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Hand-board at Capsey Hook, 467, 490; blown down, 500.
Hardenburg, Arnoldus van, denied right of appeal by Kieft, 417 ; threatened by Stuyvesant, 472 ; one of the Nine Men, 475 ; signs memorial and remonstrance to States General, 505, 507.
Harmenssen, Reynert, counselor, 164.
Hart, Edward, town clerk of Flushing, 637.
Hartford, settlement at, 257 ; expedition against the Pequods, 271 ; people of, commit aggressions around the Dutch fort, 295; continue to annoy the Dutch, 322; reproved by Massachusetts, 322 ; Hopkins and Haynes endeavor to arrange the differences with the Dutch, 323; commis- sions Peters to negotiate in Holland, 324; ad-
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vice of Sir William Boswell to, 324 ; intercourse ; with, forbidden by Kieft, 338; sends agents to Manhattan, 339 ; accedes to confederation, 361 ; Miantonomoli in jail at, 363 ; complains of the Dutch, 429 ; treaty at, with the Dutch, 519, 520 ; Fort Good Hope at, seized, 558 ; urges Massa- chusetts to make war, 559; feeling at, against the Dutchi, 565; sequesters Fort Good Hope, 583 ; zeal of, for war, 585 ; exploring party sails from, 655 ; petitions for a royal charter, and commissions Winthrop as agent, 695 ; obtains a charter, 702 ; proceedings of General Court at, 703, 709 ; Dutch commissioners at, 720, 721 ; see Connecticut.
Hartford treaty negotiated, 519, 520; ratified by the States General, 621 ; its ratification by En- | gland required, 730.
Hartgers, Joost, his Beschryvinge van Nieuw Nederlandt, 527.
Harvey, Sir John, Governor of Virginia, his friend- ly treatment of De Vries, 226, 227 ; sends goats to Manhattan, 228 ; cominissions Clayborne, 250 ; is deposed and sent to England, 254; re- turns to Virginia, 279, 250 ; declines to allow the Swedes a free trade, 282.
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Hattem, Arendt van, a patentee of Flatbush or Midwout, 536 ; burgomaster of New Amsterdam, 548 ; sent to Virginia, 559 ; to the Convention, 571. Haverstraw, or Kumochenack, 29, 75, 302, 757. Haynes, John, Governor of Connecticut, 295 ; his commission to Peters, 323; confers with New Haven about hostilities against the Dutchi, 559. Hazard, Thomas, a delegate from Middelburgh, 569, 571.
Heckewelder, his account of the first arrival of Europeans at New York, 751, 752, 753.
Heemstede, Kieft's patent for, 388 ; expedition sent to, 389; Forrester at, 477 ; John Moore preacher at, 527 ; letter from, to the West India Company, 527 ; disaffection at, 552 ; depositions against the Dutch procured at, 555 ; sedition at, 556 ; Thomas Baxter serzes vessel in harbor of, 565 ; delegates from, at Flushing, 568; sends delegates to New Amsterdam, 569 ; represented in Convention, 571 ; sedition at, 585 ; Richard Denton, clergyman at, 615 ; petition from, for a new village near, 619; Hodgson arrested at, 636 : orders of Connecticut to, 703 ; Talcott and Christie at, 719; petitions Connecticut, 719; surrendered to Connecticut, :23 ; forms combi- nation, 726 ; letter of States General to, 730, 733. Heermans, Augustine, one of the Nine Men, 475 ; signs memorial to States General, 505 ; ease of, 511 ; prosecuted by Stuyvesant, 526 ; purchases Raritan lands for Van Werckhoven, 537 ; sent by Stuyvesant to Boston, 554; draws view of New Amsterdam, 561, 6:4 ; on embassy to Maryland, 666-668 ; goes to Virginia, 669 ; hls influence there, 683.
Hegeman, Adriaen, succeeds Tonneman as schout
of Breuckelen, 580, 674, 693 ; schout of the " Five Dutch Towns," 693.
Heidelberg Catechism, 103, 105, 106, 110, 342, 463. Hellekers, Jacob, magistrate of New Utrecht, 693. Helt-gate, namned by the Dutch, 56, 168, 231.
Hendricksen, Cornelis, 59 ; explores the "New"
or Delaware River, 79 ; returns to Holland, 80 Hesse, Jacob Jansen, counselor, 223.
