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<P><CENTER><B><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">1795</FONT></B><FONT
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<P><CENTER><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">( Updated 4 / 4 / 2004
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<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">January <BR>
Charles Williamson purchases the slave Hans, the first black in
Bath, from Rensselaer Schuyler for $250. ** Connecticut investor
William Wadsworth drives three ox teams from New York City to
Big Tree (Geneseo) escorting six families to settle there.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Jan 11 <BR>
A daughter, Dorothea Astor, is born to John Jacob and Sarah Todd
Astor.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Jan 21 <BR>
Last November's Canandaigua Treaty between the U. S. and the Haudenosaunee
(Iroquois Nation) is ratified by Congress.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 5 <BR>
The Madison County town of Brookfield is formed from the Oneida
County town of Paris.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 7 <BR>
Indian agent General Israel Chapin dies at Buffalo Creek.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 14 <BR>
John Jacob Astor writes to London pianoforte manufacturer Tschudi
&amp; Broadwood, orders an instrument to be shipped to his family
back in New York.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 17 <BR>
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.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Apr 3 <BR>
Connecticut native Elihu Phinney begins publishing Otsego County's
first newspaper, the <I>Herald and Western Advertiser</I>, at
Cooperstown. It is the state's second newspaper west of the Hudson
River.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Apr 6 <BR>
Schoharie County is carved out of Albany and Otsego counties.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Apr 9 <BR>
The New York State Legislature passes &quot;An act for the encouragement
of schools&quot;. $50,000 annually is appropriated for the next
five years, to establish and support common schools.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">May 12 <BR>
Columbia College professor Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchill addresses
the Tammany Society of New York City on its designated anniversary,
describes a highly imaginary history of Chief Tammany.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">May 24<BR>
Governor Silas Wright is born to Samuel Silas and Eleanor Goodale
Wright in Amherst, Massachusetts.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">June <BR>
The Cayuga sell their 64,000-acre reservation to New York, setting
aside 4 lots of about 3200 acres, for $1,800, first of annual
payments of that amount, but with no federal official on the scene.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Jun 23 <BR>
Early Rochester settler Nathaniel Hayward is born in Vermont.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">July <BR>
James Wadsworth writes his uncle Jeremiah that Genesee Valley
lands are high in demand now that the Iroquois have relinquished
their title to the eastern part of the Phelps-Gorham Purchase.
Lands are going for 20-23 shillings an acre (about $2.40-3.80).</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Jul 1 <BR>
William Wadsworth buys 345 acres of Genesee Valley lands for $100.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">August<BR>
Lansingburgh <I>Recorder</I> publishers George Gardner and James
Hill move to Troy.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Sep 1 <BR>
New York <I>Herald</I> publisher James Gordon Bennett, Sr. is
born in Keith, Scotland.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Sep 8 <BR>
East Bloomfield's Congregational Church, the first church in the
village, is formed by the Reverend Zadock Hunn.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Nov 15 <BR>
East Bloomfield's Congregational Church is officially organized.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Dec 14 <BR>
Engineer John Bloomfield Jervis is born in Huntington.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Dec 16 <BR>
Schoharie County officials first meet at the village of Schoharie,
decide to build the county courthouse two miles to the west.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">City<BR>
John Fitch experiments with a steam-driven craft using a screw
propeller, on the Collect Pond. ** Astor, back in the U. S. and
finding himself short of funds, hurries off to Montr&eacute;al,
writes to Peter Smith at Utica to obtain credit. ** Yellow fever
kills close to 750 people. Half the population leaves the city.
** For the third time since 1788, a grand jury indicts the city
for its filthy streets. Again nothing is done. ** Further proposals
for the city's water supply are made, and ignored. ** Federalist
flour merchant John Coles, having purchased rights to build a
bridge across the lower Harlem River from a discouraged Lewis
Morgan, is granted the right to build a stone dam at the site.
** The Tammany Museum is sold to its director Gardiner Baker.
He also purchases Daniel Bowen's New York and Philadelphia waxworks
and Bowen's paintings by Robert Edge Pine. ** The American Bank
Note Company is founded.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">State<BR>
Two Englishmen erect a log cabin on the future site of Caledonia.
** Schenectady's Union College is founded. ** A portion of Schoharie
County is created from part of Albany County. ** Ephraim Webster
is granted 140 acres of land on the future site of Syracuse. **
Lansingburgh <I>Recorder</I> publishers Gardner and Hill leave
the state and the paper closes by the end of the year. ** Miller
Daniel Penfield begins buying Township 13 Range IV of the Phelps
and Gorham Tract. The town will be named after him. ** Cornelius
McCoy settles at the future site of Dansville, founded next year.
David Sholl builds a mill there. ** Williamson is appointed an
Ontario County judge. ** Aaron Hunt and mill builder Jacob Holdren
settle in the Canadice Lake area. ** Williamsburgh has twelve
houses by the end of the year, Whitestown 40. ** Charles Scholl
completes grist and sawmills on Canaseraga Creek for Charles Williamson,
at the site of today's Leicester. ** Williamson begins importing
cattle from New England in the spring. ** The state assembly moves
to New York City temporarily, to be near to ailing governor George
Clinton. It remains there, after Clinton retires and is replaced
by John Jay. ** Naturalist Amos Eaton enters Williams College,
in Massachusetts. ** U. S. senator Aaron Burr, his daughter Theodosia
and her husband Joseph Alston, travel to Niagara Falls. Burr leaves
his party at Canawagus and travels to the falls at what will become
Rochester. He stays overnight with settler Peter Shaeffer at Wheatland.
