Archives of the NY Herald Tribune should show the history of the
homemaking and culinary institute directed by Anne Lewis Pierce. She also
published several books including Quick Freezing, Casual Meals Casually
Considered, America's Cook Book and edited (wrote) Harvey Wileys 1001
Foods... for the Commerce Department which instigated the Pure Food and
Drug Act.
Where do I find these archives?
Karl A. Petersen
[log in to unmask]
From [log in to unmask] Mon Feb 3 10:55:28 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from unix2.nysed.gov by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id KAA11091; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 10:55:28 -0500
Received: from test-1 by unix2.nysed.gov (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id KAA06716; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 10:56:33 -0500
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 10:56:31 +0500 (EST)
From: Melinda Yates <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Herald Tribune Archives
X-Sender: [log in to unmask]
Message-ID: <Pine.PCW.3.91.970203105426.8863B-100000@test-1>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
content-length: 306
Mr. Karl Petersen inquired about the location of the archives
of the Herald Tribune.
I believe they are at the Queensborough Public Library.
Melinda Yates
Reference Librarian
NYS LIbrary
From [log in to unmask] Mon Feb 3 16:33:08 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from mail1.eznet.net by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id QAA11514; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 16:33:07 -0500
Received: from [207.50.130.122] (dialup48.roc-tc2.eznet.net [207.50.130.122]) by mail1.eznet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA01595; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 16:30:51 -0500
X-Sender: [log in to unmask] (Unverified)
Message-Id: <v03007800af1c08394e20@[207.50.130.107]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 16:29:23 -0500
To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask]
From: David Minor <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: NYNY 1795-1799
content-length: 6430
<bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>1795</fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><=
param>Geneva</param>
Mar 17 =09
The village of Bern is formed out of Rensselaerville and named for
first settler and mill owner Jacob Weidman's birthplace in
Switzerland.
Jun 23 =09
Early Rochester settler Nathaniel Hayward is born in Vermont.
State
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. ** =20
Ephraim Webster is granted 140 acres of land on the future site of
Syracuse.
<bold>1796</bold>
=46ebruary=09
English actor Joseph Jefferson makes his New York City debut in
<italic>The Provoked Husband</italic>.=20
Dec 19 =09
Victor Pellesier's opera <italic>Edwina and Angelina</italic> opens in
New York City.
Albany
The public water corporation is empowered to construct a water works,
but nothing comes of it.
City
John Fitch attempts a steam-driven boat on Collect Pond. John Stevens
also experiments with steam on the pond.
State
The Western Inland company receives a $15,000 loan from the state. **
The first printing press in Steuben County. William Kersey and James
Edie begin publishing the <italic>Bath Gazette and Genesee
Advertiser</italic>. ** Geneva Academy is founded.
<bold>1797</bold>
Sep 15 =09
The Treaty of Big Tree (near Geneseo) is signed with the Seneca. They
sell their lands 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.
City
=46ront 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.
State
Lucius Carey begins publishing the <italic>Geneva Gazette and Genesee
Advertiser</italic>, using the first printing press in Ontario County.
He soon moves the paper to Canandaigua. ** Tryon Town is
established at the site of Indian Landing, at the south end of
Irondequoit Bay. ** Eli Granger builds the 30-ton <italic>Jemima=20
</italic>at the mouth of the Genesee River, the first schooner built in
the=20
U. S. ** Meeting at the Stadt Huys in Albany, 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. ** 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 (SojournerTruth) in Ulster County.
Ohio
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.
<bold>1798</bold>
March =09
The survey of the Holland Land Company's new territory is begun by
Joseph Ellicott and his crew. They will clear a path four rods wide
from the Pennsylvania border to Lake Ontario - the Transit Line.
July =09
Eli Granger sells the schooner <italic>Jemima</italic> to Augustus
Porter of Lewiston.
Jul 31 =09
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.
October=09
=46rench 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.
City
A residence is built at 207 Front Street. ** 2,086 people die of
yellow fever. ** John Stevens conducts steamboat experiments on
Collect Pond for tyhe third year in arow.
State
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. ** Fort Schuyler becomes a
village and its name is changed to Utica. ** Ephraim Webster is
elected Justice of the Peace and Supervisor of the town of Onondaga. =20
** Joseph Ellicott is hired to perform a survey of the Holland Land
Company purchase, aided by his brother Benjamin and a 130-man crew. =20
** 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.
<bold>1799</bold>
Mar 29
New York State passes a gradual emancipation act.
Mar 31 =09
The Colonie section of Albany is incorporated.
November<bold>=09
</bold>Hector pioneer William Wickham falls from his horse and drowns
in the Seneca Lake inlet.
City
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.
State
Scots immigrants living in Jamestown buy land from Charles Williamson
of the Pultney interests and settle Caledonia. ** Utica contains
fifty houses. ** Joseph Ellicott plats the Buffalo site. ** 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 topublish an essay on the rocks in the state. =20
** Seneca sachem Handsome Lake sees visions, becomes a prophet. =20
** Albany's population reaches 5,000.
</fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor
From [log in to unmask] Mon Feb 3 15:20:31 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from MAIL.NYSED.GOV by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id PAA11403; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 15:20:30 -0500
Received: from SEDDOM1-Message_Server by MAIL.NYSED.GOV
with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 03 Feb 1997 15:21:03 -0500
Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 15:20:38 -0500
From: Clesson Bush <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: De Lisser Photos
content-length: 213
Does anyone know where the original photos that R. Lionel De Lisser
used in his book Picturesque Catskills are archived? Thanks.
C. Bush
From [log in to unmask] Tue Feb 4 10:49:28 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from emout20.mail.aol.com by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id KAA12982; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 10:49:27 -0500
From: [log in to unmask]
Received: (from root@localhost)
by emout20.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0)
id KAA09259 for [log in to unmask];
Tue, 4 Feb 1997 10:50:49 -0500 (EST)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 10:50:49 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: NYNY 1795-1799
content-length: 7703
David Minor, in his entertaining and informative piece of about New York
circa 1795-99, mentions John Fitch and John Stevens experiments with steam
boats in lower Manhattan's Collect Pond.
If he hasn't done so already and I missed it, I can hardly wait until Mr.
Minor gets to when the Collect Pond is filled in as a sanitation and
make-work jobs project and then the first Hall of Justice is built on wood
pilings only to sink a bit and develop a reputation as the dark, dank, damp
"Tombs." Although the sinkage and seepage were eventuallly solved and the
original tomb-motif structure has been twice replaced with buildings in other
styles, the Tombs name has stuck.
Thomas McCarthy
Director of Editorial/Communication Services
New York City Dept. of Correction
212 266 1016
fax 212 266 1597
[log in to unmask]
John Fitch attempts a steam-driven boat on Collect Pond. John Stevens
also experiments with steam on the pond.
)
Sender: [log in to unmask]
Reply-to: [log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask]
<bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>1795</fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><pa
ram>Geneva</param>
Mar 17
The village of Bern is formed out of Rensselaerville and named for
first settler and mill owner Jacob Weidman's birthplace in
Switzerland.
Jun 23
Early Rochester settler Nathaniel Hayward is born in Vermont.
State
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.
<bold>1796</bold>
February
English actor Joseph Jefferson makes his New York City debut in
<italic>The Provoked Husband</italic>.
Dec 19
Victor Pellesier's opera <italic>Edwina and Angelina</italic> opens in
New York City.
Albany
The public water corporation is empowered to construct a water works,
but nothing comes of it.
City
State
The Western Inland company receives a $15,000 loan from the state. **
The first printing press in Steuben County. William Kersey and James
Edie begin publishing the <italic>Bath Gazette and Genesee
Advertiser</italic>. ** Geneva Academy is founded.
<bold>1797</bold>
Sep 15
The Treaty of Big Tree (near Geneseo) is signed with the Seneca. They
sell their lands 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.
City
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.
State
Lucius Carey begins publishing the <italic>Geneva Gazette and Genesee
Advertiser</italic>, using the first printing press in Ontario County.
He soon moves the paper to Canandaigua. ** Tryon Town is
established at the site of Indian Landing, at the south end of
Irondequoit Bay. ** Eli Granger builds the 30-ton <italic>Jemima
</italic>at the mouth of the Genesee River, the first schooner built in
the
U. S. ** Meeting at the Stadt Huys in Albany, 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. ** 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 (SojournerTruth) in Ulster County.
Ohio
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.
<bold>1798</bold>
March
The survey of the Holland Land Company's new territory is begun by
Joseph Ellicott and his crew. They will clear a path four rods wide
from the Pennsylvania border to Lake Ontario - the Transit Line.
July
Eli Granger sells the schooner <italic>Jemima</italic> to Augustus
Porter of Lewiston.
Jul 31
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.
October
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.
City
A residence is built at 207 Front Street. ** 2,086 people die of
yellow fever. ** John Stevens conducts steamboat experiments on
Collect Pond for tyhe third year in arow.
State
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. ** Fort Schuyler becomes a
village and its name is changed to Utica. ** 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.
<bold>1799</bold>
Mar 29
New York State passes a gradual emancipation act.
Mar 31
The Colonie section of Albany is incorporated.
November<bold>
</bold>Hector pioneer William Wickham falls from his horse and drowns
in the Seneca Lake inlet.
City
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.
State
Scots immigrants living in Jamestown buy land from Charles Williamson
of the Pultney interests and settle Caledonia. ** Utica contains
fifty houses. ** Joseph Ellicott plats the Buffalo site. ** 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 topublish an essay on the rocks in the state.
** Seneca sachem Handsome Lake sees visions, becomes a prophet.
** Albany's population reaches 5,000.
</fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor
From [log in to unmask] Tue Feb 4 18:34:44 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from pppmail.appliedtheory.com by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id SAA14466; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 18:34:43 -0500
Received: from behavior by pppmail.appliedtheory.com (8.6.12/3.1.090690-Applied Theory Communications)
id SAA04245; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 18:39:42 -0500
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 19:41:18 +0000
From: "Robert V. Shear" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
Organization: NY History Net (http://www.NYHistory.com)
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [log in to unmask]
CC: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Underground Railroad
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
content-length: 805
Tony Cohen, who last year walked from Maryland to Canada to learn about
the Underground Railroad, has a website at http://www.ugrr.org.
