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Dairying is New York's most important farming activity with over 18,000 cattle and or calves farms.
The "New York Post" established in 1803 by Alexander Hamilton is the oldest running newspaper in the United States.
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1717 - March 8 - On Fishers Island in Long Island Sound, 1200 sheep were discovered to have been buried under a snow drift for four weeks. When finally uncovered, one hundred sheep were still alive.
The Weather Channel
March 8, 1717- 1727 - November 15 - NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath
onthisday.com - 1771 - New York becomes the first US state to require a woman’s consent if her husband tries to sell property that she brought to a marriage.
The act also required the judge to meet privately with the woman to reassure himself that the signature wasn’t forged or her consent coerced.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/aug/11/women-rights-money-timeline-history - 1775 - May 10 - American Revolution began; Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, along with Benedict Arnold took Fort Ticonderoga.
In the darkness of the night of May 9, 1775, Ethan Allen, along with Benedict Arnold, led a portion of his militia across the half-mile width of Lake ...Read MORE... - 1776 - New York declared independence from England; Nathan Hale hung for spying; Declaration of Independence endorsed; fire in New York City destroyed 1,000 homes
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm - 1777 - July 5 - St. Clair surrenders Fort Ticonderoga to the British
July 5, 1777 - 1780 - September 25 - Benedict Arnold's plans to cede West Point to the British discovered.
www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/revolutionarywartimeline.htm
September 25, 1780 - 1788 - New York became 11th state
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm - 1792 - New York Stock Exchange founded
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm - 1798 - Great epidemic killled 2,086
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm - 1807 - Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont sails up the Hudson River
The World Almanac of the U.S.A, by Allan Carpenter and Carl Provorse, 1996 - 1815 - September 23 - One of the greatest hurricanes to strike New England made landfall at Long Island and crossed Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
It was the worst tempest in nearly two hundred years.
WeatherForYou.com - 1831 - New York's first railroad opened
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm - 1845 - Women gain the right to file patents in New York.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/aug/11/women-rights-money-timeline-history - 1848 - Married Woman’s Property Act is passed in New York.
For the first time, a woman wasn’t automatically liable for her husband’s debts; she could enter contracts on her own; she could collect rents or...Read MORE... - 1854 - New York
New York, one of the Middle States of the United States, and the most populous of the confederacy, is bounded on the N. by Lake Ontario, the St....Read MORE... - 1868 - A "brilliant and lovely" young married woman in New York, aged twenty-five, now sports her fourth husband, having sough relief through the divorce courts from conjugal unpleasantnesses three times since her first marriage, in 1860.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
April 18, 1868 - 1868 - People who receive circulars from New York or elsewhere containing samples of prints of which twelve yards will be sent for a dollar, or ten yards for eighty-five cents, are advised to suspect a swindle.
The address of one concern issuing such circulars was visited in New York the other day, and it was found that the place was in charge of a boy, and...Read MORE... - 1869 - To do the thing properly in New York at a wedding, the bride must have eight bridesmaids, and a hundred-dollar poodle beside the one she marries.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 30, 1869 - 1870 - A young man in New York bet that he could drink six glasses of ice water. He did, and he died.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 16, 1870 - 1884 - August 5 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
www.wikipedia.org
August 5, 1884 - 1888 - April 3 – The Brighton Beach Hotel in Coney Island is moved 520 feet using six steam locomotives by civil engineer B. C. Miller to save it from ocean storms.
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April 3, 1888 - 1888 - June 26 - Residents of New York suffered through a record heat wave.
Daily average temperatures were above 80 degrees for fourteen straight days. The heat wave was a sharp contrast to the severe blizzard in March of...Read MORE... 
Mayr's Laxative Powder No. 2
Berosol Products, Distributors
Rockaway Beach, N.Y.
Found at The Way It Was Museum, Virginia City, Nevada
Circle of St. Mary's and Baptist Church. Syracuse, N. Y.
Oakwood Seminary, Union Springs, N. Y.
