History of Rensselaer Co., New York: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from History of Rensselaer Co., New York\nThe county of Tryon included all that part of the State lying westerly of the aforesaid established line,3' which ran from the Mohawk, as above set forth, to the Canada line, at a point near the present Indian village of St. Regis. Tryon County was thus nearly two hundred miles wide on its eastern border, and stretched out westward two hundred and seventy miles to the shores of Lake Erie. The shire town of Tryon County was Johnstown, near the Mohawk, the residence of Sir William Johnson, Bart. It was named in honor oi' William Tryon, the last colonial governor of the State.