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Amsterdam, Fort, condition of, 23; at the surrender, 530.
, government of the city of, ex- plained, 211 ; establishes a colonie on the South River, 327 ; conditions granted to colonists by, 328 ; endeavors to surrender this colonie, 380; acquires the whole territory on the South River, ib.
-, New. (See New Amster-
dam.)
Andiatorocte, Lake, 299.
Angola, colonists of New Netherland allow- ed to trade to, 191.
Anthony, Allard, sent to Holland to obtain assistance, 215.
Aren, the Swedish ship, sails for New Sweden, 274.
Arrest of Captain John Scott, particulars of the, 512.
Articles proposed by the Dutch Ambassa- dors to England, relative to the Ameri- can colonies, 200.
Amsterdam, Chamber of, opposed to colonies, Assembly, a general Representative, meets at New Amsterdam, 505; names of the delegates to, 506. 69 ; endeavors to obtain a surrender of Rensselaerswyck, 70 ; addresses a me- morial to the Burgomasters of, 188 ; Atkarkarton, where located, 357. makes concessions to the commonalty, Attack on the Esopus Indians by the Dutch,
396; on the Dutch in return, 397,
191; instructs Stuyvesant to disobey the orders of the States General, 193; Attempt to civilize the Indians, 319.
596
INDEX. B.
Bachtamo, the god of the Esopus Indians, 510.
Backerus, Rev. Johannes, appointed minis- ter of New Amsterdam, 36.
Bakker, Joost Teunisz., prosecuted for selling arms to the Indians, 62.
Baltimore, Lord, claims New Amstel, 378; decision of the committee of Trade and Plantations against, 387 ; sends an agent to Holland, 459 ; negotiations there, 460.
Baptisin, an Indian's idea of, 319; the Lutherans object to the Dutch formulary of, 320 ; discussion concerning the new and old form of, 346.
Baptists, persecution of the in New Nether- land, 321.
Barbadoes, Stuyvesant visits, 276; embargo laid on the Dutch ships at, 285.
Battle of Shawangunk, 481.
Baxter, George, appointed English secretary
to the government, 21; induces the English settlers ou Long Island to with- draw from the popular party, 67 ; author of the Remonstrance of 1653, 248; plots against the Dutch, 253; dismissed the magistracy, 267 ; hoists the British flag at Gravesend, 280 ; arrested, 281 ; breaks jail and flies to New England, 342 ; ob- tains a letter from Secretary Thurloe, ib. ; examined before the Board of Planta- tions, 498 ; final close of his career, 554.
-, Thomas, acts aggressively against the Dutch, 234; turns pirate, 235.
Bayard, Mde. Anna, benevolently interferes in behalf of a Quaker, 350.
Beekman, Willem, one of the Schepens of New Amsterdam, 312; appointed Vice Director at Altona, 373; ordered to purchase the Whorekill, 374; recorn- mends to send the Maryland delegates prisoners to New Amsterdam, 380 ; diffi- culties between D'Hinoyossa and, 464, 465 ; appointed Sheriff of Esopus, 472; some particulars of the descendants of, ib.
Beninio, the ship St., trades at New Haven, 45 ; declared a smuggler, cut out of that port and brought to New Amsterdam, 48. Bennett, Governor of Virginia, Dutch em- bassy to, 235.
Bergen incorporated, 428.
Besh, John Amundson, military command- er of New Sweden, 274.
Beversreede, Fort, 80, 82.
Beverwyck, 69, 73 ; a military force dis- patched to, 74; excitement in conse- quence at, 75; severed from Van Rens- selaer's colonie, 179; stakes pulled up, ib. ; a Court of Justice erected for, 183; excise of, farnied, 298; a new church erected at, 307; description of the first court-house of, 311.
Bikker, Gerrit, commissary of Fort Casi- mir, 274; surrenders to the Swedes, 275; ordered to be punished for cowardice, 284.
Biographical sketch of Josse Damhouder, 33 ; of Annetje Jans, 35 ; of Thomas Pell, 283 ; of John de Decker, 304 ; of Thomas
Chambers, $94 ; of WillemBeekman, 474 ; of Jeremias van Rensselaer, 551; of the Rev. Gideon Schaets, 567.
Blake, Admiral, engages Van Tromp, 203 Bleue, François de, sent to Holland as agent of the Burgomasters and Schepens of New Amsterdam, 256; forbidden to return to New Netherland, 266.
Blockhouses, erection of, recommended, 297.
