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THE HIST OR Y OF NE W Y ORK CIT Y  21

Dutch Delftware
Colonists brought
this popular tin -glazed
earthen ware pottery
from Holland.

Tijger timbers
Manhattan Skyline Where to See
The Strand, now Whitehall Dutch New York
Street, was the site of the
city’s first brick house. Dug up by workmen in 1916, these
remnants of a Dutch ship, the Tijger, which
burned in 1614, are the earliest artifacts of
the period and are now in the Museum
of the City of New York (see p195). Rooms
in this museum, as well as in the Morris-Jumel
Mansion (see p245) and the Vorleezer’s
House in Richmond Town (see p258), give
a good idea of life in Dutch New York.
Purchase of Manhattan
Fort Peter Minuit obtains the island from the
Amsterdam
Algonquians in 1626 for a bucket of
trade goods worth 60 guilders.

Peter Stuyvesant
The last Dutch governor was a
tyrant who imposed strict laws
– such as an edict closing all
the city’s taverns at 9 o’clock.

1660 First city hospital established 1676 Great
Dock built on
1664 British forces oust Dutch East River 1698 Trinity Church
without a fight and change city’s dedicated
name to New York
1660 1680 1700
The surrender of New 1683 First New York city 1693 Ninety-two cannons
Amsterdam to the British charter established installed for protection; area
becomes known as the Battery
1680s Bolting Laws give 1689 Merchant Jacob Leisler
New York exclusive right leads a revolt against taxes and 1691 Leisler sentenced to
to process and ship grain takes over the city for two years death for treason

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