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century of unrest, enjoyed the blessing of permanent peace. The forts and stockade soon disappeared.
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UNION COLLEGE, 1795.
Meantime the little village had steadily grown, becoming a chartered borough in 1765, and advancing to the dignity of a city in 1798. Schenectady received its first officially carried mail on the 3d day of April, 1763,—Benjamin Franklin being the colonial postmaster-general,—founded the Schenectady Academy in 1784, which became Union College in 1795, and read its first newspaper, The Schenectady Gazette, January 6, 1799.
The military occupation and the increasing
