 1 laaayuc Cojden'a, land Unecu land of; John BJeecker, 7mW a the. ieveral courfe 6th rV.

TheV altumed boundaries not expreffed in their motteittt it pteafoirej vf ithout the leaft autority Comprehendingin te, intended fale, vih'af lands they fa w' fit to la qld, Aifion, 'aithottg aireaoy 101,0 10 oiuei oj iuu ouuudiiici. Orf i place ot beginning; containing 40,000 acres more or lela 'VembFr cv 7Sf SAMUEL CLYDE, SherifL" tne Chancellors, injunflions, to put up tbofe "2 1 7 4 1 ioidoo'acres r'fahd tf tHey. were; itruck off to.Dr.;Joari via porfuanae of? thir hbriee Sheriff fold the lands 1 to Wil cf Philadelphia hlgjieft bidderfor ji SiU Cooper and Andrew Craig, and executed a fblid detd' accord iTork currency CWilitarn'Cooptf the t0, them tharhOTelafldafflgnV foT'evirt Ificpf. fonly)' bV! witfiini two principalentlemttl 'th'ei TOuirtrbw'grariteB1 at certificate of kim in( hi'mMf fromltlikJiie the particular in thefe words TMtlf V' tJ tMj.A aj a ''mc'fh bt ngprefet it thVMee d'si'tract of Andrew Ctaigf add WiIliamB' Cobper appelred now wVcertify thfai the fale vas regufarl opened," and' Doctor John' Morgan and appear, reeeife hit deed, and pay the thoney but no Tr iw organ cou 10 oe rouno. ine lanci were accordingly let uj according to the eorirtitionsof the rendne, and ciied cfF to AVilliatn Coopkr fof 706 Some time after which the faH Morgan appeared from a' (mall block houfe, about half a mile dilrant, where he had fecreted himfelf during the time he was When he appeared, the ShenfF tendered him the deed, which he refufed, Vut faid he would go to Albany for a oeea, vrnicn me aneim reruieo, at luuy Dtucting ne meant ttn.

Ptr rates, tiendrick Frey, James Yule, Jmis Plattor, Archibald PehetL When tne. Sheriff at th? Daclor'a lodgings for payment certain expencea incurred upon this bufinefi, was informed, that the Doctor had decamped before day break, aod it appeared, afterwards the Doctor had retreated expeditioufly 25 or 30 miles to the confines of the next county; before he flopped for refrefii roent and we can a(Ture the Dolor. that the Sheriff would he York, dated NoTcmber 30th, 1769, granted to Colonel George evn now mj to fee him in the county of Montgomery. Croghan 100,000 acres of land, with the uiual allowance of 5 acres per centum for highways, Utaatt, lying and being upon lake Otfego, and the upper parts of the river Safquehsnna, now in the county of and ftate of New York. Thefe letters patent were recorded December 6th; 1769 in the Secretary's Office at New Yorkj in Lib.

Patents No. 14, Page 46S etfef. The land; together with other great had been' previoufiy purchafed of the Indiana! at a treaty held by the late Sir William Johnfon, Bart. Soperintendant ef lndtan Affairs, at Fort Stanwix (named at prefent Fort Schuyler) in the month of Oclober, 1768, and the confideratin money in filvef dollars wis paid to the natives entirely to their fatigfauion; David Cutey, Efc Lather Rich, David Morris, Daniel Holt, Capt itpon this impregnable foundation ftands the title of Cooper and Craig. The futility, of the odor's pretentions may further appear, from a few observations on the principal parts of his publication.

The Doctor fays, that a chancery fuit is depending at New York. A fuit was Indeed inftituted againft WiHiam Frank lin, without any better ground thn merely to embarrafs the fale and terrify purchafes. The injunction iffued by the Chancellor is a matter of Our William Cooper writes from New i York, irf" fo late a date as April iStb, 1786, that the controvtr fy is fettled and the chancery fuit ended. Wfth refpeci to the 6000 acres afferred to be fold to ajotLj. March io, I770; Col.

