1630

Johannes de Laet publishes 1st map showing Manhattan (Manhattes), New Amsterdam and North (Noordt) River.

August 10
Staten Island (1st time called this) granted to Michael Pauw by Dutch West India Company, with Pavonia (New Jersey's Hudson shore).

Imports are worth 113,000 guilders and exports 130,000 guilders. Native Americans sell Staten Island to Dutch and exchange pelts, wampum and food for European textiles and glass beads plus brass, copper and iron tools. Illegaly, many colonists sell guns, ammunition and alcohol to them.

Town Centre of New Amsterdam has church, market place, brewery and mill. Broadway (Heerewegh) leads diagonally from it.

New colony in Salem, Massachusetts.