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Tilje, Jan, magistrate of Boswyck, 693.
Tilton, John, town clerk of Gravesend, 596 ; per- secuted as a Quaker, 638, 689 ; ordered to leave the province, 706.
Tinicum, Fort New Gottenburg built on, 379.
Title, Dutch and English, to New Netherland, 35, 96, 129, 141, 143 ; Dutch urged to clear their, 180 ; to Connecticut, 211 ; questioned and defended, 214-217, 239, 240 ; see West India Company.
Tobacco subjected to excise, 277; Virginian im- provements in cultivating, 290 ; inspectors of, 292; export duty taken off, 540; trade in, 697, 715, 735.
Toleration in Holland, 101-103, 458, 459, 707; in New Netherland, 335, 374, 582, 614, 707, 749. Tomasse, Jan, magistrate of New Utrecht, 693. Tonneman, Pieter, schout of Breuckelen, 580 ; summons Non-conformists, 639 ; accompanies Stuyvesant to South River, 651; appointed schout of New Amsterdam, 674 ; succeeded by Hegeman, 693.
Torkillus, Reorus, first Lutheran clergyman on the South River, 281 ; death of, 379, note.
Totems, or symbols, of the Iroquois, 84, 85. Towns, rise of Dutch, 192, 437, 448, 453 ; in New Netherland, 312, 332, 388, 415, 540, 571, 722, 729 ; combination of, on Long Island, 726.
Townsend, Henry, of Rustdorp, proceedings against, 637, 638, 689.
Townsend, John, of Rustdorp, case of, 637, 689. Tracy, Marquis de, viceroy of Canada, 705.
Trade, freedom of, in Holland, 98, 415, 456, 458, 543 ; restrained in New Netherland, 135, 155, 196, 197 ; regulated, 277 ; made more free, 288 ; consequences, 289, 307, 308; again regulated, 293, 312, 377, 400, 406, 415, 416, 466, 489, 495 ; freedom of, demanded, 505, 507 ; concessions respecting, 540; to make Manhattan flourish, 547; confined to residents, 628, 629; opened with Canada, 646 ; foreign, 415, 656; with Vir- ginia, 684 ; with Maryland, 697 ; on South Riv- er, 715 ; in tobacco, 735 ; see Commerce.
Traders, itinerant, at New Amsterdam, 489 ; reg- ulated, 628.
Traitors not found in Holland, 464.
Treaty of the Tawasentha, 81, 88 ; at Fort Orange, 152; of Southampton, 161 ; at Manhattan, 164 ; at Swaanendael, 221 ; at Fort Amsterdam, 359; at Fort Orange, 408; general, at Fort Amster- dam, 409 ; of Westphalia, 435 ; at Hartford, 519, 520, 539; on South River, 529; of the Dutch with Cromwell, 586 ; at New Amsterdam, 675; at Esopus, 678; with Virginia, 683, 684 ; of the Dutch with Charles II., 701 ; at Fort Amster- dam, 731 ; at Fort Albany, 744.
Tribunals, or courts of justice, in New Nether- land, 135, 154, 163, 195, 197, 276, 288, 304, 312, 327, 405, 414, 467, 599 ; see Council, Patroons. Tribute, attempted exaction of, from River In- dians, 309 ; payment of refused, 310, 350.
Trinity Church, first rector of, in New York, 119. note : estate of, 266.
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Tromp, Admiral Marten Harpertsen, 545 ; vul- gar error in calling him Van Tromp, 545, note ; sweeps the channel clear of English ships, 546. Troy, or Paanpaack, purchase of, 534. Turkeys, large wild, 226, 303.
Turtle Bay, 292 ; see Deutel Bay.
Tuscaroras, 83, 84.
Tweenhuysen, Lambrecht van, 46, 47, 59, 65.
Twelve Men chosen, 317 ; oppose a war, 318, 319; assent to hostillties, 325 ; demand reforms, 326- 329 ; are dissolved by Kieft, 329.
