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I. WILHELMUS COELY, bap. Dec. 20, 1665 ; died young.
2. LYSBETH COELY, bap. Aug. 28, 1667 ; joined the Dutch Church Feb. 25, 1685 ; m. Sept. 6, 1688, BERNARDUS, son of Abel and Annetje (Meyn- derts) HARDENBROOK. He was baptized August, 1662. They had bap- tized in the Dutch Church : I. Anna, June 30, 1689 ; 2. Janneken, Oct. 25, 1691 ; 3. Anneken, Dec. 31, 1693 ; 4. Elizabeth, Dec. 15, 1695 ; 5. Maria, Jan. 9, 1698 ; 6. Abel, Nov. 19, 1699 ; and 7. Margareta, Dec. 17, I701.
3. DEBORA COELY, bap. June 18, 1671 ; m. Aug. 26, 1694, NICHOLAS FIELDING. She joined the Dutch Church in New York, June 1, 1698. He was the first Sexton of Trinity Church, appointed Oct. 25, 1697, and described as " a person reputed of honest behaviour and conversation, who offered his service gratis, till the Corporation of the Church should be formally established." He held the office but a short time-about a year. (Berrian.)
4. WILLIAM COELY, bap. March 16, 1673; m. by Do. Dubois, June 7, 1700, to DINA, dau. of Cornelis Janszen and Heyltie (Pieters) CLOPPER. She was bap. March 15, 1675. They had bap. in the Dutch Church one dau., Heyltie, April 13, 1701, who married Jan. 10, 1725, Gerardus, son of Johannes and Sara (Van Laer) Hardenbrook. WILLEM COELY died about 1703, and his widow Dina m. second, Jan. 29, 1706, STEPHEN VAN BRAKEL (Ver Brakel, á Brakele, Brakele), probably son of Gysbert Ger- ritse Van Brakel, and his wife Reintje Stephens. They had bap. in the Dutch Church : 1. Margrietje Van Brakel, Nov. 19, 1706 ; died young ; 2. Reintje Van Brackel, Jan. 9, 1709 ; m. Sept. 1, 1727, John Stephens, Jr., and had son John, born Jan. 13, bap. Jan. 20, 1744, in the Presbyterian Church, in New York ; 3. Margritje Van Brakel, April 11, 1711.
5. LYDIA COELY, bap. Nov. 24, 1674 ; m. April 7, 1695, PIETER MASKELT (Masjet, Machet, Makkett), and removed to New Rochelle, Westchester County, N. Y., where they resided until 1697, when they returned to New York. They had one dau. bap. in the Dutch Church, Lydia, Nov. 17, 1697, who m. Dec. 31, 1720, Abraham Santvoort (Santford), widower of Vroutje Van Horne, by whom she had no issue. For a further account of Abraham Santford, see RECORD, vol. vi., p. 23, and vol. vii., p. 118.
* Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS. English, pp. 104-222.
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6. RYCKIE COELY, bap. April 26, 1679 ; died young.
7. HENDRICK COELY, bap. Oct. 27, 1680 ; died young.
8. RYCKIE COELY, bap. Aug. 5, 1682.
r 9. CORNELIA COELY, bap. May 27, 1687. Cornelia Coely, probably the same, who m. Jan. 24, 1729, JOHN FREDERICKS KUNTER.
IO. MARY (MARIA) COELY (mentioned in her father's will) ; m. Nov. 22, 1699, GABRIEL THIBOÛ, from England.
II. HANNAH COELY (mentioned in her father's will).
VARLETH-VARLET-VARLEET-VERLET -- VERLETH.
THE name of Varleth, in its various orthographic forms in the early records, has an unmistakable French structure, a corruption perhaps of Valet, and it is not improbable it was borne by some French exile who took refuge in Holland, in order to escape the religious persecutions of his native land, which prevailed during the latter part of the sixteenth cen- tury. The first members of the family in New Netherland were natives of Utrecht and Amsterdam, and though not to be deemed unprolific, their name, for nearly two centuries, has disappeared from the annals of our colonial and State history. It appears to have died out in the male line, in the third generation from the emigrant ancestor CASPER VARLETH," but, as if to make amends for the swift decay of its male stem, we find the mater-lineal branches of the family blooming and fruitful with the historic names of Bayard, Schrick, Philipse, Brockholst, Schuyler, Livingston, Jay, Clarkson, French, Morris, Robinson, Van Horne and others, who, if perchance of equal worth, are of lesser note among the ancient families of New York.
