1665
Feb 6
The Dutch West India Company authorizes all their officers and colonists to war against the English.
Feb 8
New York royal governor Richard Nicolls asks each Long Island town to send two delegates to a meeting in Hempsted at the end of the month, to adopt the Duke's Laws.
Feb 9
East Hampton designates Thomas Talmage and Thomas Thomson to meet with deputies from Southold and Southampton to consider means to have legal representation at Hempsted, apart from Hartford.
Mar 1
Nicolls introduces the Duke's Laws to an assembly from Westchester and Long Island. The laws require that those who took out patents under the Dutch acknowledge the English proprietors' right to the land by taking out new patents.
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.
Mar 13
Gysbert Schuyler, son of Philip and Margretta Schuyler, dies at the age of 12, in Albany.
Jun 22
Nicolls notifies the towns on eastern Long Island that war is being declared on the Dutch by the Crown. All are advised to be on the lookout for enemy warships and, if spotted, militias should travel to the western end of the island and await instructions.
Jun 24
The Assembly of Representatives sets rules for dealing with stranded whales. They are to be reported to the governor and the person finding the animal is to be given the fifteenth gallon of oil extracted.
Sep 5
East Hampton decrees that no one under the age of 18 be left to tend the cattle enclosed on the Great Plain and that those who perform the chore, remain until relieved, or face a fine.
Sep 11
East Hampton resident John Kirtland transfers the contract of his Indian apprentice Hopewell to the Reverend Thomas James.
Oct 4
Easthampton and Montauk/Shinnecock chief Quashawam come to an agreement concerning boundaries between town and Indian land; setting up rules regarding mutual use for grazing, hay cutting, land disposal, etc.
Oct 5
Governor Nicolls issues a patent to David Gardiner, making the property of the Gardiner's Island landowner accountable only to the colonial governors' office; charging an annual quit rent of £5.
Oct 12
East Hampton forbids its citizens to entertain or sell accommodations to "Scandalous person or persons".
Oct 13
The Half Moon Patent, in Saratoga County, is granted to Peterson Philip Schuyler and others.
State
Nicolls signs a peace treaty with the Esopus Indians. The natives agree to remain on their own lands.
New Jersey
Elizabethtown, founded by settlers from Long Island, is made the capital of East Jersey by Governor Philip Carteret.
1666
Mar 13
The Suffolk County town of East Hampton is incorporated under patent by governor Nicolls.
Jun 15
East Hampton rules that owner of oxen must keep them off the common lands on Sundays.
Oct 16
Military governor of New France Alexandre de Prouville, the Marquis de Tracy, leading a force of 1000 regulars, 600 militia and 100 Algonkians and Hurons, torches New York Mohawk villages, including Andarague, after making peace with the Seneca and Oneida. Prouville claims Iroquois territory for Louis XIV.
State
Sweer Teunise Van Velsen erects the future Schenectady's first grist mill. The passing road will be named Mill Lane. ** Anti-English violence breaks out in Kingston.
Canada
De Courcelles and de Tracy's expedition limps back from New York, having reached as far as Schenectady, but accomplishing little.
1667
Jan 4
Eleven landholders on the north side of Long Island’s Newtown Creek enclose their croplands within a single fence.
Jan 16
East Hampton's constable and overseers set fines for missing town meetings.
Jul 19
Royal governor Richard Nicolls writes to the Long Island towns, telling them to organize their militias for mutual defense.
Jul 21
The Dutch and the English sign the Treaty of Breda, ending the Second Dutch War. New Netherland is transferred to the British and Acadia is restored to France.
Nov 29
Nicolls issues a land patent for Oyster Bay, on the north shore of Long Island.
State
William and Sarah Teller settle on Croton Point. ** Land patents are issued for Kinderhook Landing (today’s Van Stuyvesant Landing) to the widow of settler Jan Fransen van Hoesen and to Abraham Staats.
Indians
The Iroquois treat for peace with the French.
1668
Mar 25
English captain Sylvester Salisbury is presented with a silver bowl when his horse wins a race at Hempstead — the first sporting trophy in America.
May
Royal Governor Richard Nicolls is recalled and replaced by Colonel Francis Lovelace.
Jun 8
John Osborne is assigned land at Wenscot (Wainscott), the first East Hampton area settler living outside the center of that plantation.
Jun 22
Robert Livingston is granted Livingston Manor in New York’s Columbia County. The
manor has one representative in the colonial General Assembly.
Nov 3
East Hampton landowner Stephen Hand gives the town permission to build a road through his woodlot, for the passage of carts, oxen and horses, but not for cow herds.
Nov 16
Royal governor Francis Lovelace writes to East Hampton minister Thomas James, commending him for composing a catechism and asking for a translation, along with several other pieces, into the Indian tongue, which he will then forward to London for printing.
State
The approximate date the French settlement near Jamesville is visited by a party of Spaniards from the Mississippi by way of Olean, seeking silver. When the French and Spanish begin quarreling the Iroquois kill them all. ** The approximate date blacksmith Willem Tietsoort comes to live with the Mohawks at Skenecticut (Schenectady).
New Netherland
The English produce a map - known as the Nicolls Map - of the area, in reference to governor Nicolls.
1669
Jun 28
Royal governor-general Francis Lovelace and his council invite East Hampton's John Mulford and minister Thomas James to report on Indian affairs in the area, examine an Indian named Aukeeanit for possible prosecution, and keep Indians out of proscribed areas. James is authorized to sell small quantities of gunpowder.
Nov 3
The Montaukett Indians of eastern Long Island recognize Lovelace as their official head sachem.
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