Newly Chartered Schenectady Struggles to maintain order.
- Date Range
- 1798 – 1798
- Title
- Newly Chartered Schenectady Struggles to maintain order.
- What occurred
- Schenectady struggles to maintain order as the city was newly built and public land was plentiful. One of the more prominent issues was the stealing of timber. The City Council had problems with individuals just ignoring fees and hired guards would just join in on the stealing of timber as well. All trespassers had to do was to fence off an area and start a farm then years later the city would sell the land to them for a tiny sum of money instead of getting into a costly lawsuit. The city would also try settle these disputes with "delinquents" by fining them to pay for their own prosecution.
- Location
- Schenectady, New York
- Image Citation
- https://archive.org/details/schenectadyancie01monr/page/178/mode/2up?view=theater
- Student name(s)
- Julien Evans