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Schuyler, Philip Pietersen, threatened by Dyck. man at Beverwyck, 533.
Schuylkill, Hendricksen at the, 78, 757; Armen- veruis, on, purchased by Dutch, 232, 485 ; En- glish settlement at, 322 ; broken up, 338 ; further purchase at, 426 ; the Dutch invited to, 482 . Fort Beversrede built at, 483, 485, 487 ; Mast- maker's Point, on the, 486.
Scotch merchants, or peddlers, at New Ainster- dam, 489, 628.
Scott, John, arrested and examined, 579 ; his con- duct on Long Island, 671 ; at London, 725 ; re- turns to Long Island, 726; president of com- bined towns, 726; makes conditional arrange- ment at Jamaica, 727 ; his agreement at Heem- stede with Stuyvesant, 728; imprisoned by Connecticut, 733.
Scott, Joseph, of Heemstede, case of, 639.
Seal, provincial, of New Netherland, 148; and coat of arms of New Amsterdam, 596, 597.
Sectarianism dreaded by Dutch clergy, 643; new proclamation against, 706 ; rebuked, 707.
Self-government, principle of, in Ilolland, 192, 326, 447-156.
Selyns, Domine lfenricus, installed at Breuckelen. 680 ; at the director's bouwery, 681 ; revisits Holland, 731 ; returns to N. York, 734, 119, note. Senecas, tribe of the, 82, 83 ; Chaumonot among the, 641 ; conference of, with Stuyvesant, 679. 680 ; beaver trade of the Dutch with, 732.
Sentences of provincial courts not to be executed in Holland, 478.
Sequeen, chief of Pyquaug, or Wethersfield, 233 . assents to sale of land to the Dutch, 235.
Sequins visited by Block, 56, chief of the, ill .- prisoned by Eelkens, 146, 152, 168.
Setauket, on Long Island, settled, 671 ; annexed to Connecticut, 703; Scott a commissioner at. 726
Sewackenamo, chief of Esopus savages, 731. Sewan, or wampum, 172, 180 ; its value fixed and 'regulated, 314, 328, 329, 517.
Sewan-hacky, 73, 172 ; see Long Island. Shackamaxon, Penn's treaty at, 164.
Shatemuc. Mahican name for North River, 72, note.
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Shawan-gunk, mountains, 75, note ; Indian forts
at, destroyed, 712, 713 ; ceded to the Dutch, 731. Shawmut, Indian name of Boston, 208. Ship, great, built at Manhattan, 212, 215, 219, 286. Sicktew-hacky, or Fire Island Bay, 290; ship- wreck at, 632.
Sille, Nicasius de, appointed first counselor of New Netherland, 561 ; superintends expedition for the South River, 603; accompanies Stuyve- sant thither, 604; appointed schout-fiscal in place of Van Tienhoven, 622 ; made city schout, .623 ; continued as, 640 ; succeeded by Tonne- man, 674 ; a proprietary of New Utrecht, 693 ; sent to protect the Dutch villages, 723.
Silver fleet, Spanish, taken by Heyn, 184.
Silver mine supposed to be at Hoboken, 34, note ; in Katskill Mountains, 531.
Sint-Sings, 74; treaty with, 409. Skanektadé, or Albany, 81.
Slavery in New Netherland, 196, 197, 312, 396, 406, 415, 540, 656, 697, 746, 748 ; in New En- gland, Virginia, and Maryland, 272, 362, 429.
Slechtenhorst, Brandt van, appointed commissary of Rensselaerswyck, 420 ; stubbornness of, 491 ; his difficulties with Stuyvesant, 491-494; ac- quires Katskill and Claverack for his patroon, 510 ; explains, 522 ; is arrested and detained at New Amsterdam, 528 ; escapes, 531; sends to explore Katskill Mountains, 531 ; purchases Paanpaack and Panhoosic, 534; is succeeded by John Baptist van Rensselaer, 535.
Slechtenhorst, Gerrit van, his adventures at Kats- kill, 531 ; is assaulted at Beverwyck, 533 ; a dele- gate to General Assembly, 729.
Sleght, Cornelis Barentsen, magistrate of Wilt- wyck, 690.
