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their successors, 311 ; breaks his promise, 312; commences religious persecution, 316 ; defends Van Tienhoven, 321 ; introduces a modification of the Dutch law of Burgher recht into New Am- sterdam, 341; orders the arrest of Secretary Thurloe's emissary, 345; per- secutes the Quakers, 348; visits the Esopus, 358; has an interview with the Indians, 359; his speech to the Esopus Indians, 367, 369 ; demands the surrender of their lands, 368; visits the South River, 372; manifesto on behalf of the Dutch right to New Netherland against Maryland, 381 ; measures adopted by, to succor Esopus, 398; his opinion of the Mohawks, 401 ; resolves to purchase the lands at Wappinger creek, 402; declares war against the Esopus Indians, 409; endeavors to obtain from Governor Berkely an acknowledgment of the Dutch title to New Netherland, 415 ; speech of, to the allied Indians at Esopus, 416 ; nego- tiations of, with the Esopus Indians, 117 ; treats with the Senecas, 422; confers a charter on Wiltwyck, 432; endeavors to pacify the Mohawks, 452; visits Boston, 483 ; his negotiations there, 485 ; sends an embassy to Hartford, 487; recommends the W. I. Co. to obtain a confirmation of their patent, 494 ; threatened by Captain Scott, 500 ; enters into a convention with Captain John Scott, 504; interview be- tween Governor Winthrop and, 513; is informed of the approach of the English fleet, 517 ; proceeds to Fort Orange, 518 ; recalled to New Amsterdam, 520; de- mands the reason of the English entering the harbor, 521 ; meets the citizens, 522 ; tears the letter brought by Winthrop from Nicolls, 523; obliged to have the pieces collected and sent to the burghers, 524; vindicates the right of the Dutch to New Netherland, ib. ; the burghers call on him to capitulate, 527; empowers commissioners to treat, 531 ; ratifies the capitulation, 536; his death and character, 547.
Swart, Gerrit, Schout-fiscaal of Rensselaers- wyck, 184; commission of, as Schout- fiscaal of Rensselaerswyck, 564; instruc- tions to, 565.
Swartwout, Roeloff, 430; appointed Sheriff of Esopus, 431 ; commissioned, 437.
Sweden, memorial of the agent of the king of, at the Hague, in support of the Swedish right to New Sweden, 573.
Swedes, the, fortify the mouth of the Schuylkill and oppose the Dutch, 80; drive Dutch settlers away, SI; erect a stockade in front of Fort Beversreede, 82; further collision between them and the Dutch, 83; oppose Dutch settlers on the South River, 165 ; apply to be received as Dutch subjects, 273; consider the English as very dangerous neighbors, 274; reduce Fort Casimir, 275 ; ordered to be expelled the South River, 284; fleet against the, 286 ; skirmish between the Dutch and, 287; called on to take oath of allegiance to the Dutch, 289;
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news of the expulsion of the, from the Swedish clergymen expelled the South South River, received in Holland, 326; River, 289. Swedish authorities at the South River - government demands the restitu- tion of New Sweden, 327. swear allegiance to the Dutch, 372 ; and Finns, efforts made to enlist the, 408.
T.
Three Rivers, La Montagne's letter to the Governor of, 366.
Thurloe, Secretary, addresses a letter to the English settlers on Long Island, 342 ; which is sent to Holland, 345. Tinnecum, 81, 82.
Tonneman, Pieter, succeeds Provoost as
Sheriff of the Dutch towns on Long Island, 271; appointed Sheriff of New Amsterdam, 370 ; accompanies Stuyve- sant to the South River, 372.
Townsend, Henry, prosecuted for enter- taining Quakers, 350 ; imprisoned, 352; further persecution of, 450.
U.
Underhill, Captain John, having accused the Dutch of conspiring against the Eng- lish, is arrested, 224; hoists the Parlia- ment colors on Long Island, ib. ; his seditious address to the commonalty of New Amsterdam, 225 ; ordered to quit the province, 227; offers his services to the United Colonies, ib. ; commission to, from Rhode Island, 232 ; seizes Fort Good Hope, 234 ; deed of the land around Fort Good Hope from, 570.
