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Gordon 15 March 1987 D 1 4 / CHRONOLOGY - 1600s: area inhabited by Mahicans 1614: Dutch traders established Fort Nassau on Castle Island, opposite Albany 1617: Fort Nassau abandoned 1624: Mohawks defeat Mahicans 1628: Mahicans withdraw to east side o f Hudson River 1664: English take' New Netherlands from the Dutch 1684: Saratoga Patent 1685: Saratoga flats divided up into seven lots 1686: First abortive proposal to settle Christian Indians at Saratoga 1708: Confirmation of Saratoga Patent 1709: First European settlement at "Saraghtoge" 1745: Indian massacre of European inhabitants at "Saraghtoge" 1749: Peter Kalin travels up the Hudson 1750: Division of Saratoga Patent into lots 1754: Second abortive proposal to settle Christian Indians at "Saraghtoge" 1760-65: Construction of the large sawmill on Fish Creek 1765: Opening o f the store at Saratoga 1767: Subdivision by Bleecker of some of the Saratoga lots 1768: John Freeman cited as being "on Lott N° 16" 1769: Trip of Richard Smith up the Hudson and Mohawk riv ers 1774: Sale of plots on Lots #37 and 40 1776: Sale of all of sawmill output to Continental Army 1776: Charles Carroll visits Saratoga 1777: Battle of Saratoga 1780: Marquis de Chastellux visits Saratoga Battlefield 1794: William Strickland visits Saratoga Battlefield 2 ^ 'j Xjf i 'I a f T 'T ~ 2 S . -4>. 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Si?CD \935 8 l8rg€ liS t ° f h istoric monuments have become l l r l l l i t ' SJ J < * I Sl en- The Saratoga b a ttle fie ld was one o f the Juni1? Je; beir>8 added t0 the Service’s national historic sites on historic pa^k 2^ P t0 tHat tlB€ thC bettlefield had been a New York state The intervention of World War II held up the full absorption of the te lv f o l l o w ^ ef i eld the National Park s-vstera* In the years imraedia- t & ,the, war» however, the s t a ff o f the Park began to carrv out the Service s mission to "...make necessary investigations.. .to obtain true and accurate historical and archaeological facts..." In 1947, in connec- Kok2 Wp!^ SHf f°r tha reforestation of much of the park, Richard J. Koke, Park Historian, submitted "A Report on the Reforestation Program fo r f o n t s l0nfJ ?istorical Park." Koke's report was based on information tained in a limited number of historic sources; a much more extensive survey was carried out by Charles W.