The Rochester Historical Society Publications Fund Series, Volume XIX [19]: Charles Williamson: Genesee Promoter--Friend of Anglo-American Rapprochement

xiv, 356 pp. Gilt titles on spine, land rush map on endpapers. CONTENTS: Anglo-American Estrangement; American and British Agents Cross the Atlantic: A Business Accord; British Investments in Genesee Lands: For Speculation and Colonization; Charles Williamson Opens the Susquehanna Trail: An Outpost On the Genesee River; Founding a British Estate in the Genesee Wilderness: Town and County Building; Fear of War on the New York Frontier: Rival Border Nationalism; Genesee Promotion at Its Height: Roads, Mills, Mansions, Newspapers and Politics; Depression and Intrigue at Work: The Flow of British Capital Ceases; Agent Williamson Closes His Accounts: The Federalists Close Theirs; Settlers of Means Again Enter the Genesee: Williamson's Last Proposals; Saving British Investments in a World of Revolution: Robert Troup Replaces Agent Williamson; "The Arch of Anglo-American Friendship"; Notes; Suggested Forms for Testamentary Bequests; Membership List of the Society; Index.