** Bloomfield's Markham family buys land in Canada, and moves
there for the next four years. ** Lawyer and historian Silas Wood
is elected to the state legislature. ** New York buys 62,115 acres
of Cayuga Nation land on both side of northern Cayuga Lake. The
Cayuga retain 1,900 acres. ** Judge William Cooper is elected
to Congress. ** Merchant George C. Latta is born to Irish-born
businessman Samuel Latta and Sarah Jackson Latta, in Canandaigua.
** During the winter large numbers of oxen-drawn sleds make their
way west from the Hudson to the Genesee lands. ** Geneva suffers
a Genesee Fever epidemic through the summer. ** Williamson records
31 deeds and 157 mortgages for the Pulteney Associates. His expenses
for sundries alone runs to &pound;790. He has sold 463,00 acres
to date. ** This year and next Williamson will purchase small
tracts of western New York land - four from Thomas Morris, four
from Oliver Phelps, and 14,000 acres from Birdsong and Nathaniel
Norton. ** Williamson tries to promote investment in Connecticut's
Lake Erie lands, sending Colonel Benjamin Walker to Hartford to
talk with the Connecticut Legislature. His employer Sir William
Pulteney will turn down the proposal. ** Former Oneida County
resident Benjamin Cleveland pioneers Chenango County's village
of German. ** $600 is added to the building fund for the courthouse
and jail near Ballston Spa. ** Pittsford pioneer Israel Stone
dies. ** Williamson pays $43.75 to Alexander MacDonald for &quot;Eben:
Allan &amp; Saw Mills Note of hand Given to You.&quot; ** Daniel
Cady is admitted to the bar, opens a practice in Florida, New
York. ** Mendon pioneer Cornelius Treat takes 20 bushels of wheat
to Canandaigua, where he trades it for a barrel of salt. His wife,
Esther Park Treat, dies this year, the first death in the town.
** Herkimer County's German Flats contains 40 homes and a Dutch
Reformed Church. ** The Iroquois population has dropped to approximately
3500. ** Vermonter David Rich settles in the Tompkins County town
of Caroline, near Willow Bridge. ** Samuel Lewis's state map is
published. ** 100,000 acres of Oneida Indian land are conveyed
to the state (See 1985). ** The state appoints agents David Brooks,
John Cantine, John Richardson, and Philip Schuyler to purchase
the remaining Cayuga, Oneida and Onondaga Indian reservation lands
for resale.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Bath<BR>
Henry and William McElwee begin clearing land for a village. **
The Duke de la Rochefoucault-Liancourt visits Charles Williamson.
** Williamson hosts a &quot;World's Fair&quot;.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Rochesterville<BR>
Josiah Fish and his son Libbeus travel from Vermont to the mouth
of the Genesee in the spring. They stay for a day or two with
Frederick Hosmer, one of the two families living there (the other
William Hincher's), then set up on their own.In the summer a Mr.
Sprague is sent to take charge of Allan's Mill. His wife, three
daughters and a son in-law named Fleming go with him, as do the
Fishes. They are joined there by hunter John Parks, and his dog.
Libbeus Fisher suffers with the ague and fever through the summer.</FONT></P>

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<P><CENTER><B><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">1796</FONT></B></CENTER></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino"><BR>
February <BR>
English actor Joseph Jefferson makes his New York City debut in
<I>The Provoked Husband</I>. ** New York City's council solicits
bids for a municipal water system, receives two. Nothing is done.
** New York land speculator James Wadsworth arrives in Plymouth,
England.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Feb 5 <BR>
The Otsego County town of Butternuts is formed from Unadilla.
