1792
January
George Gardner and James Hill buy
Lansingburgh, New York’s Tiffany Recorder from
Silvester Tiffany, begin publishing it as the Lansingburgh Recorder.
Jan 9
Newly-arrived Scottish land agent
Charles Williamson is sworn in as a U. S. citizen, in Philadelphia.
Jan 10
Great Tract No. 4 - 450,000 acres
of the 1787 Macomb Great Purchase of New York lands in Antwerp and Jefferson
counties, Great Tract No. 5 and 6
(26,250 acres and 74,400 acres) in Jefferson Lewis, Oswego and Herkimer
counties) and the remainder of the Great Purchase lands (1,368,300 acres), is
sold to Donald McCormick.
Feb 14
The Albany Library is
incorporated.
Apr 29
Brewer and college founder
Matthew Vassar is born in East Dereham, England, to farmers and religious dissenters
James and Ann Bennett Vassar.
Mar 7
The Saratoga County town of
Milton is formed from the Town of Ballston.
Mar 14
New York State authorizes a loan
of $500,000, to be apportioned amongst it's twenty counties.
Mar 30
The Western Inland Lock Navigation
Company is incorporated by General Philip Schuyler and merchant Elkanah
Watson, to build a three-mile Little Falls, New York, canal and another linking
the Mohawk River with Wood Creek. Financier Robert Morris will soon be brought
on board. ** New York's Northern Inland
Lock Navigation Company is organized, for the purpose of building a canal
between the Hudson River and Lake Champlain. Work will begin on it but it will
never be completed.
Apr 10
The Town of Fairfield is
established in Warren County.
** The Delaware
County town of Colchester is formed from Middletown. ** Otsego County’s Town of Unadilla is formed from
the Town of Otsego.
August
Lansingburgh publisher Silvester
Tiffany takes on William W. Wands as a partner, forming the firm of Tiffany and
Wands.
December
Wands takes over the operation of
Tiffany and Wands.
Dec 18
The Boylston Tract, 817,155 acres
of the 1787 Macomb Great Purchase of New York lands in Jefferson, Lewis, and
Oswego counties, comprising 13 towns, is sold to Samuel Ward.
Dec 29
The 25,335-acre fifteenth
Chenango Township is granted to Leonard M. Cutting.
State
Cortland is founded. ** John Wells is admitted to
the New York Supreme Court.
** George
Clinton defeats John Jay to become governor. 585 Cooperstown residents vote for
Jay. Judge William Cooper feels that there would have been many more but that a
number of people were off looking for a child lost in the woods near the
Burlington neighborhood.
Irregularities in voting are used as an excuse to discount the votes
from Otsego, Clinton and Tioga counties. The Board of Canvassers reject all
protests. ** A group of French settlers
move into the future site of Chenango County's village of Greene. Most move on
when their title to the land is later invalidated. ** The approximate date Matthew Aldgate and his
sons settle the Essex County town of Chesterfield. ** Enoch Stowell and Jonathan Bates of Vermont
pioneer the Madison County town of Lebanon. ** Speculator Alexander Macomb buys 4,000,000
acres of Adirondacks land.
** Gideon
Tripp's Van Rennselaer Manor farm is leased out after a survey is run. ** Senator Nicholas
Gilman discovers Saratoga's Congress Spring. ** Four-year-old Samuel Griffin dies in
Cooperstown - the oldest known grave in Christ Churchyard. ** A store opens at Ferry and
Front streets in Schenectady (Arthur’s Market in 2000). ** Vermont trapper Nathaniel
“Nat” Foster settles in the future Adirondack town of Salisbury. ** Canadian lumbermen from Montréál arrive at the
future site of Massena to build a dam and mill on the Grasse River. ** This year and next
Massachusetts officially transfers 3,600,000 acres of its Hartford Convention
lands to the Boston Ten Town tracts - in Broome and Tioga counties - to
settlers. ** Nathaniel W. Howell, after
conducting an academy in Montgomery, leaves to study law. ** A Northern Inland
Navigation Company is formed to construct waterways, but fails to raise sufficient
funds. ** D. Ingraham travels
from Boston to Albany, then proceeds to set out across New York to Niagara, via
Schenectady, Whitestown, Clinton, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Geneva, the Jemima
Wilkinson settlement, Canandaigua, the Genesee River, and ending up at Fort
Niagara, then crossing over to visit the planned future site of the British fort.
Oneida County
Barnabas Mitchell starts a
settlement at Port Woodhull, in the town of Remsen. George A. Smith begins the
settlement of Staceys Basin, in the town of Verona. **
Settler Francis Van der Kemp reports seeing a pike in Oneida Lake
three-feet-six-inches in length as well as two catfish weighing ten and
twenty-four pounds.
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