1535-Jaques Cartier, a Frenchman, ascended the St. Lawrence as far as Hochalega, a Wyandot village near Montreal. An attempt to found a colony on the river, five years afterwards, entirely failed and its history is lost.<\/p>\r\n1539-The Iroquois Confederacy formed.\r\n\r\n1603-Monsieur Samuel Champlain landed at Quebec, and in 1608 made a permanent settlement there, the same year of the establishment at Jamestown, Virginia.\r\n\r\n1615-Champlain and LeCaron explore Lake Huron, by them called \"Mer Douce.\"\r\n\r\n1635-The Jesuit Missionaries reached the Sault St. Mary.\r\n\r\n1647-Monsieur De Longueville reported to have been at the rapids of Fox river, Wisconsin.\r\n\r\n1654-Onondaga Salt Springs discovered by Father Simon Le Moine\r\n\r\n1659-Two French traders winter on Lake Superior.\r\n\r\n1660-The Abbe Mesnard establishes missions at Kewenaw Bay, (St. Theresa,) and at LaPointe, (Chegoimegon.)\r\n\r\n1661-Mesnard perished in the woods near Portage Lake, on Lake Superior.\r\n\r\n1668-Dablon and Marquette founded a mission at the Sault St. Mary.\r\n\r\n1671-Marquette establishes a mission at St. Ignace, on the main land, west of Mackinaw.\r\n\r\n1673-Marquette reaches the Mississippi, by way of the Fox river.\r\n\r\n1679-La Salle builds the schooner \"Griffin\" at Cayuga creek, near Tonawanda, and sets sail August 7th, for Green Bay.\r\n\r\n1681-La Salle and Tonti are at Mackinaw \"Old Fort,\" on the main land, south of the Straits.\r\n\r\n1682-La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi river, April 7th.\r\n\r\n1686-A fort built by the French at the outlet of Lake Huron, now Fort Gratiot.\r\n\r\n1690-The French and the Iroquois, after three quarters of a century of war, conclude a peace, and the French occupy Lake Erie.\r\n\r\n1701-Fort Pontchartrain built at Detroit.\r\n\r\n1712-The Tucarowas, or Tuscororas, from North Carolina, became a part of the Iroquois Confederacy, from that time known as the \"Six Nations.\"\r\n\r\n1726-The \"Six Nations\" for the third time, put their lands on the shores of Lake Erie, under the protection of the English. This treaty embraces a tract sixty miles wide from the Cuyahoga to Oswego.\r\n\r\n1744-The \"Six Nations,\" at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, deed all their lands\u00a0within the Colony of Virginia, to the King of England.\r\n\r\n1749-The French take formal possession of the country, on the waters of the Ohio.\r\n\r\n1753-They erect Forts at Presque Iksle, (Erie) Pa., Le Beuf,(Waterford) and Venango (Franklin.)\r\n\r\n1755-The French propose to the English to retire east of the Allegheny mountains, and themselves to remain west of the Ohio.\r\n\r\n1760-Canada conquered by the English. Their posts on this Lake, taken possession of in the fall by Major Rogers.\r\n\r\n1763-First general conspiracy of the north-western Indians, under Pontiac, Ponteack, or Pondeach.\r\n\r\n1764-The expeditions of Cols. Bradstreet and Boquer, against the Ohio Indians.\r\n\r\n1765-The Ohio country made part of Canada by act of Parliament.\r\n\r\n1766-Jonathan Carver explores the upper Lakes and upper Mississippi.\r\n\r\n1768-Treaty of Fort Stanwix, (Rome, N.Y.) in which the British covenant with the Indians not to pass the Ohio.\r\n\r\n1770-Moravian Missions founded on the Big Beaver River, not far below New Castle.\r\n\r\n1776-British traders at Cuyahoga.\r\n\r\n1777-The British and Indians hold a conference at Oswego, New York.\r\n\r\n1778-Fort Laurens built by Congress on the Tuscarora River, near Bolivar, two miles below where Fredrick Post established a mission in 1761.\r\n\r\n1782-The British establish a Fort at Sandusky, Ohio.\r\n\r\n1784-England refuses to deliver up the western posts.\r\n\r\n1786-Blankets and other goods obtained at Cuyahoga, from British traders, for our troops at Pittsburgh; and flour delivered here for the British.\r\n\r\nThe Moravians establish a mission at the mouth of Tinker's Creek, in Cuyahoga County. Soon after, a British vessel is wrecked within the present city of Cleveland.","rendered":"
1535-Jaques Cartier, a Frenchman, ascended the St. Lawrence as far as Hochalega, a Wyandot village near Montreal. An attempt to found a colony on the river, five years afterwards, entirely failed and its history is lost.<\/p>\n
1539-The Iroquois Confederacy formed.<\/p>\n
1603-Monsieur Samuel Champlain landed at Quebec, and in 1608 made a permanent settlement there, the same year of the establishment at Jamestown, Virginia.<\/p>\n
1615-Champlain and LeCaron explore Lake Huron, by them called “Mer Douce.”<\/p>\n
1635-The Jesuit Missionaries reached the Sault St. Mary.<\/p>\n
1647-Monsieur De Longueville reported to have been at the rapids of Fox river, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
