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A Colonial event for each day of July taken from a book published in 1899.  These events are not in chronological order, but rather an event for each day of the year, like a "This Day is History".
   

  

 

 

 

  
This Day in Colonial Times - July

Source:  A Year Book of Colonial Times Compiled by the Rev. Frederick S. Sill, D.D. Member of the Society of Colonial Wars, E. P. Dutton & Company, New  York, 1899 

July  1 1636 - Hartford, Conn., was settled by a company under the Rev. Thomas Hooker
July  2 1675 - General Gookin was ordered to raise a company of Christian Indians for the Mount Hope campaign.
July  3 1756 - General Bradstreet defeated the French and Indians near Oswego.
July  4 1763 - Major Gladwin read the treaty between England and France at Detroit, by which all western lands were secured to the English.
July  5 1621 - Massasoit, the Indian King, received two of the Pilgrim Colonists, and confirmed peace and friendship with Plymouth.
July  6 1758 - Death of Lord Howe at Lake George, near Fort Ticonderoga.
July  7 1691 - A tax of half a penny a pound was levied to meet the debt of New York City.
July  8 1663 - Date of the Rhode Island Charter.
July  9 1755 - General Braddock defeated in the Fort Duquesne Expedition.  Retreat effected by Washington's valour and skill.
July 10 1759 - General Wolfe encamped at Montmorency, preparatory to attack on Quebec.
July 11 1656 - The French settled at Onandaga, New York.
July 12 1756 - General Bradstreet arrived in Albany on his return from Fort Oswego, which he had fortified and provisioned.
July 13 1673 - Fontenac held a Council with the Iroquois and received the name of "Onondis"
July 14 1675 - Mendon, Mass., was attacked by the Indians.
July 15 1759 - General Prideaux was killed in the battle at Fort Niagara.
July 16 1640 - The first serious measures were taken by New Amsterdam against the hostile Indians.
July 17 1673 - Marquette and Joliet ascended the Mississippi as far as the Illinois River.
July 18 1759 - General Wolfe reconnoitred the fleet on the St. Lawrence before Quebec.
July 19 1656 - An ordinance was passed forbidding Indians to carry a gun or other weapon in New Amsterdam.
July 20 1764 - The boundary line between New York and Connecticut was settled by Royal order in Privy Council.
July 21 1715 - Act passed in New York to oblige citizens of each ward to pay their quota of taxes.
July 22 1686 - Date of the Incorporation of Albany under Dongan's Charter.
July 23 1758 - General Putnam was saved from torture by the valour of a French officer.
July 24 1621 - Virginia received its first written Constitution.
July 25 1759 - Fort Niagara was reduced by Sir William Johnson.
July 26 1649 - The Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam applied to Holland for a Charter.
July 27 1661 - Schenectady was "purified" from Indians.
July 28 1646 - Petrol Stuyvesant was commissioned Director of the New Netherlands.
July 29 1677 - Captain Swett had a severe encounter with the Indians at Black Point, Me.
July 30 1619 - The first Virginia House of Burgesses met a Jamestown.
July 31 1607 - The Gift of God and the Mary and John arrived at Monhegan, Me., with 120 planters under Capt. George Popham.

 
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