Indians attack the Van Campen farm in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, kill the father and younger son. They capture the older brother Moses along with two other white men and carry them all off to the Genesee Valley. Public school teachers are made exempt if actively hired for a full year. Mar 1 New York presents its western lands to Congress, which uses them to provide Pennsylvania with a corridor to Lake Erie. April Washington approves plans to build a prison on Pollopel Island in the Hudson.
Nothing comes of the plan.
The Vermont legislature calls for a convention be held at Cambridge the following month, to decide whether parts of New York's Albany County should be united with Vermont. May 58 Scots immigrants petition Governor Clinton for permission to return to Scotland. He refuses permission. Aug 3 A Ryegate general meeting decides to begin the liquidation of the Scots American Company's holdings. Aug 12 Rochambeau breaks camp at Newport, Rhode Island, and sets out to join Washington in White Plains.