1665
Mar 10
The approximate date delegates of New York colonies meeting at Hempstead, Long Island, rubber stamp the Duke's Laws, as their new legal code. Long Island, Staten Island and parts of Westchester are divided into ridings, with an appointed sheriff in charge of each. All Protestants are granted continuing religious freedom.
Jun 12
Royal governor Sir Richard Nicolls grants a charter to the City of New York, denying it self-government.
City
Population: 1,500. ** Governor Nicolls appoints Thomas Willett the city's first mayor, for the year. For many years the post will remain appointive and mostly ceremonial. ** Governor Nicolls opens the first court of admiralty at the old Stadt-Huys. ** Peter Stuyvesant is recalled to Holland to explain the loss of New Amsterdam. ** Constable Thomas Tourneau is born in Harlem to Daniel and Jacqueline De Parisis Tourneau.
1666
February
Royal Governor Nicolls confirms the 1645 letters patent granted for the Queens village of Flushing.
Mar 6
Nicolls confirms the 1652 letters patent granted for the Queens village of Newtown.
City
Thomas Delavall is named mayor for the year. ** British army officer Captain John Manning acquires Minnahannock Island, in the East River. It will become Roosevelt Island. ** Nicolls has a well dug within the walls of Fort Amsterdam.
1667
Feb 13
Royal governor Sir Richard Nicolls grants merchant and speculator Isaac Bedlow/Bedloe nearly a mile of Hudson River-front property on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the first grant outside the settlement in lower Manhattan.
Jul 21
New Netherland is transferred to the British and Acadia is restored to France.
Oct 11
Nicolls confirms the 1652 land patent for Brooklyn's Flatbush area.
City
Former mayor Thomas Willett is again appointed to the post. ** Former Dutch director-general Peter Stuyvesant has the tile of his bouwerie (farm) confirmed. ** The West India Company grants a Dutch resident 200 acres at the future site of Greenwich Village, in exchange for one tenth of his crops and an annual Christmas present to the director of "a brace of capons". ** Brewer Johannes van Brugh, tobacco planter Thomas Hall, Jacob Leenders, Egbert Wouterson, brewer Jan Vinje and Isaac Bedlow takes possession of 1300 acres on the future Upper West Side – between today’s West 89th Street and the West 30s - of Manhattan. Hall, one of the first two Englishmen on Manhattan, having arrived as a prisoner captured by the Dutch in a earlier raid on the South (later the Delaware) River, now owns much of the east central portion of the island, centered around East 42nd Street.
1668
May
Royal Governor Richard Nicolls is recalled and replaced by Colonel Francis Lovelace.
September
A epidemic (possibly yellow fever) kills many New Yorkers.
City
Cornelius Van Steenwyck is appointed mayor, serving for the next three one-year terms. ** Peter Stuyvesant returns from the Netherlands.
Queens
The approximate date Prospect Cemetery is established.
1669
Oct 9
Lovelace writes to the mayor and alderman, presenting them with a seal for the corporation, a silver mace and seven gowns for the mayor, aldermen and sheriff.
City
Lutheran minister Jacobus Frabriceius arrives in the colony. ** The approximate date Welsh immigrant Thomas Hall and local landowner dies (birth date c. 1614-1618).
Bronx
The settlement of Fordham is founded.
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