The first notice of the name found in the records, is on the 2 1st of Sept., 1642-the substitution of Hendrick Van Dyck, as attorney of Peter Verlet & Co., and July 17, 1647, in the report of the referees on a difference between Augustine Hermans, agent of Catharina Verlet of Amsterdam, and David Provoost, respecting a legacy. In September and October, 1652, Anna Verlet, described as the wife of George Hack (Hawks?), was a party plaintiff and defendant in various suits in the court at New Amster- dam, in one of which she claims, as her private property, a certain lot of tobacco sent to her from Virginia by her husband .* It is probable she was a sister of Casper Varleth, and assisted her husband in his business affairs, as well as engaging occasionally in trade on her own account, a not uncommon practice for merchants' wives at that time. Her husband was probably the George Hacke, who was one of the signers with other inhabitants of the county, of the " Engagement of Northampton," in Vir- ginia, March 25, 1651, relating to the surrender of Virginia to the British Parliament, or rather to Cromwell, who had sent out a naval force to reduce the colony to his sway.t George Hack was in New Amsterdam in Sept., 1652, and his wife's name is frequently found in the records here as late as January, 1661, but Virginia was probably their permanent place of residence. There was an Abraham Varleth here in 1651, perhaps a brother or son of Casper,' if the latter, he had deceased before the death of his father in 1662. He was a sponsor, Jan. 1, 1651, at the baptism of Abraham, son of Nicholas Varleth,2 which is the only notice found of him.
* Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS. Dutch, pp. 20, 38, 129.
+ Virginia Hist. Register, vol. i. p, 163.
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I. CASPER OR JASPER VARLETH,' the ancestor of the family bearing his name in New Amsterdam, was an early resident of the Dutch settlement of Fort Good Hope, at Hartford, Conn., and was there, according to Mr. Savage, perhaps as early as the completion of the Fort in 1633. He may have been domiciled for a short time at New Amsterdam, as we find refer- ence made to an inventory of articles taken at his house in July, 1651, and that his son-in-law, Paulus Schrick, on the 17th of October, 1661, petitioned for a deed of a house and lot on the Fresh Water,* Manhattan Island, sold to him by his said father-in-law. He is mentioned by Savage as a Dutch- man of some consequence at Hartford in 1656, "who may have lived there near thirty years," and died there in September, 1662, who had wife Judith who died before him, and children, Nicholas, Mary, Judith, and Jane.+ Beside these he probably had Catharina, born in Amsterdam, who married Francois De Bruyn in New Amsterdam, in August, 1657.
A judgment against him and his son Nicholas,2 dated Dec. 9, 1652, in New Amsterdam, for the payment of freight by the ship Fortune, indicates the fact that they were engaged in trade together, but their partnership seems to have been of a limited character. He was an active business man at Hartford, enjoying the respect of the English settlers there, and designated sometimes in the proceedings of the General Court of the colony as Mr. Varleet, an honorable distinction in those days-" the prefix Master or Mr., corresponding very nearly in meaning to the English word, gentle- man,"į or the title " Honorable " as at present used. From the respect- ful terms in which the following request is couched, it may be inferred that he possessed also, in a high degree, the friendship and esteem of the authori- ties at New Amsterdam.
" To CASPER N[V]ERLEITH :
" At the request of the Burgomasters and Schepens of the city of New Amsterdam you will please to repair to the Stadt house of this city afore- said, on the morning of to-morrow, the 21st inst., and there show the pass which you received from Jan Jongh [John Young], in so doing will confer on us a friendship with which we remain yours affectionately.
" Signed by order of Burgomasters and Schepens,
JACOB KIP, Secretary."
