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Bayard, Anna, procures Hodgson's release, 637. Bayard, Judith, Stuyvesant married to, 432.
Bayard, Nicholas, clerk, sent to Rustdorp, 689 : marries Judith Varlett, 703.
Beaver Lane, near Fort Amsterdam, 389 ; garri son marches down, 742.
Beeck, Paulus van der, a delegate from Breucke len to the Convention at New Amsterdam, 571 Beeckman, Cornelis, a delegate to General Assem bly, 729.
Beeckman, Willem, schepen of New Amsterdam, 548 ; signs letter to New England agents, 553 : a delegate from Breuckelen to the Convention, 571; a schepen of New Amsterdam, 613; ap- pointed Vice-director on South River, 652 ; pur- chases the Horekills, 663 ; his interview with
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Utie, 664, 665 ; unpleasant relations with Hino- yossa, 682 ; receives Maryland commissioners, 697 ; his disagreements with Hinoyossa, 699; entertains Charles Calvert, 717 ; asks for em- ployment on the North River, 718; is appointed commissary at Esopus, 732 ; notice of, 761.
Beer, excise on, enforced by Kieft, 394, 395.
Beeren Island, De Vries at, 302 ; Fort built at, 400. Benevolence of the Dutch, 462.
Bennett, Richard, Governor of Virginia, Dutclı agents sent to, 559.
Bentyn, Jacques, counsellor, 223 ; one of the Twelve Men, 317.
Bergen, purchased by Stuyvesant, 642 ; charter of, 691 ; church at, 692 ; represented in Conven- tion, 722 ; represented in General Assembly, 729. Berkeley, Lord, grant of New Jersey to, 736, 745. Berkeley, Sir William, Governor of Virginia, 559, 683 ; agrees to a treaty, and sends Moody to New Amsterdam, 683 ; his correspondence with Stuyvesant, 684 ; sent as agent to England, 701 ; his ill success there, 702; his brother covets and obtains New Jersey, 735, 736.
Bermuda, Gates and Somers at, 50; Indian pris- oners sent to governor of, 396.
Beversrede, Fort, 483 ; see Fort Beversrede. Beverswyck, or Beverwyck, or the Fuyck, 244 ; progress of, 266 ; church planned at, 343 ; popu- lation and church at, 374 ; traders at, 376, 377 ; dispute about its jurisdiction, 491-494 ; com- pany's orders respecting it, 521 ; first school- master at, 522 ; bosch-loopers at, 523 ; colonists at, take oath, 531 ; further troubles at, 533, 534 ; declared to be independent of Rensselaerswyck, and annexed to Fort Orange, 535; its affairs considered in Holland, 562, 563 ; Father Poncet relieved at, 564; taxes at, 590, 591 ; excise of, farmed, 610; Father Le Moyne at, 611 ; Mo- hawks at, 611, 612; excise enforced at, 623 ; tapsters fined, 624; new church built at, 624, 625 ; question of excise settled at, 649 ; deic- gates from, at Caughnawaga, 659, 660 ; bosch- loopers at, 679 ; growth of church at, 681 ; oc- casional dearth at, 691; small-pox at, 710; plank fence at, 711 ; represented in General Assembly, 729 ; fur trade at, 732 ; surrender of, to the En- glish, 744; see Fort Orange.
Agotry and intolerance in New Netherland, 581, 582, 617, 626, 634-639, 643, 656, 681, 705; re- buked by the Company, and ended, 707.
Bikker, Gerrit, his pusillanimity at Fort Casimir, 593 ; is reported to Holland, 594 ; orders of West India Company respecting, 601.
Bill of exchange, Kieft's, dishonored by West In- dia Company, 385, 393 ; Stuyvesant's, security required for, 720.
Billou, Pierre, a delegate to General Assembly, 729. Bilt, Simon van der, killed at Paulus' Hook, 509. Binnenhof, the, 61, 111, 449.
Blanck, Juriaen, schipper, 380, 424.
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Blauvelt, Captain, of privateer La Garce, 393. Blessing of the Bay, Winthrop's bark, at Manhat- tan, 239.
Bleecker, Jan Jansen, of Meppel, 625, note.
