Western/Central New York timeline / 1690-1699

1690
January
King William of England appoints Henry Sloughter governor of New York.

Jan 22
A council of Iroquois Indians at Onondaga renews the tribe's allegiance to England and promises aid against the French.

Ireland
Charles Clinton, ancestor of New York politicians George and De Witt Clinton, is born to James and Elizabeth Clinton in County Longford.


1692
June
Offered ammunition but no guns by New York, the Iroquois decline.

State
Benjamin Fletcher becomes Royal governor of New York.


1695
State
Louis de Buade de Frontenac et de Palluau, governor of New France, invades Onondaga Territory, retreats after burning a few Indian villages.


1696
Aug 20
The English government reports on the importance of a Five Nations (Iroquois) alliance.

State
Canadian governor Louis de Buande Frontenac conducts a foray out of Montréal against New York’s Onondaga Indians, camps at Isle aux Chevreuils (Carleton Island) in the St. Lawrence River. His force of 2,000 kills many Onondaga and Oneida.


1697
State
Father Louis Hennepin’s Nouvelle Découverte d’un très grand Pays situé dans l’Amérique is published in Utrecht, Netherlands. Updating his 1683 account, he adds 100 feet to the height of Niagara Falls, making it 600 feet high.


1698
State
Approximately 1230 Senecas remain in the colony, down from nearly twice the number nine years ago, due to war and disease. ** Lord Bellemont is named Royal governor.


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