" New Amsterdam,
20 March, 1654."§
About this time he was engaged in aiding Johannes Van Beeck in his attempt to marry his daughter Maria, the peculiar circumstances of whose marriage we shall have occasion to notice hereafter. Judith Varleth, his wife, was associated with Anna, the wife of George Hack, before mentioned, in some business enterprises that gave rise, in September, 1652, to a suit in New Amsterdam, respecting a number of negroes and other property which Mrs. Varleth had purchased, and which were taken away in the night time by one Capt. Geurt Tyssen.| Casper Varleth,' and his wife Judith, appear to have been enterprising, industrious, and thrifty persons-quali- ties of character for which their descendants have also been noted. They
* PAULUS SCHRICK obtained a patent, Jan. 31, 1662, for two morgens (about four acres), of land at the Kolck, or Fresh Water, in New Amsterdam (O'Callaghan's Hist. of New Netherland, vol. ii. p. 591), perhaps the property above alluded to.
1 Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, vol. iv. p. 365.
# Col. Records of Conn., 1636-1665, pp. 322, 372, 387. Hollister's Hist. of Conn., vol. ii. p. 424.
§ Valentine's Manual, 1853, P. 444.
I Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS. Dutch, pp. 127, 128.
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had issue, one son and four daughters, which we give in the order of their marriage, as follows :
2. i. NICHOLAS VARLETH,2 probably came to New Netherland with his father, and resided for some time with the family at Hartford. His daugh- ter Susanna3 was born in Amsterdam, of which city he too was probably a native. His name first appears in the records at New Amsterdam on the Ist January, 1651, at the baptism of his son Abraham.3 His first wife was Susanna Jillis, supposed to have been a sister of Margaret Jillis, the wife of David Provoost. On the 14th of October, 1656, he married his second wife, Anna Stuyvesant,* widow of Samuel Bayard, and sister of Governor Stuyvesant, by whom he had no issue. This alliance, as well doubtless as his own personal merit, secured for him at once honorable position in the public service at New Amsterdam, and, subsequently, in the adjoining province of New Jersey. He was appointed April 7, 1657, Commissary of Imports and Exports, vice Adriaen Van Tienhoven, and the following year Searcher, Inspector, and Guager, vice Warnaer Wessels dismissed. April 17, 1657, he was admitted to the rights of a small burgher, and April 23, 1658, took the oath of office as Collector of Duties on Exports and Imports to and from New England and Virginia. On the 27th Feb., 1660, he was commissioned, with Brian Newton, Ambassador to Virginia, and soon after concluded, with the General Assembly of that colony, a treaty of Amitie and Commerce, highly satisfactory to both New Netherland and Virginia. He was one of the Commissioners that signed the articles of capitulation, on the surrender of New Netherland, Sept. 6, 1664, his name appearing in that document, NICH. VARLETH, which, among the diverse methods of spelling in the records, we have adopted as the correct ortho- graphy. +
He was, for some years, one of the chief merchants of New Amsterdam, and in June, 1660, a partner of his brother-in-law, Jacob Backer,¿ engaged
* ANNA STUYVESANT was the dau. of Balthazar Stuyvesant and his first wife MARGARET HARDENSTEIN. " The name is derived from Stuiven, to stir or raise a dust, and sand, being the same in both the Dutch and English." Her father was a clergyman, who settled, July 19, 1622, at Berlicum, a small town in Fries- land, having come from Scherpenzeel in the same province, " where he was the minister previous to 1619." He left Berlicum in 1634, for Delfzyl in Guelderland, where he died in 1637. His first wife died at Berlicum, May 2, 1625, aged fifty years. Gov. Peter Stuyvesant and Anna, and perhaps others, were the issue of this marriage. He married second, July 22, 1627, Styntie Pieters, of Harlem, by whom he had Margaret (two of that name) Tryncke (Tryntje ?) and Balthazar. See Anthology of New Netherland, pp. 181, 182.
ANNA STUYVESANT married her first husband, SAMUEL BAYARD, in Holland, and by him had four chil- dren (Winfield's Land Titles), who came with her to New Netherland in 1647, in company with Governor Stuyvesant. These were-t. BALTHAZAR BAYARD, born in Amsterdam, m. in New Amsterdam, Nov. 12, 1664 (Family Bible), Marritje Loockermans. 2. NICHOLAS BAYARD, born in Alphen, a small town near Utrecht, m. in New Amsterdam, May 23, 1666, Judith Verlet. 3. PETRUS BAYARD, born in Alphen, m. in New Orange, as New York was then called. Nov. 28, 1674, Blandina Kierstede. 4. CATHARINE BAYARD, born in Bergen Op. Zoom, m. in New York, Oct. 23, 1678, William De Meyer.
