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Dablon, Father Claude, at Onondaga, 612 ; returns to Canada, 643 ; revisits Onondaga, 644 ; aban- dons it, 646.
Dam, Jan Janssen, 244 ; one of the Twelve Men, 317 ; a church-master, 336 ; urges Kieft to at- tack the savages, 349, 350; chosen one of the Eight Men and expelled, 365; church-master with Stuyvesant, 467 ; chosen one of the Nine Men, 475 ; required to come to the Hague, 514 ; father-in-law of Van Tienhoven, 524.
Dans-kamer. De Vrles at the, 302, 306 ; southern limit of jurisdiction of Esopus, 732.
Davenport, John, of Rotterdam, 261 ; settles at New Haven, 293, 294.
Davis, William, sent as agent to New Amster- dam, 551-555.
Davits, Jan, visits Narrington, 733.
Decker, Johannes de, appointed to succeed Dyck-
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man as vice-director at Fort Orange, 599 ; en- [ Documentary history of New York, 759.
tertains Father Le Moyne, 611 ; publishes proc- lamation against conventicles, 617 ; confirmed as commissary, 622 ; arrests tapsters, 623 ; re- turns to Holland, 625 ; counselor of New Neth- erland, visits Fort Orange, 711 ; at Esopus, 712 ; at Virginia, 734 ; sent with message to Nicolls, 738; sent a second time, 740; a commissioner on the Dutch side, 741 ; signs capitulation, 742, 763 ; his conduct at Fort Orange, 743; is ban- ished by Nicolls, 744.
Declaration of Independence, the Dutch, 446, 761. Delavall, Thomas, sent by Nicolls to Fort Amster- dam, 738.
Delaware Bay discovered by Hudson, 26 ; Argall at, 51, 754 ; explored by Hendricksen, 79; called New Port May, 97; Godyn's Bay, 207; taken possession of by the Dutch, 150, 153 ; see Fort Nassau, South River, Swaanendael, New Swe- den, Maryland.
Delawarr, Lord, 49, 50; not at Delaware Bay, 51 ; his death, 754.
Democracy, Holland a school of, 452.
Denton, Daniel, town clerk of Rustdorp, 619; draws up pledge against Quaker conventicles, 689 ; a commissioner at Heemstede, 728.
Denton, Nathaniel, informs against Quakers at Rustdorp, 689.
Denton, Richard, clergyman at Heemstede, 615, 619, 636.
Dermer, Captain Thomas, sails through Long Isl- and Sound, 92 ; at Manhattan, 93 ; his letter to Gorges, 94, 133.
Deutel Bay, origin of the name, 292 ; a Dutchman murdered near, 316.
Dincklagen, Lubbertus van, appointed to succeed Notelman as schout-fiscal of New Netherland, 247 ; sent back to Holland by Van Twiller, 266 ; complaints of and against, in Holland, 273 ; ap- pointed, provisionally, to succeed Kieft, 404 ; appointed vice-director under Stuyvesant, 414 ; commissioned and sworn, 432; a counselor, 466 ; presiding judge, 467 ; at the South River, 485 ; opposes Stuyvesant's treatment of Van der Donck, 502 ; acknowledges his error in Melyn's case, 503; writes to Holland in favor of the Nine Men, 507; protests against Stuyvesant's man- agement, 517 ; is slighted by the Director, 521 ; buys Raritan lands for Van de Capellen, 525 ; is expelled from the council, 525 ; retires to Staten Island and writes to Holland, 526 ; repurchases lands for Van de Capellen, 641 ; purchase de- clared void, 642 ; death of, 642, note.
Dircksen, Barent, one of the Eight Men, 365 ; pro- tests against Kieft, 397.
Dircksen, Gerrit, one of the Twelve Men, 317.
Director of New Netherland, powers and duties of, 154, 159, 163, 197, 222, 275, 312, 327, 399, 414, 432, 474, 504, 506.
Distillery established on Staten Island, 313.
