EASTERN NEW YORK Timeline - 1670-1674

1670

Dec 1

Mile Square, in the future Westchester County, is separated from Aquehung (Yonkers) and

sold to Francis French, Ebenezer Jones and John Westcott.

Dec 2

Long Island's Montaukett Indians convey the Nine Score Acre Purchase to John Mulford, Reverend Thomas James and Jeremiah Conkling of East Hampton.

State

Hempstead minister’s son Daniel Denton visits Hempstead Plains. He writes A Brief Description of New York, describing Long Island. ** The approimate date settler Elias Van Guysling builds a house on the Great Flats outside Schenectady, the first area home outside the stockade. ** The approximate date farmer Marinus Roelofse Van Vleckeren is born.

1671

State

Volkert Jansen Douw acquires the Hudson River’s Houghtaling Island. ** A stockade of pitch pines and oak is erected surrounding Albany, replacing the 1659 wall of posts and planks.

1672

July

Puritan settlers of Oyster Bay, Long Island, gather at the home of Anthony Wrights for a community brush cutting, by order of the town elders.

Jul 18

Mohawk land in the Albany area is patented to Jan Hendricksen van Baal, purportedly based on an Indian deed - The Normans Kill Patent.

1673

Jul 29

A warrant is issued to William Osborne instructing him to call up the troops at Hempstead, Long Island.

Jul 30

A Dutch fleet captures New York City, retaking the colony and New Jersey, renaming the city New Amsterdam. Fort George is taken.

State

The English garrison at Albany is relinquished. The Dutch rename the town Willemstadt.

1674

Feb 23

New Orange (Albany) Lutheran minister Jacobus Frabitius becomes abusive to his sickly wife Annetje Cornelis who he’s had sleeping in the attic all winter. He then leaves the house.

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 1

The Duke of York makes Sir Edmund Andros governor of New York.

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.

Nov 10

British army ensign Caesar Knapton and sergeant Thomas Sharpe take command of an 18-man garrison at Kingston

State

Dutch carpenter Frederick Philips acquires land on the east bank of the Hudson River including much of present-day Westchester County. ** Charles II renews his brother the Duke of York's claims to the colony. The Dutch cede control. ** Scottish-born landowner-merchant Robert Livingston settles at Albany.

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