A recent article
in “The Historian’s Exchange” caught my eye. “New York’s birth in April 1777
was an against-the-odds, rushed, political miracle.”
An interesting
thought, and like others which have led to Snippet items, one I had to ponder
on and look at to determine what could be included.
In 1777, as we
all know from our basic grade school history that the American Revolution was
in progress because, after all July 4, 1776, is a date we can usually recall.
So what did New
York State look like in 1777? Even before there was a state, ie we were still a
colony, the land was divided into counties. Over the years between 1772 and
1817 the counties got smaller in land mass and the county seat moved closer to
where we are today. In the forty years between 1777 and 1817 there were five
different county names for our area. Recall, that the Town of Covert was taken
from Seneca in 1817 to help form Tompkins County.
Year County County Seat
1772 Montgomery Fonda
1791 Herkimer Herkimer
1794 Onondaga Syracuse
1799 Cayuga Auburn
1804 Seneca Waterloo
1817 Tompkins Ithaca
There will be
more Snippet from the Past items on the early history and events before 1817,
so for now, we will just say, Happy Birthday New York State.
Dewitt’s Diary
on New York’s 150th and 200th
Birthdays
Friday, April
22, 1927
Rain this
morning. We built another new gate this morning.
The rain will do
a lot of good. Trees are beginning to leaf out.
Colder tonight
and snow flurries.
Wednesday, April
22, 1977
Temperature 55.
Got up early and worked on oat ground. Loaded the balance of the oats on truck
about noon.
Working on
ground on field along woods (south).
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