Domine, meaning of the term, in Holland, 243. Donck, Adriaen van der, appointed schout-fiscal of Rensselaerswýck, 341 ; his instructions, 342 ; opposes Van Curler, 377 ; is prevented from ac quiring Katskill, 378; assists Kieft at Fort Orange, 408; marries daughter of Doughty, 419 ; quarrels with Van Curler, 419; goes down to Manhattan, 420 ; purchases Colendonck or Yonkers, 421 ; chosen one of the Nine Men, 495, note ; urges a delegation to Holland, 501 ; his journal seized by Stuyvesant, and harsh pro- ceedings against, 502 ; signs memorial to the States General, 504, 505 ; draws up " Vertoogh," and is appointed a delegate to Holland, 507; at the Hague, 511, 512; arranges for more emi- grants, 513 ; opposes Van Tienhoven at the Hague, 523 ; procures his arrest, 524 ; his faith- fulness in Holland, 527 ; censures Stuyvesant's conduct again, 539 ; favored by the States Gen- eral, 541 ; statement of his wife respecting the Mohawks, 555 ; made a doctor of laws at Ley- den University, 560; returns to New Nether- land, 561 ; publication of his "Description of New Netherland," 561, note.
Dordrecht, Synod of, 109, 110 ; conformity to, re- quired, 312, 342, 609, 617.
Doughty, Francis, comes to Manhattan, 333 ; ob- tains patent for Mespath, 333; his settlement destroyed by the savages, 367 ; preaches at Man- hattan, 368; his troubles at Mespath, 411; is fined by Kieft, 411 ; removes to Flushing, 411 ; his daughter married to Van der Donck, 419; his treatment by Stuyvesant, 472 ; his state- ments to the New England agents at Flushing, 555 ; goes to Virginia, 615 ; in Maryland, 666.
Downing, Sir George, British ambassador at the Hague, 700 ; his menacing language, 735
Drisius, Domine Samuel, becomes a colleague of Megapolensis at New Amsterdam, 537 ; sent on a mission to Virginia, 561 ; preaches at Staten Island, 615 ; jealous of the Lutherans, 616; complains of conventicles, 617; of Goetwater and the Lutherans, 635 ; recommends a Latin school at New Amsterdam, 640 ; explanations respecting religious affairs, 643 ; instructed by the Company to be more moderate, 656 ; success of his ministry, 681 ; baptizes at Rustdorp, 689 ; preaches at Staten Island, 692.
Dupuys, Sieur, at Onondaga, 644 ; abandons it, 646. Dutch, the, name of, 19; maritime destiny, 20; early voyages, 21 ; in North America, 35 ; their independence, 38-42, 434-447 ; their established church, 99-111, 312, 342, 614 ; their naval suc- cesses, 39, 184, 447, 545 ; their political system, 191-193, 447-459 ; characteristics of, 460-464, 747-750.
Dutch ship, English subjects forbidden to go in, "to the Hollanders' Plantation in Hudson's River," 259.
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Dutchman's Island, near the Pequod or Thames River, 268 ; post at, 270, 271.
Duties, high, at Manhattan, 312, 478, 480, 495, 497; reduced, 540.
Duyckingk, Evert, wounded at Fort Good Hope, 295
Duyster, Dirck Cornelissen, under commissary at Fort Orange, 170.
Dyck, Gysbert op, commissary at Fort Good Hope, 295 ; obtains patent for Coney Island, 412, note. Dyck, Ensign Hendrick van, commands expedi-
tion against the Weckquaesgeeks, 329, 330; wounded at Manhattan, 369; sent to Heem- stede, 389; against Connecticut Indians, 390, 391 ; appointed fiscal in place of Van der Huy- gens, 414 ; embarks for New Netherland, 432 ; his treatment by Stuyvesant on the voyage, 433 ; in the council, 466; is slighted by the di- rector, 521 ; joins in a protest against, 525; is superseded by Stuyvesant, and Van Tienhoven appointed in his place, 532; appeals to the States General, 533 ; kills a squaw, 606 ; is shot by an Indian, 607.
Dyckman, Johannes, appointed to be vice-director at Fort Orange in place of Labbatie, 530 ; his difficulties with the patroon's officers, 533, 534 ; endeavors to levy excises, 591 ; becomes insane, 598 ; is succeeded by De Decker, 599.
Dyer, William, commissioned by Rhode Island to act with Underhill against the Dutch,557.
Earthquake and freshet at Fort Orange, 709. Easthampton annexed to Connecticut, 670.