Heyes, Pieter, sails to South River, 205 ; estab- lishes colony at Swaanendael, 206; buys Cape May for Godyn and Blommaert, 207.
Heyn, Peter Petersen, captures the Spanish silver fleet, 184 ; his magnanimity, 184, 464 ; his death and his monument, 185.
Hicks, John, a delegate from Flushing, 569, 571.
High School at Franeker, 413, 463 ; at New. Am- sterdanı, 656 ; reputation of, 694 ; scholars from Virginia sent to it, 694.
lIinlopen, Thymen Jacobsen, 59 ; cape probably nanied after, 79.
Hinlopen, Cape, probable origin of name of, 79 ; the southern boundary of New Netherland, 479; lands near, ordered to be purchased, 652 ; pur- clase near, 663; ceded to city of Amsterdam, 715-717.
Hinoyossa, Alexander de, lieutenant of New Am- stel, 631 ; wrecked near Fire Island, 632 ; assists Beeckman in purchasing the Horekills, 663; succeeds Alrichs, 670 ; his insolent demeanor, 682; meets Governor Calvert of Maryland, 697 ; his disagreements with Beeckman, 699; visits Holland, 700; his representations there, 715 ; returns to South River and organizes govern- mient, 717 ; opposes the English forces, 744.
Hobokan-Hacking purchased by Pauw, 202 ; laid waste by the savages, 607.
Hoboken, Harman van, schoolmaster at New Am- sterdam, 623.
Hodenosaunee, or Iroquois, 82.
Hodgson, Robert, at Heemstede, 636 ; imprisoned at Fort Amsterdam, 636 ; discharged, 637. Hoeks and Kabbeljaus in Holland, 461.
Holland, flag of, 19 ; first, on the North River, 36 ; provincial states of, 451 ; aspect of, 457 ; docu- ments procured in, 759 ; see Dutch.
Hollændare, Peter, on the South River, 320, 321. Holmes, George, seizes Fort Nassau, 254 ; taken prisoner, and sent back to Virginia, 255 ; at Deutel Bay, on Manhattan, 292.
Holmes, Lieutenant William, at Windsor, 240, 24] Honesty of the Dutch, 464.
Hooges, Anthonie de, secretary of Rensselaers- wyck, 420.
Hoogh Moogende Heeren, the title of the States General, 450.
Hoorn, Cape, name of, 47 ; discovered by Schou- ten, 80, note.
Hopkins, Edward, 293 ; governor of Connecticut. 295 ; goes to England, 324 ; returns with letter from Boswell, 339.
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Horekill, Swaanendael on the, 206, 219, 228 ; pur- | Huyck, Jan, Krank-besoecker at Manhattan, 165. chased by the Dutch, 663 ; Dutch soldiers at, 663, 670 ; Mennonist colony' at, 698, 699 ; plun- dered by the English, 744.
Horikans, the, 56, 77.
Horst, Myndert van der, establishes a colonie at . Achter Cul, 313 ; thinks of the South River, 319 ; one of his colonists at Hackinsack murdered, 347 ; his colonie attacked and ruined by the sav- ages, 368; written to by Melyn, 397.
Hospating, near Hackinsack, court at, 642. Hospitality of the Dutch, 462.
Hossett, Gillis, purchases lands for Van Rens- selaer, 201 ; at Swaanendael, 206 ; killed by the savages, 220.
Hotel at Manhattan for strangers, 335, 549.
Houten, Hans Jorissen, succeeds Krol at Fort Orange, 223 ; opposes Eelkens, 230 ; is succeed- ed by Van de Bogaerdt, 419.
Houtman, Cornelius, in the East Indies, 22. Howe, Daniel, on Long Island, 298, 300, 760. Howell, Edward, on Long Island, 298, 300.
Hubbard, Sergeant James, a patentee of Graves- end, 411 ; opposes Stuyvesant, 568; a delegate at New Amsterdam, 569, 571 ; removed from the' magistracy, 596 ; hoists British flag at Graves- end, 597; is arrested, 598; released, 619; car- ries petition of English villages to Hartford, 719.
