EASTERN NEW YORK STATE TIMELINE - 1795-1796

1795

Mar 3                 

Great Tract No. 3 - 640,000 acres of the 1787 Macomb Great Purchase of New York lands in St. Lawrence County, is subdivided to patentee Donald McCormick. It will become 15 towns.

Mar 17                 

The Albany County town of Bern is formed out of Rensselaerville, and named for first settler and mill owner Jacob Weidman’s birthplace in Switzerland.    **     The Columbia County town of Chatham is formed from Canaan and Kinderhook.

Apr 3                 

Connecticut native Elihu Phinney begins publishing Otsego County’s first newspaper, the Herald and Western Advertiser, at Cooperstown. It is the state’s second newspaper west of the Hudson River.

Apr 6                 

Schoharie County is carved out of Albany and Otsego counties.

Apr 9                 

The New York State Legislature passes “An act for the encouragement of schools". $50,000 annually is appropriated for the next five years, to establish and support common schools.

Jul 15                 

The Black River Tract, 290,376 acres of the 1787 Macomb Great Purchase of New York lands in Lewis and Jefferson counties, is sold to Richard Harrison, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Nicholas Low and William Henderson.

August

Lansingburgh Recorder publishers George Gardner and James Hill move to Troy.

Oct 16                 

Albany clergyman William Buel Sprague is born to farmer Benjamin Sprague and his wife in Andover, Connecticut.

Nov 17                 

The first boats use New York’s Western Inland Navigation bypass canal at Little Falls.  

Nov 18                 

Over the past 24 hours 8 large and 120 small boats pass through the canal at Little Falls, paying a total of £80 10s in tolls.    

Dec 14                 

Engineer John Bloomfield Jervis is born in Huntington.

Dec 16                 

Schoharie County officials first meet at the village of Schoharie, decide to build the county courthouse two miles to the west.

State

Schenectady's Union College is founded, the first non-denominational college in America. In its honor Niskayuna Street is renamed College Street.    **    A portion of Schoharie County is created from part of Albany County.    ** Lansingburgh Recorder publishers Gardner and Hill leave the state and the paper closes by the end of the year.    **    The state assembly moves to New York City temporarily, to be near to ailing governor George Clinton. It remains there, after Clinton retires, replaced by John Jay.    **    Naturalist Amos Eaton enters Williams College, in Massachusetts.    **    Lawyer and historian Silas Wood is elected to the state legislature.    **    Judge William Cooper is elected to the Fourth Congress for the 10th district.    **     During the winter large numbers of oxen-drawn sleds make their way west from the Hudson to the Genesee lands.    **    $600 is added to the building fund for the courthouse and jail near Ballston Spa.    ** Williamson pays $43.75 to Alexander MacDonald for “Eben: Allan & Saw Mills Note of hand Given to You.”    **    Daniel Cady is admitted to the bar, opens a practice in Florida, New York.    **    Herkimer County's German Flats contains 40 homes and a Dutch Reformed Church.    **    The Iroquois population has dropped to approximately 3500.    **    Samuel Lewis's state map is published.    **    The Cooperstown Academy is founded.    **    The state donates an additional $10,000 to the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company.    **     Duanesburgh doctor Asa Fitch moves to Salem and buys a mill site and farm (Fitch's Point) from his wife's father and brother.    **     The approximate date Bagg’s Tavern is built in Utica.    **    The state has 64,017 eligible voters.    **     Judge William Cooper is elected to the Sixth Congress for the 10th district, his second, non-consecutive term.    **    Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Jr. settles in Canajoharie, soon establishes a mercantile business with Archibald Kane under the name Kane and Van Rennselaer.

1796

January

A Masonic festival, including dinner and a ball, is held in Cooperstown.

Feb 5                 

The Otsego County town of Butternuts is formed from Unadilla.    **    The Herkimer County town of Frankfort is formed from German Flats.

Mar 4

The Oneida County town of Rome is formed from Steuben.

April

The Inman’s Tract, 25,000 acres of the 1787 Macomb Great Purchase of lands in Lewis County’s Leyden and Lewis townships, is sold to William Inman. The Watson’s Tract, 61,433 acres in Warren County, is sold to James Watson.

Apr 1

Moses Culver and Nathan Reeves and their families leave Long Island by flatboat, heading for upstate New York. They eventually reach the site of the future Newark.

