A Utica, New York, mob breaks up an antislavery meeting. Local temperance worker and philanthropist Gerrit Smith, 38, is among those who witness the event and he becomes an abolitionist.
A new Seminole War between natives and whites in Florida Territory begins following the arrest and imprisonment of Osceola, 31, who has thrust his knife through the 1832 treaty that ceded Seminole lands to the United States. Osecola escapes, he and his braves kill a chief who signed the 1832 treaty, killing also the U.S. Indian agent at Fort King, and they begin 2 years of guerrilla activities against U.S. forces under General Thomas S. Jesup, 46, while Seminole women and children remain hidden deep in the Everglades. The Seminole and their black slaves massacre a 103-man U.S. Army force under Major Francis L. Dade December 28 (see 1837).
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