1670
City
Staaten Eyelandt (Staten Island) is purchased for the third and final time from the Indians. ** Brewer Jacob Van Couwenhoven dies and creditors, including Oloff Stevenson Van Cortlandt, take over the brewery. ** English governor Francis Lovelace builds the King's House, a tavern, next to the Stadt Huys.
Bronx
The Morris family bring black slaves from Barbados to their home. ** Thomas Hunt settles the area to become known as Hunts Point
Brooklyn
The Rockaway Indian sachem Eskemoppas challenges the land claims of the settlers in the Midwout (later Flatbush) area. Dutch leaders repurchase the land.
1671
January
Benjamin Johnson is appointed executioner for New Amsterdam.
May
The approximate date wealthy New Amsterdam merchant Govert Loockermans dies, in his mid-fifties.
July
Benjamin Johnson, having been given the job of building a stone-lined well behind the Stadt Huys, at Pearl Street and Coentes Slip, is paid 195 florins for his work.
Aug 11
Royal governor Francis Lovelace grants a petition by Lutheran minister Jacobus Fabritius to deliver a farewell sermon to his New York City parishioners.
City
Dutch minister Samuel Driscus petitions for two years of salary in arrears, but is paid only £100 because he was sick one year. The council recommends that the church's elders and deacons supply him with further aid. ** Former mayor Thomas Delavall is appointed mayor for this year. ** Captain John Manning moves to the island in the East River which he purchased in 1666 (afterwards known as Manning's Island, later Minnahannock, Hog, Blackwell's, then Roosevelt Island).**
Staten Island
Richmondtown’s first building, the Britton Cottage – owned by botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton - is built at New Dorp Lane and Cedar Grove Avenue.
1672
February
Peter Stuyvesant dies in New York City, at the age of 62.
Dec 10
After receiving an earlier message from Charles II of England strongly recommending that the colonists establish a "close correspondency with each other" Governor Francis Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York and Boston.
City
Matthias Nicholls is appointed mayor for the year. ** The population reaches 5,000. ** Traveling Quaker George Fox preaches under two white oak trees in Flushing township.
1673
Jan 1
Plans for once-a-month post service to Boston from New York, scheduled to begin today, are postponed.
Jan 22
The first mail run leaves New York City, heading for Boston, on the future route of the Old Post Road.
February
French immigrant Isaac Bedlow/e dies (probably in New York City) in his mid-forties (birth date ca. 1627)
Jul 30
A Dutch fleet captures New York City, retaking the colony and New Jersey, renaming the city New Orange. Fort George is taken.
Feb 5
The approximate date the mail reaches Boston.
Aug 9
Acting commander Captain John Manning surrenders Fort James to the Dutch.
City
John Lawrence is appointed mayor for the next two years. ** The approximate date the city executioner Benjamin Johnson is convicted of heading a gang of thieves. He's whipped, deprived of one ear, and banished. ** Carolus Allard's Orbis Habitablis, a Dutch pictorial tour of the world, contains a line engraving that includes a distance view of lower Manhattan.
1674
Feb 19
The Treaty of Westminster ends the Third Anglo-Dutch War, restores New Amsterdam and New Jersey to the English. The city's name reverts to New York.
Feb 24
Annetje Cornelis petitions city officials, who grant her possession of the house and issue a restraining order against her husband.
Jun 8
Fabritius is again ordered to not approach Annetje Cornelis without her consent.
Jul 11
Fabritius enters his wife's house without permission, to place a chest inside, pushes a woman named Barentie and her spinning wheel off the road, and physically resists soldiers sent to remove him.
Jul 17
Fabritius is fined 100 florins and made to apologize to the court, thus avoiding banishment.
City
Mayor William Dervall levies the colony's first tax. ** The sovereignty transfer ceremony is held at the State House (Stadt-Huys). ** Law courts are held at the State House. ** Augsburg Congregationists Vrit Wessels, Lauwerens Andross, Martan Meyers, and Casper Steinmets petition Governor Andros upon his arrival, to have a promised Lutheran minister sent from Holland and for a yearly salary to be paid to him. ** For having surrendered Fort James to the Dutch last year Captain John Manning is court-martialed, accused of cowardice and treachery. He is exiled to the East River island named for him (the future Roosevelt Island).
(c) 2011 David Minor / Eagles Byte
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