The Memorial History of the City of New York: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1892, Volume II, Part 24

Author: Wilson, James Grant, 1832-1914
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: [New York] New York History Co.
Number of Pages: 705


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longest in the council, and by virtue of which he was also president thereof. Hence the mantle of gubernatorial authority fell upon the worthy shoulders of Rip Van Dam;1 and, in view of the subsequent controversy between Van Dam and Governor Cosby, it is worthy of remark that one point in con- nection with the succession was carefully considered and definitely settled. This was the emoluments of office to which President Van Dam would be entitled. When on September 3 the question of passing the warrant for the two months' salary came up, it was postponed for the con- sideration of the board when DERUNT DE GIRAVE every member should be pre- sent, and the matter mean- time referred to a committee of which Councilor De Lancey DE N was chairman. The matter was also referred by message to the speaker of the assem- bly, who preferred to leave it to the decision of the council. Finally, on February 7, 173}, there is this entry on the min- THE DUTCH CHURCH BELL OF 1731.2 ute-book : "The warrant for the payment of the Presidents Sallary being this Day moved to the Board and the reasons for and against the Presidents having the whole Sallary Settled on the late Governour


1 Council Minutes. XVI : 111 ; Doc. rel. Col. Hist. N. Y., 5 : 840. On pp. 921 and 924 of the latter work, in two separate letters,- the one dated July 1 and the other September 11, 1731,-Van Dam's language would lead us to suppose that the governor died on June 30. In the former he says " who departed this life last night"; this might in the haste and confusion of the emergency have slipped inadvertently from his pen, as referring to Montgomerie's passing away so early in the morn- ing. But on September 11 he is still more ex- plicit : " I hope the accompt I transmitted to your Lordaber by the way of Boston and Bristol on the Ist of July last, of the death of our Late Gov" Coll : Montgomerie, being the next day after his decease, has been laid before your Lorduhr." Still the rec- ord in the Council Minutes must be decisive ; that reads (in loco cit.) in the entry of July 1, 1731, after stating that the Board convened at 6 o'clock A. M., that his Excellency "about an hour ago de- parted this life."


2 This bell was cast in Amsterdam in 1731, silver coin being melted as a part of the bell-metal. It was purchased by money bequeathed for that pur- pose by Colonel Abraham De Peyster, who died in 1728. The inscription is as follows: "Me fece- runt De Gravae et N. Muller, Anno 1731. Abraham De Peyster, geboren den 8 July, 1657. gestorven den 8 Augustus, 1728. Een legaat aan de Neder- duytsche Kerke, Nieuw York." [Made by De Graaf and N. Muller, Anno 1731. Abraham De Peyster, born July 8, 1657, died August 8, 1728. A legacy to the Dutch Church, New-York.] Mr. John Oothout, a member of the church, hid the bell during the occupation of the British. It was replaced after the evacuation in 1783, was re- moved to the Ninth street Reformed Church in 1844, thence to the Lafayette Place Collegiate Re- formed Church in 1855, and again in 1872 to the Forty-eighth street and Fifth Avenue Church, where it now peals forth the hours of service on the Sabbath and other days.


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being read and Maturely considered of, It is the opinion of the Board that the President is Entitled to the whole Sallary and afterwards a Warrant for paying the President the Sum of £390 for his Quarters Sallary after having been read was signed by his Honour." 1


Ere we pass on to President Van Dam's interregnum, a few words more must be devoted to the deceased governor. On July 6 the council took measures for the proper disposition of the effects of the departed. It is learned from this action that Governor Montgomerie was entirely without wife or family. No very near relation even formed a part of his household. A Mr. Avery, one of the gentlemen in waiting on him at the executive mansion, was summoned, in order to ascertain whether his Excellency had left a will. Avery knew of none, but gave information of the presence in the province of a distant relative, a Mr. Charles Home. In the name of the latter letters of administration of the governor's estate were granted, and an in- ventory of the effects was made.2 This inventory is still on record, and affords an interesting insight into the character of the appoint- ments and appurtenances of a governor's mansion and state. The list includes no less than sixteen horses, with elegant sets of harness for occasions of state, as well as of a more serviceable kind for trav- eling purposes, and a coach and chaise. The other notable items are twenty-five hundred dollars' worth of wines and liquors, and a library set down at one thousand dollars, and composed of fourteen hundred volumes. The possession of such an extensive private library was as rare as it was remarkable outside of the learned pro- fessions; but that it should have been possessed by a gentleman con- stantly alluded to as rather distinguished for his lack of ordinary intelligence for one in his station, is quite unaccountable.


