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Ordered likewyse that Mr. Hubbard bring up along with him one or more of per- sons to whom hee layd out ye land by order of this board who are in feare from the threats of the aforemenconed persons and their accomplices.
In the difference between Mr. Prudden minister of Jamaica and his parishioners, It is ordered that they pay to the Sayd Mr. Prudden what is due to him by agree- ment on reccord in the Towne booke - and that when that's done if the said parishoners have anything to object against their said minister they shall be heard. - Doc. Hist. N. Y. iii. 216.
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WARRANT TO ARREST THE REV. MR. JAMES.
Thomas Dongan Captayne Generall and Governor of the Province of New York and the territoryes thereto belongeing to Henry Ffilkin one of the Messengers of the Council greeting These are in his Majesty's name to command you to take into custody the body of Thomas Jeames late Minister at Easthampton wheresoever hee shall bee found and him safely keepe so as you may have him to answer before mee and the Councill on the first Thursday in December next ensuing unto a cer- tayne Informacon then and there to bee exhibited against him for that hee the Sayd Thomas Jeames on the Seventeenth day of October last past in the sayd Towne of Easthampton did preach a certeyn Seditious Sermon tendeing to the stirring up of Strife and publick disturbance of the peace and quiett of his Majesty's Liege people and Government here hereby lykwyse comandeing and requireing all Sherriffs Constables and other officers as also all other persons of what degree or quality soever to bee aideing and assisteing unto the sayd Henry Ffilkin in the execution of the premisses as they will answer the contrary att their peril and have with you at the same time this precept for your doing whereof this shall be your sufficient warrant. Given under my hand and Seale att ffort James this nineteenth day of November in the second yeare of his Majesty's Reigne Annoq Dmne 1686. Thomas Dongan.
Sheriff's returne
By vertue of this writt I have in my custody
the body of the within named Thomas Jeames
Henry Ffilkin.
Endorsed - 1686 Warrant and apprehendding of Jeames.
- Doc. Hist. N. Y. iii. 217.
GOVERNOR DONGAN TO MONSIEUR DE DENONVILLE - INDIAN MISSIONS.
December 1st, 1686.
I desire you to send me word who it was that pretended to have my orders for the Indians to plunder and fight you; that I am altogether as ignorant of any enter- prise made by the Indians out of this Government as I am by what you meane by " mlhillmiqum." and neither have I acted anything contrary to what I have writ- ten, but will stricktly endeavour to immitate the Ammity and friendship between our Masters - I have desired you to send for the deserters, I know not who they are but had rather such Rascalls and Bankrouts as you call them were amongst their own countrymen then this people, and will when you send word who they are, expell, not detain them and use all possible means to prevent your good wishes and hopes that our Merchants may suffer by them -'Tis true I ordered our Indians if they should meet with any of your people or ours on this side of the lake without a passe from you or me that they should bring them to Albany and that as I thought by your own desire expressed in your letter, they being as you have very well remarked very ill people and such as usually tell lyes as well to Christians as Heathens. The Missionary Fathers If they please but to do me jus- tice can give you an account how careful I have been to preserve them. I have ordered our Indians strictly not to exercise any cruelty or insolence against them and have written to the King my Master who hath as much zeal as any prince liveing to propagate the Christian faith and assure him how necessary it is to send hither some Fathers to preach the Gospel to the natives allyed to us and care would be then taken to dissuade them from their drunken debouches though certainly our Rum doth as little hurt as your Brandy and in the opinion of Chris- tians Is much more wholesome; however to keep the Indians temperate and sober is a very good and Christlan performance but to prohibit them all strong liquors seems a little hard and very turkish - What I wrote concerning what was due to me for my service in France was very true, Monsieur Charuell the Intendant at Nancy adjusted and sent them to Monsieur Leuoy signed by himselfe and me and I gave the coples of them to Monsieur Pagaion liveing in the street of St. Hone.
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to putt them into the hands of Monsieur Carillon Chaplaine to the Duchesse of Orleans - but Sir, you need not to trouble yourselfe about itt for I intend to gett it represented out of England and doubt not but the King my Master who is so bountiful a prince will be so just as to pay what became my due by a great deal of fatigue and labour, however I humbly thank you for the ciuill obliging offers you make me and do assure you (I) shall be heartily glad of any occasion to requite them desiring you to believe I earnestly wish and contend for the union (you say) you desire and will contribute all in my power to promote and preserve it which is all the reflection I shall make on your letter being -- Sir, assuredly with all due respect, Your most humble and affectionate servant, T. Dongan. - Col. Docs. N. Y. iii. 462, 463.
