1681—Wm. Penn receives a grant of Pennsylvania from Charles II.
—Penn restores the proprietary government in the Jerseys.
—He founds Philadelphia; makes a treaty with the Indians; and governs East Jersey.
1682—La Salle visits and names Louisiana.
1686—Sir Edmund Andross being made Governor-General over New England, proceeds in a very tyrannical manner. He endeavored to get possession of the charter of Connecticut, but failed, though he took possession of the government.
1688—New York and New Jersey came under the jurisdiction of Andross; but James II., the tyrannical King of England, being deposed, Massachusetts imprisoned Andross. Rhode Island and Connecticut resumed their charter governments; but Massachusetts, having given offense by resistance to the Navigation Act, never recovered her original charter.
—France having espoused the cause of the dethroned king, a war broke out between France and England, known as “King William’s” war.
1689—The government of New York is seized by Jacob Leisler for King William.
1690—May 1st, a Congress of colonial delegates meets at New York to concert measures for the common defense.
February 18th, destruction of Schenectady, N. Y., and massacre of the inhabitants by the Indians, sent by the French, from Canada.