For generous assistance at various points and in details, I have to thank, and hereby do so most heartily, Mr. Edward F. De Lancey, of New York; Mr. William L. Stone, of Jersey City; Prof. A. L. Perry, of Williams College; Mr. Berthold Fernow, keeper of the State Archives, Albany; Rev. J. A. De Baun, D. D., of Fonda; Rev. J. H. Hubbs, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; Rev. Henry R. Swinnerton, of Cherry Valley; Mr. R. A. Grider, the chief American specialist and collector of powder-horns and their art and literature; Mr. A. G. Richmond, archæologist in Indian relics, of Canajoharie, N. Y.; Mrs. I. E. Wells of Johnson Hall at Johnstown; Mr. Ethan Akin, of Fort Johnson at Akin near Fonda; James Fuller, Esq., of Schenectady, N. Y.; and Major J. W. MacMurray, U. S. N.; besides various descendants of the militiamen who served under the illustrious Irishman who is the subject of the following pages.
W. E. G.
Boston, Mass.,
May 21, 1891.
CHRONOLOGICAL OUTLINE.
| 1400–1600 a. d. | Occupation of the region between | |
| the Niagara and the Hudson | ||
| River by the Indian tribes | ||
| of the Long House. | ||
| { July 29. | Defeat of the Iroquois near | |
| { | Ticonderoga, N. Y., by | |
| { | Champlain. | |
| 1609, | { Sept. 1-23. | Hendrick Hudson explores the |
| { | river as far as the Mohawk. | |
| 1613. | Hollanders build on Manhattan and Nassau Islands. |
| 1617. | Iroquois form an alliance with the Dutch. |
| 1623. | Jesse De Forest and the Walloons settle and found New York City.—Fort Orange built.—Settlement at Albany. |
| 1630. | Patroon Kilian Van Rensselaer.—Arrival of Arendt Van Curler. |
| 1642. | Van Curler enters the Mohawk Valley and ransoms Isaac Jogues. |
| 1661. | Van Curler founds the city of Schenectady. |
| 1664. | English Conquest of New Netherlands. |
| 1667. | Kryn leads the Caughnawaga Indians to Canada. |
| 1690. | Massacre at Schenectady. |
| 1710. | Palatine Germans in New York. |
| 1713. | The Tuscaroras join the Iroquois Confederacy. |
| 1715. | Sir William Johnson born. |
| 1722. | Palatines settle in Mohawk Valley.—Oswego founded. |
| 1738. | Johnson settled at Warrensburgh, N. Y. |
| 1740. | Johnson made head of the Indian Department. |
| 1754. | The Congress and Council at Albany. |
| 1755. | Battle of Lake George. |
| 1757. | Massacre at German Flats. |
| 1759. | Surrender of Niagara to Johnson.—Fall of Quebec and the French power in America. |
| 1763. | Conspiracy of Pontiac.—Johnstown founded, and Johnson Hall built. |
| 1768. | Treaty at Fort Stanwix. |
| 1770. | January 18, First bloodshed of the Revolution. |
| 1771. | First battle of the Revolution at Alamance, N. C. |
| 1772. | Division of Albany County.—Johnstown made the county-seat of Tryon County. |
| 1774. | Death of Sir William Johnson. |
| 1777. | Battle of Oriskany. |
| 1778. | Massacre at Cherry Valley. |
| 1779. | Brant at Minnisink.—General Sullivan’s Expedition against the Six Nations. |
| 1782. | New York’s Western lands transferred to the nation. |
| 1783. | Tories banished from the Mohawk Valley. |