PETICON OF THE REV. MR. HUBBART, [HOBART].
Delivered 9th December 1686. To his Excellency. Colonell Thomas Dongan Gov- ernor of the Province of New York under his most Excellent Majesty James the Second King etc., and his Honorable Councill now sitting in James ffort in the Citty of New Yorke. The humble peticon of Jeremia Hobart minister of the Towne of Hempst'd on Long Island in the Province aforesaid,
Humbly Sheweth,
That whereas your petitioner hath for almost five years since been lawfully called, and after that legally approved by the then Commander in Chief, Major Anthony Brockolls, to be minister of sayd Hempst'd, yet allthough a full agree; ment was mutually had, between the towne and myself, as to the house building, and comfortable finishing, and as to annuall Sallary etc., neither is it by the parish performed to my great damage and almost insupportable inconvenience.
My humble request is that your Excellency and Council would be pleased to take cognisance of my afflicted low estate, and apply a remedy comensurat to your Excellency's pleasure and justice.
So shall your petitioner ever pray, etc.
Your most humble and poor petitioner,
Jeremy Hobart.
December ye 9th 1686. Read and ordered that the Inhabitants of Hempsted or some in their behalfes Do appeare this day Sen'at to shew cause why this petition should not bee granted .- Doc. Hist. N. Y. iii. 120.
PETITION OF THE DUTCH CHURCH OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, FOR A SITE FOR A NEW BUILDING, AND FOR A LOT OF STONE. (IN ENGLISH. A DUTCH NOTE SAYS, " THIS PETITION FOR CERTAIN REASONS, WAS NOT PRESENTED.")
To the Worshipful Mayor, Aldermen and Assistants for the County and City of New York, at present assembled at the City Hall, within this City:
The Humble Petition of the Minister, Elders and Deacons, the Representatives of the Dutch Church in this City, humbly showeth:
That your petitioners are informed of his Excellency's inclina- tion that a church should be built in this City: Therefore your
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Petitioners upon due advice and consultation, are willing to concur with his Excellency's inclination to cause a church to be builded in this City, for their own proper and particular use and worship, with all possible expedition. For the performance thereof there will be necessity for a convenient place and several materials.
Therefore, your Petitioners for the better effectuating of the premises do humbly crave your Worship would be pleased, in
(1) The first place to present them and their successors with a certain vacant piece of ground formerly designed for that pur- pose, lying within this City, or any other convenient place fit for that purpose.
(2) Secondly, to intercede by (with) his Excellency, the Gov- ernor, in our behalf, to give and grant unto your petitioners a parcel of clipt stone that are at the old fortifications of this City, which would be a great help towards the building of said church. And your Petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray, etc.
Henry Selyns.
Actum, Dec. 12, 1686.
The estimated cost of the church, one hundred and twenty feet long, ninety feet broad, seven feet in the ground and twenty five above the ground, was florins 91,940 [or $36,776.]
DUTCH CHURCH OF NEW YORK.
Directions for Jan de la Montagne, in reference to the Public Service of the Church, and Funerals; likewise in the Service of the Minister, Elders, Church Masters and Deacons. (Lib. A., ! Mints. ch. New York, Eng. 55-57.)
1686, Dec. 12.
After stating that they approved of his request for the office, they appointed him on the following terms and conditions:
1. This is about the time of ringing the bells, etc .; keeping the seats in order; and the church clean, arranging the elements of
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the Lord's Supper, and " delivering to the deacons what is left over ". He was keeper of the Baptismal books. "He shall re- strain with all his might any talking in the Lord's House, and any disorders, whether done by children or negroes " during ser- vice. " And further to do whatever is required for the public and social service, and what shall be conscientiously deenied to be for the advantage of the Lord's House and the ministrations there."
II. "He shall, upon the order of the Elders, every quarter, collect the moneys appropriated to the public service; address the members and other contributors with all courtesy and gentle- ness; hand over the moneys received without any delay to the Elders, and on each occasion give to them a strict account of the same ".
III. He is to give notice of meetings, to the Consistory, to the congregation; and attend them to be ready for any service.
IV. "The graves which are made in the Church or Church- yard he shall dig sufficiently deep to be secure from dogs, and satisfy the friends of the deceased. At funerals, he shall ring the bell seasonably to the satisfaction of those interested; except that when it is the time of private catechizing, he shall use his discretion, and ring somewhat earlier or later, so as not for the pleasure of the dead to do hindrance to the living, who are fed with the bread of life ".