** The Herkimer County town of Frankfort is formed from German
Flats.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 4<BR>
The Oneida County town of Rome is formed from Steuben.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 18 <BR>
Steuben County, named for the American Revolution soldier Baron
von Steuben, is created out of Ontario County. Governor John Jay
appoints William Kersey county judge, Stephen Ross surrogate,
William Dunn sheriff and George Cooper county clerk. The Town
of Frederickstown is renamed Wayne.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 26 <BR>
Matthew Clarkson, Thomas Eddy, John Murray, Jr., Isaac Sloatenburgh,
and John Watts, are authorized by the state of New York to build
a state prison on newly acquired property on Greenwich Street
in New York City, to be known as Newgate. A prison in Albany is
also authorized but never built.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Apr 1<BR>
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.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Apr 6 <BR>
The state legislature officially adopts the corrected Pre-Emption
Line.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">June<BR>
The English leave forts Niagara and Oswego. ** James Wadsworth
reports from England that money is as scarce in Britain's as it
is in the U. S. He continues touring farms and manufactories.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">July <BR>
The first visitors for Charles Williamson's fair begin arriving
at Bath.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Jul 21<BR>
The Court of Common Pleas for Steuben County first sits in the
Bath courthouse.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">September<BR>
3,000 guests have arrived at Bath for the fair by the middle of
the month and it commences. Williamson's purebred Virginia Nell
looses a &pound;1,000 race to Silk Stockings, a horse owner by
New Jersey sportsman William Dunn. Southerners, who bet heavily
on Virginia Nell, lose money, goods and slaves. Bath acquires
a black population.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">October<BR>
Williamson's fair draws to a close. The promotion will end up
making a &pound;50,000 profit. ** Over the last six months Williamson
spent &pound;1,252:4 in wages on a scheme to make the village
of Hopetoun a wheat distribution center. By the end of the year
he will spend another &pound;1,524:4:2 more. The experiment will
be a failure due to declining levels of the water in the Seneca
Lake outlet.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">November<BR>
The New York City owner of a Barclay Street building destroyed
by fire this month starts a public subscription drive for financial
aid in recouping his losses. ** After conducting a survey of the
Cayuga Reservation, New York auctions off the land for $279,000
in contracts.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">December <BR>
Williamson visits Philadelphia and agrees to take over part of
the Morris Reserve land sold to promoter Andrew Craigie. Pulteney
refuses to finance the transaction, but Williamson goes ahead.
** A warehouse fire in lower Manhattan spreads northward from
Wall Street, destroying close to 70 buildings between there and
Maiden Lane, and costing $1,000,000. Water from the Tea Pump is
used in fighting the blaze. ** New York City's council once again
solicits bids for a municipal water system, receives two (one
from Westchester doctor Joseph Browne), both of which die in committee.
** Tennessee's first congressman Andrew Jackson arrives in Philadelphia.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Dec 6 <BR>
Leather dresser William Thomson, son-in-law of the Hardenbrook
family, who took over the Collect property in lower Manhattan
a few days ago, advertises in the New York <I>Minerva</I> promoting
his tea water pump business on the property and countering some
bad publicity.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">City<BR>
Some black members of the John Street Church ask Bishop Francis
Asbury to conduct separate services for them. He creates the African
Chapel under the jurisdiction of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
** The council rejects a state offer to purchase the site of the
former Colles Water Works for a prison, turns the land into a
dump for street waste. ** Yellow fever kills several dozen people.
** John Fitch tests his screw propeller steamboat on the Collect
Pond. Passengers include Robert Fulton, Chancellor R. Livingston,
and young John Hutchings, who acts as steersman. John Stevens
also experiments with steam on the pond. ** The city attempts
to get property owners around The Collect to agree to a canal
to drain the pond. Nothing happens. ** A steeple is added to St.
Paul's Chapel.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">State<BR>
The first printing press in Steuben County. William Kersey and
James Edie begin publishing the <I>Bath Gazette and Genesee Advertiser</I>.
** Williamson builds a theater in Bath, holding performances every
day. ** 800 settlers live in the immediate area, per Williamson's
calculations. ** Williamson is elected as Steuben County judge.
** The McElwees finish clearing the Bath land, after 305 days
of labor. Their bill will come to nearly $1000. ** A mineral spring
bursts out of the ground at Dansville and is named The All Healing
Spring. ** The Friends' Yearly Meeting (Quakers) found the Nine
Partners Boarding School at Mechanic. ** The Ontario County town
of Pittstown (later Honeoye, then Richmond) is formed. ** The
40-ton Seneca Lake sloop <I>Alexander, </I>named for Williamson's
father, is launched at Geneva. ** Williamson pays John Woods $112.60
for chimneys at Mile Point in Geneva. $500 worth of furniture
and groceries are brought in. ** Williamson builds a hotel in
Geneva. The cost of the masonry is $770, $1,400 for lumber from
James Barden, and $4,538.47 for carpentry work by David Abbey.
** Printer Lucius Carey arrives in the Genesee Valley to publish
a newspaper for Williamson. ** Williamson forms a company along
with Samuel Colt, Jacob Hallett, John Johnstone, Thomas Powell,
Polydore Wisner, and others, to provide a piped water supply for
Geneva. ** Williamson's brother John dies in Scotland. ** James
Hanchett visits the Clinton County area that will become Ellenburgh,
but soon moves on. ** Oliver Phelps mortgages several parcels
of land near Canandaigua to Superintendent of Indian Affairs Israel
Chapin and his successors, to serve as security for the regular
payment of the rent due the Seneca Indians. ** The approximate
date Nathaniel Mallory settles the Essex County town of Jay. **
Whites begin settling the Chateaugay area of Franklin County.
** Massachusetts sells lands abandoned by Phelps and Gorham to
Robert Morris later to form the nucleus of the Holland Land Company
tract. Land sales are begun. ** Another $600 is added to the building
fund for the courthouse and jail near Ballston Spa. ** Richard
Hooker and Joseph Blivin settle the Steuben County town of Cohocton.
