Research

Order allowing Elizabethtown, Newark, Woodbridge and Piscattaway, New Jersey, to send delegates to the Dutch commanders, to surrender their towns.

Order to the village of Bergen, &c., to send delegates also.

Order to the villages of Middletowne and Shrewsbury, to send delegates also.

Release of the authorities of the city of New Orange (late New York) from their oath to the English government.

Summons to the English towns on Long island, and to Westchester, to send delegates to New Orange.

Minute of the submission of the Dutch towns on Long Island, and of the people of Staten Island.

Orders to the burghers of New Orange, to send delegates to confer with the Dutch commanders.

Commission. Messrs. Steenwyck and five others, to be delegates, and to confer accordingly.

Order for the nomination of burgomasters and schepens, for the city of New Orange.

Nomination of burgomasters and schepens.

Oath of office of the municipal authorities.

Proclamation altering the form of government of the city of New Orange.

Privileges granted to the several towns in New Jersey.

Appointment of magistrates for Brooklyn and adjoining towns on the west end of Long Island.

Proclamation seizing all property belonging to the English or French within the province of New Netherland, and particularly that of Thomas de Laval.

Appointment of magistrates for Bergen, N. J.

Order to the inhabitants of Elizabethtown and five neighboring towns in New Jersey to nominate magistrates.

Minute of the qualifying of the magistrates of divers towns; submission of East and Westchester, with extent of the jurisdiction of their courts.

Petition presented by delegates of Oysterbay, with order granting the same.

Appointment of magistrates for Elizabethtown, Woodbridge, Shrewsbury and Newark (N. J.) and Mamaroneck.

Oath of office.

Petition. Delegates from the five English towns on Long Island, east of Oysterbay, with the privileges they demand and their submission.

Answer of the Dutch authorities to the above petition.

Letter. Governor and general assembly of the colony of Connecticut to the Dutch authorities at New Orange, inquiring what are their further intentions.

Letter. Commander and council of war in answer to the above.

Order to the towns on the east end of Long Island to nominate magistrates; appointment of magistrates for Staten Island.

Minute of the submission of the proprietors of Shelter and Gardiner's Islands.

Appointment of magistrates for Piscattaway (N. J.).

Order for the settlement of the late gov. Lovelace's accounts.

Grant of Shelter Island to Nathaniel Silvester.

Order for the administration of the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the Dutch and English towns on the west end of Long Island, with form of the oath.

Patent to Nathaniel Silvester for Shelter Island.

Appointment of magistrates for East and Westchester.

Appointment of magistrates for Flushing and adjoining English towns on Long Island.

Order on a petition from Esopus for the government of that district.

Petition for privileges from Fort Orange (Albany).

Commission. Schout and secretary of Achter Col.

Census of Brooklyn and other towns on the west end of Long Island.

Order on a petition of Johanna de Laet, directing Jeremias van Rensselaer to render an account of his administration of the colonie of Renselaerwyck.

Order continuing to the colonie of Renselaerwyck, its ancient privileges for one year.

Appointment of militia officers for the town of Bergen.

Order for administering the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the towns in Achter Col (New Jersey).

Petition. Schout, burgomasters and schepens, of New Orange, praying that two ships of war may remain during the winter for the protection of the country.

Answer granting said request.

Appointment of magistrates for the towns on the east end of Long Island.

Letter. Commander, &c., to the people at the east end of Long Island, consenting to certain modifications of the oath of fidelity, with the oath as amended.

Confiscation of a ketch lying sunk in Westchester creek.

Orders respecting New Jersey and Harlem.

Order for the departure of ex-governor Lovelace.

Proclamation against the sojourn of strangers, within the city of New Orange.

Privileges granted to the inhabitants of the South river (Delaware); jurisdiction of the several courts there.

Hue and cry for the arrest of Daniel Lane, who broke jail.

Renewal of the peace with the Hackensack Indians.

Fine imposed on John Singletary of New Jersey.

Fine imposed upon Robert van Quelen.

Census of the several towns at Achter Col.

Names of the militia officers of said towns.

Minute of the departure of Mohawk chiefs from New Orange.

Appointment of magistrates for Schanegtade.

Commission. Anthony Colve to be governor of New Netherland.

Commission. Cornelis Steenwyck, to be member of the council.

Oath of office taken by councillor Steenwyck.

Commission. Cornelis Ewoutse, to be master gunner, &c.

Proclamation confiscating all property in New Netherland, belonging to the kings of France and England, or their subjects.

Bond of commander Benckes, pledging his superiors to pay all expenses incurred by the Surinam and Zeehondt.

Commission. Nicholas Bayard, to be secretary of the province.

Commission. Nicholas Bayard, to be receiver-general.

Order fixing Nicholas Bayard's salary.

Commission. Peter Alrigs, to be schout and commandant at the South river.

Oath of office taken by said Alrigs.

Order to administer the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the South river.

Commission. Walter Wharton, to be land surveyor at the South river.

Oath of office taken by Mr. Wharton.

Letter. Gov. Colve to the magistrates of Hempstead, censuring them for not arresting a stranger who had endeavored to create disaffection.

Order for delinquents at Hempstead, to take the oath of allegiance.

Grant of the free exercise of their religious worship, to the Lutherans at Willemstadt (Albany).

Instructions for Andries Draeyer, commandant and schout at Willemstadt (Albany).

Order to Martin Cregier, to furnish supplies to commander Draeyer.

Instructions for the schout and commandant of the South river.

Permit to Lewis Morris to come into New Netherland; order to the magistrates at Nevesings, to send intelligence of approaching vessels; order for a new election of magistrates at Shrewsbury.

Letter. Gov. Colve to the towns on Long Island, east of Oysterbay, with instructions for their government.

Commission. Captain Knyff and others, to administer the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the towns on the east end of Long Island.

