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Committee of Safety, 1689, 222, 228.
Correspondence. appointed by the Sons of Liberty, 417, 424, 425.
Fifty One, 474.
· One Hundred, 481-483.
Safety, appointed by the Provincial Congress, 510, 511.
Commons, the primitive condition of, 322 ; Alms- house erected on, 347 ; in the Revolution, 429- 492; new Alms-house built on, 580; in the beginning of the nineteenth century, 624.
Congress,
Fi:st Colonial, at New York, 412, 413.
Second Colonial, at Philadelphia, 478, 479.
Provincial, at New York, 479, 486.
Constitution-
First, of the State of New York, framed at Kingston, 544.
Federal opposition to, in the city of New York, 590; federal procession in the city, 589; adoption of, 591.
Companies-
United New Netherland, organization of, 42; treaty with the Indians, 45; dissolution of, 46; West India, organization of, 49; coloni- zation of the province by, 50-56; Burgher government established at New Amsterdam by, 136 ; further municipal privileges granted, 139, 149 ; Staten Island purchased by, 149. Coney Island, discovery of, 32.
Cooper, Myles, president of King's College, 397, 473.
Cooper, Peter, Cooper Institute founded by, 788. Corlaer, Jacob, 74.
Corlaer's Hook, massacre at, 111, 112; in 1731, 824. Cornelissen, expedition of, 30.
Crummashie Hill-See Hills.
Crystal Palace, 751-753.
Cunningham, William, at the Liberty Pole, 457; Provost Marshal of the Revolution, 525-530; at the evacuation of the city, 570.
Damen Jan Jansen, one of the Council of Twelve Men, 111; one of the Council of Eight Men ; expelled by his colleagues, 118; one of the Council of Nine Men, 133.
De Lancey, Stephen, first public clock of the city presented by, 300 ; dispute with Burnet of, 308, 309 ; genealogy of, APPENDIX, NOTE M.
De Lancey, James-See Governors.
De Lancey, Oliver, house of, burnt at Blooming- dale, 542, 543.
De Vries, David Pietersen, Patroon of Swaanen- dael, 57, 67-70 ; founds Vriesendael, 84 ; in the Indian war, 107-120.
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Dermer, Thomas, visits Manhattan and claims it | Dispensaries-continned.
as his discovery, 46, 47.
Dircksen, Barent, one of the Council of Eight Men, 118.
Dircksen, Cornelis, first ferrymaster of New Amsterdam, 91, 92.
Directors-
Mey, Cornelissen Jacobsen, in 1623, by West India Company, 50, 51; returns to Hol- land, 51.
Verhulst, William, in 1624, 51 ; recall of, 51.
Minuit, Peter, in 1626, appointed Director- General, 51, 52; arrival of, 52; purchase of the island of Manhattan by, 52; corres- pondence with Governor Bradford, of, 53, 54 ; recall of, and return to Europe, 60; arrest by the English authorities and subse- quent release, 61, 62 ; visit to Sweden of, 80, 81; returns to America and founds Fort Christina, 81, 82 ; death and burial of, 87.
Van Twiller, Wouter, arrival of, in 1633, 63; character of, 63; public improvements of, 65; dispute with Bogardus of, 66, 67 ; affair of the " William," 67-71; De Vries and, 70 ; protest against the English on the Connecti- cut River, 72 ; expulsion of the English from Fort Nassau by, 72, 73; expedition dis- patched against Wethersfield and Saybrook by, 73; purchase of New Amersfoordt and Governor's Island by, 75-77; discontent of the people ; recall of, 77.