Twiller, Wouter van, appointed director general, 222 ; arrives at Manhattan, 223 ; character of his administration, 224, 225 ; conduct respect- ing English ship William, 229, 230; toward De Vries, 231; replies to Winthrop, 240 ; under- takes costly works, 243, 244 ; reprimanded by Domine Bogardus, 245; attempts to dislodge English from the Kievit's Hook, 261 ; visits Pa- vonia, 263 ; Irregularities in his government, 265 ; sends Van Dincklagen back to Holland, 266 ; purchases lands, 265, 267; rescues two Wethersfield prisoners, 271 ; complained of in Holland, 273; superseded by the appointment of Kieft, 274 ; his large estate, 276 ; an executor of Kilian van Rensselaer, 420 ; sides with Melyn and Van der Donck in Holland, 512 ; disliked by the West India Company, 521.
Uncas, chief of the Mahlcans, assists the English, 271 ; accuses Miantonomoh, 330; puts him to death, 364 ; spreads reports against Stuyve- sant, 550.
Underhill, Captain John, sent to Saybrook, 270 ; attacks the Pequod village, 271, 272 ; proposes to settle in New Netherland, 291 ; at Stamford, 366; taken into the service of the Dutch, 366 ; sent to ask assistance from New Haven, 370 ; Patrick murdered at his house at Stamford, 387 ; is sent to Heemstede, 389 ; commands expedi- tion against Indians ncar Stamford, 390, 391 ; arranges a peace, 392, 397 ; his seditious con- duct on Long Island, 552, 555; is banished, 556 ; commissioned by Rhode Island, 557 ; seizes Fort Good Hope, 558 ; at Sctauket, on Long Island, 671 ; a commissioner at Heemstede, 728.
Union of Utrecht, the, 19, 38, 132, 362, 445, 750. United Colonies of New England, commissioners of the, 361, 362 ; Kieft's correspondence with, 362, 363 ; meet at New Haven, 429; claim In- dlan captives as slaves, 429; reply to Kieft's protest, 430 ; complain of high dutles at Man- hattan, 478; correspondence of, with Stuyve- sant, 496, 497 ; forbid foreigners to trade with New England savages, 500, 501 ; Stuyvesant's interview with, 518 ; treaty with the Dutch ne- gotiated at Hartford, 519, 520 ; protest against Stuyvesant's hostility to New Haven adven- turers, 530; suspicious of his plotting with the savages against them, 550; their declaration of
complaints against the Dutch, 551 ; send agents to New Amsterdam, 551-554 ; at varlance with Massachusetts, 557, 558; decline to aid the French in Canada, 564 ; express sympathy for the Dutch, 608 ; correspondence with Stuyve- sant, 625 ; support claim of Massachusetts, 671 ; Stuyvesant's answer, 673 ; measures of, against the Moliawks, 704 ; negotiate with Stuyvesant at Boston, 718, 719.
Upland, the Swedes at, 483.
Usselincx, William, proposes Dutch West Indla Company, 21, 23, 134 ; plans Swedish West In- dia Company, 280.
Utic, Colonel Nathaniel, agent of Maryland at the South River, 664 ; his conduct toward the Dutch officers, 665; reproved by Heermans, 667 ; his conduct justified by Maryland, 669.
Valentine and Orson, 46, 66.
Valentine's Manual of the Corporation, 761.
Varcken's Kill, or Salem, in New Jersey, English settlement at, 322 ; broken up, 338 ; Fort Elsing- burg built near, 380.
Varlett, Judith, case of, at Hartford, 703, note.
Varlett, Nicholas, goes to Virginia and negotiates a treaty, 683 ; at Hartford, 703 ; a commissioner on the Dutch side, 741, 763.
Vastrick, Gerrit, case of, 503, 504.
Verazzano at New York harbor, 2, 16, 35 ; at Block Island, 57, note.
Verbeck, Jan, a delegate to General Assembly, 729. Verdrietig Hook, 29, 74.
Verhulst, William, succeeds May as director, 159 ; succeeded by Peter Minuit, 162.
Verhulsten Island, near the falls of the South Riv- er, 159 ; colonists at, 160; deserted, 170, 183.
