1624

Spring
Dutch West India Company send their 1st colonists (30 families) with livestock, seeds, and farm implements in Nieuw Nederlandt to stay for 6 years. By the time they arrive, there have been 4 more marriages. Ship returns with otter and beaver pelts.

Spring
Captain C.J. May is appointed Director of New Netherland. Settlers occupy head of bay (at Fort Orange, Fort Nassau and Governor's Island) and call it Mannahata after an old indian word.

New York City is called New Amsterdam. State of New York is called New Netherland. Settlers call Manhattan Manate.


Settlers ice skate and play lawn bowling at Bowling Green Park; popular sports over 100 years.