The History of New York State, Book XI, Chapter II, Part XIV

1777
January 17	Kings Bridge skirmish
January 25	West Farms skirmish
March 16	Ward's House (Westchester County) skirmish
March 20	General Charles lee wrote his "plan" for destroying "Congress government"
March 22	British landed at Peekskill to destroy military stores
April 20	First State Constitution was voted by the Convention
April 20	First State Constitution proclaimed at Kingston
May 3	A "temporary form of government" created
May 6	General Burgoyne landed at Quebec to command British forces in Canada
May 23	Colonel Meigs captured ninety prisoners; a gunship, and military stores at Sag Harbor, L. I.
June 1	Burgoyne invaded northern New York
June 16	Crown Point evacuated
June 30	British returned to Staten Island from New Jersey
July 1	First session of the State legislature at Kingston called or meet but delayed election returns made that impossible
July 3	John Jay appointed Chief Justice and Robert R. Livingston Chancellor
July 6	Ticonderoga evacuated by General St. Clair and 3,000 men
July 7	Skenesborough seized
July 8	Battle of Fort Ann. Americans under Livingston drive out, losing 128 cannon and stores
July 9	George Clinton declared elected first State Governor
July 12	General St. Clair arrived at Fort Edward
July 27	Jane McCrea murdered
July 30	Burgoyne reached Fort Edward
July 30	Governor Clinton took oath of office
August 4-22	Fort Stanwix (Fort Schuyler). Barry St. Leger attacked fort under Colonels Gansevoort and Willett
August 6	Battle of Oriskany. General Herkimer checked and mortally wounded in an ambuscade of Tories and Indians
August 12	General Benedict Arnold marched to relief of Fort Stanwix
August 16	Battle of Bennington. Colonel Baum defeated by General John Stark at Walloomsac
August 19	General Schuyler superseded by General Gates
August 21-22	Staten Island raided by General Sullivan and Colonel Ogden taking stores and 130 prisoners
August 23	Sir William Howe issued a proclamation of pardon
September 10	State legislature met at Kingston
September 18	Colonel Brown attacked British at Ticonderoga and on Lake George
September 19	First battle of Saratoga
September 20	Burgoyne fortified his camp
September 23	Battle of Diamond Island
October 3	General Clinton ascended Hudson to cooperate with Burgoyne
October 3	Five delegates chosen to Continental Congress
October 6	Forts Clinton and Montgomery captured by Sir Henry Clinton
October 7	Second battle of Saratoga; British defeated
October 13	Esopus attacked
October 13	Kingston burned
October 17	Saratoga; surrender of General Burgoyne

1778
February 5	Commissioners for detecting and defeating conspiracies
February 6	New York approved Articles of Confederation
March 14	Embargo on flour, meal and grain
March 27	Act to regulate elections
April 1	Act to appoint a State Treasurer
April 3	Wages and prices regulated by law
May 24	Sir Henry Clinton took command of British Army in America
June 1	Cobleskill massacre by Brant
July 15	Washington at Haverstraw, White Plains, Fishkill Fredericksburg
July 18	Andruston massacre
July 21-31	Washington with Army at White Plains
August 31	Indian Field (Westchester County). Indians engaged with patriot forces
September 16	Westchester skirmish
September 28	Tappan skirmish
November 10	Cherry Valley massacre by Tories and Indians
December 3	Washington left New York for New Jersey
December 10	John Jay elected president of Continental Congress
December 25	Young's house skirmish

1779
March 13	1,000 men raised for frontier defense
April 20	Expedition against Onondagas
June 1	Stony Point, Verplanck's Point (Fayette)
June 8	Washington at West Point, New Windsor, Stony Point, Peekskill
July 2	Poundridge skirmish
July 2	Bedford skirmish
July 16	Stony Point captured by General Wayne
July 19	West Point fortified by Americans
July 22	Minisink attacked by Indians under Brant
July 31	General Sullivan started his invasion of Indian country
August 5	Morrisania skirmish
August 22	Military expedition against Indians by colonel Brodhead
August 29	Newtown (Elmira); Tories and Indians defeated
August 30	Tarrytown skirmish
September 5	Lloyd's Neck skirmish
September 10	Indian village at Canadaigua burnt
September 14	Genesco, farther point reached by Sullivan's expedition
September 15	General Sullivan began his return from Indian country
September 23	State clothier appointed by law
September 28	John Jay chosen as commissioner to Spain
October 15	Act to prevent robberies in the State
October 22	Law of forfeiture of estates of Loyalists
October 23	Temporary government of Southern New York created
October 23	Commissioners named to pacify Indians
November 1	Washington left New York for New Jersey
November 7	Jefferds Neck skirmish
November 21	3,000 British troops departed from New York for Georgia
December 26	General Clinton with 8,500 men sailed for Savannah

1780
January 18	Eastchester skirmish
February 3	Young's house (Four Corners) skirmish
February 14	Courts of common pleas revived
February 19	New York ceded her right to western lands to United States. Transfer made March 1^st.
February 21	Act to regulate inns and taverns
February 26	Act to prevent profiteering
March 10	Sale of forfeited estates authorized
March 13	An act to repaid public highways
April 3	Riemensnyder's Bush destroyed by Indians
April 5	Harpersfield sacked
May 22	Caughnawaga attacked
May 22	Johnstown burned by Tories
June 23	Act to erect a fort at Schenectady
June 23	Act to pay for care of poor in five counties
June 24	Act to prevent monopoly in cattle
June 27	Washington at Ramapo
June 30	Act to grant exclusive right to make and sell "blubber and oyl"
July 1	Removal of families of Loyalists
July 30	Washington in Highlands, Peekskill
August 2	Mohawk Valley (Fort Plain) ravaged by Indians and Tories
August 3	General Benedict Arnold took command of fortress at West Point
September 18	Washington at Peekskill, Fishkill, Highlands, Tappan
September 21	Major Andre met General Arnold
September 23	Andre captured at Tarrytown
September 26	General Arnold fled to British sloop of war
September	Ann Lee organized Shakers at New Lebanon
October 2	Major Andre, after trial by court martial, hanged as spy at Tappan
October	Americans raided Staten Island
October 7	Act to expedite the payment of taxes
October 11	Fort George taken
October 15	Middleburg, Indian raid
October 17	Schoharie Indian raid
October 19	Fort Keyser (Palatine or Stone Arabia) attacked
October 29	German Flats, Indian raid
November 21	Coram (Fort George), L. I., attacked
November 23	Fort St. George (Smith Point), L. I., attacked
December	Indians made attacks in Hudson Valley and in Champlain County
December 6	Washington at New Windsor, West Point, Dobbs Ferry, Kingsbridge

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