For the origin of the Van Dam family we must look to Albany, New-York. There one Claes Ripse Van Dam attained prominence as a successful trader among the Indians before the Dutch rule ended. His son Rip was born at Albany about the year 1670.8 Twenty years later he has already attained some standing among men of business and position in New-York; and he is on the side of the old council against Leisler, upon a petition adverse to whom his name appears. This political affiliation remains the same under Bellomont. Having had experience of the sea as a captain of trading-vessels of his own, he, as a growingly prosperous merchant, with vessels to despatch on more extended voyages than those earlier ones to the West Indies, naturally came into conflict with Lord Bellomont's rigorous applica-


1 Council Minutes, XVI : 178.


^ ^ Ib., p. XVI : 113.


3 John Austin Stevens, in his " Colonial New- York: Sketches Biographical and Historical " (New-York, 1867, p. 105, says of Rip Van Dam's birth, "at what date is now unknown." But in


young Lewis Morris's letter to the lords of trade of July 19, 1729 (Doc. rel. Col. Hist. N. Y., 5 : 886), the statement is positively made that Mr. Rip Van Dam was "about sixty." This seems to make it safe to put the date of his birth about the year 1670.


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tion of the English trade acts. His vessels were seized as those of others were, and he himself, as an anti-Leislerian, could consistently take satisfaction in bearing a part in the opposition to the earl. So under Cornbury he continued of the court party, being appointed to a seat in the council on that governor's arrival in 1702. Therefore, at the time of Montgomerie's death in 1731, Rip Van Dam had been for twenty-nine years a councilor. He was now a person of large wealth and, to judge from his portrait, a man of aristocratic bearing, but benevolent, and certainly very handsome. His wife, too, was a lady of pure Dutch extraction, and they had a large family of children,- according to some accounts no less than fifteen, although these did not all live to maturity. But the strangest thing about his eleva- tion to the office of acting governor of an English province, and that which throws a flood of light upon conditions in the old Dutch city, is that Mr. Van Dam was not very familiar with the English language. A not unfriendly critic, speaking of him and of another member of Montgomerie's council in regard to this matter, remarks: "If they understand the common discourse, 't is as much as they do."1 If this seem almost incredible, it is to be remembered that it was not till thirty-four years after this date that the first English sermon was preached in a Dutch Reformed church, by an English-speaking pas- tor of that church ; and the calling of that pastor had caused such a bitter opposition that it entailed a lawsuit even after his arrival in the city. President Van Dam was a member of that old church, all his numerous offspring being recorded on its registers of baptism.


The acting governor's rule lasted just thirteen months. It was dis- tinguished by but two events deserving of note. One took place at a distance from the city, but it might have seriously affected its safety, and it bore hard upon the honored president's reputation for effi- ciency until within a few years. The subtle French, unrestrained by the Treaty of Utrecht, and anticipating the inevitable rupture of the peace, had audaciously descended the Lake of Champlain, and built a fort at Crown Point, near its southern extremity. It would be but an easy march to strike a blow at Albany from this coign of vantage, and a further descent of the broad Hudson would give them access to New-York itself. The historian William Smith, an Englishman writing about a Dutchman, and seeking his authorities among New England papers, avers that Van Dam, "distinguished more for the integrity of his heart than his capacity to hold the reigns of govern- ment," had been, so to speak, "caught napping" by these nimble French, and knew nothing of the perilous move until informed thereof by Governor Belcher of Massachusetts. But documentary evidence, existing at Albany, and collected by Mr. Brodhead in London, as well


1 Doc. rel. Col. Hist. N. Y., 5 : 886.


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as the minutes of the assembly, prove that Van Dam had procured the information and transmitted it to the latter body for action to be taken, months before Governor Belcher's letter reached him. He sent Belcher's letter to the assembly on February 4, 1732. On September 30, 1731, he had sent the previous communication to that body. And on November 2, 1731, his letter to the lords of trade contained an account of an " Act for fortifying the City of Albany."1


It was a proud period for the Dutch population and Church, when one of their own number had been raised to the supreme seat in the province. One evidence of the fact that this was their feeling is a plate