Sloup Bay, the western entrance of Narragansett, or Nassau Bay, 57; Magaritinne, chief of, 235 ; Miantonomoh, great sachem of, 347.
Sluys, Hans den, purchases the Kievit's Hook for the Dutch, 234.
Slyck, Cornelis Antonissen van, 306 ; obtains pat- ent for Katskill, 421.
Small-pox at Beverwyck, 710.
Smeeman, Hermanus, magistrate of Bergen, 691 ; a delegate to General Assembly, 729.
Smid's, or Smit's Vleye, ships repaired at, 263 ; hand-board for vessels at, 490.
Smit, Ensign Dirck, summons Swedes to sur- render, 604 ; left in command on South River, 606; sent again with re-enforcement, 621; in command of garrison at Esopus, 651 ; his au- thority disregarded, 658; captures Indian Fort Wiltmeet, 675 ; defeats savages at Kit Davit's Kill, 676.
Smith, Richard, an associate with Doughty at Mespath, 333 ; complains of him, 411.
Smith, Captain John, in Virginia, 12, 24; returns to England, 49; in New England, 64, 91 ; his book and map, 92. ~
Smits, Claes (the wheel-wright), murdered at Deu- tel Bay, 316.
Snedekor, Jan, a patentee of Flatbush, 536. Soldiers asked for from Holland, 181 ; first sent to New Netherland, 223. 1
Somers, John, a delegate from Heemstede, 571. Soquatucks, at the head of the Connecticut, 732. South, or Delaware Bay, Hudson at, 26; Argall at, 51, 754; Hendricksen at, 79; May at, 97; called New Port May, 97. -
South River explored by Hendricksen, 79, 757, 758; May at, 97 ; Dutch colonists sent to, 153 ; mode of communication with, 170; colonists removed from, 170, 183 ; lands bought on, 200; Swaanendael established, 206, 207; De Vries at, 219 ; whale-fishery at, 225; Corssen commissary on, 232; Virginian party at, 254 ; Jansen com- missary on, 279 ; Swedes on, 282, 283 ; see Fort Nassau, Fort Christina, New Sweden, Fort Casimir, New Amstel, Altona.
Southampton, treaty of, 161 ; its provisions ex- tended, 182.
Southampton, on Long Island, settlement at, 300 ; annexed to Connecticut, 670 ; Scott at, 671.
Southold, settlement at, 300, 301; John Young chosen deputy from, to Hartford, 703.
Sovereignty in the people of Holland, 452.
Spain, papal donation of New World to, 1 ; revolt of the United Provinces from, 21, 38-42, 101, 438-448, 761 ; recognizes the independence and sovereignty of the Dutch, 40, 42, 435.
Spicer, Michael, a quaker of Gravesend, banished, 706.
Spicer, Samuel, of Gravesend, case of, 689; or- dered to leave the province, 706.
Spicer, Thomas, a delegate from Midwout to Con- vention, 571.
Springfield, John Oldham in neighborhood of, 239; settlement at, by Pynchon, 261, 262 ; commands the Connecticut trade, 428; Mohawks a terror · to savages near, 496.
Spyt den Duyvel, or Papirinemin, 421.
Staats, Abraham, at South River, 530, note ; his house at Claverack destroyed, 733.
Stadt Huys of city of Amsterdam, 457.
Stadt Huys, or City Hall, of New Amsterdam, the City Tavern so called, 549 ; delegates meet at, 569, 571 ; asked for, 575 ; granted, 588; ordered to be repaired, 597.
Stadtholder, powers and duties of, 450 ; William I., Prince of Nassau and Orange, chosen to be, 19, 439, 442 ; Maurice, 39, 160, 446 ; Frederick Henry, 160, 434; William II., 434, 498, 542 ; William III., 446, 450, 542.
Stamford, English settlement at, 294 ; Dutch ex- pedition against Indians near, 390, 391.
Standish, Captain Miles, appointed by New Plym- outh to command forces against the Dutch, 585. Stankekans, or Sankikans, 73, 225, 378, 425, 757. Staple right established at Manhattan, 243 ; claim-
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ed for Rensselaerswyck, 400 ; denied, 401, 510, 521.
