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CHAMPLAINS MAP OF NEW FRANCE U32.

THE

DOCUMENTARY HISTOEY OF THE

Kiatc

of

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ARRANGED UNDER DIRECTION OF THE

HON. CHRISTOPHER MORGAN, Secretary of State.

BY

E. B.

O'CALLAGHAN,

VOLUME

M. D.

III.

ALBANY: WEED, PARSONS &

CO.,

1850.

PUBLIC PRINTERS.

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CONTENTS. I.

Expeditious to Northern uud Western New-York,

Chaiiiplaiti's

II.

Papers relating

III.

Papers relating

Restoration of

the

to

Captain Manning for

IV. Papers rehiting

V. Papers

VI. Papers relating VII. Papers relating

to tlie

X. Papers relating 1680-1795, XI. Census of

Churches

in

to

Slaves, 1755,

IManor

Livingston,

of

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XV.

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Ulster and Dutchess counties,

relating to

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Prices of

Land

of a

the

-

-

-

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tirst

settlement

of

New-York, 1791,

Committee appointed

to

tries, in

XXIII. Medals and

1802,

St. Peter's

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'2'A'J ii-2')

365

50o 593 555

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580

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603

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in the

o^l

-

Co., 1753,

Explore the V/estern Waters

Stale of New-Y'ork, 1792,

G25 637

648 659

Mohawk and Black River Coun-

(37

]

..........70 ....

Church, Albany,

...

Coins,

67

Schoharie,

......... ..............

in the State of

4'A

-117

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Journal of Rev. John Taylor's Missionary Tour through the

XXI. Rectors of XXII. Appendix,

XXIV.

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Papers relating to Quakers and Moravians,

XIX. Report

XX.

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including

XVI. Rev. Gideon Hawley's Journey to Oghquaga, Broome XVII. State of the Anglo-American Church in 1776, XVIII.

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1657-1712,

1

17

('hurges aLiaiust

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places,

XIII. Papers relating to Westchester county,

XIV. Papers

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.......... ........... .........

Albany and adjacent

relating to

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S5

Queens county,

Palatines,

the

-

-

New-Y'ork,

to the city of

IX. Papers relating

to tlie

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I.,

to Suffolk county,

VIII. Papers relating

XII. Papers

Kings county, L.

to the

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previous surrender to the Dutch, 1674-1675,

its

to the State of Keligiou in the Province,

relating to

i(itl'J-1615,

New-York by tlie Dutcli, New- York to the Knglish, an

c

CIIAMI'LAIn''s

other taunts, such as the

anus, and that did not before otlier

fail in

expeditions into northern and western NEW-YORK.

little

courage they had

when day would break

repartee

;

telling

;

how

powerless their resistance against their

they sliould experience this to their ruiu.

them they should witness the

effects

Oiu-s, likewise,

of arms they had never seen

and a multitude of other speeches, as is usual at a seige of a town. After the one and the liad sung, danced and i^arliamented enough, day broke. My companions and I were always ;

enemy should

arms the best we could, being however After being equipped with light armour we took each an arquebus and went ashore. I saw tlie enemy leave their barricade; they were about 200 men, of strong and robust appearance, who were coming slowly towards us, with a gravity and assurance which greatly pleased me, led on by tliree Cliiefs. Our's were marching in similar order, and told me that those who bore three lofty plumes were tlic concealed, for fear the