Hudde, Andries, counselor, 223; buys land on Long Island, 265; near Corlaer's Hook, 279; draws up memorial to West India Company, 398; succeeds Jansen as commissary on South River, 424 ; protests against Printz, 424 ; is pre- vented from visiting the " Great Falls" at Tren- ton, 425 ; purchases site of Philadelphia, 426 .; replies to Printz's protest, 427 ; is confirmed as commissary at the South River, 482; builds Fort Beversrede, 483; proposes further land purchases around Fort Nassau, 510, 511 ; secre- tary and surveyor on the South River, 609; commandant at Altona, 633 ; death of, 718, note. Hudden, Hendrick, koopman of cargoes, 264.
Hudson, Henry, in the Arctic Ocean, 24; sails in the Half Moon from Holland, 25; at Cape Cod and Delaware Bay, 26 ; at Sandy Hook, 27 ; dis- covers the North River, 27-34; sails from En- gland, 42 ; his death, 43.
Hudson's River, 93, 130, 227 ; see North River. Huguenots in Holland, 459, 715, 730; on Staten Island, 692, 734, 749.
Hulft, Peter Evertsen, 148; sends colonists to New Netherland, 158.
Huntington, on Long Island, settled, 671 ; an- nexed to Connecticut, 703.
Hutchinson, Anne, banished from Massachusetts, 332 ; at Annie's Hoeck, in West Chester, 334 ; her settlement destroyed by the savages, 366 ; her captive grand-daughter recovered and re- stored by the Dutch, 409, 419.
Huygens, Cornelis van der, appointed schout-fis- cal, 292; enjoined to diligence, 386; protests against Koorn, 401; succeeded by Van Dyck, 414, 466 ; sails for Holland and is drowned, 472. 473.
Huygens, Hendrick, Swedish commissary on South River, 424, 425 ; at Fort Beversrede, 483. Hyde, Captain, commands English squadron, 740 ; his farm on the South River, 744.
Iconoclasts in Holland, 100, 440, 441. Ihpetonga, or Brooklyn Heights, 73. Illustrious men of Holland, 460.
Imbroeck, Surgeon Gysbert van, his wife guides expedition against Esopus savages, 712 ; a dele- gate to General Assembly at New Amsterdam, 729.
Independence, Dutch declaration of, 446, 761.
Indians, employment of, as servants, 307, 488 ; en- slaved in New England, 429 ; see Savages.
Industry of the Dutch, 448, 452, 462. Inloopen, Cape, meaning of name, 79.
Intoxication of savages on board of the Half Moon, 31, 752.
Iroquois, the, derivation. of their name, 67, 82; their empire, 87 ; first treaty of the Dutch with, 88; supplied with fire-arms, 89, 169, 308; at war with the French, 345, 563, 647 ; Kieft's treaty with, 408, 409 ; Stuyvesant with the, 492 ; first treaty of English with, 81, 744; see Mo- hawks, Onondagas, Stuyvesant.
Jacobsen, Jan, of Wiringen, sent to New Plym- outh, 175.
Jacobsen, Rutger, signs letter to New England agents, 553 ; lays corner-stone of church at Beverwyck, 624 ; his descendants, 625, note.
Jacquet, John Paul, vice-director on South River, 609 ; ordered to prevent landing of Swedes, 620 ; delivers Fort Casimir to Alrichs, 632 ; succeed ed by Hudde, 633.
Jamaica incorporated, 619 ; see Rustdorp.
James I., his accession, 7; grants Virginia pa- tent, 11, 15 ; dislikes the Dutch, 38, 39 ; grants New England patent, 95, 96 ; his bigotry, 106, 109, 115; his claim to New Netherland, 140- 144 ; his death, 156, 161.
Jamestown founded, 12 ; May at, 97 ; De Vries at, 226.
Jan de Witt's Island, 54.
Jansen, Andries, schoolmaster at Beverwyck, 522. Jansen, Annetje, her farm on Manhattan Island, 266 ; marries Domine Bogardus, 266, 472 ; her daughter Sarah, 731.
Jansen, Anthony, obtains land near Coney Island. 291.
Jansen, Hendrick, one of the Twelve Men, 317.
Jansen, Jan, of Ilpendam, commissary on the South River, 279 ; protests against Minuit, 283 ;
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breaks up New Haven settlements, 338 ; com- plaints of English agalust, 353, note ; forbids Boston adventurers to trade with the Indians, 394 ; superseded by Iludde's appointment and sent to Hollund, 424.
