STONEFIELD HOUSE. BUILT, 1745. From a photograph taken in 1905 by David Barclay, Esq., of Newburgh, N. Y. PART IV. U Rev. John Little. NTIL the old account book held by Mrs. Mary Moffat Young, already referred to, came to the writer's notice, he had considered it an established fact that Rev. John Little and his family came over with the Clinton party, in the "George and Anne," in 1729; but entries in that book would seem to indicate that, if not in Ulster County, John Little was certainly in the Province of New York as early as February 14, 1723/24, for on that date appears the following release signed in the book by John Chambers and Ebenezer Holmes, whoever they may have been: "Then received from John Little the sum of one pound four shillings of Yourk money in full of all debts, dues and demands from the beginning of the world to the day and year above said. "Witness our hands JOHN CHAMBERS, And yet among the list of Charles Clinton's followers, as published in the INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN (of Goshen, New York), issue of December 26, 1905, appear the names of Rev. John Little, Frances Fitzgerald his wife, and their family. The entries in the book commence under date of December 1715, and contain memoranda of the regular collection of rents from estates, evidently in Ireland, down to 1721. After that the dates are irregular and the entries refer not to the collection of rents but to the sale of farm produce, hardware, dry goods, etc.; but whether in Ireland or in America is not apparent. Subsequently to 1733, the names of Crawford, Denniston, Clinton, McClaughrey and others closely identified with the region of Little Britain are of more or less frequent occurrence. The estates from which rents were collected in the earlier years were Balley McEagan; Lissmore; Lissduff; Drummure; Dereycarey; Upper and Lower Glencoss; Lissabady; and Drumhoughly; and that the book was then kept by John Little himself may be |