Instructions for the schout and magistrates of Brooklyn, and adjoining towns on the west end of Long island.

Minute, that like instructions have been sent to the other towns on Long island; to the South river; Esopus, and the towns in New Jersey.

Order to sell major Kingsland's plantation and stock at Achter Col.

Orders for Jan Sol, major of the garrison at fort William Henrick.

Orders extracted from the articles of war.

Instructions for the commissary.

Complaint by the inhabitants of Fordham against John Archer and his surrender of the government of that town.

Order to the inhabitants of Fordham to send a nomination for magistrates.

Appointment of magistrates and militia officers for Swaenenburgh (Kingston), Marbletown and Hurley, with an order that a nomination for schout be made and sent to the governor.

Appointment of magistrates for Willemstadt and Renselaerswyck.

Letter. Gov. Colve to Hempstead, excusing those inhabitants who have not taken the oath of allegiance, and giving further orders for that purpose.

Letter. Gov. Colve to William Lawrence and Charles Bridges, directing them to publish the order confiscating all the property of all subjects of the King of England; also, to arrest all seditious persons.

Oath of office of William LaMontagne, secretary to the court at the Esopus; order of Peter Bilyou, schout of Staten island, to report the arrival of vessels inside of Sandy hook.

Minute of the attendance of the burgomasters of New Orange on the gov. council; houses, &c., under the walls of the fort to be demolished.

Letter. Gov. Colve to the magistrates of Swaenenburgh, directing the sale of horses belonging to English subjects.

Minute of arrangements entered into with the proprietors of houses near the fort, for the removal thereof.

Appointment of assessors to value the above houses ordered to be pulled down.

Order allowing Lewis Morris to have the guardianship of his deceased brother's orphan child.

Order on a petition from Oysterbay, explaining and confirming their privileges.

Banishment of Thomas Hunt, of Westchester, out of the province.

Order to schout Jacob Strycker to call on the several constables within his district to account for, and pay in the balance of the public taxes.

Letter. Gov. Colve to schout Ogden on Indian matters; seizure of the property belonging to capt. Carterett, late gov. of New Jersey, &c.

Proclamation ordering the demolition of houses, &c., adjoining fort Willem Hendrick, and imposing a duty on certain goods to pay an indemnity to the proprietors of said property.

Valuation of the houses, &c., ordered to be demolished, and of the lots given in stead.

Order granting Lewis Morris the plantation of his deceased brother Richard, for the benefit of the latter's orphan child.

Appointment of clerk and magistrates for Fordham.

Permit to Walter Webly to remain within this government on taking the oath of allegiance.

Report of capt. Knyff and the other commissioners sent to administer the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the towns on Long island, east of Oysterbay.

Answer of the town of Southampton, refusing to swear allegiance to the Dutch government.

Reasons why the major part of the town of Southold refuse to come under the Dutch.

Letter. Court of Easthampton to the Dutch commissioners, requesting to be left to be regulated by their former laws and the resident magistrates.

Letter. Recorder and constable complaining of those of Southampton for having opened their letter to the Dutch commissioners.

Letter. Town of Seatalcott to the commissioners, excusing themselves for not complying with their request; with resolution of the town.

Letter. Magistrates to gov. Colve, praying to be excused from taking the oath of allegiance for one year, and to be allowed to remain neutral; yet submitting to the Dutch government, and asking for the appointment of additional magistrates.

Resolution of the governor and council on the above report.

Minute of the appearance of the magistrates of the towns on the west end of Long island, before the council; loyalty of the people there to the government.

Council minute. Approval of some ordinances of the town of Bergen; orders on petitions for lands; Harlem; Esopus.

Appointment of Isaac Grevenraet, to be schout at Esopus; arrests for sedition; confiscation of furs belonging to Thomas Willett.

Resolution to send a second embassy to the towns on the east end of Long island.

Commission. Capt. Knyff and ensign Vos, to administer the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the eastern towns on Long Island.

Appointment of militia officers for the towns of Midwout, Amesfoort, Breuckelen, Utrecht, Bushwyck and Gravesend.

Orders on a petition for the better government of the Esopus.

Council minutes. Mitigation of the seizure of Mr. Willet's beavers; appointment of curators of the late Nicolas Davis' estate.

Appointment of commissioners to take charge of the estate of capt. John Manning, and to pay debts due by him.

Report of the submission of Huntington and Seatalcott, and of the appointment of magistrates there.

Commission. Councillor Cornelis Steenwyck, capt. Charles Epestyn, and lieut. Charles Quirynsen, to visit the towns of Easthampton, Southold and Southampton, and administer the oath of allegiance.

Instructions for said commissioners.

Commission. Isaac Grevenraet, to be schout at Esopus.

Oath to be administered to the magistrates and militia officers at Esopus.

Appointment. Balthazar Bayard, to be commissioner on the part of the government, to regulate in conjunction with the guardians of Richard Morris' son, said Morris' estate, sell personal property and pay debts.

Commission. Olof Stevese van Cortlandt, Gelyn Verplancke and Gabriel Minvielle, to settle the estate of the late gov. Lovelace.

Appointment of Lodewyck Cobbes, to be notary public at Willemstadt.

Letter. General court of Connecticut to governor Colve, remonstrating against his proceedings on the east end of Long Island, and threatening to deal with his headquarters.

Letter. Gov. Colve to gov. Winthrop; cannot believe that such an impertinent and absurd letter came from the gov. and general court; incloses copy and awaits his answer.

Permit to Madame Corlear, to trade with the Indians at Schenectady; order respecting a negro claimed by Mrs. Teller.

Instructions for the schout and magistrates of Willemstadt and Renselaerswyck.

Report of the commissioners sent to the east end of Long Island (with) journal of their voyage and proceedings.

Proclamation for a day of Humiliation and Thanksgiving.

The same in English.