Verplanck, or Planck, Abram, buys land at Pa- vonia, 279; one of the Twelve Men, 317 ; see Planck.
Vertoogh, or Rcmonstrance, of New Netherland, 506, 507 ; presented to the States General, 511 ; printed and circulated in Ilolland, 512.
Verveeler, Johannes, a delegate to General As- sembly, 729.
Vestens, Willlam, Siccken-trooster and school- master at Manhattan, 516.
Virginla named, 5 ; colonization of, attempted by Raleigh, 6 ; new charter for, 11; the " Old Dominion" of the United States, 12; Jamestown founded In, 12 ; second charter for, 15 ; proposi- tion of the Dutch to join in colony of, 44, 45 : progress of, 49-53 ; visited by Dermer, 93 ; by May, 97 ; patent for the Puritans to settle in, 122, 128, 129; English title to, admitted by the Dutch, 143, 215; Walloons desire to go to, 147 ; De Vries at, 226 ; Governor Harvey's friendly bearing, 227 ; ship from, at Manhattan, 237 : explorations by authority of, 249, 250; jealous of Maryland, 253 ; party from, at Fort Nassau, 254 ; dislodged and sent back, 255 ; scarcity in,
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269 ; Harvey returns to, 279; Minuit at, 282 ; emigrants from, to New Netherland, 290, 292 ; English in, considered Egyptians by the Hart- ford people, 295; fugitives from, 335; inter- course with, 335; De Vries in, 381; Plowden at, 382 ; Dutch commerce with, 415, 466, 479 ; Cromwell not favored in, 499; the Dutch pro- pose free trade with, 544; trade of Manhattan with, to be encouraged, 547; Stuyvesant pro- poses commercial friendship with, 549 ; Dutch send agents to negotiate with, 559; Domine Drisius sent to, 561 ; Doughty goes from Flush- ing to, 615, 666 ; apprehended intrusion of, at Cape Hinlopen, 651 ; letters from, to Swedes on South River, 663 ; Heermans in, 669, 683 ; pro- posed enlistment of soldiers for the Dutch in, 675; treaty of commerce with, 683, 684; chil- dren sent from, to Latin school at New Amster- dam, 694; Berkeley agent of, in England, 701, 702 ; Navigation Law evaded in, 724; threat- ening attitude of, 734; ordered to enforce Navi- gation Law, 735.
Visscher, Schipper, ordered to be ready for de- fense of New Amsterdam, 549.
Visscher's Hook, or Montauk Point, 54 ; Block at, 57, 756.
Vleeck, Tielman van, magistrate of Bergen, 691. Vlie-boat, or Fly-boat, origin of name of, 25, note. Vlissingen, patent for, 410; see Flushing.
Volckertsen, Captain Thys, 46.
Voorst, Cornelis van, Pauw's commander at Pa- vonia, 263, 317, note, 368.
Voorst, Gerrit Jansen van, murdered at Hackin- sack, 347, 348, 350.
Voyages of David Pietersen de Vries, 156, 381.
Vries, David Pietersen de, his ship arrested at Hoorn, 155 ; becomes a patroon, 205; sails to Swaanendael, 219; makes peace with the sav- ages, 221; visits Fort Nassau, 225; goes to Virginia, 226 ; his pleasant interview with Gov- ernor Harvey, 227 ; arrives at Manhattan, 228 ; his advice to Van Twiller, 230 ; returns to Hol- land, 237, 247 ; revisits Manhattan and Virginia, 255; repairs his ship at the Smid's Vleye, 263 ; arranges for colonie on Staten Island, and sails for Holland, 265 ; returns with colonists to New Netherland, 289; visits Connecticut, 294; his plantations on Staten Island and Manhattan, 301 ; buys at Tappan, 301; at Esopus and Cas- tle Island, 302-306 ; his opinion of the North River, 307; his plantation on Staten Island plundered and destroyed, 309, 315; establishes colonie at Vriesendael, 313 ; chosen one of the Twelve Men, 317 ; opposes hostilities, 318; pro- poses the building of a new church, 335; visits Hackinsack, 347 ; visits Kieft at Fort Amster- dam, 348, 349 ; warns Kieft against attacking the savages, 351 ; spends night of anxiety at Fort Amsterdam, 352 ; besieged at Vriesendael, 355 ; interview with Indians at Rockaway, 358;
procures release of son of Van Voorst, 368 ; his parting prophesy to Kieft, 371; on the South River, 380 ; returns to Holland, 381 ; publishes his voyages, 156, 381, note.
