Their destination was the island of Antigua: Dr. and Mrs. Graham
and their family, consisting of three infant daughters and two young
Indian girls, sailed from Niagara to Oswego, and from thence, by a
path through the woods, reached the Mohawk, which river they descended
in batteaux to Schenectady. Here Dr. Graham left his family, and went
to New York to complete a negotiation he had entered into for
disposing of his commission, to enable him to settle, as he originally
intended, on a tract of land which it was in his power to purchase on
the banks of the river they had just descended. The gentleman
proposing to purchase his commission, not being able to perfect the
arrangement in time, Dr. Graham found himself under the necessity of
proceeding to Antigua with the regiment. Mrs. Graham on learning this,
hurried down with her family to accompany him, although he had left it
optional with her to remain till he should have ascertained the
nature of the climate, and the probability of his continuing in the
West Indies.

At New York they were treated with much kindness by the late Rev.
Dr. John Rodgers and others, especially by the family of Mr. Vanbrugh
Livingston. With Mr. Livingston's daughter, the wife of Major Brown,
of the sixtieth regiment, Mrs. Graham formed a very intimate
friendship, which continued during the life of Mrs. Brown.

They embarked with the regiment, November 5, 1772, for Antigua.




CHAPTER II.