Kieft, Wilhelm, arrival of, 79; antecedents and character of, 79; laws and ordinances established by, 79, 80 ; excise laws instituted by, 80 ; protest against the Swedes at Fort Christina, of, 81, 82 ; purchase of King's and Queen's Counties for the Company by, 84, 85; expedition dispatched against the English on Long Island by, 85, 86; expulsion of the English from the Delaware by, 88 ; public improvements of, 96-99 ; regulations respect- ing seawant issued by, 101; tribute on the Indians levied by, 103; expedition against the Raritans dispatched by, 105; public Assembly summoned by, 106; massacre of Indians at Pavonia and Corlaer's Hook sanctioned by, 111; war against the natives carried on by, 111-117; treaty of peace, 117; recommencement of hostilities and con- tinuance of the war, 118-122 ; treaty with the Indians concluded on the Bowling Green by, 122; new excise levied by, 123 ; recall of, 125 ; despotism of, 126, 127; dispute between Bogardus and, 127, 128 ; return to Europe, shipwreck and death of, 132.
Stuyvesant, Petrus, appointed by the Com- pany, 125 ; his history and character, 127- 129 ; public improvements of, 129, 130 ; new excise levied by, 130 ; banishment of Kuyter and Melyn by, 131, 132; Assembly of Nine Men summoned by, 132, 133; boundaries between New York and New England settled by, 135; contest between the people and, 138; Landttag held at New Amsterdam by order of, 141; intolerance toward the Lu- therans of, 142; Swedes expelled from Fort Christina by, 143; second Indian war during the administration of, 143-145; the system of "burgher rights " instituted by, 145, 146 ; persecution of the Quakers by, 149; invasion of the city by the English; resistance of the governor ; surrender of New Amsterdam, 151-154; future career of; death and burial ; tomb of, 154; Stuyvesant pear tree, 153, 155; genealogy of the Stuyvesant family, APPENDIX, NOTE E.
Dispensaries -- New York, 626, 783.
Northern, 783.
Eastern, 783.
Demilt, 783, 784.
North Western, 784. New York Infirmary, 784.
Doctors' Mob, 583-586.
Doughty, Thomas, founder of Mespath, 119, 126. Drissins, Domine, assistant to Megapolensis, 136. Duer, William, 547-550.
Dudley, Joseph, member of Council in 1689, 240, 247. Drutu dasver
East India Company, Dutch, incorporation of, 30 ; contract with Hudson, of, 31.
Eddy, Thomas, 710, 716.
Eelkins, Jacob, agent at Fort Nassau, 42 ; super- cargo of an English trading vessel; contest with Van Twiller, 67-70.
Ferguson, John, mayor, 703.
Ferries, first lease of, 139 ; ferry to Harlem pro- posed by Stuyvesant, 148 ; mortgage of ferry lease by the corporation, 258; lease of 1699 ; ferry rates and regulations, 262, 263 ; lease of 1717, 284, 285 ; new ferry established to Brook- lyn, 301 ; first ferry to Staten Island, 384; ferry established to Paulus Hook, 398; ferries in the beginning of the nineteenth century, 659; history of the Long Island ferries, 683, 687; ferries of 1859, 775.
Field, Cyrus W., Atlantic telegraph cable laid by, 754
Fire of 1776, 540, 541; of 1778, 552 ; of 1835, 741, 742; of 1845, 748.
Flatbush founded, 137.
Flushing first settled, 126.
Forts -
First redoubt built on the island of Manhattan, 39.
Nassau, 41, 72, 73.
Amsterdam, 53, 65; captured and christened Fort James, 154; recaptured by the Dutch and called Fort Wilhelm Hendrick, 166; sur- rendered to the English and transformed again into Fort James, 170.
Good Hope, 71.
Christina, 81.
Casimir, 142.
Fortifications of the city in 1776, 493.
Fortifications of 1812-1814, 701, 702.
Fortifications of 1859, 772-775.
Fraunces' Tavern, the head-quarters of Washing- ton, 573, 621, 622.
Freneau's Poem on the Prison-ship, 536-538.
Fulton, Robert, building of the Clermont by, 681, 682 ; in the Erie Canal, 717.
Gage, General, commandant at New York, 425. Gus Companies-
New York, 723. Manhattan, 724.
George III., statue of, on the Bowling Green, 431, 432.
Genet, Citizen, arrival of, 607; marriage at the Walton House, 608; policy and subsequent recall of, 608.