+ O'Callaghan's Register of New Netherland. O'Callaghan's Hist. of New Netherland. vol. ii. p. 535. Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS. Dutch, pp. 183, 195, 207, 214, 217, 259. Valentine's Hist. of New York, p. 147.
# JACOB OR JACOBUS BACKER, a prominent merchant in New Amsterdam, came from Old Amsterdam, and married Oct. 30, 1655, Margariet Stuyvesant, from Delfzyl in Guelderland, born there about 1635. She was the dau. of Rev. Balthazar Stuyvesant and Styntie Pieters, and half sister of Governor Stuyve- sant, and of Anna, the wife of Nicholas Varleth. Mr. Backer's trading operations were extensive and his wife actively aided him in his business enterprises. He was admitted to the rights of a small burgher April II, 1657 ; Schepen in 1660, and President of the Board in 1664. Besides these and other official positions, he was one of the Provincial Agents to Holland in 1663, and a representative, from New Amsterdam, in the General Assembly held at that place, at the City Hall, April 10, 1664, also one of the signers, Sept. 8, 1664, of the ratification of the Articles of Capitulation on the surrender of New Netherland to the English. He returned to Holland in 1666, leaving his wife Margariet in charge of his business affairs. but his property having been heavily mortgaged before his departure to Jean Cosseau, was foreclosed by him in 1670. It was reported that Mr. Backer died in the East Indies. He resided on the east side of Broad near Beaver Street, where he also had his warehouse. These premises were purchased in October, 1670, at public sale, by Mr. Balthazar De Hart a wealthy merchant, who died in 1672, unmarried, leaving most of his estate to his brothers Daniel, Matthias and Jacob. Among other bequests be makes one to his natural son Matthias and another to his "Naturall son Daniel De Hart, procreated by Margarett Stuyvesant." This son Daniel was bap. in the Dutch Church in New York, Sept. 1, ,1671, and is perhaps the same who had by wife
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in the Curaçao trade and importing tobacco from Virginia. He resided on the west side of the present Whitehall, between Pearl and State Streets, on property purchased in Feb., 1658, of Paulus Schrick, and which he subse- quently sold to Jacob Leisler. Some time prior to October, 1665, he left New York, and settled permanently in Bergen, N. J., where he had acquired extensive landed possessions.
In March, 1656, Nicholas Varleth2 was a resident of Hoboken, N. J., and his request for six or eight soldiers, for his defense, having been denied, "for fear of a collision with the Indians," he, at the same time, " asks permission to transport to New Amsterdam from Hoboken, a frame house which he had sold Michael Jansen [Vreeland] for 230 guilders." * How long he had resided there does not appear. On the 5th Feb., 1663, he obtained a patent for a tract of land at Hoboken, supposed to be the same that was in his possession previous to March, 1656. From Winfield's His- tory of the Land Titles in Hudson County, N. J .- a work replete with valuable information concerning the early settlers of New Netherland, no- where else to be found-we learn that "he was appointed Captain of the militia in Bergen, Gamoenepan [Communipaw], Ahasimus and Hooboocken, October 6, 1665 ; on the same day a member of the court at Bergen, and on the first of November following a member of Carteret's Council. These positions he continued to hold for several years. He died in the summer of 1675," leaving his wife, Anna Stuyvesant, and two children surviving him. His widow was living January 19, 1683, but the date of her decease is unknown. His children, both by his first wife, were :
I. SUSANNA,3 born in Amsterdam ; m. June 8, 1673, JAN DE FOREEST, son of Isaac and Sarah (de Trieux) De Foreest ; he was bap. March 27, 1650. In 1686, they resided in the present Beaver street, between Broad and William. They had issue bap. in the Dutch Church in New York : 1. Nicholas, bap. Feb. 4, 1674; 2. Susanna, bap. Jan. 4, 1676 ; 3. Sara, bap. April 10, 1678, and 4. Sara, bap. March 12, 1670. These children all died in childhood, except Susanna, who married Robert Hickman, of New Jersey.+
2. ABRAHAM,3 bap. Jan. 1, 1651. He was a clerk in the Provincial Secre- tary's Office in 1673, and one of the Commissioners the same year to administer the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the towns in Achter Col, and also to the inhabitants of the towns on Long Island, east of Oyster Bay .¿ From Winfield's Land Titles, we learn that "he left the Province in 1675, entered the Dutch East India Company's service, and afterwards died in the city jail at Ceylon."
