Named Entity Results, Fort Stanwix (New York, United States)

Stanwix, Fort A defensive work on the site of Rome, N. Y.; named in honor of Gen. John Stanwix. In 1758, when returning with a detachment of provincial troops from Oswego, General Stanwix constructed the fort for the security of the Indians in the neighborhood who adhered to the English. After its relief from capture in AuguRome, N. Y.; named in honor of Gen. John Stanwix. In 1758, when returning with a detachment of provincial troops from Oswego, General Stanwix constructed the fort for the security of the Indians in the neighborhood who adhered to the English. After its relief from capture in August, 1777, through the exertions of General Schuyler, it was named Fort Schuyler. On Nov. 5, 1768, a treaty was held at Fort Stanwix, at which the Six Nations, in consideration of the payment of a little over $50,000, ceded to the crown all their country south of the Ohio as far as the Cherokee or Tennessee River. So much of t68, a treaty was held at Fort Stanwix, at which the Six Nations, in consideration of the payment of a little over $50,000, ceded to the crown all their country south of the Ohio as far as the Cherokee or Tennessee River. So much of this region as lay south of the Great Kanawha was claimed by the Cherokees as their hunting-ground.

octor resigns......Dec. 5, 1891 France removes restrictions on American pork......Dec. 6, 1891 Fifty-second Congress, first session, meets......Dec. 7, 1891 Annual message of President Harrison......Dec. 9, 1891 United States Senate ratifies the general act passed by the anti-slavery conference in Brussels, July 2, 1890......Jan. 11, 1892 Forest preserve in New Mexico set apart by proclamation of President......Jan. 11, 1892 Randolph Rogers, sculptor, born 1825, dies at Rome, N. Y.......Jan. 14, 1892 Congressman Bland introduces a freecoinage bill in the House......Jan. 21, 1892 Ultimatum of the United States served on the Chilean government by Secretary Blaine, through Minister Montt, demanding an apology for the assault upon the sailors of the Baltimore in the streets of Valparaiso, an indemnity, and the withdrawal of the insulting circular of Minister Matta......Jan. 21, 1892 Satisfactory answer to the ultimatum from Chile submitted to Congress with a me

on, chief engineer in the western department in North America, encamps opposite to the Great Lick in Lewis county, Ky......July 16, 1766 John Findlay and a few wandering white men from North Carolina visit Kentucky......1767 By treaty at Fort Stanwix, now Rome, N. Y., the Six Nations and the Delawares, Shawnees, and Mingoes, of Ohio, grant to the King of England territory south of the Ohio River, including most of Kentucky......Nov. 5, 1768 Daniel Boone reaches the Red River with five hRome, N. Y., the Six Nations and the Delawares, Shawnees, and Mingoes, of Ohio, grant to the King of England territory south of the Ohio River, including most of Kentucky......Nov. 5, 1768 Daniel Boone reaches the Red River with five hunters from North Carolina......June 7, 1769 Out of forty hunters from southwest Virginia, nine under Col. James Knox, known as the Long Hunters (for the length of the hunting period), reach the Green and Cumberland rivers......1770 Capt. Thomas Bullit, a surveyor, lays out the town of Louisville......1773 Big Bone Lick, near Burlington, visited by James Douglas, of Virginia, who finds on the ground bones of the mastodon......1773 First log-cabin in Kentucky built by James Harrod, a

to the English under Col. John Bradstreet......Aug. 27, 1758 Fort Stanwix built (Fort Schuyler)......1758 English under Gen. John Pridesh treaty with the Iroquois, Delawares, Shawnees, and Mingoes at Fort Stanwix......Nov. 5, 1768 Sir Henry Moore dies; Cadwallader Colden agom Montreal with a large force of Canadians and Indians; invests Fort Stanwix......Aug. 3, 1777 General Herkimer, with about 800 men, advances to the relief of Fort Stanwix; when within 6 miles of the fort, falls into an ambuscade at Oriskany, is mortally wounded, but repulses theres many prisoners......Aug. 22, 1777 St. Leger retreats from Fort Stanwix to Montreal before General Arnold, sent with three regiments by General Schuyler to relieve Fort Stanwix......Aug. 22, 1777 General Gates encamps at Stillwater......Sept. 8, 1777 General Burgoyne encary from July 4, 1827......April, 1817 Erie Canal begun at Rome, Oneida county......July 4, 1817 State grants $20,000 to county agricult

