The Constables: First Family of the Adirondacks

The story of five generations of Constables who made history in New York's North Country. Included are an Irish surgeon who fought in the French and Indian War; a chief proprietor of the Macomb Purchase; the builder of Constable Hall; four brothers who ranged the Adirondacks between the 1830's and 1880's from the Fulton Chain to the Saranacs, prior to noted surveyors Benedict, Emmons or Colvin; and the first women campers in the central Adirondacks, predecessors to Lady Amelia Murray. —This text refers to the Hardcover edition.