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Partial copy of 18:1 and 18:7b

Brief but True Report of the proceedings of Johannes Prints, governor over the Swedish troop in the South river of New Netherland, together with the settlement of the aforesaid Swedes found on that river the 1st November, 1645 (by Andries Hudde).

Letter. Alexander Boyer to director Stuyvesant, informing him that governor Prints had erected a house on the Schuylkil, right in front of the Dutch fort Beversreede, and demanding help, as he has only six men for the two forts; visit of the Minquas chief.

Agreement of Simon Wallingsen to purchase Peter van der Linden&'s plantation (on Manhattan Island), for 175 guilders.

Declaration of Alexander Boyer, David Davitsen, Adrian van Tienhoven, Peter Hannansen, Simon Boot and Andries Lucassen, at Fort Beversreede, that the Swedish lieutenant had exhibited to them his orders to prevent by force if necessary, the setting of any stake or post in the ground (on the Schuykil).

Declaration of Simon Root, Jacob Claessen, Anthony Pietersen, that the Swedish lieutenant did by force pull down and destroy a building in course of erection by said Root at Mastmakers hook, on the Schuylkil.

Declaration of Adrian van Tienhoven, Alexander Boyer and David Davidsen at Fort Nassau, in corroboration of the facts above set forth, and of the violent behavior of Swens Schets, the Swedish lieutenant on the above occasion.

Protest of Andries Hudde, commissary of Fort Nassau, on the South river, against Johannes Prints, the Swedish governor, for the above.

Extract of a letter from Adrian van Tienhoven to director Stuyvesant, urging him to visit the South river, in order to check the insolence of the Swedes.

Indian deed from Kickeeu-sickenam and other chiefs, to Alexander Boyer, Simon Root, Peter Harmsen, David Davidsen and Cornelis Mouritsen, of a tract of land on the South river, extending ffom Ramkokus kill to a kill on the south end of an island called Tinnekonck, and from said kill up the river unto the kill on the west side named Neeyeck, which (tract) is called Roophakesky, and four (leagues) inland, including the island of Tinnekonck, dated in the South river in the stream in front of Neeyack, on board the yacht Hollantschen tuyn, (see post, Vol. 19, p. 31).

Copies of sundry letters from director Stuyvesant to the commissary at the Delaware river, dated from 1648 to August 1650; apparently a portion of a letter book, but much decayed.

Papers relating to the conquest of the Swedes on the Delaware river.

List of letters and papers therein contained.

Letter. Council of New Netherland to director Stuyvesant at the South river, advising him that the Indians had made a descent on Manhattan Island and committed various excesses there.

Letter. Council of New Netherland to director Stuyvesant, acknowledging receipt of the following letter and urging his immediate return to the Manhattans.

Letter. Director Stuyvesant to the council reporting the result of the expedition against the Swedes on the Delaware.

Capitulation of Fort Casimir.

Letter. Director Stuyvesant to the council, advising them of the reduction of Fort Christina, on the Delaware, and of his preparation for an immediate return.

Capitulation of Fort Christina.

Answer of Johannes Risingh, late governor of New Sweden, to an open letter of director Stuyvesant.

Secret article agreed to by director Stuyvesant and governor Risingh on the surrender of Fort Christina.

Notice to the Swedes on the Delaware to take and subscribe an oath of allegiance to the States-General, &c. and oath taken by the Swedes, with names of the persons subscribing the same.

Minutes of the administration of Jean Paul Jacquet, vice-director of the South river, or Delaware.

Articles and ordinances made and enacted by the burgomasters of the city of Amsterdam, for the government of those who will repair to New Netherland in their service.

