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| Traders and Culture: Colonial Life in America |
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TIMELINE |
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1609 Henry Hudson, master of the Dutch East India Company’s ship, the Halve Maen (Half Moon), seeking a Northwest Passage to China, reached the neighborhood of Albany on September 19 and remained until September 23. |
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1610-1613 Dutch merchants from Amsterdam sent ships up the Hudson to trade for furs |
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1614 Ft. Nassau built on Castle Island, near the mouth of the Normanskill. |
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1618 New fort built on mainland near mouth of Normanskill, after Ft. Nassau was carried away by ice floes. |
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1621 Dutch West India Company formed to develop trade in America. |
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1624 Eighteen families were settled around Ft. Orange, which was built near the river within the present bounds of Albany. Ore settlers arrived with livestock in 1625. |
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1629 Kiliaen van Rensselaer and others granted leave by the West India Company to establish a colonie or patroonship here. Eventually the van Rensselaer property would total approximately 700,000 acres- most of modern Albany, Rensselaer, and Columbia counties. |
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1642 Domine Megapolensis, first Dutch minister, arrived: salary, $400 annually. First ferry across the Hudson River to the Green Bush from Ft. Orange established. |
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1650 Two citizens are appointed by magistrates to see to the building of a schoolhouse. Adriaen Jansen first schoolmaster. |
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1652 Director of New Netherland Pieter Stuyvesant creates the free village of Beverwyck. |
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1656 Dutch Reformed blockhouse church built in middle of Broadway and State Street, fortified with cannons on the roof. |
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1658 Record beaver skin trade; more than 57,000 skins shipped to Holland. |
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1659 First stockade built around the town and fort, as a result of fears aroused by Indian wars. |
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1664 New Netherland taken over by the English. Beverwyck renamed Albany for the new proprietor of the colony, James, Duke of York and Albany. |
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1673 Dutch regain the colony from the English- the town is renamed Willemstadt. The English regain the town in November 1674. |
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1690 French from Canada and their Native American allies burn the town of Schenectady, 20 miles northwest of Albany. 60 people dies, and 27 were carried into captivity among the Native Americans. |
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1697 The population of Albany County is 379 men, 270 women, and 803 children. |
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1710 Pieter Schuyler escorts four Iroquois leaders to England, where they were received by Queen Anne. |
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1714 The population of Albany County totaled 3,029 people, 458 of whom were slaves. |
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1723 Governor Burnet reports that Indians were bringing furs to trade from “above a thousand miles to Albany from Mislimakenak which lies between Lac Superier and Lac Huron.” |
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1757 The French and Indian War, between the French and British and their Indian allies began. Survivors of the massacre at Fort William Henry on Lake George pack Albany with refugees. |
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1771 Albany County’s population had grown tremendously. There were now 42,706 persons in the county, 3,877 of them were black. In 1772, Albany County would be subdivided into Albany, Tryon, and Charlotte counties. |
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1774 Mother Ann Lee comes to Albany from England and forms a religious sect which would become commonly known as the Shakers. The Shaker order would spread as far north as Maine as south as Kentucky, and is still viable with a few members today. |
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