Governor William Burnet builds the future Fort Oswego, on Lake Ontario. ** Immigrants from the German Palatine settle in the western Mohawk Valley on a patent granted by Governor Burnet, among them John Jost and Catherine Herkimer, parents of future General Nicholas Herkimer.
1726
The “Castle”, a stone fortification, is built on the Niagara River — the nucleus of Fort Niagara.
1727
History of the Five Indian Nations, by Doctor Cadwallader Colden, is published in London.
1728
Royal governor of New York and New Jersey William Burnet is transferred to Massachusetts.
1729
Sep 7
Former New York governor and current governor of New England William Burnet dies in Boston at the age of 40.
October
Scottish lawyer and New York landowner William Johnstone (later Pulteney) is born to Sir James Johnstone, 3rd baronet of Wester Hall, Dumfries and Barbara Murray Johnstone.
1730
A channel is dug through an oxbow on Wood Creek, the first canal in the state.
England
The approximate date Devonshire woolens manufacturer Andrew Ellicott, great-grandfather of New York land agent Joseph Ellicott, emigrates to America with his eldest son, leaving a wife and two other children behind.
1732
William Cosby is appointed Royal Governor.
1734
Jan 24
U. S. financier and land speculator Robert Morris is born in Liverpool, England.
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