Order to capt. Ewoutsen to proceed to Nantucket and endeavor to save a small Dutch craft there.

Warrant to Mr. John Hoit, magistrate of Eastchester, not to suffer any person to travel through said town to or from New England, without a pass from those in authority.

Council minutes. Order in the case of the widow Lattine of Hempstead; the authorities at Willemstadt to put a stop to all correspondence with the Jesuits and Frenchmen from Canada; arrears of taxes in the towns on the west end of Long Island; appointment of a magistrate for New Utrecht; order to seize capt. Carr's estate on the Delaware.

Council minutes. Order in the case of the widow Lattine of Hempstead; the authorities at Willemstadt to put a stop to all correspondence with the Jesuits and Frenchmen from Canada; arrears of taxes in the towns on the west end of Long island; appointment of a magistrate for New Utrechtl order to seize capt. Carr's estate on the Delaware.

Letter. Gov. Winthrop to gov. Colve; avows the genuineness of the letter of the gen. court of the 21st inst., which he commends to his consideration.

Letter. Gov. Colve to gov. Winthrop and the gen. court of Connecticut, vindicating his course at the east end of Long Island, and censuring those of Connecticut for their interference there, &c.

Order to the magistrates of Seatalcot to seize the estate of Daniel Lane, accused of incest.

Order defining the jurisdiction of the magistrates of Huntington and Seatalcot.

Council minutes. Permission to Thomas Hunt, Jr., to reside within the province on taking the oath of allegiance; order to commander Draeyer to break off all correspondence with the Jesuit from Canada; report of capt. Ewoutsen that the Dutch vessel at Nantucket has been taken to Boston; reprisals.

Examination of the captains of the New England ketches brought in by captain Ewoutsen.

Resolution to detain said vessels and cargoes.

Leter. Gov. Colve to gov. Levereth, informing him that he has released the captains and crews of the above vessels and sent them to Rhode Island free of expense.

Appointment of magistrates for the Whorekill.

Order on a petition of Lewis Morris, permitting him to bring to New Orange property belonging to Richard Morris's child.

Order confiscating the four New England ketches lately brought in by capt. Ewoutsen.

Order referring to commissioners a difference between Jan Jansen Veryn and the town of New Utrecht.

Sentence pronounce on Francis Beado, for threatening to burn the village of Fordham, &c., to be branded and banished.

Proclamation ordering all strangers to depart the province, and interdicting all correspondence with N. England.

Letter. Gov. and council of Massachusetts to gov. Colve, demanding release of the ketches captured by capt. Ewoutsen.

Letter. Gov. Colve to the gov., &c., of Massachusetts, in answer to the above; justifies his proceedings.

Order to the magistrates of Seatalcot to allow the wife of Daniel Lane half of his estate for her support.

Commission. William Knyff to be fiscal of New Netherland.

Divers orders in view of a threatened attack on the province from New England.

Names of the militia officers of New Orange and their oath.

Letter. Gov. Colve to schout William Lawrence, of Flushing, enjoining on him and the people of his district to be true and faithful to their allegiance.

Orders to administer oath of allegiance to the people of Staten island; admitting Allard Anthony to be notary public and attorney in all the courts.

Order forbidding the export of provisions and other articles.

Commission. Cornelis Steenwyck to be captain, N. Bayard lieutenant, and Gabriel Minviele ensign, of the burgher corps of New Orange.

Letter. Gov. Colve to the schout, magistrates, &c., of Bergen, encouraging them in their allegiance.

Council minute. All persons, no matter what their religious persuasion, are bound to contribute to the support of the precentor and schoolmaster.

Order furloughing one-third of each of the militia companies that came to New Orange.

Letter. Gov. Colve to the schout, magistrates, &c., of Harlem and Fordham, enjoining them to be faithful to their allegiance.

Order for the preservation and security of New Orange.

Commission. Jacobus van de Water to be town major of New Orange.

Commission. Francis de Bruyn to be auctioneer for the five Dutch towns on Long Island.

Letter. Gov. Colve to the magistrates of Schenectady, censuring them for want of respect to the court of Willemstadt, &c.

Commission. Martin Cregier, jr., to settle the estate of Thomas de Laval at Willemstadt.

Order to schout Ogden to send some pieces of ordnance to New Orange.

Instructions for the officers of militia at the Esopus.

Commission. Martin Vonck to be captain of the Hope.

Instructions for captain Vonck.

Oath of office of Allard Anthony as notary public and attorney.

Instructions for town major Van de Water.

Proclamation sent to the South river on an invasion of those parts from Maryland.

Instructions for the schout, burgomasters and schepens of the city of New Orange.

Proceedings of gov. Colve towards the burgomasters of New Orange, on their declining to allow schout Knyff to preside in their court.

Submission of said burgomasters.

Order in the suit of Richard Smith vs. the town of Huntington.

Appointment of commissioners to investigate charges against the sheriff of Staten island.

Minute of the appearance of certain Indian sachems of New Jersey before the council.

Order for the punishment of a refractory seaman.

Order prohibiting the sale of strong liquors to soldiers and sailors in the public service.

Order on a petition of the schout of Achter Col for the ratification of certain ordinances, &c.

Court minutes. Order in the case of the fiscal agst. Van Deventer, for insulting his superior officer.

Further court minutes.

Order referring the case of Richard Smith agst. the town of Huntington to arbitrators.

Commission. Assessors to make a return of all estates in New Orange over 1,000 guilders.

Order for the nomination of additional magistrates for Staten Island.

Warrant for the arrest of Ralph Doxy and Mary Lintsch, of Newtown (L. I.), who are living together without being married.

Appointment of Gideon Marlet and Nathan Whiteman to be additional magistrates for Staten Island.

Writ of appeal from a judgment of the court of New Orange in the case of the fiscal agst. Van Deventer.

Court minutes.

