1645
Jul 25
Jan Evertse Bout is granted land in Brooklyn.
Aug 30
The Dutch and the Indians sign the peace treaty at New Amsterdam. Only 100 whites are left in the city.
Oct 10
New York's governor Willem Kieft issues letters of patent to English immigrants Thomas Applegate, Lawrence Dutch, Thomas Farrington, Robert Field, Robert Firmin, John Hicks, John Lawrence, William Lawrence, John Marsten, Thomas Saul, Henry Sawtell, Thomas Stiles, William Thorne, John Townsend, William Widgeon and Michael Willard, for the Long Island settlement of Flushing. The patent grants the settlers the same rights to religious freedom as their countrymen back home.
City
Quakers under patentee John Hicks found Vlissingen (Flushing) on Long Island. ** Hoping to form a buffer between New Amsterdam and the Long Island tribes, Dutch officials encourage a group of New England religious dissenters led by Lady Deborah Moody to establish a colony at Gravesend, near Coney Island, in the future Brooklyn. ** Adrien Jansen van Olfendam opens a school, charges two beaver skins. ** Dirck Volkertsen, called The Norman, is given a patent for the Greenpoint area of Brooklyn and builds the first house, on Bushwick Creek. ** Dominie Johannes Megapolensis writes home to the Netherlands, contrasting the welcome diverse scenery of the New World with the flatness of Holland. ** Kieft's (Wappinger's) War ends after five years of strife between the Dutch and the local Indians. At least 1600 Munsee Indians have been killed during the war. ** Kieft is fired by the Dutch West India Company’s Board of Directors by year’s end and replaced by Peter Stuyvesant.
State
Close to 10,000 pelts are transported to New Amsterdam by way of Fort Orange (Albany).
1646
Jul 28
Kieft is ordered to give up his post.
Nov 26
The Dutch West India Company declares the Village of Breuckelen a municipality, the first in present-day New York State.
Dec 17
Former New Amsterdam schoolmaster Adam Roelantsen, often in trouble with the law and now reduced to taking in laundry, attacks Wyntje Theunis, wife of Herk Syboltsen, and is sentenced to be publicly flogged and banished. The sentence will be suspended because of his four motherless children.
City
Lawyer and sheriff Adriaen van der Donck moves down from Rensselaerwyck, bringing 50 families to his estate in the Bronx. The settlement will be wiped out by Indians. ** Farmer Jan Jansen Damen shoots bears in his orchard on lower Broadway, between Pine and Cedar streets, where the Equitable Building will one day rise.
1647
May 11
Peter Stuyvesant arrives in Nieuw Amsterdam as Director General, to replace Willem Kieft. Also aboard is William Beekman. Eighteen of the passengers aboard the ship died on the voyage.
Jul 4
Stuyvesant calls for the building of a commercial wharf.
Sep 24
Stuyvesant forms a Board of Nine Men to help him govern New York.
Sep 27
Having sailed for Holland with ore samples from the colony aboard the Princess, Governor Willem Kieft drowns when the ship is wrecked in the Britain’s Bristol Channel. Also lost are Dominie Bogardus and other officials.
December
Stuyvesant, his colony nearly bankrupt, jails Adrian van der Donck, leader of the Board of Nine Men, who are seeking stronger power.
City
Stuyvesant requires all Manhattan lots to be built on. ** Provisions are made to protect the populace against ship-borne diseases. ** The approximate date Jacob Lendersten Van Der Grift and his brother Paulus arrive from Amsterdam.
1648
July
During a brawl at at Creiger’s tavern Joannes Rodenburgh (Rodenburch) kills Gerrit Jansen Clamp. Rodenburgh pleads guilty and is arrested.
Jul 23
Creiger’s tavern is shut down.
Aug 19
Rodenburgh (Rodenburch) is released on bail when no one appears to accuse him after three (court) days notice.
City
New Amsterdam's first pier is built, in the East River at Schreyer's Hook. ** A law calling for pigs to be penned is ignored. ** Adriaen van der Donck, Auguste Heerrnan, Arnoldus van Hardenburgh, Govert Loockermans, Oloff Stevensen van Cortlandt, Hendrick Hendricksen Kip, Michael Jansen, Elbert Elbertsen (Stoothof), and Jacob Wolfertsen van Cowenhoven are named to this year's Board of Nine Men. ** Early in the year settlers under Adriaen van der Donck begin preparing a Remonstrance, or protest against the management of the Dutch West India Company, to send to the Staats-General in the Netherlands. A map prepared for the report has since been lost. ** Jan Stevenson opens a second school. ** Flushing’s English-born Presbyterian cleric Francis Doughty leaves for “the English Virginias” (Maryland), where his brother-in-law William Stone is governor.
1649
Jan 27
The West India Company directors write to Peter Stuyvesant, questioning the need for him to build large warehouse.
March
Stuyvesant has Van der Donck jailed for libel and removed from New Amsterdam's Board of Nine Men, seizing drafts of the Remonstrance.
July
New York merchants join to demand government
permission to sell,
buy and trade timber, grain and other merchandise with the same
freedom as government traders.
Jul 28
The Remonstrance of New Netherland is signed. It will be published in Holland later in the year.
Jul 29
The Nine Men inform the Dutch States-General they are sending three delegates to the Netherlands bearing A Petition of the Delegates, a Petition of the Commonality of New Netherland, and The Remonstrance of New Netherland, with charges against Stuyvesant’s rule.
Nov 7
Talks are held in Connecticut concerning the possible union of the colony with that of Maidstone (Southampton) on Long Island. Nothing will come of the idea until 1658.
City
The city applies for designation as a municipality. ** When citizens criticize the Dutch West India Company for enslaving the children of free Christian mothers the company backs off, requiring that they be made to perform only occasional labor. ** Manhattan has 17 taphouses.
© 2012 David Minor / Eagles Byte
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