see us preparing our

separated, each in one of the canoes belonging to the savage MontagnarsK

Chiefs, and that tliere were but these three and they were to be recognized by those plumes, wliich were considerably larger than those of their companions, and that I must do all Icoukl to kill tliem. I promised to do what I could, and tliat I was very sorry they could not clearly imderstand me, so as to give them the order and i^lan of attacking their enemies, as we should indubitably defeat them all but tliere was no help for that that I was very glad to encoui-age them and to manifest to them my good will when we should be engaged. The moment Ave landed they began to nm about two hundred paces towards their enemies who stood firm, and liad not yet perceived ray companions, who went into the bush witli some savages. Oiu-'s commenced calling rac in a loud voice, and making way for me opened in two, and placed me at tlieir head, marching about 20 paces in advance, imtil I was within 30 paces of the enemy. The moment they saw me, they halted gazing at me and I at them. When I saw them preparing to shoot at us, I raised my arquebus, and aiming directly at one of the three Chiefs, two of tliem fell to the ground by this shot and one of their companions received a woimd of -whicli he died Our's, on witnessing a shot so favorable ibr tlieiu, afterwards. I had put 4 balls in my arquebus. and yet, there was no lack set up such tremendous shouts that tliunder could not have been heard of arrows on one side and tlie other. The Iroquois were greatly astonished seeing two men killed so instantaneously, nothwitlistanding they were provided with .^rrow-proof armour woven of cottonWhilst I was re -loading, one of my comtliread and wood; this frightened them very much. panions in the bush fired a shot, which so astonished them anew, seeing their Chiefs slain, that ;

;

;

they

lost

courage, took to flight and abandoned the field and their

deptiis of the forest, whither pursuing them, I killed

some

others.

of them and took ten or twelve prisoners. Tlie rest carried olf of ours were wounded by arrows

;

tlie

fort,

hiding tliemselves in

Our savages wounded.

tlie

also killed several

Fifteen or sixteen

they were promptly cured.

After ha\ iug gained the victory, they amused themselves plundering Indian corn and meal from the enemy ; also their arms which they had thrown aAvay in order to run the Ix'tter. And

having feasted, danced and sung, we retiu-ned three hours afterwards with the prisoners. Tlie place where t]iis battle was fought is in 13 degrees some minutes latitude, and I unmcd

Lake

it

C'.iamplain.-

Inili.ins living; below and some ili«tance above Quebec were ileThis apiicllation was ilerivcil fi-om a range of bills or nioimlains which, extenil'ns Northwesterly from Cape I'ourinente (live miles below Quebec) iliviiles the rivers that fall above that Cape into the St Lawrence, the Ottowa, anil Lake Superior, from those, first of the Saguenay, ami afterwards of the Hudson's bay Theprcat trading pl.icc of the Monlagnars was Tadoussac, at the mouth of the river Sasruenay, . . . The name (Monlagniu s) from llie identity of language, was soon after extended to all the St Lawrence Inilians, as 1

At the

sipnatcil by

first tlie

scltlcmont of

Cftiiaili, all

name of Monlapnars or

the Si I^awronce

Monlap:n's.

.

high up as Montreal. 2

The

ix ii')vv llie

Gai.i.atin, in Trans, of the

Am:

.\ntiq. See. ii., 24.

Chaniplain's map locales this engagement between lown of Tlciinderoga, l^.scx Co.

reference

in

Lake George aud Crown Point;

iirobably in

what

CI1AMPLAIn''s EXrEDITIONS INTO

INTO WESTERN

NORTHERN AND WESTERN NEW-YORK.

NEW YORK: ANNO

7

1615.

[Six years after the occurrences above noted, Champlain proceeded to the Upper Waters of the Ottawa River ; thence crossed over to Lake Nipissing, and having discovered the Huron Lalce, which he called L'l Mcr douce, or the Fresh Water Sea, he joined some Ilurons in an expedition against one of the Five Nations, south of Lake Ontario, the particulars of

which are

as follow:]

Arrival at Cakiague

;

Description of the Beauty of the Country there,

We

and the Inconveniences

JYature of the Indians ivho dwell

;

experienced.

the seventeenth day of August I arrived at Cahiague', where I was received witli great

On

joy and gratitude by of their alhes with

all

the Indians of the Country.

whom

They had

the Iroquois were at war and

who

intelligence that a certain Nation

resided three good days journey higher

up [plus haul) tlian the Entouhonorons, wished to assist this expedition witli five hundred good men, and enter into alliance and amity with us, having a great desire to see us, and that we should wage war all together and tliey testified their satisfaction at being acquainted with us and I, in ;

;

like

for liaving obtained this ojiportunity to satisfy the desire, I had, of learning

manner,

something

very warlike according to the representation of the Attlgouotans-. They are only three villages in the midst of more than twenty others against whicli they wage war, not being able to receive assistance from their friends, especially as they must pass through the country of the Chouontouaroiion which is very pQpulous, or else go a great way

about that country.