Times Square, New York City- 1901 - April 25 – New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates.
www.wikipedia.org
April 25,1901 - 1918 - Great Influenza Pandemic killed 851
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm 
Indian Bay and Elephant Mt., Lake George, N. Y.- 1929 - New York Stock Exchanged crashed; Great Depression began
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm - Frances Perkins becomes the first female member of a Presidential cabinet, 1933
Perkins, a sociologist and Progressive reformer in New York, served as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor. She kept her job until 1945.
history.com - 1936 - February 24th - 25th - 1936 - Vermont and New Hampshire received brown snow due to dust from storms in the Great Plains Region. A muddy rain fell across parts of northern New York State.
The Weather Channel - 1939 - October 15 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
www.wikipedia.org
October 15, 1939 
1952 New York State Thruway- 1965 - Black nationalist leader, Malcom X, assassinated; Great Northeast Blackout (power outage)
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Mayr's Laxative Powder No. 2
Berosol Products, Distributors
Rockaway Beach, N.Y.
Found at The Way It Was Museum, Virginia City, Nevada
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Circle of St. Mary's and Baptist Church. Syracuse, N. Y.
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Oakwood Seminary, Union Springs, N. Y.
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Times Square, New York City
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Indian Bay and Elephant Mt., Lake George, N. Y.
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1952 New York State Thruway
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1717 - March 8 - On Fishers Island in Long Island Sound, 1200 sheep were discovered to have been buried under a snow drift for four weeks. When finally uncovered, one hundred sheep were still alive.
The Weather Channel
March 8, 1717
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1727 - November 15 - NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath
onthisday.com
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1771 - New York becomes the first US state to require a woman’s consent if her husband tries to sell property that she brought to a marriage.
The act also required the judge to meet privately with the woman to reassure himself that the signature wasn’t forged or her consent coerced.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/aug/11/women-rights-money-timeline-history
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1775 - May 10 - American Revolution began; Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, along with Benedict Arnold took Fort Ticonderoga.
In the darkness of the night of May 9, 1775, Ethan Allen, along with Benedict Arnold, led a portion of his militia across the half-mile width of Lake ... Read MORE...
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1776 - New York declared independence from England; Nathan Hale hung for spying; Declaration of Independence endorsed; fire in New York City destroyed 1,000 homes
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm
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1777 - July 5 - St. Clair surrenders Fort Ticonderoga to the British
July 5, 1777
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1780 - September 25 - Benedict Arnold's plans to cede West Point to the British discovered.
www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/revolutionarywartimeline.htm
September 25, 1780
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1788 - New York became 11th state
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm
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1792 - New York Stock Exchange founded
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm
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1798 - Great epidemic killled 2,086
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm
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1807 - Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont sails up the Hudson River
The World Almanac of the U.S.A, by Allan Carpenter and Carl Provorse, 1996
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1815 - September 23 - One of the greatest hurricanes to strike New England made landfall at Long Island and crossed Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
It was the worst tempest in nearly two hundred years.
WeatherForYou.com
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1825 - October 26 - Erie Canal completed
The work completed. - This is the day, and 10 o'clock the hour, when the first boat from Lake Erie enters the Grand Canal and proceeded to the city of New York; a distance of 500 miles. - All doubts, the New-York Advocate confesses, are at an end. "The great work, (says he,) has been accomplished... Read MORE...
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1831 - New York's first railroad opened
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm
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1845 - Women gain the right to file patents in New York.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/aug/11/women-rights-money-timeline-history
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1848 - Married Woman’s Property Act is passed in New York.
For the first time, a woman wasn’t automatically liable for her husband’s debts; she could enter contracts on her own; she could collect rents or... Read MORE...
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1854 - New York
New York, one of the Middle States of the United States, and the most populous of the confederacy, is bounded on the N. by Lake Ontario, the St.... Read MORE...
