Friday, May 20, 2011
1645
October 10
Flushing receives charter from Governor Kieft. December 19 - As a reward for resisting Indian attacks, Gravesend receives patent, 16-acre square faces common (still part of Brooklyn's street plan, at MacDonald Avenue and Gravesend Neck Road). Charters grant, "... free liberty of conscience according to the custom and manner of Holland, without molestation or disturbance from any magistrate .. or ecclesiastical minister that may pretend jurisdiction over them. "
Maspeth reestablished, renamed Middleburgh.
Flushing receives charter from Governor Kieft. December 19 - As a reward for resisting Indian attacks, Gravesend receives patent, 16-acre square faces common (still part of Brooklyn's street plan, at MacDonald Avenue and Gravesend Neck Road). Charters grant, "... free liberty of conscience according to the custom and manner of Holland, without molestation or disturbance from any magistrate .. or ecclesiastical minister that may pretend jurisdiction over them. "
Maspeth reestablished, renamed Middleburgh.
1644
February 25
1st Free black community begins with 11 black slaves freed and given plots of land to farm (children still enslaved). Freed slaves include Manuel Gerrit (see 1641 Hanging spectacle).
On official listings, city has: 1 baker, 1 blacksmith, 1 brewer, 1 clerk, 1 cooper, 1 hog dealer, 1 magistrate, 1 minister, 1 skipper, 1 surgeon, 1 weaver, 2 millers, 2 wheelwrights, 4 shoemakers, 4 tailors, 10 carpenters, 19 servants, 38 farmers. The minister earns the most at 1.000 florins; a shoemaker earns 65 florins, a carpenter's boy only 25 florins. English settlement of Hempstead. 1 sheriff in New Amsterdam.
China - End of Ming dinasty (began 1368).
1st Free black community begins with 11 black slaves freed and given plots of land to farm (children still enslaved). Freed slaves include Manuel Gerrit (see 1641 Hanging spectacle).
On official listings, city has: 1 baker, 1 blacksmith, 1 brewer, 1 clerk, 1 cooper, 1 hog dealer, 1 magistrate, 1 minister, 1 skipper, 1 surgeon, 1 weaver, 2 millers, 2 wheelwrights, 4 shoemakers, 4 tailors, 10 carpenters, 19 servants, 38 farmers. The minister earns the most at 1.000 florins; a shoemaker earns 65 florins, a carpenter's boy only 25 florins. English settlement of Hempstead. 1 sheriff in New Amsterdam.
China - End of Ming dinasty (began 1368).
1643
Population of colony (Manhattan and surrounding farms) 400-500. February - Near Fort Worth is a lethal attack by Mowhawk warriors means 100s of Algonquins flee to New Amsterdam area and congregate at Pavonia and Corlaer's Hook. February 25/26 - Dutch soldiers make cowardly night attack, butchering 80 Algonquin men, women and children in their sleep in Pavonia, plus 40 in Manhattan. They march to Fort Amsterdam with the several heads. 100s of Native Americans and many settlers will die in the Year of our Blood. Maspeth settlers kill 3 Marechkawiecks and steal 2 wagons of corn. When Kieft offers a truce, they reply, "Are ye our friends? Ye are merely corn thieves." 11 tribes from Long Island and Hudson valley unite against Dutch. French Jesuit, Father Isaac Jogues, arrives as town's 1st Roman Catholic priest - after rescue from burning at the stake of Mahawk Iroquois Indians.
Town established. Services are held in St. Nicholas Church, a brewery and boatbuilding shed are erected, and a gabled inn serves visitors. October - Native Americans attack Anne Hutchinson's home near Pelham Bay (killing all except her daughter who is carried off) and then destroy Throgmorton's settlement. Moody's settlement stoutly resists another attack. Kiefts War will last almost 2 years and destroy many villages and farms.
Town established. Services are held in St. Nicholas Church, a brewery and boatbuilding shed are erected, and a gabled inn serves visitors. October - Native Americans attack Anne Hutchinson's home near Pelham Bay (killing all except her daughter who is carried off) and then destroy Throgmorton's settlement. Moody's settlement stoutly resists another attack. Kiefts War will last almost 2 years and destroy many villages and farms.
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