d, owing to other matters of more weight. See this record, 1779.] Pittsburg was first occupied by peaceful settlers in 1760, but the settlement was destroyed by Indians during the Pontiac War, 1763. A permanent settlement was begun......1765 Franklin examined before the English House of Commons on the effect of the passage of the Stamp Act......Feb. 13, 1766 First appearance of the Pennsylvania Chronicle and universal Advertiser......1767 Treaty with the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix, N. Y......Nov. 5, 1768 [This treaty extinguished the Indian claim to the whole region of the Alleghanies from New York to Virginia, so that Thomas and Richard Penn were proprietaries of more than 25,000,000 acres, 250,000 inhabitants, and one of the largest cities in America.] First course of instruction in chemistry attempted in America by Dr. Benjamin Rush at the College of Philadelphia......1769 American Philosophical Society instituted at Philadelphia......1769 Philadelphia

n founded about 30 miles from the present Knoxville......1856 Colonel Bird builds Long Island Fort on the Holston River, where the American army winters......1758 Cherokees capture Fort Loudon. The garrison, after the surrender, start out for Fort Prince George; after proceeding about 15 miles they are massacred by the Indians......Aug. 7, 1760 Capt. James Smith and others explore the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers from above Nashville down to the Ohio......1766 By treaty at Fort Stanwix the Six Nations cede the country north and east of the Tennessee......Nov. 5, 1768 Capt. William Bean settles on Boone Creek, near Watauga......1769 Company formed to hunt and explore middle Tennessee, with camp at Price's Meadows, Wayne county......1769 Written association formed for the government of the Watauga settlers, and five commissioners appointed as a governing court......1772 Col. Richard Henderson, Nathaniel Hart, and Daniel Boone purchase from the Indians a tract

Watauga commonwealth, the A name applied to the first independent civil government established in North America. In 1768 the Six Nations, by the treaty of Fort Stanwix, agreed to surrender all the lands between the Ohio and Tennessee rivers to the English, and many backwoodsmen began settling beyond the mountains before it was known that the Iroquois Indians had ceded lands to which they had no legal right. What is now eastern Tennessee was then western North Carolina, and this region consisted of a most tempting valley, with the Cumberland River on one side and the Great Smoky Mountains on the other. The first settlers in this region were largely from Virginia. In 1769 the first settlement was made on the banks of the Watauga River, the people believing they were still within the domain of Virginia. Two years later, however, a surveyor discovered that the settlement was really within the limits of North Carolina. This fact led to the organization of a civil government for t

Whipple, Henry Benjamin 1823- Clergyman; born in Adams, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1823; studied theology; ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1849; held charges in Rome, N. Y., and Chicago, Ill., till 1859, when he was elected the first bishop of Minnesota. He declined the bishopric of the Hawaiian Islands; established a free church system in Chicago; was a stanch friend of the Indians; was active in the work for the elevation of the negroes in the South; and founded three institutions of learning in Faribault, Minn., the Seabury Divinity School, the Shattuck School for boys, and St. Mary's Hall for girls. He conducted the first Episcopal service held in Havana, Cuba, in 1871; preached the memorial sermon at the unveiling of the Tennyson Memorial on the Isle of Wight, in 1897; represented the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States at the Centenary Church Missionary Society of England, London, in 1899; and after the close of the American-Spanish War spent some months

, and joined Montgomery in the invasion of Canada. After the capture of St. John he remained there, in command, until January, 1776, and was soon afterwards made lieutenant-colonel of the 3d New York Regiment. In May, 1777, he was ordered to Fort Stanwix, and assisted in its defence in August following, making a successful sortie to effect a diversion in favor of General Herkimer (see Oriskany, battle of). He bore a message, by stealth, to General Schuyler, which led to the expedition up the Mohawk Valley, under General Arnold, that caused the abandonment of the siege of Fort Stanwix. He joined the army under Washington in June, 1776, and was in the battle of Monmouth; and in 1779 he accompanied General Sullivan's expedition against the Indians in New York. At the close of the war he was chosen sheriff of the city of New York, and remained so eight years (1784-92), and was mayor in 1807. In 1792 he was appointed a brigadier-general in the army intended to act against the Northwes

te you on the fact that the result can by no possibility be doubtful. You go to certain victory, you march to certain triumph; for who so mad as to believe that seven millions of people, resting on a volcano of four millions of slaves, can resist twenty millions led on by the holiest patriotism, and with no such dreadful element in their midst? You come, my friends, from a county distinguished in the history of our great Revolution; and as long as the battle of Oriskany and the siege of Fort Stanwix are remembered, so long will the men of Oneida remember the brave deeds of their fathers, and be eager to imitate their example. This war is not second in importance to that of the Revolution. That made us a nation; this is to preserve and perpetuate that nation, now among the first of the world. I may be allowed to say that my greatest honor at the present moment is that my two sons are in the ranks of the 71st New York regiment, at Washington, engaged in the same holy work of duty an