Croghan Jnqrtgaged to hU Excellency Mapr himfelf (f we are rightly inftrsjaed) is candid enoughs William Franklin, Efq; 46,000 acres irt that patent, which 07; ni wunin a lew mnes ct fr.r riiu (T.ir, UirKarA PbUaielphia. and has never exhibited any claim. It is fippofed Philadelphia, and has never exhibited any claim. It is fuppofed Samuel Prefton Moore Jofeph Fox, Henry HilU James Verree, Richard Smith, Jofeph Smith and Smith, fince married to George Bowne. Thefe perfons (ufuaily called the Burlington Company) befides a large fum paid for the purchafe, lent in ready that Col.

Croghan once intended to give fuch a tract at the foot of lake Otfego to the Major, then rtfidiog there, but this inten tpa vas not perfected. Of the 33,090 acres fold to Govt Franklin, 14,083 acres to Cadwalades and David Col den, and the other tracts, nothing needle faid, but that they lie in other parts of the patent, and have'no relation to the lands in queftion. By the agreement made between William Franklin, Thomas Wharton, John Morton and George Croghan, it is exprefly co Tenanted that. Governor Franklin's mortgage, being prior to all the reft, fh all be firft paid, principal and intereft. Now the 40,000 acres lately conveyed by the Sheriff of Montgomery to Cooper and Craig fold for confiderably lefi than is due to them, and all the remaining eftateaV Col.

Croghan and Gov. Franklin are liable for the balance. The Doer complains of the time and place appointed for the endue. Tnis was in truth intended to be held in the preceding but unavoidable delays occafioned it to be poftponed however, in that country, the winter is a travelling and fociable, feafon. The tavern of Albert Mabie, Efq; is in a very public place, on the banks of the Mohawk river, nearly about the cen ter of the county.

The boundaries are fuch at will ftand the teft of.fober enquiry No manY premifes within the bounds, altho fubject to'the morr gpge, are lntenaea pe toucnea, except only xoco acres and up The Burlington Company hatingf duly conveyed air their right wards, formerly the property of Jofeph Galloway, which wat unavoidable. and title tc Wiiliaan Cooper and Andrew Craig, including a judg ment obtained, before the wajy on their mortgage, the prefent owners employed Alexander Efq; an eminent Coun felloff at now one oi the member of AiTembly for the city and county of New and formerly Aid du Camp to Gene ral Washington, to fue out a Scire Facias upon the judgment and accordingly the legal fteps were taken, a confirmation of the judgment was obtained in the fupreme court without any oppo fnion, and Fieri Faciaa iffued to the Sheriff of Montgomery, who, conformably to cuftonr, publidied this ad vertifement in the Albany Gazette, and elfewhere ifn rac asfo.oe eiiYereau me aneun, ior leiwogana idling Copy of tbt Sbert: advtrtijtwunt fir the ale of 40,000 acres in thpfe lands, 3 it waj agreed betwixt, aarties, to prevent; injury to tbe Otfego patent, 7t which wert' bought byWilliam Copper and An the creditors of G. That the faid, Jandsnd tene drew Craig, taken from the Albany Gaxerre of January jtb, 178I6. meats fhould be difpofedof public audti by virtue of I Fi A 3 M(r. r5f oVi foit oGovernor Franks XTJ 1 notice is hereVgiveo, that by virtue of a cer i 1'0 and John Morton.

Cooper and. Craig, ha ye writf ajtempted, a Jandeftine manner, to procure fales of, the, 40,000 acres, of, land for, teir fole benefit to the exciufiono Motoq. Whar.roo, andpfhfrs, on? a judgment tavrhichi lortoo'e jugnenf tfs, aodfwhi)ft Morton's, and Wharton judgments jaod. demand? the fftm.ofIttha;ifei aj AfJi pecs for; the Burlington compapy1 Thjr 4n.agwie tpunded on. tbe broad bafis of juftice and rpr trajrrptf wde fee.t.bj i'ipen whqfplaeefelf.iQtere', thfisfU tho' liSof moraji virtues, and juftice to tu neighbours as an obJblfitejcoftimandjL thev wholIv.exDunee fro.m.tbeir.Cataloxue Cooper, upon his return to New York, was, it feems, threats ened by Mr.

Morton to be conducted to the ft one jug fuch is the elevated exprefiion of our academician he appears to have, been a cup too fmall at this period of his memoirj for contempt of the Chancellor's injunction 3 and it is roundly affirmed that Cooper then renounced his ground of claim The fact was really Mr. Morton and others, having.fuffered feverely from Col. Crog t' hans conduct, made heavy complaints of. their lofles; whereupon Cooper and Craig mod generoufly offered, that if tbe principal and intereft due to. them was paid by a certain diftant then affigned, they would cheerfully confign their purchafe over to the other creditors.