** The first church in Chester (Warren County) is formed by Baptist
minister Jehiel Fox.. ** Charles Williamson builds the Painted
Post Tavern on the future site of Corning, to host prospective
land buyers. ** 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 &quot;light horse, all in uniform&quot;. **
Early settler James Otto arrives in Macedon. ** Ontario County
contains 1258 qualified electors. ** 100 settlers in the Genesee
District (western part of Ontario County) register cattle earmarks
in the town books. ** A Van Rennselaer Manor farm surveyed for
Stewart and Cahoon is leased out to William Larkin. ** Payment
comes due on all 1786 purchases of William Cooper's Otsego region
properties. Defaults on 48% of the original purchases have been
offset when the lands were snapped up by new purchasers. ** The
state donates an additional $37,500 to the Western Inland Lock
Navigation Company. ** 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.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Rochesterville<BR>
Mr. Sprague moves away with his wife, three daughters and son-in-law
named Fleming. Josiah Fish and his son Libbeus are joined at the
mill by the remainder of Fish's Vermont family - his wife and
five children, including daughter Philothetta. ** Gideon King
and Zadok Granger began their settlements, having surveys made
on both the larger tract and the Allan's Mill plot. King's Landing
(later Falltown or Upper Landing, then Hanford's Landing) at the
falls is settled.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino"></FONT>&nbsp;</P>

<P><CENTER><B><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">1797</FONT></B></CENTER></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino"><BR>
January<BR>
Daniel Faulkner brings three loads of goods to the site of Dansville
across the state by sleigh from Albany. He builds a one-story
frame house in front of his plank shanty later in the year.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Jan 31 <BR>
The Troy publishing firm of Luther Pratt and Company begins publishing
the <I>Farmers' Oracle</I>, the town's first newspaper.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">March<BR>
Williamson's militia company holds a muster in Bath wearing uniforms
paid for by the Pulteney Associates.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 17 <BR>
The Schoharie County towns of Blenheim and Cobleskill are formed
from Schoharie. Middletown (later Middleburgh) is also founded.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 31<BR>
Hamilton, taken off of Montgomery County along with Herkimer County
in 1791, is restored to Montgomery.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">April<BR>
With a loan from Charles Williamson, Lucius Carey begins publishing
the Geneva Gazette and Genesee Advertiser, using the first printing
press in New York's Ontario County. He soon moves the paper to
Canandaigua with the county seat.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Apr 3 <BR>
Broome County, New York, Representative to Congress Judson Allen
is born in Plymouth, Connecticut.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">May<BR>
Williamson pays the Town of Williamson bill for the board of indigent
Betsy Prehenos, one of his many charitable contributions.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">May 22 <BR>
Masonic Lodge Number 57 is established in Bath with the enthusiastic
backing of Charles Williamson.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Jun 20 <BR>
The state legislature having passed laws to regulate salt production
and land leases for the purpose in the central part of the state,
William Stevens is appointed the first Superintendent of Onondaga
Salt Springs.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Jul 25 <BR>
Holland Land Company representative Theophile Cazenove sends surveyor
Joseph Ellicott an outline of the company's Genesee Valley lands
to be surveyed.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Aug 31 <BR>
Canadian governor-in-chief Robert Prescott writes to Robert Liston,
British envoy to the U. S., alerting him to suspicious activities
of a fur trader named John Oster (actually John Jacob Astor).
Liston will pass the inquiry on to Secretary of State Timothy
Pickering.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">September<BR>
A stage line begins operating between Utica and Geneva along the
Genesee Road, (later Seneca Turnpike, now Route 5). ** Augustus
Porter begins working on the Holland Purchase survey.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Sep 15 <BR>
The Treaty of Big Tree (near Geneseo) is signed with the Seneca.
They sell their land to Robert Morris for $100,000, and are restricted
to a reservation of under 200,000 acres. Former Indian captive
Horatio Jones (Handsome Boy) acts as one of the interpreters.
Land around the area of the future Letchworth Park is ceded to
Mary Jemison, over the protests of Red Jacket.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Oct 6 <BR>
Pickering passes word back to Liston after checking with collector
of the port of New York Joshua Sands, that Jacob Astor is a fur
trader and transports only enough gunpowder for his own business
purposes. In reality Astor is now dealing in firearms.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Oct 18<BR>
Ellicott writes to Cazenove, reporting that he doesn't trust his
circumferator, which depends on a magnetic needle, but that he
will have his brother Benjamin build a transit.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Nov 19<BR>
Ellicott writes to Cazenove, reporting on the first season of
his survey.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Nov 25 <BR>
Newgate, New York's first state prison, opens on Greenwich Street
in New York City.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino"></FONT>&nbsp;</P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">City<BR>
Front Street is extended between Beekman Slip (Fulton Street)
and Crane's Wharf (Beekman Street). ** John Fitch and John Stevens
both experiment with steam powered vessels on the Collect Pond
for the second year in a row. ** Philomath (almanac maker) Andrew
Beers relocates to Albany. ** Ferry service is launched between
Manhattan and the Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn, near today's
Grand Street.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">State<BR>
Tryon Town is established at the site of Indian Landing, at the
south end of Irondequoit Bay. ** Eli Granger builds the 30-ton
<I>Jemima</I> at the mouth of the Genesee River, the first schooner
built in the U. S. ** Charles Wilbur sells his Le Roy cabin to
Sullivan Expedition veteran John Ganson. ** Efforts are made to
revive Philip Schuyler's plans for a Stillwater Canal, from that
village to the Hudson, but nothing comes of them. ** Approximate
date of the birth of abolitionist Isabella Van Wagener (Sojourner
Truth) in Ulster County. ** The office of State Auditor General
is replaced by that of State Comptroller, but the change will
not be completed until 1812. ** Tiffany and Wands' <I>American
Spy</I> ceases publication. It will be continued by the new Lansingburgh
Gazette next year. ** A Federal-style home is built in Kinderhook.