Governors-
Nicolls, Col. Richard, appointed by the Duke of York, in 1664, 150; arrival and invasion of New Amsterdam by, 151-153 ; conquest of the fo.t 154; proclaimed governor, 156 ; form of mun cipal government changed by, 157; taxes levied by, 158; tolerance to- ward the Lutherans, 158, 159 ; city fortified by, 160; recall of, 161; death of, 162.
Lovelace, Col. Francis, in 1668 ; arrival of,
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Governors-continued.
161 ; despotic conduct of, 161, 162 ; public meeting for merchants instituted ; races ap- proved ; first mail between New York and Boston established by, 162; fort intrusted to Capt. John Manning by, 164; invasion of the city by the Dutch fleet; cowardice of Manning; capture of the town, 164-166; return to Europe of, 166; public reprimand and confiscation of estates of, 168.
Colve, Capt. Anthony, arrival of, 163; inva- sion and capture of the city by, 164, 165 ; assumes command of the province, 168 : city fortified by, 168 ; martial rule of, 169 ; con- tempt of witchcraft of, 169, 170 ; surrender of the fort by, 170.
Andros, Sir Edmund, takes command of the city, 170 ; English form of municipal gov- ernment restored by, 171 ; character and po- licy of, 195; regulations and ordinances esta- blished by, 197-200 ; bolting monopoly grant- ed to the city by, 201, 202 ; admiralty court established, 202; slave laws of, 204, 205; re- turn to England of, 205 ; return to New York and subsequent recall, 206; appointed royal governor of New England and New York, 207 ; sent a prisoner to England by his sud- jects of Boston, 219.
Dongan, Col. Thomas, arrival of, 207; first English assembly summoned by, 207; muni- cipal regulations of, 209, 210, 212, 213; monopoly for packing flour and baking bread for exportation granted to the city by, 210; charter granted by, in 1686, 213, APPENDIX, NOTE A ; Canadian policy of, 211, 116; home affairs, 217 ; recall of, 217.
Nicholson, Sir Francis, assumes command as lieutenant-governor, 217; superseded by Leisler, 223 ; flight to England, 224 ; intrigues at the English court, 231, 232.
Leisler, Jacob, antecedents of, 221, 222 ; chosen leader of the people, 222; appointed com- mander-in-chief by the Committee of Safety, 224 ; fortifies the city; dispatches a memorial to William and Mary, 224, 225; dispatches Milborne to Albany, 227; assumes title of lieutenant-governor, 228 ; is acknowleged by the Albanians; dispatches an expedition against Canada, 231 ; superseded by Slough- ter, 232; blockaded by Ingoldsby, 233, 234; letter to Sloughter and subsequent surrender of the fort, 234, 235; arrest and imprison- ment of 235 ; trial and condemnation, 235, 236; execution of 236, 237; disinterred and reburied in the South Dutch Church in Gar- den street, 271.
Sloughter, Col. Henry, appointed governor, 232; arrival of, 233; Leisler and adherents arrested by, 235; death warrant of Leisler and Milborne signed by, 237 ; municipal ordi- nances during the administration of, 241, 242; death of, 245.
Fletcher, Benjamin, in 1692, arrival of, 246 ; character and policy of, 247 ; Episcopal church established in the province by, 251 ; Indian policy, 252; suspected connivance of piratical depredations, 253; recall of, 254; progress of the city during the administra- tion of, 257-260.
Bellamont Lord, in 1695, appointment of, 254 ; stock company for the suppression of piracy organized ; the Adventure galley fitted out by, 254 ; failure of the enterprise ; popular discontent, 255-258 ; arrival of, 260; policy of, 261; visit to Boston, 263 ; dispute with the merchants, 264; death of, 264.
Nanfan, John, lieutenant-governor, arrival of, 260; assumes direction of affairs, 265 ; at- taches himself to the Leislerian party, 265 ;
Governors-continued.
imprisons Bayard and Hutchins, 267, 268; superseded by Cornbury, 268.
