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Fort Stanwix was a colonial fort whose construction commenced on August 26, 1758, under the direction of British General John Stanwix, at the location of present-day Rome, New York, but was not completed until about 1762.
Map from The Old New York Frontier by Francis W. Halsey (1901) showing the author's interpretation of the 1768 Fort Stanwix Treaty line. From Towanda, the Pennsylvania line followed the East Branch of the Susquehanna River upstream past Tioga Point (present day Athens, Pennsylvania) and then east to Owego, New York.
Map showing Pennsylvania and the territory involved in the two purchases of 1768 and 1784. The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty finalized on October 22, 1784, between the United States and Native Americans from the six nations of the Iroquois League. [1]
The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty signed between representatives from the Iroquois and Great Britain (accompanied by negotiators from New Jersey, Virginia and Pennsylvania) in 1768 at Fort Stanwix. It was negotiated between Sir William Johnson, his deputy George Croghan, and representatives of the Iroquois. [1]
A portion of Thomas Kitchin's 1772 map of the waterway connecting the Hudson River (at Albany) and Lake Ontario (at Oswego). This portion shows the section between Fort Stanwix on the Mohawk River and Oneida Lake (at left) that was traversed by Wood Creek. The route was used heavily in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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The siege of Fort Stanwix (also known as Fort Schuyler) began on August 2, 1777, and ended on August 22, 1777. Fort Stanwix , at the western end of the Mohawk River Valley , was a primary defense point for the Continental Army against the British and indigenous forces aligned against them during the American Revolutionary War .
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