NEW YORK


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VIEW OF NEW-YORK IN 1732.


of a new Dutch church which was "dedicated " to him in 1731.2 The church in Garden street was now nearly forty years old, and the in- creasing population demanded another edifice. A large plot of ground on the east side of Nassau street, extending from Cedar to Liberty street, was purchased for five hundred and seventy-five pounds. Building thereon was begun soon after and the corner-stone laid early in 1727. The church was so far completed in 1729 as to make it pos- sible to hold services in it. But it was not finished until 1731, when the plate of it was made and appropriately inscribed to President Van Dam. The eyes of many now living in New-York city have looked upon this same structure, or so much of it as rose above the crowd of secular adjuncts which aided in converting its sacred pre- cincts into the New-York Post-office.


The prudent, wise, and unassuming administration of affairs by the acting governor continued that state of good feeling, and promoted


1 Stevens's "Biographical Sketches," p. 107; Doc. rel. Col. Hist. N. Y., 5 : 927.


2 The reader is warned not to make the mistake in reading this sentence which a recent historian has made, in recording it as a fact that the church,


not the plate, was dedicated to Van Dam. Their adulation of their esteemed countryman would hardly have carried the pious Dutch people to this blasphemous extravagance.


ROYAL SEAL ATTACHED TO THE MONTGOMERIE CHARTER.


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that abatement of partizan bitterness, as well as of fretful opposition of popular rights to real or fancied encroachments of royal preroga- tive, which had been realized under Montgomerie. On February 4, 173}, the lords of trade wrote to President Van Dam that his Majesty had been pleased to appoint Colonel William Cosby to suc- ceed the deceased governor, and in August, 1732, he arrived in New- York. Now the days of peace were over, and the battle which then was resumed had no end until there was an end to the coming of colonial governors altogether.


NUMBER OF INHABITANTS IN YE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK, ANNO 1731: IS 50289, BESIDES INDIANS.1


WHITES.


BLACKS.


1731. SHERIFFS.


CITIES and COUNTIES.


Males above


10 years.


Females above


10 years.


Males under


10 years.


Females under


No. of whites


in each County,


Males above


Females above


10 years.


Males under


10 years


10 years.


No. of blacks


The number of


in each County.


Henry Beekman


New-York.


2628


2250


1143


1024


7045


599


607


186


185


1577


8622


Goshen Van Schaick.


Albany.


2481


1255


2352


1212


7300


568


185


346


174


1273


8573


Thomas Hicks


Queens


2239


2175


1178


1139


6731


476


363


226


199


1264


7995


David Corie (715 Indians)


Suffolk


2144


1130


2845


955


7074


239


83


196


83


601


7675


Gilbert Willet


Westchester


1879


1701


1054


707


5341


269


96


176


151


692


6033


John Wyncoop


Ulster


990


914


577


515


2996


321


196


124


91


732


3728


Dominick Van Der Veer.


Kings


629


518


243


268


1658


205


146


65


76


492


2150


William Pullen


Orange


627


534


325


299


1785


85


47


19


33


184


1969


Charles Gerretsen


Richmond ..


423


571


263


256


1513


111


98


51


44


304


1817


William Squire.


Duchess. ...


573


481


263


298


1615


59


32


13


8


112


1727


14613 11529


10243


6673


43058


2932


|1853


1402 1044


7231


50289


1 Copied from an original contemporaneous document belonging to General De Peyster.


DESCRIPTION OF NEW-YORK, 1737 (From Bradford's New - York Gazette, No. 627)


This letter is directed "For the Kingdom of Ereland, in the North of Ereland, near to Aughnacloy, in the County of Tyrone, To Baptist Boyd, the Reverend Minister of the Gospel, in the Parish of Aughelow. Let aw Persons that see this, tak Care to send it to the Reverend Baptist Boyd, Minister of Gospel, in the Parish of Aughelow in the County of Tyrone, living near Aughnacloy. With Care."


Reverend Baptist Boyd.


NEW YORK CITY, November 7, 1737.


Read this Letter, and look, and tell aw the poor Folk of your Place, that God has open'd a Door for their Deliverance; for here is ne Scant of Breed here, and if your


Females under


in each County.


whites and blacks


10 years.


10 years.


