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Norman's Kill, near Albany, origin of name of the, 81 ; on Long Island, 693.
North River, Verazzano at the mouth of, 2; ex- ploration of, by Hudson, 27-34 ; called River of the Mountains, 35; Mauritius River, 45, 229 ; Cahohatatea and Shatemuc, 72; called North River, 79; De Vries' opinion of, 307; declared to be free, 521 ; English refused the right of free navigation of, 655, 673 ; reaches or racks in, 757. Northern Company, the Dutch, 59, 65.
Northern passage, attempts of the Dutch to ex- plore, 22, 24, 45.
Norwalk, settlement at, 294, 296.
Notelman, Conrad, appointed schout, 213; his conduct, 236 ; succeeded by Van Dincklagen, 247.
Nutten, or Governor's Island, cattle landed at, 159 ; purchased by Van Twiller, 267; savages at, 607 ; English squadron at, 740.
Nyack, near Gravesend, lands purchased at, 537 . English squadron anchors at bay of, 738,
Ogden, John, builds church at Manhattan, 336 ; a patentee of Hecmstede, 387, 388.
Ogden, Richard, builds church at Manhattan, 336. Ogehage, or Minquas, 73, 78, 757.
Oiogué, Indian name for the Mauritius River, 422. Old Colony of New England, New Plymouth call- ed the, 130, 189, 361, 530.
Old Dominion, Virginia the, of United States, 12. Oldham, John, goes from Boston overland tó the Connecticut, 239 ; is murdered by the Pequods, 269.
Olfertsen, Jacob, accompanies De Vries to Rock- away, 358.
Ompoge, or Amboy, purchase of, 537. .
Oneidas, 69, 83 ; desire religious instruction, 644 . see Iroquois.
Oneugiouré, or Caughnawaga, Father Jogues at, 423 ; see Caughnawaga.
Onondagas, Champlain among, 69-71 ; Atotarho, chief of, 83, 84; friendly toward the French, 591; visited by Father Le Moyne, 592; salt springs discovered, 592; Chaumonot and Da blon among, 612; mission at, 643-645 ; aban- doned, 646 ; revisited by Father Le Moyne, 704.
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Ontario, Lake, Champlain on, 68, 71 ; Father Pon- cet on, 564 ; Father Le Moyne on, 591 ; Chaunio- not and Dablon on, 612, 644, 646.
Oost-dorp incorporated, 619; affairs at, 626, 627 ; declared to be annexed to Connecticut, 703 ; au- thority of Connecticut enforced, 709 ; surrender- ed by Stuyvesant, 723, 724; letter of States General to, 730, 733 ; see West Chester.
Oothout, Ffob, signs capitulation of New Amstel to the English, 744.
Orange, William 1., Prince of Nassau and, 19, 101, 440, 442, 444, 445 ; assassination of, 446 ; monu- ment to, 185 ; Philip, Prince of, 109; Maurice, Prince of, 39, 107-111, 446 ; memorial of Puri- tans to, 124-126, 133 ; death of, 160, 434 ; Fred- erick Henry, Prince of, stadtholder, 160; death of, 434 ; William 1I., Prince of, 434 ; brother-in- law of Charles 11., 498 ; death of, 542; William 11I., Prince of, 543 ; King of England, 446.
Orange, Fort, built, 149, 151 ; see Fort Orange.
Orange Tree, ship, 148 ; arrested at Plymouth, 156.
Ordinance, general, for the encouragement of Dutch discovery, 60.
Oritany, chief of the Ilackinsacks, 359, 608; me- diates with the Esopus Indians, 677 ; gives land to Mevrouw Kierstede, 731, note.
Orson and Valentine, 46, 66.
Oswego River, or Osh-wah-kee, 63, 564.
Oxenstierna, Axel, Count of, publishes charter of Swedish West India Company, 284 ; signs com- missions for New Sweden, 319; death of, 622. Oyster Bay, on Long Island, limit of Dutch set- tlements, 297 ; declared to be the boundary, 519 ; English settlement at, 595 ; protest of the Dutch against, 598 ; fort ordered to be built at, 622 ; annexed to Connecticut, 703 ; name of, changed, 723 ; in combination with English villages, 726.
Paanpaack, or Troy, purchase of, 534.