State Riglits, doctrine of, in Ilolland and in New England, 362, 455.
Staten Island, called Monacknong, or Eghquaous, 73 ; purchased by Pauw, 203; De Vries enters land on, 265; surrendered by Pauw, 268; De Vries' colonie at, 289, 301; Raritans charged with misconduct at, 309; distillery and buck- skin manufactory on, 313 ; redoubt and flag- staff at, 314; attacked by the savages, 315; mines on, 431 ; colonists sent to, by Van de Ca- pellen, 524 ; Melyn at, 525; Van Dincklagen at, 526; laid waste by the savages, 607, 60S : fresh colonists sent to, 641 ; repurchased by the West India Company, 692 ; Waldenses and Hugue- nots at, 692 ; village at, where Domine Drisius preaches, 692 ; is represented in General As- sembly, 729 ; Huguenots from Rochelle at, 730, 734 ; block-house at, seized by the English, 738. States General, the, its character and functions, 437, 449, 454 ; incorporates the East India Com- pany, 23 ; postpones incorporating a West India Company, 24; proclaims a fast-day, 41; ordi- nance of, for encouragement of discoveries, 60; its palace of the Binnenhof, 61, 111, 449 ; grants New Netherland charter, 63-65, 80, 91 ; refuses application for the Puritans, 125, 126 ; charters the West India Company, 134-137 ; knows little about New Netherland, 142 ; interferes for De Vries, 155 ; makes treaty with Charles I., 161 ; maintains right of the West India Company in New Netherland, 216 ; action of, respecting En- glish complaints in case of the William, 245, 246; respecting the patroons, 247, 248; com- missions Kieft, 274 ; inquires into condition of New Netherland, 285 ; instructs its deputies to arrange the company's difficulties, 311 ; action of, respecting Joachimi's dispatches, 341 ; letter of the Eight Men to, 372; complained to, by the Swedish minister, 355; again appealed to from New Netherland, 397 ; approves Stuyvesant's commission, 432; receives Spanish ambassa- dor, 435; refuscs audience to parliamentary minister, 498 ; suspends Stuyvesant's sentence against Melyn, 503 ; memorial and remonstrance of New Netherland to, 504-507 ; action of, on Vertoogh, 511, 515 ; orders Van Tienhoven and Dam to come to the Hague, 523, 524 ; requires opinion of the company on the provisional or- der, 539; recalls Stuyvesant, 541 ; revokes his recall, 542 ; negotiations of, with England, 542- 544 ; instructs company to defend New Nether- land, 547 ; postpones boundary question, 567 : makes treaty of peace with England, 586 ; ne- gotiates respecting the boundary, 600, 601 ; rati- fies Hartford treaty, 621 ; entertains Charles 11., 684; action of, respecting settlement of bound- ary, 656 ; approves new conditions offered by West India Company, 6SS ; makes a convention
with England, 701 ; confirms and explains char- ter of West India Company, 730 ; addresses let- ters to towns in New Netherland, 730.
Steen, Corporal Hans, sent to Pavonia, 350. Steenhuysen, Engelbert, a delegate to General Assembly at New Amsterdam, 729.
Steenwyck, Burgomaster Cornelis, a delegate from New Amsterdam to General Assembly, 728 : sent with letter to Nicolls, 740 ; a commissioner on the Dutch side, 741, 763.
Stevensen, Coert, a delegate to General Assembly, 729.
Steynmets, Casparus, a magistrate of Bergen, 691. Stillwell, Lieutenant Nicholas, sent to Esopus, 712 ; arrests Christie at Gravesend, 719.
Stirling, Henry, Earl of, petitions Charles II., 701 ; part of his claimed territory included in Con- necticut, 702 ; his claim referred to Plantation Board, 725; releases his title to the Duke of York, 735, 736.
Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, 250, 259, 760 ; Long Island conveyed to, 259 ; gives power of attorney to James Farrett, 297 ; his claims dis- regarded by the Dutch, 298-300; death of, 760. Stirling, Dowager Countess of, her agent Andrew Forrester arrested and banished, 477, 480.