Bleeuw, François le, sent as agent to Holland,
576 ; his mission disapproved of there, 587, 590 Block, Adriaen, sails to Manhattan, 46; his ship burned, 48; builds yacht Restless, 55 ; explores Long Island Sound, &c., 56-58 ; discovers the Connecticut River, 57 ; at Block Island, 57 ; at Rhode Island and Massachusetts, 58; returns to Holland, 59 ; in the Arctic Ocean, 65.
Blom, Domine Hermanus, 657 ; settled at Esopus. 680; his success there, 710; courageous con- duct of, 711.
Blommaert, Samuel, a member of the Amsterdam Chamber, 148 ; befriends De Rasieres, 164, 167 ; buys on the South River with Godyn, 200; a proprietor in Rensselaerswyck, 204.
Boats on North River attacked by Indians, 364. Bogaerdt, Harman Mynderts van de, cominissary at Fort Orange, 419 ; succeeded by Van Brugge, 491.
Bogaerdt, Joost de, on the South River, 320.
Bogardus, Domine Everardus, Arst clergyman in New Netherland, 223, 243 ; reprimands Van Twiller, 245 ; marries Annetje Bogardus, 266; complained of in Holland, 273; retained by Kieft, 278; his daughter married, 336; warns Kieft against his rashness, 350 ; denounces the director, 417 ; quarrels with Kieft, 418, 760 ; is succeeded by Domine Backerus, 468; sails for Europe and is drowned, 472, 473.
Books, publication of, in Holland, 459.
Boomtje's Hook, or Bombay Hook, lands near, purchased, 529 ; conveyed to city of Amsterdamn. 630 ; called Canaresse, 632 ; lands near, order- ed to be purchased, 652 ; purchase made, 663 : transferred to city of Amsterdam, 716, 717.
Bosch-loopers, or runners in the woods, at Reus- selaerswyck, 377, 523 ; irregularities of, 679; see Beverwyck and Fort Orange.
Boston Harbor, or Fox Haven, visited by Block, 58 : English settlement at Shawmut, or Boston, 208; Connecticut sachem at, 210; Stuyvesant at. 718 ; see Massachusetts.
Boswell, Sir William, English minister at the Hague, his advice to the Connecticut people, 324. Boswyck, or Bushwick, incorporated, 693 ; popu- la'lon of, 693 ; represented in Convention, 722 : represented In General Assembly, 729 ; letter of States General to, 730.
Boundary line, settled at Hartford, 519, 520 ; ob- jected to in Holland, 539 ; negotiations respect- ing, 544, 545, 601 ; confirmed by the States Gen- eral, 621 ; denied by Massachusetts, 654, 672 : further negotiations respecting. 685 ; repudiated by Connecticut, 720, 730 ; action of States Gen eral respecting, :30.
Bout, Jan Evertsen, at Pavonia, 351 ; one of the
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Eight Men in place of Dam, 365 ; one of the Nine Men, 476 ; signs memorial to the States General, 505 ; appointed a delegate to Holland, 507 ; at the Hague, 511, 512; returns to New Netherland, 516.
Bouwery, Stuyvesant's, at Manhattan, 504 ; Dom- ine Selyns at, 681; capitulation agreed to at, 742, 762.
Bowne, John, a farmer at Flushing, favors the Quakers, 705 ; is arrested and banished, 706 ; returns under favor, 707.
Bradford, Governor William, of New Plymouth, 171 ; his correspondence with the Dutch at Man- hattan, 173-181 ; entertains De Rasieres, 178; contrasted with Governor Harvey of Virginia, 227 ; visits Boston, 238; in old age, 499.
Brandy first given to savages, 31 ; sale of, regu- lated, 277 ; use of, general, 307 ; distillery for, on Staten Island, 313; Indian chiefs opposed to sale of, 348 ; sale of, prohibited, 466, 488 ; regu- lations about, disobeyed, 657, 659.
Brazil conquered by West India Company, 185 ; trade to, 406, 629.
Bread, weight of, regulated, 517.
Bredenbent, William, a delegate to General As- sembly, 729.
Breeden Raedt, 48, 413, 509, 760.
Breedon, Captain Thomas, Governor of Nova Scotia, at Fort Orange, 704; accompanies Cart- wright to Fort Orange, 743; at treaty with the Iroquois, 744.