1654-Onondaga Salt Springs discovered by Father Simon Le Moine<\/p>\n
1659-Two French traders winter on Lake Superior.<\/p>\n
1660-The Abbe Mesnard establishes missions at Kewenaw Bay, (St. Theresa,) and at LaPointe, (Chegoimegon.)<\/p>\n
1661-Mesnard perished in the woods near Portage Lake, on Lake Superior.<\/p>\n
1668-Dablon and Marquette founded a mission at the Sault St. Mary.<\/p>\n
1671-Marquette establishes a mission at St. Ignace, on the main land, west of Mackinaw.<\/p>\n
1673-Marquette reaches the Mississippi, by way of the Fox river.<\/p>\n
1679-La Salle builds the schooner “Griffin” at Cayuga creek, near Tonawanda, and sets sail August 7th, for Green Bay.<\/p>\n
1681-La Salle and Tonti are at Mackinaw “Old Fort,” on the main land, south of the Straits.<\/p>\n
1682-La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi river, April 7th.<\/p>\n
1686-A fort built by the French at the outlet of Lake Huron, now Fort Gratiot.<\/p>\n
1690-The French and the Iroquois, after three quarters of a century of war, conclude a peace, and the French occupy Lake Erie.<\/p>\n
1701-Fort Pontchartrain built at Detroit.<\/p>\n
1712-The Tucarowas, or Tuscororas, from North Carolina, became a part of the Iroquois Confederacy, from that time known as the “Six Nations.”<\/p>\n
1726-The “Six Nations” for the third time, put their lands on the shores of Lake Erie, under the protection of the English. This treaty embraces a tract sixty miles wide from the Cuyahoga to Oswego.<\/p>\n
1744-The “Six Nations,” at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, deed all their lands\u00a0within the Colony of Virginia, to the King of England.<\/p>\n
1749-The French take formal possession of the country, on the waters of the Ohio.<\/p>\n
1753-They erect Forts at Presque Iksle, (Erie) Pa., Le Beuf,(Waterford) and Venango (Franklin.)<\/p>\n
1755-The French propose to the English to retire east of the Allegheny mountains, and themselves to remain west of the Ohio.<\/p>\n
1760-Canada conquered by the English. Their posts on this Lake, taken possession of in the fall by Major Rogers.<\/p>\n
1763-First general conspiracy of the north-western Indians, under Pontiac, Ponteack, or Pondeach.<\/p>\n
1764-The expeditions of Cols. Bradstreet and Boquer, against the Ohio Indians.<\/p>\n
1765-The Ohio country made part of Canada by act of Parliament.<\/p>\n
1766-Jonathan Carver explores the upper Lakes and upper Mississippi.<\/p>\n
1768-Treaty of Fort Stanwix, (Rome, N.Y.) in which the British covenant with the Indians not to pass the Ohio.<\/p>\n
1770-Moravian Missions founded on the Big Beaver River, not far below New Castle.<\/p>\n
1776-British traders at Cuyahoga.<\/p>\n
1777-The British and Indians hold a conference at Oswego, New York.<\/p>\n
1778-Fort Laurens built by Congress on the Tuscarora River, near Bolivar, two miles below where Fredrick Post established a mission in 1761.<\/p>\n
1782-The British establish a Fort at Sandusky, Ohio.<\/p>\n
1784-England refuses to deliver up the western posts.<\/p>\n
1786-Blankets and other goods obtained at Cuyahoga, from British traders, for our troops at Pittsburgh; and flour delivered here for the British.<\/p>\n
The Moravians establish a mission at the mouth of Tinker’s Creek, in Cuyahoga County. Soon after, a British vessel is wrecked within the present city of Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"menu_order":9,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-31","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/early-history-of-cleveland-ohio\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/early-history-of-cleveland-ohio\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/early-history-of-cleveland-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/early-history-of-cleveland-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/early-history-of-cleveland-ohio\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/early-history-of-cleveland-ohio\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/31\/revisions\/109"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/early-history-of-cleveland-ohio\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/early-history-of-cleveland-ohio\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/31\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/early-history-of-cleveland-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/early-history-of-cleveland-ohio\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/early-history-of-cleveland-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/early-history-of-cleveland-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}