He's proposed a national effort to map and research the ugrr, and has
posted a list from an 1898 book by Wilbur Siebert that lists persons
known at that time to have been involved. The page for NYS is located
at http://www.ugrr.org/names/map-ny.htm.
Some of the names are familiar to me and many are not. I'm interested
in setting up a web page that would include a database of names,
locations, brief descriptions, and web links (including pictures) for
New Yorkers involved in the UGRR. I have two questions of the List:
1. Is there such a website somewhere already?
2. (if not) Is there a more complete source than Siebert as a starting
point?
Bob Shear
From [log in to unmask] Wed Feb 5 08:24:33 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from mail.virginia.edu by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id IAA15849; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 08:24:32 -0500
Received: from pluto.clinch.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa20861;
5 Feb 97 8:25 EST
Received: (from tmc5a@localhost) by pluto.Clinch.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA101444 for [log in to unmask]; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 08:25:32 -0500
From: "Thomas M. Costa" <[log in to unmask]>
Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: WANTED: Historic Houses to Visit
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 97 8:25:32 EST
X-Mailer: PENELM [version 2.3.1 PL11]
content-length: 1471
I am X-Posting this from H-Local, the H-Net list for state and
local history. Please respond directly to Ms Blackburn. To
subscribe to H-Local, you can send a message to
[log in to unmask]:
subscribe h-local your name
Tom Costa
Message follows:
> I am teaching two undergraduate courses: one on Visionary Architecture and
> the other on Green Architecture. I would like to take my classes to see
> homes or businesses which are either unusual architecturally (domes, etc.)
> and/or which employ alternative forms of energy. We could also visit
> architectural firms which specialize in ecological approaches to
> architecture. Visits to alternative or utopian communities
> would also be great.
>
> I teach at Binghamton University in the Southern Tier area of New York
> State. If anyone on the list knows of places to visit within an hour or
> two of Binghamton (from northeastern Pennsylvania up to Albany, Syracuse,
> and Ithaca, or over westward toward Elmira or eastward off route 17 would
> probably be reasonable parameters), I would greatly appreciate your help
> in tracking down some places to visit.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Marcia Blackburn
> Art History Department
> Binghamton University
> Binghamton, NY 13902
> [log in to unmask]
>
--
Tom Costa Dept. of History and Philosophy
[log in to unmask] Clinch Valley College, Wise, Va. 24293
(540)328-0231 Co-Editor, H-Local
From [log in to unmask] Wed Feb 5 15:55:42 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from MAIL.NYSED.GOV by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id PAA17152; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:55:41 -0500
Received: from SEDDOM1-Message_Server by MAIL.NYSED.GOV
with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 05 Feb 1997 15:53:10 -0500
Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 15:50:38 -0500
From: Vicki Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Looking for the Westchester Herald
content-length: 286
A researcher who is not a member of the listserv is looking for the
March 14, 1837 issue of the Westchester Herald from Sing Sing, N.Y.
If you have it or know of a library or historical society that might have it,
please contact me at [log in to unmask]
Thanks.
Vicki Weiss
From [log in to unmask] Wed Feb 5 18:53:39 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from pppmail.appliedtheory.com by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id SAA17595; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 18:53:39 -0500
Received: from behavior by pppmail.appliedtheory.com (8.6.12/3.1.090690-Applied Theory Communications)
id SAA19016; Wed, 5 Feb 1997 18:58:33 -0500
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 20:00:10 +0000
From: "Robert V. Shear" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
Organization: NY History Net (http://www.NYHistory.com)
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: WANTED: Historic Houses to Visit
References: <[log in to unmask]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
content-length: 1356
Thomas M. Costa wrote:
>
> I am X-Posting this from H-Local, the H-Net list for state and
> local history. Please respond directly to Ms Blackburn.
> Message follows:
>
> > I am teaching two undergraduate courses: one on Visionary Architecture and
> > the other on Green Architecture. I would like to take my classes to see
> > homes or businesses which are either unusual architecturally (domes, etc.)
> > and/or which employ alternative forms of energy. We could also visit
> > architectural firms which specialize in ecological approaches to
> > architecture. Visits to alternative or utopian communities
> > would also be great.
> >
> > I teach at Binghamton University in the Southern Tier area of New York
> > State. If anyone on the list knows of places to visit within an hour or
> > two of Binghamton (from northeastern Pennsylvania up to Albany, Syracuse,
> > and Ithaca, or over westward toward Elmira or eastward off route 17 would
> > probably be reasonable parameters), I would greatly appreciate your help
> > in tracking down some places to visit.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Marcia Blackburn
> > Art History Department
> > Binghamton University
> > Binghamton, NY 13902
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
The Oneida Community Mansion House comes to mind. I have a page up on
them at
http://www.sbh.org/historic/oneida.htm
Bob Shear
From [log in to unmask] Thu Feb 6 17:03:42 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from berry.epix.net by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id RAA19691; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 17:03:39 -0500
Received: from art77.epix.net (svcr-84ppp195.epix.net [199.224.84.195])
by berry.epix.net (8.8.5/8.8.5/970130Scott Paul) with SMTP id RAA22996;
Thu, 6 Feb 1997 17:01:55 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 18:01:52 -0800
From: Arthur <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: Artco
X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01KIT (Win16; U)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [log in to unmask]
CC: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Underground Railroad
References: <[log in to unmask]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
content-length: 1094
Bob,
As far as I know, Tony has about the best one going. I'll be interested
in your page. It was against the law (Fugitive slave law); so most of
the people involved, kept it a secret, even after the war.
Art Prutzman
Dallas, Pa.
Robert V. Shear wrote:
>
> Tony Cohen, who last year walked from Maryland to Canada to learn about
> the Underground Railroad, has a website at http://www.ugrr.org
>
> He's proposed a national effort to map and research the ugrr, and has
> posted a list from an 1898 book by Wilbur Siebert that lists persons
> known at that time to have been involved. The page for NYS is located
> at http://www.ugrr.org/names/map-ny.htm
>
> Some of the names are familiar to me and many are not. I'm interested
> in setting up a web page that would include a database of names,
> locations, brief descriptions, and web links (including pictures) for
> New Yorkers involved in the UGRR. I have two questions of the List:
>
> 1. Is there such a website somewhere already?
> 2. (if not) Is there a more complete source than Siebert as a starting
> point?
>
> Bob Shear
From [log in to unmask] Fri Feb 7 08:58:12 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from super.mhv.net by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id IAA21382; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 08:58:11 -0500
From: [log in to unmask]
Received: from LOCALNAME (port143.mhv.net) by super.mhv.net (5.x/SMI-SVR4)
id AA04663; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 08:59:35 -0500
Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 08:52:28 -0800
X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01KIT (Win16; U)
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: history list <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: primary sources for kids
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
content-length: 1320
I am an elementary school librarian preparing a collection of primary source
documents for elementary school kids. This collection is intended to be a
companion to the book "Owl's Journey: Four Centuries of an American County" by
Maura Shaw. The book looks at events or time periods in Dutchess County, and
creates stories to dramatize those events and help kids to understand them.
Now I am looking for documents which will, I hope, "ground" those stories in
fact. The New York State Social Studies and Language Arts Curricula assume
that kids will be able to respond to primary sources, but finding the right
documents is proving to be dicier than I thought. I'm working on resources for
the chapter on the Underground RR, while keeping my eye peeled for other
resources relating to the other 12 chapters. (I noticed a posting yesterday for
a website dealing with the Underground RR, but it seems to ignore Dutchess
County -- a Quaker stronghold in the 18th c.) In another message, later this
weekend, I will list the other chapters. Perhaps you know of a wonderful, "kid
friendly" (i.e. developmentally appropriate) document that pertains to some
issue in the book.
Thank you for your help.
Julia Kessler email= [log in to unmask]
Librarian, West Road School (on sabbatical)
Pleasant Valley, NY
From [log in to unmask] Fri Feb 7 22:43:26 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from pppmail.appliedtheory.com by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id WAA23488; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:43:25 -0500
Received: from behavior (ppp64-222.appliedtheory.com [204.168.64.222])
by pppmail.appliedtheory.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA24024
for <[log in to unmask]>; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 22:48:25 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 22:14:32 -0500
From: Bob Shear <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: Syracuse Behavioral Healthcare (http://www.SBH.org)
X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: primary sources for kids
References: <[log in to unmask]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
content-length: 752
[log in to unmask] wrote:
> ...Now I am looking for documents which will, I hope, "ground" those stories in
> fact. The New York State Social Studies and Language Arts Curricula assume
> that kids will be able to respond to primary sources, but finding the right
> documents is proving to be dicier than I thought. I'm working on resources for
> the chapter on the Underground RR, while keeping my eye peeled for other
> resources relating to the other 12 chapters. (I noticed a posting yesterday for
> a website dealing with the Underground RR, but it seems to ignore Dutchess
> County -- a Quaker stronghold in the 18th c.)
If I'm not mistaken, Sojourner Truth was born in Dutchess County. There's some material
aout her on the web.
Bob Shear
From [log in to unmask] Mon Feb 10 05:48:44 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from freenet.npiec.on.ca by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id FAA26548; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 05:48:43 -0500
Received: from NiagaraNet.npiec.on.ca (NiagaraNet.npiec.on.ca [205.211.3.7])
by freenet.npiec.on.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA14168
for <[log in to unmask]>; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 05:39:08 -0500 (EST)
Received: from localhost (ntreanor@localhost) by NiagaraNet.npiec.on.ca (8.6.13/8.7.6) with SMTP id FAA46066 for <[log in to unmask]>; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 05:39:05 -0500
X-Authentication-Warning: NiagaraNet.npiec.on.ca: ntreanor owned process doing -bs
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 05:39:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicholas Treanor <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: NYNY 1785-1789
In-Reply-To: <v03007800af094d47696e@[207.50.129.142]>
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
content-length: 724
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, David Minor wrote:
[under the sub-heading, 1786]
> ** A son is
> born to Horatio and Sarah Whitmore Jones, the first white child born
> west of Utica.
The Jones boy may have been the first white child born _in New York State_
west of Utica, but the Haynes family of Rensselaerwyk, N.Y. had migrated
some 200 miles west of Utica in 1783, and there had been at least two
children born there before 1786. :)
Nick.