Martin Van Buren will buy the house in 1841. ** Philanthropist
and social reformer Gerrit Smith is born in Utica. ** Charles
Scholl builds a grist mill, and later a distillery, on a creek
in Williamsburgh. ** Charles Williamson, Thomas Morris, Joseph
Annin, John Harris, and Wilhelmus Mynderse incorporate the Cayuga
Bridge Company to construct a span across the northern end of
Cayuga Lake. It will be built by Swartwood &amp; Deman of New
York City. ** Part of Otsego County is taken off for Delaware
County. ** Part of today's Hamilton County is taken off Herkimer
County and annexed to Montgomery County. ** The first settlement
in Chautauqua County is formed by Amos Sottle at the mouth of
Cattaraugus Creek. It will become the village of Irving. ** Residents
of Bath hold their first town meeting. Provisions are made for
fence inspections, with Andrew Smith named fence walker, and for
bounties on wolves and panthers. ** Steuben County joins Cayuga,
Onondaga, Ontario and Tioga in the Tenth Congressional District.
The first town meetings are held in the spring. ** Avon innkeeper
Gilbert R. Berry dies. His widow will continue the business until
1812. ** Geneva has its own water supply, using pipes made from
tamarack trees with holes bored through them. ** Williamson publishes
a pamphlet of five letters extolling the benefits of living in
the Genesee country and of subsidies to be provided for settlers.
** The western New York land boom peaks, sales begin declining.
** Williamson obtains legislation permitting up to $45,000 to
be raised for roads, by lottery. He is appointed the sole road
commissioner for Ontario County. ** The New York Council of Appointments
promotes Williamson from captain to lieutenant commandment of
a state militia battalion. ** Williamson's land sales total &pound;228,142:4:7.
and estimated conditional sales of &pound;1,022,231:1:9. ** Ezra
Turner settles on Clinton County's Salmon River, founding Schuyler
Falls. ** The Surveyor-General lays out a tract of 15,000 acres
around Onondaga Lake, to be known as the Onondaga Salt Springs
Reservation and used for the production of salt. ** Indian scout
Benjamin Patterson, hired by Charles Williamson to operate the
Painted Post Tavern, arrives from Northumberland (today's Sunbury),
Pennsylvania, by way of the Susquehanna and Chemung rivers. **
The oldest headstone in the Brown Road Cemetery in Caroline, Tompkins
County, dates back to this date.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Albany<BR>
Meeting at the Stadt Huys, the newly chosen state capital, the
state legislature votes to erect a public building there for archival
storage. It is known as the State Hall. The first commissioners
are Philip Schuyler, Abraham Ten Broeck, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer,
Daniel Hale and Teunis T. Van Vechten. ** The Ten Broeck Mansion
is built. ** A fire burns 96 buildings, leaving 150 families homeless.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Schenectady<BR>
The first bridge is constructed across the Mohawk River here.
It's blown over before completion and rebuilt in 1803. ** The
village trustees place an order with a London firm for two hand
fire engines.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Ohio<BR>
Cleveland's first settlers, Lorenzo Carter, Colonel Alexander
Harper, Elijah Gun, Ezekial Lawley and James Kingsbury, arrive.
Harper buys a township and names it Harpersfield, after his New
York State home.</FONT></P>

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<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Jan 16 <BR>
The Essex County town of Jay, named for state governor John Jay,
is formed from Willsborough.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">February<BR>
Isaac Mann, Jr., Stillwater supplier of logs to New York City
for its water system pipes during the Colles project, petitions
the city for payment of the balance due. Records cannot be found
for the contract and the council suggests Mann sue for his money.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Feb 23 <BR>
Rockland County is taken off Orange County.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">March <BR>
The survey of the Holland Land Company's new territory is begun
by Joseph Ellicott and his crew (including his brother Benjamin,
Amzi Atwater, George Burgess, Ebenezer Carey, George Eggleston,
Augustus Porter, Warnham Shepard, John Smedley, Richard M. Stoddard
and John Thompson.) They will clear a path four rods wide from
the Pennsylvania border to Lake Ontario - the Transit Line.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 2 <BR>
The Montgomery County town of Minden is formed from the town of
Canajoharie. ** A correspondent for the New York <I>Gazette &amp;
General Advertiser</I> estimates that the average cost of Tea
Water is $15 per family, suggests an annual tax to raise money
for a public waterworks. Nothing will come of the suggestion.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 9<BR>
The Schuyler County town of Catharine, including the inlet of
Seneca Lake, is formed from the Chemung County town of Newtown
(later Elmira), New York.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 15 <BR>
Oneida County is formed from Herkimer County. Oneida's town of
Augusta is formed from Whitestown. Rensem is formed from Norway,
New York.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 16 <BR>
The Sullivan County town of Deerpark is formed from the town of
Mamakating, later becomes part of Orange County.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 26 <BR>
Schenectady becomes the third chartered city in the state.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 30 <BR>
New state regulations go into effect for those producing salt
in the Onondaga Lake region, regulating leases, rents, production
levels, quantities, and packaging. They call for the establishment
of a village at Salt Point at the eastern end of the lake.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Apr 2 <BR>
The Niagara Canal Company is chartered, to build a canal between
lakes Erie and Ontario, along the Niagara River. It's never built.
