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Saturday, December 10, 2011

EASTERN NEW YORK STATE TIMELINE - 1710-1714

1710


Apr 10
Four Mohawk Indian chiefs – Sa Ga Yean Qua Prah Ton (Brant), Oh Yea Neath Ton No Prow (John), Elow oh Kaom (Nicolas) and Tee Yee Neen Ha Ga Row (Tiyandoga or Hendrick Peters to the Dutch) - visiting England, meet with Queen Anne in Buckingham Palace.   


Oct 16
Sir Charles Hobby and Colonel Francis Nicholson captures Port Royal. Nicholson renames it Annapolis Royal in honor of Queen Anne. French rule in Nova Scotia is ended. New Yorker Robert Livingston’s son Philip takes part in the campaign.
Nov 25
Suffolk County's Islip is recognized as a town.
State
German Palatines are settled on 6,000 acres, in the future Columbia County, bought back by the Massachusetts government from Robert Livingston. It will become Germantown. ** The approximate date the Beekman area of Dutchess County is first settled.

1711
State
Recently arrived Palantine immigarnts travel up the Hudson River to Albany. Between 600 and 700 encamp at East Camp and West Camp on the Hudson. Scouts are sent to the west to check out the Mohawk Valley, are delighted with the spot where Fox’s Creek empties into the Schoharie River, and recommend the area. ** English fortifications at Fort Nicholson, at the Great Carrying Place (Fort Edward), are abandoned. ** The Iroquois pretend enthusiasm for a British expedition against the French, secretly tip off the enemy.
Switzerland
Zurich silkmaker Hans Peter Astor (Astore), an ancestor of John Jacob Astor, dies at the age of 47.

1712
State
Settlers in the Mohawk Valley found the village of Schoharie. ** The approximate date the Tuscarora tribe emigrates to the state and joins the Iroquois Confederacy.

1713
Jan 11
Merchant Robert Gilbert Livingston, a future Loyalist, is born to Gilbert and Cornelia Beekman Livingston, in Kingston, New York.
Mar 23
South Carolina captures Fort Nochucke, Tuscarora stronghold in North Carolina, ending the Tuscarora Indian War. Most of the tribe will flee to Iroquois lands in the north.
Apr 15
Colonel Peter Schuyler arrives in Montréal from Albany. He goes out to the Iroquois settlement to try and convince captive Eunice Williams - by now married to an Indian - to return to her family. She refuses. A future effort to convince her will fail; she will remain with her tribe.
Jul 17
The 21,000-acre Hansen’s Patent, in Saratoga County, is granted to Hendrick Hansen and others.
State
Dutchess County, provisionally annexed to Ulster County since its 1683 founding, is given separate representation in the General Assembly. ** Samuel Arentse Brandt dies in Schenectady in his mid-fifties. His son Arent Andriessen Brandt inherits his property in the future Rotterdam area.

1714
Jan 4
Lutheran clergyman John Christopher Hartwick, an Otsego County pioneer, is born in Saxe-Gotha, Germany.
February
Former royal governor Sir Edmund Andros dies in London at the age of 76.
Aug 26
Schenectady resident Adam Vrooman purchases 1100 acres of land in the future Schoharie County, site of the town of Fulton.
Nov 3
The 10,000-acre Huntersfield Patent, in Schoharie County, is granted to Myndert Schuyler and others.
Nov 4
The 2,000-acre Caughnawaga Patent, in Montgomery County, is granted to John and Margaret Collins.
State
Albany's population reaches 1,128. ** Chapmen (peddlars) are required to be licensed before trading from town to town. ** Jacobus Van den Bogert donates two pieces of land to Poughkeepsie village, with the proviso they be used for a church and a courthouse. ** The approximate date farmer Marinus Roelofse Van Vleckeren dies in Fishkill, in his mid-forties (exact dates unknown).

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