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A Colonial event for each day of September 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 - September

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 

September  1 1675 - Massacre at Deerfield, Mass., in King Philips's War.
September  2 1675 - Massacre at Northfield, Mass., in King Philip's War.
September  3 1755 - The name of Lake S. Sacrament changed to Lake George.
September  4 1774 - The first Continental Congress met at Philadelphia.
September  5 1755 - Colonel Ephraim Williams slain, in the defeat of the French and Indians at Fort Edward, New York.
September  6 1609 - A boat's crew from Hendrick Hudson's ship rowed up through the Narrows and discovered Manhattan Island.
September  7 1643 - First meeting of the New England Confederacy, at which John Winthrop was elected Governor of New England.
September  8 1755 - The battle of Lake George, under Generals Johnson and Lyman.
September  9 1650 - Andries Jansen was appointed the Schoolmaster of New Amsterdam.
September 10 1608 - Capt. John Smith was elected President of the Virginia Colony.
September 11 1737 - The Roxbury (Mass.) ministers and elders petitioned to have the "Bay Psalm Book" abolished.
September 12 1759 - General Wolfe scaled the Heights of Abraham and confronted General Montcalm.
September 13 1759 - The battle of Quebec, won by General Wolfe, which secured England's dominion over Canada.
September 14 1628 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony was established at Salem.
September 15 1655 - The New Amsterdam was attacked by the Indians armed with guns.
September 16 1664 - The Burgomasters describe the taking of New Amsterdam by the English, and the date the official notice from "Yorck."
September 17 1630 - Boston was so named by the order of the Council.
September 18 1759 - Quebec was formally surrendered to the English forces.
September 19 1720 - First Presbyterian Church in New York incorporated.
September 20 1660 - Charles ii was proclaimed King by the Virginia Burgesses.
September 21 1609 - Hendrick Hudson arrived at Albany.
September 22 1693 - The Colonial Assembly of New York passed an act to provide for the formation of Parished in and about the City.
September 23 1709 - Newburgh, N. Y., was settled.
September 24 1664 - Fort Orange, Albany, surrendered to the English.
September 25 1647 - Governor Stuyvesant granted a Charter to New Amsterdam.
September 26 1768 - General Gage arrived in Boston, as the last Royal Governor, with a force of British Regulars.
September 27 1763 - The French at Detroit acknowledged the English supremacy.
September 28 1648 - The Fire Wardens of New Amsterdam were charged to see that all chimneys were kept clean.
September 29 1689 - The Mayor and Aldermen of New York City, elected by the vote of the people, held their first meeting.
September 30 1682 - Thomas Dongan became Governor of New York.

 
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