V. He must behave well and with general propriety, etc.
(1) He was to receive five per cent for all this, together with a beaver - from the Elders.
(2) He shall receive from the Church-Masters a yearly salary of one hundred guilders.
(3) From the Deacons, two hundred and fifty guilders.
(4) The fees for grave digging.
(5) The fees at weddings.
Dec. 12, 1686.'
Jan De La Montagne (probably the same person who was the Schoolmaster in 1652) was appointed to be present at the public catechising, and at the private catechising held every fortnight on Wednesday afternoon .- Dunshee, 35.
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PETITION OF THE REV. MR. EBURNE.
To his Excellency Thomas Dongan Captain Generall Governor etc., of the Prov- ince of New York, etc., and the Honorable Councill etc.
The petition of Samuell Eburne of Brookhaven Clerk.
Humbly Sheweth :-
That on the twentieth day of September 1685 your petitioner was entertained by the Inhabitants of Brookhaven aforesayd to bee their minister in consideration whereof they covenanted with him to pay and satisfy him for the same the sume of sixty pounds per annum soe long as hee should continue to preach amongst them - and that in pursuance of the sayd agreement hee did on his part Exercise the office of a minister amongst them for and during the space of one whole yeare from and after the sayd twentieth day of September and that the sayd Inhabit- ants of Brookhaven on theyre parts have not satisfyed and payd unto your Peti- tioner the sayd summe of sixty pounds nor any penny thereof according to the tenor and effect of the sayd agreement. Therefor
May it please your Excellency and this Honorable board so farr to take the premisses into your consideration as that the sayd Inhabitants of Brookhaven may bee obliged to pay and satisfy unto your petitioner his sayd debt of sixty pounds and observe and performe on their parts the sayd agreement your petitioner on his being thereto ready and willing and hee as in duty bound shall ever pray etc. Samuel Eburne.
December the 13th, 1686.
This petition Read and ordered that if the within named inhabitants of Brook- haven do not forthwith pay unto the petitioner the within mentioned sume of sixty pounds that then and in such case they bee and appeare in their behalfs before this board on the first Thursday in February next Ensueing to shew cause if any they have to the contrary .- Doc. Hist. N. Y. iii. 218, 219.
EVERT PIETERSEN, OLD. ABRAM DE LA NOY TO ACT AS CLERK. Dec. 16, 1686.
In consequence of the advanced age of Evert Pietersen, Abram De La Noy was appointed to act as Clerk, Chorister and Visitor of the Sick (offices, as well as that of Catechist, always included in the duties of the Schoolmaster previous to the Revolutionary War).
Mr. De La Noy asked for the fees for recording baptisms, but Consistory resolved that the yearly allowance of fifty gulden for baptismal fees shall be made until the death of Mr. Evert Pietersen, but when he dies the fees for recording baptisms shall be paid to petitioner .- Dunshee, 35, 36.
[FINES OF QUAKERS FOR NOT TRAINING. ]
An Account of what hath been taken from our ffriends in New York Government since the arrivall of Governour Dongan and upon what account, viz.
[1686.]
Taken from Samuel Hoit by John Farrington, one sheep for not train- £
ing the 18th of the 10th mo. 1686. . 0 10 00 Taken the same day by John Farrington from Daniel Patrick for not training one broad Ax ..
Taken from Daniel Patrick for not training by John Farrington Say
0 6 00 Harrison for the 7th day of ye 5th Mo. 1687 one saddle vallued at .. 1 00 00
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Taken from John Bowne for his son Samuel not training two sheep by £
John Harrisson the 3rd of the 7th mo. 1687, worth. 1 00 00 Taken away the same day by the same man from Samuel Hoit for not training two sheep
1 00 00 Taken away by John Farrington from Hugh Copperthwaite the 16th of the 10th mo. for one day not training two good Ewes his demand being ten shillings
1 00 00
4 00 00
Taken away from Hugh Copperthwaite the 2nd day of the 7th mo. 1687 by John Harrisson for three dayes not training one fatt Cow ... Taken away from Henry Willis the 15th of the 1st mo. 1687 by Richard Wintherne Constable and Richard Gilderse Collector for not paying towards the Building the Priests Dwelling house at Hempstead their demand being one pound fourteen shillings, one Cow valued at ...... Taken away from Henry Willis the 30th of the 10th mo. 1687 by Samuel Emery Constable and Francis Cleple Collector for the Priests Waid- gees of Hempstead eight sheep sould for four pounds fourteen shil- lings, their demand being two pounds seventeen shillings ..
