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