Bressani, Father Joseph, ransomed from the Mo- 'hawks, 402; relieved by the Dutch and sent back to Europe, 402.
Breuckelen, Walloons settle near, 154; Thomas Belcher settles at, 292; Indians near, attacked, 353, 354 ; obtains a municipal government, 421 ; is represented in the Nine Men, 474; is rep- resented in Convention at New Amsterdam, 571 ; delegates forbidden to appear again, 575 ; ferry to, action about, of municipal government of New Amsterdam, 575 ; loyalty of, 579 ; muni- cipal government of, 580 ; church service at, 581, 615; measures against sectarianism at, 639; Tonneman, schout of, transferred to New Amsterdam, 674; Domine Selyns settled at, 680 ; population of, 680 ; Hegeman, schout of, 693; represented in Convention, 722; Scott's violence at, 726 ; represented in General Assem- bly, 729; letter of States General to, 730; New England volunteers at, 743.
Brewers refuse to pay arbitrary excise, 395.
Brewster, Elder William, 115; emigrates with the Pilgrims, 127.
Brodhead, Captain Daniel, accompanies Cart- wright to Fort Orange, 743 ; at treaty with the Iroquois, 744, note.
Broen, Thomas, injured by the Swedes. 485 ; op- posed by Printz, 511.
Broer, Cornelis, 306 ; see Van Slyck.
Bronck, Jonas, buys Ranaque, in West Chester, 268, 296; treaty with the Weckquaesgeeks at his house, 330.
Bronx River, 268; treaty at, 330.
Brooklyn, name of, 154, note ; see Breuckelen. Brouwer, Jan Janssen, counsellor, 164, 201.
Brugge, Carl van, succeeds Van de Bogaerdt as commissary at Fort Orange, 491 ; his difficulties with Slechtenhorst, 492-494; is succeeded by Labbatie, 523 ; appointed provincial secretary, 532 ; superseded by appointment of Van Ruy- ven, 561 ; sent to arrange affairs at Oost-dorp, 626, 627.
Buren, Cornelis Maassen van, 244.
Burgher governments, rise of, in Holland, 192, 326 ; desired by commonalty in New Nether- land, 327, 328; form of, in Holland, 453, 454 ; demanded for New Netherland, 505 ; proposed in Holland, 514: conceded, 540; established, 548, 549.
Burgher guard of New Amsterdam, 517.
Burgher right, great and small, at New Amster dam, 627-629 ; modified, 639, 694.
Burgomasters in Holland, 453.
Burgomasters and schepens of New Amsterdam, 548 ; prepare the city for defense, 549, 550 ; dis- agreement with Stuyvesant, 560; obtain con- cessions, 568 ; send delegates to Convention, 569 ; demand a Landtdag, 570; agree to a re- monstrance, 571-573 ; letters of, to West India Company, demanding reforms, 575, 576 ; new members of Board, 578; patriotic conduct of, 584 ; Letter of West India Company to, 587 . Reply of, 588; fresh difficulties with Stuyve- sant, 589, 590; receive city seal and coat of arms, 596 ; new members, 597 ; appoint Schel luyne high constable, 597 ; Letter of West India Company to, 602; demand right to name their successors, 613 ; ask for a burgher schout, 623 ; demand burgher privileges, 628; obtain right of nomination, 639, 640 ; ask for a Latin school- master from Holland, 641 ; arrangements of, for the Latin school, 656 ; cause map of New Am- sterdam to be sent to Holland, 674; ask for a mint, 694; recommend fortification of the city, 727 ; raise a loan and receive excise, 727; re- quest a Landtdag, 728; preparations of, for de- fense, 736, 738 ; require communication of Nic- olls' terms, 739; oppose resistance, 741 ; pro- claim Nicolls governor of New York, 743.
Bushwick incorporated, 693; see Boswyck.
Buzzard's Bay, Gosnold at, 7; Block at, 58; Dutch traders at Manomet, in, 145, 171 ; trading- house at, 177, 180.
Byvelt, Peter, counselor, 164.
Cabot's voyage, 2. Caholiatatea, or North River, 72. Calvert, Charles, visits New Amstel and Altona, 717.
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Calvert, Leonard, in Maryland, 252; see Balti- timore.
