_The Federal 3 Ibid.,
Census
139
44.
4 Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States taken in the Year 1790 (Baltimore: 1976), 6-7. 5 Rossiter,
op. cit., 44-45. 6 George W. Roach, ''Coloriial Highways in the Upper Hudson Valley'', New York History, 1959, vol. 50, p. 98. 7William P. Mc Dermott, ed. Eighteenth Century Documents of the Nine Partners Patent, Dutchess County, New York (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: 1979), 247. 8 Journal 887-89.
of the
New York Provincial
9 Laws of New York,
1799,
12 Ibid., 1789).
I,
of Negro Slavery
in
LXII.
lOEdgar J. McManus, A History New York (Syracuse: 1966), 150. 11 Ibid.,
Congress,
150. 168 (Poughkeepsie
Journal,
December
22,