Cornbury, Lord, arrival of, 269 ; instructions of Queen Anne to, 269, 270 ; joins the anti- Leislerian party, 272 ; city schools during the administration of, 273 ; at Jamaica, 274, 275; efforts to establish episcopacy of, 275, 276; peculation of, 276 ; fortifies the city, 277, 278; despotism of, 278, 279; recall and subsequent arrest andimprisonment of, 279 ; progress of the city during the administra- tion of, 279-285.
Lovelace, Lord, arrival of, 285; assembly con- vened by, 285 ; sudden death of, 286.
Ingoldsby, Major Richard, arrival of, 232; con- test with Leisler, 233, 234; assumes direction of affairs upon the death of Lovelace, 286 ; removal of, 286.
Hunter, Robert, arrival of, in 1710, 286; his- tory of, 286, 287; joins the anti-Leislerian party, 288; council of, 288; expedition against Canada dispatched by, 289; failure of the expedition, 290 ; contest with the as- sembly, 291; court of chancery established by, 292 ; popular concessions of, 293 ; de- parture for England and subsequent career, 293, 294 ; progress of the city during the ad- ministration of, 294-302
Burnet, William, arrival of, in 1720, 302 ; cha- racter and antecedents of, 303; marriage of ; friendship with Morris, 303 ; council of. 305; Indian affairs during the administration of, 305; policy of ; abolition of the circuitous traffic by, 306 ; contest with the merchants, 307, 308 ; trading post at Oswego erected by, 307; congress of governors at Albany, 308 ; dispute with Stephen De Lancey, of, 308, 309; contest with the assembly, 309, 310; trans- ferred to Massachusetts, 310; progress of the city during the administration of, 310-312. Montgomerie, John, appointment of. 310; ar- rival and instructions of, 312 ; policy of the new governor, 312; Montgomerie charter granted by, 312-315; progress of the city dur- ing the administration of, 328 ; death of, 328. Cosby, Col. William, arrival of, 323; character and antecedents of, 315-329 ; council of, 330; contest with Rip Van Dam, 330, 331; remo- val of Morris from the chief justiceship by, 331 ; conduct in the Zenger trial. 333-343 ; names of Smith and Alexander struck from the roll of attorneys by, 334; contest with the assembly, 345; rapacity of; Rip Van Dam suspended by, 345; death of, 345 ; pro- gress of affairs during the administration of, 347-353.
Clarke, George, assumes the direction of affairs, 345 ; contest with Rip Van Dam, 345, 346 ; commissioned as lieutenant-governor, 346; dissolves the assembly and restores Smith and Alexander to the bar, 346 ; negro plot during the administration of, 355 -- 369 ; super- seded by Clinton, 369.
Clinton, Admiral George, arrival of, 370; alli- ance with De Lancey ; subsequent rupture, and alliance with Colden, 370 ; dissension with the assembly, 370, 375, 376; affair of the "Greyhound," 375, 376 ; resignation of, . 376.
Osborne, Sir Danvers, arrival of, 376 ; instruc- tions of, 376, 379 ; popular demonstrations, 347 ; forebodings of the council, 379; sui- cide of the governor, 847 ; previous history, 380.
De Lancey, James, previous career, 330, 335, 370, 373; assumes direction of affairs as lieu- tenant-governor on the death of Sir Danvers Osborne, 380 ; policy of, 381, 382 ; at Albany,
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Governors-continued.
382 ; Society Library founded under the aus- pices of, 884 ; progress of the city during the administration of, 384-386 ; superseded by Sir Charles Hardy, 386; chief justice, 387; at the head of affairs, 338; French war during the administration of, 386, 392; death of, 392 ; genealogy of, APPENDIX, NOTE M.
Hardy, Sir Charles, arrival of; incapacity for office, 336 ; resignation and departure from the province. 337.