Jansen, Michael, one of the Nine Men, 476; in- forms Stuyvesant of Van der Douck's journal, 592 ; signs memorial to States General, 505; a magistrate of Bergen, 691.
Jansen, Roelof, 244 ; his farin at Manhattan, 266 ; his widow marries Domine Bogardus, 266, 472. Jesuits in Acadia, 52, 53, 67 ; in Canada, 344-346 ; in New Netherland, 373, 374, 402, 422, 423 ; at Onondaga, 564, 591, 592, 612, 644, 704.
Jews in Ilolland, 102, 459; in N. Netherland, 604. Joachimi, Albert, Dutch ambassador at London, 214; action of, in the case of the "William," 245, 246 ; Lord Say's letter to, 340 ; dispatches to the States General, 341 ; ordered to leave Lon- don, 499.
Jochemsen, David, a delegate to General Assem- bly, 729.
Jognes, Father Isaac, captured by the Mohawks, , 345; visited by the Dutch, 346; escapes and visits Manhattan, 373 ; embarks for Europe, 374; discovers Lake Saint Sacrement, 422 ; at Fort Orange, 422 ; at Canghnawaga, 423 ; his death, 423 ; his missal, &e., recovered, 645.
Joosten, Rutger, magistrate of New Utreelit, 693. Joris, Adriaen, accompanies May, 150; at Fort Orange, 151, 152 ; returns, 155, 169, 182.
Jurisdiction of patroons, 194-199, 287, 304-306, 311, 312 ; see Beverwyck, Patroons.
Kabbeljans and lloeks in Ilolland, 461. 1 Kaghnuwage, Mohawk castle at, 659 ; see Caugh- nawaga.
Kallebacker, ludinn, with a gun, 306.
Katskill, or Catskill, derivation of name of, 76; De Vries at. 302; Van der Donck's views re- specting. 377 ; Van Rensselaer's, 378; granted to Van Slyek, 421 ; purchased for Van Renssel- aer, 510 ; his claim to, denied by the company, 522; farmers at, 531; purchases at, declared void, 536 ; savages at, suspected, 713.
Katskill Mountains, why so named, 76 ; proposed exploration of, 531.
Kattenberg, 631 ; see New Gottenburg.
Kekesick, purchase of, 290; see Yonkers.
Kermis, or Fair, at Manhattan, 314, 489, 748.
Keyser, Adriaen, commissary, 432 ; one of Stuy- vesant's council, 466 ; a fire-warden, 457.
hift, William, appointed director general, 274 ; arrives at Manhattan and organizes his council, 275, 276; his new proclamations and regula- tions, 277, 276; protests against Minuit on the Sonth River, 283 ; prohibits contraband trade, 293 ; resolves to demand tribute from the sav- ages, 293 ; protests against English at Hartford, 295 ; purchases lands in West Chester, and re-
quires Greenwich to submit, 296; secures lu- dian title to lands on Long Island, 297 ; arrests Farrett, 298; dislodges intruders at Schout's Bay, and writes to Boston, 299 ; exacts tribute from the Indians, 309; attacks the Raritans, 310 ; establishies a distillery and buckskin manu- factory on Staten Island, 313 ; reforms the cur- rency and establishes fairs, 314; outlaws the Raritans, 315; demands the Weekquaesgeek assassin, 316 ; summons a meeting of the com- monalty, 317 ; stops New Haven expedition to South River, 321; orders force to Fort Good Hope, 322; convokes the Twelve Men, 325 ; makes concessions, 328; dissolves the Twelve Men, 329 ; sends expedition against the Week- quaesgeeks, 329 ; builds a stone hotel and a new church at Manhattan, 335-337 ; breaks up New Haven settlements on the South River, 337, 338 : forbids intercourse with Hartford, 338; of- fers to lease the land at IIartford, 339 ; receives present from Van Rensselaer, 343 ; demands the murderer of Van Voorst, 348 ; resolves to attack the savages, 350; sends expeditions against them, 351, 352 ; congratulates the troops, 353 ; public clamor against, 356 ; his deposition pro- posed, 356 ; proclaims fast-day, 356 ; attacked by Adriaensen, 357 ; makes peace with Long Isl- and and River savages, 359 ; attempts to bribe a chief, 360 ; opens correspondence with New England commissioners, 362, 363 ; draws bill