Pacham, chief of the Haverstraws, at Manhattan, 315 ; required to surrender the murderer of Van Voorst, 348; incites the River Indians against the Dutch, 364; his surrender demanded, 392. Pachami, tribe of, 74, 757.
Paconthetuck, Fort, Mohawks murdered at, 733. Painters, eminent, in Holland, 460.
Panhoosic, purchase of, 534.
lanton, Richard, threatens Midwout, 719, 720. Papal donation of New World to Spain, 1, 4, 240. Papequanaehen, Esopus chief, killed, 713.
Paper, manufacture of, in Holland, 459.
Papirinemin, or Spyt den Duyvel, 421.
Pappegoya, John, temporary commander of New Sweden, 577 ; relieved by Rising, 593 ; his con- duct on the South River, 620.
Parchment figurative map, 755, 756. Paris documents, 759.
Passachynon, great chief of the Nevesincks, 724. Passayunk sachems invite the Dutch, 482.
Patrick, Captain Daniel, assists in the Pequod
war, 272 ; settles at Greenwich, 294; required to submit to the Dutch, 296 ; submits, 331 ; de- mands protection against the savages, 386; is murdered by a Dutch soldier, 387.
Patriotism of the Dutch, 464.
Patroons, charter of privileges for, 187, 194-199 ; buy lands in New Netherland, 200-205 ; at vari- ance with the directors, 213 ; their " claim and demand," 247 ; South River, surrender Swaan- endael, 249; Pauw surrenders Pavonia 'and Staten Island, 268; consequences of patroons' charter, 286 ; demand new privileges, 287 ; juris- diction of, 304, 305 ; new charter for, 311, 312 ; consequences of, 313 ; orders of, for Rensselaers- wyck, 341 ; mercantile policy of, 376, 377, 390 ; claim staple right, 400-402, 419; quarrels be- tween officers of, and provincial government, 491-494, 510, 522, 528, 531 ; further disagree- ments, 533-536 ; complaints of, to the States General, 562 ; grant licenses to sail to Florida, &c., 563 ; further disagreements, 623, 624 ; ar- rangement of difficulty, 649 ; the company tired of, 692 ; see Beverwyck, Fort Orange, Renssel- aerswyck.
Paugussett, New llaven trading-house at, 428, 480.
Paulusen, Michael, commissary at Pavonia, 223, 236.
Paulus' Hook, 203, 223 ; conveyed to the company, 268; Planck buys land at, 279; Van der Bilt killed at, 509 ; see Pavonia.
Pauw, Michael, 148; buys Pavonia and Staten Island, 202, 203 ; Paulusen his commissary at Pavonia, 223, 236 ; sends out Van Voorst, 263 ; conveys his rights to Staten Island and Pavonia to the company, 268.
Pavonia purchased by Pauw, 203 ; officers at, 223. 236, 263 ; conveyed to the company, 268 ; Planck at, 279; Bout at, 351 ; massacre of savages at, 352, 353 ; surprised by the savages, 368 ; repre- sented in the Nine Men, 474 ; laid waste by the savages, 607.
Peddlers, or Scotch merchants, 489, 628.
Peelen, Brandt, 244 ; large crops raised on his isl- and, 302, 341.
Pelagius, opposes Saint Augustine, 99.
Pell, Thomas, at West Chester, 595, 616 ; his dis- agreement with the savages, 627 ; authorized by Connecticut to buy land, 733.
Pels, Evert, magistrate of Wiltwyck, 690.
Pemmenatta, chief on the South River, 529. Penobscot, 8, 13; Hudson at, 26 ; Mohawks at, and on the Kennebeck, 87, 704, 733.
Pensionary, Grand, of Holland, 449, 451, 452. Pequods convey land to the Dutch, 235; treaty with Massachusetts, 242, 256 ; exasperated, at- tack Saybrook and Wethersfield, 270; attacked and exterminated by the English, 271, 272.
Persecution, religious, 614, 617, 626, 635-639, 689, 705; ceases, 707.
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Peters, Hugh, of Rotterdam, at Boston, 260, 261 ; goes to England, 323 ; commissioned to negoti- ate with Dutch West India Company, 324, 340 ; executed, 702.
Petuquapaen, 296 ; see Greenwich.
Philadelphia, site of, occupied by the Dutch, 426 ; difficulties with the Swedes in consequence, 427, 428. (
Philip, Prince of Orange, 109; see Spain.