Nicholas Haynes Treanor {
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada } Life is an adventure,
{ not a guided tour
[log in to unmask] }
From [log in to unmask] Mon Feb 10 11:18:12 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id LAA27347; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:18:11 -0500
Received: from [132.236.102.94] (CU-DIALUP-0080.CIT.CORNELL.EDU [132.236.102.94]) by postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA20271 for <[log in to unmask]>; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:19:17 -0500 (EST)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:19:17 -0500 (EST)
X-Sender: [log in to unmask]
Message-Id: <v03010000aded98223d2d@[132.236.102.66]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
To: [log in to unmask]
From: carol kammen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Watkins and Flint
content-length: 428
A friend is researching the area of Tompkins County known as the "16,000
Acre Tract" or Connecticut Hill. This was part of the Watkins and Flint
track of land.
He wonders if anyone known the location of the survey and mapmade by
Pumpelly in or around 1800? Or of any other maps and information about the
land sales made by Pumpelly, located in Owego, concerning that land.
With appreciation, Carol Kammen
[log in to unmask]
From [log in to unmask] Mon Feb 10 21:06:05 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from pppmail.appliedtheory.com by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id VAA29170; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:06:03 -0500
Received: from behavior (ppp68-191.appliedtheory.com [204.168.68.191])
by pppmail.appliedtheory.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA03793;
Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:11:03 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 22:12:43 +0000
From: "Robert V. Shear" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
Organization: NY History Net [http://www.NYHistory.com]
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [log in to unmask]
CC: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask]
Subject: Underground RR in NYS
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
content-length: 954
Last week I posted regarding the creation of a website for gathering and
presenting information on the UGRR in NYS. So far, no one has offered a
better starting point than the Siebert list previously referenced. I
have, however, heard from folks who have information about people and
places not included in that list. Others have offered suggestions on
record content.
Before I start asking for help in loading up information, I'd appreciate
some comment on the layout of the site and pages at
http://www.NYHistory.com/ugrr. The site includes proposed formats for
inter-linked records on People and Places, as well as a page of Related
Web Links. I'd appreciate as much thought as possible on the best form
for record content to take, as my plan would be to provide input forms
on the site for people to directly enter data, as well as a dbase file
structure for people who want to collect and forward data on multiple
sites.
Thanks
Bob Shear
From [log in to unmask] Mon Feb 10 23:50:13 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from mail1.eznet.net by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id XAA29639; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:50:12 -0500
Received: from [207.50.130.71] (dialup61.roc-tc1.eznet.net [207.50.130.71]) by mail1.eznet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA03946; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:49:16 -0500
Message-Id: <v03007800af2591635b38@[207.50.130.13]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii"
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 22:04:43 -0500
To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask]
From: David Minor <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: NYNY 1800-1804
content-length: 9092
<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>1800
Jan 7
U. S. President Millard Fillmore is born in Summerhill.
Aug 2
Alexander Hamil
October
Batavia's Holland Land Company surveyor Joeph Ellicott completes the
two-and-a-half-year survey of their holdings, at a total cost of
$70,291.69.
November<bold>
</bold>Paolo Busti is named General Agent of the Holland Land Company
and he hires surveyor Joseph Ellicott as Land Agent.
December
Joseph Ellicott arrives on the site of the future Buffalo to begin
operations.
City
John McComb, Jr.'s Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in lower Manhattan
is completed.
State
James Wadsworth sells Genesee Valley land to the painter Benjamin West.
** The first printing press in Tioga County. ** Greene
County is created from part of Albany County. ** Onondaga County
area white population is eight people per square mile. ** Eben
Eaton begins publishing the short-lived <italic>Impartial Observer and
Seneca Museum</italic>. ** The cow belonging to the recently
widowed Mrs. William Wickham, wife of the Hector pioneer, is killed by
a falling tree. ** Hagerstown, Maryland, businessman Colonel
Nathaniel Rochester visits western New York, along with Colonel W.
Fitzhugh and Major Charles Carroll. Fitzhugh and Carroll purchase land
in the Mount Morris area, while Rochester buys land at Dannsville.
** The state constructs the Mohawk Turnpike, across the eastern part
of the state.
1801
January
The Holland Land Company opens for business at Asa Ransom's house in
Clarence, selling land at approximately $2 an acre.
Feb 1
Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole is born in Bolton-le-Moors,
England.
March
Settler Abel Howe builds a cabin in Batavia. Joseph Ellicott moves his
Holland Land Company office into Howe's cabin.
Mar 4
Jefferson and Burr are inaugurated. The Cabinet consists of James
Madison, State; Samuel Dexter, Treasury; Henry Dearborn, War; Benjamin
Stoddert, Navy; Gideon Granger, Postmaster General and Levi Lincoln,
Attorney General.
Mar 30
Colonie is re-incorporated.
May 11
Aaron Burr lieutenant William P. Van Ness is proposed for membership in
the Republican political club, the Society of St. Tammany.
May 16
Future Secretary of State William Henry Seward is born in Florida, New
York.
July
Philip Church begins a survey of New York State's Morris Reserve
(today's Allegany County), takes Moses Van Campen as a guide.
August
A political coup in the state turns out many Federalist office
holders.
Oct 13
The New York State Constitution Revision Committee meets, elects Aaron
Burr as its president.
Nov 7
Joseph Ellicott gives the settlement of Batavia its name, honoring his
employers' country.
Nov 16
The New York <italic>Evening Post i</italic>s first published, by
Alexander Hamilton, with William Coleman as editor.
City
Christian Brown becomes a bookbinder. ** Edward Livingston is
appointed mayor for each of the next two one-year terms. **
Elizabeth Ann Seton resides at the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in
lower Manhattan.
State
The western section's first school opens at Ganson's (Le Roy). A log
cabin is built at Buttermilk Falls nearby. ** Samuel Lincoln
becomes the first settler in the future Bergen. ** Robert Troup
succeeds Charles Williamson as land agent in western New York. **
The English horse Thoroughbred Messenger spends a Year performing stud
duty in Goshen. ** Holland Land Office field agent Joseph
Ellicott builds a two-story log cabin office in Batavia. He has a dam
and a sawmill built on the site - a bend in Tonawanda Creek. ** A
Federal-srtyle home is built at 562 South Main Street in Geneva. **
Naturalist Charles Willson Peale organizes the search for a mastodon
skeleton on the farm of John Masten, near Newburgh. Later in the year
he begins displaying it in his Philadelphia museum.
1802
Jan 15
Lawyer and philanthropist Charles Butler is born in Kinderhook Landing
to Medad and Hannah (Tylee) Butler.
February
De Witt Clinton is elected to the U. S. Senate.
Mar 16
West Point Military Academy is established by Congress.
Mar 30
Genesee County is established and its first elections are held. In
later years the counties of Niagara, Orleans, Monroe, Wyoming,
Livingston, Chautauqua, Cattaragus and Allegany will be created out of
the new county. The town of Batavia is formed.
Jun 1
The first book fair is held, in New York City.
Jul 4
The first class of cadets enters West Point.
State
The town of Southhampton is formed out of Northhampton to form the
village of Caledonia. ** The state authorizes the incorporation
of the Utica Aqueduct Company. ** Middletown is founded. **
Captain Philip Church pioneers Allegany County's Angelica, naming it
after his mother. ** Ganson's Tavern is built in Le Roy. **
Lucius Carey sells the <italic>Geneva Gazette and Genesee
Advertiser</italic> to a company of Canandaigua federalists, who employ
John J. Gould as editor of the new paper. ** Colonel James
McMahan pioneers Westfield, the first settlement in Chautauqua County.
** The state purchases a mile-wide strip of land along the Niagara
River from the Senecas, calling it the Mile Strip. ** Virginia
native Robert Selden Rose moves to central New York State.
Albany
The Albany Water-works Company is incorporated. ** The first home
of St. Peter's Church is demolished.
Batavia
Holland Land Company field agent Joseph Ellicott replaces his log field
office with a frame structure. He soon finds sales hampered by the
incomvenience of having the county seat at Canandaigua, and by
prohibitive taxes. ** The first county courthouse west of the
Genesee River is completed.
1803
City
Mayor Edward Livingston pledges his fortune to cover the theft of house
bonds by a subordinate. ** The city begins the process of filling
in the Collect Pond. The project will take eight years to complete.
State
The Hundred-Acre-Tract is bought by Charles Carroll, William Fitzhugh
and Nathaniel Rochester. ** Scots pioneers build the first
schoolhouse west of the Genesee, in Caledonia. ** John J. Gould
begins publishing the <italic>Western Repository and Genesee
Advertiser</italic>. ** Isaac Tiffnay begins publishing the
<italic>Ontario Freeman</italic>. ** Three Pennsylvania pioneers
found Fredonia. ** Three Quaker missionaries buy 609 acres oif
land that later give birth to Salamanca. ** Triangle Tract land
agent Richard Stoddard persuades some settlers from Killingsworth,
Connecticut, to settle in the Le Roy area, rather than proceding on to
Ohio's Western Reserve. ** Construction begins oin the State
House in Albany, jointly financed by the city, the county and the
state. ** DeWitt Clinton resigns from the U. S. Senate, to become
Mayor of New York City. He will be reappointed annually through 1815,
except for 1807 and 1810. ** Martin Van Buren is named to the
New York State Bar.
Batavia
Adam Hoops and three business partners make the first purchase from the
Holland Land Company. Joseph Ellicott has the log office torn down and
moves business into a frame building on the site. ** Batavia is
named county seat of Genesee County.
1804
Feb 25
A Republican congressional caucus nominates Thomas Jefferson and New
York governor George Clinton for president and vice-president.
Mar 23
Alexander Hamilton splits with the New York <italic>Evening
Post</italic>, of which he is a backer, over politics.
Apr 9
Colonie becomes a village.
Jul 11
Aaron Burr shoots Hamilton in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.
Jul 12
Alexander Hamilton dies of his wounds, in New York City.
October
James D. Bemis becomes a joint proprietor on Canandaigia's
<italic>Western Repository and Genesee Advertiser</italic>, soon
becomes sole proprietor.
Nov 1
Newspaper editor Frederick Follett is born in Gorham, New York.
Nov 20
New York City's historical society (the New-York Historical Society) is
formed.
