The park was also known as a duelling ground ; one particularly notorious duel took place there in 1730 between William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath and John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol.

The Pulteney Purchase, or the Genesee Tract as it was also known, comprised all of the present counties of Ontario, Steuben and Yates, as well as portions of Allegany, Livingston, Monroe, Schuyler and Wayne counties.

See also: Phelps and Gorham Purchase, Holland Land Company, The Holland Purchase, The Morris Reserve and The Pulteney Association.

Simultaneously, his daughter ’ s name was also changed from Henrietta Laura Johnstone to Henrietta Laura Pulteney ( 1766 – 1808 ).

Pulteney was also influential in Telford's 1801 appointment to devise a master plan to improve communications in the Highlands of Scotland, a massive project that was to last some 20 years.

Troup took over as land agent for the Pulteney Estate after its first agent, Charles Williamson, fell out of favor with the Estate owners due to large debts he incurred in an attempt to develop the land.

Hervey had been hesitating between William Pulteney ( afterwards earl of Bath ) and Robert Walpole, but in 1730 he definitely took sides with Walpole, of whom he was thenceforward a faithful adherent.

Walpole, a polarising figure, had many opponents, the most important of whom were in the Country Party, such as Lord Bolingbroke ( who had been his political enemy since the days of Queen Anne ) and William Pulteney ( a capable Whig statesman who felt snubbed when Walpole failed to include him in the Cabinet ).

These include many buildings and areas of Bath such as Lansdown Crescent, the Royal Crescent, The Circus and Pulteney Bridge.

This society was originally founded by women, and included many prominent members of English society, both male and female, including Harriet Bowdler, Edmund Burke, Sarah Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Montagu and Frances Pulteney.

In addition to Pleasant Valley Wine Company complex, other sites on the National Register of Historic Places are: Germania Wine Cellars, Gold Seal Winery, Hammondsport Union Free School, Mallory Mill, and the Pulteney Square Historic District.

Horace Walpole asserts that when Pulteney wished to withdraw from the peerage it was forced upon him by the king, and another chronicler of the times records that when Walpole and Pulteney met in the House of Lords, the one as Earl of Orford, the other as Earl of Bath, the remark was made by Orford: " Here we are, my lord, the two most insignificant fellows in England.

He invested in lands in America, and in developments in Great Britain, including the Pulteney Bridge and other buildings in Bath, buildings on the sea-front at Weymouth in Dorset, and roads in his native Scotland.

The distillery is owned by Inver House Distillers Limited, a privately owned distiller whose other distilleries include Old Pulteney Distillery, Knockdhu Distillery, Balblair Distillery, and Balmenach Distillery.

The distillery is now owned by Inver House Distillers Limited, whose other distilleries include the Speyburn-Glenlivet Distillery, Knockdhu Distillery, Old Pulteney Distillery and Balmenach Distillery.

The Distillery is owned by Inver House Distillers Limited, a privately owned distiller whose other distilleries include: Speyburn-Glenlivet Distillery ; Knockdhu Distillery ; Balblair Distillery ; and, Old Pulteney Distillery.

The " Pulteney Purchase " or " Pulteney Tract " was a section of land in the region of Steuben County purchased from Robert Morris by several English investors including Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet called " The Pulteney Association.

The Pulteney Estate was managed by a series of agents including:

Following various Georgian streets were built including Sydney Place, Great Pulteney Street and Laura Place, with Bathwick Hill leading up to Claverton Down and the University of Bath.

On November 8, 1803, The Pulteney Association sold the Tract for $ 1, 750, on a five-year land contract, to Col. Nathaniel Rochester ( 1752 – 1831 ), Maj. Charles Carroll, and Col. William Fitzhugh, all of Hagerstown, Maryland.

* 1764 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician ( b. 1683 )

* 1684 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician ( d. 1764 )

* Highland — some Highland distilleries: Aberfeldy, Balblair, Ben Nevis, Dalmore, Dalwhinnie, Glen Ord, Glenmorangie, Oban and Old Pulteney.

Pitt now expected a new government to be formed led by Pulteney and dominated by Tories and Patriot Whigs in which he could expect a junior position.

* July 7 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician ( b. 1683 )

* July 14 – William Pulteney is created 1st Earl of Bath in Great Britain.

In 1787, through his wealthy patron William Pulteney, he became Surveyor of Public Works in Shropshire.

Most notably ( and again William Pulteney was influential ), in 1801 Telford devised a master plan to improve communications in the Highlands of Scotland, a massive project that was to last some 20 years.

Bolingbroke and Pulteney ran a periodical called The Craftsman in which they incessantly denounced the Prime Minister's policies.

Pulteney Bridge in Georgian Bath, Somerset: the entire city is a World Heritage Site.

* Sir James Pulteney, 7th Baronet ( c. 1755 – 1811 ), born James Murray, Scottish general and MP for Weycombe and Regis

Sir William Pulteney, a British baronet and English land speculator, along with his partners in the Pulteney Association, purchased a of the former Phelps and Gorham Purchase in 1790.

The pall-bearers were several of his clients: Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch ; George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry ; James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale ; David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield ; Lord Frederick Campbell and Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet.

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Andrew Gardner and 61 others on September 10, 1761 by Governor Benning Wentworth, who named it for William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath.

Established in 1818, the town of Henrietta was named after Henrietta Laura Pulteney, Countess of Bath in Great Britain.

Her father Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, was a major British investor from the Pulteney Association who owned the land that became the town.

Henrietta Pulteney never visited the town named after her.

The town is named after Dugald Cameron, an early settler and land agent of the Pulteney Estate.

The name is from John Hornby, a land owner of the Pulteney Tract.

The town was formed from the Town of Pulteney in 1813.