4 10 00
Taken from Edward Titus the 15th day of the 1st mo. 1686/7 for Refus- ing to pay towards the building of the Priests house of Hempstead one cow by Richard Wintherne Constable and Richard Gilderse Col- lector their Demand being one pound fifteen shillings.
Taken from ditto for not paying the Priests Waidges of Hempstead by Samuel Emery Constable and Francis Claple Collector four young Cattle allmost a year Old their Demand being one pound eight shil- lings.
Taken from Henry Clifton of Flushing the 30th of the 1st mo. 1687 by John Harrisson for not training one Hatt cost.
0 18 00 Taken from Jasper Smith the 18th day of the 10th mo. 1686 by John Farrington for not training, one two year old heffer valued at. Taken from James Clements by John Farrington the 24th of the 10th mo. 1686 for not training two sheep valued att.
1 10 00
Also in the year 1687 taken by John Lawrence Capt. sixteen shillings in money for not training from ditto ..
0 16 00
00 Taken from ditto in the year 1687 by John Harrisson for not training one swine valued
0 15 00
Taken from Elias and John Burling of Hempstead on Long Island by Richard Wintherne Constable and Richard Gilderse Collector for not paying eight shillings Demanded towards Building the Priest of Hempsteads house one iron pott one pewter dish and a Bason worth one pound, taken the 15th of the 4th mo. 1687. 1 00 00
Taken from ditto by the same persons for three days not training the 16th of the 4th mo. 1687 one Cow 3 00 00
New York.
·
1 06 00
2 18 00
Taken from Francis Richardson the 3d of the 7th mo. 1687 by John Cavileir for not training eleven and three fourth yards of Stuff at four shillings six pence per yard.
2 12 10 Taken from Albartus Brandt by John Cavileir by order of the melitia the 5th of the 8th mo. 1687 for refuseing to Goe up in Armes to Albany one ps. of Holland Linnen qt. forty eight yards at four shil- lings six pence per yard. £10.16 1 Two ps. striped do qt. seventy ells. 4.17.4 } 15 13 04
Taken the 24th of the 10th mo. 1686 from Phillip Richards for not train- ing by John Cavileir thirteen yards of ffiannen two shillings per yard. Taken from Thomas Phillips much about the same time by John Cavil- eir marshall and John Pattee Constable fourteen and a half yards of fine Draught Stuff at four shillings per yard by virtue of a warrant from Nicholas Bayard Collonel for fine of thirteen shillings six pence for not goeing in Armes.
0 16 00
Taken from Harmanus King of Flushing by John Farrington some time in the 10th mo. 1686 for not training one hyde vallued at. 0 15
4 14 00
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Taken away from John Weigh in the year 1687 in the nineteenth third £ month by Jonathan Hazard Tho. Pettet Benjamin Sivorns a Lan-
thorne a pewter Bason and a half bushell Cost. 0 10 06
For not appearing in Armes one day in the foott Company; and for the troop they demand three pounds .- Doc. Hist. N. Y. iii. 608, 609.
GOVERNOR DONGAN TO THE LORD PRESIDENT.
And now, My Lord, the charges will be a great deal more, for we must build forts in ye country upon ye great Lake, as ye French doe, otherwise we loose ye country, the Bever trade and our Indians, and also there must be Missionaries sent amongst them, the French priest desired of me leave for there Missionaries to goe and live amongst them again, by which I fynde they make religion a stalking horse to there pretence, when I denyed him in a great heat he told me his Master ve French King had sent over eight hundred thousand livres to prosecute this Warr, half of which he said had it been but given to bribe those Indians, they might have been all gained upon to come over to there side, So I believe they will leave no stone unturned to get them. There are also officers that belong to ye government who must be paid .- Col. Docs. N. Y. iii. 511.
Albany ye 19th Feb. 1688/7. [1687]
DEATH OF MRS. PETER STUYVESANT.
Her Will in Reference to Stuyvesant's Chapel at the Bouwerie.
Peter Stuyvesant died February 1672, at his Bouwerie. He was buried in the vault under the Chapel. His widow, Judith Stuyvesant died in 1687. By will, she left this Chapel to the Dutch Church of New York, to dispose of as they saw fit, provided the vault was preserved.
