1793
Jan 13
The 24,200-acre tenth Chenango
Township is granted to James Talmadge.
Jan 28
The 24,186-acre eleventh Chenango
Township, is granted to Leonard M. Cutting.
Jan 31
The 24,186-acre seventh Chenango
Township is granted to Robert C.
Livingston.
Feb 14
The boundary of Rennsselaer
County's Town of Pittstown is changed. ** The 18,713-acre sixteenth and the 18,068-acre
seventeenth Chenango townships are granted to John Taylor.
Feb 20
Lawyer and land speculator James
Wadsworth writes from New York City to his cousin Jeremiah Wadsworth in
Connecticut, suggesting he buy a particular tract of land in the Genesee
Valley. ** The Brantingham Tract,
74,400 acres of the 1787 Macomb Great Purchase of New York lands in Lewis
County, is sold to William Inman. The Inman’s Tract, 25,000 acres in Lewis
County’s Leyden and Lewis towns, is sold to William Inman.
Mar 2
Congress appropriates $20,000 to
build a lighthouse at Montauk, Long Island. ** The U. S. revenue Collection District at Plattsburgh
is established, with satellite offices at Burke, Centerville, Champlain,
Chateaugay, Fort Covington, Hogansburgh, Malone, Mooers, Perrysville, Rouses
Point, Trout River, Westville, and Whitehall. ** The 24,384-acre sixth Chenango Township, is
granted to Thomas Ludlow, Jr.. The 24,218-acre 13th Township is granted to
Thomas Ludlow and J. Shipperly
Mar 12
The Fulton County towns of
Mayfield (later Broadalbain and Johnstown) and Amsterdam are formed from
Caughnawaga.
Apr 12
The Chassanis Tract, 210,000
acres of the 1787 Macomb Great Purchase of New York lands in Lewis and
Jefferson counties, is sold to Pierre Chassanis & Company.
May 3
The 22,565-acre eighteenth, the
20,750-acre nineteenth, and the 24,856-acre twentieth Chenango townships are
granted to John J. Morgan.
Jun 1
The 26,030-acre fourteenth
Chenango Township is granted to Leonard M. Cutting.
Jun 14
The 27,187-acre first Chenango
Township is granted to Alexander Webster.
Jun 15
Pro-French New Yorkers display a
Cap of Liberty on a pole in front of the Tontine Coffee House at Wall and Water
streets.
Jul 31
Harriet Weld, future wife of
businessman Erastus Corning, is born in Troy.
Nov 25
An insurrection of slaves in
Albany is put down after a number of buildings have been burned.
State
The state’s Council of
Appointments, a Federalist-controlled body, now controls every political
appointment in the state.
** A pioneer
named Gunn first settles the Oneida County village of Oriskany Falls. ** West Bloomfield’s first
church services are held.
** Construction
begins on the Little Falls Canal. A shortage of funds will delay the work until
next year. ** Massachusetts farmer
Cornelius Treat arrives on foot in the Town of Mendon by way of the new Mendon-Iona
Road, builds an elm bark cabin, then returns to New England to bring his family
here. ** Ezekiel Gilbert of Hudson
is elected to Congress.
** Putnam
County resident Samuel Morehouse moves to the Peaceful Valley area of the
Adirondacks (his settlement will later be named Sodom, for disputed
reasons). ** William Aulls and his son
Thomas settle in Steuben County’s Pleasant Valley. ** Suffolk County sheriff Silas Halsey moves
upstate, settles in Lodi, and establishes a grist mill. ** Wood Creek is cleaned out
and the channel connecting Schenectady and Fort Stanwix is shortened seven
miles by the cutting of 13 isthmuses. The trip that used to take larger boats
two weeks is greatly shortened. ** A school opens in Clifton. In 1812 it will be
chartered as Hamilton College.
Albany
A fire destroys several downtown
blocks. ** The Society for the
Promotion of Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures is incorporated.
Utica
The United Society of Whitestown
and Old Fort Schuyler is formed, presided over by the Reverend Bethuel Dodd.
Maryland
Slave and future freedman and
Hudson River valley gardener James F. Brown is born.
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