State
James Kent becomes chief justice. ** The Seneca County Court
House at Waterloo is built. ** Adam Hoops chosses the name Olean
for his new settlement, corrupting oleum, the Latin word for oil. **
Philip Church builds a home in Angelica, which he calls The White
House. ** Albany's Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts
and Manufactures expires, along with it's charter. It's revived and
incorporated this same yaer as theSociety for the Promotion of Useful
Arts. ** Federalists in New York and New England propose setting
up a northern confederacy. ** John Stevens crosses the Hudson
River from Hoboken, New Jersey, to New York City in a boat fitted with
a steam engine.
Art
John Vanderlyn's <italic>The Death of Jane McCrea</italic> .
</fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor
From [log in to unmask] Tue Feb 11 09:51:44 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from sarah.albany.edu by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id JAA00470; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 09:51:42 -0500
Received: from 169.226.1.100.albany.edu (zahavi.clio.albany.edu [169.226.27.22])
by sarah.albany.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA18262
for <[log in to unmask]>; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 09:52:24 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
Comments: Authenticated sender is <[log in to unmask]>
From: "Gerald Zahavi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 09:51:02 +0000
Subject: "The Glovers of Fulton County"
Priority: normal
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.31)
content-length: 1483
Dear New York History list members:
The History and Media Project of the Department
of History of the Univesity at Albany-SUNY has initiated
its first major project, "The Glovers of Fulton County" -- an
encyclopedic, hypertext treatment of an entire Mohawk Valley industry,
examining its evolution from the early 1800s through the late 20th
century. It marks the first of what we hope will be many WWW
installations produced by History Department faculty and students. For
a sample of the rich labor and business history sources we will be
installing on the Web, check out "The Glovers of Fulton County -- The
Glove Cutters' Strike of 1914" easily linked through our Department's
homepage at the following URL: http://www.albany.edu/history. The
project is directed by Prof. Gerald Zahavi and graduate student Susan
McCormick. This project will be followed by one focusing on the
history of the General Electric Corporation, from the 1890s through
the present.
We welcome your feedback and suggestions as the project proceeds.
We are also looking for photographs, old films, interviews, and
relevant documents pertaining to the glove industry -- for inclusion on
the Web site.
Thanks, Gerry Zahavi.
---------------------------------------------------
Prof. Gerald Zahavi
Dept. of History, Ten Broeck 105
University at Albany - SUNY
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany, N.Y. 12222
Phone: (518) 442-4780
Email: [log in to unmask]
---------------------------------------------------
From [log in to unmask] Tue Feb 11 10:46:46 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from dfw-ix13.ix.netcom.com by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id KAA00845; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 10:46:45 -0500
Received: (from smap@localhost)
by dfw-ix13.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4)
id JAA10422 for <[log in to unmask]>; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 09:47:40 -0600 (CST)
Received: from alb-ny4-04.ix.netcom.com(204.32.163.132) by dfw-ix13.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3)
id sma010250; Tue Feb 11 09:44:57 1997
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 10:45:13 -0500
From: Karen Hartgen <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
Organization: Hartgen Archeological
X-Sender: Karen Hartgen <[log in to unmask]> (Unverified)
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b1 (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: NEW YORK ARCHAEOLOGICAL COUNCIL - PRESS RELEASE
X-Priority: Normal
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------33702CF06D412"
content-length: 8314
------------33702CF06D412
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> (Albany - February 10, 1997) The New York Archaeological Council
> (NYAC) today announced that it found it necessary to begin legal
> proceedings to hold the Dormitory Authority of the State of New
> York (DASNY) in contempt for its recent actions at a downtown
> Albany archaeological site. An Order to Show Cause was issued on
> February 7, 1997. NYAC contends that DASNY destroyed portions of
> the Dutch community of Beverwyck dating from the mid-17th
> century. NYAC had commenced a proceeding in October 1996
> challenging DASNY's failure to comply with legal requirements
> concerning the study and mitigation of Albany's priceless
> historical site. The case was settled by a Stipulation among the
> parties which was Ordered by Justice Teresi on October 21, 1996,
> The agreement required DASNY to give preference to archaeology
> during construction of its headquarters.
>
> NYAC claims that DASNY constructed its sewer lines in what
> archaeologists consider an extraordinarily rich area of the site,
> in clear violation of Justice Teresi's Order. The value of this
> resource is confirmed by the archaeological work done to date by
> DASNY's consultant. Charles Cobb, NYAC's former President who
> closely monitors progress at the site, stated: "This unique site
> contained well preserved archaeological remains from Native
> American and Dutch settlers living in and around the 17th century
> settlements of Beverwyck and Fort Orange." Archaeologists agree
> that this site is one of the most important sites in the early
> European settlement of North America. The site represents the
> only Dutch residential and commercial area which has been
> investigated during this period in the United States.
> Preservation and promotion of Albany's early Dutch heritage can
> have a positive effect on economic development by providing an
> attractive and unique tourist destination.
>
> Cobb, who serves as NYAC's lead representative for this
> site, stated. "These areas of the site have been irreparably
> damaged by this latest construction. DASNY's actions, which were
> entirely unnecessary, warrant the imposition of a substantial
> penalty. The loss to the public and to the scientific community
> is immeasurable. Archaeological investigation, research and
> analysis of our nation's heritage can and must be incorporated
> into the design and planning of development projects at the
> earliest practical time in order to allow both to proceed
> responsibly. NYAC hopes this measure will be received and
> understood by DASNY." NYAC is seeking fines and damages in the
> amount of $200,000 to punish DASNY for its actions.
> Archaeological deposits are fragile resources and, once removed,
> can never be reconstructed. Unfortunately, Albany has again lost
> an irreplacable portion of its unique heritage.
>
> NYAC is represented by Carl G. Dworkin and Marc S. Gerstman
> For more information, contact Charles Cobb at 607-777-2487.
------------33702CF06D412
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
<HTML><BODY>
<DT><BR>
> <BR>
> (Albany - February 10, 1997) The New
York Archaeological Council<BR>
> (NYAC) today announced that it found
it necessary to begin legal<BR>
> proceedings to hold the Dormitory Authority
of the State of New<BR>
> York (DASNY) in contempt for its recent
actions at a downtown<BR>
> Albany archaeological site. An Order
to Show Cause was issued on<BR>
> February 7, 1997. NYAC contends that
DASNY destroyed portions of<BR>
> the Dutch community of Beverwyck dating
from the mid-17th<BR>
> century. NYAC had commenced a proceeding
in October 1996<BR>
> challenging DASNY's failure to comply
with legal requirements<BR>
> concerning the study and mitigation
of Albany's priceless<BR>
> historical site. The case was settled
by a Stipulation among the<BR>
> parties which was Ordered by Justice
Teresi on October 21, 1996,<BR>
> The agreement required DASNY to give
preference to archaeology<BR>
> during construction of its headquarters.<BR>
> <BR>
> NYAC claims
that DASNY constructed its sewer lines in what<BR>
> archaeologists consider an extraordinarily
rich area of the site,<BR>
> in clear violation of Justice Teresi's
Order. The value of this<BR>
> resource is confirmed by the archaeological
work done to date by<BR>
> DASNY's consultant. Charles Cobb, NYAC's
former President who<BR>
> closely monitors progress at the site,
stated: "This unique site<BR>
> contained well preserved archaeological
remains from Native<BR>
> American and Dutch settlers living in
and around the 17th century<BR>
> settlements of Beverwyck and Fort Orange."
Archaeologists agree<BR>
> that this site is one of the most important
sites in the early<BR>
> European settlement of North America.
The site represents the<BR>
> only Dutch residential and commercial
area which has been<BR>
> investigated during this period in the
United States.<BR>
> Preservation and promotion of Albany's
early Dutch heritage can<BR>
> have a positive effect on economic development
by providing an<BR>
> attractive and unique tourist destination.<BR>
> <BR>
> Cobb,
who serves as NYAC's lead representative for this<BR>
> site, stated. "These areas of the
site have been irreparably<BR>
> damaged by this latest construction.
DASNY's actions, which were<BR>
> entirely unnecessary, warrant the imposition
of a substantial<BR>
> penalty. The loss to the public and
to the scientific community<BR>
> is immeasurable. Archaeological investigation,
research and<BR>
> analysis of our nation's heritage can
and must be incorporated<BR>
> into the design and planning of development
projects at the<BR>
> earliest practical time in order to
allow both to proceed<BR>
> responsibly. NYAC hopes this measure
will be received and<BR>
> understood by DASNY." NYAC is seeking
fines and damages in the<BR>
> amount of $200,000 to punish DASNY for
its actions.<BR>
> Archaeological deposits are fragile
resources and, once removed,<BR>
> can never be reconstructed. Unfortunately,
Albany has again lost<BR>
> an irreplacable portion of its unique
heritage.<BR>
> <BR>
> NYAC is represented by Carl G. Dworkin
and Marc S. Gerstman<BR>
> For more information, contact Charles
Cobb at 607-777-2487.<BR>
</DT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
------------33702CF06D412--
From [log in to unmask] Tue Feb 11 12:19:58 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from emout02.mail.aol.com by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id MAA01214; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:19:57 -0500
From: [log in to unmask]
Received: (from root@localhost)
by emout02.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0)
id MAA19741 for [log in to unmask];
Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:21:05 -0500 (EST)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:21:05 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Pan-American Exposition
content-length: 248
I am looking for a comprehensive book, if there is one, on the Buffalo
World's Fair (1901?). In particular I need an overview of its stated
objectives and that sort of thing. Does anyone have anything to recommend?
Thank you in advance. Amy K.
From [log in to unmask] Wed Feb 12 08:38:45 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from emout09.mail.aol.com by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id IAA00455; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:38:44 -0500
From: [log in to unmask]
Received: (from root@localhost)
by emout09.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0)
id IAA23554 for [log in to unmask];
Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:39:55 -0500 (EST)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:39:55 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Pan-American Exposition
content-length: 346
UCAM Staff, Union City Historical Society Museum
I, noticed your posting as I checked our mail this morning. I will have to
look but we may have a book on the Pan-American as we have several on the
Columbian exposition. This will take about 48 hours and if you will contact
us @ [log in to unmask] The staff will be able to answer your question.
From [log in to unmask] Wed Feb 12 08:48:46 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from unix2.nysed.gov by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id IAA00483; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:48:45 -0500
Received: from dos50.nysed.gov by unix2.nysed.gov (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id IAA23011; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:49:56 -0500
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:50:06 +0500 (EST)
From: Barbara Lilley <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Pan-American Exposition
In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
X-X-Sender: [log in to unmask]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
content-length: 643
The Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society has a large collecton on
the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. Their telephone number is 716-873-9612
They do mention a title "Symbol and Show: the Pan-American Exposition of
1901" by Austin M. Fox, Meyer Enterprises, 1994 that is in their
collection.
