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).
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