After Block’s ship the Tyger burns down while moored at the souther tip of Manhattan he heads out in a new 44.5 foot, 16 ton vessel called the Onrust (restless) that his men and Lenape built. He is the first European to navigate Hellegat (Hell Gate at the East River) and enter the Long Island Sound. Along the north side of the sound (Connecticut) he explores the Verse River (Connecticut River) and the River of Red Hills (Housatonic River). He briefly visits the New Haven Harbor area (New Haven), later to become the site of the New Haven Colony. Leaving the sound he charts Block Island and Narraganset Bay.

On October 1, at Cape Cod, Block rendezvous with Christiaensen and the Fortuyn. Returning to Europe, they leave the Onrust behind.

In 1916, remnants of the Tyger are recovered while digging the New York City Subway at the eastern edge of the present World Trade Center complex.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen_Block

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyger_(ship)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onrust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate

https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/picks-from-the-past/161517/disappearance-of-the-historic-ship-itijgeri

After a Swiss immigrant is killed by a Weckquaesgeek acquaintance over a personal matter in 1641 Director General Willem Kieft uses the lack of the Weckquaesgeek to produce a suspect as justification for attacks on Weckquaesgeek and Tappan refugee camps.

– On February 25, 1643, Dutch soldiers kill 129 Indians including women and children at Communipaw (Jersey CIty) during the Pavonia Massacre

– Fall that same year a force of 1,500 natives invades New Netherland, kills many, destroys villages and farms

– Englishman John Underhill, hired by Kieft, kills  500-700 Weckquaesgeek that winter, in retaliation

– Underhill  recruits militia on Long Island and kills about 1000 natives there and in Connecticut

– Heavy fighting continues for two years while many Dutch settlers return to Europe

– Both sides agree to a truce in August, 1645

– In 1647 Kieft is fired by the West India Company, recalled to explain his conduct and dies in a shipwreck on the return voyage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieft%27s_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_John_Underhill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavonia_Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Kieft

Everardus Bogardus, the domine of the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam, who is an adversary to Kieft and would often denounce his policies from the pulpit, accompanies him as he sets sail from New Amsterdam on August 17. The two have agreed to have their charges and countercharges heard and judged by the Classis of Amsterdam (the Dutch Reformed Church assembly for its church boards).

Both men drown when the he ship wrecks in the Bristol Channel near Whales before reaching its destination.