REPLIES GATE'S BURIAL PLACE. -(III. 204.) General Gates died on the morning of Thursday, April 10, 1806, after a sincere long and tedious illness, a and devout evangelical Christian. His death occurred at his residence, now the corner of Twenty-second street and Second avenue, then the Bloomingdale Pike. His funeral, however, took place at one o'clock on the following day at No. 59 Broadway, whither his body had been removed, probably to enable his friends in the city to attend more conveniently. Through the courtesy of my friend, Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, I am enabled to set the question where the General is buried at rest, as will be seen by the following leaf from the Register of Trinity Parish, kindly copied and sent to me by the Rector: B. A true copy from the Register of Burials of the Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York. Attest: MORGAN DIX, Rector. I have some other interesting information concerning General Gates, which I shall communicate later. WILLIAM L. STONE. Jersey City Heights. LOST LOCALITIES-CONEWAGO CHAPEL, NEW YORK.-(III. 203.) The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart at Conewago is located on the eastern banks of the Plum and Little Conewago Creeks, near their confluence in Adams county, Penn., not far from the York county line. The first church was a small log chapel, erected about 1740, and services conducted by a mission priest from Hartford county, Md. The first resident priest was Rev. Matthias Manners, S. J., a German, whose proper name was Sittensperger, who, to anglicize his name, took the English equivalent, "Manners." Father Manners was succeeded by a number of priests, who were all members of the Society of Jesus, the most distinguished of whom was Father Pellentz, who built a stone church in 1787. This worthy father died in 1800, at the age of seventyseven. In the years 1850-1 Rev. Joseph Enders, S. J., enlarged and beautified the church. About six hundred acres of limestone land are attached to the Conewago church, which is laid off in two farms, advantageously tilled and improved, with houses and ample barns. The congregation being large-numbering nearly three thousand souls-is selfsustaining, and the income of the farms goes into the general treasury of the Society of Jesus, to be laid out in erecting churches, founding colleges and supporting schools. The view from the steeple of the church at Conewago is an extensive and varied one of the surrounding country-Gettysburg, with its historic Round Tops and ramparts, and the South Mountain in the background; the beautiful village of New Oxford, and the Pigeon Hills; Hanover, with its numerous steeples and turrets, and beyond, towards Littlestown and the (II. LORD BELLOMONT'S COFFIN. 698.) The remains of Richard, Earl of Bellomont, at his death (March 5, 1701) were interred, not in the "Old Dutch Church" according to Dunlap, but in a vault beneath the chapel of the fort, near the site of the present Bowling Green. About the year 1788 the fort was demolished to make way for the "Government House" which was erected on its site. In the course of the work this vault was opened, and found to contain the remains of several persons, including those of Governor Bellomont. The "History of the Fort in New York" states that the coffins (which were of lead and in good preservation) found in the vault were taken by Mr. Pintard, who conducted the operations, and interred in St. Paul's church-yard, where they were left "without monumental notice," and that, furthermore, the silver plates of the coffins were removed by Mr. Van Zandt, who intended them for preservation, but after his death they were converted into spoons. I have little doubt but that the remains of a coffin spoken of as being in the Historical Society are fragments found at the time of Lord Bellomont's disinterment, and probably deposited in the Society by Mr. Pintard. In regard to the burial place of Leisler, I might say that in Valentine's Manual for 1866 there is a picture of Jacob Lesler's grave, but from what source obtained is not stated. The grave must LOST LOCALITIES-FOREST-OF-DEAN. —(III. 203.) Forest-of-Dean was a locality in Cornwallshire, England, famous for its iron mines. Forest-of-Dean is the name of an iron mine in the township of Monroe, Orange county, N. Y., west of Fort Montgomery, among the Hudson Highlands. The mine was opened about the year 1761, and was doubtless so named from the English mine in Cornwall. There is little stream in the town of Monroe called Forest-of-Dean Creek. a LOST LOCALITIES—THE SLOTE.—(III. 203.) To the inquirer in the March number of the Magazine who desires to know where "the Slote" was, I would say that such designation was given by the low Dutch residents of Tappan and vicinity to its landing place, or grounds adjacent on the Hudson river. Within my memory store-keepers and farmers a few miles back, when they went to the wharf for supplies received by sloop or "periagua," always spoke of going to "the Slote." The name may be found, in connection with Tappan, in the town of "Orangetown," Rockland Co., in Simeon DeWitt's County Map of the State of New York, published in 1829. J. N. IRELAND. WILLIAM LIVINGSTON.-(II, 484.) In the biographical sketch of the war Governor of New Jersey there is an error as to his parentage. He was grandson, not son, of Robert Livingston, and son of Philip Livingston and Catherine Van Brugh. EDITOR. In a ruined Quaker meeting-house near my residence which was built about one hundred years ago, is a box-stove for wood, on which the following words are cast: "Forest of Dean, 1767." This BATTLE OF MONMOUTH implies that so early as that date a Your correspondent, R. C., alludes (III. 59.) to Clinton's moonlight flittings as the theme of many a jest during his subsequent services in America. While examining a file of the Pennsylvania Packet I found in the issue of September 9, 1780, a poem of considerable length, supposed to be written by a lady, relating to the movements of the British army, from which I copy the following verse and foot note referring to the retreat from Monmouth : So we dressed in high taste to see them embark, Not thinking that Sir Harry would go in the dark; To light a retreat, as seen in his letter,* He once used the moon-for want of a better. The battle of Monmouth, where Sir Harry Clinton says that he took advantage of the moon; I