Blom, Rev. Harmanus, pastor of Esopus, 431; extract of a letter from, on the Esopus massacre, 475.
Board of the Nine Men. (See Nine Men.) Bogardus, Dom. Everardus, resigns his office, 34 ; death of, 35; particulars of some of the descendants of, ib. ; his successor in the ministry, 36.
Bosloopers. (See Runners.)
Boston, General Court at, write to Stuyve- sant, 56; Stuyvesant's negotiations at, 485. Boswyck. (See Bushwick.)
Boundaries of New Netherland, treaty de- termining the, 151 ; subject of, brought before the States General, 277.
Bouwerie, the Dominie's, location of, 35.
Bouweries and plantations, difference be- tween, 291.
Bowne, John, persecution of, 453; banish- ed, 456 ; triumph of, 457.
Boyer, Alexander, fights with a Swedish Lieutenant, 83.
Bozman, Mr., inaccuracies of, 166, 167, 275. Brandy, the Mohawks demand that the sale ol, be stopped, 390.
Brazil, trade to, opened, 191.
Breukelen, Rev. H. Selyns minister at, 437 ; names of the members of the first church at, ib ; Capt. John Scott's proceed- ings at, 500.
Brief Description of New York, by Daniel Denton, 323.
Brignac, Mr., burned to death, 453.
Broen, Thomas, driven by the Swedes off his land on the South River, SI ; attempts a settlement at Mantuas Hook, 165.
Burghers of New Amsterdam, divided into great and small, 341 ; unwilling to enlist against the Esopus Indians, 399 ; draft of the, 400 ;; call on the Director and Council to surrender the country to the English,527. Burgher corps of New Amsterdam, muster roll of the, 569.
Burgher recht, causes which led to the in- troduction of, into New Amsterdam, 339 ; nature of the law of, 340; modification of, 341.
Burgomaster, office of, explained, 211; how appointed, 212 ; of New Amsterdam, names of the first, 213 ; their powers, 214. Burgomasters and Schepens refuse to con- tribute to the public expenses, until the Director-general surrenders the excise, 254; demand the privilege of choosing a city Sheriff, 256 ; and their own succes- sors, 257; censured by the Company, 266; allowed the excise on beer and wine, a city hall, &c., 267 ; further mis- understanding between them and the
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Director-general, 269; give a sumptuous entertainment to Stuyvesant, 276; ask to be allowed to name their successors, 311 ; demand a city Sheriff, 322; obtain the right to nominate their successors, 370 ; propose a meeting of the magistrates of the several towns, 490; address the Di- rector and Council, on the affairs of the
Province, 502 ; obtain the whole city ex- cise, 503 ; call for a copy of the summons of surrender, 522; further transactions between them and Stuyvesant, 523.
Burying the hatchet, form of, 418.
Bushwick, planted, 430 ; population of, 1653, ib. ; certificates of the election of dele- gates from, 490.
C.
Canada, trade with, opened to the Dutch,364. Capitulation of Fort Trinity, 287 ; of Fort Christina, 289 ; authority to commission- ers to agree to a, 531 ; treaty of, 532.
Carr, Sir Robert, sent to reduce the South River, 537; instructions of, 593.
Cartwright, commission to Col. George, to reduce Fort Orange, 537.
Casimir, Fort, erected, 167; seized by the Swedes, 275 ; intelligence of the surren- der of, received in Holland, 284; recap- tured, 288 ; ceded to the city of Amster- dam, 327 ; name of changed, 328 ; reduced by the English, 538.
Catholic, a French, fined for refusing to attend the Dutch church, 353.
Cats, Mr Jacob, envoy to England, 200. Caughnawagah, 390, 393.
Causes of the colonization of New Nether- land, different from those which led to the settlement of the other American colonies, 338.
Chalmers, Mr., inaccuracies of, 166, 261, 275. Chambers, Thomas, particulars relating to, 394.
Charges against Stuyvesant, by the Patroon and Co-directors of Rensselaerswyck, 206.
Charles I., effect produced in Holland by the intelligence of the death of, 197.
II. at the Hague, 197; withdraws to St. Germain, 198 ; attempts to recover his father's throne, ib .; defeated at Worcester, 200 ; proclaimed on Long Island, 500.
Charter of the Nine Men, 37; of Bush- wick, 430 ; of Wiltwyck, 432.
Chaumont, Rev. Father, 362.
Christians, number of, taken prisoners by the Indians, 291 ; ransomed, 294.