United Colonies, Commissioners of the, demand a system of reciprocity from the
Dutch, 44; complain of the sale of fire- arms to the Indians, 45; protest against Stuyvesant, 167 ; offer to protect settlers from New Haven on the South River, 168; meeting of the, 218; issue a manifesto against the Dutch, 219; send delegates to the Manhattans to investigate the reality of the plot against the English, 221; Stuyvesant's reply to the, 227.
Utie, Col., claims New Amstel for Lord Baltimore, 378; and Altona, 380: dis- cussions between him and the Dutch ambassadors, 384.
V.
Van Curler, Arent, purchases the Great Flatts west of Fort Orange, 438; receives a deed for the same, 439; remonstrates against the restrictions imposed on the first settlers of Schenectady, 441.
Van der Capellen, Baron, sends out more colonists to Staten Island, 425; disposes of his interest there to the Company, 427 ; enters a caveat against Honorable C. van Werckhoven, 186 ; sells Staten Island, 576.
Van der Donck, Adriaen, serves a protest on the Director-general, 86; one of the Nine Men, 90 ; draws up a remonstrance against the provincial government, and is arrested by Stuyvesant, ib .; sent a delegate to Holland, 94 : proceedings there, 110; pursues Van Tienhoven, 168; presents another remonstrance to the States Gen- eral, 187 ; defines the boundaries of New Netherland, 188; establishes his charges against Stuyvesant, 193; obtains the re- call of Stuyvesant, ib. ; directed to give up the letters of recall, 194; close of his career, 550; disposition of his colonie, 551.
Van Dinclage, Lubbertus, appointed Vice Director of New Netherland, 19; Presi- dent of the court, 24; his opinion in re Melyn et al., 32 ; sent with La Montagne to the South River, 81 ; obtains from the natives a confirmation of the original transfer of the Schuylkill to the Dutch,
ib. ; protests against Stuyvesant, 169 ; ex- pelled the Council and imprisoned, 170 ; his description of the state of the country, ib. ; retires to Staten Island, 189; death of, 426 ; commission of, as Vice Director, 561.
Van Dyck, Hendrick, Schout-fiscaal, 19; claims a seat in the Council, 20; treat- ment of, on the voyage out, ib. ; prepares a bill of indictment against certain persons, 30 ; his opinion in re Melyn et al., 32; is threatened to be shot, 47 ; pro- tests against Stuyvesant, 169; treatment of him by Stuyvesant, 181; dismissed from office,182; commission of, as Schout- fiscaal of New Netherland, 561 ; instruc- tions to, 562.
Van Hattem, Burgomaster of New Amster- dam, 213; sent Ambassador to Virginia, 235; Captain of the Burgher Guard, 569. Van Rensselaer, Johannes, Patroon of Rensselaerswyck, 68 ; fealty and homage rendered to the States General in his name, ib,
, John B., arrives in New Netherland, and is elected magistrate of Rensselaerswyck, 176; Director of Rens- selaerswyck, 184; visits New Amster- dam, 308; difficulties between him and Stuyvesant, 309 ; death of, 552.
, Jeremias, appointed agent for New Netherland, 494 ; elected speaker of the Representative Assembly of the
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Province, 506; Director of Rensse- laerswyck, 551; death and character of, 552.
. Van Ruyven, Cornelis, appointed Provin- cial Secretary, 237; visits the South River, 381.
Van Schelluyne, Dirck, the first notary in New Netherland, 130; some particulars of his descendants, ib. ; interdicted, 170. Van Slechtenhorst, Brant Arent, Director of Rensselaerswyck, 69 ; his instructions, ib ; claims to be independent of Stuyve- sant, 70; interview between him and the Director-general, 71; charges brought by him against the Company's servants, 72; vindicates the feudal rights of the colonie, 73, 76 ; orders sent to arrest him, 74; in- vited by the Indians to move to the Mo- hawk country, 75 ; protests against Stuy- vesant, 76; suinmoned to appear at Fort Amsterdam, 79 ; grants leases of land at Katskill, 161; visits New Amsterdam and arrested, 174 ; returns to Rensselaers- wyck, ib ; opposes Commissary Dyck- man, 178 ; refuses to strike the Patroon's flag, 183; tears down the Director-gen- eral's proclamation, ib. ; arrested and sent under guard to New Amsterdam, 184. Gerrit, particulars of, 69; adventures of, in Katskill, 175 ; assaulted by several soldiers, 177.