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THE CITY UNDER GOVERNOR JOHN MONTGOMERIE £


Sons Samuel and James Boyd wad but come here, they wad het more Money in ane Year for teechin a Letin Skulle, nor ye yer sell wat get for Thrre Years Preechin whar ye are, Reverend Baptist Boyd, there ged ane wee me in the Ship, that now gets ane Hundred Punds for ane year for teechin a Letin Skulle, and God kens, little he is skilled in Learning, and yet they think him a high learned Man. Ye ken I had but sma Learning when I left ye, and now wad ye think it, I hea 20 Pund a Year for being & Clark to York Meeting-House, and I keep a Skulle for wee Weans: Ad dear Sir, there is braw Living in this same York for hig learned Men : The young Foke in Ereland are aw but a Pack of Couards, for I will tell ye in short, this is a bonny Coun- try, and aw Things grows here that ever I did see grow in Ereland ; and wee hea Cows, and Sheep and Horses plenty here, and Goats, and Deers, and Racoons, and Moles, and Bevers, and Fish, and Fouls of aw Sorts : Trades are aw gud here, a Wabster gets 12 Pence a Yeard, a Labourer gets 4 Shillings and 6 Pence a Day, a Lass gets 4 Shillings and 6 Pence a Week for spinning on the wee Wheel, a Carpenter gets 6 Shillings a Day, and a Tailor gets 20 Shillings for making a Suit of Cleaths, a Wheel-wright gets 16 Shillings for making Lint Wheels a Piece, Indian Corn, a Man wull get a Bushell of it for his Day's Work here; Rye grows here, and Oats and Wheet, and Winter Barley, and Summer Barley; Buck Wheet grows here, na every Thing grows here. . . Now I beg of ye aw to come our here, and bring our wee ye aw the


Cleaths ye can of every Sort, beth o' Linnen and Woollen, and Guns, and Pooder, and Shot, and aw Sorts of Weers that is made of Iron and Steel, and Tradesmen that comes here let them bring their Tools wee them, and Farmers their Plough Erons; & Mason gets 6 Shillings a Day : fetch Whapsaws here, and Hatchets, and Augurs, and Axes, and Spades, and Shovels, and Bibles, and Hammers, and Fsalm Bukes, and Pots, and Seafaring Books, and setch aw Sorts of Garden Seeds, Parsneps, Onions, and Carrots; and Potatoes grows here very big, red and white beth, fetch aw the Bukes here you can get, fetch a Spade wee a Hoe, made like a stubbing Ax, for ye may clear as muckle Grund for to plant Indian Corn, in ane Month, as will maintain Ten Folk for a Year. Dear Reverend Baptist Boyd, I hea been 120 Miles in the Wolderness, and there I saw a Plain of Grund 120 Miles lang, and 15 Bred, and there never grew nor Tree upon it, and I hea see as gud Meedow grow upon it, as ever I see in Ereland. There is a great wheen of the Native Folks of this Country turned Christians, and will sing the Psalms bonely, and appear to be Religiouss that gee Ministers plenty of S'kins for his Steepend, and he gets Siller plenty for the S'kins again ; Deer Skins and Bear Skins: Ye may get Lan here, for 10 Pund a Hundred Acres for ever, and Ten Years Time tell ye get the Money, before they wull ask ye for it; and it is within 40 Miles of this York upon a River Side, that this Lan lies, so that ye may carry aw the Guds in Boat to this York to sell, if ony of you comes here it is a very strong Lan, rich Ground plenty of aw Sorts of Fruits growing in it, and Swin plenty enough : There ary Cay, and Stirks, and Horses that are aw wild in the Wolderness, that are aw yer can when ye can grip them; desire my Fether and Mether too, and my Three Sisters to come here, and ye may acquaint them, there are Lads enough here, and bid my Brether come, and I will pay their Passage; Desire James Gibson to sell aw he has and come, and I weel help him too; for here aw that a Man works for his ane, there are ne rev- enus Hunds to rive it free us here, ne sick word as Hebringers is kend here, but every yen enjoys his ane, there is ne yen to tak awa yer Corn, yer Potatoes, yer Lint or Eggs; na, na, blessed be his Name, ne yen gees Bans for his ane here.