on West India Company, 385 ; sends expeditions to Staten Island and Greenwich, 386; to West Chester, 387 ; grants patent for Heemstede, 388 ; witnesses atrocities against Indian prisoners at Manhattan, 389 ; seizes Van Rensselaer's ship, 390 ; proclaims day of thanksgiving, 391 ; makes peace with Eastern and Long Island savages, 392 ; his bill of exchange dishonored, 393 ; pro- poses an excise on liquors and beaver, 393 ; im- poses excise on beer, 394 ; enforces it, and pun- ishes the refractory brewers, 395, 396 ; liis con- duet reviewed by the Eight Men. 398, 399 ; his recall demanded, 400 ; relieves Father Bressani and sends him to Europe, 402 ; the West India Company resolve to recall him, 404; makes treaty with Long Island tribes, 407 ; with Iro- quois and Mahlcans at Fort Orange, 408 ; gen- eral treaty at Fort Amsterdam, 409 ; buys lands on Long Island, 410 ; grants patent to Flushing, 410; fines Doughty, 411 ; grants patent for Gravesend, 411 ; threatened by the people, 416 : denounced for his tyranny, 417 ; quarrels with Domine Bogardus, 417, 418, 760 ; restores Anne Hutchinson's grand-daughter, 419 ; grants pat- ents for Colendonck, 421 ; for Katskill, 421 ; in- corporates Breuckelen, 421, 422; grants lands on South River, 425; directs purchase of the site of Philadelphia, 426 ; protests against the New Haven trading-house at Paugussett, 428 ; against the Hartford people and the commission-
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ers at New Haven, 429, 430 ; instructed by the West India Company, 431 ; is succeeded by Stuyvesant, 433, 465 ; the people refuse to thank him, 466 ; his controversy with Kuyter and Melyn, 469-471 ; embarks for Holland in the Princess and is drowned, 472.
Kierstede, Surgeon Hans, 408, 731, 748.
Kierstede, Sarah, acts as Indian interpreter, 731. Kievit's Hook purchased by the Dutch, 234 ; arms at, torn down, 260 ; see Saybrook.
Kills, the, 27, 28; origin of name of, 313, note. Kinte-Kaeye, Indian dance, 389.
Kip, Hendrick, wishes to depose Kieft, 356, 409 ; opposes treaty at Fort Amsterdam, 409; one of the Nine Men, 475; signs memorial to States General, 505 ; one of the schepens of New Am- sterdam, 613 ; Kip's Bay, 166.
Kip, Jacob, secretary of burgomasters and sche-) pens of New Amsterdam, 548 ; his salary, 578. Kit Davit's Kill, savages attacked at, 676.
Klein, Elmerhuysen, counselor, on the South River, 609. -
Kling, Mounce, damages Dutch post on the Schuyl- kill, 484
Kolck, or Fresh Water, the, 166, 167, 315.
Koorn, Nicholas, at Rensselaerswyck, 378 ; wacht- meester at Beeren Island, 400 ; attempts to stop Loockermans, 401 ; protests against provincial government, 401, 402 ; succeeds Van der Donck as schout, 419.
Koninck, Frederick de, captain of flag-ship, 603 ; sent to West Chester, 618; surveys New Am- sterdam, 623.
Konoshioni, or Iroquois, 67, 82.
Korte Verhael, publication of the, 699.
Kregier, Martin, a fire-warden at New Amster- dam, 487 ; captain lieutenant of the city, 527 ; burgomaster, 548 ; signs letter to New England agents, 553 ; a delegate to the Convention, 569, 571 ; signs letter to Amsterdam, 576; visits New Haven, 579 ; seal of New Amsterdam delivered to, 596 ; appointed captain, 631 ; wrecked near Fire Island, 632; sent with re-enforcements to the South River, 665 ; blamed by Alrichs, 670; commands Esopus expedition, 712-714 ; sent to the Raritan, 724; his son insulted by Scott at Breuckelen, 726 ; meets Scott at Jamaica, 727. Krieckebeeck, Daniel van, commandant at Fort Orange, 152 ; is slain by the Mohawks, 169.
Krol, Sebastian Jansen, Krank-besoecker at Man- hattan, 165 ; commissary at Fort Orange, 169, 183 ; buys land for Van Rensselaer, 201 ; vice- director, 212; succeeded by Houten, 223.
