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1/1/1628 The Mohawk / Mahican War ends

1/1/1634 The Pequot War begins

6/22/1637 Puritan Theophilus Eaton founds the New Haven Colony

1/1/1638 The Pequot War ends

4/24/1638 500 Puritan settlers arrive at the New Haven Colony

4/1/1644 John Carman crosses the Long Island Sound with the first thirty-plus families from Stamford to settle Hempstead

8/27/1664 Peter Stuyvesant provisionally cedes New Netherland to the English

6/1/1665 New Amsterdam is reincorporated under English law as New York City

11/1/1683 The New York Colony divides into 12 counties, Hempstead becomes part of Queens

1/1/1699 The British seize the Hempstead area from the Dutch

9/1/1775 Settlers of Cow Neck, Great Neck and surrounding areas sign a declaration of independence from England

8/1/1776 The British arrive in New York Harbor

8/27/1776 The Battle of Long Island takes place in Brooklyn