Capatain Archiblad Kennedy Captained Coventry

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Archibald Sr
 b  ~1718, New York City, New York
 d  30 Dec 1794 - Scotland ...?
 ____ - Ensign - British Navy, retired
 1776 - Captain - ship Coventry, NYC harbor
 . . . moved To his house - East Newark NJ
 1776 - detained, near Caldwell NJ
 ____ - owned Land in NJ & NY ...  pages 2...4
 1776 - Political Problems
 1776 - NY House - consficated, by Geo Washington
 . . . (.#1 Broadway, NYC.) see - pages 3 & 4


Archibald Kennedy was an officer in the Royal Navy who
held estates in Hoboken in New Jersey
and became the greatest property owner in New York. He
tried to be neutral during the American
War of Independence, and was accordingly mistrusted by
both sides. Half of his New York
properties were confiscated, including number 1,
Broadway, which was appropriated by George
Washington. His son, the twelfth Earl, was a close
friend of the Duke of Clarence, who, on his
coronation as William IV, created him Marquess of
Ailsa. The second Marquess, Archibald
Kennedy, was killed in a hunting accident in 1870. His
son succeeded to the title at the age of
twenty-two, and after his death in 1938 the family
title was borne by each of his three sons in turn.

Archibald, 11th Earl of Cassillis distinguished
himself as a naval commander and raised the seige of
Lisbon in 1760 and the people of that city presented
him with a handsomely engraved silver platter
which is still in the possession of the present
Marquess of Ailsa. After he retired from the sea,
Archibald, lived in No. 1 Broadway, New York, but, on
his refusal to take part in the Boston Tea
Party, George Washington evicted him from his home and
took possession of it for himself. The Earl
married Anne Watts, daughter of John Watts of New York
and part of her dowry is said to have
been Long Island in New York State but the Earl lost
all his American property during the War of
Independence. When Glenlyon's Regiment carried out the
massacre at Glencoe in September, 1692,
a young ensign in the regiment refused to take part in
the slaughter and he was taken back to Fort
William and ignominiously discharged. Tradition has
it, truth or not, that the name of the young ensign
was Archibald Kennedy of Maybole.

History of Liberty Island: 
Archibald Kennedy, commander of British naval station,
buys island for 100 pounds. 
1753  Kennedy builds house, light house, promoted name
of "Kennedy Island"

1759 New York State buys island for 1000 pounds,
providing New Jersey with rights to surrounding water.

During 1751, Franklin read a pamphlet written by
Archibald Kennedy titled
       "The Importance of Gaining and Preserving the
Friendship of the Indians to the
       British Interest Considered." Kennedy,
collector of customs and receiver general
       for the province of New York at the time that
he wrote the brochure, maintained
       that alliance with the Iroquois was "of no
small importance to the trade of Great
       Britain, as to the peace and prosperity of the
colonies." Indian traders, called "a
       tribe of harpies" by Kennedy, "have so abused,
defrauded and deceived those
       poor, innocent, well-meaning people." Kennedy
asserted that fraud in the Indian
       trade could be reduced if that trade were
regulated through a single Indian
       commissioner, instead of a different one for
each colony, which was the existing
       system. As with Kennedy, so also with the
Iroquois; they too much resented the
       behavior of the traders. Canassatego had told
the Colonial commissioners at
       Lancaster in 1744 that the Indians would be
poor "as long as there are too many
       Indian traders among us." Resolution of this
problem was the key to maintaining
       the Anglo-Iroquois alliance in Kennedy's
opinion. The appointment of a single
       Indian commissioner would also be a small step
along the road to Colonial
       confederation for mutual defense. The Iroquois
had been advocating a unified
       Colonial military command for at least seven
years -- since Canassatego's speech
       to the 1744 Lancaster treaty. Under Kennedy's
scheme, each colony would have
       contributed men and money to the common
military force in proportion to its
       population. 

             Franklin was sent Kennedy's brochure by
James Parker, his New York City
       printing partner, from whose press it had been
issued. Following the reading of
       the brochure, Franklin cultivated Kennedy's
friendship; the two men consulted
       together on the Albany Plan of Union (which
included Kennedy's single-Indian
       agent idea). At the Albany congress itself,
Franklin called Kennedy "a gentleman
       of great knowledge in Public Affairs." 

             After he read Kennedy's brochure,
Franklin wrote to Parker that "I am of the
       opinion, with the public-spirited author, that
securing the Friendship of the Indians
       is of the greatest consequence for these
Colonies." To Franklin, "the surest means
       of doing it are to regulate the Indian Trade,
so as to convince them [the Indians]
       that they may have the best and cheapest Goods,
and the fairest dealings, with
       the English." Franklin also thought, in
agreement with Kennedy, that the colonists
       should accept the Iroquois' advice to form a
union in common defense under a
       common, federal government:

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