Pietersen, Abraham, one of the Eight Men, 365. Pietersen, Evert, Ziecken-trooster at New Am- stel, 631 ; deacon of church at, 633.
Pietersen, Jan, magistrate of New Haerlem, 675. Pilgrims, the, sail from Plymouth, 128; their des- tination, 129; at Cape Cod, 130; compact on board the Mayflower, 131, 132 ; land at New Plymouth, 133 ; see Puritans.
Pirates, English, in Long Island Sound, 565, 578; measures against, 579 .-
Plancius, Peter, of Amsterdam, 23, 45, 138.
Planck, or Verplanck, Abram, buys land at Pa- vonia, 279 ; one of the Twelve Men, 317 ; signs petition to Kieft urging war, 350 ; buys land on South River, 425 ; to be sent to the Hague, 514. Planck, Jacob Albertsen, schout of Rensselaers- wyck, 244.
Plantagenet's "New Albion," 140, 382, 485, 754. Plantations, council for, at London, 257, 686 ; in- structions of, respecting colonial trade, 702; views of, respecting the Dutch province, 725; directs enforcement of Navigation Law, 735.
Plockhoy, Pieter Cornelis, leader of the Mennon- ist colony on the Horekill, 698, 699 ; colony of, plundered by the English, 745.
Plowden, Sir Edmund, his patent for New Albion, 381 ; visits the South River and Manhattan, 381, 382 ; again at Manhattan, 484 ; publication of Plantagenet's "New Albion," 485, 754.
Plymouth Company, 11-15, 91 ; New, 95, 96, 127, 138, 140, 188, 208, 211 ; dissolved, 259.
Point Judith, or Wapanoos' Point, Block at, 58, 756 ; called Cape Cod by Stuyvesant, 497.
Pokeepsie, origin of its name, 75.
Polhemus, Domine Johannes Theodorus, at Mid- wout, Breuckelen, and Amersfoort, 581, 615 ; succeeded at Breuckelen by Selyns, 681.
Police regulations, Kieft's, 277, 278, 292, 314, 335, 386, 392 ; Stuyvesant's, 466, 487-490, 517, 548; see New Amsterdam.
Pollepel's Island, 75, 758.
Poncet, Father Joseph, captured by the Mohawks, and relieved by the Dutch, 564 ; at Onondaga, 564.
Pont Grave in Canada, 16; at Port Royal, 17. Popham, Chief Justice, 10, 12 ; his death, 14.º
Popham, George, at Sagadahoc, 13 ; his death, 14. Popular spirit of the Twelve Men, 326 ; of the Eight Men, 396; of the Nine Men, 501, 505; of the conventions, 573, 575, 722, 729.
Population of Holland, 19, 456, 457.
Population of Manhattan, 150, 151, 159, 170, 183 ; of New Plymouth, 208; of Manhattan, 373 ; of Beverwyck, 374 ; of New England, 407 ; of Man- hattan, 410 ; of New Netherland, 465 ; of New Amsterdam, 548, 623 ; of Staten Island, 607 ; of New Amstel, 653 ; of Breuckelen, 680 ; of Staten Island, 692 ; of Boswyck, 693 ; of New Amster- dam, 734 ; of New Netherland, 734. Pory, John, his explorations, 249.
Pos, Adriaen, superintendent at Staten Island, 525 ; captured and released, 607, 608.
Pos, Simon Dircksen, counselor, 164.
Possession, actual, the English doctrine, 4, 5, 141, 143, 144.
Poutrincourt at Port Royal, 16, 17.
Powelson, Jacob, at the South River, 319, 320.
President of Long Island towns, John Scott chos- en, 726.
Press, liberty of the, in Holland, 459.
Preummaker, Esopus chief, killed, 676.
Princess, loss of the ship, 472, 473. Pring, Martin, on coasts of Maine, 8.
Printing, invention of, in Holland, 461.