Cadwallader Colden, assumes command as lieutenant-governor, 393; previous career of, 304, 305, 330, 370, 371, 376; attempt at impressment during the administration of, 393, 394, death of George II., and proclama- mation of George III., 394; theatre opened in Beekman street under the auspices of, 395; superseded by Monckton, 395; again in command, 397, 400 ; state of affairs in the colonies in 1768, 401-408; passage of the Stamp Act , 409; daring memorial of the Assembly to the Ministry, 408; recep- tion of the Stamp Act in the city, 400, 410 ; non-importation agreement of the New York merchants, 414, 415 ; arrival of the stamps ; Colden undertakes the office of distributor ; is burnt in effigy on the Bowling Green, 418, 419 ; delivers the stamps to the mayor, 422, 423; superseded by Moore, 425; again in command, 442 ; emission of bills of credit by the assembly, 443 ; tax on tea, 446; non-im- portation agreement rescinded, 460 ; Colden superseded in the government by Lord Dun- more, 460 ; assumes the government in the absence of Tryon, 467; arrival of the tea ships; tea party in New York Harbor, 469-473; second Colonial Congress ; the American As- sociation, 478.
Monckton, Gen. Robert, appointment, popu- larity of, 395; reception by the Assembly, 396 ; departure for Martinique and return of, 397 ; municipal ordinances, 397, 398 ; returns to England, 400.
Moore, Sir Henry, conciliatory disposition of ; reception by the Sons of Liberty, 426, 427 ; repeal of the Stamp Act, 429 ; Limited Sup- ply Bill passed by the Assembly, 437; con- test with the Assembly ; disfranchisement of the province, 438, 439 ; Assembly dissolved by, 441 ; new Assembly convened, 441 ; death of 442.
Dunmore, Lord, arrival of, 460 ; complaisance of the Assembly ; trial of McDougal, 461, 463; transfer of Dunmore to Virginia, 461.
Tryon, William, appointed governor, 461; re- fusal of, to receive the income voted by the Assembly, 462; removal of Sears from office, 462; New York Hospital founded under the auspices of, 463, 464; burning of the government house, 464; the tea ships ; spirited action of the Sons of Liberty, 467, 468; departure for England, 467; return, 486 ; bombardment of the town by the Asia, 488 ; flight from the city of, 449. Greene, General, 494, 495, 508, 564.
Hale, Nathan, secret expedition of, 501; arrest and execution of, 502.
Hall, Thomas, settles at Turtle Bay, 85; one of the Counc 1 of Nine Men, 133.
Hamilton, Andrew, defence of in the Zonger trial, 335-343.
Hamilton, Alexander, début of, in the great meet- ing in the fields, 477 ; in the affair of the Asia, 488 ; political career of, 588-605; in the affair of the Jay treaty, 610; death of, 669, 670.
Hanford, Levi, Reminiscences of, 515-521.
Hardenburg, Arnoldus, 126, 183.
Harlem, first settled, 148.
Heemskerck, Expedition of, 30.
Heemstede, first settled, 120 ; Indian massacre at, 121.
Heermans, Augustine one of the Council of Nine Men, 133.
Hills-
Bayard's Mount, afterward Bunker Hill, 25, 324, 503. Crummashie, 324. Incleuberg, 324.
Murray, 504, 619.
Potter's, 324.
Zantberg, 25, 324.
Hoffman, Josiah Ogden, recorder, 689, 703.
Holmes, George, settles at Turtle Bay, 85.
Hospitals-
New York, founded, 463, 625, 783. Bellevue, 624.
Of 1859, 784.
Howe, Gen., arrival at Staten Island of, 403 ; in the battle of Long Island, 495-498 ; at Kip's Bay, 502; in the battle of Harlem Plains, 505, 506; in command at New York, 511, 543 ; recall of, 552.
Hudson, Henry, first expeditions of, 31; discov- ery of Manhattan by, 33; ascends the river, 34; encounter with the Indians at Fort Wash- ington, 36 ; return to Europe, 37; death of, 38. Hudson River, various names of, 34, 35.
Hughes, Hugh, one of the Sons of Liberty, 412.