Eaton, Theophilus, 293 ; first governor of New Haven, 294 ; refuses to assist New Netherland, 370; his correspondence with Kieft, 428-431 ; protests against Stuyvesant, 479 ; writes him a sharp letter, 480 ; proposes prohibition of trade with the Dutch, 496 ; proposes a conference at Boston, 499 ; warned by Stuyvesant, 528; in- stigates Underliill, 555, 556 ; urges a war with the Dutch, 559.
Ebel, Sergeant Pieter, sent to Esopus, 712.
Economy of the Dutch, 461, 462.
Education, state of, 616 ; see Academy, Schools. Eelkens, Jacob, at Fort Nassau, 55, 67 ; imprisons the Sequin chief, 146; dismissed by the Con- pany, 152 ; returns In the English ship William, 229 ; damages the Dutch trade, 231, 246.
Eendragt, ship, 201 ; arrested at Plymouth, 214; released, 217.
" Eendragt maakt magt," motto of the Dutch re- public, 445.
Egyptians, Dutch colonists called, by Puritans, 295. Eight Men in Holland, 453.
Eight Men chosen by the commonalty, 364 ; au- thorize hostilities, 365 ; recommendations of, to Kieft, 370 ; letter of, to West India Company, 371-373 ; oppose an excise, 393, 394 ; represent the popular sentiment. 396 : their memorial to
the West India Company, 397-400; demand Kieft's recall, 400 ; members of, refuse to thank Kieft, 466; their memorial pronounced false by Kleft, 470, 471 ; succeeded by Nine Men, 474.
Elbertsen, Elbert, one of the Nine Men, signs me- morial to the States General, 505; a delegate from Midwout, 571 ; a delegate to General As- sembly, 729.
Elizabeth, Queen, lays down the English law respecting colonial possessions, 4; Virginia named after, 5 ; her doctrine respecting posses- sions confirmed by Parliament, 143.
Elsland, Claes van, marshal, sent to West Ches- ter, 598.
Elswyck, Ilendrick van, Swedish factor, 594; his case, 595, 602, 605.
Emigrants, conditions offered to, 194, 288, 291, 312, 332, 388, 514, 630, 688, 696, 708.
Emigrations, large, from English colonies to New Netherland, 290, 291, 332, 334, 335, 366, 374, 488, 574, 595.
Endicott, John, a patentee of Massachusetts. 188 ; at Salem, 189, 190; complains against irregular traders, 209; leads expedition against Block Island, 270 ; asks Stuyvesant to deliver up regi- cides, 695.
England, Church of, 112-119.
English clergymen at Synod of Dort, 109, 117. English elaim to New Netherland, 5, 11, 93, 96, 138, 141, 156, 214, 257, 324, 340, 582, 621, 633, 725. 735 ; subjects forbidden to go in Dutch ship to the Hollanders' Plantation, 259 ; jealousy of the Dutch, 140, 156, 543, 582, 685, 687, 701, 734. English at Manhattan, 291, 332 ; Baxter appointed secretary for, 337 ; enrollment of, 366 ; defection of, 495 ; threaten mutiny, 578.
Engravers, eminent, in Holland, 460.
Episcopacy in Holland, 11S.
Episcopal Church, Protestant, its sympathy with the Reformed Dutch Church, 119.
Erasmus, 99, 100.
Esopus, 76, 145, 151 ; De Vries at, 302, 306 ; called Atkarkarton, Chambers settles at, 536; aban- doned, 607 ; religious service at, 616; return of settlers to, 647 ; redoubt ordered to be built at, 647; Stuyvesant at, 647 ; village formed at, 648, 6-19 ; garrison at, 651 ; Domine Blom called to, 657 ; attacked by the savages, 658; expedition sent to, 660; mediation of Mohawks at, 661; garrison destroys Indian fort of Wiltmeet, 675 ; Swartwout commissioned as schout of, 677 ; treaty with savages at, 678, 679 ; Domine Blom settled at, 690; charter for Wiltwyck at, 690 ; new village and ronduit at, 710; outbreak of savages at, 711 ; savages defeated, 712-714. savages encamp among the Minnisincks. 717 ; treaty of peace with savages, 731 ; Beeckman commissary at, 732; soldiers ordered down from. 739 ; Sager's. or Esopus Kill, 756.
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Everett, Richard, informs against Quakers at Rustdorp, 689.