Order on an application of Robert Coo, of Rustdorp (Jamaica), L. I., for license to marry Jane, widow of Edward Rause; certainty of said Rause's death to be established.

Order making further provision for a correct assessment of the real estate in New Orange.

Ordinance. For the exclusive use of Amsterdam weights and measures.

Court minutes. Order in the matter of the estate of the late Isaac Bedloo.

Order authorizing Nicholas Bayard, vendue master, to sue for his fees.

Order postponing the case of Smith agst. the town of Huntington, until May.

Order continuing the case of the fiscal agst. Doxy.

Commission. Dirck van Clyff, Walter Webly and Balthazar Bayard, to settle the estate of the late Richard Morris.

Pass for the ketch Welvaert, to sail to Surinam.

Court minutes. Judgment against Van Deventer for affronting his superior officer, fined 25 beaver skins; judgment against Ralph Doxy, his marriage pronounced void, as it was solemnized by Jacobus Fabricius, who had no power to act, ordered to be remarried; judgment against Fabricius, for having married the above parties; suspended for 12 months from the exercise of his clerical functions; said Fabricius further fined for having committed an assult on one Maretie Jurians.

Order further extending the time fixed for the departure of Thomas Lovelace from the province.

Orders allowing Bartholomew Applegadt & Co., to purchase lands at Middletown (N. J.) from the Indians; granting Paul Regrenie 50 morgens of land on Staten Island; commanding Roger Townsen and the town of Westchester, to appear before the appointed arbitrators; regulating the sailing of sloops to the Esopus.

Order to the militia of the Dutch towns adjoining New Orange, to appear armed at that city on the first notice.

Order forbidding citizens of New Orange to pass the night out of that city without leave.

Order for a forced loan to defray the expenses incurred for the repair of the fort at New Orange.

Return of estates in New Orange, exceeding in value the sum of 1,000 guilders.

Order to the Dutch towns to send delegates to New Orange, to confer with the governor.

Appointment of Francis Bloodgood, to be chief officer of the Dutch inhabitants of Flushing, Heemstede, Rustdorp and Middleburgh, &c.

Commission. Jacobus van de Water, to be receiver of moneys advanced for completing the fortification of New Orange.

Minute of the meeting of the delegates from the several Dutch towns, with their names.

Order to provide boats to convey the out people to New Orange, on the approach of the enemy.

Order respecting vessels in port.

Court minutes. Francis Rombouts and Gelyn Verplanck, fined for holding correspondence with New Englanders; Peter Poulsen sentenced for assaulting people in the public street.

Order. Divorce granted to Catherine Lane, if her husband do not appear in 6 months.

Ordinance. Against the running at large of hogs, horses and cows in New Orange.

Sentence of Samuel Forman of Oysterbay, for disturbing public worship in the church at New Orange; to be publicly whipped and then banished.

Order refusing Jacobus Fabricius, a Lutheran minister, permission to baptize.

Ordinance. Against shooting or catching hogs in the woods on Manhattan Island, without a permit.

Caveat against granting Thomas Lovelace certain land near Staten Island.

Caveat against granting certain lands (in New Jersey), to Batholomew Applegate & Co.

Order approving an ordinance of the town of Middletown (N. J.), against people quitting that place without notice.

Minute of the hearing of a claim lodged by some Indians to Secaucus (N. J.).

Order to pay for materials furnished for the repairs of Fort Willem Hendrick.

Points submitted by the magistrates of Willemstadt, and order thereupon.

Order to attach the estate and effects of John Archer, to answer a demand of Thomas Gibbs and John Curtis.

Order protecting Thomas Labertse, late constable of Brooklyn, from any claims against him in such capacity.

Sentence of Isaac Melyn to hard labor at the fort, for uttering seditious language.

Sentence of banishment against John Sharp, for fomenting mutiny.

Order confiscating all property in New Netherland, belonging to inhabitants of New England, Virginia, and Maryland.

Mortgage of sundry pieces of cannon for the re-payment of money borrowed by the government.

Letter. Gov. Colve to Johan Doncker, governor of Curaçao; rumors of peace.

Letter. N. Bayard to lieut. Drayer; peace concluded between Holland and England.

Order to pay moneys for repairs of the fortifications.

Order referring complaints of Richard Smith and Jeremy Wood, to the local tribunals.

Propositions of the Mohawk Indians to gov. Colve, and his answer.

Orders on various petitions from Aghter Col (New Jersey).

Minute of the capture of sundry New England vessels.

Order confiscating said vessels.

Judgment in a suit for possession of the public bouwery, at Ahsymus (N. J.).

Order to survey lots in New Orange, for divers persons.

Minute of the return and attendance of the Mohawk chiefs at the council; order to forward them home.

Divers orders on petitions of private persons; peace between Holland and England proclaimed in New England.

Order to levy by execution the 100th penny off all persons refusing to pay their share of the forced loan.

Order to settle the accounts of the late gov. Lovelace.

Order to regulate the accounts of Cornelis van Ruyven, who is about to return to Holland.

Court minutes. Prosecution for smuggling, &c.

Order for the payment of the salaries due the late rev. Johannes Megapolensis, deceased, and to rev. Samuel Megapolensis.

Order on a difference between the towns of Woodbrige and Piscattaway (N. J.).

Commission. John Lawrence, Richard Betts and James Hubbard, to be commissioners to settle certain differences between the above towns.

Court minutes. Writs of appeal issued.

Order for payment by the W. I. Company, of debts due individual creditors in New Netherland.

Order releasing from confiscation, property in New Netherland belonging to inhabitants of New England, Virginia and Maryland.

Order for the restoration to their owners, pursuant to the articles of the peace, of three New England vessels lately captured.

Court minutes.

Orders on sundry matters relating to New Jersey; order to the magistrates of Heemstede, to investigate certain charges against the marshall of that town.

