Cornelius Melyn arrives on Staten Island with 41 settlers. Dutch West India Company promises to send, "as many blacks as possible" to colony.
Native American uprising. Governor Kieft tries to end rife smuggling. He orders sailors to stay on ship at night (but they still drink in saloons), prohibits "fighting, lewdness, rebellion, theft, perjury, calumny", and issues passports to restrict foreigners - but fails in all this. Wealthy Frenchman, Picquet, denounces Kieft as, "a betrayer of his country, a villain and a traitor", and offers to shoot the Director General if no one else will !
May 10
Canarsee chief Penhawitz sells land around Jamaica Bay to Dutch West India Company.
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