Barbara Lilley
New York State Library
On Tue, 11 Feb 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I am looking for a comprehensive book, if there is one, on the Buffalo
> World's Fair (1901?). In particular I need an overview of its stated
> objectives and that sort of thing. Does anyone have anything to recommend?
> Thank you in advance. Amy K.
>
From [log in to unmask] Fri Feb 14 12:31:22 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from is2.nyu.edu by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id MAA05989; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:31:21 -0500
Received: from localhost by is2.nyu.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/28Jan97-0620PM)
id AA25846; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:32:35 -0500
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:32:34 -0500 (EST)
From: David William Voorhees <[log in to unmask]>
To: New York List <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: de Halve Maen
Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
content-length: 743
De Halve Maen, a journal dedicated to the study of the Dutch colonial
period in North America and its continuing legacy, seeks articles in all
areas of New Netherland history, including archeology, material culture,
women's history, and the Native American, Afro-American, Jewish, Huguenot,
and other ethnic experiences in the region which comprises the present
states of western Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and
Pennsylvania. A quarterly publication, the journal features scholarly
articles, review essays, and book reviews of interest to historians and
general readers.
Please submit manuscripts to David William Voorhees, Editor, de Halve
Maen, The Holland Society of New York, 122 East 58th Street, New York, NY
10022.
From [log in to unmask] Sat Feb 15 17:47:58 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from mtigwc04.worldnet.att.net by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id RAA08434; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 17:47:57 -0500
Received: from LOCALNAME ([207.116.36.231]) by mtigwc04.worldnet.att.net
(post.office MTA v2.0 0613 ) with SMTP id AAA15932
for <[log in to unmask]>; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 22:49:20 +0000
X-Sender: [log in to unmask] (Unverified)
X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
To: [log in to unmask]
From: Robert Gilston <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Albany/China Ship Experiment
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 22:49:20 +0000
Message-ID: <19970215224919.AAA15932@LOCALNAME>
content-length: 633
NYHist-l-ers,
I am in the initial stages of gathering information regarding the
spice trader 'Experiment' the 60 foot Sloop built by Stewart Dean in 1785 on
the Hudson River in Albany and sailed to China. It has recently been in the
news due to the painting by L.F. Tantillo: 'The Voyage of the Experiment'
and plans to have a replica of the original 'Experiment' built in Albany
sometime in the future.
I would be interested in locating any information on the
'Experiment' - perhaps plans or a ships log - and on Stewart Dean's famous
voyage to China.
Thank you for anything that you can provide.
Bob Gilston
From [log in to unmask] Mon Feb 17 23:51:41 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from mail1.eznet.net by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id XAA12176; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:51:40 -0500
Received: from [207.50.130.28] (dialup18.roc-tc1.eznet.net [207.50.130.28]) by mail1.eznet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA08209; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:53:02 -0500
Message-Id: <v03007800af2ee1c31d38@[207.50.130.37]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:49:07 -0500
To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask]
From: David Minor <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: NYNY 1805-1809
content-length: 10688
<bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>1805</fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><=
param>Geneva</param>
City
=46rederic Tudor of Boston ships a cargo of ice from New York City to
Martinique. ** 13 year-old John Howard Payne, publishes a
theatrical review, <italic>The Thespian</italic>
State
Lawyer George Washington Strong enters the New York State bar. ** =20
The approximate date the town of West Pulteney (Riga) is settled. **
Kingston is incorporated as a village. ** Scottish Highlanders
begin moving into the Phelps and Gorham Tract. ** The Caledonia
Presbyterian Kirk is founded. ** A customs agent is appointed at
Charlotte, on Lake Ontario.
<bold>1806</bold>
=46eb 22
The Hudson River thaws.
Mar 28=09
Broome County is established.
Apr 4 =09
The Eagle Insurance Company is incorporated in New York, the city's
first fire insurance company organized as a stock company.
Apr 7 =09
Allegany County is established out of Genesee County.
May 19 =09
The Free School Society opens the first Lancastrian school, in New York
City.
Nov 2 =09
New Jersey appoints a commission consisting of Lewis Condict, Alexander
C. McWhorter, =00=00=04=A7n Ogden, James Parker and William S. Pennington, t=
o
settle the state's border with New York. The dispute will remain
unsettled at this time.
December<bold> </bold>
Over 500 ships dock in New York City harbor this month.
Dec 13=09
Robert Fulton arrives in New York City, returning from England on the
<italic>Windsor Castle</italic>. .
City
=46inal work is completed on the State Street home of James Watson. **
<italic>Evening Post</italic> editor William Coleman, impressed with
the talent of teenage writer-dramatist John Howard Payne, takes the=20
young man under his wing. Payne's drama <italic>Julia, or the
Wanderer</italic> is produced.=20
State
Businessman William Kempshall settles ten miles east of Rochester. =20
** Samuel Church builds a sawmill beside Black Creek, west of
Rochester. The settlement growing up here will be named Churchville.=20
** Lake Ontario shipments from the Genesee River total $30,000. =20
** Stephen Thoon begins a survey for the State of New York. ** =20
John A. Stevens begins publishing the <italic>Ontario
Messenger</italic>. James Bogart begins the <italic>Geneva
Gazxette</italic>. ** Jurist J. K. Richardson is born. ** =20
A flour mill (the future Phoenix Mill) is built at the High Falls of
the Genesee River.
<bold>1807</bold>
May<bold> =09
</bold>Robert Fulton's steamboat is ready for painting. ** Clark
Crandall of Rensselaer County settles near Bakers Bridge in the future
town of Alfred.
May 2 =09
The first city tour guide, Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill's <italic>The Picture
of New York </italic>is published.
Jul 2 =20
Allegany County courts begin sitting, at Angelica.
Jul 18 =09
=46ulton lectures to New York City officials on his torpedoes.
Jul 20 =09
=46ulton demonstrates his torpedoes in New York harbor, sinking a target
ship after three attempts. =20
Aug 9 =09
=46ulton tests his new steamboat in Manhattan's East River. It makes a
successful one-mile run. =20
Aug 16 =09
=46ulton makes a steamboat run around the southern tip of Manhattan.
Aug 17 =09
=46ulton's steamship, the <italic>Clermont</italic>, begins the first
steam voyage, from New York to Albany, averaging 5 mph. He reaches
Haverstraw Bay by nightfall.
Aug 18 =09
=46ulton reaches Livingston's home, Clermont, at 1 PM. His average speed
is 4 1/2 miles an hour. =20
Aug 19 =09
=46ulton steams north out of Clermont, reaches Albany in slightly over 8
hours.The entire sailing time is 28 hours and 45 minutes.
Aug 20 =09
=46ulton begins the return trip, with French botanist Francois Andre
Michaux on board.
Aug 21 =09
=46ulton completes his first round trip to Albany, arriving in New York.
September<bold>=09
</bold>The sloop <italic>Fox</italic> rams Fulton's boat, trying to
disable it.
Sep 3 =09
=46ulton registers his vessel as the <italic>North River Steam
Boat</italic>.=20
Sep 4 =09
=46ulton begins regular steamboat service to Albany.
October<bold> =09
</bold>Fulton leaves New York for Washington.
Oct 30 =09
English-born trader Theophylact Bache dies in New York City, at the age
of 72. He will be buried at Trinity Church.
December<bold>=09
</bold>Fulton tries again to interest Jefferson and the Secretary of
the Navy in using his torpedoes on the British. He leaves for New
York.
City
John McComb Jr.'s Castle Clinton is built, as a fortification, on the
lower tip of Manhattan. ** 300 people are imprisoned for debt
this year. ** Marinus Willett is appointed to replace De Witt
Clinton, for a one-year term. ** The city is granted a northward
extension of its underwater land rights along the Hudson and East
rivers, 400 feet out from shore. ** Black Shakespearean actor Ira
=46. Aldridge is born.
State
The first printing press in Genesee County. Elias Williams starts
<italic>The Intelligencer</italic>,<italic> </italic>the first
newspaper in the county. ** Jesse Hawley, imprisoned for debt in
Canandaigua, writes thirteen essays under the name Hercules, proposing
a canal across New York State.
Albany
The State House is completed, at a cost exceeding the original $120,000
estimate. ** A ferry sinks in the harbor. Thirty passengers
drown.
<bold>1808</bold>
Jan 5 =09
=46ulton leaves New York City to go upstate.
Jan 7 =09
=46ulton marries Harriet Livingston, in Teviotdale.
March =09
Saratoga County physician Dr. Billy J. Clark reads Dr. Benjamin Rush's
<italic>An Inquiry Into the Effect of Spiritous Liquors on the Human
Body and Mind</italic>. =20
Mar 11 =09
Part of Steuben County is annexed to Allegany County. The Allegany
county seat is permanently moved to Angelica and construction of a
courthouse and a jail are mandated. The town of Alfred is formed from
Angelica. Cattaraugus County is formed.=20
Mar 20 =09
Martin Van Buren is appointed surrogate of Columbia County.
Apr 6 =20
The state legislature renames 33 towns having duplicate names. The Town
of Fairfield, in Warren
County, is changed to Lake Luzerne.
Apr 11 =09
The village of Colonie becomes a town.
Apr 30 =09
Dr. Clark forms the Union Temperance Society of Moreau and
Northumberland.
August<bold> =09
</bold>The Federalists convene in New York City, nominate Charles
Cotesworth Pinckney for President, Rufus King for Vice-president.
City
The American Academy of Fine Arts is incorporated. ** 1300 people
are imprisoned for debt this year, up from 300 the year before. ** =20
Printer John Wiley is born.
State
The legislature introduces a bill to fund a feasibility study for a
state canal. ** An inn is built at Riga, the town's first=20
building. ** Pork, potash, wheat, whiskey, etc. worth $100,000
is shipped from the Genesee River. 15 schooners ply the Lake Ontario
shore ports. ** Niagara and Chautauqua counties are created out
of Genesee County. ** Daniel P. Tompkins, the "farmer's son", is
elected governor of New York State. ** Martin Van Buren moves to
Hudson, New York.
