Schenectady

The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History · 1909 · p. 7

The county seat of Schenectady County, New York. Settled in 1662 by Arendt Van Corlaer on the site of Schonowe, the capital of the Five Nations. It was chartered as a borough in 1765, and as a city in 1798. Index : L Attack on, 229. F Ma acre of, 245-248. Bib. : Parkman, Old Régime .