The extract from her will, on this subject, is as follows:
. I doe further bequeath to my said Cousen, Nicholas Bayard, and to his wife and child or children (if desired), a bureing place In the Tomb or Vaught of my last deceased husband In the Chappell or Church att my Bouwerie: And in case it should happen that my said Church or Chappell did come to decay, or for another reason be demolished, I doe hereby declare and publish it, to bee my Last will and Testament, that of the materialls and Rubbage of said Chappell bee made a building sufficient ffor a cover upon the Vaught. And I doe by these presents further, by forme of a Legasie give and grante to the Reformed nether Dutch Church or Congregation of the Citty of New York My Testracies Church or Chappell Scituated On my bowry or farmes, Together with all the revenues, prof- fitts and immunityes, As also with all the Incumbrances to the said Chappell belong- ing "Or appertaining. To have and to hold the said Chappell and appurtenance after the time of my decease Unto the Overseers of the said Congregation, to the use aforesayd for ever, with further power, iff they see cause to demolish or dis- place the same, and to employ the Materialls thereof to such uses as they shall think fitt and expedient, Provided that in such case of the said materialls bee made and built all and whatsoever In the enclosed Testament is expressed and required, for the preservation of the tombe or vaught which was built by my deceased husband in the said Church.
This Chapel does not seem to have been used for Dutch Church services after 1672, or at least after 1687. In 1799 the Episcopal Church of St. Marks was founded on this same spot.
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CLASSIS OF AMSTERDAM.
Acts of the Deputies. Kingston, 1687, March 27th.
(A letter from) Kingston in New Netherland, by Rev. John Weeksteen, August 23, 1686.
He requests the Acta in reference to the approval of his call, signed by his Excellency, Governor Andros, and which are now in the hands of this Classis; inasmuch as no copy thereof is to be found, (with his church.)
New Netherland. Letter from Rev. Rudolphus Varick, Septem- ber 9, 1686.
Sailing the last of March from Amsterdam, he arrived safely in New York in the beginning of July. He had been invited to settle at New Albany; but found it better to bind himself to the people of Long Island, with a good salary, and free fire- wood, and in a new house. At the same time he had agreed, upon the departure of Rev. Tesschenmaker from Staten Island to Schonehsteil (Schenectady) to administer the Holy Supper on that Island, four times per annum.
A certain Quaker, Jacob Telner, had taken in some people on Long Island, but he seemed to be almost through; and they were singularly the English minister with whom he hoped to associate.
New York. Letter from Rev. Selyns, Sept. 20, 1686.
He rejoices in the satisfaction the Classis takes in his labors. He mentions the arrival of Rev. Varick. He shows himself re- joiced also in the fact that, over and above the stipulated terms, he had given to him eleven hundred guilders for his transporta- tion in divers kinds , and the house had been en- larged and improved.
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Of Tesschenmaker, as above.
That Rev. Godfridus Dellius had taken leave of New Albany; and that until his (proposed) departure, he was staying at New York, where his children and his wife had fallen into a serious illness: that he had indeed good reasons to stay with the church; and that a schuyt (boat?) from Antwerp did harm to the church.
He himself, (Selyns), and the church at New York, Bergen, and N(ew Harlem?) were still in good condition.
He maintained church discipline, and had established catechiza- tion for married persons, who thus prepared themselves for con- fession.
Many French refugees were filling up the churches there, (in America.)
Rev. Peter Daille, at New York, Rev. Lambertus van der Bosch, on Staten Island; and at Boston, Rev. Morpo, were minis- ters of that nationality.
Having been made a widower seven months ago, he had now hopes of a good marriage. xxi. 301.
Letters from Rev. Varick.
1687, April 1st.
A letter from Rev. Rudolphus Varick was handed in to Classis, and was placed in the hands of the Deputies ad res Exteras, to make extracts therefrom. The first (or next?) regular Classis shall be held May 5th, 1687, and Rev. Lucas van Noord shall preside. viii. 9.
PETITION OF THE FRENCH PROTESTANTS OF NEW YORK.
(Translated from the French.)
To Mylord,
My lord Dongan, Governor for the King, in the Countries of America.
The French Protestants humbly supplicate and represent, that they are infinitely obliged to the King for having so much good- ness for them, and for consenting, as you have taken the trouble
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to testify, that those who will repair to this Province should enjoy some special advantages. Therefore the Petitioners hope from his Majesty's Clemency that he will not refuse them the favour they ask with all possible respect - that is, that Mer- chants, Masters of Vessels, and others who will settle in this Country, may have the privilege of trading, going and coming in and to all places in America, Islands and Mainlands, that are under the Kings dominion, without the Governors of said Coun- tries giving them any trouble, disturbing their Commerce and treating them otherwise than as his Majesty's Natural Subjects; inasmuch as the Petitioners swear inviolable obedience to the King, acknowledging him for their Sovereign Lord, Protector and Benefactor, to whom they will take an Oath of Fidelity, which they shall observe to the last breath of their lives.
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