Printz, John, appointed governor of New Sweden, 378 ; arrives at Fort Christina, 379 ; entertains De Vries, 380 ; his treatment of Plowden, 381 ; of Lamberton, 382, 383 ; of the English adven- turers from Boston, 384; his good manage- ment of the fur trade, 423; his negotiations with Hudde, 424 ; endeavors to set the In- dians against the Dutch, 425 ; protests against Hudde's purchase of the site of Philadelphia, 426 ; his brutal conduct, 427 ; continues to an- noy the Dutch, 482-487 ; opposes their purchases of lands, 510, 512 ; is visited by Stuyvesant, 528; intrigues with the savages, 529 ; protests against building of Fort Casimir, 529; returns to Swe- den, 576, 577.
Prisoners, Indian, enslaved in New England, 272 ; taken by the Dutch, 387 ; atrocities against, 389 ; sent to Bermuda, 396 ; Dutch, taken by the sav- ages, at Staten Island, 607, 608; at Esopus, 658; release of some of, 661; taken by the Dutch at Esopus, 675; sent to Curaçoa, 677 ; remembered by their brethren, 710 ; Dutch taken by Esopus savages, 711; recovered, 713, 714, 731.
Privileges, charter of, 194, 311 ; see Patroons.,
Privy Council, letter of, to Carleton, 140, 141, 216 ; arrests Dutch ship, 156; committees of, for foreign plantations, 257, 259, 686, 702, 725, 735. Proclamations, translation of, into French and English, 640.
Prosperity of the Dutch, 456.
Protestant Episcopal Church in America, 119.
Protestant Reformed Dutch Church in America, 119, 312, 374, 535, 609, 614, 617, 706, 748.
Provisional order for the government of New Netherland proposed, 513, 514 ; opposed by the Amsterdam Chamber, 515 ; disregarded by Stuy-
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vesant, 517; continued opposition to, of Am- sterdam Chamber, 539; assented to, 540.
Provoost, David, tobacco inspector at Manhattan, 292; commissary at Fort Good Hope, 363; lis conduct at, complained of by the connnissioners of New England, 429; defended by Kieft, 430 ; proposed as a commissioner withi agents, 552 ; first schout of Breuckelen, 580; succeeded by Tonneman, 580, note.
Provoost, Johannes, secretary at Fort Orange, 625. Purchas, Samuel, his " Pilgrims," 157.
Puritans, English, 112-114; in Holland, 115, 116; dissatisfied there, 120 ; resolve to einigrate, 121 ; their patent from the Virginia Company, 122 ; propose to go to New Netherland, 123, 124 ; ap- plication to Dutch government, 125, 126; leave Leyden, 127; sail from Plymouth, 128; their destination, 129; at Cape Cod, 130 ; compact on board the Mayflower, 131, 132; land at New Plymouth, 133; settlers at, 145; first inter- course of, with the Dutch, 171-181 ; at Salem, 1S8-190; at Boston, 208 ; in Connecticut, 241 ; at New Haven, 294; in New Netherland, 334, 388, 411, 505, 553, 573, 595, 615, 627 ; conditions offered to, 688, 696, 708 ; see New Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ilartford, New Ilaven.
Pynchon, John, a commissioner on the English side, 742, 763.
Pynchon, William, settles at Springfield, 261, 262; , his opinion of the Mohawks, 496.
Pye Bay, or Nahant Bay, the northern limit of New Netherland, 58, 59.
Quakers, people called, in England, 635 ; perse- cuted in New England, 635 ; come to New An- sterdam, 636; proclamation against, 637; on Long Island, 637, 639; at Communipa, 643 ; persecuted again, 689 ; progress of, on Long Island, 705 ; persecution of, ceases, 707.
Quarantine regulations of Connecticut, 710.
Quebec founded, 18 ; missionary college at, 344. Quillipeage River, 293 ; see New Haven. Quotenis, Island, in Narragansett Bay, 26S.
Raccoon Creek, lands near, purchased, 511, 529. Racks, or reaches, in North River, 759.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, his patent, 5 ; his execution, . 6 ; his observations on the Dutch, 98, 458. Raleigh, city of, founded, 6.
Rancocus Creek, lands purchased at, 511.
Rapelje, Joris, or George, at the Waal-bogt, 154, 267, 268 ; one of the Twelve Men, 317.
Rapelje, Sarah, first child born in New Nether- land, 154, 268.