Kuytér, Jochem Pietersen, comes to New Nether- land, 289 ; chosen one of the Twelve Men, 317 ; appointed a church-master, 336 ; chosen one of the Eight Men, 365 ; captain, sent to Staten Isl- and, 386 ; at Heemstede, 389 ; insulted by Kieft, 394 ; refuses to thank him, 466 ; complains of his administration, 468, 469; proceedings
against, 470; is convicted and banished, 471 ; sails in the "Princess," 472 ; escapes from her shipwreck, 473 (see Melyn) ; appointed schepen of New Amsterdam, 578; appointed schout of New Amsterdam, 587 ; murder of, 588.
Labbatie, Jan, 244; visits the Mohawk country, 345, 346 ; succeeds Van Brugge as commissary at Fort Orange, 493, 523 ; succeeded by Dyck- man, 530.
Laet, John de, 148; his history, 157; becomes in- terested in Rensselaerswyck, 204 ; and Swaan- endael, 205 ; proposes new articles for the gov- ernment of New Netherland, 286.
Lake Champlain, discovery of, 18, 72 ; called Lake of the Iroquois, 77 ; Caniaderi-Guarunté, Indian name of, see Map.
Lake „Genentaha, Jesuit chapel at, 612, 644 : see Lake Onondaga.
Lake George, why so called, 77, note; Andiata- roctė, Indian name of, 422 ; named Saint Sacre- ment by Father Jogues, 422.
Lake Lyconnia, Boston expedition sent to, 383. Lake Oneida, Champlain at, 69.
Lake Onondaga, Champlain at, 69, 72 ; Le Moyne at, 592 ; Jesuit chapel at, 612, 644, 646.
Lake Ontario, Champlain on, 68, 71 ; Father Pon- cet on, 564 ; Father Le Moyne on, 591, 592. Lake Saint Sacrement, named by Jogues, 422.
Lamberton, George, sends expedition from New Haven to South River, 321, 322 ; arrested at Manhattan, 338 ; his treatment by Printz, 382; complaints to the commissioners, 383 ; case of, 519, 551.
Lampo, Jan, schout, 164 ; superseded, 213.
Landtdag, or Convention, at New Amsterdam, 570-575; another, 722 ; a third, 728-731.
Latin School at New Amsterdam, 656, 694 ; chil- dren sent to it from Virginia, &c., 694; see Acaderny.
Laud, Archbishop, his intolerance, 257, 258 ; his fall, 323; joy because of it in Massachusetts, 331.
Laurensen, Sergeant Andries, sent to enlist sol- diers on the South River, 675.
Lawrence, John, one of the Dutch commissioners at Hartford, 720, 721 ; at Heemstede, 728 ..
Lenapees, 73, 87, 88.
Leveridge, William, settles at Oyster Bay, 595.
Leverett, Captain John, sent as agent to New Am- sterdam, 551-555.
Leyden, siege of, 443 ; university of, founded, 443 Libel against the Dutch, publication of, in Lon- don, 566.
Liberality of Dutch government toward strangers, 291, 332, 335, 374, 388, 489, 573, 640, 688, 696, 749.
Licenses, patroon's trading, at Rensselaerswyck, 376, 377 ; disregarded by free traders, 400 ; abo !- ished, 523.
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Light and fire, the keeping of, a condition of Manchonack, or Gardiner's Island, 297. burghership, 489, 628, 694.
Lindstrom, Peter, Swedishi engineer on South Riv- er, 577 ; rebuilds Fort Casimir, or Trinity, 593. Litschoe, Sergeant, at Beverwyck, 535.
Lokenins, Lawrence Charles, Lutheran clergyman at South River, 577 ; retained there, 606; con- ducts divine service, 609 ; leads a godless life, 616 ; held in little esteem, 734.
London Company, 11; documents, 759.
Long Island, Metowacks, or Sewan-hacky, its in- sularity discovered by Block, 57, 94 ; first set- tlers on, 154; chief manufactory of wampum, 172; conveyed to Lord Stirling, 259 ; progress of settlements on, 264, 290, 291 ; extent of Dutclı jurisdiction over, 297 ; English settlements on, 298-301 ; how affected by Hartford treaty, 519; first Dutch church on, 581 ; named " Yorkshire" by Nicolls, 745.
