The tenants for themselves and their heirs agreed to pay him a fixed rent forever in stock and produce and, further, to grind at the owner's mill and neither to hunt nor fish.
Judge Westbrook, in whose office I worked, was counsel and collector for the patroons, notably for the manors of Livingston and Van Renssalaer--two little kingdoms in the heart of the great republic.
I spent two years at my work and studied in the office of the learned judge with an ever-present but diminishing sense of homesickness.

I belonged to the bowling and athletic club and had many friends.
Mr.Louis Latour, of Jefferson County, whom I had met in the company of Mr.Dunkelberg, came during my last year there to study law in the office of the judge, a privilege for which he was indebted to the influence of Senator Wright, I understood.

He was a gay Lothario, always boasting of his love affairs, and I had little to do with him.
One day in May near the end of my two years in Cobleskill Judge Westbrook gave me two writs to serve on settlers in the neighborhood of Baldwin Heights for non-payment of rent.

He told me what I knew, that there was bitter feeling against the patroons in that vicinity and that I might encounter opposition to the service of the writs.

If so I was not to press the matter, but bring them back and he would give them to the sheriff.
"I do not insist on your taking this task upon you," he added.