<bold>1809</bold>
January<bold> =09
</bold>John Stevens visits Robert Livingston at Clermont. They build an
iceboat.
=46ebruary<bold>=09
</bold>Stevens entertains Livingston in New York City.
=46eb 20 =09
=46ulton leaves Washington for New York City.
March<bold> =09
</bold>Fulton's <italic>North River
</italic>(<italic>Steamboat</italic>)goes back into Hudson River
service. ** James Wadsworth publishes notices to lure settlers to
the Genesee Valley.
Mar 10 =09
The ice goes out of the Hudson River for the year.
Mar 16 =09
=46ulton leases a house at 75 Chambers Street.
Apr 5 =09
=46ulton completes the cabins on the <italic>Steamboat</italic>.=20
Apr 26 =09
The <italic>Steamboat</italic> makes its first voyage up the Hudson.
Jun 10 =09
John Stevens takes his <italic>Phoenix</italic> out of New York City
into the open seas, headed for Philadelphia - the world's first
ocean-going steamboat.
Jun 14 =09
=46ulton and Livingston's <italic>Car of Neptune i</italic>s launched, in
New York City.
Dec 1 =09
=46ulton, Livingston and Stevens agree to a compromise. Fulton and
Livingston get the steamboat monopoly on all New York State waters, the
run to New Brunswick, New Jersey, and the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
Stevens gets Chesapeake Bay, the Connecticut, Delaware, Santee and
Savannah Rivers, and the run from Long Island Sound to Providence,
Rhode Island.
Dec 6 =09
Washington Irving's <italic>Knickerbocker's History of New
York</italic> is published.
City
Teenaged journalist-playwright John Howard Payne makes his acting
debut, playing Young Norval in <italic>Douglas</italic>. ** =20
Robert Fulton is invited to join the American Philosophical Society.=20
State
Engineer James Geddes surveys a possible route for a state canal. It's
eventually adopted. ** Solomon Chadwick settles on the shore of
Lake Erie, founding the community of Chadwick's Bay. It will become
Dunkirk. ** Schenectady County is formed from part of Albany
County. ** Early settler John Hooker arrives in Angelica from
Vermont. ** Architect Ephraim Russ begins practicing in the
Rensselaerville area. He builds the Stevens home. ** Transplanted
Virginian Robert Selden Rose builds a frame house outside of Geneva,
names it Rose Hill Farm. ** The Elba Iron Works is established,
near Lake Placid. ** Folk artist Noah North is born in Alexander.
** Temperence author Timothy Shay Arthur (<italic>Ten Nights in a
Bar Room and What I Saw There</italic>) is born in Newburgh.
NOTE:
Received the following note from Nick Treanor up (and out) in Ontario:
>>>On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, David Minor wrote:[under the sub-heading, 1786]
A son is born to Horatio and Sarah Whitmore Jones, the first white
child born west of Utica. =20
The Jones boy may have been the first white child born west of Utica,
but the Haynes family of Rensselaerwyk, N.Y. had migrated some 200
miles west of Utica in 1783, and there had been at least two children
born there before 1786. :) <<<<<<
So it appears that a white child was born in Ontario, which would have
been 200 miles west of Uica but not in NYS, at the earlier date
Thanks to Nick for the amplification; the item will be coorected to
read ....child born, in the state, west of Utica...</fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor
From [log in to unmask] Thu Feb 20 01:47:45 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from emout18.mail.aol.com by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id BAA02283; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:47:44 -0500
From: [log in to unmask]
Received: (from root@localhost)
by emout18.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0)
id BAA14498;
Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:49:03 -0500 (EST)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:49:03 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
Subject: Armenian Research
content-length: 1400
Hi,
First of all my name is Aaron Frechette. I'm an a junior in high school at
North Smithfield High School in Rhode Island, USA. I'm doing research on the
Armenian genocide. As part of my National History day project, I plan to
make a scrapbook in the form of a "family Bible" as the major part of the
project. If you're of Armenian descent, I'd appreciate it if you'd answer
one or more of the folwing and/or feel free to discuss how your Armenian
ancestry influences your life. Anyone else who has researched this area or
has any opinions on the Armenian massacres is welcomed and encouraged to
comment. Please e-mail me with responses (Aaron [log in to unmask]). Also, please
state your name and hometown so I can include your story in my report. Thank
you.
1. Are there any family stories passed down to you about the Genocide?
When would these stories be told (special occasions). Please briefly
re-tell the stories.
2. Do you belong to a church with Armenian heritage? To what extent is your
church a center for Armenian culture?
3. Did you, or do you, attend Armenian school? Would you have your children
attend? Why?
4. As a result of the Genocide, are there any long term negative feelings
towards those of Turkish descent? Are there any current efforts for
reconciliation or forgiveness?
5. Do you or members of your family visit or plan to visit Armenia? When?
Why?
From [log in to unmask] Thu Feb 20 13:07:39 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from mail1.eznet.net by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id NAA04370; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:07:33 -0500
Received: from [207.50.130.47] (dialup37.roc-tc1.eznet.net [207.50.130.47]) by mail1.eznet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20443 for <[log in to unmask]>; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:09:46 -0500
Message-Id: <v03007800af3216fde7a4@[207.50.130.58]>
In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 10:02:00 -0500
To: [log in to unmask]
From: David Minor <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: de Halve Maen
content-length: 1045
David,
I'm sure some of us on the list would be interested in more information on
the journal - subscription rates, possibility of a sample copy, recent TOC,
etc.)
David Minor
>De Halve Maen, a journal dedicated to the study of the Dutch colonial
>period in North America and its continuing legacy, seeks articles in all
>areas of New Netherland history, including archeology, material culture,
>women's history, and the Native American, Afro-American, Jewish, Huguenot,
>and other ethnic experiences in the region which comprises the present
>states of western Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and
>Pennsylvania. A quarterly publication, the journal features scholarly
>articles, review essays, and book reviews of interest to historians and
>general readers.
>
>Please submit manuscripts to David William Voorhees, Editor, de Halve
>Maen, The Holland Society of New York, 122 East 58th Street, New York, NY
>10022.
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor
From [log in to unmask] Thu Feb 20 20:41:40 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from pop1-sbc.uu.net by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id UAA05740; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:41:38 -0500
Received: from packard-bell by pop1-sbc.uu.net with SMTP
(peer crosschecked as: Cust99.Max7.New-York.NY.MS.UU.NET [153.35.3.99])
id QQcduc20067; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:42:58 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 22:01:34 -0500
From: David Holle <[log in to unmask]>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02E-KIT (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Frank Jessup Scott
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
content-length: 106
Am researching Frank Jessup Scott, 1828-1919, landscape architect etc.
Any information would be helpful.
From [log in to unmask] Fri Feb 21 10:06:23 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from ns1.crisny.org by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id KAA06794; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:06:22 -0500
Received: from [204.97.183.74] (ppp8.crisny.org [204.97.183.74]) by ns1.crisny.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA16490 for <[log in to unmask]>; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:05:00 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <v01510100af32dec12c01@[204.97.183.99]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:12:12 +0500
To: [log in to unmask]
From: [log in to unmask] (John Hanson)
Subject: Re: Frank Jessup Scott
content-length: 148
We donot do research over the internet. However we handle research requests by mail. Our address is RCHS, 59 Second Street, Troy, New York 12180
From [log in to unmask] Fri Feb 21 11:10:20 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from is2.nyu.edu by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id LAA06931; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:10:19 -0500
Received: from localhost by is2.nyu.edu; (5.65v3.0/1.1.8.2/28Jan97-0620PM)
id AA12331; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:11:39 -0500
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:11:39 -0500 (EST)
From: David William Voorhees <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: de Halve Maen
In-Reply-To: <v03007800af3216fde7a4@[207.50.130.58]>
Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
content-length: 1079
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, David Minor wrote:
> David,
>
> I'm sure some of us on the list would be interested in more information on
> the journal - subscription rates, possibility of a sample copy, recent TOC,
> etc.)
>
> David Minor
De Halve Maen, an illustrated quarterly published by The Holland Society
of New York, attempts to provide the most up-to-date American and European
scholarly research on New Netherland and its legacy. For example, the
current issue includes articles by historian Donna Merwick on Albany
notary public Adriaen Janse van Ilpendam (which undoubtedly will prove
controversial), and by historian Mary Lou Lustig on English governor
Edmond Andros's relationship with the New York Dutch mercantile community;
and book reviews of Lloyd Ultan's, "The Bronx in the Frontier Era, from
the Beginning to 1696," and of Peter R. Christoph's, ed., "The Dongan
Papers, 1683-1688, Part 2."
A year's subscription to de Halve Maen is $28.50, and may be obtained by
writing to:
The Holland Society of New York
122 East 58th Street
New York, NY 10022.
From [log in to unmask] Fri Feb 21 12:12:21 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from MAIL.NYSED.GOV by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id MAA07399; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:12:20 -0500
Received: from DOMAIN1-Message_Server by MAIL.NYSED.GOV
with Novell_GroupWise; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:13:30 -0500
Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:14:17 -0500
From: Phil Lord <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Map interpretation
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Disposition: inline
content-length: 859
The New York Department of Transportation asked if there was in print a
guide for interpreting "historic maps", by which they mostly mean 19th
century atlas and roll maps of New York counties. They ask their
regional staff to screen proposed projects for possible impacts on
cultural resources, and a comparison of historic maps with modern
project maps is useful.
Such a guide would include interpretation of symbols and labels, such as
"BSS" "SH" etc., as well as some insight into making the jump from 19th
century cartography to modern mapping; a skill that can't come directly
out of a book, but an experience that can be helped along by a book.
It seems to me I have seen something along these lines, but I am at a loss
where. Can anyone suggest some published material that might be useful
to these folks?
Phil Lord
NYS Museum
[log in to unmask]
From [log in to unmask] Fri Feb 21 14:08:11 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from unix2.nysed.gov by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id OAA07883; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:08:10 -0500
Received: from dos56.nysed.gov by unix2.nysed.gov (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id OAA08257; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:09:34 -0500
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:09:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Jim Corsaro <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Map interpretation
X-Sender: [log in to unmask]
In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
content-length: 2029
Because so much mapping in the 19th century and earlier was done by
individual map makers there was no necessary defined system of
cartographic notation used by everyone, let alone standards of
accuracy which were required. That kind of defined standard of, to
use modern jargon. "best practice" was chiefly the product of
increased government work in mapmaking. This is obviously not to say that
earlier maps are not accurate or correct, but just to note that they
are less likely to be uniform in their symbolic terminology.