Loockermans, Govert, 223 ; refuses to strike his flag at Rensselaer's Stein, 401 ; one of the Nine Men, 475 ; ship consigned to, seized, 490 ; signs memorial to States General, 505 ; prosecuted by Stuyvesant, 526 ; proposed as a commissioner, 552; accompanies Stuyvesant to Esopus, 647 ; sent to the Raritan, 724.
Loockermans, Jacob, visits Narrington, 733.
Lord, John, a magistrate of Oost-dorp, 619.
Lords Majors, Amsterdam directors so called, 402, 492, 740.
Lots, vacant, in New Amsterdam to be improved, 458.
Lubbertsen, Frederick, one of the Twelve Men, 317 ; a delegate from Breuckelen to tlie Conven- tion, 571.
Lupold, Ulrich, appointed schout-fiscal, 266 ; con- tinued by Kieft, 276; succeeded by Van der Huygens, 292.
Lutherans at New Amsterdam, 581 ; illiberal treat- ment of, 582 ; proclamation against conventicles of, 617 ; still oppressed, 626 ; Goetwater sent as clergyman to, 634 ; chief reason of their discon- tent, 642 ; moderation toward, enjoined, 656 ; number of, at Fort Orange, 681.
Luyck, Egidius, succeeds Curtius as rector of Latin School at New Amsterdam, 694.
Lynn, in Massachusetts, intruders from, at Schout's Bay, 298 ; liberal conditions offered to emigrants from, 332.
Mackarel, Yacht, at the North River, 149, 158. Magdalen Island, in North River, 54, 428, 712. Mahicans, 54; or Mohegans, 72 ; treaty with, 88; at Fort Orange, 152 ; overcome by the Mohawks, 183, 212 ; in the valley of the Connecticut, 232 ; sachem of, visits Boston, 210, 233 ; Uncas, chief of, 271, 363 ; treaty at Fort Orange with, 408; sachems of, at Fort Amsterdam, 676 ; attack the Mohawks, 733.
Mamaranack, chief of the Croton savages, 392.
Manhattan, origin of name, 34, 73, 74, note ; sec- ond ship sent to, 44; Christiaensen and Block at, 45, 46 ; condition of the island, 47 ; first cab- ins at, 48; alleged visit of Argall to, 54, 754 . first vessel built at, 55, 65 ; name of, 74, 752 : Dermer at, 93 ; no fort tlicre, 55, 94, note, 755 . West India Company takes possession of, 151 ; purchase of, from savages, 164; condition of. 165-168 ; Fort Amsterdam, built at, 165, 183 : prosperity of, 183 ; the emporium of New Neth- erland, 194; great ship New Netherland built at, 212, 219, 286 ; goats sent to, 228 ; Winthrop's bark at, 239; condition of, 243; invested with " Staple right," 243 ; condition of, on Kieft's ar- rival, 276 ; multifarious population, 278 ; cherry and peach trees at, 290; foreigners at, 291 : municipal regulations at, 292 ; De Vries' planta- tion at, 301 ; masts for shipwrights at, whence procured, 302 ; residents ordered to be armed, 309 ; commercial regulations, 312 ; Manhattan's sewan, 314; fair established at, 314; murder at, 316 ; reforms demanded at, 327 ; strangers at, 335; church at, 337 ; savages attacked at, 349, 352 ; ravaged by the Indians, 369 ; described by Father Jogues, 373, 374 ; military forces at, 3$5, 386 ; atrocities against Indian prisoners at, 359 ; condition of, described by the Eight Men. 398 ; Father Bressani at, 402; measures pro- posed in Holland respecting, 403-406 ; general treaty with Indians at, 409 ; depopulation of, 410, 465 ; municipal regulations by Stuyvesant, 467 ; represented in the Nine Men, 474 ; muni- cipal affairs at, 487, 488; burgher government demanded for, 505; proposed in Holland, 514 ; burghier guard at, 517 ; political troubles at, 521, 525, 532 ; school at, 537, 538; concession of burgher government to, 540, 541 ; its maritime superiority predicted, 547; its population in 1652, 548 ; organization of a municipal govern- ment in, 549 ; see New Amsterdam. Manna-hata, Hudson at, 34.
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