** The New York Assembly, bribed by Theophile Cazenove of the
Holland Land Company, passes the Alien Land Holding Act, permitting
foreigners to own land in the state. The State Attorney receives
$3,000, Thomas Morris $1,000 and Aaron Burr $5,500.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Apr 3<BR>
Fort Schuyler becomes a village and its name is changed to Utica.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Apr 6 <BR>
The State Legislature calls for the surveying of a mile-long reservation
along the Niagara River to be set aside for the Alleghany Indians.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">May <BR>
French cartographers Haudeceour de Jaumeville and Alexandre Autrechy,
sent by Theophile Cazenove from Philadelphia, join Joseph Ellicott's
surveying party.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">May 10 <BR>
Surveyor Joseph Ellicott receives his official instructions from
Theophile Cazenove.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Jun 14 <BR>
Benjamin Ellicott is sworn in as surveyor for the Holland Purchase.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">July <BR>
Eli Granger sells the schooner <I>Jemima</I> to Augustus Porter
of Lewiston. ** Surveyor Seth Pease joins Joseph Ellicott's team.
** Surveyor Melancton Smith dies of yellow fever in New York City,
the first death in a summer-long epidemic in the city that will
claim 2,086 lives.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Jul 2<BR>
Westchester County, New York, doctor Joseph Browne, Aaron Burr's
brother-in-law, writes that the health of a city depends more
on the quality of its water than any other comestibles. He proposes
supplying the city from the Bronx River.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Jul 31 <BR>
The state legislature authorizes the storage of colonial records
in Albany's new State Hall. Some records, damaged while sequestered
on board ship during the Revolution, will be transcribed.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">August<BR>
Yellow fever has claimed close to 100 New York City lives by the
early part of the month. A carpenter sends around a wagon loaded
with coffins to be sold in the streets. ** New York's City Council
appoint a temporary health committee to aid the indigent though
the epidemic. They will spend $5,000 over the next three months.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">September <BR>
1,000 New Yorkers die of yellow fever, including the family of
doctor Alexander Anderson. He will later turn to engraving.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Sep 2 <BR>
New York doctor Elihu Smith writes that new cases of yellow fever
are dwindling, due to the small number of people remaining in
the city.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Sep 13 <BR>
63 New Yorkers die of yellow fever, including the father of a
future mayor, 17-year-old Philip Hone.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Sep 17 <BR>
Doctor Elihu Smith contracts yellow fever.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Sep 18 <BR>
Hone's mother dies of yellow fever.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Sep 19 <BR>
Elihu Smith dies of the fever.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">October <BR>
French emigre the Count de Colbert Maulevrier, touring western
New York with a large party of men and women, stop at Ganson's
Settlement (Le Roy) and are entertained. ** New York's yellow
fever death toll tops 400. ** New York City museum owner Gardiner
Baker dies in Boston in his mid-thirties. His Tammany Museum collection
is sold.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Oct 6 <BR>
Le Comte de Colbert Maulevrier, traveling on horseback from Canandaigua
by way of Perinton, arrives at Allan's Mills. He meets the Fishes,
finds two families on their way to York (today's Toronto) waiting
for schooner to take them across Lake Ontario.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Oct 7<BR>
Josiah Fish shows Maulevrier the falls of the Genesee, who afterwards
travels up the river and stays overnight at the farm of Peter
Shaeffer near Scottsville.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">November<BR>
Over 2000 New Yorkers are now dead from yellow fever. Colder weather
ends the epidemic.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Nov 5 <BR>
Joseph Ellicott instructs Pease on surveying the Niagara River.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Nov 6 <BR>
Ellicott instructs Pease on laying out New York's reserved lands
along the Niagara and making a map of the lands, and calculating
the contents of the water in Chautauqua Lake for Robert Morris.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Nov 15 <BR>
John Jacob Astor advertises in the New York <I>Gazette and General
Advertiser</I> that he has 24 cannons and other military supplies
for sale.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">December <BR>
Nicholas Roosevelt revives his proposals for supplying water to
New York City. Judge William Cooper proposes a plan to lay water
pipes there.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Dec 12<BR>
New York land proprietors' representative James Rees writes to
Holland Land Company surveyor Seth Pease, requesting a corrected
traverse survey of the Genesee River affecting his clients, who
had purchased land from Robert Morris, including properties for
Watson Craigie &amp; Greenleaf, Andrew Craigie, Samuel Ogden,
Garrett Cotringer, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Sterett, Thomas
Morris, Jones and Smith, and LeRoy, Bayard and McEvers (the Triangle
Tract).</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Dec 17 <BR>
A New York City committee chosen to evaluate water supply proposals
- John Bogert, John B. Coles, Jacob de la Montagnie, and Gabriel
Furman - reports that the Bronx River is the best source, but
that a few alterations need to made to Joseph Browne's plans.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Dec 26 <BR>
Land agent James Rees writes to Seth Pease requesting corrections
to the eastern boundary line.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">City<BR>
A residence is built at 207 Front Street. ** John Stevens conducts
steamboat experiments on Collect Pond for the third year in a
row. ** The Park Theatre opens at 23 Park Row. ** Population:
4,000 households. ** Three health commissioners requested by the
city and appointed under the state &quot;Act to provide against
infectious and pestilential Diseases&quot; are empowered to enforce
the city's health regulations. Dr. Richard Bayley is named head
of the Health Office. ** Coles' bridge across the Harlem River
is completed but his mill works at the site is still unfinished.