suppose this is what the Lady alludes to. It may be well enough, however, to set her right, by informing her that he did not begin his retreat till the moon had gone down, which, vulgarly speaking, was really to take advantage of the moval was effected. W. N. should, after reading this account, examine a reply to it in the New England Magazine for May, 1834, by Dr. Thatcher, entitled, "Observations relating to the Execution of Major André.” W. N. will find an account of the affair in the New York Evening Post of August 11, 1831; also, I presume, in any New York paper about that date. Alleghany, Pa. ISAAC CRAIG. -Dean Stanley, in his Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey, Murray, London, 1876, pp. 256-57, gives some reference to the removal of the remains: "The courtesy and good feeling of the Amercans were remarkable. The bier was decorated with garlands and flowers, as it was transported to the ship. On its arrival in England," etc., etc. "The chest in which the remains were en closed is still preserved in the Revestry.” And the Dean refers to Sargent's Life of André, pp. 409-11, where an account of the exhumation and removal can be found. T. H. M. -An account of the removing of André's remains to Westminster Abbey in 1821 azine, VI., May 1834, and the United can be found in the New Englamd MagService Journal, November, 1833, London, both of which are referred to in a brief notice of the matter in vol. VI., Pennsylvania Historical Society Memoirs, Contributions to American History, pp. 373-5. I suppose something can be found on the subject in Sargent's André, Boston, 1861. Brownsville, Pa. H. E. H. (Publishers of Historical Works wishing Notices, will address the Editor, with Copies, Box 100, Station D-N. Y. Post office.) DÉCOUVERTES ET ÉTABLISSEMENTS limits of their territory the great lakes on the DES FRANÇAIS DANS L'OUEST ET DANS LE SUD DE L'AMÉrique SeptenTRIONALE, 16141698. Mémoires Originaux et inédits receuillis par PIERRE MARGRY. 3 volumes grand in 8vo, jésus avec cartes. Librarie Orientale et Americaine de MAISONNEUVE ET CIE, Paris. For sale by B. WESTERMANN & Co., New York. VOL. I-VOYAGES OF THE FRENCH ON THE GREAT LAKES-DISCOVERY OF THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI (1614-1684). Prefacing this volume of 618 pages is a portrait of Cavelier de La Salle, engraved on copper by Charles Waltner, and an introduction by M. MARGRY to the entire work contained in the three volumes. VOL. II-LEtters of CavELIER DE LA SALLE, AND CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO HIS UNDERTAKING (1678–1685). This volume of 617 pages contains also a large map of the bay of Cataracouy and its surroundings at the time of Cavelier de La Salle. VOL. III-EXPLORATION OF THE MOUTHS OF THE MISSISSIPPI, AND VOYAGE OF THE ABBÉ JEAN CAVELIER ACROSS THE CONTINENT, FROM THE COast of Texas tO QUEBEC. A second map at the beginning of this volume, taken from a chart in the geographical collection of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, represents the discoveries of Cavelier de La Salle from 1669 to 1683. The volume closes with a general index of the sources from which all the documents contained in the entire work are drawn. Notice has already been called in this Magazine [III, 315, 375, 637] to each of these volumes as it appeared; but the subject is of such importance to American students that the announcement of M. Margry is now translated and commended to the reader as the best account of the purpose and contents of the work. "A few words seem necessary to explain the importance of the collection we here announce. We state in the first place that the antagonism of France and England did not alone assure in 1783 the independence of the colonies of the latter power in North America; another of its results was to give to the United States as the north, the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and the Mississippi on the west. "Our ancient possessions thus paid, to state the fact, the dowry of this people when it reached its majority. Indeed, according to the memorial of the Marquis of Vaudreuil of the 16th Febru ary, 1756, the eastern boundaries of the French and English colonies were on the New England and New York side of the chain of mountains which begins below the St. George river, and extends as far as the Alleghanies; thus these mountains form the frontier on the side of Pennsylvania, Virginia and Carolina. "The same antagonism of France and England led twenty years afterwards to a new territorial increase of the United States, also taken from our ancient possessions. The space which we occupied to the west of the Mississippi, a space which we had ceded in 1763 to Spain, and which she had returned to us by the treaty of Saint-Ildefonse, completed our task of 1783 in favor of the new nation, destined to become the heir to the best part of our ancient empire. "William Pitt, son of Lord Chatham, had begun his political career by the announcement to Parliament of the treaty which avenged us for the humiliation of the Seven Years War, of which his father had been the principal leader. He felt this as a personal wound, and never forgot, in his hatred of Louis XVI. and of France during the Revolution, the loss which we had inflicted on his country. The treaty of Amiens, to which England was compelled to submit, suspended but for a moment the line of conduct which Pitt had followed. Soon after the refusal of the British Cabinet to surrender Malta, foreshadowing to the First Consul the rupture of peace, France ceded Louisiana to the United States, in order that at the moment of the outbreak of hostilities her enemy should not sieze upon it. This was a terrible blow, inflicted by one who thoroughly understood the science of tactics. England saw in the restitution of Malta a cause of danger to the eastern route to the Indies. The First Consul punished her want of faith by giving to the United States the western route. "When we consider the present state of the once French possessions, across which this great route passes, and see all this space-that is to say, the land lying between the Alleghanies and the Rocky Mountains, covered with a numerous population-it must be admitted that to fertilize it nothing less was necessary than constant deposits of European emigration. Any single nation would have exhausted itself without success. The cause of civilization has thus been |