1715
Nov 18
The British Lords of Trade and Plantations write to secretary of state for the southern department James Stanhope, praising the cooperation shown by the Iroquois Nations towards New York colony.
State
St. Peter’s, Albany’s first Protestant Episcopal Church, is completed on a site granted by the governor. ** The approximate date Thomas Davenport settles the Philipstown area of Westchester. ** Scientist Cadwallader Colden's paper on animal secretions is read before England's Royal Society by astronomer Edmund Halley.
Ireland
Future New York Indian agent William Johnson is born in Smithtown.
1716
Mar 16
Naturalist and traveler Peter Kalm is born in Angermanland, Sweden.
Sep 1
The 2,000-acre Van Slyck’s Patent, in Montgomery County, is granted to Harman Van Slyck.
State
Innkeeper A. Delong settles in the Dutchess County town of Beekman, soon opens an inn.
1717
May 27
Livingston Manor is annexed to Dutchess County.
State
A courthouse opens in Poughkeepsie, the first of five on the site.
1720
Apr 19
King George I appoints William Burnet as Royal governor of New York, replacing Robert Hunter.
State
The approximate date pioneer Jacobus Stoughtenburgh arrives in the future Dutchess County, settles what will become Hyde Park. Area settlers begin paying Wappinger and other Indians bounties on wolves.
1722
Mar 18
The 12,000-acre Harrison’s Patent, in Montgomery County, is granted to Francis Harrison and others.
Oct 23
The 6,000-acre Morris’s Patent, in Montgomery County, is granted to Lewis Morris and others.
State
The Iroquois sign a treaty in Albany, with Virginia governor Spotswood, agreeing to stay beyond the Potomac and the Blue Ridge Mountains. ** The approximate date Nehemiah Partridge paints a portrait of Albany socialite Ariaantje Coeymans. ** The approximate date the first settlement in the future Herkimer County is made, above Little Falls, by Palatine Germans. ** Wappinger Indians begin meeting with Dutchess County officials at Poughkeepsie, continue to do so periodically until 1743. Presents are distributed.
1723
Jun 30
The 6,000-acre Morris’s Patent, in Montgomery County, is granted to Lewis Morris and others – their second.
Oct 19
A land patent is issued to Palatine Germans John Christopher Garlock, John Jost Petri and Conrad Rickert for a 12,7000-acre area now named Stone Arabia, in Montgomery and Fulton counties.
State
The Palatines' Great Lot No. 2 is created in the Mohawk Valley and assigned to Anne Feltelandt. ** Palatine settlers build a log octagon-shaped church in Herkimer.
1724
Feb 19
Former Albany mayor (the first) Peter Schuyler dies there at the age of 66.
State
Long Island's Suffolk County passes its first laws regulating public roads.
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