Raritan, minerals found at the, 412, 431 ; great meadows bought, 537 ; proposed Puritan colony at the, 696, 707, 708 ; English party at the, 724. Raritan savages, 73 ; hostile to the Dutch, 215 ; accused of excesses, 309 ; expedition against,
310 ; attack Staten Island, 315; rewards offered for heads of, 315 ; at war with the Dutch, 354 ; minerals found near, 412, 431; lands bouglit from, for Van de Capellen, 525 ; by Van Werck- hoven, 537 ; murder a family at Mespatlı Kill, 657 ; colony near, proposed, 707.
Rasieres, Isaac de, provincial secretary, 164 ; writes to Bradford, 173 ; visits New Plymouth, 176-180 ; returns to Holland and writes letter to Blommaert, 186, 200.
Rattle watelı at New Amsterdamn, 640.
Reaches, or racks, in the North River, 759.
Records, Albany colonial, 275, 759.
Records of New Amsterdam, 488, 549, 761.
Red Mount, or New Haven, first meeting of com- missioners at, 430.
Reformation, the, in Holland and England, 99-119. Reformned Protestant Dutch Church, 100-119 ; established in New Netherland, 312, 374, 535, 609, 614, 617, 706, 748.
Regicides, Stuyvesant asked to deliver them up, 695.
Reintsen, Jacob, his case, 490.
Rekenkamer, the Dutch National, 450.
Rekenkamer, or Bureau of Accounts, report of the West India Company's, on New Netherland af- fairs, 404-406.
Religions and languages, diversity of, in New Netherland, 374, 749.
Remonstrance, or Vertoogli, of New Netherland, 506, 507, 512.
Remund, Jan van, succeeds De Rasieres as pro- vincial secretary, 212, 223, 236 ; succeeded by Van Tienhoven, 276.
Rensselaer, Jeremias van, director of Rensselaer s- wyck, 649 ; a delegate to the General Provincial Assembly, 729 ; required by Nicolls to produce his papers and obey Cartwright, 743.
Rensselaer, Johannes van, patroon, 420, 491 ; ac- quires Katskill and Claverack, 510; his claims denied by the company, 521 ; trading licenses of, 523 ; more land purchased for, 534 ; commis- sions Swart as schout, 535.
Rensselaer, John Baptist van, takes burgher's oath at Beverwyck, 531 ; succeeds Van Slech- tenhorst as director, 535; signs letter to New England agents, 553 ; opposes Stuyvesant, 591 ; protests against Stuyvesant's conduct, 623 ; is fined, 624 ; succeeded by his brother Jeremias, 6-19.
Rensselaer, Kiliaen van, 148 ; obtains land at Fort Orange, 201 ; shares his estate with other di- rectors, 204 ; buys more land, 267 ; commissions Van der Donck, 341 ; agrees with Megapolensis, 342 ; sends present to Kieft, 343 ; his mercan- tile system, 376, 377 ; anxious to acquire Kats- kill, 378 ; his ship seized at Manhattan by Kieft, 390 ; claims staple right for Rensselaer's Stein, 400 ; his claim denied, 401 ; death of, 420; suc- ceeded by his son Johannes, 420.
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Rensselaer's Stein, 400 ; claim of staple right de- nied to, 401, 402, 510, 521.
Rensselaerswyck, first colonists sent to, 201 ; its extent, 202 ; estate divided, 204 ; progress of, 266; addition to, 267 ; slow progress of, 279; abundance in, 303; government and jurispru- dence of, 304, 305 ; colonists supply Mohawks with fire-arms, 308; church planned at, 343 ; built, 374 ; patroons trading licenses, 376, 377 ; ship for, seized, 390 ; free traders at, 400 ; sta- ple right claimed for, and denied, 401, 402; escapes the effects of war, 410 ; new patroon of, 420; trade in fire-arms at, 491; dispute about jurisdiction of, 492-494 ; pretensions of patroons rebuked by West India Company, 521, 522 ; Beverwyck declared independent of, 535 ; John Baptist van Rensselaer director, and Gerrit Swart schout, 535 ; Reformed religion to be maintained in, 535 ; represented at Manhattan, 552, 553 ; affairs of, considered in Holland, 562, 563; excises at, 591, 610, 623, 624 ; Jeremias van Rensselaer director of, 649 ; jurisdiction of West India Company over, 679 ; delegates from, at General Assembly, 729 ; surrender of, 743, 744 ; see Fort Orange and Beverwyck.
Representation, principle of, 132, 326, 473, 474.