Calvert, Philip, secretary of Maryland, 663 ; in- terview of Dutch agents with, 666 ; made gov- ernor in place of Fendall, 697 ; makes a treaty with the Indians and an agreement with the Dutch, 697.
Calvinism prevails in Holland, 100-119; of the established clergy in New Netherland, 374, 614. Campanlus, the Reverend John, accompanies Printz to the South River, 379; visits Hudde, 424 ; returns to Sweden and translates Luther's Catechism, 484.
Canada, 2, 3, 16-18, 402, 646, 705 ; see French and Jesuits.
Canadian government, its gratitude for the kind- ness of the Dutch, 402.
Canals in Holland, 457, 747.
Cape Bevechier, Cape Cod so named by Block, 58. Cape Charles named, 12 ; Argall at, 754.
Cape Cod discovered by Gosnold, 7 ; Hudson at, 26; called New Holland, 26; Block at, 58; named Cape Bevechier, 58; Pilgrims at, 130; boundary of New Netherland, 144, 479, 497.
Cape Cornelius, 79.
Cape Henry named, 12 ; Lord Delawarr at, 50, 753. Cape Hinlopen, 79.
Cape Inloopen, meaning of name of, 79.
Cape Malebarre, 17 ; boundary of New Netherland, 35, note ; or Vlacke Hoeck, Block at, 58, 756 ; the Mayflower at, 130 ; Durch name for Cape Cod, 497. Cape May, 65, 97.
Capellen, Baron Hendrick van de, sends colonists to Staten Island, 524 ; lands purchased for, 525 ; his purchase at Nevesinck declared void, 536 ; opposes Van Werckhoven's purchases, 537 ; his colonie laid waste, 607 ; sends out fresh colo- nists, 641 ; death of, and purchase of his estate on Staten Island, 692.
Capito, Matthys, provisional schout of Withvyck, 714.
Capitulation of Swedes on South River, 605; of New Netherland, 742 ; articles of, 762.
Capsey Hoeck, hand-board for vessels at, 467, 490, 500.
Carleton, Sir Dudley, English ambassador at the Hague, 108 ; his memorial respecting New Netherland, 140, 142 ; applied to by Walloons in Holland, 147.
Carr, Sir Robert, a royal commissioner, 736 ; at Nyack Bay, 738 ; a commissioner on the English side, 742; enters New Ainsterdam, 743 ; re- duces the Dutch on the South River, 744 ; his rapacious conduct, 744.
Carteret, Sir George, grant of New Jersey to, +36, 745.
Cartier in Canada, 3.
Cartwright, Colonel George, a royal commission- er, 736 ; at Boston, 737 ; sent by Nicolls to Fort Amsterdam, 738; a commissioner on the En- Ccc
glish side, 742 ; enters New Amsterdam, 743; reduces Fort Orange and inakes treaty with the Iroquois, 743, 744.
Casimir, Fort, 529 ; see Fort Casimir.
Castatecuw, on Long Island, 265.
Castle Island, Fort Nassau built on, 55 ; fort de- stroyed, 81.
Catechismn, the Heidelberg, 103, 105, 106, 110, 463.
Catholics, Roman, in Holland, 102, 458, 459 ; in Maryland, 253; in New Netherland, 345, 374, 402, 645, 749.
Catskill, Hudson at, 29, 32 ; see Katskill.
Cattle, first, sent to New Netherland, 158 ; landed at Nutten Island, 159; at Manhattan, 167, 184. Caughnawaga, Father Jogues at, 423; Mohawk castle at, 659 ; conference at, 659, 660.
Cayugas, 83 ; desire religious instruction, 644. Chalmers, George, his Political Annals, 42, 62.
Chambers, Thomas, settles at Esopus, 536 ; aban- dons it, 607 ; returns to it, 647 ; his imprudent conduct, 657 ; his courageous behavior, 711 ; 3 delegate to the General Provincial Assembly, 729.
Champlain, Samuel, in Canada, 16, 17 ; founds Quebec, 18 ; discovers Lake Champlain, 18, 35 ; at Onondaga, 68-71 ; his death, 344.
Characteristics of the Dutch, 461-464, 747-750.
