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.
City
The approximate date the Reverend John Bartow buys land on the
west side of the Hutchinson River in the Bronx, extending to Eastchester
Road. For some unrecorded reason he calls the property Scabby
Indian.
State
St. Peter's, Albany's first Protestant Episcopal Church, is completed
on a site granted by the governor.
The French found Fort des Sables, a trading post, near the mouth
of the Genesee River to trade with the Seneca.
May 27
Livingston Manor is annexed to Dutchess County.
State
Governor Robert Hunter convinces Scottish-born physician-botanist
Cadwallader Colden to move from Philadelphia to New York.
City
The Fraunces Tavern building in lower Manhattan is completed.
** Jacobus Van Cortlandt is appointed mayor; reappointed next
year. ** A Presbyterian church is erected in a garden on the north
side of Wall Street.
State
Joincare, French emissary to the Seneca, builds a log house near
the Niagara River on the future site of Lewiston.
City
Robert Walters is appointed mayor; reappointed annually to 1725.
** Population 7,000.
State
The approximate date pioneer Jacobus Stoughtenburgh arrives in
the future Dutchess County, settles what will become Hyde Park.
Africa
The approximate date New York State black writer Jupiter Hammon
is born.
Canada
Governor de Vaudreuil proposes founding three trading posts along
Lake Ontario, to prevent British expansion in the area. Two are
erected at Toronto and Quinte, the other is slated for New York
colony.
May 9
A trading post, Le Magazin, is opened by Joncaire, at the future
site of Fort Niagara.
State
Joncaire the elder, the French ambassador to the Seneca, visits the Oil Spring near the Allegany-Cattaraugus border. ** The British erect Fort Schuyler, near the southern end of Irondequoit Bay at Indian Landing, to trade with the Seneca.
Tuscarora Indians, exiled by North Carolina colonists, move into
New York to Ohagi (Crowding the Bank) near Piffard, making the
Five Nations of the Iroquois the Six Nations. ** The Iroquois
sign a treaty in Albany with Virginia governor Spotswood, agreeing
to stay north of the Potomac and the Blue Ridge Mountains. **
The approximate date Nehemiah Partridge paints a portrait of Albany
socialite Ariaantje Coeymans.
Oct 19
A land patent is issued to the Palatine Germans for area now named
Stone Arabia, in New York's Mohawk Valley.
State
Long Island's Suffolk County passes its first laws regulating
public roads.
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