1630
Aug 10
Michael Pauw, one of the four Patroons of New Netherlands, is granted Staten Island by the Dutch West India Company.
Sep 19
Symon Dircksz Pos, representative of Upper Hudson River landowner Kiliaen van Rensselaer, writes his boss from New Amsterdam that director-general Peter Minuit and colonial secretary Johan van Remunde, egged on by Dominie Johannes Michaëlius, are so busy squabbling that affairs of the settlement there are being sadly neglcted. He also explains that many crops are being planted and he has hopes that profits will soon be shown.
City
Mapmaker Johannes de Laet publishes Beschryvinghe van West-Indien, using the names Manhattes, N. Amsterdam, and Noordt River for the first time. ** A house is built within the fort enclosure for the director-general. ** The ship New Netherland is built by the West India Company. Nicknamed the “great ship” it weighs 800 tons. ** The Eendracht arrives bringing 15 settlers. ** Peter Minuit buys Staten Island from the Tappan Indians for wampum and trade goods.
1631
August
Peter Minuit is recalled to Holland by the Dutch West India Company for refusing to ban the private fur trade and for privileges he awarded patroons. The Reverend Jonas Michaelius is recalled to present the case against him. Lay minister Bastiaen Krol is named acting director in their absence.
City
The Eendracht returns, bringing 11 settlers.
1632
Mar 19
Peter Minuit returns to Holland aboard the Eendracht (Unity). Also aboard are Dominie Johannes Michaëlius and Secretary Jan van Remunde.
Apr 7
Dutch diplomat Mijnheer Van Arnhem reports to the Heeren XIX (ruling council) at home that the English at Plymouth recently captured the Eendracht when it put into the harbor to take shelter from a storm. The New Englanders accused the Dutch of illegal settlement in New Netherland and demanded duties be paid on furs being shipped back to Holland.
May 23
Charles I informs the Dutch ambassador Albert Joachimi that the Dutch in America can remain as long as they submit to British royal authority.
July
Wouter van Twiller, appointed director-general of New Amsterdam, through the influence of his uncle Killiaen van Rensselaer, sails from Holland.
City
The first public beer brewery is set up early in the year by Minuit. ** A penal system is established. ** 125,000 guilders worth of furs are shipped to Holland, triple the amount sent in 1626. Over the past nine years 63,000 skins worth 454,000 guilders have been shipped. ** Diplomatic relations between the Dutch and the English bring into dispute the validity of Minuit's purchase of Manhattan.
1633
March
Wouter van Twiller, a nephew of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, arrives in New Amsterdam in the Zoutberg (Salt Mountain) accompanied by close to 100 soldiers, the first regular troops in the colony, to replace Bastiaen Jansz Krol as director-general. Barmaid Griet Reyniers sails on the same ship.
City
Adam Roelantsen arrives in New Amsterdam, founds the first school in the colony. ** Five stone workshops are built near today’s Whitehall Street. ** Van Twiller settles at Bossen Bouwerie, becoming the first European settler in the future Greenwich Village. ** A tile-roofed brewery is erected. ** The Dutch buy the island later known as Roosevelt Island, from the natives. ** The settlement's first house of worship is erected by Van Twiller, inside the walls of the fort, the first building used solely as a church.
1634
Dec 11
Dutch barber-surgeon Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, sent by an officer at Fort Orange (Albany) to explore the area wheere the Mohawk flows into the Hudson, leaves the fort accompanied by Jeronimus dela Croix and sailor Willem Thomassen.
City
Roeloff and Annetje Jans begin building a farmhouse. They will accumulate land over the next two years that will form the nucleus of Trinity Church’s holdings. ** When Michael Pauw fails to plant a successful settlement on Staten Island after four years, it reverts to the Dutch West Indies Company. ** Teen-aged Dutch West India Company cook’s mate Govert Loockermans arrives.
Netherlands
Brooklyn settler Gerrit Remmersen is born in Pilsum.
1635
City
Jacob Stoffelsen is hired to oversee the Dutch West India Company’s slaves. ** The colony has traded 60,000 beaver pelts, with a worth of 400,000 guilders. The equivalent of $1,699 has been spent on Fort Amsterdam; and close to $165,000 on all of New Netherland. The newly-completed fort had been finished without the stonework planned in 1628.
1636
Oct 5
The first Long Island patents are granted, in today's Brooklyn.
City
The Dutch begin settling further out on Nieuw Amersfoort (Long Island. Governor Wouter Van Twiller begins purchasing Long Island land from the Lenape, at what will become the Red Hook and Gowanus neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Van Twiller and three other colonists buy land in the Flatbush area from the Canarsie Indians. Over the next two years Van Twiller will acquire 15,000 acres. The governor puts the Flatbush land in his own name rather than that of the Dutch West India Company. Later Pieter Stuyvesant will confiscate the land and sell it to settler Pieter Claesen, who will build a house on the property around 1652. The Indians will remain in the area for many years. ** The West India Company grants D. P. De Vries part of Staten Island. ** Partners Andries Hudde and Wolphert Gerritsen break ground for a farm at Achtervelt, the future site of Flatbush. ** French Huguenot Isaac De Forest starts a tobacco plantation in Harlem.
