Schenectady Massacre (8 Feb 1690)

Date: 8 Feb 1690 [unknown]
Location: Schenectady, New York
Surname/tag: Le_Moyne

Historical event: 8 Feb 1690 at Schenectady, New York

Epoch: King William's War (1688-1697)

Who was there: Category: Schenectady Massacre

Outcome:

• Canadiens victory
• 60 residents killed
• Majority of homes destroyed

The Schenectady Massacre was a Canadiens attack against the village of Schenectady in the colony of New York on 8 February 1690. A party of more than 200 Canadiens and allied Mohawk, Sault (Ojibwe), and Algonquin warriors attacked the unguarded community, destroying most of the homes, and killing or capturing most of its inhabitants. Sixty residents were killed, including 11 African slaves. About 60 residents were spared, including 20 Mohawk. In 1954, John Jacob Vrooman (1884-1963) authored a novel, The Massacre, recounting the event^[1]. More recent fictional accounts of the event are Crucible along the Mohawk, by Johnny T. Rockenstire, told from the Dutch/English point of view^[2], and Woods runner : massacre at Schenectady, 1690, by Rejean Giguere, told from the French point of view.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://search.worldcat.org/title/3898450
2. ↑ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Crucible_Along_the_Mohawk/8feZvgEACAAJ?hl=en
3. ↑ https://booklife.com/project/woods-runner-massacre-at-schenectady-1690-5882

See

• Schenectady massacre on Wikipedia
• The Schenectady Massacre: Settlers Killed and Captured
• http://gremsdoolittlelibrary.blogspot.com/2014/02/remembering-schenectady-massacre.html
• Schenectady Massacre by Samuel Sexton, 1833, Samuel Hayden Sexton, Schenectady’s Artist, Diane Leone, Tuesday, January 12, 2021, Grems-Doolittle Library Collections Blog, Schenectady County Historical Society, http://gremsdoolittlelibrary.blogspot.com/2021/01/samuel-hayden-sexton-schenectadys-artist.html
• Staffa, Susan Jane. Schenectady Genesis: The colonial crucible, ca. 1661-1774. (New York: Purple Mountain Press, 2004.)
• A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times, 9: Burning of Schenectady, Prof. Jonathan Pearson, http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/resources/patent/09.html
• WorldCat page to look for The Massacre in a library
• https://www.newhollandfoundation.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/PDF-Dutch-Colonial-Fortifications-in-North-America.pdf
• New York (State). Secretary's Office, Charles Anthon, Andrew Dickson White, and E. B. (Edmund Bailey) O'Callaghan. The Documentary History of the State of New-York. Albany, N. Y.: Weed, Parsons & Co. [v. 1-3] , 1849-1851. Vol. 1 pg. 297 for a French account of the attack, pg. 302 for the Albany account, including list of those Killed and captured. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924055329670&view=1up&seq=322&skin=2021 .
• Dailey, W. N. P. (William Nelson Potter), b. 1863. The Burning of Schenectady, February 8-9, 1690. [Syracuse, N.Y.: Edward F. Hammeken], 1940. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102293319 .
• The Schenectady Massacre, February 7, 2013 Carl Johnson, and The Roll of the Dead, February 8, 2013 Carl Johnson, Hoxie, being the history of Albany, Schenectady, Troy & more..., https://hoxsie.org/2013/02/07/the_schenectady_massacre/ , https://hoxsie.org/2013/02/08/the_roll_of_the_dead/
• Massacre Sign Image, Carl Johnson, https://www.flickr.com/photos/carljohnson/113933901
• Schenectady Massacre, From the Mohawk Series, Artist Letterio Calapai (American, 1901 - 1993), Date 1948, MediumWood engraving. Syeracuse University Art Museum, https://onlinecollections.syr.edu/objects/45124/schenectady-massacre
• Sweny, Harry Roy, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection. Symon Schermerhoorn's ride, February 8/9,: writ from facts and traditions as set down in ye old records of ye massacre of Skinnechtady, and in commemoration of Symon Schermerhoorn's ride to save ye inhabitants of Albany from ye French and Indians. [Albany, N.Y. Priv. print, 1910] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/10014787/. Contains an image of 2 pages of Robert Livingston's February 10, 1690 entry in the Albany Minutes.
• Colonial Conflict, Native People, Anti-Catholicism & The Burning of Schenectady, January 12, 2022 by Peter Hess, New York Almanack, https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2022/01/burning-of-schenectady/