1675
February
New York's Governor Edmund Andros convenes a Board of Indian Commissioners at Albany. Robert Livingston serves as court secretary.
Apr 2
Plum (Plumme) Island Manor, (including Gull Island), on Long Island’s North Fork, is
formally granted to Samuel Willes (Wyllys) by Governor Andros.
June
Andros appears at Saybrook, Connecticut, claiming the land west of the Connecticut River for the Duke of York.
November
The Dutch on Long Island hold their first annual Kermiss (agricultural fair).
England
Francis Lovelace, second colonial governor of New York, dies in London, in his mid-fifties.
1676
March
Work begins on a new English fort in Albany.
May
Albany resident Pieter Bogardus finds his fence has been torn down and thrown in the Hudson River. The vandalism is reported to the fort's acting commander Sergeant Thomas Sharpe.
Nov 25
Albany residents Jan Conell and Dirck Albertsz Bradt impersonate a British officer while performing an impromptu farce at the tavern of William Gysbertse.
Dec 5
Conell and Bradt go to trial for ridiculing a British officer, are released on bail to appear before a special session on the 11th.
Dec 11
The two men are found guilty, but being Dutch and presumably not overly familiar with English custom, are sentenced to an hour in the stocks and relatively moderate fines of 200 and 100 guilders respectively.
State
Andros imposes penalties in Albany for trading violations, a high levy for defense of the town, and fines for an entire street when drunken a Indian is found there. ** A Senate House is erected at Kingston.
1677
Sep 29
Royal governor Edmund Andros confirms the 1667 grant of Oyster Bay.
Nov 1
The Suffolk County town of Southampton is incorporated by patent by Governor Andros.
State
Iroquois Confederacy members friendly to the English create the Covenant Chain, a commercial and military alliance, with them, signing two treaties at Albany. The first, between the Five Nations and Connecticut and Massachusetts, ends King Philip's War (New England's Second Puritan Conquest). In the second the Iroquois and the Delaware broker an agreement between Maryland and Virginia on the one hand and the Iroquois and the Andastes (or Susquehannocks) on the other. ** French Huguenots in the Hudson Valley establish New Paltz.
1678
State
The Ulster County grant of New Paltz is occupied by Huguenots.
1679
State
Dutch missionaries Jaspar Dankers and Peter Sluyter visit the Albany area.
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