I bless the Lord for my safe Journey here, I was Cook till the Ships aw the Voyage, we war Ten Weeks and Four Days on the Sea before we laned ; this York is as big as twa of Armagh ; I desired to be remembered to aw my Friends acquaintance, my Love to your sel Reverend Baptist Boyd, and aw yer Family ; I do desire you to lent this let- ter to James Broon, of Drumern, and he kens my Brother James Gibson, and he weel gee him this Letter : It shall be my earnest Request yence mere, to beg of ye aw to come


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here, I did value the See ne mere than dry Lan; Ler aw that comes here put in gud Store of Oten Meel, and Butter, and Brandy, and Cheese, and Viniger, but above aw have a Writing under the Han of the Capden of the Ship ye come in; If I war now in Ereland, I wad ne stay there, yet I think to gang there as Factor for a Gentleman of this City of York, he my Relation by my Fether, he is Returney of the Law here. There is Servants comes here out of Ereland, and have serv'd their Time here, wha are now Justices of the Piece; I wull come to Ereland gin the Lord spare me about Twa years after this, and I wull bring Rum, and Staves for Barals, and Firkins, and Tan- ners Bark for to sell, and Money other Things for this Gentleman, and my sel, for I wull gang Super Cargo of the Ship, so that if nene of ye come I will bring ye aw wee my sel, by the Help of the Lord.


Now I have geen you a true Description of this York, luke the 8th Chapter of Deuter- onomy, and what it saith of the Lan there, this is far better: Now this is the last of 6 Sheets I hea writt to you on this Heed, I hope that you Fether wull be stoot and come, and aw that I have named, fear ne the See, trust in God, and he wull bring ye safe to shore, gin to plees him, now the Lord make ye se to do. Ne mere fre me, but my Duty till my Fether and Mether, and my Sisters and Brether, and yence mere my kind Love till yer self, Reverend Mr. Baptist Boyd; if any yen sends me a Letter, direct till Mr. John Pemberton, Minister of the Gospel in New- York, send it wee ony Body comin till ony of these Parts, and let it be given to the Post-Hoose in America, and I will yet it fre John Pemberton, and now my Love till ye aw.


JAMES MURRAY.


