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.