Charles 1., his accession, 161 ; his reply about New Netherland, 214 ; grants charter for Mary- land, 252 ; establishes plantation board, 257 ; sets up his standard, 341 ; death of, 498.
Charles 1I. in Holland, 498 ; restoration of, 684 ; establishes council for foreign plantations, 686 ; effect of restoration, 687 ; confirms Lord Balti- more's patent, 697 ; sends Downing to Holland, 700 ; appealed to by Lord Baltimore and Lord Stirling, 701 ; forms alliance with the Dutch, 701 ; grants a charter to Connecticut, 702 ; pat- ent from, to the Duke of York, 735 ; his author- ity established, 745.
Charlestown, settlement at, 189.
Chaumonot, Father Joseph, at Onondaga, 612 ; his knowledge of the Iroquois language, 644.
Children, Indian, to be instructed, 675.
Christiaensen, Hendrick, voyage to the West In- dies and Manhattan, 45 ; brings out domestic an- imals, 47 ; builds Fort Nassau, 55 ; his death, 66
Christie, James, arrested at Gravesend, 719. Christina, Fort, 284 ; see Fort Christina.
Church, established, of Holland, 100-111 ; of En- gland, 112-119.
Church, first, at Manhattan, 165 ; at New Płym- outh, 179 ; at Manhattan, 243; out of repair. 276; new one built, 335-337 ; at Beverwyck, 343, 374, 375 ; at Manhattan, unfinished, 410, 418, 760 ; repaired by Stuyvesant, 467 ; services regulated, 488 ; Nine Men's pew in, 518 ; main- tenance of, 56S ; churches in New Netherland, 615, 616 ; new, at Beverwyck, 624, 625 ; organ- ized at New Amstel, 633 ; at Esopus, 647, 657,
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680 ; at Breuckelen, 680; at Bergen, 692 ; serv- ice at Staten Island, 692 ; service suspended on South River, 700 ; at Esopus, 710; at Jamaica, 724 ; at Breuckelen and on South River, 734.
City Hall, at New Amsterdam, asked for by bur- gomasters and schepens, 575 ; granted, 588 ; or- dered to be repaired, 597.
Civil war, beginning of, in England, 341.
Clarke, Thomas, a commissioner on the English side, 742, 763. 1
Classes and synods in Holland, 104-118.
Classis of Amsterdam, 273 ; appealed to, 278; ap- proves Domine Megapolensis' call, 342 ; endeav- ors to send out clergymen, 418 ; jurisdiction of, 468, 494, 507, 508 ; warns church of New Am- sterdam, 516 ; declines to recommend Domine Grasmeer, 537; illiberality of, 582; its authority over New Netherland, 614; action of, respect- ing conventicles, 634, 635 ; report of clergy to, 643; West India Company in opposition to, 656, 681 ; instructions respecting the formulary of baptism, 680 ; sends clergymen to the South River, 734.
Claverack purchased by Van Rensselaer, 510; purchase declared void, 536; attacked by the savages, 733 ; meaning of name, 757.
Clayborne, William, his explorations, 250 ; at Kent Island, 250, 253 : sent to England, 254, 668. Cleef, Jan van, a delegate to General Assembly, 729.
Clergymen in New Netherland, 223, 281, 342, 468, 516, 537, 581, 615, 616 ; more required for, 681.
Clothing, troops supplied with, from Van Rens- selaer's ship, 390.
Cock, Sergeant, at Staten Island, 386; at West Chester, 387.
Coe, John, of Middelburgh, proceedings of, 723.
Coe, Robert, magistrate at Middelburgh, 555 ; a delegate from, at Convention, 569, 571.
Coentie's (or Conrad's) Slip, 335.
Cogswell, Robert, goes from New Haven to the South River, 321, 322; breaks his promise to Kieft, 337.
Cohooes, falls of, 306.
Coins, first Dutch, 20, 439.
Coke, Sir Edward, on the New England patent, 139.
Coke, Sir John, secretary of state, 215, 217.
Colendonck, or Yonkers, acquired by Van der Donck, 421.
Colman, John, death and burial of, 28. Colman's Point, 28.
Colonists, under patroons, 195, 199 ; new class of, established, 311, 313 ; to be armed, 406, 415.
Colonization more embarrassed in New Nether- land than in New England, 198.