Christie, James, an emissary from Hartford, 483 ; arrested, 484.
Christina, Fort, invested by the Dutch, 287 ; surrenders, 288 ; name of changed, 336.
Church, in Flatbush, erected, 272 ; a new, erected at Beverwyck, 307 ; state of the, in New Netherland, in 1656, 318; names of the members of the first, at Breukelen, 437.
Citizens, list of the, who subscribed towards the defence of New Amsterdam, 215.
City guard, organized, 215.
Sheriff, Burgomasters and Schepens of New Amsterdam demand a, 256; - tavern, situation of the, 61.
Clarendon, prudent policy of Lord, 515.
Clergy, the Dutch, at New Amsterdam,
demand the expulsion of the Lutheran minister, 345; accused of being over pre-
cise, 346; send to Holland a report on the spread of sectarianism in New Nether- land, 355; succession of the Dutch at Kingston, 432.
Clergymen, additional, for New Netherland recommended, 134.
Cobbes, Ludovicus, appointed court mes- senger at Fort Orange, 310.
Coe, John, and Anthony Waters, invade the English towns on the west end of Long Island, 495.
Collision between the Dutch and Indians at New Amsterdam, 290.
Colonies, feudal privileges of Dutch, 73, 76, 270.
Combination entered into by the English towns on Long Island, 499.
Commission of Petrus Stuyvesant as Direc- tor-general of New Netherland, &c., 18; to Underhill and others to make war on the Dutch, 232 ; of Nicasius de Sille as first Councillor of New Netherland, 236; of commissioners to treat with the English, 531 ; of Col. Cartwright, 537 ; of Vice Di- rector van Dinclage, 561 ; of Van Dyck, ib. ; of Gerrit Swart, 564.
Commissioners sent from New England to investigate the pretended plot to cut off the English, 221 ; proceedings of the, 222 ; quit New Amsterdam, 224; pro- ceedings of the, on Long Island, 229 ; to meet Sedgwick and Leverett, at Boston, 261 ; to administer oaths to the settlers at Westchester, 315 ; appointed to agree to a treaty of capitulation, 531, 535.
Compromise between the colonie of Rens- selaerswyck and the Company, for tenths, 310.
Conditions on which the Burgomasters and Schepens of New Amsterdam are allowed to nominate their successors, 311 ; granted to settlers proceding to the colonie of the city of Amsterdam, on the South River, 328 ; under which Schenec- tady was first settled, 440; of 1661, 444 ; preliminary to the surrender of New Amsterdam, 532.
Connecticut, General Court of, sequestrates Fort Good Hope, 260 ; appoints commis- sioners to Boston, 261 ; claims West- chester, 455 ; and Long Island, 455, 483 : nullifies the treaty of 1650, 488 ; negotia- tions with, 489 ; denies all knowledge of New Netherland, ib. ; deed of sale of the Dutch land on the, 570
Convention of 1653, causes which led to the, 239; remonstrance of, to Holland, 243; vindicated, 252; terms of the, be- tween Stuyvesant and Scott, 504.
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Cortelyou, Jacques, private tutor to the Hon. C. van Werckhoven's children, 187 ; appointed Sheriff of the city of New Am- sterdam, 268; declines to act, ib. ; patentee of New Utrecht, 429 ; sent to sur- vey Schenectady, 440.
Court of Fort Amsterdam, jurisdiction of, 24 ; a new, conceded to New Amsterdam, 192; a, granted to the Dutch towns on Long Island, 270.
Court-house, description of the first, in Albany, 311.
Crafford, name of Jamaica changed to, 495.
Cralo, Fort, at Greenbush, out-settlers flee Curaçoa, Indians banished to, 420.
to, 476 ; farm of, deeded to Hendrik van Rensselaer, 552.
Cromwell, Oliver, New Haven applies for aid against the Dutch to, 231; sends a fleet against the Manhattans, 259; settlers on Long Island petition, 342.
Council of New Netherland, the members of the, summoned to the Hague, 85; send express for Stuyvesant to the South River, 292; opinion of, on the propriety of waging war against the Indians, 297.
Council of State, discussion between the, and the Dutch envoys, relative to trade with the American colonies, 201.
D.
D'Ablon, Rev. Father, 362.
D'Aillebout, Gov., his letter opening the trade to Canada, 364.
Damage suffered from the Indians, 1655, 292.
Damhouder, Josse de, biographical sketch of, 33.
Debt of individuals in New Netherland, to the West India Company, 1648, 65.