That Nation

is

aiound.

Having arrived

at

tliis

village, it suited

me

to sojourn there whilst waiting until the Warriors

should come in from the circumjacent villages, then to leave

was a continual series them in their war, and as a guarantee ah-eady of

interval, it to assist

On

it

During

as soon as possible.

this

of feasting and dancing, through joy for seeing us so determined

the assembling of

tlie

major part of our forces, we

victory.

set

out from the village on the

first

day of

September, and passed along the border of a very smaU lake, distant three leagues from the village

where they take great quantities of

fish

which they preserve

for winter.

adjoining, 26 leagues in circumference, descending into the smaller

catch of said fish

is

taken by means of a number of stakes,

smaU openings over which they

There

is

another Lake

by a channel where a great

wliicli

almost close the passage,

fish. These two lakes disembogue into the Fresh Sea [Lake Huron.] We sojourned a wMle at this place to wait for the rest of om* Indians, where being all assembled with their arms, meal, and necessaries, consulta-

leaving only

tion

was had

for the selection of the

place their nets to catch the

most resolute men of the troop, to carry advice of our dejoin us with five hundred men, in order that we may meet

who were to assist & same time, before the enemy's fort. Tliis deliberation adopted, they despatclied two canoes, with twelve of the most robust Indians, and one of our interpreters, wlio requested of me to make the voyage. This I willingly permitted him as he was so disposed, and would see the country by that means and acquire a knowledge of tlie people who inhalnt it. The danger was not trifling inasmuch as they had to pass through the midst of enemies. We continued our route towards the enemy, and made about five or six leagues through the Lakes, whence the savages carried the canoes about ten leagues over land and came to another Lake extending about six or seven leagues in length, and three in width. A river issues from tliis which discharges into the Great Lake parture to those at the

1

stated to be in 44i deg. north;

Canada.

It

was

at the time the

probably between Lake Simcoe

&

2 One of the five confederated tribes of the Wyandot, or Huron Nation its

name

to

the Georgian bay of

Lake Huron,

in

Western

Huron Country.

Lake Huron which was

called, at the

it was composed of twelve viHages and gave time of itsidiscovery by Champlain, Lake Attigouatan. ;

CHAMPLAIn's EXPKDITIONS into NORTHERS' AND WESTERN NEW-YORK.

8

of the Entouhonorons

down

And

'

liaving traversed this Lake, Ave passed a water

along the course of said river, about sixty four leagues,

Avliicli is

I'all,

proceeding always

the entrance of the said

and passed by land five rapids {sauts), some four or five leagues long, where there are several lakes of pretty consideral^le extent the said river wliich flows between t'.iem also abounds with good fish, and all this country is very fine and agreeable. In several places along the banks, the trees would seem to have been planted for ornament. All this country was formerly inhabited by Savages, who have since been constrained to abandon it, tlirough fear of their enemies. Vines and nuts are in great quantities, and grapes come to maturity there, but they leave always a sharp sour taste, which proceeds from want of cultivation but those that have been cultivated in these parts are of pretty good flavour. valley of the Entouhonorons,

;

*#**#*«** ;

"We continued along the border of the Lake of the Entouhonorons, always hunting as above

mentioned

;

being there,

we

crossed over at one of the extremities, tending Eastward, wliich

is

the

beginning {Ventrec) of the river Saint Lawrence, in the parellel of forty-three degrees of Latitude.

There are some beautiful and very large Islands in

We

this passage.

made about

fourteen

leagues to cross to the other side of the Lake, proceeding southward, toAvards the enemy's country.

The Indians concealed

We

by land about by numerous small streams, and two little rivers AA'hich empty into said Lake, and a number of ponds and prairies, where there Avas an infinite quantity of game, a great many vines and fine trees,, vast all their

canoes in the woods, near the bank.

4 leagues over a sandy plain, where

number of

I

chestnuts, the fruit of wliich

AA'as

All the canoes being thus concealed, Ave

25

Avide.

It is

travelled

observed a very pleasing and fine country,

yet in the shell.

left

the

A\-atered

It is quite small,

bank of the Lake, which

is

but

inhabited for the greater part by Savages, along the sides of the streams, and

continued our journey overland some 25 to 30 leagues. In the course of four days,

number of streams and one Tills lake is

rons.

Avell flaA"ored.

80 leagues long and

we

we

traversed a

river issuing from a lake aaIucIi empties into that of the Entouhono-

25 to 30 leagues in circumference, Avith many beautiful Islands, and

is

the

Iroquois fishing ground, fish being in abundance there. Tlie 9"> of October

took prisoners

;

;

to wit,

Our Indians going out 4 AA'omen,

leagues distant from the enemy's ojiers,

tlu-ee

fort.

scouting, encountered eleven Savages

Now

is

to

be noted that one of the Chiefs seeing these

cut the finger off one of those poor Avomen, as the

Whereupon

I

interfered,

Avhom they

boys, one girl and three men, Avho were going fishing, four

commencement of

and censured the Iroquet Captain, representing

to

as he called himself, Avas not in the habit of acting cruelly toAvards AVomen,

pris-

their usual tortm-es.

him

that a Warrior,

who have no

defence

but their tears and Avho, by reason of their helplessness and feebleness, ought to be treated with humanity. That on the contrary this act Avould be supposed to proceed from a vile and brutal courage, and that assist

if

he committed any more of those

them, nor to favor their

same manner.

Avar.

Whereupon he

cruelties,

he Avould not encourage

replied, that their enemies treated

But since such customs displeased me, he would not act

so

any more

to

them

me

to

in the

AVomen, but

exclusively to men.

Next day, at three o'clock in the afternoon Ave arrived before the enemy's fort, where the Savages had some skirmishes, the one against the other, though it Avas not our design to discover ourselves But the impatience of our Savages AA-ould not brook this, as Avell through tlie until tlie morroAV desire they felt to see us fire on their enemies, as to liberate some of their men Avho had ventured too far. Then I advanced and presented myself, but Avith the few men I had nevertheless I :

;

1

Lake

Ont.Trio, prcsnmcil to

Autoiioronons, or Scnccas,

who

have been so called by the Ilurons from the on tho South side of it.

lived

fact of their

having to cross

It

to pel to th»

CHAMPLAIn's expeditions into northern and western NEW-YORK.

9

Shewed them what they never saw nor heard before. For as soon as they saw us, and heard the reports of the Arquebus, and tlie balls wliistliug about their ears, they retired promptly within their Fort, carrying off their wounded and dead and we retreated in hke manner to oui- main body, with five or six of om- wounded, one of whom died. This being done, we retired within gim shot, beyond the view of the enemy, contrary, however, Which moved me to make use of and express to my advice, and to what they had promised me. to them pretty rude and angry words, in order to incite them to their duty, foreseeing, that if every thing went according to their fantasy, and couftcil, nothing but misfortune would result, to their ruin and destruction. Nevertheless, I failed not to send to them and to propose means necessary to be ;

overcome their enemies ; which was, to construct a moveable tower (cavalier) of timber whereupon I should post four or five of our Arquebusseers, who woidd fire over the pahsades and galleries, which were well supphed with stones, and by this means, the enemy who annoyed us from their galleries would be dislodged and in the mean time we should give orders for some boards to form a species of parapet to cover and protect oui* men from the arrows and stones. These things, namely, the tower and parapets could be moved by main force ; and one was made ia such a way that water could not extinguish the fire to be applied to the front of the fort and those on the tower would do their duty with some Arquebusseers posted there, and thus acting, we should so defend oui-selves that they coidd not approach to extinguish the Approving this, they began next morning, to construct fire, that we should apply to their pickets. used

to

to overlook their pickets,

;

;

and made such progress that these were finished in less than arrival this day of the five hundred men that had been ; not being at the rendez-vous, as directed and as they had But seeing that they were ^lumerous enough to promised, our Savages were much afflicted. capture the forts, and for my part, considering delay to be always prejudicial, at least in most cases, I urged them to attack said fort, representing that the enemy discovering their strength and the effect of our arms, which pierced what was arrow proof, would barricade and shelter themselves, which indeed, they did very well. For their village was enclosed with strong quadruple palisades of large timber, thirty feet liigh, interlocked the one with the other, with an interval of not more than half a foot between them with galleries in the form of parapets, defended with double pieces of timber, proof against our Arquebuses, and on one side they had a pond with a never failing supply of Avater, from wliich proceeded a number of gutters which they had laid along the intermediate space, throwing the water without, and rendered it eflectual inside, for the purpose of

and prepare

said tower

and parapets

;

They were expecting the promised, which was however doubtful four hours.

;

extinguishing

Such was

fire.

their

mode

of fortification and defence, which was

much

stronger than the villages of

the Attigouantans [Hurons] and others.

We advanced,

then, to attack the village, causing our tower to be carried

our strongest men.

They placed

it

within a pike's length in front and

I

by two hundred of it four Arque-

posted on

any arrows and stones that niight have been shot at them. Nevertheless, the enemy did not, for all that, cease discharging and throwing a great number of arrows and stones oveir their pickets. But the multitude of Arquebus shots that were fired, constrained them to vacate and abandon their galleries. But according as the tower was moved, instead of bringing the parapets as ordered and that on which we were to have placed the fire, they abandoned them and commenced to yell against their enemies, shooting arrows witliin the fort, which,

busseers, well sheltered from

my opinion, did not do much execution. They are very excusable, for they are not soldiers, and are moreover averse to discipHne or correction and do only what they like. Wherefore, one inconsiderately applied the fire to the wrong side of the fort, or to leeward, so that it produced no Vni.. TTT. 2

in

CHAMPLAIn's expeditions into northern and western NEW-YORK.

10 effect.

On

the fire being kindled, the most of the savages began to set

in such small quantities, that the fire did not

consequence so great, that

it

was impossible

much

to hear.

good.

In vain

The

wood

against the pickets but

disorder that supervened was in

I cried to

them and remonstrated

as

well as I was able against the imminent danger to which they exposed themselves by their stupidity.

They heard nothing in consequence of the violent noise they made. Seeing that by shouting I was only spHtting my skuU, and that my remonstrances were in vain and that this disorder was irremediable, I resolved to do what was in my power with my men, and fire on those we could discover or perceive. Yet, the enemy profited by our disorder. They went to the water and disit in such abimdance, that rivers, it may be said, spouted from their gutters, so that the was extinguished in less than no time, and they continued to poiu: arrows on us like hail. Those on the tower killed and wounded a great many. This engagement lasted about tlu*ee hours. Two of our chiefs and leaders were wounded to the other Orani, and about fifteen individuals besides. The rest wit, one called Ochateguain seeing their folks, and some of their cliiefs wounded, began to talk of retreating, without fighting any more, expecting the five hundred men w^hose arrival w'as not far oif and so they withdrew, having accomplished nothing save this disorderly splutter. However, the chiefs have no absolute control of their companions who follow their whim, and act their pleasure, which is the cause of In having taken a resolution, any poor devil can make their disorder and ruins all their affairs. them violate it and change their plan. Thus, the one with the other, they efifept nothing as may be seen by this expedition.' Having received tw^o wounds from arrows, one in the leg and the other in the knee, which sorely incommoded me, we withdrew into oui' fort. Being all assembled there, I remonstrated with them But aU my talk was in vain they several times on account of the disorder that had occui-red. said many of their men had been wounded and I also, and that it would be very inconvenient and fatiguing to carry them, on the retreat that there was no means of returning again to the enemy as I had proposed to them but that they would willingly wait four days more for the five hundred men that were expected, on whose arrival they would renew the effort against the enemy, and execute what I had told them, better than they had already done. It was necessary to stop there, to my great regret. Here is represented the manner in which they fortify their towns, and by tliis engraving it may be understood and seen that those of friends and enemies are similarly

cliarged

fire

;

;

;

;

;

;

fortified.

