EventsEdit

• January: Willem Kieft purchases the majority of future Queens County.
• 5 January: Captain David Pietersz de Vries establishes a plantation on Staten Island; it fails a year later.
• July: Dutch farmer Jonas Bronck arrives at the colony.
• 3 August: The Dutch West India Company purchases a tract of land between the Hudson and Harlem Rivers.
• In an attempt to encourage new settlement, New Netherland is opened to all settlers.

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