Combination of English towns on Long Island, 726.
Commerce of Holland, 19-24, 38, 60, 98, 134, 184, 457, 458.
Commerce of New Netherland, 67, 89, 97, 99, 138, 145, 155, 159, 168, 171, 182 ; opened with New Plymouth, 180 ; on South River, 170, 183; with New England, 269; regulations about, 277, 288, 312, 314, 328 ; new arrangements for, 406, 416 ; further regulations, 489, 490 ; to make Manhat- tan prosperous, 547 ; regulation of, 628, 629 ; opened with Canada; 646 ; foreign, 656, 714.
Commissioners of New England, 361 (see United Colonies) ; royal, to New England, 736.
Commonalty, the, summoned by Kieft, 317 ; choose Twelve Men, 317 ; demand reforms, 326-328; summoned again, and choose Eight Men, 364 ; choose Nine Men, 474 ; propose a delegation to Holland, 495 ; memorial and remonstrance of, 504-507, 512.
Communipa, settlement at, 642 ; Quakers at, 643 ; Esopus sachem at, 676 ; village formed back of, 691 ; see Bergen.
Conditions, new, offered by West India Company, 688, 707, 708.
Coney Island, derivation of name of, 412, note ; salt-works on, 694.
Confederation, the Dutch, 19, 38, 445 ; the Iro- quois, 83-87 ; of New England, 361, 362.
Connecticut River explored by Block, 56, 57 ; Dutch traders at, 145; Eelkens imprisons a chief at, 146 ; Dutch fort projected at, 153 ; Ba- rentsen at, 168; no Dutch colonies established at, 207 ; visited by Winslow, 210 ; Lord War- wick's grant of, 211; called Connittecock, 232 ; no Dutch colonists on, 233 ; sachem visits Bos- ton, 210, 233 ; Dutch fort Good Hope, built on, 235 ; Winthrop's bark at mouth of, 239; Weth- ersfield and Hartford settled, 257 ; John Win- throp governor of, 260; exterminates the Pe- quods, 270-273 ; progress of English settlements in, 293-295, 322-324, 339-341 ; commissioners of, 361; complaints of, 363 ; temper of, 370 ; correspondence of, with Kieft, 429-430 ; with Stuyvesant, 478-482, 496, 497, 499, 500; treaty at Hartford, 519, 520 ; expedition from, to South River, 527 : feelings of, against the Dutch, 549, 550-555, 558, 559, 565, 566; sequesters Fort Good Hope, 583 ; raises forces, 585 ; unfriend- liness of, 625 ; Quakers persecuted in, 635 ; an- nexes Long Island towns, 670, 671 ; encroach- ments of, 674 ; Winthrop agent of, 695 ; obtains a royal charter, 702 ; asserts its authority over part of New Netherland, 703; enforces it at West Chester, 709 ; non-intercourse regulations of, 710 ; Dutch commissioners at, 720, 721 ; ap- points commissioners on Long Island, 726 ; dis- regards letters of States General, 733 ; part of, granted to Duke of York, 735; alacrity of, to assist against New Netherland, 737; commis- sioners from, 742 ; volunteers from, at Breuck- elen ferry, 743 ; see Hartford and New Haven. Conscience, freedom of, allowed, 101, 458, 688 ; enjoined, 707.
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Consistory, in Holland, 104 ; at Manhattan, 273, ! 336, 467, 516.
Conventicles, proclamation against, unauthor- ized, 617 ; executed, 626, 635 ; new proclama- tion, 637 ; opposition of Rustdorp to, 689, 705 ; further proclamation against, 706; restraints disapproved of in Ilolland, 707.
Convention demanded and called, 570; procced- ings of, 570-574 ; dissolved, 575 ; disapproved of in Holland, 587 ; another ealled, 722 ; remon- strance of, to Company, 722, 723 ; General Pro- vincial, meets at New Amsterdam, 728; pro- ceedings of, 729, 730, 731 ; see Landtdag.
Copper mine at Minnisinck, 662 ; see Minerals. C'orlaer " the Trumpeter," 264.
Corlaer's Hook, 279; Rockaway and Weckquaes- geek savages at, 349 ; attacked by Adriaensen, 351, 352.
L'orlaer, Jacob, teacher at New Amsterdam, 640.