Order on a petition of Abigail Messinger, wife of Richard Darlin, for divorce; consideration postponed 6 months.

Order confirming to the consistory, &c., of the Dutch Reformed religion, the church standing in Fort William Hendrick, New Orange.

Order to Messrs. Steenwyck, Bayard and Van de Water, to receive the account books of the W. I. Company.

Part of the rough draft of the journal of the commissioners' visit to the east end of Long Island (supra, p. 152).

Accounts against Peter Stoutenburgh and others.

Muster roll. Capt. Steenwyck's company.

Names of persons residing between the Fresh water and Harlem, and of negroes.

Names of persons who took the oath of allegiance at Harlem.

Commission. William Knyfe and lt. Krynsen to administer the oath of allegiance to the people of Westchester and Eastchester on the Mayne.

Names of the male inhabitants of West and Eastchester.

Declaration of allegiance signed by Quakers living at Westchester.

Names of persons who have taken the oath at Elizabethtown, Shrewsbury, Middletown, Piscattaway, Newworke, Woodbridge and Fordham (or Yonkers).

Oath of allegiance subscribed at Oysterbay, with names of the signers.

Letter. John Winthrop to Mr. Bryan, requesting a credit for Mrs. Mathias Nicolls to the amount of £40.

Order to Peter Harmsen to remove his house from the vicinity of the fort (New Orange).

Similar order to Peter de Riemer.

Commission. Samuel Willis and John Winthrop to repair to the east end of Long Island, and prevent the Dutch forces using any hostility towards the people there.

Petition. Gabriel Tomassen of Willemstadt, for permission to go to Boston for goods there belonging to him.

Caveat entered by the people of Westchester against granting a piece of land there to Roger Townsend.

Petition. Capt. John Berry, praying a revision of a judgment pronounced against him by the court of Bergen.

Minute of court of Bergen in the suit against John Berry, defendant, for taking away some hogs belonging to capt. Sandford; judgment 250 guilders and costs, with duplicate of the preceeding petition.

Petition. Peter Stoutenburgh and others, for payment of the indemnity to which they are entitled for the removal of their houses adjoining the fort.

Letter. Secretary Bayard to Isaac Greveraet, sheriff of Esopus; sends him four negroes, with directions to sell them for wheat, peas or beaver.

Certificate of surgeon Roelof Kierstede as to the cause of death of Hendrick, the wampum stringer.

Depositions of William Smith, George Tibbet and James Pinnet, of Fordham, proving the threats uttered by Francis Beado, to burn, kill, and destroy the Dutch (see supra, p. 172).

Deposition of William Osborn of Hempstead, as to the proceedings and conversations of Beado.

Complaint of ensign Voz against serg't Coenraet Janse, with the trial and sentence of the latter.

Reference of a case to schout William Laurence and Richard Cornwel, for examination, &c.

Some leaves of an account book with prices of various articles.

Minutes of court at Willemstadt (Albany), in a suit brought by Hendrick Roosenboom, city grave digger, to recover his fees from a man who had employed the grave digger of the Lutheran church, who is styled an interloper; judgment for plaintiff, 18 guilders.

List of creditors of the fortifications of New Orange.

Report of Jacob Leisler and Dirck van der Clyff, of amounts due workmen at the fort; that New Utrecht and Brooklyn only have paid their contributions. [Typewritten translation inserted in place of missing original.]

Petition. John Ogden, praying confirmation of certain ordinances enacted by the court of Achter Col.

Complaint of the fiscal against capt. Fleet and Walter Webly.

Same. Against Asser Levy.

Same. Against Jacob Leunen.

Condemnation of the sloop Dolphin, captured by commanders Evertze and Benckes in the bay of Virginia.

Petition. Schout and magistrates of Flushing.

Trial and sentence of two soldiers for fighting; one to run the gauntlet naked during the pleasure of the court martial; the other to set on the wooden horse with a 24lb. weight to each leg, whilst the former is running the gauntlet.

Trial of Ambrose Cæsar, a soldier, accused of disobeying his sergeant; sentence to run the gauntlet naked, and then to be re-admitted to the company with the colors overhead.

Order to the marshal to summon Dirck Jansen van Deventer before the gov. and council to answer a complaint of the fiscal.

Petition. Anna Vermont, for mitigation of the sentence of banishment pronounced against her husband.

Certificate signed by sundry citizens of New Orange, in favor apparently of the above person.

Complaint of the fiscal against Laurens van der Spigel.

Petition. Jacobus Fabricius, minister, praying forgiveness for having married a couple illegally; pleads ignorance of the law.

Mortgage by Samuel Edsall to Jacob Kipp and Peter Stoutenburgh, of Constable's hook (N. J.).

Petition. Precentor and grave digger of Willemstadt (Albany), to be maintained in the rights of his office.

Affidavit of David Govertsen in regard to the violent conduct of rev. Mr. Fabricius towards Maritie Juriaens in her own house.

Petition. George Cooke, for permission to go to Road Island.

Petition. Bartholomew Appelgate and others for leave to purchase from the Indians a tract of land two Dutch miles this side of the village of Middletown (N. J.), for the settlement of six or eight families there.

Petition. Elizabeth de Potter, widow of Isaac Bedloo, to be admitted as a preferred creditor of the late gov. Lovelace, &c.

Evidence that Jan Spigelaer sold rum on the public fast and prayer day.

Papers in the suit against said Spigelaer.

Letter. Matthias Nicolls to gov. Winthrop; rumors that some ships are designed to reduce New York; recommends that the United Colonies anticipate the expectations from Europe, in which there would be great honor.

Mortgage. John Catlin, attorney for Edward Ball, John Baltwin and Nathaniel Wheeler, of Newworke (N. J.), to Pieter Jacobse Marius, of a portion of their land at Achter Col, being part of Kingslant's plantation.

