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Whitehall (New York, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-york
hern army falls back from Crown Point to Ticonderoga......July 7, 1776 New York Provincial Congress at White Plains sanctions the Declaration of Independence, making the thirteen colonies unanimous......July 9, 1776 [This Congress meets four times up to July 9, 1776, when it takes the name Convention of the Representatives of the State of New York, meeting at Kingston.] One sloop, three schooners, and five smaller boats, carrying fifty-eight guns and eighty-six swivels, built at Whitehall by the Americans to control Lake Champlain; manned by about 400 men......Aug. 22, 1776 Lord Howe lands 10,000 men and forty guns near Gravesend, L. I.......Aug. 22, 1776 Americans under General Sullivan defeated by General Howe, and Generals Sullivan and Sterling taken prisoners; battle of Long Island......Aug. 27, 1776 General Washington withdraws his forces to the city of New York from Long Island......Aug. 29-30, 1776 British use condemned hulks moored in Wallabout Bay as pr
Stamford, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-york
nd destroyed......1643 Gravesend, Long Island, attacked, but Indians repulsed......1643 Father Jogues escapes from the Indians at Fort Orange; is brought to New Amsterdam and sails for Europe......1643 English under Robert Fordham, from Stamford, settle Hempstead, Long Island......1644 English and Dutch destroy an Indian village near Hempstead......1644 Kieft proclaims a public thanksgiving for the victory......March, 1644 Captain Underhill destroys an Indian village at StamforStamford, killing 600 Indians; fifteen Dutch soldiers wounded......March 12, 1644 Complaints against Kieft; his recall demanded......1644 Kiliaen Van Rensselaer dies at Amsterdam, Holland......1644 End of Indian war; treaty with some of the tribes......April 22, 1645 General treaty with the Indians after five years of disturbance......Aug. 30, 1645 Several Englishmen obtain a patent from Governor Kieft for 16,000 acres about Flushing, L. I., and settle......Oct. 19, 1645 Adriaen Van d
Erie (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-york
the east lie Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut; on the south, the Atlantic Ocean, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; on the west New Jersey, Pennsylvania, lakes Erie and Ontario, and the rivers Niagara and St. Lawrence. Its greatest length, north and south, is 312 miles, including Staten Island, while east and west it is 412 mured in New York Harbor during spring of......1669 Name Kingston given to Esopus......Sept. 25, 1669 La Salle, Dollier, and Galinee explore lakes Ontario and Erie; possession taken for France......1669 Staten Island purchased from the Indians......April 13, 1670 Katherine Harrison, widow, banished from Weathersfield, Csolidation of the local railroads......1853 Continuous line of railway opened, New York to Chicago......1853 First train over a uniform gauge from Buffalo to Erie and Chicago......Feb. 1, 1854 Office of the State superintendent of public instruction created by a law of......March 30, 1854 Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, w
Sackett's Harbor (New York, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-york
e patroon), of Albany, commissioned major-general and assigned to the 1st Division, and Benjamin Mooers, of Plattsburg, to the 2d......1812 British attack Sackett's Harbor and are repulsed......July 29, 1812 Lieut. J. D. Elliott captures the Caledonia and Detroit, British vessels anchored near Fort Erie, opposite Buffalo...l 27, 1813 Fort George, Canada, evacuated by the British......May 27, 1813 Fort Erie captured by the Americans......May 28, 1813 British repulsed at Sackett's Harbor......May 29, 1813 Perry's victory on Lake Erie......Sept. 10, 1813 Burning of the village of Newark, near Fort George, by the Americans under General M New York City, and tested......Dec. 9, 1830 Albany and Schenectady Railroad opened, 16 miles......1831 Chloroform first obtained by Samuel Guthrie, of Sackett's Harbor......1831 Imprisonment for contract debt, except for fraud, abolished......1831 Whig party formed......1832 Cholera in New York City, June 27 unti
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-york
e train of artillery, against Quebec and Montreal......July 30, 1711 Fleet loses eight transports and more than 1,000 men on the rocks at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, and sails for England; the army disbands......1711 Tuscaroras leave North Carolina and join their brethren in New York, thus forming the Six Nations......1712 Pretended discovery of a negro insurrection in New York; nineteen negroes hanged......1712 Schoharie Flats settled by Germans......1713 Peace of Utrecht betw twice by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, on Sept. 6. He seems in a fair way to recovery for several days, when gangrene poisoning sets in and he dies Saturday morning......Sept. 14, 1901 [The body lies in state in Buffalo City Hall and in the Capitol at Washington, an dthe last ceremonies are held in Canton, O., Sept. 19, 1901.] President Roosevelt takes the oath of office at Buffalo......Sept. 14, 1901 The President appoints a day of mourning for......Sept. 19, 1901 North Carolina
