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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)] The Commonalty have, moreover, chosen the undernamed twelve persons, and empowered them to resolve on everything with the Director and Council; they also took the oath,^ namely — (Signed,) Jacques Bentyn, [Maryn Adriae…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] ' "to keep their advice secret." New -York Colonial Manuscripts, IV., from which we addthe names in brackets. — Ed. 416 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. and it is necessary he himself accompany us to prevent all disorder…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Whereas the good inhabitants here have occupied their property up to this time in great alarm, and cautiously cultivated the soil through fear of the Indians, who have in a treacherous manner murdered some of our natio…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] especially as we are assured that they would be on their guard and hard to beat, and apparently excite more enemies, and be productive of much injury to us, whilst we trust that it will, through God's mercy, now result…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The private points consist in the suing and prosecuting of a Mandamus on appeal, obtained by the abovenamed C. Melyn against Peter Stuivesant, Director in New Netherland, and Cornells van Tienhoven, Secretary, for a ce…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] liesolution of the States General on the preceding Report. [ From Ihe Register of West India Affaire, 163S — 1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ] Tuesday, g"" August, 1650. Folio 579. The report being heard of M…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Noble, High and Mighty Lords, the Noble Lords States General of the United Netherlands, at the Hague. Resolution of tlie States General on the foi'egoing Letter. [From the Eegisler of West India Affairs, 1688 — 1651, i…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] That we have not, as yet, received your High Mightinesses' ratification thereof is, we confidently trust, owing solely to the tedious and dangerous voyage, for we have seen and found your High Mightinesses to be our be…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Jacob van Kouwenhoven. Thomas Holl. Elbert Elbertsen. Oloff Stevens. Hendrick Hendricksen Kip. Govert Loockermans. Lower stood, By order of the Selectmen, (Signed) D. v. Schelluyne. (In the margin was, ) At the Assembl…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] therein, to examine the aforesaid remonstrances and letters, and to report on the whole. In tlie absence of, or in case of inconvenience to, the one or the other of the Lords, those present may proceed and dispatch the…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Coming then to the point, we shall only notice those parts wherein either the Board (at Amsterdam) or the Director is accused; and we say to the 1st Point:
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 'tis for the purpose of inventing prosecutions. These people then would fain live subject to no person's censure or discipline, which, however, they doubly require. The instance wherein the Director exercised and usurp…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The Directors have never had any administration of, nor concerned themselves with ecclesiastical property; 'tis also denied and cannot be proved, that any of the inhabitants of New Netherland have, either voluntarily n…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] When the Church, which is in the fort, was proposed to be built, the Church wardens were content; but it is these people who make a to-do, because they consider the Company's fort not worthy the honor of a Church. Befo…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 'Tis, indeed, true that Director Kieft, being at a loss for money, had a box suspended in his house; of that box the deacons had one key, and all the small fines and penalties which were levied on court days, were depo…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Erection of public houses for travelers; Salaries of Governors, Magistrates, Marshals and constables; and Pay of Majors, Captains and other officers of the Militia. A general Court is held quarterly in each of the New …
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] If any confiscations have taken place, they have not been of property belonging to colonists, but of imported contraband goods, and no person's property has been confiscated without sufficient cause. The question is, a…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Stuyvesant's duty to construct, caulk and repair the Company's property. He will answer for the profit or loss the Company has in consequence incurred. The burghers on the Island of Manhatans and thereabouts ought to k…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 54 426 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. The Fort not being properly repaired, is no concern of the colonists; 'tis not their domain, but the Company's. They would fain be protected by good forts and garrisons belonging t…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] the Director or Company being liable to any charge therefor. And as the English did not afford him a sufficient support, two collections were taken up among the Dutch and English, on which he lived at the Manhatans. Th…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Stuyvesant hath never pleaded any causes in court, but spoke and proposed questions to parties, as president, and, with advice of the Council, administered justice whereof the malevolent complain; but that Stuyvesant w…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 'Twould be a very strange thing if the officers of the country could not banish anybody from it, whilst the authorities of the Colonie Renselaers wyck, who are subordinate to the Company, absolutely banish whomsoever t…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] I know not whether the Director hath required a promise from Douthey. Director Stuyvesant, on his arrival in New Netherland, endeavored, pursuant to his orders, quietly to put a stop to the contraband trade in guns, po…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] As the English of New England harbored and employed all fugitives, whether persons in the Company's service or freemen, who fled to them from the Manhatans without a pass, which is required by the custom of the country…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Davenport to New England in 1637, and soon after his arrival was chosen one of the magistrates of Massachusetts. He was one of the founders of New Haven in 16X8, and was annually elected Governor till his death, Jan. 7…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] All those who were indebted to the Company were notified to pay up the debts left uncollected by the late Willem Kieft, and as some could, and others could not pay, no one was constrained to liquidate their account; bu…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] A duty of eight per cent on exported beavers, which falls, not on the colonist, but on the merchant, who is bound to pay it, according to contract. The Director always manifested a desire, and was pleased to see a dele…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 'Tis worthy of remark here, however, that the English residing under the protection of the Dutch, have taken an oath of fidelity, and are domiciliated and settled in New Netherland; they are therefore to be accounted f…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] And as the Director and those belonging to the government in New Netherland are sorely wronged and defamed, I request time, in order to await, if necessary, documents to the contrary from New Netherland. Verdonck and h…
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The publication and posting of a notice in Kieft's and Stuyvesant's administrations, to the effect that no declaration or other public writing should have any legal force in New Netherland, except written by the Secret…