June

The English leave Ogdensburg, as well as forts Niagara and Oswego.

Jul 23                 

The approximate date educator and author Abraham Mills is born in Poughkeepsie to baker James Mills and Mary Waddle Mills.

Jul 29                 

Safety pin inventor Walter Hunt is born in Martinsburg

State

The approximate date Nathaniel Mallory settles the Essex County town of Jay.    **    Whites begin settling the Chateaugay area of Franklin County.    **    Another $600 is added to the building fund for the courthouse and jail near Ballston Spa.    **    The first church in Chester (Warren County) is formed by Baptist minister Jehiel Fox..    **    German Flats's population reaches 4194, including 684 electors.    **    Whitestown's population reaches 7,359; 1,190 qualified electors. It has five parishes, three militia companies, and one corps off "light-horse, all in uniform".    **    A Van Rennselaer Manor farm surveyed for Stewart and Cahoon is leased out to William Larkin.    **     The state donates an additional $37,500 to the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company. Boats pass through the locks for the first time.    **    When the national land speculation bubble bursts Robert Morris is thrown into debt.    **    The state legislature tables a report by Thomas Eddy and English engineer William Weston that advised building a canal from the headwaters of the Mohawk River directly to the Finger Lakes, bypassing Wood Creek and Oneida Lake.    **    The approximate date New Hampshire trapper Jonathan “Jock” Wright arrives in the Adirondack town of Norway.    **    The approximate date New York State merchant and politician Thomas Kempshall is born in England.    **    Three-year-old future canal planner William Hamilton Merritt comes to St. Catharines, Canada, from Bedford, New York, with his parents.

Cooperstown

Payment comes due on all 1786 purchases of Judge William Cooper's Otsego region properties. Defaults on 48% of the original purchases have been offset when the lands were meanwhile snapped up by new purchasers.    **    Cooper begins building a brick home - Otsego Hall.

Long Island

A lighthouse is built on Montauk Point where England’s Royal Navy had kept signal bonfires during the American Revolution.

London

Robert Fulton's detailed A Treatise on the Improvement of Canals . . . is published by I. and J. Taylor.

Travel

Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Voleny, travels from the mouth of the Delaware through Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky, then north to Fort Detroit. He proceeds to Niagara by way of Lake Erie, then on to Albany, New York.   

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NEW YORK CITY TIMELINE / 1785 - 1787

1785

Jan 11                       

Congress begins convening in New York City.

Jan 20                       

Samuel Ellis puts Oyster Island (later named for him) on the market in New York City, but fails to attract buyers.

March                       

New York City iron foundry owner and land promoter Samuel Ogden petitions the Common Council with a plan for a water supply system, to be built by himself and his associates.

Mar 27                       

The English vessel John and Ann departs from the Downs on the English Channel for

North America. Among the passengers are former New York City merchant Michael

Price, who had fled from there during the evacuation of Loyalists two years earlier.   

Apr 18                       

Hudson Valley revolutionary war colonel Ann (male) Hawks/Hawkes Hay dies in New York City at the age of 39.

May                       

Joseph Newton, an architect, and Jonathan Emery propose a £30,000 plan for a water supply system for New York City, to be funded by a lottery. The plan is never put before the Common Council.

June

A proposal is made by the Common Council to enclose a triangular area of lower Manhattan where Park Row and Broadway intersect, known as The Common, with a fence. It’s decided the result doesn’t justify the expense.

August                       

The New York Journal complains that the Tea Water Pond is being polluted by people washing their clothes in it and using it as dump for dead animals and body wastes.

Sep 19                       

New York businessman John Jacob Astor marries his landlady’s daughter Sarah Todd, a relation of the city’s Brevoort family.

Oct 23                       

Mary Baker, infant daughter of museum owner Gardiner Baker and his wife Mary, is christened at New York's First And Second Presbyterian Church.

Nov 17                       

New York City’s General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen is founded during a

meeting at Walter Heyer’s Tavern, on Pine Street.

