Mohawk, Montgomery County, New York
| Mohawk | |
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| Country | United States |
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| State | New York |
| County | Montgomery |
| Population | 3,844 (2010) |
| Town supervisor | Gregory W. Rajkowski (NP)
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| Timezone | EST (UTC−05) |
| - summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−04) |
 Location in Montgomery County and the state of New York.
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Mohawk is a town in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 3,844 at the 2010 census.
The Town of Mohawk is on the north border of the county, west of the City of Amsterdam. The county seat, Fonda, is located in Mohawk.
Jesuit missionaries entered this region from Quebec around 1642 to work among the Mohawk. The principal village of the Mohawk was Caughnawaga, which was later developed as the site of Fonda.
The Town was settled around 1725 by colonists from the English/Dutch region to the east around Albany. The Mohawk District, which became the original Town of Mohawk, was created in March 1772 by Sir William Johnson when Tryon County was split off from Albany County. It was the easternmost of five districts in the new county, which eastern boundary ran north from the Delaware River at the Pennsylvania line through present Schoharie County to a north-south line that now forms the eastern boundaries of Montgomery, Fulton, and Hamilton Counties, all the way to Canada. The district's western limit was an arbitrary north-south line drawn through "the noses", prominent rock prominences through which the Mohawk River flows four miles east of Canajoharie (on the south side).
During the American Revolution, the town was invaded in 1780 by an army of Indians and Tories in 1780. The original District or "Town of Mohawk" was eliminated in 1793 by its division into the Towns of Florida and Charleston. The present town was created from part of the Town of Johnstown in 1837.
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