1705
Mar 2
The 7,613 acres of Westchester County land near the Connecticut border, known as Swallowfield Patent, is created.
Apr 18
The Oriskany Patent, in Oneida County, is granted to Thomas Wenham and others.
Dec 27
Former English immigrant, surveyor and Hudson’s Bay Company captain William Bond, along with George Booth and eight other New York residents, petition for 7,613 acres of Westchester County land known as Swallowfield. Booth will be granted a 7,630 patent of that name on April 22, 1708.
State
Legislation against runaway slaves provides the death penalty for those found more than 40 miles north of Albany. ** Queen’s Fort is built where two previous forts stood, on the site of the future Schenectady. ** Albany's first Eiscopal congregation is founded by the English Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. ** Daniel Janse Van Antwerp sells his stone house in the future Rotterdam to his business partner Jan Pieterse Mabee.
1706
Feb 21
Some of the purchasers of 7,613 acres of Westchester County land known as Swallowfield apply for a warrant to survey their December purchase.
Mar 2
Land is granted to nine individual to New York acreage adjoining the Connecticut line and Byram River, with the stipulation they improve it within two years.
Mar 22
William Bond surveys 2,697 acres adjoining Flatlands, in Long Island’s Kings County.
Apr 10
The second Nine Partners Patent (Little, or Upper), in Dutchess County, is granted to Sampson Boughton and others.
Apr 22
Booth is granted the Swallowfield Patent.
State
A closed season on deer hunting is imposed on Long Island. ** Property patents have been issued on all Wappinger Indian lands in Duchess County.
1707
Mar 25
The Cheesecocks Patent, in New York's Orange County – total acreage unknown - is awarded to Chief Justice John Bridges’ wife Ann.
Sep 10
Augustus Graham and William Bond provincial surveyors lay out Long Island’s Newtowne (Newtown) and Bushwick.
State
A Presbyterian church is built in Old Southampton, Long Island.
England
Future New York governor Robert Hunter is appointed governor of Virginia. On the way to the colonies he's captured by a French privateer and brought back to Europe.
1708
Mar 21
New Rochelle representatives decide to hire surveyor Captain William Bond, Deputy Surveyor for the Province of New York, to run their town line.
Apr 20
Britain's Queen Anne grants 1,500,000 acres of New York land in Delaware and Sullivan counties, including most of the Catskills - the Hardenbergh (Great) Patent, to seven men, headed by Kingston merchant Johannes Hardenbergh.
Apr 22
The Nestoigione Patent, in Saratoga County, is granted to John Rosie and others. ** The 7,630-acre Swallowfield Patent, in Westchester County, is granted to George Booth.
Sep 25
The nine patentees in Westchester, New York’s Swallowfield Patent, having sold a tenth section to land commissioner Thomas Wenham, have the patent re-issued.
Sep 23
The Clifton Park Patent, in Saratoga County, is granted to N. Hermanse and others as part of the Shenondehowa Patent.
Oct 19
The Hurley Patent, in Ulster County, is granted to Cornelius Cool and others.
Oct 29
The Sawyer’ Patent, in Washington and Saratoga counties, is granted to Isaac Sawyer.
Nov 2
The Kayaderosseras Patent, in Saratoga and Warren counties, is granted to Nanning Hermanse and others.
State
Kings, Queens and Suffolk Counties close the hunting season on game birds, to protect dwindling supplies. ** The Legislative Council of New York passes a bill to provide for the preservation of early Dutch records.
1709
Mar 23
The 3,000-acre Van Dam’s Patent, in Orange County, is granted to Rip Van Dam.
State
Peter Schuyler builds Fort Nicholson, named for English commander Colonel Francis Nicholson of Connecticut, at the Great Carrying Place (Fort Edward). ** August Graham maps the area west of the mid-Hudson river. ** The Hudson River communities of Matteawan and Fishkill Landing (both later part of Beacon) are settled, among the first in the state.
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