Van Tienhoven, Adriaen, clerk of the court at the South River, 83 ; appointed Re- ceiver-general, 182; boards the Aren, 274; his reception by Rysingh, 275 ; dis- missed from office, 322.
-, Cornelis, Provincial Sec- retary, 21; sent to confer with the Long Island Indians,' 45; sent agent for the
government to Holland, 88; his defence of Stuyvesant, 121; seduces a young woman in Holland, 168; appointed Receiver-general of Nether- New land, ib .; ordered to the Hague, ib. ; arrested and fined, 169; sails for New Netherland, ib. ; scatters firebrands through the community, 170; appointed Schout-fiscaal of New Netherland, 182 ; commissioned as Sheriff of the city of New Amsterdam, 213; sent ambassador to Virginia, 235; sent to New Haven, 258 ; dismissed from office, 321; his character, 322.
Lucas, surgeon in New York, and his family, 322.
Van Werckhoven, Hon'ble Cornelis, plants two colonies in New Netherland. 185.
Varleth, Nicolaus, ambassador to Virginia, 408 ; concludes a treaty there, 413 ; one of the commissioners to treat for the surren- der of New Netherland, 531.
Vessels dispatched on a cruise against the enemy, 23; to New Haven, 48; a, dis- patched with instructions to New Nether- land, on the eve of the war, 205 ; captured, 206 ; name of the, composing the fleet sent to reduce New Netherland, 520. Vignal, Rev. Mr., devoured by savages, 453. Vigne, Rachel, wife of Cornelis van Tien- hoven, particulars of the family of, 322.
Villages ordered to be established in New Netherland, 356; first, at Esopus, 361. Vindication of the British right to North America by Secretary Thurloe, 342; of the Dutch right to the North River, 404. Virginia, Dutch embassies to, 235, 236, 408 ; treaty with, 413 ; termination of the treaty with, 415.
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Welius, Rev. Everardus, arrives at New Amstel, 336 ; dies, 388.
Westchester, Thomas Pell claims, 282; ex- pedition against the intruders at, 312; privileges granted to, 313; first magis- trates of, 314; commissioner sent to ad- minister oaths to the settlers at, 315; names of the settlers in, ib. ; form of worship, 316, 318 ; annexed to Connecti- cut, 495.
West Indies, failure of Stuyvesant's voyage to the, 284.
Whorekill, the, purchased, 374.
Wickendam, Rev. Mr., persecution of the, 321.
Willet, Captain, incenses the Director-gen- eral against the Quakers, 348; informs
Stuyvesant of the approach of the English fleet, 517.
Wiltwyck, charter of, 432.
Winslow, Edward, his remarks on Stuy- vesant's visit to Barbadoes, 285.
Winthrop, Governor, Stuyvesant writes to, 43 ; his reply, 44; repairs to Long Island, 512; claims Long Island, 513 ; becomes hostile to the Dutch, 514; visits New Amsterdam under a flag of truce, 523.
Wood, Silas, errors in his sketch of the settlement of Long Island, 282.
Works written by the Rev. Johannes Megapolensis, titles of, 97; by Daniel Denton, 323 ; by Adriaen van der Donck, 550.
Y.
Yonkers, 551. York, motives actuating the Duke of, 516 ;
obtains a grant of New Netherland, ib. ; dispatches a fleet for its reduction, 517.
Z.
Zealand, the Chamber of, substance of Zutphen, Barent van, a Dutch jurist, 33. their answer to the States General, 190. Zwoll, the ship, sold to New Haven, 48.
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