One source of help in interpreting the maps, other than any
information found on the individual maps themselves, would be
manuals of cartography and surveying. We have a few such
surveyors/cartographers manuals in the State Library. Histories of
cartography, which are also found in the State Library's
cartographic collection, may also be some help.
Jim
James Corsaro
Associate Librarian
Manuscripts and Special Collections
New York State Library
Empire State Plaza
Albany, New York 12230
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
(518) 474-5963
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Phil Lord wrote:
> The New York Department of Transportation asked if there was in print a
> guide for interpreting "historic maps", by which they mostly mean 19th
> century atlas and roll maps of New York counties. They ask their
> regional staff to screen proposed projects for possible impacts on
> cultural resources, and a comparison of historic maps with modern
> project maps is useful.
>
> Such a guide would include interpretation of symbols and labels, such as
> "BSS" "SH" etc., as well as some insight into making the jump from 19th
> century cartography to modern mapping; a skill that can't come directly
> out of a book, but an experience that can be helped along by a book.
>
> It seems to me I have seen something along these lines, but I am at a loss
> where. Can anyone suggest some published material that might be useful
> to these folks?
>
> Phil Lord
> NYS Museum
> [log in to unmask]
>
From [log in to unmask] Fri Feb 21 15:51:35 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from pppmail.appliedtheory.com by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id PAA08479; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 15:51:33 -0500
Received: from behavior (ppp68-206.appliedtheory.com [204.168.68.206])
by pppmail.appliedtheory.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA25796;
Fri, 21 Feb 1997 15:56:43 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 16:58:30 +0000
From: "Robert V. Shear" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
Organization: NY History Net [http://www.NYHistory.com]
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [log in to unmask]
CC: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Underground Railroad in NYS
References: <[log in to unmask]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
content-length: 1059
RE: http://www.NYHistory.com/ugrr
The New York names from Wilbur Siebert's book on the UGRR have been
listed in a dbase file. The file is then used to generate a web page
listing individuals alphabetically, with brief descriptions and links to
known web-based information. Content has been entered for Gerrit Smith,
Jermain Loguen, Frederick Douglass, and James Caleb Jackson. I would
appreciate comments. Pending the creation of a form to facilitate
addition of material, I'd appreciate list users providing me with
additional names, descriptions, and/or web links to biographical
information and photos.
The companion file of places has been generated for illustration
purposes using conventional methods. I'd appreciate comments, as well
as suggestions of sources for UGRR sites in NYS. I'm particularly
interested in comments on The Hippocrene Guide to the UGRR by Charles
Blockson as a source.
Lastly, I'd be happy to provide the dbase file structure(s) to anyone
who may have students or other ways of compiling records for this site.
Thanks.
From [log in to unmask] Sat Feb 22 13:41:19 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from sam.napanet.net by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id NAA10556; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 13:41:18 -0500
Received: from napanet.net.napanet.net (unalloc-199.napanet.net [157.22.199.104]) by sam.napanet.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA11649 for <[log in to unmask]>; Sat, 22 Feb 1997 10:42:59 -0800
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 10:42:59 -0800
Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]>
X-Sender: [log in to unmask]
X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
To: [log in to unmask]
From: Gwen Becker <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Frank Jessup Scott
content-length: 230
What is RCHS? Gwen [log in to unmask]
At 10:12 AM 2/21/97 +0500, you wrote:
>We donot do research over the internet. However we handle research requests
by mail. Our address is RCHS, 59 Second Street, Troy, New York 12180
>
>
>
From [log in to unmask] Mon Feb 24 15:51:32 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from mail1.eznet.net by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id PAA15137; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:51:29 -0500
Received: from [207.50.130.23] (dialup13.roc-tc1.eznet.net [207.50.130.23]) by mail1.eznet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA15738 for <[log in to unmask]>; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:53:40 -0500
X-Sender: [log in to unmask] (Unverified)
Message-Id: <v03007800af37ae4402c7@[207.50.130.124]>
In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:47:06 -0500
To: [log in to unmask]
From: David Minor <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Frank Jessup Scott
content-length: 517
That would be the Renesselaer County Historical Society. I visited it with
the Canal Society of New York State last fall and was quite impressed with
the collection.
>What is RCHS? Gwen [log in to unmask]
>
>
>At 10:12 AM 2/21/97 +0500, you wrote:
>>We donot do research over the internet. However we handle research requests
>by mail. Our address is RCHS, 59 Second Street, Troy, New York 12180
>>
>>
>>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor
From [log in to unmask] Mon Feb 24 23:09:05 1997
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from mail1.eznet.net by unix10 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id XAA16540; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:09:04 -0500
Received: from [207.50.130.35] (dialup25.roc-tc1.eznet.net [207.50.130.35]) by mail1.eznet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA09514; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:10:01 -0500
Message-Id: <v03007800af38103f866f@[207.50.130.23]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:09:00 -0500
To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
[log in to unmask]
From: David Minor <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: NYNY 1810-1814
content-length: 15736
<bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>1810</fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><=
param>Geneva</param>
July<bold> =09
</bold>Fulton leaves New York City for Teviotdale.
Sep 8 =09
The <italic>Tonquin</italic> sails from New York for the mouth of the
Columbia River, with the nucleus of the Pacific Fur Company.
Sep 21 =09
=46ulton shows a model of his improved torpedo boat in New York's City
Hotel.
Sep 24 =09
A planned demonstration of Fulton's torpedo, at New York's Corlear's
Hook, is called off due to inclement weather.
Sep 25 =09
=46ulton's demonstration is again called off.
Sep 28 =09
=46ulton's demonstration of his cable-cutting knife (to set free moored
enemy shipping) is a failure.
Oct 30 =09
=46ulton demonstrates a model of his torpedo ship.
Nov 1 =09
=46ulton successfully demonstrates his underwater cable-cutting knife.
City
Cornelius Vanderbilt establishes ferry service between Manhattan and
Staten Island. ** Jacob Radcliff is appointed mayor for the next
year, replacing De Witt Clinton. ** The city begins using coal
for heating. ** <italic>Torpedo War and Submarine Explosions, by
Robert Fulton, Fellow of the Americanhilosophical Society</italic> is
published.
State
Wealthy businessman Nathaniel Rochester leaves his home at Mount
Prospect, Maryland, and moves to Dansville, New York. ** Buffalo
is incorporated. ** Jamestown is founded. ** Onondaga
County area white population is twenty-four people per square mile.
Le Roy
Ganson's Tavern is completed. ** The area's Craigie Tract is put
on the market by newly arrived Randolph, Vermont immigrant
ThomasTufts. ** Triangle Tract surveyor and land agernt Richard
Stoddard dies. His partner Dudley Saltonstall sells his interest in the
tract to Graham Newell, who becomes the new land agent.
Rochesterville
=46rancis Brown moves from Rome, New York, to the west bank of the
Genesee. ** The Frankfort Tract, on the future site of
Rochester, isbought by Matthew, Francis and David Brown, and Thomas
Mumford and John McKay. ** De Witt Clinton visits the area while
scouting a canal route.
</fontfamily>
<bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>1811</fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><=
param>Geneva</param>
Jan 24 =09
The New Jersey legislature authorizes the seizure of any New York
monopoly steamboats that seize New Jersey boats.
Apr 1 =09
A gridiron plan for New York City streets is laid out by the
commissioners.
Apr 2 =09
The Albany Company sails their new steamboat, the <italic>Hope</italic>
to New York City for final work on her engines.
Apr 8 =09
The New York State legislature creates a canal commission.=20
May<bold> </bold>=09
=46ulton orders copies of all steamboat patents, preparatory to a lawsuit
against the Albany Company.
June<bold> =09
</bold>The <italic>Hope</italic> steams from New York City to Albany.
Aug 3 =09
Judge Henry Brockholst Livingston dismisses Robert Livingston and
=46ulton's plea for an injunction against the Albany Company before a
full trial can be held.=20
September<bold>=09
</bold>The Albany Company's steamship <italic>Perserverance</italic>
joins the Hudson River steamers. ** John Stevens begins running
his steam ferry<italic> Juliana</italic> between Manhattan's Vesey
Street and Hoboken, New Jersey.
Sep 14 =09
The bill against the Albany Company is filed.
Oct 10 =09
The <italic>Beaver</italic>, sent by John Jacob Astor with Captain
Sowle commanding, leaves New York City for Astoria in the Pacific
Northwest.
November<bold>=09
</bold>Chancellor John Lansing denies an injunction to Livingston and
=46ulton, citing the novelty of the case. ** Fulton and
Livingston purchase land for workshops at the corner of Beach and
Washington Streets in New York City.
City
Castle Williams is built on Governor's Island, in New York Harbor. John
McComb, Jr.'s Castle Clinton is built ion lower Manhattan, and Fort
Wood is built on Bedloe's Island. ** Merchant Peter Schermerhorn
builds Schermerhorn Row, in southern Manhattan. ** The present
City Hall is completed. ** The city holds its first outdoor
circus, on landfill at the site of the Collect Pond. ** Robert
=46ulton launches the steamboat <italic>Paragon</italic>.=20
State
Another inn is built at Riga. ** The printing press is introduced
to Erie County. ** Portions of Allegany County are returned to
Genesee County. ** The Cohoes Manufacturing Company is founded,
to produce textiles and iron goods. ** An ox-powered ferry goes
into service on Chautauqua Lake between Bemus Point and Stow. ** =20
Robert Fulton is appointed to a Erie Canal commission. ** The
Pavilion Hotel charges 6=A2 a night for lodging and 12.5=A2 for a meal.
Albany
The city begins getting its water from the Maezlandt Kill (creek),
bringing it into a receiving reservoir through an iron main and
distributing it through wooden mains.
Rochester
The hamlet of Castletown is founded. ** Colonel Nathaniel
Rochester begins having some of the lots in the Hundred Acre Tract
surveyed and put on the market.
<bold>1812</bold>
Jan 24 =09
The Fulton and Livingston workshops in New York City are destroyed by
arson.
=46eb 25 =09
Robert Fulton leaves Washington for New York.
May =09
=46ulton moves his family to a new New York house opposite Bowling
Green.
