Dec 1
Long Island's Montaukett Indians convey the Nine Score Acre Purchase
to John Mulford, Reverend Thomas James and Jeremiah Conkling of
East Hampton.
City
Staaten Eyelandt (Staten Island) is purchased for the third and
final time from the Indians. ** The Morris family bring black
slaves from Barbados to their home in the Bronx. ** Brewer Jacob
Van Couwenhoven dies and creditors, including Oloff Stevenson
Van Cortlandt, take over the brewery.
State
Father Etienne de Carheil visits the Cayuga near Union Springs,
Cayuga County, to help Father Garnier. Around this time the chapel
of St. Jacques is established at Boughton Hill. Father Pierre
Raffeix arrives in the area, after founding a mission at La Prairie,
near Montréal. Father Fremin returns to Montréal.
** Hempstead minister's son Daniel Denton visits Hempstead Plains.
He writes A Brief Description of New York, describing Long
Island.
January
Benjamin Johnson is appointed executioner for New Amsterdam.
July
Benjamin Johnson, having been given the job of building a stone-lined
well behind the Stadt Huys, at Pearl Street and Coentes Slip,
is paid 195 florins for his work.
Aug 11
Royal governor Francis Lovelace grants a petition by Lutheran
minister Jacobus Fabritius to deliver a farewell sermon to his
New York City parishioners.
City
Dutch minister Samuel Driscus petitions for two years of salary
in arrears, but is paid only £100 because he was sick one
year. The council recommends that the church's elders and deacons
supply him with further aid. ** Former mayor Thomas Delavall is
appointed mayor for this year. ** Captain John Manning moves to
Minnahannock (later Hog, Blackwell's, then Roosevelt Island),
which he purchased in 1666.
State
Volkert Jansen Douw acquires the Hudson River's Houghtaling Island.
February
Peter Stuyvesant dies in New York City, in his early sixties.
Jul 18
Mohawk land in the Albany area is patented to Jan Hendricksen
van Baal, purportedly based on an Indian deed - The Normans Kill
Patent.
Dec 10
Governor Francis Lovelace announces monthly mail service between
New York and Boston.
City
Matthias Nicholls is appointed mayor for the year. ** The population
reaches 5,000.
State
Father Pierre Raffeix visits the Cayuga.
Jan 16
British governor Colonel Francis Lovelace establishes once-a-month
post service to Boston.
Jan 22
The first mail run is completed.
Jul 30
A Dutch fleet captures New York City, retaking the colony and
New Jersey, renaming the city New Amsterdam.
City
John Lawrence is appointed mayor for the next two years. ** The
approximate date the city executioner Benjamin Johnson is convicted
of heading a gang of thieves. He's whipped, deprived of one ear,
and banished. ** Carolus Allard's Orbis Habitablis, a Dutch
pictorial tour of the world, contains a line engraving that includes
a distance view of lower Manhattan.
State
Father Raffeix returns to the Genesee area. Father Jean Pierron
also visits the area. ** The Dutch rename Albany Willemstadt.
Feb 19
The Treaty of Westminster restores New Amsterdam and New Jersey
to the English. The city's name reverts to New York.
Feb 23
Albany Lutheran minister Jacobus Frabitius becomes abusive to
his sickly wife Annetje Cornelis who he's had sleeping in the
attic all winter. He then leaves the house.
Feb 24
Annetje Cornelis petitions city officials, who grant her possession
of the house and issue a restraining order against her husband.
Jun 8
Fabritius is again ordered to not approach Annetje Cornelis without
her consent.
Jul 1
The Duke of York makes Sir Edmund Andros governor of New York.
Jul 11
Fabritius enters his wife's house without permission, to place
a chest inside, pushes a woman named Barentie and her spinning
wheel off the road, and physically resist soldiers sent to remove
him.
Jul 17
Fabritius is fined 100 florins and made to apologize to the court,
thus avoiding banishment.
City
Mayor William Dervall levies the colony's first tax. ** The sovereignty
transfer ceremony is held at the State House (Stadt-Huys). **
Law courts are held at the State House. ** Augsburg Congregationists
Vrit Wessels, Lauwerens Andross, Martan Meyers, and Casper Steinmets
petition Governor Andros upon his arrival, to have a promised
Lutheran minister sent from Holland and for a yearly salary to
be paid to him.
State
Dutch carpenter Frederick Philips acquires land on the east bank
of the Hudson River including much of present-day Westchester
County. ** Charles II renews his brother the Duke of York's claims
to the colony. ** Scottish-born landowner-merchant Robert Livingston
settles at Albany.
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