City

Attorney Aaron Burr takes out a loan, the first of several, in support of his home, Richmond Hill.     **    John Jacob Astor buys former slaughterhouse property in the old Collect Pond area of lower Manhattan. After buying up a variety of pelts he sails for Europe to sell them. In London he buys more flutes from his brother George, and becomes the U. S. agent for a British piano manufacturer.    **    The Common Council awards an annual contract for keeping the public wells in good working order. This year the winning bid is £140.    **    The approximate date construction begins on the house at 18 Bowery and Pell Street for merchant Edward Mooney.    **    London merchant Robert Hunter, Jr. passes through the city on  tour of North America.    **    Jacobus Dyckman, aided by slaves, completes the reconstruction of the family’s farmhouse - in Upper Manhattan - destroyed by the British.    **    Future Gramercy Park resident Dr. Valentine Mott is born in Glen Cove, Long Island.    **    St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church is founded and a Georgian-style building will be erected on Barclay Street.    **    The Commissioners of Forfeiture auction off the DeLancey property at 18 Bowery. Butchers’ representative to the Mechanics & Tradesmen’s society Edward Mooney buys the property for a residence.    **    Alderman Nicholas Bayard sells full-sized lots on Broadway north of Trinity Church at auction, for $25. The sale is halted by officials due to the low price.

Queens

The Queens County Courthouse is erected, on the Hempstead Plains.    **    A small community is formed where several trails meet, that will take the name Five Corners. In 1894 its residents, mostly from Brooklyn, will reverse that name, calling the neighborhood Lynbrook.

Massachusetts

New York publisher Daniel Appleton is born in Haverhill.

Slavery

John Jay and Alexander Hamilton organize the New York City Manumission Society.

Trasportation

Stage lines begin connecting New York City, with Albany, as well as with Boston and Philadelphia.   

1786

January

New York City contractor Josiah Hornblower files a claim for £12 for inspecting the Colles waterworks in 1776. It will take him two years to collect.    **    Chancellor Robert R. Livingston goes before the New York City Common Council with a plan for a water supply system. A committee is formed to review his plan.

February           

The Common Council considers various proposals for a water supply, decides instead to solicit private sealed bids.

April

Three sealed proposals for a New York water system are returned unread and the council polls their constituents as to whether a public or privately supported system is preferable. Nothing comes of this.

May 8                       

Fur trader Alexander Macomb purchases Manhattan property on the west side of

Broadway, between numbers 39 and 45, property acquired in 1784 by Isaac Roosevelt.

Macomb will build his home there. Later the property will be the official residence of 

President Washington, as well as being at one time the business location of the Mansion House hostelry – in 1821  Bunker’s Mansion House. The property was believed to the site of the first dwelling on Manhattan.

May 22                       

John Jacob Astor advertises in the New York Packet that he’s imported a new shipment of instruments and musical supplies from London.

Sep 11                       

John Cabenbaragh posts a notice in the New-York Packet that his wife Hannah has left him and he will not be responsible for her debts.

Sep 14                       

The Annapolis Convention, lacking a quorum to affect changes, votes for all states to meet in convention in 1787 to draft a Constitution, correcting problems in the Articles of Confederation.    **    Museum owner Gardiner Baker replies in the Packet to Cabenbaragh's notice, stating that the man had previously been married to Baker's mother and had treated her brutally before allowing the marriage to be broken off, after he found she hadn't as much money as he expected.

City

The Tammany Society is founded by merchant John Pimtard and others, soldiers in George Washington’s Continental Army. The name comes from the peaceful leader of the Lenni-Lenape Indians - Tamanend     **   Engineer Christopher Colles and his wife are assaulted on the street. Aaron Burr acts as his lawyer in the case, bringing damage claims of £189 against Andrew Moody.  Resolution of the case is unknown.    **    Alexander Hamilton is returned to the state assembly during the spring elections.    **    Bellevue, an estate above the city on the East River, is offered for sale.    **    A building is constructed off Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn as a school for area children, mostly from local farms. The school will one day become the Erasmus Hall Academy.

1787

Mar 6                       

The state's Assembly and Senate each vote to name state Supreme Court judge Robert Yates, John Lansing, Jr. and Alexander Hamilton as delegates to the U. S. Constitutional Convention.

Mar 31                       

The trustees of Manhattan’s Warren property, in the Greenwich village area, partition the property into three parts, with the three legal claimants - Earl and Lady Abingdon, Charles and Ann Fitzroy, and the minor Susannah Skinner -  being matched to parcel by a throw of the dice.

Apr 16                       

Boston playwright Royall Tyler's The Contrast is performed at New York City’s John Street Theatre, the first professional performance of a comedy in America.

Jul 5                       

Manasseh Cutler arrives in New York City, talks of buying millions of acres of land on the Ohio River for the Ohio Company.