Excise levied at New Amsterdam, 394, 467 ; dis- agreement about, 560, 567 ; conditionally sur- rendered to the city, 568 ; resumed by Stuyve- sant, 590 ; at Fort Orange, 591 ; farming of, 610 ; question of, at Beverwyck settled, 649 ; surren- dered to New Amsterdam, 727.
Eyer Haven, or Egg Harbor, De Vries at, 228.
Fairfield blockaded by the Dutch, 565.
Fairs established at Manhattan, 314, 489.
Farrett, James, agent for Lord Stirling, 297; dis- poses of lands on Long Island, 297-300, 760; arrested at Manhattan, 298.
Farrington, Edward, of Flushing, case of, 637.
Fasting and prayer, day of, proclaimed, 356, 639. Fatherland, the, in Holland, 464.
Feake, Robert, settles at Greenwich, 294 ; required to submit to the Dutch, 296, 330.
Feake, Tobias, a delegate from Flushing, 569, 571 ; schout of, 637 ; fined and banished, 638.
Fence ordered to be built at Manhattan, 392; see New Amsterdam.
Fendall, Josias, Governor of Maryland, 663 ; let- ter of, to Alrichs, 664; his negotiations with Heermans and Waldron, 666-669 ; succeeded by Philip Calvert as governor, 697.
Fenn and Treat, of New Haven, visit New Am- sterdam, 696 ; conditions demanded and offered to, as colonists, 696 ; concessions to, rejected, 708.
Ferry to Breuckelen, 422, 575 ; regulation of, 589 ; from New Haerlem to Long Island, 641.
Feudal system in Holland, 191-194; transferred
to New Netherland, 198, 266, 305, 311, 531, 746. Fire and light, traders required to keep, 489, 628. Fire department in New Amsterdam, 487, 640. Fire Island, shipwreck near, 632.
Firmness of the Dutch, 464.
Five Dutch towns, the, 580, 693 ; remonstrance of, at Midwout, 727.
Five Nations of Iroquois, 82-87 ; see Iroquois.
Flag, origin of the Dutch, 19 ; staff on Staten Isl-
and, 314 ; for burghers of New Amsterdam, 516, 517.
Flatbush, settlement at, 536 ; see Midwout. . Flatlands, 265 ; see Amersfoort.
Flushing, patent for, 410; Doughity removes to, 411 ; Forrester at, 477 ; New England agents at, 555; sedition at, 556 ; delegates from Gravesend, Heemstede, and Middelburglı at, 569; sends delegates to New Amsterdam, 569 ; represented in Convention, 571 ; Baptists at, persecuted, 626 ; remonstrates against persecution of Quak- ers, 637 ; charter of, modified, 638; orders of Connecticut to, 703; magistrates of, inform against Quakers, 705 ; case of John Bowne, 706, 707; Talcott and Christie at, 719; name of, changed, 723 ; party from, at the Raritan, 724 ;
forms combination, 726; Letter of States Gen- eral to, 730, 733.
Fordham, Robert, at Heemstede, 388; imprisons savages, 389.
Foreign residents at New Amsterdam, 291, 335, 374, 489, 578, 628, 640.
Foreigners attracted to Holland, 102, 459.
Forrester, Andrew, Lady Stirling's agent, arrest ed, 477, 480.
Fort Albany, Fort Orange so named, 744.
Fort Amsterdam commenced, 165 ; murder during its progress, 166 ; completed, 183 ; repaired, 243 ; condition of, 369, 373 ; Indian prisoners in, 389 , Indian parties around, 397; Kieft constantly within, 399 ; proposed to be repaired, 405 ; gen- eral Indian treaty at, 409 ; propositions for re- pair of, 473, 476 ; no goats to be pastured near, 488; question about its repair, 549, 568; condi- tion of, 741; surrendered to the English and called Fort James, 743 ; see Manhattan and New Amsterdam.
Fort Auranea, the English way of spelling Fort Orange, 583, note.
Fort Beversrede built on the Schuylkill, 483 ; Swedcs oppose the Dutch at, 486, 487.
