1650
City
Immigrant Jan Aertsen Vanderbilt arrives from der Bilt, Holland. ** The
Jan Jansson map of New Amsterdamn, originally dated at 1655, will be
redated to this year in the late 1990s, by Jan van Bracht and Günter Schilder.
Queens
Burger Jorissen builds a gristmill at he future site of Queens Plaza.
1651
Peter Stuyvesant receives the deed for a bouwerie (farm) previously belonging
to Wouter Von Twiller. ** The approximate date Jan Jansson’s manuscript
map of Belgii Novi (New Netherlands) is created. It has since disappeared.
Mar 21
The directors of the Dutch West India Company complain of the extravagant
land grants made to Wouter van Twiller and direct Stuyvesant not to make
any more grants unless the grantee acknowledged the authority of the company
and gave proof of their own ability to properly cultivate the granted lands.
1652
Jun 30
England declares war against the Netherlands, the First Anglo-Dutch War.
City
Governor Peter Stuyvesant charters Flatbush, on Long Island, and issues a
patent for the Long Island village of Newtown (later Elmhurst), previously
known as Middleburgh. ** Englishman William Hallet, buys 1,500 acres
on Long Island along the East River from Stuyvesant. The Indians are
appeased with a blanket, beads, 7 coats, and 4 kettles. The community
becomes Hallets Cove (later Astoria). ** In an attempt to stimulate
colonization the West India Company reduces the fare from eight stuivers
a day to seven. ** The Dutch erect a timber and earthwork wall across
Manhattan at the settlement's northern boundary, for military protection.
It will provide the name of the future Wall Street.
Brooklyn
The Dutch West India Company’s Cornelius Van Werckhoven, a magistrate
of Utrecht in the Netherlands, purchases land from the Nayack Indians,
agreeing to compensate the tribe with clothing and tools., establishes the town
of New Utrecht, with permission by Stuyvesant. ** Stuyvesant grants a town
patent to Midwout (the future Flatbush). ** The approximate date Pieter
Stuyvesant estate superintenent Pieter Claesen Wykoff builds a house in the future
Flatbush section. It will one day become the oldest surviving house in the state.
Netherlands
The Lords Directors of the Dutch West Indies Company in Amsterdam learn that
New Amsterdam has an abundance of mulberry trees, begin planning for a silk industry.
1653
Peter Stuyvesant incorporates the city of Nieuw Amsterdam (New Amsterdam).
January
Manhattan resident Joost Goderis, son of a Dutch painter, is accosted while returning from
a fishing trip to Oyster (later Ellis) Island by Isaack Bedloo (Bedloe), Guliam (Gukyam) d’Wys,
Gyshert van der Donck, Jan Vinje, Pieter Werckhoen Harmanus Hartoogh, Cornelius Melyn
and Jacob Buys and taunted with being cuckolded by Allard Antony, supposedly loud enough
to be hard back on the Battery. Subsequently Goderis shows up at Bedloo’s house and slaps him.
Bedloo cuts Goderis on the neck.
Feb 10
The new government meets in Fort Amsterdam. Joost Goderis appears and accuses Bedloo
of last month’s taunting and wounding. A number of witnesses – including Antony - brought
in, refuse to testify against Bedloe.
March
Those who Goderis has accused are ordered to remain under house arrest and report back on
March 8th. The case will drag out for weeks, finally dropped by Goderis for insufficient evidence.
July
Word arrives in the colonies that England and Holland have signed a peace treaty.
Dec 10
Representatives from four Dutch and four English towns meet in New Amsterdam, to protest
against New Netherland's arbitrary government.
Dec 14
Stuyvesant convenes the colony’s first representative assembly, defies the opinions of “a few
ignorant subjects”.
City
The city acquires a city council and a town government, in protest to Stuyvesant's rule. **
The Dutch West Indies Company's tavern at Pearl Street and Coentes Alley is ceded to
the city for a city hall. The colony builds a wall across the island to the north, as a protection
against English colonies and Indians, from that direction. ** Merchant Jacob Krip is
appointed first city clerk of New Amsterdam. ** Immigrant builder Frederick
Philipse arrives. ** Politician and poet Nicasius de Sille arrives from Holland after his ship
battles with English vessels three times. ** Carpenter Claes Hendricksen exchanges his
homestead just to the north of the new wall, with Polish-born tavern keeper Daniel Litsche.
It will later be condemned by authorities as being too near the fortifications.
Brooklyn
This year or next the New Utrecht Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery is begun. A church will
not be built on the site until 1700.
1654
May 18
The directors of the East India Company write to governor Pieter Stuyvesant, informing him of a
New Amsterdam city seal to be forwarded.
Jun 8
New Amsterdam settler Teunis Tomasen sues Michael Paulisen for payment on a chimney Tomasen
had built for Paulisen. Tomasen wins his suit.
Jun 20
New England recruits setting out to attack New Amsterdam learn that the English and the Dutch have
made peace.
Jul 4
Manhattan's Dominies Hook, on the North (Hudson) River between Duane and Canal streets, is acquired
by ground brief from Peter Stuyvesant.
Jul 17
The approximate date (possibly the 18th) the Dutch ship Peartree sails from Holland with the
New Amsterdam city seal.
Aug 22
Jacob Barsimon becomes one of the first Jews to settle in New Amsterdam, having arrived on the
Peartree. Solomon Pietersen may have come in the same vessel.
Sep 7
23 Sephardic Jews, including Moses Ambrosius (Lumbroso), Judicq de Mereda, Abraham Israel,
David Israel and Rycke Nounes, refugees from Brazil, arrive in New Amsterdam aboard the French
armed vessel St. Charles (the Jewish Mayflower). The ship’s captain claims he’s owed 1600 guilders
for the trip.
Oct 5
Manhattan tavern keeper Wolfert Webber is called before the Magistrates’ Court on charges his
dogs attacked several pigs – owned by Judith Verleth and a Mrs Stillen - that wandered on his
lands. Webber claims the hogs were damaging his seeds, but did not harm the pigs. He also
claims he’s been threatened with a beating by Mrs. Verleth. The court tells him to mend his
ways and make a complaint of his own if he’s threatened again.
English physicist Thomas Pell purchases over 9,000 acres in the Bronx from the local
Siwanoy Indians.
Dec 8
Stuyvesant presents the city seal and accompanying signet to burgomeister Martin Crigier.
Bronx
The Dutch settle Oostdorp (East Village), the future Parkchester neighborhood.
Brooklyn
A wooden structure, the town’s first Dutch Reformed Church, is built in Flatbush,
under the direction of Peter Stuyvesant.
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