Schenectady
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=: (Bishop Laval era) Attack on, 229. (Count Frontenac era) Massacre of, 245-248. =Bib.=:
Parkman, Old Regime.