Stoep, or steps, in front of houses, 533.
Stoffelsen, Jacob, of Pavonia, one of the Twelve Men, 317 ; marries widow of Cornelis Van Voorst of Pavonia, 368 ; his house attacked, 368.
Stol, Jacob Jansen, of Esopus, church held at his house, 647 ; attacks the savages, 658.
Stone, Captain, at Manhattan, 237 ; murdered by the Pequods, 242.
Stone wall proposed at New Amsterdam, 694.
Stoughton, Captain, at Saybrook, 272 ; praises the superiority of Connecticut, 293.
Straatmaker, Dirck, killed at Pavonia, 353.
Strangers attracted to New Netherland, 269; obli- gations required from, 291 ; liberality of Dutch toward, 332, 335 ; hotel for, built at Manhattan, 335 ; numbers of, at New Amsterdam, 374, 488, 489, 579, 628, 640, 692, 734, 749.
Stratford, settlement of, 294.
Street, A. B., his poem of Frontenac, 87.
Strickland's Plain, inaccurate accounts of battle on, 391, note.
Strycker, Jan, a delegate from Amersfoort to Con- vention at New Amsterdam, 571 ; to General Assembly, 729.
Stuyvesant, Peter, director at Curaçoa. 395; re- turns to Holland, 413; his early life, 413 ; ap- pointed director of New Netherland, 414 ; his departure delayed, 416; his instructions and commission approved by the States General, 432; sails from the Texel, 432; incidents on his voyage, 433 ; arrives at Manhattan, 433 ; as- sumes the government, 465 ; his haughtiness, 465 ; occurrences at his inauguration, 466 ; or-
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ganizes his council, 466 ; regulates the court of justice and the Church, 467 ; sides with Kieft, 469 ; his severe proceedings against Kuyter and Melyn, 470-472 ; denies the right of appeal, 472 ; organizes board of Nine Men, 474-476 ; arrests Forrester, Lady Stirling's agent, 477; corre- spondence with Winthrop, 478; seizes ship at New Haven, 479 ; justifies his conduct, 480 ; re- taliates, 481; revokes his proclamation,, 482 ; negotiates with Printz, 485; regulates munici- pal affairs at New Amsterdam, 487-490; en- deavors to repress contraband trade, 490 ; visits Fort Orange, 491 ; his difficulties with Slechten- horst, 491-494 ; called "Wooden Leg" by the Mohawks, 493; asks for another clergyman from Holland, 494; his correspondence with New England, 496 ; explanation of the Dutch claims, 497 ; proposes a conference with the commis- sioners and with Eaton, 499-500 ; opposes the Nine Men, 501 ; calls a great council, and op- presses Van der Donck, 502 ; action in Melyn's case, 503 ; in affair of Vastrick, 503 ; his " Bouw- ery," 504 ; forbids Domine Backerus to read pa- pers from the pulpit, 504; asks for a school- master, 508; sends Van Tienhoven to represent him in Holland, 509 ; disregards the " Provision- al Order," 517 ; deprives the Nine Men of their pew in the church, 518 ; goes to Hartford and negotiates a treaty, 519, 520 ; omits to send pa- pers to Holland, 520 ; prohibits settlements at Katskill under patroon, 522 ; his body-guard, 525 ; arrests Van Dincklagen, 526; defeats an- other expedition to the South River from New Haven, 527; arrests Van Slechtenhorst, 528; visits South River, 528 ; buys more territory, 529 ; demolishes Fort Nassau and builds Fort Casimir, 529 ; appoints Dyckman vice-director at Fort Orange, 530 ; revisits Fort Orange, and annexes Beverwyck to its jurisdiction, 535 ; de- clares void sales at Katskill and elsewhere, 536; grants patents for Middelburgh or Newtown, and Midwout or Flatbush, 536; postpones half the public payments, 539; recalled by the States General, 541 ; his recall revoked, 542 ; organizes municipal government of New Amsterdam, 548 ; writes to New England and Virginia, 549 ; de- nies charges of the New England commission- ers, 551 ; his overtures to the New England agents, 553 ; answers the New England decla- ration, 554 ; his declarations about employing Indians, 555; banishes Underhill, 556; sends agents to Virginia, 559 ; disagreement with bur- gomasters of New Amsterdam, 560 ; sends Dom- ine Drisius to Virginia, 561 ; blockades Onke- way, or Fairfield, 565; makes concessions to New Amsterdam, 567, 568 ; conduct toward delegates at New Amsterdam, 569 ; calls Landt- dag, or Convention, 570 ; his answer to its re- monstrance, 573, 574 ; orders it to disperse, 575 ; receives overtures from the Swedes, 576 ; gives