Decker, Johannes de, appointed Vice Di- rector of Fort Orange, 304; biographical sketch of, ib .; resigns his office, 310; commissioner to treat with Nicolls, 531 ; endeavors to prevent the surrender of Fort Orange, 536.
Declaration of Stuyvesant on assuming the government of New Netherland, 21 ; of independence, by Captain Underhill, 225 ; of George Baxter at Gravesend, 280.
Deed for Fort Good Hope, and the land thereabout, 570.
Deeds surrendering Staten Island to the Dutch West India Company, 575.
Delegates from New England sent to the Manhattans, to investigate the truth of the Dutch plot against the English, 221 ; proceedings of the Dutch thereupon, 222 ; from the English towns on Long Island, assemble at Flushing, 238 ; at New Am- sterdam, ib .; object to any member of the Council presiding over the meeting, 239 ; propose a union with the Burgo- masters and Schepens, 240 ; their remon- strance to the West India Company, 243 ; names of the, to the General Represen- tative Assembly of 1664, 506.
Delegation from the Dutch to Hartford, 487. Delaware indebted mainly to the Dutch for its separate existence as a State, 388. (See South River.)
Denton, Rev. Richard, 318 ; Daniel, 323. De Sille. (See Sille.)
De Vries, prophecy of, 34.
Difficulties between the Dutch and Indians, 389.
D'Hinoyossa, Lieut. Alexander, proceeds to New Amstel, 334; succeeds Alrichs, 458 ; prosecutes his executor, 459 ; claims to be independent of Stuyvesant, 464 ; visits Holland, 465, 471; is appointed
Director over the whole of the Delaware, 472 ; termination of his career, 554.
Directors of the Amsterdam Chamber in- sist on the free navigation of the North River, 161; address the States General on the boundaries of New Netherland, 277 ; instructions of, to the executive of New Netherland, 559.
Disaffection of the Dutch soldiers, previous to the surrender, 531.
Disbursements on concluding a treaty with the Mohawks, 393.
Discontent, public, at New Amstel, 376.
Discovery of the Onondaga salt springs, 303.
Discussions between the council of Mary- land, and ambassadors from New Neth- erland, 381.
Dongan, Gov., his course previous to incor- porating Albany, 179.
Dorislaus, Dr., murder of, 198.
Downing, Sir George, character of, 515; his disposition towards the Dutch, 516.
Drisius, Rev. Samuel, sent to New Amster- dam, 191 ; goes ambassador to Virginia, 235, 236.
Dunlap, errors committed by, 210, 524.
Dutch, the, force on the South River in 1648, 82; towns, the Five, 270, 271; inhabitants, the, of Gravesend, protest against an irregular election of magis- trates, 281 ; jurisdiction of the, 1656, 317 ; right of the, to New Netherland, vindi- cated, 343; the, disapprove of the perse- cution of the Quakers, 348; ambassador to the Mohawks, speech of a, 391 ; unpro- voked attack of the, on the Esopus Indians, 396; towns on Long Island, Capt. Scott's proceedings at the, 500.
Dwelling of the Vice Director of Fort Orange, description of, 310.
Dyckman, Johannes, commissary at Fort Orange, 177; comes into collision with the colonists and authorities of Rensse- laerswyck, 178; assaults Glen, 180 ; his admission relative to the policy against Rensselaerswyck, 207; superseded, 304; difficulties with the tapsters, 307.
Dyer, Wm., commission from Rhode Island to, 232.
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E.
Earthquake in New Netherland, 482. East River, the, declared free, 60. East Town, 314; puritans in, 318.
Eaton, Gov., his letters to Stuyvesant, 48,
50, 52 ; grants a commission to establish a settlement on the Delaware, 164.
Ebeling, Dr. Daniel, mistakes committed by, 75, 509.
Education, arrangement for the promotion
of, 42; state of, in New Netherland, Esopus abandoned, 292; Indian name of, 1656, 318 ; at the surrender, 546.
Eghquaous, the Indian name for Staten Island, 575.
Elders of Massachusetts, opinion of the, on the proceedings against the Dutch, 221, 230.
Election of delegates to the Representative Assembly at New Amsterdam, certificate of the, 505.
Elizabeth, Queen, principles laid down by her, as to what constitutes right of prop- erty to colonies in America, 343.
Elsland, Claes van, sent to Long Island, 511. Endicott, Gov., refuses to sanction hostili- ties against the Dutch, 231.