Republic, the Dutch, 435-447; its system of ad-
ministration, 448-455 ; results of system, 455- 464, 750.
Requesens introduces the new style in Holland, 443.
Residence required from citizens, 489, 628, 694, 749. Restless, yacht, built at Manhattan, 55 ; explores
Long Island Sound, 56-59; in the Delaware, 78, 79, 758.
Revenue of New Netherland, 186, 218, 224, 231 ; regulations respecting, 196, 213, 218, 236, 277, 288, 293, 312; not equal to expenditures, 405, 685, 729 ; new regulations, 406, 416, 466, '467, 479, 490, 540, 656, 694.
Rhode Island, the Dutch at, 58; their trade at, 145, 171, 174, 209 ; Dutch post at, 268 ; founded by Roger Williams, 332 ; Anne Hutchinson re- moves from, 334 ; not included in New England confederation, 361 ; claimed as part of New Netherland, 479, 497; Underhill at, 556; com- missions Dyer and Underhill to act against the Dutch, 557 ; refuses to persecute Quakers, 636. Rising, John, appointed deputy governor of New Sweden, 577 ; at the South River, 593 ; captures Fort Casimir, 593; declines to visit Stuyve- sant at New Amsterdam, 594 ; surrenders Fort Christina, 605; at New Amsterdam, 608; re- turns to Europe, 609.
River of the Mountains, 35, 37, 44.
River Indians, the, 72-77 ; offended at the Dutch, 308, 309 ; refuse to pay tribute to, 310 ; attack- ed by the Mohawks, 349 ; by the Dutch, 352 ; aroused to vengeance, 354 ; attack Dutch boats, 364; continued hostility of, 393; peace with,
408, 409 ; invade New Amsterdam, 606-610; ser Esopus.
Roberval in Canada, 3.
Robinson, John, 115 ; his application to the Dutch, 125 ; remains at Leyden, 127.
Rochelle, Frenchmen from, come to New Nether- land, 730 ; settle on Staten Island, 734.
Rockaway, or Rechqua-akie, savages. from, on Manhattan, 349 ; De Vries and Olfertsen at, 358 ; treaty with savages of, 359, 407, 408.
Rodolf, Sergeant, ordered to attack savages at Pavonia, 351 ; executes his orders, 352.
Roelandsen, Adam, first schoolmaster, 223. Roelof Jansen's Kill, 77, 266, note.
Roesen, Jan Hendricksen, commissary at Fort Good Hope, 296.
Roman Catholics in Holland, 101, 102, 458 ; mo- tives for their emigration from England, 251 ; in Maryland, 253; in New Netherland, 345, 374, 402, 423, 564, 592, 612, 616, 644-647, 749.
Rondout, or Ronduit, 76, 302, 306, 647, 710, 756 ; arrangement for trade at, 731 ; garrison left at, 738.
Roodenberg, 56,' 294 ; see New Haven.
Roose, Elbert Heymans, magistrate of Wiltwyck, 690.
Root, Simon, at Mast-maker's Point, 486 ; at Ran- cocus, 511.
Royal commissioners to New England, 736.
Royalists, intolerance of, at restoration, 687.
Russia, trade of the Dutch with, 43, 99.
Rustdorp, or Jamaica, incorporated, 619 ; Quak- ers at, 637, 638, 689 ; new magistrates for, 689 ; Domine Drisius at, 689 ; orders of Connecticut to, 703; Talcott and Christie at, 719 ; petitions Connecticut, 719 ; name of, changed, 723 ; meet- ing-house at, 724 ; party from, at the Raritan, 724; forms combination, 726; conditional ar- rangement at, 727; letter of States General to, 730, 733.
Ruyter, Admiral Michael de, 546.
Ruyter, Kloes de, about a copper mine at Minni- sinck, 662 ; Indian interpreter, 677.
Ruytergeld, or militia rate in Holland, 436.
Ruyven, Cornelis van, appointed provincial sec- retary, 561 ; sent to arrange affairs at Oost- dorp, 626, 627 ; on the South River, 666 ; blamed by Alrichs, 670 ; sent on embassy to Hartford, 720, 721 ; meets Scott at Jamaica, 729 ; sent with letter to Nicolls, 740.
( Sabbath breaking forbidden, 466.
Sachem's Head, origin of name of, 272.