Huyck, Jan, " Krankbesoecker" at New Amster- dam.
Incleuberg-See Hills.
Independence, Declaration of, reception in New York of, 492.
Indian War, first, 111-122; second, 144, 145. Institutions, benevolent, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, 628-630 ; in 1859, 284. Islands ---
Barent's or Barn, Great, now Ward's, pur- chased by Van Twiller, 76, 77; site of Emi- grant Hospital, 772.
Barent's or Barn, Little, now Randall's, site of the House of Refuge, 772.
Bedlow's, first quarantine established at, 355 ; Fortifications of, 772.
Blackwell's, purchased by Van Twiller, 76, 77 ; public buildings of, 772.
Nutten, now Governor's; purchased by Van Twiller, 76; fortifications of, 493, 700, 772. Oyster, now Ellis, fortifications of, 700, 772.
Staten, grant of land to Cornelis Melyn, 85; purchased by the Company ; first settlement of the Huguenots, 142; Howe at, 493; in the Revolution, 555, 556 ; site of the Quarantine, 772
Jacobson, Marcus, sold into slavery by order of Lovelace, 168.
James, Major, house destroyed by the Sons of Liberty, 420.
Jansen, Roelef, land granted by Van Twiller to, 75, 76.
Jans, or Jansen, Aneke, widow of Roelef; mar- riage with Bogardus of, 76; sale of estate to the Colonial government, and subsequent lease to Trinity Church, 76. 275.
Jansen, Hendrick, one of the Council of Twelve Men, 107.
Jansen, Michael, one of the Council of Nine Men, 133.
Jay, Augustus, early Huguenot resident, 200 . genealogy of family, APPENDIX, NOTE L.
Jay, John, in the Committee of Fifty-one, 474
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delegate to the Continental Congress, 477 ; chairman of the Committee of Safety, 510; Chief Justice, 545; Peace Commissioner, 567; in the Doctors' Mob, 585; governor of New York, 509 ; treaty of, 509-511.
Jay, Peter A., recorder, 704.
Johnson, Rev. Samuel, first president of King's College, 373, 397, 621.
Kennedy House, head-quarters of Lee, Putnam and Washington, 490, 622.
Kidd, William, history of, 251; in command of Adventure galley, 254; piracy of, 255 ; arrest and execution of, 256.
Kip, Hendrick Hendricksen, first city lot granted to, 95; one of the Council of Nine Men, 133.
King, Charles, president of Columbia College, 784.
King's Farm granted to Trinity Church, 275, 347. Knox, Gen., in command at New York, 568-571. Knowlton, Col., in the battle of Harlem Plains, 505 ; death of, 506.
Knyphausen, Gen., in the battle of Long Island, 495; at Fort Washington, 508; at New York, 511.
Kolck-See Collect.
Kossuth, Louis, arrival at New York of, 751.
Krigier, Martin, one of the first burgomasters, 96, 133, 136.
Krol, Sebastian Jansen, "Krank besoecker " at New Amsterdam, 53.
Kuyter, Jochem Pietersen, arrival of, 83; one of Council of Twelve Men, 107; one of Council of Eight Men, 118; dispute with Kieft; exiled from the province, 130, 131; shipwreck, 182 ; appointed schout by the Company, 140; mur- der of, 141.
Laborie, Rev. James, first pastor of the French church in Pine street, 281.
Laight, Edward, one of the Sons of Liberty, 412. Lafayette, Gen., arrival of, 507 ; departure from New York, 514; subsequent visit of, 714.
Lamb, John, one of the Sons of Liberty, 412, 417; arrested by the Assembly, 445, 480; in the affair of the Asia, 488 ; in the federal riot, 590, 591.
Lampo, Jan, first schout fiscal of the province, 52, 59.
La Montagne, Johannes, member of the Council of Kieft, 79, 111, 120, 121, 136.
Landttag of delegates from the five Dutch towns assembled at New Amsterdam, 141.