Sep 24                       

New York City’s Daily Advertiser prints A Revolution Effected by Good Sense and Deliberation, the first known original commentary on the Constitution in New York State.

Oct 29

New York State landowner John Peter De Wint in born in New York City.

Nov 25                       

John Peter De Wint is baptised at the Reformed Dutch Church in New York City.

Dec 2                       

Elizabeth Baker, infant daughter of museum owner Gardiner Baker and his wife Mary is christened at New York's First And Second Presbyterian Church.

City

Young Washington Irving attends Mrs. Ann Kilmaster's kindergarten.    **    The state legislature approves a law requested by New York City's Common Council, to appoint well and pump overseers in each of the city's wards.    **    Hartford, Connecticut, captain Samuel Morey travels down the Connecticut River in a home-made steam-powered boat, reaches the city.    **    The Mutual Assurance Company, the city's first fire insurance company, is founded.     **    Merchant and former Loyalist exile Michael Price is currently being listed in city directories although he will not actually relocate back to the city until next year.      **    The Common Council calls for Almshouse paupers being put to work collecting street dirt to spread on The Common in preparation for the sowing of grass seed.    **    The council calls for Hudson River land to be extended 65 feet into the water, using landfill.    **    Northern Manhattan landowner William Dyckman dies. His son Jacobus moves his family to the farm there, which now includes a cider mill, a barn and several outbuildings in addition to the farmhouse.    **    Vestrymen of St. Paul’s Chapel agree on a window for the chapel’s east (Broadway) side, future site of a monument to Revolutionary War major general Richard Montgomery.

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EASTERN NEW YORK STATE TIMELINE - 1740 - 1749

1740

Feb 9                       

Mohawk Valley landowner William Johnson writes to his uncle Peter Warren, using the address Mount Johnson instead of Warrensburg, at the top.

Jun 8                       

A daughter, Ann, is born to William Johnson and his current mistress Catherine Weisenberg.

Jul 18                       

The 12,000-acre third Schuyler Patent, in Washington County, is granted to John Schuyler and others.

State

George Herkimer builds a church in the village named after his family. ** The approximate date Mohawk chief Atiatoharongwen(Thiathoharongouan, meaning his body is taken down from hanging or one who pulls down the people; also known as Louis Atayataghronghta, Louis Cook, and Colonel Louis) is born in Schuylerville to a black man and a Saint-Francois Abenaki woman.   
  

1741

Aug 18           

The 13,000-acre Ootboudt’s Patent, in Otsego County, is granted to Volkert Ootboudt and others.

Oct 6                       

The 2,000-acre Winne’s Patent, in Herkimer County, is granted to Peter Winne.

Oct 7                       

John Lindsay (and others) receive their third Lindlsey’s Patent - 2,000  acres - in Otsego County.

Oct 10                       

The 4,000-acre Winne’s Patent, in Montgomery County, is granted to Peter Winne and others.

Oct 17                       

The 6,000-acre Northampton Patent, in Fulton County, is granted to Jacob Mase and others.

Nov 4                       

The 17,000-acre Springfield Patent, in Otsego County, is granted to John Groesbeck and others.

Dec 2                       

The 28,000-acre Sacondaga Patent, in Fulton and Hamilton counties, is granted to Fredrick Morris and others.

State

The Montauk Indian population has dwindled to 32 families, about 160 people.

Northeast New York State

The 1741-1742 winter is a severe one.    **    The Reverend James Davenport begins two years of itinerant preaching through Connecticut, Massachusetts and eastern Long Island.

1742

Feb 7

A son, John, is born to William Johnson and Catherine Weisenberg.

Sep 29                       

Iroquois representatives begin arriving at Upper Mohawk Castle (Canajoharie) to meet with William Johnson.

Oct 2                       

Johnson is adopted into the tribe and given the name Warraghiyagey, The Man Who Undertakes Great Things.

State

Future governor John Taylor is born in New York City.

Ohio

New York Mohawk chief Joseph Brant, or Thayendanega (“he places two bets”) is born on the banks of the Ohio River near today’s Akron, as his parents – Nickus (Nicholas) of the Wolfe family and Owandah or Sagetageatat, are on a hunting expedition.

1743

Jul 13                       

The Stony Point Tract, in Rockland County, is granted to Richard Bradley and others.