Fort Casimir built on the South River, 529 ; its building disapproved of by the Amsterdam directors, 538; embarrasses the Swedes, 576; captured by Rising, and called "Fort Trinity," 593 ; orders for recovery of, 601 ; recaptured by Stuyvesant, 604; made seat of the Dutch gov- ernment, 609 ; religious service at, 616 ; Swęd- ish ship at, 620 ; transferred to the city of Am- sterdam, 630-632 ; named New Amstel, 632, see New Amstel.
Fort Christina built by Minuit, 284 ; situation of Swedes at, 319; relieved, 320; Printz at, 379 ; lands around purchased by the Dutch, 529 ; sur- rendered to the Dutch, 605 ; named Altona, 631, 633 ; see Altona.
Fort Cralo, at Greenbush, 711.
Fort Elsingburg, Dutch vessel stopped at, 380; in ruins and deserted by the Swedes, 604.
Fort Good Hope projected, 153, 234; built, 235 ; Op Dyck commissary at, 295 ; Roesen commis- sary at, 296; vexatious conduct of Hartford people at, 322, 328; Kieft offers to lease land around, 339 ; Provoost commissary at, 429 ; con- firmed to the Dutch by the Hartford treaty, 520 ; seized by Underhill, 558 ; sequestrated by Hart- ford, 583 ; see Hartford and Connecticut.
Fort James, Fort Amsterdam so named, 743.
Fort Nassau built on Mauritius River, 55; de- stroyed, 81.
Fort Nassau built on South River, 153; position of, 758; its garrison withdrawn, 170, 183 ; De Vries at, 225, 226 ; seized by a Virginian party, 254; Jansen commissary at, 279, 337 ; revisited by De Vries, 380 ; Hudde commissary at, 424, 482; Dutch commissioners at, 485 ; lands
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around purchased by the Dutch, 510, 511 ; Stuy- vesant at, 525 ; demolished by Stuyvesant, 529. Fort New Gottenburg, 379 ; sce New Gottenburg. Fort Orange projected and built on North River,
149, 151; Indians at, 152; affairs at, 168; col- onists removed from, 170, 183 ; colonie of Rens- selaerswyck cstablished around, 201 ; trade at, 212; Eelkens returns to, with English ship, 229, 230; visited by De Vries, 302-306 ; condi- tion of, deseribcd by Father Jogues, 374 ; Kieft's treaty with Indians at, 408 ; Stuyvesant's elaim of jurisdiction at, 491-494 ; trade at, to be free, 521; Labbatio commissary at, 523; Dyckman vice-director at, 530; Beverwyck annexed to, 535; views of Company respecting, 562, 563 ; trading-house above, proposed, 563 ; Father Poncet at, 564; Cromwell's designs against, 583 ; excises at, 590, 591 ; De Decker vicc-di- rector at, 599 ; Mohawks at, 611, 612 ; new off- cers at, condition of, 625; Mohawks at, 650; English party at, 655 ; descrters from, murdered, 657; Mohawks again at, 658; Stuyvesant at, 676 ; conference with Senecas at, 679 ; Stuyve- sant again at, 682 ; frontier post, 690; Captain Breedon at, 704 ; Canadian refugees at, 705 ; ar- tillery at, 711 ; represented in General Assem- bly, 729; limit of its jurisdiction, 732; alarm at, 733 ; Stuyvesant at, 737 ; De Decker at, 743 ; surrender of, 744 ; name of, changed to Fort Al- bany, 744 ; treaty of English with Iroquois at, 744 ; sce Beverwyck.
Fort Paconthetuck, Mohawks murdered at, 733. Fort Trinity, Fort Casimir so named by Rising, 593 ; recaptured by Stuyvesant, 604.
Fort Wilhelmus, 152, 758.
Fox, George, disciples of, ealled Quakers, 635.
Fox Haven, or Boston Harbor, visited by Block, 58, 756.
Franchises, people demand, 326, 400, 505, 573. Franeker, High School at, 413, 463.
Frankness of the Dutch, 461.
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, succeeds Maurice, 160 ; death of, 434.
Fredericke, Kryn, engineer of Fort Amsterdam, 165.
Free schools established in Holland, 462.
Free spirit of colonists at Manhattan, 325, 326, 400, 505, 573, 749.
Freedom of conscience in Holland, 101, 102, 103, 453, 614, 707.
Freedom of trade in Holland, 98, 456, 45S; why not extended to colonics, 544, 545 ; concessions of, to New Netherland, 5-40, 656, 684.
