1642

From New York

[edit] Events

• 28 March: The Reverend Francis Doughty settles the town of Maspeth.
• October: The Englishman John Throgmorton settles Throg's Neck.
• The Dutch Reformed congregation erects a new stone church in Fort Amsterdam.
• Cornelius Dicksen starts ferry service between Manhattan and Long Island.
• Religious dissenters from Massachusetts settle Gravesend.
• A treaty is signed between the Ducth and Indians at the home of Jonas Bronck to stop the conflict between the two; it does not hold.

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