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1868 - A "brilliant and lovely" young married woman in New York, aged twenty-five, now sports her fourth husband, having sough relief through the divorce courts from conjugal unpleasantnesses three times since her first marriage, in 1860.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
April 18, 1868
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1868 - People who receive circulars from New York or elsewhere containing samples of prints of which twelve yards will be sent for a dollar, or ten yards for eighty-five cents, are advised to suspect a swindle.
The address of one concern issuing such circulars was visited in New York the other day, and it was found that the place was in charge of a boy, and... Read MORE...
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1869 - To do the thing properly in New York at a wedding, the bride must have eight bridesmaids, and a hundred-dollar poodle beside the one she marries.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
October 30, 1869
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1870 - A young man in New York bet that he could drink six glasses of ice water. He did, and he died.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
July 16, 1870
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1884 - August 5 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
www.wikipedia.org
August 5, 1884
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1888 - April 3 – The Brighton Beach Hotel in Coney Island is moved 520 feet using six steam locomotives by civil engineer B. C. Miller to save it from ocean storms.
www.wikipedia.org
April 3, 1888
-
1888 - June 26 - Residents of New York suffered through a record heat wave.
Daily average temperatures were above 80 degrees for fourteen straight days. The heat wave was a sharp contrast to the severe blizzard in March of... Read MORE...
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1901 - April 25 – New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates.
www.wikipedia.org
April 25,1901
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1918 - Great Influenza Pandemic killed 851
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm
-
1929 - New York Stock Exchanged crashed; Great Depression began
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm
-
Frances Perkins becomes the first female member of a Presidential cabinet, 1933
Perkins, a sociologist and Progressive reformer in New York, served as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor. She kept her job until 1945.
history.com
-
1936 - February 24th - 25th - 1936 - Vermont and New Hampshire received brown snow due to dust from storms in the Great Plains Region. A muddy rain fell across parts of northern New York State.
The Weather Channel
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1938 - Sept. 21 - The Great Hurricane brought terror to large parts of New England and Long Island
A great hurricane smashed into Long Island and bisected New England causing a massive forest blow down and widespread flooding. Winds gusted to 186 mph at Blue Hill MA, and a storm surge of nearly thirty feet caused extensive flooding along the coast of Rhode Island. The hurricane killed 600... Read MORE...
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1939 - October 15 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
www.wikipedia.org
October 15, 1939
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1965 - Black nationalist leader, Malcom X, assassinated; Great Northeast Blackout (power outage)
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ nytimeln.htm
New York, USA Genealogy
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- Albany, New York, USA (Fort Orange)
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- Auburn, New York, USA
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- Knowlesville, New York, USA
- Lake George, New York, USA (Caldwell)
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- Malone, New York, USA
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- Manheim, New York, USA
- Manlius, New York, USA (Fayetteville) (Manlius Station)
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- Massena, New York, USA
- Mechanicville, New York, USA (Mechanicsville)
- Mexico, New York, USA
- Middlesex, New York, USA
- Middletown, New York, USA
- Minisink, New York, USA (Unionville) (Westtown)
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- Nassau, New York, USA
- New Hartford, New York, USA
- New Lebanon, New York, USA
- New Rochelle, New York, USA
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- Northumberland, New York, USA
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- Norwich, New York, USA (White Store)
- Nyack, New York, USA
- Ogdensburg, New York, USA
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- Wilna, New York, USA (Carthage)
- Woodstock, New York, USA
- Yonkers, New York, USA
Genealogy Resources for New York
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~springport/pictures75/111thsurvivorsweb/Gazetteer of the State of New York By: J. H. French, LL.D. 1860
1892 New York State Census
1905 New York State Census
1865 New York State Census
1915 New York State Census
1925 New York State Census
1855 New York State Census
1875 New York State Census
BINGHAMTON and BROOME COUNTY NEW YORK A HISTORY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: WILLIAM FOOTE SEWARD LIBARIAN FOR THE BINGHAMTON PUBLIC LIBRARY PUBLISHED BY LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY NEW YORK AND CHICAGO, 1924
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