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The Great Treaty of 1722 was a document signed in Albany, New York by leaders of the Five Nations of Iroquois, Province of New York, Colony of Virginia, and Province of Pennsylvania. Also known as the Treaty of Albany, it was made to create a boundary and keep the peace between English settlers and the Iroquois nations.
1817 – Rush–Bagot Treaty – The United States and Great Britain agree to demilitarize the Great Lakes. 1818 – Treaty of 1818 – resolved boundary issues between U.S. and Great Britain and demilitarized the border. 1819 – Adams–Onís Treaty – purchase of Florida from the Spanish Empire and established the border with New Spain.
The Albany Congress was the first time in the 18th century that American colonial representatives met to discuss some manner of formal union. In the 17th century, some New England colonies had formed a loose association called the New England Confederation, principally for purposes of defense, as raiding was frequent by French and allied Indian tribes.
In 1722 Albany was home to negotiations between the Iroquois and the provinces of New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia resulting in the Treaty of Albany which limited the Iroquois to west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. [37] Myndert Schuyler was returned to the office of mayor in 1723.
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Apodaca–Canning treaty: Between Spain and Great Britain. Treaty of Amritsar, 1809: Between Ranjit Singh and the British East India Company, restricting the Sikh Empire to north of the Sutlej River, India. Treaty of Hamina [note 92] Ends the Finnish War between Sweden and Russia. Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809)
The history of Albany, New York, from 1784 to 1860, begins with the ratification of the Treaty of Paris by the Congress of the Confederation in 1784 and ends in 1860, prior to the American Civil War. After the Revolutionary War, Albany County saw a great increase in real estate transactions.
The history of Albany, New York, began long before the first interaction of Europeans with the native Indian tribes, as they had long inhabited the area.The area was originally inhabited by an Algonquian Indian tribe, the Mohicans, as well as the Iroquois, five nations of whom the easternmost, the Mohawk, had the closest relations with traders and settlers in Albany.