Vriesendael, De Vries' colonie at, 313 ; its distance from Hackinsack, 347 ; savages seek refuge at, 349 ; besieged by the savages, 355 ; visited by friendly sachem, 360 ; abandoned by De Vries, 370.
Vroedschap in Holland, 453.
Waal-bogt, Walloons settled at, 153, 154 ; first child born at, 268 ; Domine Selyns at, 681. Waerkimin's-Connie, court at, 642.
Wahamanessing, or Wappinger's Kill, 75. Waldenses at Amsterdam, 629, 631, 715 ; emigra- tion of, to New Netherland, 632, 692, 749.
Waldron, Resolved, under schout of New Amster- . dam, sent on embassy to Maryland, 666-669 ; sent to Rustdorp, 689 ; at West Chester, 709. Walker, Zachariah, preacher at Jamaica, 724.
Wall Street, fence built on site of, 392, 549, 741. Walloons in Holland, 146 ; desire to go to Virginia, 147; favored by the States, 148; emigrate to New Netherland, 150; at the Waal-bogt, 153, 154, 749 ; on South River, 160, 170, 182.
Walvis, ship, at South River, 205-207; island, near the Cohooes, 420, note.
Wampum, 172; Sunday contributions made in, 314 ; see Sewan.
Wantenaar, Albert Cornelis, a delegate to Gen- eral Assembly, 729.
Wappang-zewan presents lands on South River to the Dutch, 529.
Wappingers, tribe of, 74; attack the Dutch, 364 ; among the Stamford Indians, 391 ; peace with, 409; settlements among, proposed, 655, 672 ; mediate for the Esopus savages, 675, 678 ; friend- ly to the Dutch, 713; tampered with by Con- necticut people, 731.
Wappinger's Kill, or Wahamanessing, 74, 75 ; proposed Dutch settlement at, 655 ; approved by the company, 672, 681.
War, end of Kieft's Indian, 407 ; see Esopus. Waranowankongs, 75, 757.
Washburn, William, a delegate from Heemstede, 571.
Wassenaar, Historische Verhael, 46, 157.
Waters, Anthony, of Heemstede, proceedings of, 723.
Waugh, Dorothy, imprisoned for preaching in streets at New Amsterdam, 636.
Wayandanck, sachem of Montauk, 670, 671.
Weckquaesgeeks, tribe of, 74; murder of one of, at the Kolck, 166 ; Kieft purchases lands of, 296 ; De Vries at country of, 301; masts procured from, 302; one of, murders Claes Smits, 316; refuse to surrender murderer, 316 ; expedition against, proposed, 318, 319 ; authorized, 325 , dispatched, 329 ; treaty with, 330; Mohawks
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demand tribute from, 349 ; attacked at Corlaer's Hook, 352 ; lay waste West Chester, 366, 367 ; ex- pedition against, 387 ; prisoners at Fort Ainster- danı, 389 ; peace with, 392, 409 ; Van der Donck purchases land from, 421 ; English buy land from, 595, 598; again provoked, 606; Dutch prisoners among, 610 ; treaty with, 675.
Weeks, Francis, of Heemstede, case of, 639. Weights and measures of Ansterdam required to be used in New Netherland, 406, 412, 489.
Welius, Domine Everardus, at New Amstel, 633 ; death of, 670.
Werckhoven, Cornelis van, his purchases on Long Island and in New Jersey, 537 ; signs let- ter to New England agents, 553 ; a delegate at New Amsterdam, 569; death of, 537, 693 ; see New Utrecht.