French, their discoveries in North America, 2, 3, 16-18, 67-72 ; ship at North and South Rivers, 150, 153; their progress in Canada, 344-346; their gratitude toward the Dutch, 402 ; diseover Lake Saint Sacrement, 422 ; call upon New En- gland for aid, 564 ; among the Onondagas, 591, 612 ; new, viceroy of Canada, 705.
Frenchmen enrolled, 607 ; settle at Boswyck, 693 ; from Rochelle, on Staten Island, 692, 730, 734. Fresh River discovered by Block, 56 ; see Connec- ticut River.
Fresh Water, 167 ; sec Kolek.
Freshet destroys Fort Nassau, 80, 81 ; inundates Fort Orange, 302, 303 ; damages Beverwyek, 420, 709 ; at Katskill, 531.
Fries, Captain Jan de, arrives from Curaçoa, 395 ; dispatched on expedition to the North, 397.
Frobisher's voyages, 4.
Frontenac, Count, 69 ; Strect's pocm of, 87. Frugality of the Dutch, 461, 462.
Fur trade, 44, 67, 99, 155, 159, 171, 183, 194, 218, 224, 231, 236, 248; regulated by Kicft, 277; on the South River, 284, 379; regulated by Stuy- vesant, 467.
Gamoencpa, farmers at, 642 ; see Communipa.
Gardiner, Lion, builds fort at Saybrook, 261 ; at- tacked by the Pequods, 270; settles at Gardin- er's Island, 298.
Gardiner's Island, or Manehonack, 297, 737. Gates, Sir Thomas, 11, 49-53.
Gecommiteerde Raden, or couneilmen of Holland, 452.
Genentaha Lake, in Onondaga, Jesuit ehapcl at, 612; Saint Mary's of, 644; abandoned, 646.
Gerritsen, Martin, counselor, 223, 244 ; Bay named after, 290, 388 ; see Heemstede.
Gerritsen, Wolfert, overseer at Rensselaerswyek, 201, 244 ; on Long Island, 265.
Gheel, Maximilian van, one of the first schepens of New Amsterdam, 54S.
Ghent, meeting of States General at, 437 ; paeifi- cation of, 444.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, his patent, 4; at New- foundland, 5.
Glen, Alexander, arrested at Fort Orange, 534.
Goats sent to Manhattan from Holland, 47; from Virginia, 228.
Godyn, Samucl, 59, 148; buys land on the South River, 200 ; obtains share in Rensselaerswyek. 204 ; dics, 249 ; his heirs surrender Swaanen- dael to the company, 249.
Goedenhuysen, case of, 479, 480 ; see Westcrhouse. Goctwater, John Erncstus, Lutheran elergyman. 634 ; at New Amsterdam, ordered to return, 635:
views of W. I. Company respecting case of, 642. Gold mine, supposed, near Fort Orange, 408, 412 Golden Flccec, the motto of the, 191.
Gomarists, or Contra-Remonstrants, 105-109. Gomarus, of Leyden, 104-107.
Gonwarrowc, chief of the Mattinnecocks, 392. Good Hope, Fort, 235 ; sce Fort Good Hope.
Goodyear, deputy governor of New Haven, Stuy- vcsant's letter to, 491.
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 9, 10, 90, 94-96, 140.
Gosnold, Bartholomew, his voyage, 6; at Cape Cod. 7.
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Governor's Island, 267 ; see Nutten Island. Gowanus, or Gujanes, Domine Selyns at, 681.
Grasmeer, Domine Wilhelmus, sails from Hol- land, 516; is suspended, 522; accompanies Stuyvesant to the South River, 528 ; returns to Holland, 537.
Gravesend, or Gravesande, Anthony Jansen at, 292; settlement at, attacked by the savages, 367 ; patent for, 411 ; letter from, to the West In- dia Company in favor of Stuyvesant, 509; a sec- ond letter from, 518; third letter, 526 ; Stuyve- sant's confidence in, 554 ; disaffection of En- glish at, 568; delegates from, at Flushing, 568; sends delegates to New Amsterdam, 569 ; rep- resented in Convention, 571; letter from, to Holland, 575, 576 ; disaffection at, 579 ; sedition at, 585 ; Stuyvesant at, 596 ; Fresh troubles at, 597; Baxter and Hubbard arrested, 598 ; tranquillity restored at, 599; attacked by sava- ges, 607 ; Mennonists at, 616 ; memorial of, to Cromwell, 620 ; Grover arrested at, 634 ; Quak- ers at, 638; arrested at, 689 ; orders of Connec- ticut to, 703; persecution of Quakers at, 706 ; Talcott and Christie at, 719; surrendered to Connecticut, 723 ; party from, at the Raritan, 724 ; forms combination, 726; letter of States General to, 730, 733.
