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New York Cession of Western Territory

When
1779
Where
Haudenosaunee country, western New York
Episodes
1

The supplied passages do not confirm a 1780 New York legislative vote authorizing delegates to cede western territory to the Continental Congress. The retrieved material concerns the 1778 Nanticoke relocation, the 1779 Sullivan Expedition, and later statehood proposals, so the cession vote's date, place, and outcome remain unsourced.

Episodes

  1. 1779 · Haudenosaunee country, western New YorkFrontier warfare context near the claimed cession period

    The Sullivan Expedition of 1779 devastated Haudenosaunee villages in retaliation for Brant-led frontier attacks, shaping the wartime western New York setting.

Background and detail

Background. The retrieved passages describe frontier warfare in New York during the War of Independence: the 1779 Sullivan Expedition destroyed nearly fifty Haudenosaunee villages, croplands, and winter stores in retaliation for attacks led by Joseph Brant and Loyalist Mohawk forces, driving refugees to British-held Niagara.

Related Relocations. In 1778 the United States moved the Nanticoke from the Delmarva Peninsula onto former Haudenosaunee lands south of Lake Ontario, though they did not remain there long. This is the closest sourced context for western land questions, not evidence of a cession vote.

Unsourced Vote. No supplied passage mentions the New York legislature, its delegates, a cession of western territory, or the Continental Congress's receipt of land. Later proposals to divide New York into new states and counties are unrelated to the alleged 1780 act.

Sources

  1. New York (state) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-01

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.