Porto Rico (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-york
er, the Rough Riders, and 3d United States Cavalry land at Montauk Point......Aug. 15, 1898 Imposing naval parade in New York of Admiral Sampson's victorious Santiago fleet......Aug. 20, 1898 James Samuel Thomas Stranahan, first citizen of Brooklyn, born 1808, dies at Saratoga, N. Y.......Sept. 3, 1898 Admiral Cervera, Spanish naval officer, whose fleet was destroyed by Admiral Sampson, July 3, arrives in New York......Sept. 8, 1898 Forty-seventh Regiment of New York ordered to Porto Rico for garrison duty......Oct. 3, 1898 Abraham Oakey Hall, lawyer, born 1826, dies at New York City......Oct. 7, 1898 Justice Wilmot M. Smith decides that the creation of the County of Nassau was constitutional......Oct. 11, 1898 Battle-ships Oregon and Iowa sail from New York for Manila......Oct. 12, 1898 George Edwin Waring, sanitary engineer, born 1833, dies at New York City......Oct. 29, 1898 Chauncey M. Depew, Republican, elected United States Senator from New York to succ
Dutch (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-york
to show the fertility of the soil......1626 Dutch in friendly relations with the Plymouth colony of New England......1627 Dutch inform Plymouth of the Fresh River (Connecticut)......1627 Poempstead, Long Island......1644 English and Dutch destroy an Indian village near Hempstead......lage at Stamford, killing 600 Indians; fifteen Dutch soldiers wounded......March 12, 1644 Complaam about 6,000 guilders......March 15, 1653 Dutch vessels excluded from New England harbors.....ds, three; Flatbush, two; Gravesend, two; four Dutch and four English towns sent ten Dutch and nineDutch and nine English delegates......Dec. 10, 1653 Governor dissolves the convention......Dec. 14, 1653 Piew York and Fort Orange to Albany......1664 Dutch government denounces the conquest of New Nethells Stuyvesant......Nov. 28, 1664 Principal Dutch residents, including Governor Stuyvesant and V welcome their countrymen......Aug. 7, 1673 Dutch fire on Fort James, which returns a shot. For[1 more...]
Fort Edward (New York, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-york
King's College (now Columbia University), New York City, founded, Rev. W. S. Johnson, D. D., first president......1754 Sir Charles Hardy, governor......1755 Fort Edward and Fort William Henry built......1755 Battle of Lake George. Defeat of the French, and capture of their leader, Baron Dieskau......Sept. 8, 1755 [He was Robert R. Livingston chancellor......1777 Garrison under General St. Clair abandon Ticonderoga......July 6, 1777 Murder of Jane McCrea by the Indians near Fort Edward......July 27, 1777 General St. Clair joins General Schuyler at Fort Edward, which is abandoned, and the Americans retire across the Hudson to Saratoga, and tFort Edward, which is abandoned, and the Americans retire across the Hudson to Saratoga, and thence to Stillwater; Burgoyne reaches the Hudson......July 29, 1777 St. Leger, co-operating with Burgoyne, advances from 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, fa
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-york
, and the river St. Lawrence; on the east lie Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut; on the south, the Atlantic Ocean, New refuge near New Rochelle from religious persecution in Massachusetts......1642 Dutch at Fort Orange seek in vain to ransoolonizing efforts among the Iroquois after......1658 Massachusetts grants land to English colonists on the Hudson......165atskill to a point opposite Saugerties, and eastward to Massachusetts. Governor Dongan confirms his title by patent with manonor......1753 Convention representing New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and......1771 Line of jurisdiction between New York and Massachusetts settled......1773 Governor Tryon gives 10,000 acrestion of the State, 238,897......1786 Dispute between Massachusetts and New York about lands settled by commissioners appoioit the first American vessel on Lake Erie......1796 Massachusetts deeds to Robert Morris, of Philadelphia, nearly 3,300,0
Ridgeway, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-york
furnished by the State in the Civil War in all branches of the service reduced to a three years standard was 392,270, about 12 per cent. of the population......1865 Eliphalet Nott, born in 1773, dies at Schenectady......Jan. 29, 1866 [Made president of Union College in 1804. Over 3,700 students graduated during his presidency.] Fenian raid into Canada; about 1,200 men cross Niagara River near Buffalo, camping near old Fort Erie......May 31, 1866 Slight conflict takes place near Ridgeway......June 2, 1866 [Force withdraws the next evening.] Reuben E. Fenton re-elected governor......November, 1866 Vassar Female College at Poughkeepsie incorporated, Jan. 11, 1861; name changed by legislature to Vassar College......Feb. 1, 1867 Normal school at Brockport established......1867 Public schools made entirely free......Oct. 1, 1867 State board of charities organized......1867 Memorial or Decoration Day made a legal holiday; date of first celebration......May 30
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