1680
Apr 1
Philipsburgh Manor is granted to Frederick Philipse.
Nov 14
Kirsch’s Comet appears over the northern colonies, causing Boston’s Increase Mather to preach a sermon on Heaven's Alarm to the World, and the Hudson River Dutch to petition for a day of fasting and humiliation. It will have disappeared by March 19th of the following year.
State
Abraham, Jacob and Catherine Schellinger, children of East Hampton settler Jacobus Schellinger, needing land to farm, move three miles east and found Amagansett. ** The approximate date Mohawk spokesman Chief Hendrick (Theyanoquin) is born. ** Dutch missionaries Jaspar Danckaerts and Peter Sluyter visit Albany. ** Daniel Janse Van Antwerp is granted 165 acres of land in Woestina (today's Rotterdam Junction area). ** Over the past decade Hudson Valley travelers have noted that card playing has become increasingly popular among the Munsee Indians.
1681
Feb 8
Trader Evert Wendell is born in Albany to shoemaker and trader Jeronimus (Harmanus) and Ariantie Visscher Wendell.
Nov 30
Albany sheriff Richard Petty is granted a warrant against certain tavern keepers who illegally stay open all night, singling out Ida Barents. She will be in trouble repeatedly over the next two years for similar infractions.
State
Frederick Philipse erects a house on the Nepperhan River, at the future site of Yonkers. ** Southampton farmer Joseph Pierson registers his own cattle earmarks.
1682
Nov 4
Mohawks transfer deeds to Jan Mangelse, Captain Johannes Clute, and Claes VanBoeckhoven. The latter deed reserves the right to the Indians to have free wood and hunting.
State
The Verplanck family buys Hudson Valley land for farming in the future Newburgh area. ** Robert Livingston begins buying land along the Hudson River, the nucleus of the future Livingston Manor.
1683
Jul 26
Mohawk Indians grant deeds to Cornelis Van Dyck and three others, retaining hunting & fishing rights. The Indians confirm the loosely-defined Kyaderosseras or Queensborough Patent, encompassing most of today's Saratoga County, to May Beckley, Johannes Beekman, Ann Bridges, Samson Broughton, Johannes Fisher, Peter Franconneer, Manning Hermanse, Adrian and Jovis Hogelandt, John Stevens, Johm Totham, John Tuder, and Rip Van Dam.
Sep 26
Mohawk Indians deed to Arnold Viele lands covering 16 to 17 morgens (a Dutch measure equal to about 2 acres).
Nov 1
New York's Albany, Kings, Dukes, Westchester, Ulster, Cornwall (islands off the Maine coast), Dutchess, New York, Orange, Queens (including Hempstead and Oyster Bay), counties are chartered by Royal Governor Thomas Dongan. Long Island's East Riding of Yorkshire is organized as Suffolk County. Martin's Vineyard, in Dukes County, later becomes Martha's Vineyard, part of Massachusetts.
Nov 8
The Connecticut-New York boundary dispute is temporarily settled by a new commission sent over from England,
Nov 28
The Connecticut-New York boundary dispute is settled by committee, temporarily.
State
The General Assembly of Freeholders reorganizes the province’s governmental structure into 12 counties.
1684
May
The Connecticut Assembly approves the border with New York.
June 5
Algonquin Indian chief Sepham and others cede lands of the Tuckahoe Hills, later part of Yonkers, to Frederick Philipse.
Jul 30
The Iroquois renew peace treaties with New York's governor Thomas Dongan, at Albany, plant a Tree of Peace.
Aug 1
Iroquois land is deeded to Governor Dongan.
Aug 21
New France (Canada) governor Joseph-Antoine de la Febvre leads a force of 1800 out of Fort Frontenac (Kingston) to the mouth of New York’s Salmon River, for a parley with the Indians. A scarcity of fish leads to the death of a number of his troops.
Nov 1
Dongan grants a patent for Schenectady County.
Nov 4
The village of Schenectady is patented. Control of all the common lands is vested in the original grantees. ** The Saratoga Patent, in Washington and Saratoga counties, is granted to Cornelius Van Dyck, Peter Schuyler, and others.
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