3 ii. JANNETJE OR JANE VARLETH,2 born in Utrecht. Married in New Amsterdam, Dec. 10, 1651 (1650) AUGUSTYN HERMANS (HARMAN HEER- MANS) a native of Prague in Bohemia, whose life and history fills no inconsiderable space in the early annals of New Netherland. He was a
Catharine Van Pelt, son Balthus [Balthazar], bap. in New York April 6, 1709, and who was living in 1695 in Elizabeth Town, N. J.
In April, 1676, Margariet Stuyvesant (named Margaret Baker in the patent) having obtained a patent for 224 acres of land there, became a resident of Elizabeth Town, N. J. On the 17th of March, 1677-8, was recorded a covenant of marriage "between Hendrick Droogestradt and Mrs. Margarita Stuyvesant, both of Eliza- beth Town, in which Hendricus, Nicholas and Abraham Backer are mentioned as her children." (New Netherland Register. Valentine's Hist. of New York, p. 110. Hatfield's Hist. of Elizabeth, N. J., p. 250.) JACOB BACKER and Margariet Stuyvesant had issue bap. in New York: 1. [Nicholas] bap. March 25, 1657; 2. Balthazar, bap. Sept. 18, 1658 ; 3. Hillegond, bap. Sept. 7, 1659 ; 4. Henricus, bap. Sept. 26, 1660, and 5. Abraham, bap. Nov. 23, 1664.
* Whitehead's East Jersey under the Proprietors, p. 28 ; Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS. Dutch, p. 164.
+ Winfield's Land Titles in Hudson Co., N. J., p. 39.
# O'Callaghan's Register of New Netherland, pp. 29-164.
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man of good education, a surveyor by profession, skilled in sketching and drawing,* an adventurous an enterprising merchant-" the first beginner of the Virginia tobacco trade "-and possessed of little or none of that phlegmatic disposition which has often been ascribed as a characteristic of the Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam. A friendly notice of his speculative genius is given by Van der Donck, who speaks of him as a " curious man and a lover of the country," who made an experiment in planting indigo seed near New Amsterdam, " which grew well and yielded much," samples of which sent to the Netherlands, " were found to be better than com- mon."+ His wife was a member of the church here prior to her marriage, and though his name does not appear as a communicant, the evidence is not lacking that he was a man of deep religious feeling, and one who rever- ently recognized the Divine Power which controls in wisdom the destinies alike of men and nations.
At what time Augustyn Hermans came to New Netherland is not pre- cisely known. He was in the employ of the West India Company, and was in company with Arent Corssen in 1633, at the time of the Dutch pur- chase from the Indians of the lands, which included the site of Philadelphia, on the Schuylkill, near the mouth of which Fort Beversrede was subse- quently erected.} He probably went back to Holland and returned again to this country under different auspices than those of his first adven- ture here. In June, 1644, he was with Laurens Cornelisson, an Agent of Peter Gabry & Sons,§ and Mr. Brodhead says he " came out under the patronage of the Chamber of Enckhuysen, as agent of the mercantile house of Gabry of Amsterdam."| The same year he was established in trade of that general character common at the time, and afterward made several voyages to Holland in the prosecution of his commercial enterprises. Some years later we find him interested in privateering, and one of the owners, in 1649, of the frigate La Garce, engaged in depredations on the Spanish com- merce. On the 6th of Dec., 1651, he purchased of the Indians, for Cornelius Van Werckhoven, an influential member of the provincial government of Utrecht, the "Raritan Great Meadows," and other large tracts of land in New Jersey, which acquisitions being objected to by the Amsterdam Chamber, Van Werckhoven was compelled the following year to abandon. T
For reasons not apparent he was unfortunate in his business operations, and in September, 1652, " a fugitive " from his creditors, his affairs in the hands of assignees Paulus Leendertsen (Van der Griest) and Allert Anthony, who were finally discharged as such March 18, 1653. In May, 1653, he was granted " liberty and freedom" by the Council, and excused for having broken the Company's Seal, " having settled with his creditors ; "
*A view of New Amsterdam, sketched by Augustyn Hermans, was engraved on Nicolas Jan Vischer's map Novi Belgii Novaque Anglic nec non partis Virginia, published in 1650-6, and also on a reduced scale from Visscher's map on the map prefixed to the second edition of Vanderdonk's Description of New Netherland. (Memoirs of the L. I. Hist. Soc., Vol. I., p. 230, foot note.) It will be found at the bottom of the latter map in the Coll. of N. Y. Hist. Society, Vol. I. (second series) facing the title ; also in O'Calla- ghan's Hist. of New Netherland, Vol. II., p. 312. and in Valentine's Hist. of New York.
