Western / Central New York timeline / 1700-1709

1700
A Colonel Romer arrives in Iroquois country, and is instructed to view the “burning spring” near Bristol.


1701
May 13
Robert Livingston writes to the Board of Trade in London, praising the Iroquois Nations for their friendly relations with the colony.

State
New York State adopts a policy of neutrality toward the Canadian French. ** Royal governor Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont, dies suddenly. ** The Five Nations’ treaty with the French in Canada and renewal of the Covenant Chain with the English in Albany, preserves the tribes’ independence - The Grand Settlement.


1702
May
Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, a cousin of Queen Anne, begins serving as royal governor in New York, replacing the late Lord Bellomont.


State
Jesuit missionary Julien Garnier returns from Canada to live for a while with the Seneca again. ** A short road is built at the portage or Great Carrying Place, between Wood Creek and the Mohawk River.

Canada
Former Jesuit missionary to the Seneca Julien Garnier dies in Québec at the age of 87.


1707
England
Future New York governor Robert Hunter is appointed governor of Virginia. On the way to the colonies he's captured by a French privateer and brought back to Europe.


1708
Spain
A bell is cast in Malaga. It will one day be placed in the steeple of the Episcopal Church in Ellicottville.


1709
May 5
Royal governor Lord John Lovelace dies, to be replaced by Richard Ingoldsby.

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