Great Charter of Holland, 437, 448.
Great Council called by Stuyvesant, 502.
Great Falls at Trenton, Hudde prevented from visiting, 425.
Green Mountains, called "Winterberg," 733.
Greenbush, colonists at, 343 ; alarm at, 711 ; cat- tle destroyed at, 733.
Greenwich, English settle at, 294; required to submit to the Dutch, 296 ; submission of, 331 ; Dutch expedition sent to, 386 ; murder of Cap- tain Patrick of, 387; how affected by Hartford treaty, 519, 520 ; claimed by commissioners of the United Colonies, 626 ; declared annexed to Connecticut, 703.
Grievance, the New England patent a, 139 ; Kieft's council a, 327 ; the government of New Nether- land a, 506.
Grist, Paulus Leendertsen van der, equipage mas- ter, 466; schepen of New Amsterdam, 548; signs letter to New England agents, 553 ; a dele- gate to the Convention, 569, 571 ; assaulted by a savage, 607; burgomaster, sent with mes- sage to Nicolls, 738.
Grotius, 24, 107, 192, 193, 443, 452, 543.
Grover, James, hoists British flag at Gravesend, 597; takes memorial from, to London, 620; is arrested at Gravesend, 633, 634.
Groves, Captain, sent by Nicolls to Fort Amster- dam, 738.
Guard of halberdiers, Stuyvesant's, 525, 607.
Gueux, origin of the, 440 ; capture the Brielle, 442.
Guilds in Holland, 453
Guilliams, William, a delegate to General Assem- bly, 729.
Gujanes, or Gowanus, Domine Selyns at, 681.
Guns, trade in, 89, 144, 169, 175, 188, 209, 212, 306, 349; regulated, 277, 293, 308, 376, 415, 478, 490, 492, 504, 562, 659, 680, 710.
Gustavus Adolphus favors a Swedish West India Company, 280.
Hackinsack, or Achter Cul, colonie at, 313; Van Voorst murdered at, 347, 348; Oritany, sachem, at, 359 ; attacked and ruined by the savages, 368 ; new purchases near, 537 ; block-house pro- posed to be built at, 610 ; court at Hospating, near, 642.
Hackingsacks, or Hackinsacks, position of the, 73 ; their village, 313 ; chiefs of, visit De Vries, 347; Kieft, 348; strength of, 349; refugees among, 349 ; enraged against the Dutch, 354 ; Oritany, chief of, 359; attack Achter Cul, 368 ; make a peace, 409; again at war, 606 ; Dutch prisoners among the, 608, 610 ; their rights to Staten Island purchased, 641 ; new treaty with, 675 ; mediation of, 676, 678 ; assist at last treaty at Fort Amsterdam, 731.
Hadson, Domine Warnerus, 734.
Haerlem, siege of, 442.
Haerlem, New, 641; see New Haerlem.
Hague, the, origin of its name, 61.
Hakluyt, Richard, 8, 10, 11.
Half Moon sails from Holland, 25 ; returns and is lost, 43.
Hall, Dean and Bishop, at Synod of Dort, 109, 117. Hall, Thomas, 254 ; at New Amersfoort, 265 ; at Deutel Bay, on Manhattan, 292; one of the Eight Men, 365 ; insulted by Kieft, 394 ; protests against him, 397 ; one of the Nine Men, 476 ; a fire-warden at New Amsterdam, 487; informs against Van der Donck, 502 ; signs memorial to the States General, 505 ; his land on Manhattan, 517.
Hallett, William, sheriff of Flushing, fined and re-
moved from office for holding conventicles, 626. Hamel, Hendrick, 148 ; becomes a patroon, 205. Hamel's Hooftden, or the Narrows, 202.
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