Werk-baas, meaning of the phrase, 261, note.
West Chester, English settle at, 595 ; protest of the Dutch against, 598; Puritan Independents at, 616 ; Dutch expedition against, 618; Oost- dorp incorporated, 619 ; affairs at, 626, 627 ; de- clared to be annexed to Connecticut, 703; au- thority of Connecticut enforced, 709; negotia- tions at Boston respecting, 718 ; at Hartford, 721 ; act of Connecticut respecting, 722 ; sur- rendered by Stuyvesant, 723, 724; letter of States General to, 730, 733 ; spies sent to obtain intelligence at, 737; see Weckquaesgeeks.
West India Company, Dutch, proposed, 24, 97, 125; chartered by the States General, 134; its powers and duties, 135-137; organization of, 148; assigns New Netherland to care of Am- sterdam Chamber, 148 ; takes possession of New Netherland, 149; arrests De Vries' ship at Hoorn, 155; its conquests, 185 ; its charter for patroons, 187, 194-199; jealousies among .its directors, 203; at variance with the patroons, 213; defends Its title to New Netherland, 215 ; its policy respecting New Netherland, 223, 224 ; answer of, In the case of the ship William, 246; to the " claim and demand" of the patroons, 248 ; declines to surrender New Netherland to the States General, 285 ; its unsuccessful manage- ment, 286 ; proclaims a freer trade, 288 ; its new charter for patroons, 311, 312 ; establishes the Reformed Dutch Church in New Netherland, 312; Hugh Peters commissioned to negotiate with, 323 ; asserts right to approve calls of min- isters, 342, 343 ; letter of the Eight Men to, 371- 373 ; seizes Swedish ships from the South Riv- er, 385 ; Kieft draws a bill on, 387 ; bankruptcy of, 393 ; memorial of Eight Men to, 397-400; asks assistance from the States General, 403 ; considers measures for the rellef of New Neth- erland, 404-406 ; commissions new officers, 414- 416, 432 ; willing to promote education, 476 ; or- ders criminals to be punished in New Nether- land, 478 ; allows ammunition to savages, 503 ; reproves Stuyvesant's indiscretion, 504 ; letter
froin Gravesend to, 509; avoided by Van der Douck, 511 ; letter of, to Stuyvesant, 512; en- courages eniigration 513 ; Anısterdam Chamber opposes provisional order, 515, 516 ; another let- ter from Gravesend to, 518 ; rebukes pretensions of patroons of Rensselaerswyck, 521, 522; de- clares the North River to be free, 522 ; instruc- tions of, about South River, 528 ; disapproves of Stuyvesant's conduct there, 538, 539; its ac- tion on the provisional order, 539, 540 ; recom- mendations of, to States General, 546 ; instruc- tions of, to Stuyvesant, 546, 547 ; action respect- ing Van der Donck's application to see records, 560, 561 ; answers complaints of patroons, 562, 563 ; proposes a trading-house above Fort Or- ange, 563 ; sends an English libel to Stuyvesant, 566 ; applies to States General to arrange the boundary, 567 ; conduct of, toward the Luther- ans, 582 ; instructions of, 587 ; orders Stuyve- sant to avoid employing foreigners, 600; sub- mits boundary papers to States General, 600 ; orders the recovery of Fort Casimir, 601 ; di- rects taxation to be enforced, 602 ; rebukes Stuy- vesant's bigotry, 617, 618 ; procures ratification of Hartford treaty by the States General, 621; orders fort to be built at Oyster Bay, 622 ; ap- proves South River expedition, 622 ; dismisses Van Tienhoven, 622; losses of, in Brazil and Guinea, 629 ; conveys territory on South River to city of Amsterdam, 630-632 ; enjoins religious moderation, 642, 643 ; instructs Stuyvesant to be on his guard against the Jesuits, 644 ; orders redoubt to be built at Esopus, 