CHAPTER II.

Determination of the Home Government to dispose of the whole Island--The manner in which it was effected--Conditions on which grants were made--Appointment of Walter Patterson as Governor--Novel duties imposed on him--Callbeck made prisoner by Americans--Arrival of Hessian Troops--Sale of Land in 1781--Agitation in consequence--Complaints against the Governor, and his tactics in defence--Governor superceded, and Colonel Fanning appointed--Disputes between them--Charges of immorality against Patterson--His departure from the Island