Cornelissen, Jan, schoolmaster at New Amster- dam, 516.
Cornelissen, Jan, magistrate of Boswyck, 693.
Corssen, Arendt, commissary on the South River, 232 ; succeeded by Jansen, 279; sails for Hol- land with specimens of minerals, 412 ; is lost at sea, 413.
Cortelyou, Jacques, declines to be schout of New Amsterdam, 588 ; surveys the city, 674 ; at New Utrecht, 693 ; sent to the Raritan, 724 ; lays out Schaenlechstede, 732.
Cortlandt, Oloff Stevensen van, commissary, 292 ; chosen one of the Nine Men, 495, note ; signs memorial to States General, 505; appointed schepen of New Amsterdam, 578; burgomaster, sent on embassy to Hartford, 720, 721 ; meets Scott at Jamaica, 727 ; aecompanies Stuyvesant to Hemstede, 728 ; a commissioner on the Dutch side, 741, 763.
C'oster, Lawrence, inventor of printing, 461.
Council of State, the Dutch, 450.
Council at Plymouth, 95, 96 ; complains of Dutch in New Netherland, 140; dissolved, 259.
Council, Provincial, of New Netherland, Minuit's, 163, 164; Van Twiller's, 223; Kieft's, 275, 276 ; its organization complained of by the people, 327, 400 ; reorganization proposed, 405 ; new instruc- tions for, 414, 415; Stuyvesant's, 466; Great Council called, 502 ; modification of, proposed, 514; government affairs left in charge of, 597. , C'ourts and Jurisprudence, 163 ; see Tribunals.
Cousseau, Schepen Jacques, sent with letter to Nicolls, 741 ; a commissioner on the Dutch side, 741, 763.
C'oussen, Pieter, magistrate of New Haerlem, 674. Couwenhoven, Jacob van, 223 ; one of the Nine Men, 475 ; signs memorial to States General, 505 ; appointed a delegate to Holland, 507 ; at the Hague, 511, 512 ; returns to New Nether- land, 516.
Couwenhoven, Pieter Wolfertsen van, schepen of
New Amsterdamn. 518 signs letter to New En- gland agents, 353 ; a delegate from Amersfoort to Convention nt New Amsterdam, 571 ;. serves in Esopus expedition, 712-714.
Coxackie, or Kuxakee, 76.
Crom Elbow, or Krom Elleboog, 75, note.
Cromwell, Oliver, 498 ; his jealousy of the Dutch, 499 ; letters from New Haven to, 566 ; protector of England, 582 ; sends expedition against New Netherland, 582, 583 ; makes a treaty with the Dutch and countermands hostilities, 586; his leiter to Long Island towns, 634 ; death of, 653. Cromwell's Bay, on Long Island, 671.
Croton, or Kitchawan, 74.
Curacoa, supplies sent to, from New Netherland, 370 ; Stuyvesant, director of, sends soldiers from, 395 ; placed under director of New Neth- erland, 416, 432, 517 ; Indian prisoners at Eso- pus sent to, 676, 710.
Curler, Arendt van, commissary of Rensselaers- wyck, 244, 266 ; his jurisdiction, 304-306 ; ar- ranges a church and kerck-buurte, 343; visits the Mohawk country, 315, 346 ; prohibits illicit trading, 377 ; opposed by Van der Donck, 377 ; advises the patroon to act with a higher hand, 400 ; quarrels with Van der Donck, 419 ; goes to Holland, 420 ; revisits the Mohawks at Caugh- nawaga, 659, 660 : at Esopus, 678 ; purchases great flat of Schonowe, 691 ; remonstrates against Stuyvesant's policy there, 732.
Curler, Commissary Jacob van, purchases lands on the Fresh or Connecticut River, 234; com. pletes Fort Good Hope, 235; protests against Holmes, 241 ; punishes assassins of Stone, 242 ; buys lands on Long Island, 265; appointed to- bacco inspector, 292 ; sent to Schout's Bay, 299. Currency, Sewan the provincial, 172, 180, 314, 487, 694 ; reformed, 314, 328, 329, 517.
Curtius, Alexander Carolus, Latin schoolmaster at New Amsterdam, 656; succeeded by Luyck, 694.
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