Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
Protests in New York City and Six Nations Treaty
Three days ago, on Monday evening, November 14, 1768, activists in New York City burned effigies of the royal Governor of Massachusetts and the Sheriff of Boston. Despite the authority's efforts to stop it, the mob met on Queens Street (current Pearl Street in Manhattan). The protest was reported on page three of the New-York Journal of November 17th.
As described in a prior blog, the British had recently landed thousands of troops in Boston to quell the unrest related to the latest round of punitive tariffs. New York City was the base of Britain's North American forces. It was an appropriate place to protest alleged British mistreatment of its colonies.
Holt's New-York Journal was the most patriotic of the three New-York City papers and covered the story by publishing an account written by a Boston sympathizer. It read:
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| Article on protest in New York City on Monday, November 14, 1768. New-York Journal, November 17, 1768, p3 genealogybank.com |
The competing newspapers of Parker and Gaines would issue a different version of the event in their editions of November 21st. It was written by the town clerk, Augustus V. Cortlandt. Unlike the prior account, it stated that the protest was 'disapproved by the majority of the citizens.' See future blog.
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This article is one in a series of a daily accountings of Colden Store transactions. Index to Colden Store Blogs. Be sure you read the first installment for an introduction to the store. You should also read this article which appeared in the Journal of the Orange County Historical Society.
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More momentous news was brought from the North. This may have been old news in the taverns near Coldengham as the bearers of the news had descended the Hudson River and had undoubtedly stopped at New Windsor.
Sir William Johnson and leaders from several colonies had successfully negotiated with the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix. 3200 Indians from almost 20 tribes were present. A new Boundary Line was agreed on "between their Hunting Country and this and the other Colonies to the Southward."
For the residents of Coldengham this meant less fear of Indian interference as they migrated west towards the Delaware River. This area already had a settlement called Peenpack near the current city of Port Jervis, New York. Peenpack had a history of Indian raids. The area between the Wallkill and the Delaware rivers was often referred as the 'frontiers' and would be defended, mostly unsuccessfully, by Coldengham area militias over the next fifteen years. By 1790, Joel Campbell, eponym of this blog, and most of his children would be living in the area of Peenpack (See references to the farm on the Neversink River at the end of this article.)
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