a letter to Printz on his return, 577 ;- appoints new city officers, 578; takes measures against pirates, 579 ; incorporates Dutch villages on Long Island, 580 ; encourages a church at Mid- "wout, 581 ; his illiberal treatment of the Luther- ans, 581 ; precautions against the English, 584 ; proclaims thanksgiving for peace, 587 ; reproved by the company, 587 ; offers to make Cortelyou city schout, 588 ; regulates ferry at New Am- sterdam, 589 ; difficulties with municipal au- thorities, 589; resumes excise, 590; at Fort Orange, 590, 591; reports the capture of Fort Casimir, 594; seizes Swedish ship, 595; pro- tests against English intruders at West Chester and Oyster Bay, 595; visits Gravesend, 596 ; sails for the West Indies, 597 ; returns to New Amsterdam, 603 ; commands expedition against South River, 604 ; captures Fort Casimir and Fort Christina, 604, 605; establishes the Dutch power on the South River, 606 ; returns to New Amsterdam and takes measures for its defense, 608 ; ransoms prisoners, 608 ; organizes govern- ment on South River, 609 ; proposes an increase of taxes, 610 ; prohibits New Year and May-day sports, 611 ; proclamation to form villages, 613; appoints new schepens, 613 ; his proclamation against conventicles, 617 ; rebuked by the com- pany, 618 ; reduces the English at West Ches- ter, 619 ; incorporates Oost-dorp and Rustdorp, 619 ; secures Swedish vessel on South River, 620, 621; appoints De Sille city schout, 623 ; fines Van Rensselaer, 624 ; correspondence of, with commissioners, 625 ; enforces ordinance against conventicles, 626; regulates affairs at Oost-dorp, 627; establishes great and small burgherships at New Amsterdam, 628, 629; transfers Fort Casimir to Alrichs, 632 ; appoints Hudde commandant at Altona, 633 ; sends Crom- well's letter to West India Company, 634; or- ders Goetwater back to Holland, 635; his se- verity toward Hodgson, 636; issues proclama- tion against Quakers, 637 ; punishes Flushing magistrates, 638 ; proclaims fast-day on account of Quakers, 639 ; allows nomination of magis- trates to New Amsterdam, 640 ; purchases Ber- gen, 642 ; refuses to send Quakers to New En- gland, 643 ; negotiates with French in Canada, 645, 646 ; visits Esopus, 647; conference with the savages, 648 ; lays out village at Esopus, 649 ; establishes garrison at, 650; revisits the South River, 651 ; appoints Beeckman vice-di- . rector on the Southi River, 652 ; refuses Massa- chusetts permission to navigate the North River. 655 ; proposes a Dutch settlement at the Wap- pinger's Kill. 655; revisits Esopus, 660; asks re-enforcements from Holland, 661 ; complains of Alrichs' conduct, 663 ; sends re-enforcements to the South River, 665 ; reports its situation, 669, 670 ; again refuses to allow Massachusetts people to navigate the North River, 672 ; replies
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to Massachusetts' claim, 673 ; warns West In- dia Company against New England, 673, 674 ; requires Indian children to be educated, 675 ; declares war against the Esopus savages, 676 ; sends Indian prisoners to the West Indies, 676 ; refuses to organize court at Esopus, 677 ; op- poses employment of the Mohawks, 677 ; makes treaty at Esopus, 688 ; confers with the Senecas at Fort Orange, 679, 680 ; contributes 10 church at his bouwery, 681 ; urges the Mohawks to be at peace with the English savages, 682 ; nego- tiates a treaty with Virginia, 683 ; correspond- ence with Governor Berkeley, 684 ; revives per- secution against Quakers, 689 ; incorporates Wiltwyck, and installs Swartwout, 690 ; incor-