Aug 4                       

The 4,380-acre Wawieghnunck Patent, in Columbia County, is granted to William and Stephen Bayard. The Mawighhunk Patent in the same county is granted to Stephen and others.

Dec 17                       

Mamakating, named for an Indian chief, is made a precinct by the General Assembly, encompassing Sullivan County and a portion of Orange.

State

Governor George Clinton takes office.

1744

May                       

The New York council orders an overhaul of the city's sanitary laws, going after tanners, hogs owners and starchmakers, and moving them outside of the city. Waste dumping on public property is prohibited.

Oct 14                       

Mary Johnson is born to trader and superintendent of Indian affairs William Johnson and his mistress Catherine Weisenberg, their third child.

1745

Apr 30                       

The 9,400-acre Burnetsfield Patent, in Herkimer County, is
granted to John Joost Petrie and others, It will become known
as German Flats.

May

Esopus Indian sachems complain to colonial officials in

Kingston that they are paying too much for commodities and 

receiving too little in exchange.

Aug 25                       

Hudson Valley colonel Ann (male) Hawks/Hawkes Hay is 

born in Kingston Jamaica.   

Nov 28                       

French military forces out of Canada, accompanied by 220 Caughnawaga Mohawk and Abenaki Indians, attack and burn the English settlement at Saratoga. The 101 inhabitants are either killed or taken prisoner. Albany will be thrown into a panic.  

State

The French raid Fort Edward.    **    Frederick Philipse adds a brick north wing to the Philipse Manor Hall in Yonkers.

Indians

At Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the Six Nations cede their land in the Ohio Valley north of the river to commissioners from New York, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The Iroquois are given £800 in Pennsylvania cuurency, £300 in gold and control of several southern tribes and passage through the colony to attack the Catawba and the Cherokee.

1746

July

Mohawks gather in war council near Mount Johnson. William Johnson gains their allegiance to the British cause.

Aug 11                       

Johnson, along with Iroquois chiefs Tiyanoga and Wascaugh, at the head a large party of Indians, marches into Albany, the warriors saluting governor George Clinton as they pass the fort.

Aug 15           

A small patrol of Captain Daniel Ladd’s New Hampshire militia is surprised by a war party of pro-French Indians and Canadian voyageurs, in New York near Lake Champlain’s Crown Point. Another patrol arrives to find five mutilated bodies and one survivor, learn that two others were carried off. Ladd heads to his base in Rumford for replacements. He encounters 14-year-old Robert Rogers there.

Aug 19                       

The Albany Indian Congress convenes, with over 700 Indians in attendance. Johnson is dressed in Indian regalia.

Aug 31                       

Tiyanoga returns to Johnson Hall from a journey to Montreal, were he was entertained by French governor Galissonière, who he told what the official wanted to hear, then went on to visit Caughnawaga chiefs, who expressed dissatisfaction with the French. On the way back he and his party killed one French soldier near Crown Point and captured another. Tiyanoga tells Johnson is story then leaves for Canajoharie. 

Nov 25                       

Ten of Johnsons’ scouts and 12 Mohawks arrive at Albany with the scalps of a man, two women and a boy, and eight white prisoners, a French militia captain, two Canadians, two women and three French girls - the Vitry sisters. Johnson will leave on a sloop for New York City with the prisoners later in the day.

December           

William Johnson takes Angélique Vitry as his mistress.

State

Mohawk Indians, stirred up by Governor Clinton, raid into Canada.    **    Lutheran clergyman John Christopher Hartwick emigrates to the U. S. from Germany to serve as a missionary to his countrymen in Rhinebeck.    **    The Iroquois League makes George Croghan a counselor.   **    Over the past 26 years Dutchess County has recorded twenty payments to 14 named Wappinger and other Indians, as bounties on wolves.

1747

Aug 28                       

Indian agent William Johnson leads a force of 650, 350 of them white, the remainder Iroquois, on an expedition against the French at Lac St. Sacrement (Lake George). They will arrive to find the enemy gone.

Sep 30                       

Big Flats pioneer Christian Myneer (Minier) is born in Heidelberg, Pennsylvania, to Johann Georg Myneer and Marie Elizabeth Strunk Myneer.

Oct 10                       

William Johnson learns the Albany militia refuses to serve under him, writes governor George Clinton, warning that their Indians allies will be disappointed if he is not provided with supplies for them.

