Search results
People also ask
When was Chautauqua County established?
Where is Chautauqua County New York?
How were Chautauqua & Cattaraugus counties formed?
When was Chautauqua County originally spelled?
Is Chautauqua County a charter county?
When did Chautauqua get its first newspaper?
The county was created in 1808 and organized in 1811. [4] The county is part of the Western New York region of the state. Chautauqua County comprises the Jamestown–Dunkirk–Fredonia, NY Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is located south east of Lake Erie and includes a small portion of the Cattaraugus Reservation of the Seneca.
Chautauqua County was established in February 1811 when the 1810 tax rolls verified a population of more than 500 taxable inhabitants. Mayville was selected as the county seat and the first courthouse was constructed between 1812 and 1815 (the War of 1812 slowed construction).
- The Ascendency of The Iroquois.
- La Salle’s Explorations.
- France, England and The Indians.
- The Portage Road—Hostilities .
- The Acquisition of Indian lands.
- Traces of Indian Occupancy – Trails.
- The Great Purchases in Western New York.
- Roads—Pioneer Experiences—Reunions.
- The County Name—Organization.
- Chautauqua County in The War of 1812.
Advancing from that remote age, the first glimmering of historic light respecting the region about Lake Erie appeared in the early part of the seventeenth century, when it was in possession of a tribe of Indians called by the French the Neutral nation, and by the neighboring tribes Kah-Khwas. Their territory lay along the northern shore of Lake Eri...
Robert Cavelier De La Salle, an adventurous and talented young Frenchman, having resolved to explore the Ohio and Mississippi, of which he had been informed by the Indians, set out on the expedition in July 1669. Accompanied by two priests, Dollier and Gallinee, he ascended the St. Lawrence and coasted along the southern shore of Lake Ontario in a ...
Thus it will be seen that the French were foremost in establishing themselves upon the upper lakes and in obtaining friendly relations with the Indian tribes of the west. The fur trade carried on between the colonists and the Indians at that time was the most important interest in America, and the French supposed they were opening up the vast regio...
The French were more successful than their English rivals, and the scheme for the occupation of the great West originated by La Salle was progressing rapidly. In 1749 the English government granted an extensive tract of land on the Ohio to the Ohio Company, the object of which was settlement and trade with the Indians. The English traders were mole...
No summary punishment was inflicted upon the Senecas for these outrages, but they feared that the day of reckoning would come, and upon the collapse of Pontiac’a bold scheme to redeem the country from the white man, they were anxious to make terms of peace. Accordingly in April, 1764, four hundred of them waited on Sir William Johnson, at Johnson H...
La Bell Rivierewas the name given by the French to the Allegany and Ohio rivers, which they regarded as one stream. After the destruction of the Neuter nation, or Kah Khwas, the territory lying west of the Alleghany mountains and traversed by this river from the southern boundary of New York to the eastern limits of Ohio, fell into the possession o...
All who are familiar with English colonial history know how carelessly grants of American territory were made by the crown to individuals and companies, the same tract being in some instances given at different times to different parties, thus laying the foundation of conflicting claims. The charter granted to the Plymouth Company, in 1620, embrace...
The earliest roadway through any part of the county other than Indian paths already referred to, was the "French," or "Portage" road from the mouth of Chautauqua creek to the head of Chautauqua lake, described in another connection. The road from Pennsylvania to Chautauqua lake, at a point known later as Mile’s Landing, was opened about 1805. In 18...
It is probable the name Tchadakoin, was applied by the French to the Connewango, Chautauqua lake and outlet and perhaps that portion of the Allegany river between the mouth of the Connewango and Franklin. The word has been variously spelled Tjadakoin, Chataconit, Chadakoin, Shatacoin, Jadaxque, Jadaqua, Chataughque, Chautauque and Chautauqua, the l...
Settlement and organization had gone on without serious interruption until the opening of the year 1812, but war was now on hand, and had cast its appalling shadow before. On the 7th of the preceding November Harrison had defeated the Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe, and though reparation had been made by the British for the attack on the Chesa...
History of Chautauqua County, New York, from its first settlement to the present time. With numerous biographical and family sketches. Buffalo, Printing house of Matthews & Warren, 1875. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/01014073/>.
The county was created in 1808 and later organized in 1811. Chautauqua County comprises the Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is located south of Lake Erie and includes part of the Cattaraugus Reservation of the Seneca.
By an act of 1808, the limits of the county were defined and the name "Chautauque" given to it (the spelling was changed to the current usage in 1869). Results of the 1810 federal census indicated a population of more than 500, and the county government was formed in 1811.
The pioneers of Chautauqua county found it an unbroken wilderness yet often when exploring... Contributor: McNallie, Ridgway - Young, Andrew W. (Andrew White) Date: 1875