England denies having any knowledge of Dutch plantations on the northern con- tinent of America, 201.
Englishmen, some, ransomed by Vice Di- Evacuation of New Amsterdam by the rector Alrichs, 37-4. Dutch forces, 536.
English, the, settlers on Long Island, with- draw from the popular party in New Netherland, 66 ; envoys, the, to Holland, insulted by the populace, 199; reject the thirty-six articles, and return to England, 200; the, claim from Virginia to New- foundland, 201; and Dutch fleets, fight between the, 203; the, on Long Island, plot against the Dutch, 263; the, con- sidered very dangerous neighbors by the Swedes, 274; the, of Massachusetts, demand a passage through the North
River, 402; the, of tender conscience, invited to New Netherland, 444; towns on the west end of Long Island, names of the, changed, 495; the, instigate the northern Indians against the Mohawks and the Dutch, 519; order observed by the, on taking possession of New Am- sterdam, 536; the, plunder the South River, 537.
357 ; first village at, 361 ; Indians, Stuy- vesant's speech to the, 367 ; reply of the, 368 ; misunderstandings with the Indians at, 394 ; collision between the Dutch and the Indians at, 396; Indians attack the Dutch, 397 ; measures adopted to succor, 398; expedition for relief of, 400; the Indians request to be included in a treaty made with the other river tribes, 408; the Dutch declare war against the, 409; sue for peace, 410; further mediation in favor of the, 412 ; Indians, treaty of peace with the, 418 ; banished to Curaçoa, 420; a new village planted at, 473 ; massacre at, 474; operations against the Indians at, 477, 479, 482 ; Indians, names of the chiefs of the, present at the treaty of 1664, 509.
Exchange of prisoners not allowed by Indians, 294.
Excise on wine and spiritnous liquors im- posed, 23; partially surrendered to the city of New Amsterdam, 255; of New Amsterdam, farmed, 298; established at Fort Orange, 304; surrendered to the Burgomasters and Schepens, 503.
Expedition, an, dispatched against priva- teers, 258 ; to New Amstel, names of the vessels composing the, 334; against the Esopus Indians, 477, 479, 482.
F.
Failure of the law dividing the citizens into Fight between the Esopus Indians and the Great and Small, 370. Dutch, 481.
Fairfield harbor, the Dutch blockade Thomas Baxter in, 235.
Fallacies in Thurloe's letter to the English on Long Island, exposed, 343
Farm, the La Montagne, situation of, 21 ; the Bogardus, location of, 35.
Feake, Sheriff, of Flushing, prosecuted, 351 ; fined, 352
Fealty and homage rendered for the colonie of Rensselaerswyck, 68.
Fendal, Gov., his letter to Director Alrichs, 378 ; disclaims any controversy with those of Manhattans, 383; vindicates the right of Lord Baltimore to the South River, 386.
Fenn, Benjamin, proposes moving to New Netherland, 446.
Fire arms, means taken to stop the sale of, among the Indians, 62.
First castle of the Mohawks, location of the, 390.
- treaty- between the Dutch and the Mohawks, date of the, 391.
Five Dutch towns, the, 271.
- Nations, the Indian appellation of the, 303 ; population of the, 363 ; small pox breaks out among the. 483.
Flatbush planted, 194 ; first church in, 272 ; Capt. Scott's doings at, 500 ; magistrates of the Dutch towns meet at, 502.
Fleet against the South River, ships com- posing the, 284 ; sails, 286 ; names of the vessels composing the English, 1654, 259 ; 1664, 520.
Feudallaw, right of representation, in whom Florida, the authorities of Rensselaerswyck vested under the, 270.
grant commissions to sail to, 209.
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Flushing, state of religion in, $18; Baptists of, persecuted, 321 ; noble vindication of the rights of conscience by the inhabitants of, 350; magistrates of, prosecuted, 351 ; town patent infringed, 352; modification of, 353; claimed by Connecticut, 455, 483; name of, changed, 495 ; vindicate the character of Capt. Scott, 552.
Folestone, 495.
Forces proposed to be raised in New Netherland, 258; raised in New England to invade New Netherland, 261 ; against the South River, 286.
Forrester, Cant., Governor of Long Island, 46; calls on Stuyvesant to produce his commission, ib .; arrested and sent to Holland, 47.
Fort Amsterdam, condition of, at the sur- render, 530 ; name of, changed, 536.
Good Hope, seized and sold by Capt. John Underhill, 234; deed of sale, 570.