Register of all the letters from Jacob Alrichs, director of New Amstel (late Fort Casimir) on the Delaware, to the director and council of New Netherland.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to the director and council of New Netherland at the Manhattans, informing them that the ship in which he and sundry settlers had sailed for the Delaware, had been wrecked off Long Island, and requesting assistance, &c.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to the director and council, requesting them to provide for settlers for the South river who may arrive at the Manhattans, &c.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to the director and council, with a cargo of goods sent up to the Manhattans from the wreck.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant, reporting the state of affairs in his new government.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; requisition for barley, oats, &c.; condition of things; Gerrit van Sweringen recommended to be appointed commissary.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; condition of the fort; name of Christina changed to Altona.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; Andries Hudde engaged in the service of the city's colonie.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; cargoes for the Manhattans.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; relating to business and trade; requests that Cornelis Hogeboom, brickmaker, may be allowed to bring his son to the Delaware from Fort Orange.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; acknowledging receipt of his letters; a Christian killed by an Indian on his return from the land of the Minquaas.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; requests that a cargo of brick and boards be sent from Fort Orange.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; is glad to hear that the latter is about to visit the South river; himself and family sick; fevers, &c. prevalent; return of capt. Krigier from Virginia; price of cows; requests a horse mill; Englishmen wrecked at the Whore-kill, ransomed by director Alrichs; writes to the governor of Virginia thereupon.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; bricks and boards received from Fort Orange; further supplies required.

Duplicate of the preceding letter.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; Isaac Allerton; captain Krigier; fugitives from Virginia.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; seed grain required; administration of justice previous to his arrival; difficulty with the military; complaints against captain Krigier; registry of deeds and mortgages; progress of the settlement.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; apologizes for the poor reception given to the director-general on his recent visit, &c.

Secret resolution of the Amsterdam Chamber of the W. I. Company, that instructions be sent to directors Stuyvesant and Alrichs, not to suffer any Englishmen to reside at the South river, and if there be any there, to get rid of them in the quietest manner.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant, requesting him to forward letters inclosed to Holland, and to send him provisions.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; cattle purchased on the great plains of Hempstead, for the colonie on the Delaware; the horse mill nearly ready.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; great scarcity of bread; the horse mill not completed in consequence of the death of the carpenter; severe sickness among the settlers.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; bad condition of the cattle lately received from the Manhattans, &c.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; chimneys built of Fort Orange brick; severe epidemic; surgeon dead and his assistant sick.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; progress of the epidemic; arrival of emigrants; their sufferings on the passage from Holland.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; scarcity of provisions ; rev. Mr. Welius; death of Abraham Rynvelt, commissary, and many others, particularly children.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; orders to purchase the Whorekill; commissioners appointed.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; death of his wife; early winter; scarcity of provisions.

Letter. Directors of the W. I. Company to Jacob Alrichs; admonishing him to discountenance smuggling; to have the company acknowledged in oaths taken by settlers, and to admit of appeals to the director and council at Manhattan.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; scarcity of provisions; the Whorekill; fast and prayer day.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; causes of the backwardness of the colonie and of the scarcity of provisions; emigrants; failure of the harvest; great mortality; tile and brick kilns established; arrival of Mr. Beeckman at Altona; answer to the charges contained in the letter of the directors at Amsterdam of the 13th February; purchase of the Whorekill; D'Hinoyossa commander there.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; rumors that the English claim the Delaware river and country, and are about to send persons to New Amstel with that view.

Indian deed for the Whorekill (imperfect).

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; purchase of the Whorekill; deed sent to the Manhattans.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; English coming to claim the country on the Delaware; rumors that war is declared between Holland and England, and that young Cromwell is poisoned and dead.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; messengers sent to Maryland; visit col. Utie; claim of lord Baltimore.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; gov. Fendal instructed to assert the right of Lord Baltimore; panic among the Dutch on the Delaware.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; arrival of col. Utie and suite from Maryland; particulars of the interview.

Protest of director Alrichs and council, vice-director Beeckman and schepens of New Amstel, against the pretensions of lord Baltimore; addressed to col. Utie.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; dispatches sent to the Manhattans by sea; Alrichs and D&'sHinoyossa greatly perplexed through fear of the English.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; defends himself from the charge of shewing any disrespect to the W. I. Company; has been suffering from severe indisposition.

Letter. William Beeckman, vice-director at Altona, to director Stuyvesant; particulars of the transactions with col. Utie.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; dispatches sent overland to the Manhattans; state of affairs on the Delaware.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; fears entertained of the English; dispatches sent overland.

Letter. Director Stuyvesant to Messrs. Alrichs and Beeckman; condemns their pusillanimous conduct towards colonel Utie; secretary van Ruyven and captain Crieger sent to the South river; Augustyn Heermans sent commissioner to Maryland .

Commission. Martin Crieger to be captain of a military force sent to the Delaware.

Commission. Cornelis van Ruyven and Martin Crieger, to be commissioners to regulate affairs at the Delaware.

Commission. Augustine Heermans and Resolved Waldron, to be ambassadors to Maryland.

Letter. Messrs. van Ruyven and Crieger to director Alrichs, announcing their arrival, and requesting his attendance at Altona; on account of his sickness they wait on him at New Amstel.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; vindicates himself from the charges in regard to his treatment of colonel Utie.

Letter from William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; further vindication of his conduct.

Letter. Messrs. van Ruyven and Crieger to director Alrichs and council, recommending them most seriously to complete and maintain a military force, and protesting against them should any damage accrue through their neglect.

Letter. Director Alrichs and council to Messrs. van Ruyven and Crieger, in answer to the above.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant, giving an account of the progress of affairs at the Delaware.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; Andries Hudde; horse mill.

Letter. Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant; charters the galiot New Amstel for a voyage to Curaçao; death of the rev. Mr. Welius.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; machinations in his government; burial of rev. Mr. Welins; Mr. d'Hinoyossa about to go to Holland, by way of Virginia, with a remonstrance to the burgomasters of Amsterdam; suffering from severe illness.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; death of director Alrichs; Mr. d'Hinoyossa, his successor; inhabitants quitting New Amstel; proposed tax on the Swedes; disorders from the sale of strong drink to Indians and others; Jan Juriaens Becker reads the sermon on Sundays; asks that his eldest son be appointed a cadet; Indians murdered.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; New Amstel affairs; Peter Alrichs, commander at the Whorekill; river open.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; murderers of the Indians discovered; complaints against D'Hinoyossa; persecution of Cornelis van Gezel.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; presents made to the Indians; Andries Hudde robbed; rumored arrival of lord Baltimore in Maryland and his designs; requests permission to visit the Manhattans to put his two oldest boys to school.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; difficulties with the Swedes and Fins; Miss Printz; Mr. Henry Coursey of Maryland and brothers, visit Altona in order to recover runaway servants; Andries Hudde desires to go to Maryland as a brewer; Swedes propose to form a village at Passayonck.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; state of affairs on the Delaware; Upland; the Swedish clergyman fined for marrying a couple without publication of banns; difficulties with the Swedes and Fins; arrival of capt. Crieger.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; rumors that the city's colonie is to be transferred back to the W. I. Company; want of a clergyman; Passayunck; Miss Printz.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; Swedes not inclined to remove; dissatisfaction in Maryland on account of the way Mr. Courcey has been treated by Mr. D'Hinoyossa; open sale of liquors at New Amstel to Indians.

Letter from William Beeckman to Nicasius de Sille

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; visit of the great sachem of the Minquas and other Indians; Mr. Courcey's servants returned; Menissincks emigrate to the country of the Minquas through fear of a certain Manitto.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; D'Hinoyossa; sale of liquor to Indians; the church; arrival of Mr. Rendel Revel overland from Virginia; election of magistrates at New Amstel.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; soldiers desert to the Minquas; Whorekill; negotiations with Maryland for the rendition of fugitives.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; arrival at New Amstel of a vessel from the West Indies in distress; efforts in Holland for the maintenance of the city's colonie on the Delaware.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; departure of sheriff van Sweringen and others from New Amstel for Holland.

Letter. Mattheus Capito to director Stuyvesant; Mr. Beeckman visits the Manhattans; complains of D'Hinoyossa, that he will not deliver up books and papers relating to the late Mr. Alrichs' estate.

Journal kept by Augustine Herrman of his embassy from the director-general and council of New Netherland to the governor and council of Maryland, in relation to the claim put forth by colonel Nathaniel Utie to the South river; September 30 to October 21, 1659.

Complaint of William van Diemen's wife against Alexander D'Hinoyossa, director at New Amstel.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; a bark cast ashore between Cape Hindlopen and Virgin bay and a three masted vessel wrecked off Barnegat; only one soul saved from the wreck.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; D'Hinoyossa appointed director of the city's colonie on the Delaware; Lord Baltimore's brother, governor of Maryland; Fendall recalled; Prince of Orange restored to all his hereditary honors; Admiral De Buyter sent against the Turks.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; Peter Alrichs; D'Hinoyossa's doings; robbery of the grave of an Indian chief at New Amstel; wampum, duffles &c., taken from it; Mrs. B. gives birth to a boy.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; arrival of capt. Woeler (Wheeler?), a fugitive Quaker from Maryland; manifests no respect to the vice-director, as such is contrary to his conscience; no such sect will be tolerated; great excitement in Maryland between Protestants and Catholics; many beheaded and several hanged and quartered in England; more than 1,000 reformed ministers in prison there, because they will not conform to the Catholic religion, &c.; Fins emigrating to Maryland.

Letter. Augustyn Heerman to vice-director Beeckman; his plantation on Bohemia river; is about settling a village thereabout; distance between Bohemia river and the Minquas Kil; Englishmen murdered by Delaware Indians; the English in treaty with the Susquehannocks; war imminent.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant, inclosing the above; 3 Englishmen and a Dutchman murdered by South river Indians on the 4th inst.; excitement in Maryland; ill consequences of a war between the English and Indians.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; negotiations between the governor of Maryland and the Minquas; the Minquas and Sinnecus at war; D'Hinoyossa promulgates his commission; Gregory van Dyck, Swedish sheriff, dismissed.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; Sinnekees reported to have destroyed some plantations of Swedes and Fins in Maryland; cause of the late murders by the South river Indians.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; four Englishmen from Virginia among the Mantaese Indians on the east side of the Delaware; the English of Maryland assist the Minquas in their war with the Sinnecus.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; war between the States-General and England imminent; reported marriage of Charles II and the Infanta of Portugal.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; proceedings of D'Hinoyossa against Cornelis van Gezel.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; misunderstandings between him and d'Hinnoyossa; proceedings against Van Gezel.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; negotiations for peace between Maryland and the Indians.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; elopement of the rev. Mr. Laers&'s wife with one Jacob Yongh, who is supposed to have followed the tracks of capt. Vuler (Wheeler?) to Long Island; arrival of secretary Coursey, Mr. Beetman and Mr. Goldsmith from Maryland to New Amstel, to negotiate a peace with the Indians.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; Jacob Yongh; delegates from Maryland visit Altona; gov. Philip Calvert concludes a peace with the Delaware Indians; small pox among the Minquaas; Sinnecus on the war path; overland trade with Maryland; negroes; rev. Laers desires to marry again; Mr. Jacquet; Van Gezel, &c.

Letter. William Beekman to director Stuyvesant; supplies received; Van Gezel; rev. Laers.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; Francis Crieger; Jacob Yongh; rev. Laers (Laurentius Carolus), the Finnish priest, marries himself; D'Hinoyossa; arrival of lord Baltimore's son in Maryland.

Extract from the minutes of the court at New Amstel, 8th September, on a suit with Jean Paul Jacquet, with papers annexed.

Extract from the minutes of the court of New Amstel, of 3d Jan., in the case of Reynier van Heist agst. Hendrick Kip and Abraham van Nas.

Order of the court of New Amstel to the curators of the estate of Elmerhuysen Kleyn, dated 6th Dec., to pay money to Jean Paul Jacquet, with petition of said Jacquet; other papers.

Petition. Cornelis Mourits, wife and others, legatees of Elmerhuysen Kleyn, for the appointment of persons to value and sell said estate, with sundry accounts.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; arrival at New Amstel of the ship Church of Purmerland with emigrants from Holland.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; affairs at New Amstel; surgeons; Sinnekus at war with the Minquas; rev. Ægidius Luyok goes to Manhattans.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; difficulties with director d&'sHinoyossa; rev. Laers; negroes wanted; Abraham van Nas.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; conflict of jurisdiction between the authorities on the Delaware; Indians at Tinnekonck request that brandy be not sold to their people; extraordinary high tide.

Extract from the minutes of the court at Altona, in the case of the sheriff against rev. Laers Carelsen; his recent marriage declared illegal.

Petition. rev. Laurentius Carolus for remission of a fine imposed on him, &c.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; Peter Alrichs obtains a monopoly of the trade from Boomtie's hook to Cape Hinlopen; rev. Laer's case; grist mill at Turtle kill fall; the old Swedish mill; horse corn-mill at New Amstel.