LIST OF CITIZENS OF NEW-YORK


ADMITTED AS FREEMEN BETWEEN THE YEARS 1683 AND 1740


1695. Aske, Benjamin


1691. Blydenburgh, Joseph 1698. Bresteede, Simon


1695. Apple, Hendrick


1691. Blydenburgh, Benjamin


1698. Budyan, Arthur


1696. Abeel, John


1694. Bickley, William, Sr.


1698. Blanck, Nicholas


1696. Allison, Thomas


1695. Brooke, Chidley


1698. Bogaert, Claes


1698. Aerentse, Peter


1695. Buckley, John


1734. Beekman, John


1698. Ariantse, John


1695. Basford, John


1734. Burger, Nicholas


1700. Atwood, William


1695. Brevoort, Hend'k I.


1734. Blackledge, Philip


1700. Atwood, Leigh


1695. Blanck, Jurien


1735. Bender, Matthias


1701. Allison, Robert


1698. Burger, Harmanus


1735. Bowne, Robert


1705. Allaire, Alexander


1698. Beekman, John


1735. Benson, Benjamin


1710. Aspinwall, Joseph


1698. Brazier, Abraham


1735. Bonee, Francis


1716. Anthony, Henricus


1698. Brevoort, Elias 1735. Beek, William


1716. Arden, James


1700. Broughton, Sampson S. 1735. Bant, Peter


1720. Allaire, Lewis


1700. Broughton, Sampson 1735. Bant, John


1721. Anthony, Allard


1701. Benson, Harmanus


1735. Boree, Isaac


1726. Anthony, Nicholas


1701. Bayard, Jacobus


1735. Barheit, Andries


1721. Abrahamsen, John


1702. Benson, Sampson


1735. Brewer, Cornelius


1731. Alexander, James


1702. Bissell, William


1735. Brisner, James


1731. Abeel, David


1702. Borrow, John


1735. Beekman, William


1735. Anderson, Jochem


1706. Bradhurst, Jonathan


1735. Benson, Sampson


1735. Allen, Thomas


1708. Bickley, May


1735. Brown, Samuel


1735, Apple, John


1708. Bradford, Andrew


1736. Bevens, John


1735. Anderson, Edward


1713. Brock, Abraham


1717. Bedlow, Isaac


1737. Amerman, Albert


1715. Beekman. Gerardus


1720. Burnet, William


1737. Amerman, Dirck


1716. Burnett, John


1720. Bedlow, Peter


1737. Aspinwall, John


1724. Boelen. Abraham


1737. Anderson, Peter


1696. Bancker, Evert


1724. Beekman, William


1737. Alsteyn, Johannes


1696. Bradford, Samuel


1725. Bradhurst, Samuel


1738. Axson, William


1698. Bogardus, Everardus,


1727. Blagge, Edward


1683. Burling, Edward


1698. Boudinot, Elias


1729. Browne, John


1687. Boudinot, Elias


1698. Boudinot, Peter


1729. Boyle, Solomon


1737. Alsteyn, Abraham, Jr.


1716. Byvanck, Anthony 1696. Bickley, Wm., Jr.


1722. Brouwer, Sebrant


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THE CITY UNDER GOVERNOR JOHN MONTGOMERIE


1731. Benson, Sampson


1735. Constable, John


1736. Dunscomb, Samuel


1731. Brinkerhoff, Joris


1735. C'azalet, John


1737. Delancey Stephen, Jr.


1731. Bancker, Adrian


1735. Cooke, Dirck


1737. Delancey, John


1731. Byvanck, Evert


1735. Cosby, William


1737. De Hart, Balthazer


1732. Beekman, Henry


1735. Clopper John


1737. Duncan. Thomas


1733. Bayard. Stephen


1735. Cure, John


1737. Droite, William


1734. Burger. Johannes


1735. Cowley, Joseph


1738. De Mill, Joost


1734. Bayard, Nicholas


1734. Byvanck John


1734. Brazier, John


1734. Beekman Charles


1736. Cousine, William


1691. Ellison, John


1734. Bogaert, Arie


1737. Crooke, Charles


1698. Emott. James


1738. Bowyer, Samuel


1737. Crooke. Gabriel


1698. Euwatse, John


1738. Brouwer, Everardus


1737. Clarke, Robert


1698. Ellis, Joseph 1700. Everts, John


1739. Burger, Daniel


1737. Crolius, William


1715. Elsworth, George, Sr.


1739. Bicker, Victor


1716. Crannell, Robert, Jr.


1715. Elsworth, George, Jr.


1739. Benson, John


1724. Cuyler, Henry


1717. Euwatse, Euwatse


1739. Burn, George


1724. Cortland, Philip


1721. Eyres, Nicholas


1736. Brown, Thomas


1727. Campbell, Archibald


1722. Ellison, John


1736. Brown, William J.


1727. Clarkson, David


1725. Elsworth, Theophilus


1736. Bloom, John


1727. Clarkson, Matthew


1735. Eager, Richard


1736. Brown, James


1728. Chambers, John


1735. Eckerson, John


1736. Bayard, Samuel


1737. Blanchard, John


1737. Brass, Adolph


1737. Bissett, John


1737. Crolius, Peter


1738. Earle, Marmaduke


1737. Colegrove, William


1738. Eustie, Thomas


1737. Bant, William 1737. Bush, Peter Jno.


1737. Brevoort, Elias


1737. Bogaert, Cornelius


1737. Brevoort, Henry


1737. Bant, Martin


1738. Cook. Richard


1739. Earle, John


1737. Benson, Robert


1738. Colwell, William


1696. Fletcher, Governor


1737. Boeke, Abraham


1739. Croker Jolin


1698. French, Philip


1699. Faneuil, Benjamin


1737. Burger, Renier


1698. De Peyster, Isaac


1715. Fell, Thomas


1738. Burger. Caspar


1698. De Klyn, Leonard H.


1717. Foster, Benjamin


1738. Bush, Barent


1698. Duychink, Evert


1735. Fine, Frederick


1738. Boeke, Isaac


1699. De Hart, Matthias


1699. Duychink, Garret


1638. Fresnau, Andrew


1739. Beekman, Gerardus, Jr.


1739. Byvanck, Evert


1739. Burris, Abraham


1701. Davenport, Thomas


1739. Fosseur, Matthias


1739. Benson, Abraham


1696. Gracie, Matthew


1739. Burger, John


1698. Graham, James


1693. Chambers, Thomas


1708. Delucena, Abraham


1698. Graham, Augustyn


1698. Goelet, Jacobus


1696. Cuyler, Johannes


1713. Dupre, James


1698. Gouverneur, Abraham


1698. Clarke, Thomas




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