Complaint against Francis Rombouts for holding correspondence with the enemy.

Petition. Richard Smythe, praying redress in a suit against Jeremy Wood.

Petition. Catherine Lane for a divorce.

Minute of an order of the court held at Jamaica, that Susanna Hallet's husband shall pay her certain moneys.

Fragment of an affidavit setting forth that Samuel Forman, of Oysterbay, came to the city, where he lodged at the house of Anthony Jansen from Salee, and, by inspiration of Christ Jesus, intended to repair to the church during divine service, and exclaim, "O cry wath shall I cry, all flesh is grass, grass is the flower of the field, the flower fails and the grass withers, but the word of God obeids forever," &c.

Affidavit of Francis Charetier alias La Foreest, that he had settled with schout De Milt for a fine imposed on him for tapping.

Petition. Balthazar Bayard to be appointed commissary of exports and imports.

Letter. Nathaniel Denton to secretary Bayard, respecting the maintenance of the minister, to which Humphrey Underhill and William Crede refuse to contribute.

Declaration of Jonas Wood as to a conversation he had with gov. Lovelace last June respecting an order in a suit brought by Richard Smith, which the gov. denied had been authorized.

Complaint against John Sharpe for coming to New Orange and spreading reports of peace and the restoration of the city, &c.

Complaint against Isaac Melyn for the same.

Petition. Richard Smith for redress against a judgment of the court at Jamaica, L. I.

Answer of respondents in an appeal of John Gilman and [Daniel] Denton of Piscattaway agst. John Pike, Samuel Moor and Jonathan Dunham, att'ys for the town of Woodbridge.

Petition. Richard Pateshall, for liberty to send to Boston for a vessel and goods to trade here.

Petition. Richard Pateshall requesting certain favors in regard to his vessel.

Mortgage. Jacques Corteljou to Cornelis van Ruyven, of his bouwery, &c. at New Utrecht.

Petition. Anthony Jenkins, for permission to bring from Boston to N. Orange certain Barbadoes goods, such as rum, molasses, sugar and cotton.

Petition. Charles Hill of [New London], for permission to bring his vessel to New Orange with a cargo of wine, brandy and rum.

Complaint of the fiscal against Anthony de Milt for trespass.

Complaint of the fiscal against Francis Chartier, for aiding some Frenchmen to desert their masters.

Declaration of Marritgie Symens, wife of Jacob Barentsen, regarding the trespass committed by schout De Milt.

Declaration of Metjie Wessels as to the same affair.

Inventory of papers, &c., delivered in the case of Jacob Varrevanger agst. Cornelis Steenwyck.

Commission. Gulayne ver Planke, Stephanus van Cortlant, Dirck van Clyff and Peter de la Noy, to examine and settle the estate of the late gov. Lovelace.

Further complaint of the fiscal agst. Francis Charretier.

Complaint against George Demis, for smuggling rum, &c., into Long Island.

Petition. Richard Smith, complaining of Joseph Smith, and praying redress.

Minute of the court of Marbletown, referring to the governor Jan Joosten's application for permission to reside on his land.

Decision of the court at Elizabethtown, in the case of the town of Piscattaway agst. the town of Woodbridge.

Petition. Richard Pateshall, for permission to send his vessel to Boston with freight.

Petition. Nework, Elizabethtown and Piscattaway, for a confirmation of their rights and possessions.

Grant to James, duke of York, of the province of New York and territories, thereon depending.

Petition. Town of Oysterbay for a certain tract of land adjoining that place.

Petition. Inhabitants of the town of Bergen protesting against certain agreement of their delegates, in regard to some disputed meadow land, and praying that the same be annulled.

Commission. Pieter Jacobsen Marius and Asser Levy, to settle the claims against John Manning.

Commission. Cornelis Steenwyck, Johannes van Brugh, Johannes de Peyster and Egidius Luyck, to value certain lots along the North river, and without the walls of New Orange.

Judgment of a court held at Elizabethtown, in Aghter Cull, in a case between the town of Piscattaway and the town of Woodbridge.

Declaration of Alexander Stultheer, respecting a passage way between Mr. Steenwyck and Mr. Varrevanger's houses.

Objections of the inhabitants of Gommoenepan, &c., against a decision of arbitrators, in respect to a piece of meadow in dispute between them and the town of Bergen.

Report of referees as to the value of the ground allotted to Peter Stoutenburgh, in exchange for what he lost near the fortifications of New Orange.

Nomination of burgomasters and schepens for New Orange, for the ensuing year.

Complaint of Richard Smith agst. Joseph Smith.

Nomination of magistrates for Hurley and Marbletown.

Nomination of magistrates for Swaenenburgh.

Mortgage. John Man to John Shakerly, of his plantation, house, barn, &c., at Jamaica, L. I.

Declaration of the governor and council of New Plymouth, accepting the proposal of Gov. Colve, mutually to release all vessels and property belonging to either colony, then under arrest.

Petition. James Grover, John Bowne and associates, for confirmation of their patent for the lands lying between Sandyhook and the Raritan kil, New Jersey.

Protest of the town of Huntington against the claim of Richard Smith.

Petition. Richard Smith for the confirmation of a decision of the commissioners appointed to determine his claim against the town of Huntington.

Complaint of the fiscal against —————— for having corresponded with the enemy.

Complaint of the fiscal against Thomas Wandel for having given entertainment to persons who had been banished the province.

Richard Smith, praying a termination of his suit against the town of Huntington.

Petition. Town of Huntington, praying for justice and protection against Richard Smith.

Petition. Richard Smith, praying that execution issue against the town of Huntington, agreeably to the judgment pronounced by the governor and council.

Protest. Town of Huntington against the above judgment.

Petition. Richard Smith, praying a disposition of a bill of costs he hath furnished in the above case.

Report of referees in the case of Gabry agst. Veryn.

