1650
Jan 23
Maidstone (East Hampton), Long Island, settlers Thomas Baker, Robert Bond and John Mulford, meet with Southampton representatives to set common boundaries, both sides agreeing to keep hogs and cattle away from the lines.
Apr 27
Lion Gardiner writes to Governor Winthrop to ask that a minister be provided for Maidstone. He lists the books on religion that he can supply a young candidate.
Sep 29
The Treaty of Hartford divides Long Island, along a line from western Oyster Bay directly south, between the Dutch and the English, allowing the Dutch to keep their Hartford lands. Peter Stuyvesant represents the Dutch.
Oct 3
Maidstone elects a constable and four deputies to act as a court, passes legislation concerning town meetings and cast-up whales. ** United English Colony commissioners meet in Hartford, Connecticut, resolve to take Maidstone under their protection, while allowing the town to remain independent.
Nov 27
Maidstone contracts with Vinson Meigs to build and operate a mill, paying him 50 pounds sterling in produce, meat or wampum, and twenty acres of land. The town will transport the timber and millstone to the site. The work must be completed by next June 4th.
Dec 12
Philip Pieterson Schuyler, having arrived from Amsterdam in the Netherlands, earlier in the year, marries Margretta van Schlectenhorst, at Fort Orange (Albany).
1651
Mar 7
The Connecticut General Court summons Maidstone, Long Island, settler Ralph Dayton to appear before it to register the colony and receive new laws for its governance. All settlers will fence their property, load guns for shooting wolves only outside a one-mile perimeter from the village, and keep their dogs confined when the animal's in heat.
Apr 16
Maidstone receives a receipt for its grant from Connecticut.
May 14
Maidstone assigns each householder a strip of land behind his home for his private use, apart from common lands and woodland.
May 19
Maidstone decides that when cattle break through fences and cause harm the animal shall be marked by a piece of wood on its horns.
Aug 23
Maidstone agrees to pay the Reverend Thomas James, its first minister, 45 pounds sterling a year, tax-free land, and the first grain ground every Monday.
Oct 7
Maidstone's General Court calls for a three-man committee to officiate for the coming year, instructs Daniel Turner to find a home with a local family or leave the area, and gives homeowners six weeks to acquire a ladder capable of reaching the top of any thatched roof.
Nov 6
Maidstone establishes a watch for beached whales, places John Mulford in charge. Provision is made to arm each adult male.
Nov 17
Maidstone residents make plans to build a meeting house, agreeing that in the meantime Thomas Baker will be paid 18 pence for each time meetings are held at his house.
1652
Mar 23
An official deed is issued in Connecticut in acknowledgment of the transfer of New York's Shelter Island from the Long Island tribes to Captain Nathaniel Silvester and Ensign John Booth.
Apr 1
New Netherland director general Pieter Stuyvesant establishes the village of Beverwyck (Albany), the second municipality in the future New York State, after Breuckelen (Brooklyn).
May 4
Maidstone arranges for laying out further lots on the "East plaine" and confirms the claims of Ralph Daiton, William Edwards, and Thomas Osborne, Sr.
May 8
Maidstone orders the platting of town lots on the plain, with provision for a road to the village of Wainscott.
May 17
Maidstone orders every landowner with half a dozen cows to provide a bull as well; six pence in stud fees will be paid for every cow impregnated, for the rest of the year.
Jul 2
A son, Gysbert, is born to Philip Pieterson Schuyler and Margretta van Schlectenhorst in Beverwyck (Albany).
Jul 7
Maidstone's General Court orders that the Accabonacc meadows be divided into three parts to facilitate the harvesting of salt hay. Roads are ordered into the northwest meadows, with 30 acres of hay left uncut for the time being.
September
The Indians of eastern Long Island sends sachem Checkanoe (Cockenoe) to Hartford, Connecticut, to plead for their property rights before the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England. No copy of any previous deed transfer can be found; the commissioners find for the tribes.
Sep 15
Maidstone requires property owners to mark their boundaries, with a fine of 2s 6d for every lot not marked.
Oct 15
Maidstone encourages those with grievances to let them be publicly known.
Nov 2
Maidstone's General Court rules that each man shall vote on each debated issue by show of hand or be fined 6d.
Dec 3
Maidstone appoints Thomas Talmage town whale watcher for the year.
