ADVERTISEMENT. In the preface to the first Volume of my Father's History of New-York, he has stated the reasons which induced him not to publish it, beyond a certain period; however forcible they might have been at that day, they no longer exist, and I therefore have taken the resolution to offer to the public the continuation of this history, written with his own hand. I read it with the utmost attention before I resolved upon the publication. I put the work into the hands of some of my friends, (conceiving that it would have been presumption in me to have trusted to my own partial decision,) and they encouraged me to offer it to the public, as a curious and interesting book. When I resolved to follow this advice, it was a circumstance of great weight with me, that as it would probably be published at some future day, and might fall into the hands of an editor, who, not being actuated by the same sacred regard for the reputation of the author which I feel, might make alterations and additions, and obtrude the whole on the public as a genuine and authentic book. The continuation of the history is therefore published as it was left by the author, with only a few verbal alterations and corrections. WILLIAM SMITH, Member of his Majesty's Council. Quebec, August 4th, 1824. NOTICE. THE New-York Historical Society have the pleasure, in their present volume, to offer a Continuation of the late Chief Justice SMITH's History of NewYork, by the distinguished author himself. For the means of so doing, they are indebted to the politeness of his son, WILLIAM SMITH, Esq. of Canada, a gentleman of talents and respectability. To those who are acquainted with the merits of the first part of the work, so long before the public, it is unnecessary to say, that in putting to press this Continuation, they think they perform a most valuable service as well to the cause of letters as to their country. In the part now first published, the reader will observe, that the author was a prominent actor in the scenes he describes. A more valuable historical document, touching the affairs of this State, has perhaps never yet appeared; and the Society felicitate themselves that it is in their power to enrich their collections with so precious a legacy to the future historian. NEW-YORK, July 4, 1826. CONTENTS. From the time of Lieutenant Governor Delancey's ceasing to administer the government, to the arrival of Sir Charles Hardy as Governor, From the absence of Sir Charles Hardy on an expedition against Mar- tinico, to the second assumption of the administration by Lieutenant From Lieutenant Governor Delancey's death, to the appointment of Lieutenant Governor Colden, during the absence of Sir Charles |