Petition. John Staelcop, Luyckas Pietersen and Hans Block, proprietors of the grist mill at the falls of the Turtle kill, praying a grant of land adjoining thereto.

Letter. Andries Hudde to [vice-director Beeckman]; case of Thomas Broen, and how he was prevented settling at Mantaeshook below Fort Nassau (on the Delaware), by governor Printz, who purchased said hook; Swedish encroachments at the Schuylkill; beaver trade; lands purchased by traders from the Indians; their names; their case recommended.

Letter. Director Stuyvesant to [Andries Hudde]; is astonished at the Swedes purchasing the land around Fort Nassau on the South river, and at the Schuylkill; approves of the purchase of the land above the fort [see vol. 18, p. 9]; Thomas Broen and others permitted to purchase land above the fort from the natives; design of the Swedes to intercept the Indian trade to Fort Orange; approves proposition to purchase the country from Narraticon creek to Delaware bay (certified copy).

Letter. Andries Hudde to ——, inquiring if he could not attach certain tobacco in Maryland belonging to Mr. D&'sHinoyossa.

Return of Abraham van Nas to a summons which he served on Francis Cregier Cornelis Martensen, William Cornelissen Ryckevryer, Hendrick Kip and Fop Jansen Outhout, of New Amstel, who refused to appear and testify before vice-director Beeckman.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; complaints against Mr. D'Hinoyossa; communication of the above papers.

Letter. Alexander D'Hinoyossa to vice-director Beeckman; requesting the arrest of certain soldiers.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Hinoyossa in answer, complying with the above.

Ante-mortem declaration of Harmen Hendricksen from Deventer, a soldier, as to the circumstances under which he had been shot by sheriff Van Sweringen, in New Amstel.

Declarations of sundry soldiers respecting the shooting of Harmen Hendricksen aforesaid.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; complains of sheriff Van Sweringen; Fins removing to the city's colonie; their privileges; death of Harmen Hendricksen abovementioned.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant, with further information respecting the conduct of sheriff Van Sweringen.

Declaration of Fop Jansen Outhout as to statement made by Gerrit de Groot, court messenger at New Amstel, of the harmless conduct of the soldiers when sheriff Sweringen killed one of them.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant, transmitting an answer of director D'Hinoyossa and council to the vice-director's protest against their encroachment on his jurisdiction.

Answer of director D&'sHinoyossa, &c., aforesaid.

Declarations of Hendrick Kip, the younger, Jacob de Commer, surgeon and others as to Gerrit de Groot&'s statement (supra, p. 41),

Declaration of Hans Block and Gerrit Hendricksen Boogh that sheriff Sweringen regretted much that he did not shoot the right man.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; prosecuted at New Amstel; requires that the attorney-general be sent to defend him. [Erroneously dated 1663 and numbered page 81 in O&'sCallaghan&'s Calendar.]>

Return of Gerrit de Groot, court messenger, to a message sent by vice-director Beeckman to director D'Hinoyossa, with the latter's answer,

Examination of Thomas Forst, and other soldiers touching certain proceedings of sheriff Van Sweringen.

Evidence of Abraham van Nas, Hendrick Kip, jr., Francis Cregier, William Cornelis Rickenvryer and Foppe Jansen Outhout, respecting the conduct of vice-director Beeckman at Altona.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant, vindicating himself from certain accusations of director Hinoyossa, and transmitting affidavits.

Letter. J. de la Grange, councillor, to director Stuyvesant; failure of his efforts to reconcile director Hinoyossa and vice-director Beeckman, with another letter from him on the same subject, dated New Amstel, 3d August.

Letter. William Claiborne, junior, to director Stuyvesant, requesting that two runaway servants be apprehended and sent back.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; suspension of sheriff Van Sweringen; further particulars of his case.

Notarial declaration of Caspar Luter and Hendrick Dyck, respecting the killing of Harmen Hendricks, by sheriff Van Sweringen.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant, informing him of a panic which prevails at the South river.

Letter. John Willemsen, councillor of New Amstel, to vice-director Beeckman, informing him that a Dutchman had been shot by some Sinnekus, and proposing to send an express to the director-general.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant, with the preceding letter, and stating some circumstances respecting the above murder.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; further conjectures respecting those who committed the above murder.