647 ; instructs Stuyvesant respecting the South River, 652 ; grants a foreign trade to New Netherland, and sends a Latin schoolmaster, 656 ; enjoins more liberality in religion, 656 ; instructs Stuyvesant not to employ Swedes, 663 ; declines to take back New Amstel, 670 ; approves of a settlement on Wappinger's Kill, and orders Stuyvesant to oppose English intruders, 672 ; appoints Tonne- man schout of New Amsterdam, 674; orders Stuyvesant to erect a court at Esopus, 677 ; to oppose encroachiments of Maryland, 682 ; ap- proves free trade with Virginia, 684; answer of, to Lord Baltimore's claims, 665 ; memorial of, to the States General, 685, 686 ; new condi- tions offered by, 688; rebukes Stuyvesant's big- otry and enjoins toleration, 707 ; concessions of, to Puritans proposing to settle on the Rarı- tan, 707, 708 ; cedes the whole South River to the city of Amsterdam, 714, instructs Stuyve- sant on the subject, 716; suspicious of Win- throp, 718; security required for Stuyvesant's bill on, 720; charter of, denied by Connecticut, 721 ; remonstrance of Convention and Stuyve- sant's dispatch to, 723; held responsible for disorders on Long Island, 728 ; expenditure of, for New Netherland, 729 ; charter of, explained by the States General, 730 ; instructions of, to
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Stuyvesant, 730 ; desires a cession of Mohawk lands, 732 ; last dispatch of, to Stuyvesant, 737 ; last dispatch of Stuyvesant to, 740; general scope of its policy, 746.
Westerhouse, case of, 479, 480, 496, 500, 519.
Westphalia, general treaty of, 435 ; proclaimed in New Netherland, 517.
Wethersfield, settlement at, 257; attacked by Pe- .
quods, 270 ; captives from, rescued by the Dutch, 271.
Wethouders in Holland, 453.
Weymouth, George, at the Sagadahoc, 9.
Whale-fishery at Swaanendael, 205, 207, 225, 228.
Whales up the North River, 420, note.
Wheeler, Thomas, opposes Dutch at West Ches- ter, 618; submits, and is made magistrate, 619. Whiting, William, sent from Hartford to Manhat- tan, 339; his enmity to the Dutch, 431, note.
Whiteneywen, sachem of the Mockgonecocks, 407, 408.
Wickendam, William, persecuted at Flushing, 626. Wiehackan, purchase near, by Stuyvesant, 642 ; see Bergen.
" Wilhelmus van Nassauwen," origin of the Dutch national song, 442, note.
Wilkins, William, commissary of Gravesend, 596. Willett, Captain Thomas, appointed an arbitrator at Hartford, 519 ; purchases a confiscated ship at Manhattan, 525 ; appointed by New Plym- outh to act against the Dutch, 585; warns Stuyvesant of English expedition, 736 ; retracts, 737 ; accompanies Cartwright to Fort Orange, 743 ; at treaty with the Iroquois, 744.
William I., Prince of Orange, 19, 101, 185, 440, 442-446 ; William II., 434, 498, 542 ; William III., 446, 543.
William, English ship, at Manhattan, 229-231, 245, 246.
Williams, Jean, elder of church at New Amstel, 633.
Williams, Roger, exiled from Massachusetts, 331 ; founds Rhode Island, 332 ; sails from Manhat- tan, 354, 355, 359.
Willys, Samuel, a commissioner on the English side, 742, 763.
Wilmerdonck, Abraham, of Amsterdam, visits New Netherland, 730 ; assists at Indian treaty,
731 ; urges surrender of New Netherland, 741. Wiltmeet, Indian fort of, 675.
Wiltwyck, charter of, 690 ; Roelof Swartwout in- stalled as schout of, 690 ; new village at, 710; attacked by the savages, 711 ; re-enforcements sent to, 712 ; palisaded anew, 714 ; is represent- ed'in General Assembly, 729 ; Swartwout rein- stated as schout at, 731 ; soldiers ordered from, 738.
Windsor, New Plymouth settlement at, 241, 242, 257,260.