- porates Bergen, 691 ; New Utrecht and Bos- wyck, 693 ; is asked to deliver up regicides, 695 ; offers of, to Puritan colonists, 696 ; his dispatch to Holland about Maryland, 697 ; about Gov- ernor Berkeley, 702 ; his letter to Connecticut, 703; goes with Breedon to Fort Orange, and negotiates with the Mohawks, 704 ; arrests and banishes John Bowne, 706 ; is rebuked by the West India Company, 707 ; further concessions of, to Puritan colonists, 708 ; forbids West Ches- ter to obey Connecticut, 709 ; sends re-enforce- ments to Esopus, 711, 712; surrenders the South River to Hinoyossa, 717 ; negotiates with com- missioners at Boston, 718 ; sends commission- ers to Ilartford, 720; security required for his bill on the company, 720 ; summons a Conven- tion at New Amsterdam, 722; his dispatch to the company, 723; surrenders West Chester and Long Island towns, 724 ; purchases Neve- sinck lands, 724; makes conditional arrange- ment with Scott, 727 ; ratifies it, 728 ; calls Gen- eral Provincial Assembly, 728 ; propositions of, to, 729 ; makes treaty with Esopus savages, 731 ; reinstates Swartwout, and appoints Beeckinan commissary at Esopus, 731, 732 ; his action re- specting Schaenheclistede, 732 ; his interview with Winthrop on Long Island, 733, 734 ; hope- ful about New Netherland, 734 ; is warned of designs of the English, 736; deceived by dis- patch of West India Company, 737 ; visits Fort Orange, 737 ; hurries back to New Amsterdam, 737 ; sends message to Nicolls, 738 ; endeavors to withhold summons to surrender from the people, 739 ; tears Nicolls' letter, 739 ; last dis- patch to Amsterdam, 740 ; appoints comnussion- ers to agree to articles, 741 ; surrenders, 742. Stuyvesant, Balthazar, urges surrender of New Netherland, 741.
Survey and population of New Amsterdamn, 623 ; second survey and map of, 674.
Swaanendael, colony planted at, 206 ; destroyed by the savages, 219-221 ; deserted by the Dutch, 228 ; surrendered to West India Company, 249. Swannekens, Dutch so called by the Indians, 315, 347. 352, 358, 360.
Swart, Gerrit, schout of Rensselaerswyek, 535. Swartwout, Roelof, commissioned as schont of Esopus, 677 ; Installed in office, 690 ; courageous behavior of, 711 ; discharged from office, 714 : reinstated, 731.
Swartwout, Thomas, a delegate from Amersfoort to Convention at New Amsterdam, 571.
Swedish West India Company, 280 ; colony estab- lished on the South River, 281-284 ; ship seized in Holland, 284 ; progress of colony on Souili River, 319-321 ; colonists assist the Dutch against the English, 338, 382-381 ; ships arrest- ed in Ilolland, 385 ; officers on South River in- sult the Dutch, 424-428 ; oppose them further. 482-487, 510, 511 ; visited by Stuyvesant, 528- 530 ; new arrangements for, 577 ; officers, hos- tile proceedings of, 593, 594 ; ship seized at Man- hattan, 594 ; orders of company for reduction of, 601 ; expedition against, 603, 604 ; reduction of, under the Dutch, 605, 606; ship Mercury ar- rested, 620; Dutch title maintained against. 621, 622 ; residents not to be appointed to office, 663 ; residents able to bear arms, number of. 675 ; arguments of English with, 744; see New Sweden, New Amstel, Altona.
Sweringen, Gerrit van, supercargo of New Ain- stel expedition, 632 ; blames Alrichs, 670; at Amsterdam, 697 ; shoots a soldier and is pro- tected by Hinoyossa, 699 ; renews treaty with the savages, 717.
Synod of Dordrecht, 109, 110, 117, 342, 609, 617. Synods and classes in Holland, 104, note, 118, 614.
Tachkanic, or Taconick, Mountains, 75; Dutch soldiers murdered near the, 657.