- Orange, 71, 73 ; orders to encircle it with a stone wall, 74; condition of,
78 ; jurisdiction for, claimed, 175, 178; bounds of, staked out, 179; a court of justice erected in, 183 ; excise established at, 304 ; J. La Montagne, Vice Director of, 310; officers of the court of, ib. ; description of the commissary's residence and court-house in, 1656, 31] ; authorities of, endeavor to release Christians in the hands of the Esopus Indians, 400; Massachusetts grants a plantation near, 402; freshets at, 438; Schenectady de- pendent on, 412 ; escape of some French- men to, 453; form of, 476; freshet at, 483; reduced by the English, 537.
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Trinity, 275.
Foxhall, Manor of, 594.
French, the, settle at Onondaga, 362.
Freshet at Katskill, 175; at Fort Orange, 438, 483.
Fruit trees planted at the South River, 81.
Furs, amount of revenue derived from, exported in 1652, 254; number of, ex- ported from Fort Orange in 1656, 310.
G.
Gannentaha, the French settle at Lake, 362. Grasmeer, Rev. Mr., 166.
Gemeco, Long Island, settled, 323; prosecu-
tion of the Quakers of, 450 ; claimed by Connecticut, 455; name of,' changed, 495; meeting between Capt. Scott and certain Dutch delegates at, 501.
Gamoenepaen, 412
General fast, a day of, proclaimed, 70, 216.
Gildersleeve, Richard, persecutes the Qua- kers, 347.
Glen, Sander Leendertsz., collision between him and the commissary of Fort Orange, 180.
Goedenhuyzen, Mr., trades to New Haven without a license, 45 ; visits the Manhat- tans, 47; forcibly brought from New Haven to New Amsterdam, 48.
Good Hope, Fort, sequestered, 260 ; recom- mended to be erected into a manor, 278.
Goodyear, Deputy Governor, purchases the Zwoll, 48.
Goetwater, Rev. Johannes, arrives at New Amsterdam, 345.
Government, new form of, proposed, 17 ; new order of, relative to New Netherland, 132.
Grain, brewing and distilling from, forbid- den, 216.
Gravesend, town of, 78; addresses the Amsterdam Chamber, 171; opposes an elective government, ib .; demands special privileges, 172; settlers in, accused of being Libertines and Anabaptists, 250; magistrates of, write to Department of Amsterdam, 253 ; illegally alters the pro- visions of her patent, 263; inhabitants of, obliged to take an oath of allegiance, 264; issues letters of marque, ib. ; discards the right of the Director and Council to approve of its election of magistrates, 265 ; declaration of independence at, 280 ; inhabitants of, elect magistrates, 281; religious opinions of the settlers at, 318 ; magistrates of, inform the Director-gen- eral of the receipt of Secretary Thurloe's letter to the English of Long Island, 345 ; Connecticut claims, 455, 483 ; emissaries from, invade the Raritan, 495.
Greenbush, settlers of, formed into a night watch, 476.
Greene, early settlement of the present county of, impeded, 161.
Guns, importation of, into Rensselaers- wyck, prohibited, 75; Stuyvesant im- ports some for the Indians, 65, 92.
H.
Haerlem, New, planted, 42S.
Hartford, treaty of, 151; opportunity for ratifying the, forever lost, 202 ; approved by the States General, 312 ; nullified by Connecticut, 488
Hastings, name of Newtown changed to,495. Heemstede, 78; town of, addresses the Company, 172; applies to the United Colonies for arms, 227 ; delegates from, to the convention of 1653, 238 ; religious opinions of the people of, 318 ; proclama- tion of the magistrates of, against Quakers,
353 ; Connecticut lays claim to, 455, 483 ; convention entered into between Capt. Scott and General Stuyvesant at, 504.
Heermans, Augustine, where from, 37; and Resolved Waldron, sent ambassadors to Maryland, 381 ; sketches a perspective view of New Amsterdam, 540.
Hegeman, Adriaen, Sheriff of the Dutch towns on Long Island, 271.
History of the first settlement of New Utrecht, 237.
Hoboken burnt by the Indians, 291.
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Hodshone, Robert, a Quaker, arrested at Heemstede, 347 ; sent to New Amster- dam, 348; his sufferings, ib. ; liberated, 350.
Holland, the source of the municipal insti- tutions of New Netherland, 40.
Hoosick purchased from the Indians, 180. Hotinnonchiendi, or the Five Nations, 303. Hudde, Commissary, reports the state of things on the South River, 79; proceeds
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