The Commissioners of Lands of New York State (chairman Gov. Both Simeon and Moses were first cousins of DeWitt Clinton through his mother, Mary De Witt, who married James Clinton, brother of Governor George Clinton. Simeon commissioned his first cousin, Moses De Witt (after whom DeWitt, New York, Is named) to survey the area around the south end of Cayuga Lake.
It was granted originally to a member of the state militia, Martinus Zielie, as a bounty under a different law for recruiting men to enlist in the Continental Army.Īs part of this process, the Central New York Military Tract, which included northern Tompkins County, was surveyed under the direction of Simeon De Witt, Bloodgood's son-in-law and the Surveyor General of New York. However, the Bloodgood tract was not part of the state bounties to veterans. Most local land titles trace back to these Revolutionary war grants. In 1790, the federal government and state began an official program to grant land in the area, known as the Central New York Military Tract, as payment for service to the American soldiers of the Revolutionary War, as the government was cash poor. That same year Abraham Bloodgood of Albany obtained a patent from the state for 1,400 acres, which included all of the present downtown west of Tioga Street. The following year Jacob Yaple, Isaac Dumond, and Peter Hinepaw returned with their families and constructed log cabins. In 1788, eleven men from Kingston, New York, came to the area with two Delaware people (Lenape) guides, to explore what they considered wilderness. Within the current boundaries of Ithaca, Native Americans maintained a temporary hunting camp at the base of Cascadilla Gorge. The state sold off the former Iroquois lands to stimulate development and settlement by non-indigenous Americans lands were also granted as payment to veterans of the war. Most Iroquois were forced from the state after the Revolutionary War, but some remnants remained. It destroyed the Tutelo village of Coregonal, located near what is now the junction of state routes 13 and 13A just south of the Ithaca city limits. In retaliation for conflicts to the east and resentment at the way in which the Iroquois made war, the 1779 Sullivan Expedition was conducted against the Iroquois in the west of the state, destroying more than 40 villages and stored winter crops and forcing their retreat from the area. Conflict with the rebel colonists was fierce throughout the Mohawk Valley and western New York. Similarly, the Tuscarora people, an Iroquoian-speaking tribe from the Carolinas, migrated after defeat in the Yamasee War they settled with the Oneida people and became the sixth nation of the Haudenosaunee, with chiefs stating the migration was complete in 1722.ĭuring the American Revolutionary War, four of the then six Iroquois nations helped the British attempt to crush the revolution, although bands made decisions on fighting in a highly decentralized way. Remnants of these tribes had been forced from Virginia and North Carolina by tribal conflicts and European colonial settlement. Dependent tributaries of the Cayuga, they had been permitted to settle on the tribe's hunting lands at the south end of Cayuga Lake, as well as in Pony (originally Sapony) Hollow of what is known as present-day Newfield, New York. Saponi and Tutelo peoples, Siouan-speaking tribes, later occupied lands at the south end of Cayuga Lake. Jesuit missionaries from New France (Quebec) are said to have had a mission to convert the Cayuga as early as 1657. When reached by Europeans, this area was controlled by the Cayuga tribe of Indians, one of the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois League.
Native Americans lived in this area for thousands of years. History Early history Cascadilla Creek gorge Perspective map of Ithaca published in 1882 As of 2020, the city's population was 32,108. These three colleges bring thousands of students to the area, who increase Ithaca's seasonal population during the school year. Nearby in Dryden, New York is Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3). Ī college town, Ithaca is home to Cornell University, an Ivy League university routinely ranked among the world's best universities, and Ithaca College. It is named after the Greek island of Ithaca. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. Ithaca / ˈ ɪ θ ə k ə/ is a city and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York.
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