** The Tammany Society moves from its usual Barden's Tavern meeting
spot at Broadway near Bowling Green to new quarters at Brom Martling's
Tavern at Nassau and Spruce. The new place is nicknamed the Wigwam.
** The state legislature recognizes The Corporation for the Relief
of Widows and Children of Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the State of New York as a separate entity from a three-state
umbrella organization. ** The United Insurance Company and the
New-York Insurance Company for Maritime Insurance are chartered.
** Upstate land speculator James Wadsworth arrives, back from
a stay in England.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">State<BR>
Robert R. Livingston secures an exclusive contract from the legislature
to operate a steamboat on all waters of the state for twenty years,
provided he can build such a vessel within a year. ** The first
printing press in Cayuga County. ** Ephraim Webster is elected
Justice of the Peace and Supervisor of the town of Onondaga. **
Joseph Ellicott is hired to perform a survey of the Holland Land
Company purchase, aided by his brother Benjamin and a 130-man
crew. ** The approximate year pioneer William Johnston marries
a Seneca Indian and is given two square miles of land at the mouth
of Buffalo Creek. He is the first title holder of the Holland
Land Company. He erects a sawmill and four other buildings. **
Martha Hultz, aged 4, is brought to the Hector area from Enfield,
Connecticut, by her parents. ** Scots from Perthshire emigrate
to the eastern part of the state. ** Philadelphia businessman
James Brisbane opens a storehouse in Stafford. ** Connewango pioneer
James Battles is born in Vermont. ** Elisha Alvord, Ebenezer Butler,
Asa Danforth, Thomas Hart, Daniel K2&shy;T4#&Yacute;Olcott and
J0Q0iah Sanger organize the Federal Company to manufacture salt
on the shores of Lake Onondaga. ** Indians in the Mile Strip along
the Niagara River grant Horatio Jones and Jasper Parrish two square
miles of land north of Scajaquada Creek, near the northern city
limit of today's Buffalo. ** Francis Adancourt begins publishing
the Clintonian Democratic <I>Farmer's Register</I>, at Lansingburgh.
** General Timothy Hopkins settles at the future site of Alden.
** Part of Chenango County is taken off Herkimer County. ** Tobias
Newcomb builds a windmill at Williamsburgh, at a cost of $20.
** Vincent Matthews becomes the first politician from the Steuben
County area to be elected to the state senate. Charles Williamson
is elected a representative. ** The state legislature declares
Keuka, Lamoka, and Waneta lakes; the Canisteo and Conhocton rivers;
as well as Mead and Mud Creeks, to be public highways. ** Using
lottery revenues, the state launches a road-building period with
a bridge over the Conhocton River at Cameron Street in Bath as
well as a road from there to Hornell. ** Settler and lumber mill
operator Frederick Bartles ships over a hundred thousand feet
of timber from Mud Lake to Baltimore in his fleet of arks. He
wins contracts for next year. ** Bronx foundry owner and inventor
Jordan L. Mott is born in Manhasset, Long Island. ** Botanist,
chemist and physician Lewis Caleb Beck is born in Schenectady.
** Circulation of Lucius Carey's <I>Geneva Gazette and Genesee
Advertiser</I>, now published in Canandaigua, is reportedly close
to 1,000. ** Williamson has spent $7,700 on Ontario County roads
to date. His <I>Description of the Genesee Country</I> is published
in Albany. ** Geneva's Presbyterian church is established. **
James and Robert Cravarth, John Gillett, and Elijah Mason settle
the future Cortland County town of Preble. ** Henry Everts settles
the Scriba area of Oswego County. ** Construction begins on the
German Flats Canal. ** Batavia has three recorded inhabitants
- Joseph Ellicott and his brother Benjamin, and James Brisbane.
** Freegift Patchin settles in the town of Blenheim and builds
a mill on West Kill. ** When the younger Isaac Mann, Stillwater
supplier of logs to New York City for its water system pipes,
petitions the city for payment of the balance due him, records
cannot be found for the contract. ** Albany's First Reformed Dutch
Church is built. ** William Cooper builds a home, Otsego Hall,
at Cooperstown. ** The Eaton's Neck lighthouse is built on Long
Island Sound in Suffolk County. ** Archibald McIntyre is elected
to the state assembly from Montgomery County for the first of
two consecutive terms. ** Quakers in southwestern New York begin
teaching the Senecas the use of the plow and animal husbandry.
