Jed’s Historical Fragments #253: Court minutes of Old Albany, 1683.

I’ll go a little easier on you, that last entry was a reading challenge! This appeared in The Argus, January 29, 1905. January 2, 1683. Wynant…

Jed’s Historical Fragments #282: Albany attempts to shore up its defenses following the Schenectady Massacre of 1690.

(This account – reproduced in the Argus of August 27, 1905, is from historical records circa 1690 and include many unfamiliar spellings, abbreviations, and random capitalizations.…