EASTERN NEW YORK STATE TIMELINE - 1760-1761

 1760

August       British general Jeffrey Amherst leaves Oswego with his army early in the month, headed for the St. Lawrence River and Montréal.


           British Lieutenant Colonel William Haviland marches north from Crown Point along Lake Champlain with 3400 troops.

   

Aug 26   Amherst captures the French-held Fort Lévis (formerly La Galette) at the head of the St. Lawrence River rapids downstream of Ogdensburg.  French captain Pierre Pouchot surrenders the badly battered fort. Amherst will repair the works and rename it Fort William Augustus, in honor of the Duke of Cumberland.

Sep 8      Amherst forces the surrender of Montréal, ending the French and Indian War. His aide James Abercrombie handles the negotiations with the Marquis de Vaudreuil. New York ceases to be part of French Canada.   

Nov 8     The 4,000-acre Livingston’s Patent, in New York’s Fulton and Saratoga counties, is granted to Philip Livingston and others.

State

The approximate date a group of Indians from southeastern Ontario, Canada, and the Lake Ontario area of northern New York, lead by Jesuit Anthony Gordon, settle in the St. Regis area of New York's future Franklin County.    **    The approximate date settlers from Massachusetts and Connecticut settle in what will become New Lebanon, Columbia County.    **    The approximate date Sir William Johnson founds the Fulton County village of Philadelphia Bush (later Jackson Summit).    **     The battle of the Thousand Islands is fought at La Présentation (Ogdensburg).    **    The approximate date the Jug Tavern at Sing Sing (later Ossining) is built,    **    Johan Jost Herkimer transfers 500 acres on the south bank of the Mohawk River, plus a small island, to his son Nicholas.

Boston, Massachusetts

Paul Revere returns from militia duty at Crown Point, New York, and becomes an active Mason.

                                                  1761

February        The date Mohawk Valley tavern keeper Eve Pickard reportedly presents a deed to Crown Indian agent William Johnson that she claims to have gotten from the Indians, proving her ownership of land west of

Canajoharie.

Mar 31            The 6,000-acre Magin’s Patent, in Fulton County, is granted to Sarah Magin and others.

Apr 18            The 29,000-acre Middlefield Patent, in Otsego County, is granted to Godfrey Miller and others.

Apr 22            Lutheran minister John Christopher Hartwick, with the backing of New York's provincial secretary Goldsborough Bunyar, acquires a patent for the 21,500-acre area surrounding Otsego Lake - the Hartwick Patent.   

May 27            Reverend Eleazar Wheelock writes to Indian agent Sir William Johnson promising to counteract the influence of the Jesuits in upper New York.   

June                The approximate date a New York Oneida Indian murders settler Gustavus Frank outside German Flats on the natives’ way home from an Indian wedding.   

July                Mohawk youth Joseph Brant leaves for Connecticut.   

Jul 7                Oneida chief Conoghquieson address William Johnson in an attempt to close the case on the Frank killing, with a native ceremony - including the presentation of wampum – called ‘covering the grave’.   

Jul 21              The Albany County (later Washington County) town of Cambridge is formed by patent, as the 31,500-acre plot is granted to Colden, Smith, Banyar and others.   

Jul 23              The Rensselaer County town of Pittstown is created by patent, as the 61,000-acre Shaghticoke Patent , in New York’s Washington and Rensselaer counties is granted to Cornelius Van Dyke and others.   

Aug 14            The 7,000-acre second Lawyer’s Patent, in Schoharie County, is granted to Johannes Lawyer and others.

Aug 15            The 4,000-acre McNeile’s Patent, in New York’s Herkimer County, is granted to John McNeile.    [nysgvtbsngeog]

Sep 16            The 20,000-acre Lott’s Patent, in Fulton County, is granted to Abraham Lott, Jr. and others.

State

American Revolution heroine Sybil Ludington is born to a militia officer in Fredericksberg.    **    Cadwallader Colden is appointed lieutenant governor.    **    Over the next four years New Englanders, Irish Protestants and Scots beginThe Oneida village of Canowaroghare (Oneida Castle) is founded.    **    Trader Alexander Henry travels down the St. Lawrence River in the spring, from Fort William Augustus (near Ogdensburg) to Montréal to find trade goods. A shortage of goods there requires him to move on to Albany. He then returns to Montréal with a good supply of trade goods. He gains reluctant approval of Governor-General Thomas Gage to trade with Michigan tribes.    **    A second serious famine causes some starvation among the Oneida Indians.

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