Re: Schenectady Massacre of 1890 [1690!!]

David Roberts (droberts@eagle1.eaglenet.com)
Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:24:50 -0500 (EST)

Fleet:
I checked in my "Library of America" set - three volumes of Parkman's
histories - and found some data in Volume II of "France and England in
North America" [1983 edition] about the 1690 Schenectady Massacre.
The first book in volume II is "Count Frontenac and New France under Louis
XIV" and in chapter XI "1690: The Three War-Parties" there is an account
of
the Schenectady Massacre [pp. 154-161 in the 1983 edition]. The original
edition of "Count Frontenac ...." was published in 1877.
"Arms for Empire: A military History of the British Colonies in North
America 1607-1763" by Douglas Edward Leach [1973], a volume in "The
Macmillan Wars of the United States" also covers the Schenectady Massacre
in Chapter 3 "The Anglo-French Struggle Begins: King William's War,
1689-1697 [pp. 85-88].
"Arms for Empire" is a good overview of the colonial wars and probably
ought to looked at by anyone who has ancestors in any of these colonial
wars which lasted the better part of a century.
Fleet - if you need to borrow any of these books, just let me know.
David

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