Mr. Morton expreffed much and faid par ttcuiarly, that fuch a propofal exceeded their moft fanguine expectations. The proprietors have at various' times offered the: fame terms to Dr. Morgan and his aflbdates at Philadelphia The laft offer was in writing, dated April adr 17S6, and wit nefled by Robert Bamhill and Amos Taylor, jua. None of the Am the.l3tHday"of Januaryinext; at'xp o'clock in.the fore 'rioon pf the lajme.dayaf the houfe.

ot Albert ftibie Efq.j, l.f fimplec ofa. certain tract of land fitua in be county ojf ontgomery, and herein aftea, Crogharin, his life inieijbe liDf. tc'tl. lalaesV to, fay, begjn thence dtreAeAtft tbShm pfMttmg(w Viinning welt ajongthe linTof faid Hartwidc to.his otner, is luppj pcty oi: .10,000 1 fromi 0fIohn Smittfa land 5 ttfeSce inning north along, rrocctdine faleof thofe acres oh land then adver Yiui "Zu r.iA .1 $totehfr to, be fold thft wcfalonheJifli fa Sm apd, others, to I dwyuea coroer.fixttllin leadlnel courfe to the qt; inmVfn" CQrtk corner of! CroUh We patent thenxefronvtheiaid cornea jftho faid Lambert, of. tho frfMlameioiedn'toj lin of Cornelias, peter Lowa thenee: along'gthe oounda of Lowa, to Ll tncncf down fidr lake and; the river tq HE ve pcen able, as yet to raife the mpney.

the I. G. nv Cooper about thiatime ia fuppofed to hare arrived lake Otfego withr Surveyors, to dmde the 40,000 acres into con venient lots. Intelligence i oft received that upwards of 50 families are there waiting to purchafe. The tract is beautifully fiuuted upon a fine lake and; river, and in the vicinity of il.co acres lately bought by Monfieuf Chaumont, the grant banker of Parisj whqfff Monfieflr de Villieri, is 1 actually upon the effecting coniiderable improvements4 Cooper and Craig will warrant and defend the title free from any fuit at law or ia equity, and clear fronv all incumbrances: whatfoever, fa that! thofe who incline to poffefs rich lands at a trifling expence need sot fear trouble of difficulty from any Quarter v.

ANDREW CRAIGi rof himfelf and 'V i WILLIAM COOPER. Burlington Maf 1786. MefTrf public defired to' fufpend their judgment'opoti Craig and' Coopet advertifement, as publifhed iaV this day VGsettei Ull the anfwer is given, which will be fhortlf hid before them. the mean time the fubfenber cautions'all perfonfagainlt purcbafing the 40,600 acres of land at Otfego Jakei which they undertake to difpofC of at private as being itill inrolved in a fuit in chancery at New. York, which the letter rtoitn W.

Cooper to hia partner cannot lay afide and applications have' 1eenr made by a variety of claimanta to the legiffaf ure of New York forthe interpofition of that body, for a law, to; appoint" commifildnerrwith power to make fale of thofe fo as to give a feeure afid! legal title to purchafers," which Cooper and Craig Cannot doi, May 17th 17S6 TO JOHN MORGAN. Baltimore county, April io, J786, D. Ming infbrmedlbyi Morton who! had the "prior judgment to of known by wrftihg and public to call it equal to any in that county would onlv cV if he affert tire validity of hxtTcmpty chnjsr. cfur i chaft. ia vbUtiohvciithe Chancellor authority he fhoiild'haVd i mi ue pm iuc 6mw; wi jnniw 10c icim wiu oc rosac eaiy 10 ine purcnaier, as but tire deed but xvhen trie: faid died was made the faid a fmall part of the purchafe money will be reauired.

Anv oerfon J6mi MoTgamccuid'rie5rl'a alOxblul efcaiJewirfiro 'ihdinaUe to purchaferorView thernifet. maTaoDlr to kim conducted to the ltQne jug (or pnfon) at New Yoik 5 he 99 claimed by public outcry9 that he, John XJorgan, fiould coou EDWARD C. TOLLEY 'ii; 51 1 11.