Netherlands
New Amsterdam minister Hendricus Selyns is born in Amsterdam.
1637
Sep 2
Amsterdam merchant Willem Kieft (Willem the Testy) replaces Wouter van Twiller as Director of New Amsterdam.
City
Dutch governor Wouter Van Twiller buys Minnahannock Island in the East River from the Canarsie Indians and begin raising hogs there, naming it Hog Island. It later becomes Roosevelt Island. ** The Dutch settle on Long Island at Flushing. Local Matinecocks help them make it through the first winter. ** Englishman Thomas Foster receives a royal grant for 600 acres on Alley Creek, off Long Island's Little Neck Bay, displacing local Matinecock Indians. The area will later be named Douglaston (in the future Queens). ** Great Barcut, or Great Barn Island (later Ward's Island) is bought by Van Twiller. ** Patroon Michael Pauw sells Pavonia (parts of Staten Island and New Jersey) to the West India Company. ** Joris de Rapelye settles on Long Island at Wallabout Bay, future site of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
1638
Apr 15
New Amsterdam passes its first law, mandating that all visiting seamen must return to their ships by nightfall.
Apr 22
New Amsterdam governor Willem Kieft and the Privileged Trading Company grant a lease for a tract of and near Fort Amsterdam to former governor Wouter Von Twiller, to be used for cultivating tobacco. It will become Peter Stuyvesant’s bouwerie (farm) in 1651.
May 15
Jan Gybertsen stabs New Amsterdam gunner Gerrit Jansen in a brawl, killing him; New York City’s first murder.
June
The New Amsterdam council hires Nicholaes Coorn as company sergeant for Fort Amsterdam. He will eventually be broken to private and two other soldiers will 'ride the wooden horse' (corporal punishment), for various crimes and infractions.
Jul 20
Andries Hudde is given a goundbrief (grant) for land located at today’s Harlem.
August
Peter Minuit dies at sea during a Caribbean hurricane.
Sep 24
Adriaen van der Donck enters the University of Leiden, to study law.
Nov 1
Queens County is created from the North and West Ridings of Yorkshire, on Long Island.
City
The Dutch establish a cattle market, on the site of today's Bowling Green. It lasts for nine years. ** The Flatbush farm owned by Andries Hudde and Wolphert Gerritsen now contains a house, barn and hayrick. Andries Hudde sells Gerrit Wolphertsen 100 acres of land in Brooklyn. ** The population has remained close to 400 for the last dozen years or so. ** Local Mespaetches (Lenape) Indians sell Brooklyn land to the colonists that will become Bushwick, Greenpoint and Williamsburg. ** An ordinance is passed forbidding adulterous relations with heathens and blacks. Another ordinance forbids selling wine. ** The court of sessions of the North Riding of Yorkshire is established at Jamaica. ** Newly-arrived Willem Kieft replaces Wouter Von Twiller as director general. Kieft begins buying Lenape Indian land in today's Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and Jersey City. He establishes a system of ground-briefs, deeds for people taking up residence in the colony. ** Ferry service between Manhattan and Brooklyn is established. ** England divides the crown colony into twelve counties, including Queens – with today’s Nassau County in its limits. The towns of Flushing, Jamaica and Newtown are within the Queens borders. ** A Dutch school, later the Collegiate School, opens. ** The Dutch West India Company loses its monopoly of the North America-Atlantic trade as furs gradually are transported through non-Dutch ports, to avoid the payment of duties.
Netherlands
The States General becomes disillusioned with the rate of immigration into New Amsterdam.
1639
Feb 10
Staten Island’s new owner, David Pieterszoon De Vries, starts a plantation there at the Watering Place, near today's Tompkinsville.
City
The approximate date the Manatus Map "Manhattan Lying on the North River" (probably drawn by either Andries Hudde or Johannes Vingboons) is published, detailing the greater New York area, and showing Lenape longhouses in Brooklyn. ** Jonas Bronck buys nearly 500 acres of land in the future Westchester County, centered around Morrisania. ** The Dutch West India Company purchases the area known today as the Bronx from the Indians, to ease future overcrowding. ** Under land grants from the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce of the West India Company, a succession of Dutch farmers begin working Hog Island (today's Roosevelt Island). Slave quarters are reportedly established to the north of Manhattan, across from the island.** Governor Willem Kieft begins taxing Indians. He orders all Englishmen to swear an oath of loyalty to the States-General. ** Soldier Gregorus Pietersen is executed by firing squad for inciting to mutiny. ** Anthony "The Turk" Jansen and his wife Grietjen Reyniers are expelled from the colony for indecent behavior, move to New Utrecht (later part of Brooklyn) on Long Island. ** Sarah Joris Rapalje, the first European born in the city, marries Hans Hansen Bergen, overseer of a tobacco plantation located in the future Greenwich Village. ** Govert Loockermans goes to work for the Verbrugge family as a shipping agent. ** Jochem Kuyter, a German seaman from the Danish navy arrives in Manhattan, begins raising tobacco at the north end. Indian raids will drive him and his neighbor Jonas Bronck from across the river to move to the southern end of Manhattan. The two men decide to bring action against governor Kieft. ** Legislation is passed to establish fairs for regulating the sale of livestock and fix prices of necessities sold at company stores. Regular market days are established.
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