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of this goal Skene went to
England and was appointed lieutenant governor of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and royal surveyor of the woods around Lake Champlain. He was advised to gather petitions from the inhabitants before seeking a royal patent for the new colony; Allen and others arranged a meeting at
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Loyalists; he was sent back by Baum to hurry along the reinforcements. As the reinforcements came up, reputedly Skene hailed some American scouts with a cry of "Are you for King George?" and got his horse shot out from under him. He also may have been influential in Burgoyne's decision to
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came up with a plan to solve their disputes with the colony of New York by obtaining a charter for a new royal colony comprising the Grants and also land on the New York side of Lake
Champlain. The colony was to be obtained by Skene, who would be the governor and reside at Skenesborough. In pursuit
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Loyalists by New York State, and their property seized. Skene attempted vainly to regain his property, and then appealed to the British government for compensation and received in 1784 a pension of Ā£180 per year, and later a lump sum of Ā£20,000, which he used to purchase property in
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When the
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minister. Skene's brother James was a surgeon for the East India
Company. He died in 1780 in London. Skene himself married Katherine Heyden, an heiress from Ireland, and they had three children: Andrew Philip (b. 1753), Mary Ann Margaret (b. 1755), and Katherine (b. 1756).
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in the Grants on 11 April 1775, which approved a resolution asking "be taken out of so oppressive a jurisdiction and either annexed to some other government, or erected and incorporated into a new one". This plan was interrupted by the
Revolution. It came up again during
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with instructions to strengthen the fortifications. While he was stationed there he became convinced that the local area was a good one for trade and settlement. With the encouragement of
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We have an infernal scoundrel here, a certain Col. Sāā, who comes over full of plans and machinations of mischief. He has had the most unreserved and unlimited confidence of
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in 1715 and several times narrowly avoided execution; he died in 1736. His mother was Mary Ann Smith, the daughter of a
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to call on Skene and examine whether this was part of some plot, which Skene denied. Skene was eventually exchanged for
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to look over his papers; after their report, he was sent to
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Memorials of the family of Skene of Skene: from the family papers
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