An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America

by J. P. MacLean

While the application for the grant was yet pending, the petitioners greatly exalted over their future prospects, evolved a grand scheme for the survey of the prospective lands, which should include a stately street from the banks of the Hudson river on the east through the tract, upon which each family should have a town lot, where he might not only enjoy the protection of near neighbors, but also have that companionship of which the Highlander is so particularly fond. In the rear of these town lots were to be the farms, which in time were to be occupied by tenants. The surveyors, Archibald Campbell, of Raritan, New Jersey, and Christopher Yates, of Schenectady, who began their labors June 19, 1764, were instructed to lay off the land as planned, the street to extend from east to west, twenty-four rods wide and extending through the width of the grant as near the center as practicable, and to set aside a glebe lot for the benefit of the school master and the minister. North and south of the street, and bordering on it, the surveyors laid off lots running back one hundred and eighty rods, varying in width so as to contain from twenty to sixty acres. These lots were numbered, making in all one hundred and forty-one, seventy-two being on the south side of the street, and the remainder on the north. The farms were also numbered, also making one hundred and forty-one.

In the plan no allowance had been made for the rugged nature of the country, and consequently the magnificent street was located over hills whose proportions prevented its use as a public highway, while some of the lots were uninhabitable.

The following is a list of the grantees, the number of the lot and its contents being set opposite the name:

Lot.	Name.	Acres.	Lot.	Name.	Acres.
1.	Catharine Campbell	250	10.	Mary Anderson	300
2.	Elizabeth Cargill	250	11.	Archibald McNeil	300
3.	Allan McDonald	300	12.	Dougall McAlpine	300
4.	Neil Gillaspie	450	13.	David Lindsey	250
5.	Mary Campbell	350	14.	Elizabeth Campbell	300
6.	Duncan McKerwan	350	15.	Ann McDuffie	350
7.	Ann McAnthony	250	16.	Donald McDougall	300
8.	Mary McGowne	300	17.	Archibald McGowne	300
9.	Catherine McLean	300	18.	Eleanor Thompson	300
19.	Duncan McDuffie	350	44.	Duncan McArthur	450
20.	Duncan Reid	600	45.	John Torrey	300
21.	John McDuffie	250	46.	Malcolm Campbell	300
22.	Dougall McKallor	550	47.	Florence McKenzie	200
23.	Daniel Johnson	350	48.	John McKenzie	300
24.	Archibald Campbell	250	49.	Jane Cargill	250
25.	William Hunter	300	50.	John McGowan	300
26.	Duncan Campbell	300	59.	John McEwen	500
27.	Elizabeth Fraser	200	60.	John McDonald	300
28.	Alexander Campbell	350	61.	James McDonald	400
	Glebe lot	500	62.	Mary Belton	300
29.	Daniel Clark	350	72.	Rachael Nevin	300
43.	Elizabeth Campbell	300	73.	James Cargill	400

Lots 29, 43, 44, 50, and 62 are partly in the present limits of the township of Greenwich, and the other lots, from 29 to 73, not above enumerated, are wholly in that township and in Salem. The following lots are located north of the street:

Lot.	Name.	Acres.	Lot.	Name.	Acres.
74.	John Cargill	300	97.	Charles McAllister	300
75.	Duncan McDougall	300	98.	William Graham	300
76.	Alexander Christie	350	99.	Hugh McDougall	300
77.	Alex. Montgomery	600	100.	James Campbell	300
78.	Marian Campbell	250	101.	George McKenzie	400
79.	John Gilchrist	300	102.	John McCarter	400
80.	Agnes McDougall	300	103.	Morgan McNeil	250
81.	Duncan McGuire	500	104.	Malcolm McDuffie	550
82.	Edward McKallor	500	105.	Florence McVarick	300
83.	Alexander Gilchrist	300	106.	Archibald McEwen	300
84.	Archibald McCullom	350	107.	Neil McDonald	500
85.	Archibald McCore	300	108.	James Gillis	500
86.	John McCarter	350	109.	Archibald McDougall	450
87.	Neil Shaw	600	110.	Marian McEwen	200
88.	Duncan Campbell	300	111.	Patrick McArthur	350
89.	Roger McNeil	300	112.	John McGowne, Jr	250
90.	Elizabeth Ray	200	113.	John Shaw, Sr	300
91.	James Nutt	300	114.	Angus Graham	300
92.	Donald McDuffie	350	115.	Edward McCoy	300
93.	George Campbell	300	116.	Duncan Campbell, Jr.	300
94.	Jane Widrow	300	117.	Jenette Ferguson	250
95.	John McDougall	400	118.	Hugh McEloroy	200
96.	Archibald McCarter	300	119.	Dougall Thompson	400
120.	Mary Graham	300	126.	Mary Anderson	300
121.	Robert McAlpine	300	127.	Donald McMullin	450
122.	Duncan Taylor	600	130.	John Shaw, Sr	300
123	Elizabeth Caldwell	250	131.	Duncan Lindsey	300
124.	William Clark	350	132.	Donald Shaw
125.	Barbara McAllister	300	133.	John Campbell	300

Each of the foregoing had a "street lot," with a corresponding number, as before mentioned, which contained one-tenth of the area of the farm lots; that is, a lot of two hundred acres had a "street lot" of twenty acres, and so on.

Ten lots comprehended between Nos. 127 and 146 are now within the township of Fort Edward. The number of these lots and the persons to whom granted were as follows, varying in area from 250 to 500 acres:

Lot 128, Duncan Shaw; 129, Alex. McDougall; 134, John McArthur; 135, John McIntyre; 136, Catharine McIlfender; 137, Mary Hammel; 138, Duncan Gilchrist; 139, John McIntyre; 140, Mary McLeod; 141, David Torrey.

The lots originally belonging to Argyle township, but now forming a part of Greenwich, were numbered and allotted as follows: