"XXII. Those who have any property in any houses in the fort of Aurania shall (if they please) slight the fortifications there, and then injoy all their houses as all people do where there is no fort. "XXIII. If there be any soldiers that will go into Holland, and if the Company of West India in Amsterdam, or any private persons here, will transport them into Holland, then they shall have a safe passport from Colonel Richard Nicolls, deputy governor under his royal highness, and the other commissioners, to defend the ships that shall transport such soldiers, and all the goods in them, from any surprizal or acts of hostility to be done by any of his majestie's ships or subjects. That the copies of the king's grant to his royal highness, and the copy of his royal highness's commission to Colonel Richard Nicolls, testified by two commissioners more and Mr. Winthrop, to be true copies, shall be delivered to the Honourable Mr. Stuyvesant, the present governor, on Monday next, by eight of the clock in the morning, at the Old Miln, and these articles consented to and signed by Colonel Richard Nicolls, deputy governor to his royal highness, and that within two hours after, the fort and town called New Amsterdam, upon the isle of Manhatoes, shall be delivered into the hands of the said Colonel Richard Nicolls, by the service of such as shall be by him thereunto deputed by his hand and seal.

"I do consent to these articles,

"JOHN DE DECKER,
NICHOLAS VARLETT,
SAMUEL MEGAPOLENSIS,
CORNELIS STEENWYCK,
JACQUES COUSSEAU,
OLOFF S. VAN CORTLANDT,

ROBERT CARR,

GEORGE CARTWRIGHT,
JOHN WINTHROP,
SAMUEL WILLYS,

JOHN PYNCHON,

THOMAS CLARKE.

"RICHARD NICOLLS."

GENERAL INDEX.

Abenaquis, attacked by the Mohawks, 704, 732, Alrichs, Jacob, Director of New Amstel, 631;
733.

Academy contemplated at New Amsterdam, 516,
538; asked for by the people, 640, 641; estab-
lished at New Amsterdam; Curtius rector of,
656; Luyck rector of, 694; its high reputation,
694; children sent to it from Fort Orange, South
River, and Virginia, 694.

Achter Cul, or Achter Kol, 313; see Hackinsack.
Admiralty, the Dutch, 450.

Adquidnecke, 332; see Rhode Island.
Adriaensen, Maryn, at Rensselaerswyck, 244, 343 ;
one of the Twelve Men, 317; counsels Kieft to
attack the savages, 350; attacks savages at
Corlaer's Hook, 351, 352; quarrels with Kieft,
and is sent to Holland, 357; returns and settles
at Weehaken, 357.

Africa, colonists allowed to trade to, 540, 656.
Agents, sent by the New England Commissioners
to Manhattan, 551; their conduct there, 552,
554; on Long Island, 555.

Agency, New York Historical, 759.

Agheroense, Indian interpreter at Fort Orange,
408.

Agriculture, beginning of, by colonists in New
Netherland, 150, 151. ·

wrecked near Fire Island, 632; at New Amstei,
632; Elder of church at, 633; rescues ship-
wrecked Englishmen, 651; death of wife of, 661;
insists upon conditions, 662; complains of Stuy-
vesant, 663; interview with Utie, 664, 665;
death of, 670.

Altona, Fort Christina so named, 631; Hudde
commandant at, 633; Stuyvesant at, 651;
Beeckman at, 663; Maryland Commissioners
at, 697; condition of, 699; surrendered to the
City of Amsterdam, 716; Charles Calvert at,
717; transferred to Hinoyossa, 717; surrender
of, 744.

Amboy, or Ompoge, purchase of, 537.

| America, name of, 3, note.

Amersfoort, or Flatlands, first purchases at, 265;
represented in the Nine Men, 474; Flatbush
near, 536; its incorporation proposed, 569;
sends delegates to Convention, 571; delegates
forbidden to appear again, 575; loyalty of, 579;
municipal government of, 580; church service
at, 581, 615; Hegeman schout of, 693; repre-
sented in Convention, 722; loyalty of, 727; rep-
resented in General Assembly, 729; letter of
States General to, 730.

Ahasimus, or Horsimus, purchase of, 202; land Amidas, Philip, in North Carolina, 5.
near sold to Planck, 279.

Ailleboust, Governor of Canada, imprisons Iro-
quois, 645; allows the Dutch commercial priv-
ileges, 646.

Albania, New Jersey so named, 745.

Albany, second title of Duke of York, 735; Fort
Orange named, 744; the Half Moon near site
of, 31; Treaty at, 81, 744.

Albany Records, 759.

Albert "the Trumpeter," sent to West Chester,
598.

Alckmaer, siege of, 442.

Alford, William, his deposition about Stuyve-
sant's declarations, 555.

Allegiance, oath of, required, 291; of colonists at
Rensselaerswyck, 531.

Allerton, Isaac, at New Plymouth, 180; comes to
Manhattan, 365; chosen one of the Eight Men,
365; sent to ask assistance from New Haven,
370; his house in New Amsterdam, 517; in-
forms Stuyvesant of Cromwell's expedition,
583; complains of Jacquet, 633,

Amsterdam, City of, 20; Hudson sails from, 25;
Trading Company formed at, 60; inhabitants
of, 103; Chamber of West India Company at,
135; cosmopolitan, 147; classis of, 273; burgh-
ership in, 192, 453; Stadt Huys of, 457; bank
of, 463; orphan-house of, 513; sides with West
India Company, 539; New Amsterdam to re-
semble, 540, 541; colony of on South River,
629-633; children from orphan-house of, 653;
alters conditions, 661; desires to retransfer
New Amstel, 670, 682; appoints Hinoyossa di-
rector, 682; modifies its conditions, 697; en-
courages a Mennonist colony at the Horekill,
698, 699; obtains cession of the whole of the
South River, 714, 715; government established
there, 717; its colonists reduced by the En-
glish, 744.
Amsterdam, Chamber of West India Company,
New Netherland assigned to its care, 148; sev
West India Company.

Amsterdam Fort, begun on Manhattan, 165, 166;
see Fort Amsterdam.

Archives of Holland, England, and France, docu- Barneveldt, John van Olden, advocate of Holland,

Baas, meaning of the Dutch phrase, 261, note.
Bachtamo, god of Esopus savages, 731.
Backer, Joost Teunissen de, his case, 490, 511.
Backer, Schepen Jacob, a commissioner at Heem-
stede, 728; a delegate from New Amsterdam to
General Assembly, 728.

Backerus, Domine Johannes, succeeds Bogardus,
468; writes to fugitives at New Haven, 482;
asks his dismission, 494; forbidden to read pa-
pers from pulpit, 504; sails for Holland, 507,
508, 512.

Bakers, regulations for, 517.

Baltimore, Cecilius Lord, his grant of Maryland,
252; sends colonists to, 253; his authority ab-
rogated, 559; designs of, on the South River,

Utie, 664, 665; unpleasant relations with Hino- | Blauvelt, Captain, of privateer La Garce, 393.
yossa, 682; receives Maryland commissioners,
697; his disagreements with Hinoyossa, 699;
entertains Charles Calvert, 717; asks for em-
ployment on the North River, 718; is appointed
commissary at Esopus, 732; notice of, 761.
Beer, excise on, enforced by Kieft, 394, 395.
Beeren Island, De Vries at, 302; Fort built at, 400.
Benevolence of the Dutch, 462.

Blessing of the Bay, Winthrop's bark, at Manhat-
tan, 239.

Bennett, Richard, Governor of Virginia, Dutch
agents sent to, 559.

Bentyn, Jacques, counsellor, 223; one of the
Twelve Men, 317.

Bergen, purchased by Stuyvesant, 642; charter
of, 691; church at, 692; represented in Conven-
tion, 722; represented in General Assembly, 729.
Berkeley, Lord, grant of New Jersey to, 736, 745.
Berkeley, Sir William, Governor of Virginia, 559,
683; agrees to a treaty, and sends Moody to
to
New Amsterdam, 683; his correspondence with
Stuyvesant, 684; sent as agent to England, 701;
his ill success there, 702; his brother covets
and obtains New Jersey, 735, 736.

Bleecker, Jan Jansen, of Meppel, 625, note.
Bleeuw, François le, sent as agent to Holland,
576; his mission disapproved of there, 587, 590
Block, Adriaen, sails to Manhattan, 46; his ship
burned, 48; builds yacht Restless, 55; explores
Long Island Sound, &c., 56-58; discovers the
Connecticut River, 57; at Block Island, 57; at
Rhode Island and Massachusetts, 58; returns
to Holland, 59; in the Arctic Ocean, 65.
Blom, Domine Hermanus, 657; settled at Esopus,
680; his success there, 710; courageous con-
duct of, 711.

Blommaert, Samuel, a member of the Amsterdam
Chamber, 148; befriends De Rasieres, 164, 167;
buys on the South River with Godyn, 200; a
proprietor in Rensselaerswyck, 204. ́

Boats on North River attacked by Indians, 364.
Bogaerdt, Harman Mynderts van de, commissary
at Fort Orange, 419; succeeded by Van Brugge,
491.

Bermuda, Gates and Somers at, 50; Indian pris- Bogaerdt, Joost de, on the South River, 320.
oners sent to governor of, 396.

Beversrede, Fort, 483; see Fort Beversrede.

Beverswyck, or Beverwyck, or the Fuyck, 244;
progress of, 266; church planned at, 343; popu-
lation and church at, 374; traders at, 376, 377;
dispute about its jurisdiction, 491-494; com-
pany's orders respecting it, 521; first school-
master at, 522; bosch-loopers at, 523; colonists
at, take oath, 531; further troubles at, 533, 534;
declared to be independent of Rensselaerswyck,
and annexed to Fort Orange, 535; its affairs
considered in Holland, 562, 563; Father Poncet
relieved at, 564; taxes at, 590, 591; excise of,
farmed, 610; Father Le Moyne at, 611; Mo-
hawks at, 611, 612; excise enforced at, 623;
tapsters fined, 624; new church built at, 624,
625; question of excise settled at, 649; dele-
gates from, at Caughnawaga, 659, 660; bosch-
loopers at, 679; growth of church at, 681; oc-
casional dearth at, 691; small-pox at, 710; plank
fence at, 711; represented in General Assembly,
729; fur trade at, 732; surrender of, to the En-
glish, 744; see Fort Orange.

igotry and intolerance in New Netherland, 581,
582, 617, 626, 634-639, 643, 656, 681, 705; re-
buked by the Company, and ended, 707.
Bikker, Gerrit, his pusillanimity at Fort Casimir,
593; is reported to Holland, 594; orders of West
India Company respecting, 601.

Bill of exchange, Kieft's, dishonored by West In-
dia Company, 385, 393; Stuyvesant's, security
required for, 720.

Billou, Pierre, a delegate to General Assembly,729.
Bilt, Simon van der, killed at Paulus' Hook, 509.
Binnenhof, the, 61, 111, 449.

Blanck, Juriaen, schipper, 380, 424.

Bogardus, Domine Everardus, first clergyman in
New Netherland, 223, 243; reprimands Van
Twiller, 245; marries Annetje Bogardus, 266;
complained of in Holland, 273; retained by
Kieft, 278; his daughter married, 336; warns
Kieft against his rashness, 350; denounces the
director, 417; quarrels with Kieft, 418, 760; is
succeeded by Domine Backerus, 468; sails for
Europe and is drowned, 472, 473.
Books, publication of, in Holland, 459.
Boomtje's Hook, or Bombay Hook, lands near,
purchased, 529; conveyed to city of Amsterdam,
630; called Canaresse, 632; lands near, order-
ed to be purchased, 652; purchase made, 663;
transferred to city of Amsterdam, 716, 717.
Bosch-loopers, or runners in the woods, at Rens-
selaerswyck, 377, 523; irregularities of, 679;
see Beverwyck and Fort Orange.
Boston Harbor, or Fox Haven, visited by Block,
58 English settlement at Shawmut, or Boston,
208; Connecticut sachem at, 210; Stuyvesant
at, 718; see Massachusetts.
Boswell, Sir William, English minister at the
Hague, his advice to the Connecticut people, 324.
Boswyck, or Bushwick, incorporated, 693; popu-
lation of, 693; represented in Convention, 722;
represented in General Assembly, 729; letter
of States General to, 730.
Boundary line, settled at Hartford, 519, 520; ob-
jected to in Holland, 539; negotiations respect-
ing, 544, 545, 601; confirmed by the States Gen-
eral, 621; denied by Massachusetts, 654, 672;
further negotiations respecting, 685; repudiated
by Connecticut, 720, 730; action of States Gen
eral respecting, 730.

Bout, Jan Evertsen, at Pavonia, 351; one of the