" In the Grenville Library is the only map ever made by Faithorne, an artist distinguished for crayon portraits and delicate copper-plate engraving. On it is this statement : "Virginia and Maryland ; as it is planted and inhabited this present year, 1670 : surveyed and drawn by Augustus Hermann Bohemiensis ;" also a beautiful portrait of the original settler of Bohemia Manor. (O'Neil's Terra Maria, page 164.)
+ Coll. N. Y. Hist. Society, Vol. I., Second Series, p. 156.
# O'Callaghan's Hist. of New Netherland, Vol. I., p. 156. O'Neill's Terra Maria, p. 158.
§ The firm name in April, 1652, was John and Charles Gabry. They were prominent merchants in Old Amsterdam.
| Brodhead's Hist. of N. Y., I., 476. In Van Tienhoven's answer to the Remonstrance of New Neth- erland (Nov. 29, 1650), he says that "AUGUSTYN HEERMANS went out in the [ship ?] Maecht Van En- chuysen, being as he now is clerk to Gabri in the trading business."
Brodhead's Hist. of New York, Vol. I., p. 537.
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the same month he was bearer of dispatches from Gov. Stuyvesant to the New England authorities at Boston respecting an alleged conspiracy of the Dutch and Indians against the English. In December, 1658, he obtained permission to make a voyage, doubtless for trade, to the Dutch and French Islands in the West Indies, and arrived at the island of Curaçao, April 18, 1659. He left there the 16th of May following for New Netherland, and the next year made arrangements for settling permanently in Maryland .*
In his public positions he rendered useful and important service to the colony. He was one of the board of Nine Men, organized Sept. 25, 1647, and held that office in 1649 and 1650 ; one of the Ambassadors to Rhode Island in April, 1652, and in the same capacity, in company with Resolved Waldron, was sent to Maryland in September, 1659. On this latter em- bassy they were instructed " to request the surrender of fugitives or threat- en retaliation, and to demand reparation for the seditious proceedings and ' frivolous demands, and bloody threatenings' of Col. Utie on the South River." Hermans kept a journal of their travels and proceedings while on this service, and with his associate urged, with great ability, before the Maryland governor and his council, the rights of the New Netherland Gov- ernment, in opposition to Lord Baltimore's claim to the South River. "Indeed, it may be safely claimed that the independent existence of the present State of Delaware is mainly owing to the very reasons which they maintained so ably" at that time. The authorities at New Amsterdam were not unmindful of his influence, when, upon despatching Capt. Newton and Varleth on their mission to Virginia, in Feb., 1660, they instructed them "to inquire in Maryland if danger threatened the South river, and to avail themselves of the 'aid and tongue of Augustine Heermans,'" who was then in Virginia. Nor was the proprietary of Maryland-to which colony he returned in 1660-slow to recognize his talents and accomplish- ments, for, in that year, "as a compensation for his services in preparing for Lord Baltimore a map of the country," he obtained a patent for a large tract of land, embracing upwards of twenty thousand acres, "situated at the junction of the Elk River and Bohemia River at the head of Chesa- peake Bay, and lying mostly in the present State of Maryland, but partly - in the State of Delaware," to which he gave the name of Bohemia Manor.+ To this place,į described by the Labadist travellers as " a noble piece of land," the best they had seen in all their journey south, he removed with his family about the year 1664, and there spent the remainder of his days.
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