Winslow, Edward, sent to visit Dutch at Narra-
gansett Bay, 171 ; visits Connecticut, 210, 233 ; at Boston, 238 ; imprisoned in London, 257, 258 ; again in London, 530.
Winterberg, Dutch name for the Green Mount ains, 733.
Winthrop, John, a patentee of Massachusetts, 188, 189; founds Boston, 208 ; visited by a Connec- ticut sachem, 210, 233 ; by Winslow and Brad- ford, 238; writes to Van Twiller and claims Connecticut for the English, 239; reply of Van Twiller to, 240; Stoughton's letter to, about Connecticut, 293 ; authorizes Peters to negotiate with West India Company, 323, 324 ; president of the New England Commissioners, 362 ; cor- respondence with Kieft, 363 ; with Stuyvesant, 478; his "Indians," 429, note ; death of, 499.
Winthrop, John (the younger), Governor of Con- necticut, 260; returns to England, 323; gives passport to Ninigret, 551, 554 ; draws up ad- dress to Charles II., 695; commissioned as agent of Connecticut, 695 ; embarks from New Amsterdam, 695 ; his success in England, 702 ; at Amsterdam-is suspected by the West India Company, 718 ; opposes Stuyvesant at Boston, 718 ; administers oath to Long Island commis- sioners, 726 ; visits Long Island towns, 733 ; in- terview with Stuyvesant-insists on English title, 734 ; desired to meet royal commissioners, 737; takes letter from Nicolls, to Stuyvesant, 739; a commissioner on the English side, 742, 763.
Winwood, Sir Ralph, 41, 45, 106, 108.
Wissinck, Jacob Elbertsen, counselor, 164.
Witherhead, Mary, imprisoned for preaching in streets of New Amsterdam, 636.
Witsen, Gerrit Jacobsen, 46, 63, 138, note.
Witt, Captain John de, on the Mauritius River, 46, 54.
Witt, John de, grand pensionary of Holland, 567 ; negotiates treaty with Cromwell, 586 ; his ob- servations on the Dutch, 103, 457, 458.
Witt, Pieter Jansen de, magistrate, of Boswyck, 693.
Wolf, Dirck de, establishes salt-works on Coney Island, 694.
Wolfertsen, Gerrit, one of the Eight Men, 365.
Women, influence of the Dutch, 463. .
" Wooden Leg," Stuyvesant called the, by the Mo- hawks, 493.
Woodhull, Richard, at Huntington, on Long Isl- and, 671, 703 ; a magistrate under Connecticut, 726.
Woolsey, George, a fire-warden at New Amster- dam, 487.
Writings to be attested, 277, 504. .
Wright, Anthony, settles at Oyster Bay, 595.
Wynkoop, Peter, supercargo of Van Rensselaer's ship, 390.
Yennecock, on Long Island, land bought at, 300.
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Yonkers, or Kekesick, purchased by Kieft, 290 ; acquired by Van der Donek, and called Colen- donck, 421.
York and Albany, James, Duke of, in Holland, 498 ; grant of Charles II. to, 726, 735 ; appoints Colonel Richard Nieolls his deputy governor, 736; grants New Jersey to Berkeley and Car- teret, 736 ; New Netherland re-named after titles of, 743, 745.
Yorkshire, Long Island so named by Nicolls, 745. Young, Captain John, of Southold, commissioners complain of Stuyvesant's treatment of, 625, 626 ; a deputy from Southold to Connecticut Court,
703 ; a commissioner of Connecticut on Long Island, 726.
Youngs, John, at Southold, 300.
Zealand, Province of-legend on its early coin, 20, note, 439, note ; expeditions sent from, to ex- plore passage to China, 22; East India Cham- ber at, opposes Hudson's propositions, 24; Chamber of West India company in, 135; meet- ing of the Nineteen at, 415 ; Chamber at, opposes Amsterdam Chamber, 539, 540.
Zuyder Zee, waters north of Nantucket so called, 58, 111, 756.
*** On page 164, line 1, for " Procurator," read Prosecutor. On page 290, line 26, for " Cow Bay," read Martinnehouck. On page 459, line 31, for "they," read were.
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