Petition. Jan Jansen Veryn, praying a letter of protection during his attendance on the gov. and council in the above suit.

Petition. William Hallet, praying that his wife may be obliged to live with him agreeably to the decision of the referees, or in case of her refusal to comply, that he may be granted a divorce.

Complaint of the fiscal against James ———, sent from Flushing as a public disturber.

Complaint against Peter Paulusen, for assaulting Jacob Wolphertsen and others.

Answer of Anthony de Milt to the complaint of fiscal Knyff.

Petition. Peter Stoutenburgh, for a piece of land to be used as a kitchen garden.

Petition. Jacob Hendrickse Varvanger, attorney of Paulus Leendertse vander Grift, praying that Jacques Cortillyou may be obliged to appear before referees according to order.

Petition. Frederick Philips, complaining that the court at Willemstadt had taxed his father-in-law, Adolf Hardenbroeck, who is merely his agent, and as his (P.'s) estate is taxed in New Orange, prays that the tax in Willemstadt may be taken off.

Petition. Isaac Melyn, a native and burgher of New Orange, praying to be released from imprisonment.

Petition. Cornelis Steenwyck, praying a survey of his lot.

Petition. Jan Theunissen, Jan Gerritsen and Anthony Theunissen, praying a grant to each of 25 or 30 morgens of land on Staten Island.

Petition. C. V. Ruyven, praying the appointment of commissioners to examine his accounts.

Nomination of magistrates for the town of Bergen and dependencies.

Nomination of magistrates for Gravesend.

Certificate of the magistrates in favor of granting certain land on the west side of Staten Island to Henderick Rycken.

Survey of land on Staten Island for Roelof van der Linde, Jan Spieringh, Jan van der Linde, Hans Spieringh.

Receipt of John Safflin, of Boston, curator of the estate of Thomas Willet, dec'd, late of Swansy, in Plymouth colony, for a lot of peltries lately seized by the government and now released.

Petition. Children and heirs of Cornelis Melyn et al., relative to Staten Island (fragment).

Return of survey for Jacob Gerritse and Zeger Gerritse, of a tract of land on Staten Island.

Petition. Minister and elders of the Lutheran church at Willemstadt, to be allowed to bury their own dead (see supra, p. 296, 313).

Petition. Gerrit Janz Roos, butcher, to purchase a piece of ground in New Orange.

Return of survey for Jan Scholten, of a parcel of land on Staten Island, along the Kill van kol.

Letter. Gov. Andros to gov. Colve, "from on board the ship Diamond," demanding the transfer and surrender of the New Netherland, to the crown of Great Britain, pursuant to the late treaty.

Letter. Gov. Andros to gov. Colve, requesting that an early day be fixt for the surrender of New Orange.

Letter. Gov. Andros to gov. Colve, acknowleding receipt of certain proposals; expressing every wish to accommodate matters, and a desire to send a force ashore to receive the fort.

Letter. Gov. Andros to gov. Colve, declining to land in a private capacity, and urging the surrender, &c.

Balance sheet showing the amount received and expended on the fortifications of New Orange, with list of persons whose assessments remain unpaid.

Proposals sent by gov. Colve to gov. Andros, previous to the surrender.

Letter. Gov. Andros to gov. Colve, with answers to the above proposals, and thanking him for the present of three horses and a coach.

Commission. Capt. Philip Carteret and Mathias Nicolls, to receive from gov. Colve such stores as are to be delivered pursuant to the articles of peace, with letter to gov. Colve informing him thereof.

Letter. Gov. Colve to Isaac Greveraedt, schout of Swaenenbergh, directing him to deliver up that place to the English.

List of confiscated lands, houses and other effects, left here by the gov. of New Netherland at his departure.

List of articles presented by capt. Knyff to the Lutheran church.

Book which relates to removed houses and moneys contributed for strengthening the fortifications of New Orange.

Minute of the commissioners appointed to arrange for the removal of the buildings adjoining the fort.

Names of persons whose houses have been removed for the purpose of strengthening Fort Willem Hendrick, with estimates of damages.

Register of Dutch patents and deeds begun 29th November, 1673, and ending 3d November, 1674. [Cover sheet of all documents numbered 23:433.]

Patent. Gov. Colve to John Ogden, Jaspar Crane, Jacob Melyn, Samuel Hopkins, John Ward, Abraham Pierson, senior, and Stephen Freeman, for themselves, and the inhabitants of New Work (N. J.), of a plantation heretofore beloning to major Nathaniel Kingsland, of Barbadoes, in the Caribbees, being two-thirds of a neck of land at Achter Col, between the rivers Pessayack and Hackingsack, extending from the point opposite New Work, to the fall opposite Espatin, which land had been confiscated and sold by auction to the above parties, and the remaining third part to William Sandford of Achter Coll, aforesaid.

Bill of sale to Jan Hendricks Spinter, William Sandford, Cornelis van Bursum and Reinout Wiliamse, of a confiscated ketch.

Pass to Lourens Sachariassen, skipper of the ketch Welfare, for a voyage to Surinam.

Bill of sale to Dirck van Clyff, of the confiscated ketch Neptune.

Bill of sale to Cornelis Steenwyck and Nicholas Bayard, of the confiscated ship St. Michael.

Patent. Gertrude, widow of John Hubon; lot situate at the Ferry, Long Island.

Deed. Gisbert Elbertsen, to Jan Janse Slot; a tract of land at Mespath's kil, L. I., containing 13 morgens, with a lot on the south side of Burger Jorissen's house.

Deed. Maretie, widow of Govert Loockermans, Balthazar Bayard, Hans Kierstede with Johannes de Peyster and Oloff Stevensen van Cortland, guardians of Jacob Loockermans, heirs of said Govert Loockermans, to Roelof Martense Schenck, of a bouwery at Amesfoort, L. I., containing 200 acres; also one lot in the village aforesaid, two valley lots at Canuressingh, one lot on Vriesen hook, one lot on Varcken's hook, one lot on Bestevaer's island, two lots in the rear of the land in the Great Valley, with the buildings thereon.