** State surveyor general Simeon De Witt misinterprets Dr. William
Petry's description of the villages of Herkimer and German Flatts,
facing each other across the Mohawk River. The names are switched
and never corrected.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Bath<BR>
The First Baptist Church is organized.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Rochesterville<BR>
The wife of Josiah Fish dies at Allan's Mills. Their daughter
Sophia marries Frederic Hosmer.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Technology<BR>
Fulton experiments with a four-bladed flywheel to propel a boat.
** Livingston rejects Nicholas Roosevelt's suggestion of using
John Sevens's side-wheels on a steamboat. Roosevelt and James
Smallman patent a steam engine. ** John Stevens conducts steamboat
experiments on New York City's Collect Pond for the third year
in a row.</FONT></P>

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<P><CENTER><B><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">1799</FONT></B></CENTER></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino"><BR>
Jan 7 <BR>
James Rees writes to surveyor Seth Pease, anxious to hurry along
the corrected traverse survey of the Genesee River.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 1 <BR>
Essex County is formed from Clinton County.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 8 <BR>
Cayuga County is formed out of Onondaga County. ** The Onondaga
County town of Camillus is formed from Marcellus.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 15 <BR>
The Franklin County town of Chateaugay is formed from Champlain.
** The town line between Sharon and Cobleskill, in Schoharie County,
is changed.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 23 <BR>
The Delaware County town of Roxbury is formed from Stamford. **
Orange County's Town of Blooming Grove is formed from Cornwall.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 25<BR>
The Warren County town of Chester is formed from Thurman.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 29<BR>
New York State passes a gradual emancipation act.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Mar 31 <BR>
The Colonie section of Albany is incorporated.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">May 25 <BR>
The board of supervisors of Bath meets for the first time. Canisteo's
first supervisor, Uriah Stephens presides. Charles Cameron is
appointed as the first Steuben County treasurer.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">July <BR>
John Jacob Astor sails to London with a shipment of furs.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Aug 1 <BR>
Pease's surveying party encounters a scarcity of drinking water,
is forced to use some found deep in a hole punched in the ground
by a fallen tree.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">November <BR>
Hector pioneer William Wickham falls from his horse and drowns
in the Seneca Lake inlet.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Nov 23 <BR>
John Jacob and Sarah Astor's 23-month old son dies.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">December <BR>
Philadelphia lawyer Philip Church meets Anna Stewart at Washington's
funeral. They will marry in 1805 and move to the New York frontier.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Dec 17 <BR>
The news of former president George Washington's death three days
earlier reaches New York City.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">Dec 22 <BR>
Young Gulielama Elmore Sands disappears from her sister's Greenwich
Street home in New York City. The mystery will be solved next
year.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">City<BR>
Attorney Marshall S. Bidwell is born. ** Merchant Peter Schermerhorn
takes his son into the business and opens a store on Water Street.
** Aaron Burr smuggles a charter for the Bank of Manhattan through
the legislature, disguised as one for a city water company. **
Colonel William Smith, son-in-law of John Adams, builds a carriage
house on his property that will later become a day resort, then
the Abigail Adams Smith Museum. ** John Jacob Astor's net worth
is over $100,000.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE="-1" FACE="Palatino">State<BR>
Scots immigrants living in Johnstown buy land from Charles Williamson
of the Pultney interests and an advance party of 23 settle Big
Springs (later Caledonia). ** Williamson is named as a state representative
again. ** Utica contains fifty houses. ** Joseph Ellicott plats
the Buffalo Creek site. It's to be called New Amsterdam. ** A
number of families settle along Le Roy's East Main Road. ** Dr.
Samuel L. Mitchell is retained by the Society for Promoting Agriculture
Arts, and Manufactures to publish an essay on the rocks in the
state. ** Seneca sachem Handsome Lake sees visions, becomes a
prophet. ** Albany's population reaches 5,000. ** Discouraged
by the changing political scene, judge and U. S. Congressman William
Cooper resigns both positions. ** Legislation is passed to control
quality of the salt manufactured in the Onondaga area. Further
packaging, inspection and shipping standards are also mandated.
** Early Connewango settler Asabel Brown is born in Grand Isle,
Vermont. ** With land sales faltering the state begins a system
of taxes. ** The first distance markers on the Williamson Trail
are erected by Laverne Beatty, between Bath and Cohocton, at a
cost of $7.00. ** Amos Eaton graduates from Williams College with
a degree in law. ** Geologist Ebenezer Emmons is born. ** Holland
Land Company General Agent Theophilus Cazenove is fired and returns
to his native Switzerland. He will be replaced next year by Paolo
Busti. ** Judge William Cooper is elected to Congress for a second
term. ** Daniel Carroll of Hagerstown, Maryland, and his brother
Charles of Washington, D. C. make their first trip to the Pulteney
lands. ** Gouverneur Morris's agent David Ford settles the village
of Brier Hill, in the St. Lawrence County Town of Morristown.</FONT></P>

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