History of the City of New York

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER OF JAMES ALEXANDER. 657 CHAPTER XXVIII. 1755 - 1764. THE FRENCH WAR. Lettzb Of Jakes Alexander. ? Shirley In Boston. ? Victory Of The People Ok New York. ? Declaration Of War. ? The Earl Of Loudoun. ? Mayor John Crvger. ? New York Oppressed. ? Boundary Jangles. ? Riots At Livingston Manor. ? Governor Hardy Resigns. ?Benjamin Franklin. ? The Immortal Kite. ?The Postal Routes Of America. ? Loss Of Fort William Henry. ? Loudoun And His Cabbages. ? Recall Of Loudoun. ? Change In The English Ministry. ?Capture Of Fort Du Quesne. ? Defeat And Recall Of Abercrombie. ? General Wolfe. ? Capture Of Quebec. ? General Amherst. ? William Walton.?The Walton House. ?Death Of Lieutenant-governor De Lancey. ? Dr. Cadwallader Colden Lieutenant-governor Of New York. ?governor Monckton. ?Death Of George II.?George III.?The Earl Of Bute. ? Resignation Of Pitt. ?Sandy Hook Lighthouse. ? Sir James Jay.?the Jay Family. ? John Jay In College.? Conquest Of Havana. ? Treaty Of Peace. ? England In Triumph. IT was a peculiar winter. No great military event transpired. But every week brought intelligence of some fresh horror in the remote districts. Cruelties were perpetrated in Orange and Ulster Counties. There were murders committed in Duchess County; and there were disturbances at Livingston Manor. Beyond Albany all was terror and confusion. James Alexander wrote to Peter Van Brugh Livingston in December: The manner of beginning this war must have surprised the nations of Europe, as it has the American colonies, but the way in which it has been carried on is still more surprising. General Braddock was sent over as commander-iii-chief, and how the Ministry came to intrust full powers to such a man has perplexed us all; a man of no knowledge, civil or military, who by all accounts had s...