May 26 =09
Albany's Lancasterian School Society (board of education) is
incorporated.
May 29 =09
A New York State caucus nominates De Witt Clinton for the presidency. =20
** Fulton's wife Harriet gives an entertainment aboard his
<italic>Paragon</italic>.=20
June<bold> </bold>=09
Nicholas Roosevelt returns to New York with inaccurate records of his
expenditures for the <italic>New Orleans</italic>.=20
Jun 8=09
The New York - Vermont border is finalized along a line run by New York
surveyors Robert Yates, Robert R. Livingston, John Lansing, Jr., Gulian
C. Verplanck, Simeon De Witt, Egbert Benson, Richard Sill and
Melancthon Smith, and Vermont surveyors Isaac Tichenor, Stephen R.
Bradley, Nathaniel Chipman, Elijah Paine, Ira Allen, Stephen Jacob and
Israel Smith. ** The towns of Pembroke and Bergen are formed out
of the town of Batavia.
Jun 27 =09
The cargo ship <italic>Commencement,</italic> out of Black Rock, is
seized by the British on Lake Ontario.
Jul 19 =09
U. S. forces on Lake Ontario drive off an attack at Sackett's Harbor
made by the Canadian Provincial Marine Fleet in an attempt to recover
the schooner <italic>Lord Nelson</italic>.
Jul 31 =09
=46rancis H. Gregory sails out of Sacketts Harbour, hides three gigs
among the Thousand Islands and captures a British ship, then burning it
to avoid being captured by a British gunboat.
Aug 17 =09
The Federalist Party convenes in New York City, chooses De Witt Clinton
to run against incumbent James Madison for the presidency.
Aug 18 =09
The Friends of Liberty, Peace and Commerce stage an anti-war mass
meeting in New York City.
Sep 15 =09
=46ulton reaches a compromise with the Albany Company.
Sep 21 =09
U. S. forces under Captain Benjamin Forsyth march from Sackett's
Harbour to Cape Vincent, then cross the border under cover of darkness
and attack British and Canadian forces at Gananoque, Ontario. Forsyth's
troops are victorious.
October<bold> =09
</bold>Fulton agrees to supervise the conversion of the canal across
lower Manhattan into the present Canal Street.
Oct 4 =09
U. S. forces defeat the British at Ogdensburgh, after a British raid
out of Prescott, Ontario, fails and their two gunboats are forced to
return.
Oct 22 =09
U. S. militia out of Fort Covington attack a British outpost at St.
Regis.
Oct 23 =09
U. S. troops at St. Regis kill eight of the enemy, take 23 prisoners
and capture supplies meant for trade with the Indians.
November=09
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, saddler Abelard Reynolds, newly arrived in
Rochester, is named postmaster. He has bought lots 23 and 24 on Main
Street.
Nov 2 =09
Martin Van Buren is sw=00=00=00orn in as a New York State Senator.
Nov 3 =09
A Republican caucus chooses De Witt Clinton to run for the
governorship.
Nov 11 =09
U. S. troops lead by Commodore Isaac Chauncey sail out of Sackett's
Harbour and attack the Can=00=00adian Provincial Marine Fleet at Kingston,
Ontario. Chauncey is forced to withdraw without having driven the
British from Lake Ontario.
Nov 16 =09
General Henry Dearborn begins moving 5,000 men from Plattsburgh to
Rouses Point for an invasion of Canada.
Nov 20 =09
Dearborn's militia refuses to cross over into Canada.
December<bold> </bold>
The packet ship <italic>Patriot</italic> leaves Georgetown, South
Carolina, bound for New York with Theodosia, Aaron Burr's daughter
aboard. The ship is never seen again. ** Fulton buys the
<italic>Hope</italic> from the Albany Company for $11,000. ** =20
=46ulton is given the freedom of the city of New York.
City
The city is fortified. ** City Hall is completed. ** =20
Robert Fulton exposes Redheffer's perpetual motion machine. ** =20
Nine crew members of the ship <italic>Leopard</italic> sue the owners
successfully for amounts ranging from $36.32 to $80.36. ** Robert
=46ulton's steam ferryboat <italic>Jersey</italic> is put into service on
the North and East Rivers.
State
The town of Bellona is created out of part of Caledonia. ** The
Jenkins homestead in Rensselaerville is completed. ** Rochester
educator Celestia Bloss is born. ** An inn is built at West Main
Street and Craigie Street in Le Roy. It will one day become the
residence of Harold B. Ward.
Rochester
The area east of the Genesee River, on the future site of Rochester, is
bought for mill sites by Samuel J. Andrews and Caleb Atwater. ** =20
The village of Rochesterville is laid out on the Genesee, below the
falls.
<bold>1813</bold>
January<bold> =09
</bold>Lobbyists for the Bank of America begin importuning the New York
State legislature to forgive a bonus owed to the state.
Jan 26 =09
The Albany<italic> Argus</italic> begins publication.
=46eb 22 =09
George McDonnell's British and Canadian troops capture the fort at
Ogdensburg.
Mar 4 =09
The Regents of the State of New York charter the Albany Academy for
boys.
Mar 6 =09
John Jacob Astor dispatches the ship <italic>Lark</italic> for Astoria,
having had no word from any of his parties.
Mar 17 =09
The <italic>Firefly</italic> launches the Hudson River boating season
with a trip to Peekskill from New York City.
Mar 30 =09
A British Order in Council extends the blockade of the U. S. from New
York City to New Orleans.
May<bold> =09
</bold>Robert Fulton launches the Long Island Sound steamer<italic>
=46ulton</italic>.=20
May 21 =09
The <italic>Car of Neptune</italic>, her engines rebuilt, is back on
the Hudson.
May 29 =09
The Americans under Jacob Brown, defeat the British under James Yeo, at
Sackets Harbor.
Jun 8 =09
=46ulton signs a covenant with his wife's brother-in-law William Cutting,
for the lease of two steam ferries on the East River.
July =09
U. S. General Peter B. Porter leads a force of militia, regular troops
and Seneca Indians, to repulse a British attack at Black Rock.
Jul 14 =09
The U. S. purchases 12 acres of land across the Hudson River from Troy,
on the present site of Watervliet, for a federal arsenal.
Dec 18 =09
British Colonel John Murray captures Fort Niagara from the U. S. **=20
British General Phineas Riall razes Lewiston.
Dec 24 =09
=46ulton displays his plans for a steam frigate to prominent New Yorkers,
including Henry Dearborn, Cadwallader D. Colden and Stephen Decatur.
Dec 29 =09
The British under Drummond burn Black Rock and Buffalo over the next
two days.
City
The Eagle Insurance Company buys out the accounts of the Union
Insurance Company of New Jersey - the first known reinsurance agreement
in the=20
U. S. ** The city's statutes are revised. ** Joseph Rodman
Drake meets Fitz-Greene Halleck. They become friends. ** Robert
=46ulton's steam ferryboat <italic>York</italic> is put into service on
the North and East Rivers.
State
William Weston turns down an offer to become chief engineer on the Erie
Canal. Benjamin Wright accepts the post. ** The Seneca Lock
Navigation Company secures the rights from The Western Inland Lock
Navigation Company to improve navigation on the Seneca River. ** =20
Rochester postmaster Abelard Reynolds brings his family from
Pittsfield, Massachusetts. =00=00=04** U. S. Postmasetr General Gideon
Granger resigns, moves to Canandaiua.
Le Roy
The town of Bellona is renamed Le Roy, after prominent resident, Herman
Le Roy. The Lent Tavern is built. Local land agent Egbert Benson
replaces a log cxabin at Buttermilk Falls with a brick residence.
<bold>1814</bold>
Jan 25 =09
New Jersey governor Aaron Ogden petitions the New York State
legislature to repeal or modify the state's steamboat monopoly.
=46ebruary<bold>=09
</bold>Martin Van Buren drafts the annual address to the New York State
caucus.
=46eb 26 =20
The New York legislature begins hearings on Ogden's petition.
<bold>
</bold>March<bold> </bold>=09
=46ulton applies for patents on his steam frigate.
Mar 12 =09
The <italic>Car of Neptune</italic> opens the Hudson River steamboat
season.
Mar 30 =09
Ogden's petition against Fulton's steamboat monopoly is rejected by the
New York legislature, 51 to 43. =20
<bold>
</bold>April<bold> </bold>=09
=46ulton and three partners obtain incorporation status for a company to
mine coal in the Ohio Valley and transport it to New York City by way
of New Orleans, by steamboat.
Apr 14 =09
Van Buren speaks to a Republican war meeting in Albany.
May 5 =09
The British capture Fort Oswego.
May 6 =09
The British destroy Fort Oswego.
May 9 =09
Congress authorizes $1,500,000 for "floating batteries" based on
=46ulton's steam frigate design.</fontfamily>
<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>
August<bold> =09
</bold>The keel is laid for Fulton's<italic> Steam Frigate</italic>
(also known as the <italic>Steam Battery</italic>). ** British
Lieutenant General Sir Gordon Drummond attempts to capture the
blockhouse and shipyard at Black Rock, fails.
Sep 1 =09
=46ulton leaves New York for Washington.
Sep 6 =09
The British reach Plattsburgh.
Sep 11 =09
U. S. forces under Commodore Thomas MacDonough defeat the British at
Plattsburgh. ** Fulton arrives back in New York.
Sep 26 =09
The New York State legislature meets in special session to deal with
the British threat to New York City.
Oct 29 =09
=46ulton launches his <italic>Steam Frigate</italic> in New York harbor.
She is christened <italic>Fulton I.</italic>=20
Nov 21 =09
The <italic>Fulton I</italic> is towed by the <italic>Car of
Neptune</italic> and the <italic>Fulton</italic> to workshops in Jersey
City, for further outfitting.
December<bold>=09
</bold>Fulton makes out his will.
State
Gulian Verplanck, writing as Abimelech Coody, begins lampooning De Witt
Clinton in the weekly journal <italic>The Corrector</italic>. ** =20
The state canal commission is denied funds. ** British prize
fleets and U. S. fleets are stored in Skenesborough (Whitehall) for the
coming winter. ** The Albany Female Academy is established. =20
** A stone arsenal is built near Batavia.
Rochester
Gideon Cobb arrives, establishes a cattle and hay yard in the One
Hundred Acre Tract.
</fontfamily>
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor
|