Sagadahoc, or Kennebeck, Weymouth at the, 9 : colony at, 12; vessel built at, 14 ; abandoned, 15, 64, 90, 144 ; Mohawks at, 682, 704.
Sager's Kill, 756 ; party sent to, 713, 714. Saint Augustine, 99.
Saint Beninio, seizure of ship, 478, 479, 496, 500, 519
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Saint Lawrence discovered and named by Car-
tier, 3; French on the, 18, 345, 756 ; vessel from New Amsterdam wrecked in the, 646.
Saint Mary's of Genentaha, 641.
Saint Mary's, in Maryland, 253.
Saint Sacrement, Lac du, 18, 77; named by Fa- ther Jogues, 422.
Salem founded, 188, 189 ; intolerance at, 190.
Salt springs at Onondaga discovered by Father Le Moyne, 592, 612, 644, 645.
Salt works on Coney Island, 694.
Sandy Hook, Hudson at, 27; called Colman's Point, 28; plum-trees on, 237, note.
Sanhikans, or Sangicans, 74, 757.
Sankikans, or Stankekans, 73, 378, 425, 757.
Santickan, or Sankikan, 282, 378, 425.
Sassacus, his scalp sent to Boston, 272.
Savages, tribes of, in New Netherland, 72-78, 81-
88; intercourse with, 168, 169, 170, 232, 307 ; supplied with fire-arms, 306, 308, 345, 349 ; gen- eral rising of, against the Dutch near Manhat- tan, 354, 369 ; number of, killed, 409; no tire- arms to be sold to, 293, 406, 415, 490, 492 ; nor liquors, 466, 488 ; to be sparingly supplied with arms, 503, 562 ; employment of, suggested, 547, 555, 677 ; Invade New Amsterdam, 607 ; lay waste Dutch settlements, 607, 608 ; Long Island, profess friendship, 610 ; outrages of, at Esopus, 647 ; of the Dutch against, 658 ; agree that the Dutch should instruct their children, 675 ; pris- oners taken at Esopus sent to Curaçoa, 676 ; see Esopus, Mohawks.
Say and Seal, Lord, a grantee of Connecticut, 211, 259, 261 ; his letter to Joachimi, 340 ; on Planta- tion Committee, 686.
Saybrook, fort built at, 261 ; attacked by the Pe- quods, 270; fort completed, 294; Llon Gardiner removes from, 297.
Sayre, Job, 298, 299, 300.
Schaats, Domine Gideon, clergyman at Renssel- aerswyck, 538, 615 ; new church built for, 624, 625 ; annoyed by Lutherans, 681.
Schaenhechstede, or Schenectady, purchase of, 691 ; surveyed, 732.
Schaick, Colonel Van, his expedition to Onondaga, 69, note.
Schelluyne, Dirck van, notary public, 516 ; op- · pressed by Stuyvesant, 526; appointed high constable of New Amsterdam, 597 ; secretary of Rensselaerswyck, 729 ; a delegate to General Assembly at New Amsterdam, 729.
Schepens in Holland, 327, 453; desired for New Netherland, 327, 100, 505; granted, 514, 540, 541, 54S ; see Burgomasters.
Schermerhorn, Jacob, his case, 490.
Scheyichbi, Indian name for New Jersey, 89. Schonowe, great flat of, 660, 691.
Schools, public, established in Holland, 462, 463 ; in New Netherland, 196, 223, 313, 476, 506, 50S. 514, 516, 539, 616, 632, 640, 641. 656, 694, 745.
Schout In Holland, 453, 454.
Schout in New Netherland, 163, 213, 236, 266. 292. 414, 532, 541, 622.
Schout of New Amsterdam, Instructions for. 541
Van Tienhoven appointed as, 548 ; burghers de mand right to choose, 567 ; Kuyter appointed, 587 ; Van Tienhoven continued as, 588 ; De Sille appointed as, 623 ; continued as, 640; Tonne- man appointed, 674.
Schout's Bay, or Cow Bay, lands near, purchased, 290 ; emigrants from Lynu at, 298, 299 ; expedi- tion sent to, 389 ; sachem of, at Manhattan. 392. Schute, Swen, conduct of, at the Schuylkill, 486 . Swedish commandant at Fort Trinity, 593 ; sur- renders to Stuyvesant, 604.
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