Tack, Arent Pietersen, of Wiltwyck, 714.
Talcott, Captain John, enforces submission of West Chester 10 Connecticut, 709; opposes Stuyvesant at Boston, 716; on Long Island, 719; confers with Dutch agents at Hartford. 720, 721 ; commissioners of Connecticut on Long Island, 726.
Taipalockin, vale of, 89.
Tankitekes, or Ilaverstraws, 315, 318, 364, 392. Tappan, derivation of name, 74, note, 757 ; De Vries at, 301, 307 ; savages at, refuse to pay tribute, 310, 311 ; De Vries' plantation at, 313 : savages attacked by the Mohawks, 349 ; massa- cred at Pavonia, 352 ; attack the Dutch, 355. 368 ; peace with, 409 ; further treaties with. 675, 731 ; stone procured froin, for wall at New Am- sterdam, 694.
Tawasentha, post at, 81 ; treaty of, 88.
Taxation only by consent, the principle in Holland, 192, 436, 437, 440, 442 ; heavy, in Holland, 458. 462 ; action respecting, in New Netherland, 473- 476, 505, 550, 572, 575, 727 ; views of the West India Company, 588, 602, 746.
Temple, Colonel, complains of the Mohawks. 732
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Temple, Sir William, on the Dutch, 455, 461, 462. | Timmer Kill, or Timber Creek, Fort Nassau built Tenkenas Island, 267. on, 157, 758.
Terneur, Daniel, a magistrate of New Haerlem, 675; delegate to General Assembly, 729. Teunissen, Cornelis, 244.
Teunissen, Gerrit, 244.
Teunissen, Gysbert, a delegate to General Assem- bly, 729.
Teunissen, Jan, first schout of Breuckelen, 422. Texel, Vlieland, and Zuyder Zee, named by the Dutch, 58, 141, 756.
Thanksgiving and fast-days in the Netherlands, 41, 443, 747 ; in New Netherland, 41, note, 356, 391, 409, 491, 587, 605, 639, 731, 747.
Tharonhyjagon, the god of the Iroquois, 83. The Hague, origin of its name, 61.
The Kills, or Kill van Cul, 27, 28, 313, note. The Reformed, first so called in Holland, 100.
Thomas, Captain Jelmer, accompanies Stuyve- sant, 432.
Throgmorton, John, at Throg's Neck, 333 ; settle- ment called Vredeland, 334 ; his settlement de- stroyed by the savages, 366.
Thurloe, Secretary, 583 ; his collection of papers, 586 ; negotiates with Nieuport, 601.
Tienhoven, Adriaen van, clerk of court on South River, 486 ; informs Stuyvesant of conduct of Swedes, 487 ; appointed receiver general, 532 ; at surrender of Fort Casimir, 593 ; dismissed from the public service, 622 ; leaves New Neth- erland, 623.
Tienhoven, Cornelis van, book-keeper at Fort Am- sterdam, 223; made provincial secretary and schout-fiscal, 275; purchases lands in West Chester, 296 ; breaks up settlement at Schout's Bay, 299; leads expedition against the Rari- tans, 310 ; makes the treaty at the Bronx River, 330 ; urges Kieft to attack the savages, 349 ; sent to reconnoitre at Pavonia, 350 ; retained as pro- vincial secretary by Stuyvesant, 466; visits New Haven and discovers a Dutch vessel there. 478, 479 ; sent to Holland as Stuyvesant's rep- resentative, 509; at the Hague, 511, 512 ; pre- pares papers about New Netherland affairs, 513 ; prepares reply to the Vertoogh, 523 ; son- in-law of Dam, 524; returns to New Nether- land, 524 ; appointed schout-fiscal in place of Van Dyck, 532 ; charged with plotting, by Un- derhill, 556; sent to negotiate with Virginia, 559 ; sent to New Haven, 579; continued as city schout, 588; sent to warn intruders at West Chester, 595 ; at Gravesend, 597 ; super- intends South River expedition, 603; in favor of a war against the savages, 610 ; sent to West Chester, 618 ; dismissed from the public service, 622 ; leaves New Netherland, 623.
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