State

Governor George Clinton promises Mohawk chief Tiyanoga he will put William Johnson in charge of Indian affairs for the colony and terminate the Assembly position of Indian Commissioner.    **   Mohawk Indians, stirred up by Governor Clinton, raid into Canada for a second year. Nichus Brant is captured along with other Mohawks and some British soldiers, and imprisoned by the French.

1748

March           

William Johnson confers with governor George Clinton in New York.    **    Six Mohawks scouting north of Mount Johnson are surprised by a party of Caughnawaga and Abnaki Indians, and French rangers. Two Mohawks (including Gingego) are killed and three captured, including Chief Nichus (father of Molly and Joseph  Brant). The sixth escapes to Teantontalogo but finds an insufficient force to give chase. When they return two days later with William Johnson they find the mutilated remains of the two dead. They later learn the three who were captured were taken to Montreal.

Apr 11                       

William Johnson, Mississaugi chief Tiyanoga, fifty volunteers and 13 Mohawks leave Mount Johnson on a 200-mile swing through Iroquois country.

Apr 23                       

Johnson and Tiyanoga arrive at Onondaga. In council Johnson hears Chief Red Hand’s concern that the British show  no signs of an attack on Canada and that the tribes have neglected their own interests for two years while waiting for action. He promises to reply in the morning.  

Apr 24                       

Johnson tries to convince the chiefs to not travel to Montreal to retrieve their captives, but to let the English government exchange them for French prisoners, even though he has no authorization for such an offer. They promise him an answer the following day.

Apr 25                       

The reply comes from Chief Canassatego. The Iroquois will let Johnson try to exchange French prisoners for their fellow tribesmen.

Apr 26                       

Johnson and Tiyanoga leave Onondaga for Mount Johnson.

Aug 10                       

Johnson writes to governor Clinton, reports the Indians have all left Mount Johnson with the exception of the Seneca Grota Younga, who stayed behind to have an ulcerous leg tended to.

Aug 20

James Dean, missionary to the Oneida Indians, is born in Groton, Connecticut.

State

William Johnson begins building a new Mount Johnson residence along the Mohawk, a mile from the old Mount Johnson, in the autumn.    **   Mohawk Indians, stirred up by Governor Clinton, raid into Canada for the third straight year in a row.    **    French priest Abbé Francois Picquet first visits the mouth of the Oswegatchie River on the St. Lawrence, realizes its strategic possibilities.

Albany

Finnish-Swedish scientist Peter Kalm visits the city, comments adversely on the water supply. He remains in the area into next year.

Indians

The French found a Suplican Mission in the Ogdensburg to woo the Iroquois.

1749

Jan 1                       

Hampshire Grant (Vermont) governor Benning Wentworth creates the township of Bennington, first settlement in the grant, claimed by New York State.

Apr 28                       

William Johnson returns to Mount Johnson after a five-week tour of Iroquois villages, where he found the more western tribes wary of English promises. He dispatches a report to Governor George Clinton.

Jun 2                       

Antoine-Louis Rouillé, Comte de Jouy, French colonial minister, writes to Canadian governor, the Marquis de Galissonière from Versailles, backing his plan to use the natives to destroy Fort Oswego. He then writes to Galissonière’s upcoming successor Jacques Pierre de Taffanel, the Marquis de Jonquière, still in France, encouraging the future use of the Iroquois.

Jun 25                       

Céloron emerges from the rapids of the St. Lawrence, arrives at the mouth of the Oswegathchie River, and visits Fort (La) Presentation (Ogdensburg).

Jun 26                       

Céloron’s forces leave the Oswegathchie, continuing up the St. Lawrence. Two hours after they leave Presentation the fort is burnt in an Iroquois attack.

Jul 31                       

Johnson writes to governor Clinton threatening to resign if held accountable to the New York Assembly. He then sends messengers to Indian villages warning of French incursions into the region.

Oct 21                       

Land agent and politician Oliver Phelps is born in Poquonock, Connecticut, to Thomas and Ann Brown Phelps.

Nov 4                       

Johnson throws a feast for Sacanghtradeya, Tiyanoga, Wascaugh, Nichus and close to 300 other angry warriors. He successfully counters claims that the English and French have made an alliance against the Iroquouis.    **    Céloron’s forces reach La Présentation (Ogdensburg).

State

Suplican father Francis Picquet establishes Fort (La) Présentation (later Ogdensburg), an Indian mission, at the mouth of the Oswegatchie River in the northwestern Adirondacks.

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