Bill of sale to Jacobus van de Water and Stephen van Cortland of the confiscated sloop Dolphin.

Deed. Ephraim Herman, agent of his father Augustyn Herman, to the widow and curators of the estate of the late Nicholas Davids of Backstable, New England, of a tract of land in the bay opposite Staten Island, south of the Raritan kil, beginning at the first kil called Kehackanick, thence running north along the bay to the Raritan kil aforesaid, thence westward up to the great kil Wackonabeck, which runs southerly, as purchased by said Augustyn Herman from the Indians, 28 March, 1651, and patented to him by Philip Carteret, 16 Nov. 1666 (New Jersey).

Patent. Nicholas Bayard; confiscated lot on the High street, New Orange, formerly belonging to William [Pattison], at present living in Scotland.

Patent. Cornelis, husband of Sara van Borsum, for her services as Indian interpretress; lot on Manhattan Island about northwest of the Windmill, on the west side of the road, which runs to the Kalckhook.

Patent. Paulus Regrinar; 70 morgens of land on Staten Island, on the bay, about 1 Dutch mile from Gideon Marlet's point.

Patent. Peter Stoutenbergh; lot west of the Broadway, being No. 3, in the garden formerly belonging to the W. I. Company, New Orange.

Gerrit Janse Roos; lot No. 2 adjoining the above.

Patent. William van Vredenburgh; lot No. 1, adjoining the above.

Patent. George Cobbet; lot No. 4, adjoining the Lutheran congregation in the garden aforesaid.

Patent. Lutheran congregation; lot No. 5, in the garden aforesaid, between George Cobbet and the city wall, New Orange.

Patent. Peter de Riemer; confiscated house and lot heretofore belonging to the late gov. Francis Lovelace, cast of fort William Hendrick, New Orange.

Patent. Simon Barentse Blanck; lot in Brewer street, New Orange.

Patent. Peter Jansen Slodt; lot in Brewer street, New Orange, adjoining the above.

Patent. Jan Dirckse Meyer; lot in Bridge street, New Orange.

Patent. Andries Meyer; lot in Bridge street, New Orange.

Patent. Peter Janse Mesier; lot in Bridge street, east the Five houses, New Orange.

Patent. Ephraim Herman; lot in High street, east of the highway, New Orange.

Patent. Martin Janse Meyer; confiscated house and lot east of the Sheep Pasture, New Orange, heretofore the property of Thomas Delaval.

Patent. Lodewyck Post; confiscated house and lot on the East river, New Orange, formerly the property of William Pattison.

Patent. Peter Harmse; confiscated house and lot on the little corner of Smiths street, New Orange, formerly the property of William Pattison.

Patent. Jacobus van de Water; confiscated house and lot in Pearl street, New Orange, formerly the property of William Pattison, now residing in Scotland.

Gerrit Hendrickse, butcher; confiscated house and lot in Smiths street, New Orange, formerly the property of William Pattison, aforesaid.

Patent. Ephraim Herman; lot, garden and orchard in Smith's valley, without the city of New Orange.

Patent. Johannis van Brugh; valley on the west side of the North river, between two kills called Hoboocken and Wiehaacken, containing about 5 @ 6 morgens (New Jersey).

Patent. Obadiah Bruen, Samuel Kitchell, Michael Tamkins, John Brown, Rober Denison, and the other inhabitants of the town of New Worke at Achter Coll, all the lands belonging to said town bounded east by the bay, north by the Passayack River, south by the great kil or river called Weequahick, and running in the valley to the head of the Inboght, and thence to the foot of the high hill called Watching, being about 7 or 8 English miles from Passayackdorp, and from the hill aforesaid to the third kil in Passayack river, which kill is called Yantakah, &c. (New Jersey).

Patent. Martin Janse Meyer; lot, garden, and orchard in Smith's valley, without the city of Orange.

Patent. Consistory of New Orange; the use of the church standing in fort William Hendrick, which they have enjoyed hitherto up to the present time, for divine service.

Patent. Roelof van der Linde, Jan Spieringh, Jan van der Linde and Hans Spieringh; morgens on land on the northwest hook of Staten Island.

Patent. Peter Jansen Mesier; lot in Smith's valley, without the city of New Orange.

Patent. Peter Stoutenbergh; lot in New Orange, adjoining Dr. Henry Taylor's garden.

Patent. Jan Teunissen van Pelt; piece of land known as The Blackpoint, on the Kil van Col, Staten Island.

Patent. Martin Cregier, jun'r; confiscated house and lot adjoining the Lutheran church yard, formerly belonging to the English governor Francis Lovelace, New Orange.

Patent. Jacob Gerritsen and Seger Gerritsen; 72 morgens land, south of the Fresh kil on Staten Island.

Patent. Ephraim and Casparus Hermans, brothers; neck of land below New Amstel, on the South river, running in breadth along said river from Ariens kil to Appoquenemin kil, and inland to the head of Ariens kil, containing about 250 morgens, more or less.

Patent. Peter Jansen Statuis and his sons Jan and Peter Petersen of Gouwanis, with Jan Jansen; piece of land on the southwest side of Staten Island, bounded west by the kil and south by the bay.

Patent. Elizabeth Drisius; lot in New Orange, adjoining the widow Couwenhoven.

Patent. Jan Scholten; 30 morgens of land on the Kil van Col, Staten Island.

Patent. Gerrit Jansen Roos; lot in New Orange.

Declaration of Maritie Juriaens, regarding the violent conduct of rev. Mr. Fabricius aforesaid.

Mortgage by same to Gabriel Minviele of another portion of said plantation.