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Dutch colonial documents, Van Cortlandt deeds, and early Westchester settlement
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
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| E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856) | 1005 | 189,431 | Original → |
| Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848) | 325 | 61,761 | Original → |
| Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848) | 236 | 43,115 | Original → |
| E.B. O'Callaghan (1849) | 153 | 26,639 | Original → |
Passages
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] And whereas it is considered necessary that the population now under consideration be favored and encouraged in every way, their High Mightinesses charge him, the Director, and Council to take care that the country be …
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] [From the Eegiater of Vitgegam Brieten. of the States General, in the Eoyal Archives at the Ilague. ] The States General, etc. Folio 47. Honorable, etc. We continue daily to turn our attention to the prosperity of New …
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] You shall, moreover, distribute the aforesaid guns among the inhabitants of the city of New Amsterdam, and to all those who are capable of bearing arms, and to other families scattered throughout the country, with expr…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] requcst their High Mightinesses to be pleased to grant the aforesaid Johan van Renselaer patent of investiture of High, Middle and Low jurisdiction over a certain Colonie in New Netherland, called Rensselaer's-Wyck, to…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] On the petition of Dirck van Schelluyne Notary here in the Hague, it is, after Kyneadmuied''Nl' previous deliberation, hereby resolved and concluded to admit the petitioner MiLd.^*" '*""" peaceably and quietly, in all …
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] We, the aforesaid Dirck van Schelluyne have appointed and authorized, and do hereby appoint and authorize, to e.xercise the aforesaid profession of Notary at the abovenamed Manhatans and further throughout the whole of…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Assembly to get their Great Mightinesses there to cause to be introduced some Provincial motion on the petition of the delegates from New Netherland relative to the conveyance of two hundred or more farmers or other pe…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Also, that ¥' Stuyvesant, the West India Company's Director, had exported to Barbadoes 20 horses in the vessel belonging to the Danish crown, which he had confiscated when we were in New Netherland. Also that he had pu…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] I. 49 386 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. so thnt a sliip load of provisions amounts to a great Heal among so few people, more especially as mimy farms wliich were devastated by the war, are yet unsown by farmers and la…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Mynheer Dincklagen, hath protested against it, but they heed it not, and treat him with harsh words. When he spoke in behalf of the interests of the Company and the Country, Sluyvesant said, he should not sit wiih him,…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] the Lord Prince of Orange and the Hon'''* West India Company, for having exported horses by the ship, the Prins, to Barbadoes, as Corlaer exhibits no license from their High Mightinesses, or the Hon'''* Lords Majors. D…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] van Aertzbergen and the other your High Mightinesses' Committee on West India affairs, having been for some months in conference with the Directors delegated by the Chamber at Amsterdam and others of the West India Com…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] derived therefrom, the destruction of the population, the neglect in applying remedies to errors and excesses; and, considering that your High Mightinesses cannot, and ought not any longer approve of the perverse admin…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] communication of the Directors now summoned from all the Chambers of the West India Company, the major part of whom are in attendance, permit the Delegates from New Netherland to return this season, to encourage and an…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] And in case any misunderstanding and trouble may arise between or with said Aborigines or neighbors, all possible means shall be made use of to remove the same, before matters come to extremities, and advice shall be s…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] And whereas this evil has now reached that stage that the trade in the aforesaid contraband goods cannot easily be cut short or forbidden, without evident danger of new war and trouble between the subjects of this Stat…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The forts shall all be well maintained and taken care of at the places where, for the occupation of the country, they have been, or shall by order hereafter be erected; the magazine therein provided with necessary muni…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] -^ Whereas it is found that greater pains have generally been taken to promote the fur trade than the agriculture and population of the country, the Supreme Council there, shall, in consequence, above all things, provi…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The propositions as they are drawn shall be amplified for the relief of the Directors of the Amsterdam Chamber and the increase of the public revenue, without embarrassing the Slate or West India Company, in such wise …
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] For which purpose the Director and Council shall be bound to call a meeting of the Patroons of Colonies, or their agents, and of the deputies of the Commonalty, to be held within the city of New Amsterdam for the purpo…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] And within the city of New Amsterdam a municipal government, consisting of one Sheriff, two Burgomasters and five Schepens. IS. Meanwhile shall the Nine Selectmen continue three years longer, and have jurisdiction over…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Observations of the Chamber at A^nsterdam on the preceding Report. [ From the MS. in the Eoyal Archives at the Hagae; Loketkas of the States General; Eubrio West Indische Compagnie, No. 30; 16th division of the Bundle.…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 3. The trade in articles of contraband has been always forbidden; and we cannot consider it wise to give private persons, yet, so much latitude. But if some of the aforesaid wares must, however, to avoid offence, be so…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 18. The judicature ought to be left as established, both in the Company's lands and in the Colonies. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: V. 393 This order is in regard of some private ships, impracticable and useless for the Company. O…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] van Aertsbergen and the other your High Mightinesses' Committee on West India affairs having been for some months past in conference with the Directors delegated by the Chamber at Amsterdam and others of the West India…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] cluded that your High Mightinesses do, with the advice and communication of the Directors now summoned from all the Chambers of the West India Company, the major part of whom are in attendance, permit the New The Direc…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] they made, ought to be speedily accepted and executed; and further, that this Provisional Order be enacted and also furnished to tliem : Adriaen van der Donch^ to the Committee of the States-General. (From MS. ia the E…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The affairs of New Netherland assumed in the beginning a favorable appearance of good progress and especial advantage from individuals and particularly from the State; but the hope which everyone there entertained of t…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] over the inhabitants still there, tanquani bellicas, but more stringent, according to the lust and appetite of the rulers, as has already unreasonably happened. In order not to deprive the inhabitants there wholly of h…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] But all this, with the understanding that in such matter as concerns the public, I, in no wise intend to enter into a law suit with said Tienhoven, in my individual capacity, but, in fact, should said Tienhoven deny th…