PALMERTON BLOCKHOUSE, SARATOGA, NEW YORK

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Public Paper of George Clinton

Volume 6 page 227-228

No. 3222

Expenses Attending the Construction of a Blockhouse at Palmerton

Saraghtoga 13th September 1780

    Sir, The seventh of August last his Excellency General Schuyler wrote a Letter to 
the Inhabitants of the Saraghtoga District directed To Derick Swart, George Palmer, 
Conelius Van Veighten & John McCrea requesting the sense of the people might be taken 
with respect to the necessity and propriety of erecting a Blockhouse at Palmertown, at the 
same time signified to us your Excellency's concurrence and approbation in the measure; 
the Inhabitants were immediately called together, who readily agreed to  have a house 
erected with all possible dispatch; the Plan of the house is twenty feet by thirty.

At this meeting of the District on the 10th of August, there was a Committee 
elected and appointed to superintend order and direct the Building of said house, viz. 
George Palmer, Esquire, Captain Isaac Moss, Captain Cornelius Van Den Bergh, Holton 
Dunham & William Bradshaw, which was perfected under their care and direction; 
apprehensive the undertaking required haste and it was necessary to have person 
employed in the Business that would use facility and dispatch, induced the Inhabitants to 
fall into this measure, not doubting but it would meet with your Excellency's 
approbation, and as we apprehend  all expenses of this kind ought to be of a public 
nature, more especially when the advantages arising are for the  general security, we have 
ventured to  enclose your Excellency   an  account of our disbursements and time 
employed, that they may be laid before the Legislature of the state for their  approbation, 
and that such allowances may be made as shall [be] deemed equitable.  We are Sir, your 
most obedient Humble Servants
John  McCrea; Cornelius Van Veghten; Dirck Swart; George Palmer; Isaac Moss.

To His Excellency George Clinton, Esquire.


                                    August 14th 1780.

    The State of New York Dr.

George Palmer, Isaac Moss, Cornelius Van Den Bergh, William Bradshaw & 
Holton Dunham employed in all 36 Days

To 50 lb. Best salt pork

To 50 lb. Flower

To 40 lb. Bread

To 8 lb Cheese & ½ B. Salt

To 5 quarts of Rum

To 3 yoke of Oxen 5 Days to draw timber

To wagon & horses for three days

To Abel Mills with wagon & horses 2 days

To Evert V Debarrak 2 days for Do

To Abraham Truax 2 days Do.

To William Ross 2 days with 3 yoke oxen Do

To Colo. V Veighten 2 days with wagon & horses

To Abraham Wendell 2 days for Do

To John Winne 2 days Do

Peter Becker 2 days Do

Evert Cluet 2 days Do

To 47 ½ lb. nails of Wm. Seaymore at 2/6 hard money

  To 293 Inch Boards taken from the Public

To 105 Inch ½ plank from Do
To a Broad ax lost owner John Mahawney

To 1 narrow Do lost owner Evert Vand Debarrack

To Capt. Asaph Putman 2 days wagon & horses

    The above services were done for the Public at our request.  George Palmer; Isaac 
Moss; Holtum Dunham, Superintendents.