Lee, Gen. Charles, in command at New York, 490 ; arrested and imprisoned in the City Hall, 543.
Leitch, Major, in the battle of Harlem Plains, 505; death of, 506.
Lewis, Francis, one of the Sons of Liberty, 412, 477, 547, 550.
Lewis, Morgan, governor of the State of New York, 687, 701.
Liberty Pole, erected on the Commons, 429; cut down by the British soldiers, erected and again cut down, 432-435; new Liberty Pole erected by the Sons of Liberty, 454, 455.
Libraries-
American Institute, 787. Apprentices, 787.
Astor, 786.
Corporation, commenced in 1729, 319.
Historical Society, in 1804, 786, 787. Mercantile, in 1836, 787.
Society, in 1754, 319, 320, 384, 655, 786.
Lispenard, Leonard, delegate to first Colonial Congress, 412, 477.
Lispenard's Meadows, 22, 325.
Livingston, Robert, first proprietor of Livingston Manor, 236, 256, 265; genealogy of family, APPENDIX, NOTE J.
Livingston, William, 330, 409.
Livingston, Philip, leader of the Presbyterian party, 373 ; delegate to first Colonial Congress, 412, 477, 547.
Livingston, Robert R., delegate to first Colonial Congress, 412 ; one of the framers of the Decla- ration of Independence, 492 ; chancellor, 545 ; in the Erie Canal, 712, 720.
Livingston, Maturin, recorder, 687.
Loockermans, Govert, 92; one of the Council of Nine Men, 183.
Low, Isaac, 441, 474.
Lupold, Ulrich, schout fiscal, 77, 79.
Magaw, Col., in command at Fort Washington, 507-509 ; prisoner at New York, 512.
Manhattan, the island of, in its primitive state, 21, 24, 28; natives of, 25-28; causes which led to the discovery of, 23, 33; first settlement of, 39; purchase by the Dutch from the Indians of, 52; Fort Amsterdam erected on, 57 ; first ship built at, 59.
Manhattan Waterworks, 745, 746.
Manning, Capt. John, left in command of the city, 164 ; surrender of the fort to the Dutch by, 166; court martial of, for cowardice, 166, 167.
Mamaroneck, the property of Caleb Heathcote, 299.
Mayors-
Willett, Thomas, first mayor of the city, in 1665, 1667, 157; in the affair of Leisler, 235. Delavall, Thomas, 1666, 1671, 1678, 157, 171, 172, 173.
Steenwyck, Cornelius, 1668-1671, 1681-1683, 172. Nicoll, Matthias, 1672, 172.
Lawrence, John, 1673, 157 ; 1691, 172, 173, 235, 236.
Dervall, William, 1675, 173.
De Meyer, Nicholas, in 1676, 198.
Van Cortlandt, Stephanus, 1677, 1686. 1687, 200, 201; in the affair of Leisler, 220, 226, 229, 234, 235, 241.
Rombouts, François, 1679, 201.
Dyre, William, in 1680, 205, 206.
Minveille, Gabriel, in 1684, 210, 211; in the affair of Leisler, 235.
Bayard, Nicholas, in 16S5, 158, 211; in the affair of Leisler, 220-224, 226. 228, 229 ; in the administration of Nanfan, 234, 267; gene- alogy of, APPENDIX, NOTE G.
Delanoy, Pieter, first mayor elected by the people, 1689, 1690, 222, 225; contest with Van Cortlandt, 226, 228.
De Peyster, Abraham, 1691-1693, 241, 305.
Lodowick, Charles, 1694, 1695, 223, 250.
Merritt, William, 1695-1698, 260.
De Peyster, Johannes, 1698, 1699, 260, 266, 267. Provoost, David, 1699, 1700, 262, 206:
De Riemer, Isaac, 1700, 1701.
Noell, Thomas, 1701, 1702; appointed, 265; contest between the Leisle ians and anti- Leislerians during the administration of, 265- 267.
French, Philip, 1702, 1703, 263, 280.
Peartree, William, 1703-1707, 281.
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