1660s
Staten Island
Captain Thomas Stillwell builds a house – one-and-a-half story rough-cut fieldstone - on the future Richmond Road. Later it will be known as the Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House.
1660
Nov 15
Asser Levy is the first kosher butcher to be licensed in New Amsterdam.
City
The Costello map, discovered in Florence, Italy's Villa Castello in 1910 depicts the streets and residents of lower Manhattan in this year. ** Nicasius de Sille compiles a manuscript street directory of the city.
Brooklyn
Breukelen has a population of thirty families and contains a church with its own dominie (pastor). The congregation complains that his sermons are too short. ** Director Peter Stuyvesant establishes the Town of Boswyck, or Woods (Bushwick) on Long Island, including today's Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Bushwick.
1661
City
Oude Dorp (Old Town) is founded on Staaten Eyelandt (Staten Island). ** The approximate date the sheriff is instructed to remove substandard privies. ** A ferry between the city and Communipaw, New Jersey, goes into service. ** When Quaker John Bowne challenges Governor Stuyvesant’s intolerance toward the sect he removes himself to Queens and builds a two-story house on the future Bowne Street as a meeting place for Quakers. The building will become the oldest in he future borough and a City Landmark.
Brooklyn
Carel de Bevoise opens a school in Breukelen. ** Cornelius Van Werkoven establishes New Utrecht, one of the first towns in Kings County (the future Brooklyn).
1662
Feb 21
Brooklyn settler Joris Jansen de Rapalje, a Walloon, dies at Wallabout, Long Island, at the age of 57.
City
Lithuanian Protestants settle in the colony. ** Flushing Quaker John Bowne is imprisoned and fined for allowing fellow Quakers to meet in his home. Bowne appeals the case in Holland to the directors of the Dutch West India Company; they instruct Governor Peter Stuyvesant to overlook such cases where they do not actually interfere with local government. ** Dutch emigrant Willem Gerritsen dies in Brooklyn.
England
Historian Thomas Fuller refers to the gullible qualities of people of the mythical Gotham.
1663
Jun 12
The wife of New York resident Hendrick Cousterier (Coutrie) appears before the Burgomeisters to testify that the burgher-right had been granted her husband by Peter Stuyvesant, for painting a picture of himself and sons.
City
Caught trying to sell his wife, Laurens Duyts is flogged and loses an ear. ** Willem Gerritsen's widow Mary marries Gerrit Remmersen. ** Stuyvesant travels to Boston to meet with the Commissioners of the United Colonies. ** Stuyvesant convenes the second Provincial Assembly.
Staten Island
The Dutch build a blockhouse at the southern end - the future site of Fort Wadsworth.
1664
Mar 12
Charles II grants his brother James, the Duke of York, the land between the Delaware River and the Connecticut River, including all of Long Island. Annual payment is forty beaver skins, payable if demanded. Charles transfers all feudal power to James.
Apr 2
The Duke of York names Richard Nicolls as deputy-governor of New Netherland, still held by the Dutch, orders him to sail at once.
Apr 6
German immigrant and leatherworker Jan Harberdinck (Herberding) joins the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church.
Apr 10
The First Assembly of New Netherland delegates convenes in New Amsterdam.
July
New Amsterdam carpenter Willem Abrahamsen Van der Borden and Red Lion Brewery owner Daniel Verveelen file a complaint against the town for allowing the establishment of a tannery between their two Prinsen Straet properties, endangering the water in their wells. They are ignored. ** New Amsterdam learns by way of Boston that an English fleet has recently departed.
Aug 18
Nicolls sails into New York harbor, with four vessels, and sets up a blockade.
Aug 29
When Nicolls demands the colony's surrender Stuyvesant stalls, playing for time, tears up the surrender demand.
Sep 8
When the council refuses to back him Stuyvesant surrenders the town to the English. It will be renamed New York City. The transfer ceremony is held at the Stadt-Huys. The newly-named Albany (for James, Duke of York and Albany, formerly named Fort Nassau, Fort Orange, Beverwyck, New Albany, and Willemstadt. Stuyvesant gets the British to agree to protect the colony's records.
City
New Amsterdam's population reaches 1500. Eighty of them are importers. ** Law courts are held at the State House. ** Dutch settlers avoid sailing around the dangerous waters off Brooklyn's Red Hook by digging a canal from the East River to Gowanus Cove. ** Abraham Rycken (later Riker) Van Lent purchases an offshore island from Peter Stuyvesant. ** Wolfert (Wolfort, Wolphert) Webber opens a tavern on a small hill near the present Chatham Square. ** Wolfert (Wolfort, Wolphert) Webber opens a tavern on a small hill near the present Chatham Square. ** Brooklyn area farmer Pieter Claesen becomes a magistrate, adds the surname Wyckoff (wyk = parish; hof = court).
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