Declaration of vice-director Beeckman, that the land called Printsdorp, had been 18 years in possession of governor Prints and his daughter, who still owns it, and that a tract of land between Maritgies hook and Upland Kill had been donated by queen Christina to the father-in-law of Elias Hullengreen.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; the perpetrators of the late murder unknown; director Hinoyossa about to go to Holland; intermittent fever.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant, informing him of the arrival of some Englishmen from Virginia in pursuit of William Brown and three other servants; (Brown had been sold to a Dutchman by some Indians who had taken him prisoner on the way).

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; death of Mathew Bengson, deputy sheriff; a man-servant of Peter Alrichs (one of the above runaways) hung, afterwards beheaded and his head set on a stake at New Amstel, for resisting those who had arrested him.

Letter. J. Willems, councillor, to vice-director Beekman; departure of Hinoyossa and Van Sweringen for a conference with the governor of Maryland at the house of Augustyn Heerman (Bohemia, Md.).

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; return of D'Hinoyossa to New Amstel; lord Baltimore obtains a new patent, including the Delaware river; another murder by Indians,

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; death of councillor Willems at New Amstel.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; conference with some Minqua chiefs; black Minquas; projected war against the Sinnecus.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; further accusations against Hinoyossa; nothing known of his negotiations with gov. Calvert; small pox among the Indians.

Letter. Commissary Hendrick Huygen to "his cousin" vice-director Beeckman; state of affairs there and at Upland,

Trial and sentence of banishment pronounced against Evert Hendricksen, a Fin, at Altona.

Letter. Andries Hudde, secretary, to director Stuyvesant; Sinnekes, 1600 strong, with wives and children marching on the Minquas, at the instigation of the English; fort Altona utterly defenseless.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; Minquas blockaded in their fort by the Sinnecus, 800 strong; battle; Sinnecus defeated; sheriff Van Sweringen reinstated; the burgomasters of Amsterdam in treaty for the whole of the country on the Delaware river; immigration; new Swedish clergyman.

Letter. William Beeckman to secretary van Ruyven; Sinnecus retired to their own country.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; massacre at Esopus; Minquas threaten to follow the Sinnecus; immigration; Mr. Beeckman applies for employment elsewhere.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; defenseless condition of the fort; Andries Hudde about to move to Maryland; two Englishmen murdered there by Sinnecus, as it is supposed.

Letter. William Beeckman to secretary van Ruyven; state of affairs.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; arrival of settlers from Holland; director D'Hinoyossa about to proceed thither,

Resolution of the Amsterdam chamber of the W. I. Company, consenting to the cession of the whole of the Delaware river to the city of Amsterdam.

Further concessions to the colonie of the city of Amsterdam on the Delaware river.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; visit of lord Baltimore (sic) and suite to New Amstel and Altona; renews treaty of peace with the Indians; settlement of the boundary proposed to him; he refers it to the old lord Baltimore.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; Esopus Indians visit the Minissincks at the head of the Delaware; Minquas carry presents to the Mohawks, who kill some of them; will join the Senecas against the Minquas.

Oath of office taken by Gerrit Cock, collector of customs at the city&'s colonie on the Delaware river,

Letter. Directors of the Amsterdam Chamber of the W. I. Company to vice-director Beeckman, notifying him of the cession of the Delaware river to the city of Amsterdam (see supra, p. 83).

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; rev. Abelius Zetskoorn, Lutheran minister at New Amstel; efforts to induce him to settle at Tinnecongh in the place of domine Laers; death of Andries Hudde.

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; return of director D&'s Hinoyossa to New Amstel; immigrants; Delaware river ceded,

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; D'Hinoyossa will not allow him to occupy his present quarters; requests that other arrangements may be made; will move to Maryland if he be not continued in the public service,

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; declines to remain at Altona under D'Hinoyossa; repeats his intention of moving to Maryland if the government require not his services,

Letter. William Beeckman to director Stuyvesant; attendance of the Swedes and Fins who are informed of the vice-director's approaching departure; refuse to swear allegiance to the new director, &c., unless the privilege of trading with the Indians be continued; D'Hinoyossa instructed to prevail on Mr. Beeckman to remain at the Delaware; unsuccessful in his efforts,