Dec 27
A second, repeat, sale of Long Island Indian lands to colonial purchasers take place.
State
The Van Schaick family is awarded a land patent at Beverwyck (Albany). ** Escaped Royalist Grissel Sylvester Lloyd, young bride of James Lloyd, arrives at Shelter Island, bringing box plants from her garden back in England. The Lloyds are among the first white settlers on the island.
1653
Jan 3
Maidstone orders that half the townspeople be sufficiently armed each Lords Day, subject to a 12d fine, and to bring their arms to town on one day's notice.
Feb 2
Maidstone decides to invite Southold weaver "Goodman" Morgan to relocate, promising him 5 pounds sterling and free land.
Mar 26
Maidstone bans selling provisions to Indians during harvest time. Any doing so will be fined 6d for each pound of bread or quart of meal.
Apr 26
Maidstone, fearing plots by the Dutch in New Amsterdam, forbids Indians to enter town, especially when armed.
May 6
Maidstone rules that the watch will arrive at dusk; if any man fails to show up a replacement will be hired at the delinquent's expense. Also shot and powder will be ordered from Connecticut, to be paid for by butter or cheese at Clarke's home, at Michaelmas.
May 9
Maidstone decides that no citizen shall live away from town without letting three others know the details of his absence. A fine of 40 shillings shall be leveled for each day's unexplained absence.
Jun 9
Maidstone (East Hampton) authorizes a highway west to Georgica.
Jun 13
William Edwards of Maidstone (East Hampton) sues a Mrs. Price for accusing his wife of lying. Thomas Baker testifies that Mrs. Edwards has blamed her husband for bringing her to a godless place without ministers or magistrates. Edwards drops the suit.
Jun 23
Maidstone orders a watering pond to be dug at a spring east of the village, by all those owning cattle. Ralph Dayton and Thomas Baker are named as overseers of the project.
July
Word arrives in the colonies that England and Holland have signed a peace treaty.
Aug 2
Maidstone calls for the town's cattle to be driven out to Wainscott each day, with Thomas Osborne having the first turn, then rotating among the owners.
Jul 5
Two meadows outside of Maidstone, one at Accabonac and one at Northwest, are apportioned out to the townspeople.
Sep 16
Maidstone agrees to give "Goodman" Davis 7 1/2 acres of land after he brings in two more crops on the plain east of the village.
Nov 3
The Iroquois sign a general peace with the French at Montreal.
Dec 9
Maidstone votes to abide by the laws of Connecticut.
State
English settlers from Hempstead are colonizing the Hicksville, Jericho, Oyster Bay and Westbury areas of Long Island.
Indians
Jesuit father Antoine Poncet, captured by the Mohawks under Tekarihoken, in Canada, is brought through the Black River area.
1654
Feb 4
A daughter, Geertruy, is born to Philip Pieterson Schuyler and Margretta van Schlectenhorst in Albany.
May
Pogatticut (Yoki), Grand Sachem of the Long Island tribes, dies near the shores of Little
Peconic Bay between the two forks of the island. He is succeeded by his brother
Wyandanch, the sachem of the Montauks.
May 23
Maidstone moves the house next to Joshua Garlicke's off the Common and converts it to a prison.
Jun 8
Several male residents of Maidstone are accused of sexual self gratification.
Jun 10
The total of Maidstone men charged rises to four.
Jun 26
Three of the four accused in Maidstone, servant Daniel Fairfield, a servant of Joshua Garlicke, and John Davis, are whipped, while Fairfield is pilloried as well. The fate of the fourth man, John Hand, Jr., whose father is on the investigating committee, is unrecorded.
Jun 29
Maidstone agrees to a request from Connecticut to assist England against the Dutch.
Oct 3
Maidstone votes to adopt a version of the Connecticut constitution.
Oct 24
Maidstone signs a Covenant, incorporating the town on religious principles in the Connecticut manner. 40 inhabitants sign.
Nov 9
Maidstone passes legislation placing Lion Gardiner in charge of whale watchers, calling for a road across the swamp to the plain, requiring each man to initial the corners of his property, and placing Thomas Baker in charge of the Ordinary (tavern).
State
Title to the Westchester County Town of East Chester is acquired from the local Indians and confirmed.
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