Next day blew a very strong and violent wind wliich lasted two days, particularly favorable for But fearing a failure, and setting the enemy's fort in a blaze, which I strongly urged on them. moreover representing themselves as wounded, they would not do any thing. We remained encamped until thelG^hof the month. Several skirmishes occurred dm-ing that time between the enemy and our people who became oftenest engaged with them rather by their imprudence than through want of courage and I can assure you, that ffvery time they made a charge, w'e were obliged to extricate them from the difficulty, not being able to extricate themselves except l)y the help of our arquebuses which the enemy dreaded and greatly feared. For as soon as they perceived one of our Arquebuseers, they immediately retreated, teUing us by way of per;

suasion not to meddle with their fights, and that their enemies had very

our assistance

;

with

many

Seeing that the five hundred

and began 1

The

in the

to

make

little

courage to require

other such like discourses.

men were

not coming, they proposed to depart and retreat at once,

certain litters to convey their

point al which thft above enpaprcment took place neighborhood of lake Canandaigua.

is

wounded, who are put in them, tumbled in a heap, marked oa the annexed map.

It

seems to have been fought

CHAMPLAIn's EXPEBITIONS into northern and western new- YORK.

doubled and strapped in such a way that clothes

;

it is

not without considerable pain, as

impossible to

I

stir

my

less

than an Infant in

swaddling

its

can certify, having been carried several days on the

back of one of our Indians, thus tied and bovind, so that I strengtli to bear

;

11

As

lost all patience.

soon as

had

I

weight, I got out of this prison, or to speak plainer out of hell.

The enemy pursued us about

the distance of half a league, .endeavoring to catch some of the

Eut their labor was in vain and they retired. All I remarked in their wars, is, that the^ retreat in good order and old people in their centre, they being in front, on the wings and rear guard.

;

placing

wounded armed and

all their

in the rear, well

arranged in such wise according to order, until they are in a place of safety, without breaking their line.

Their retreat was very tedious, being from 25 to 30 leagues, which greatly fatigued

wounded and

On

those

who

the 18"> of said

carried them, though they relicTed each other from time to time.

month some snow

strong wind that greatly annoyed us.

for

we

A.

Bay of

B.

Calesme.

which melted rapidly.

fell

Nevertheless

of the Entouhonorons and at the place where feared lest the

tlie

we

we had

It

was accompanied by a

contrived to get to the borders of the lake

concealed om* canoes which

we found

safe

;

enemy might have broken them.

Tahle of Remarkable Places in Ckamplaiii's

Map.

Islands.

Bay Trepassez. Cape Levy. Cape Bay Harbour where they flsh for Cod. F. The North East &. South West Coast of Newfoundland which is very weU known. G. The Northern passage at the 52d degree. H. St Paul's Island, near Cape St Lawrence. 1. Sasinou Island, between Mont Desert islands and Crow Islands. K. Montreal Island at Sault Saint Louis, about eight or nine leagues in circumference. C.

D. E.

L.

M.

Water which discharges nowhere very palatable.

into the Sea, with flux

N.

Sort of Salt

P.

Shell Island, at the entrance of the River St Croix

Q. R.

Fishing Islands.

Lake Soissons; [now Lake of the de Bourbon, Count de

S.

T.

v. X.

*

River Jeannin. River St. Antoine.

Two

;

&

reflux, considerable fish

&

cockles and oysters

good fishing.

Mountains, called Soissons by Champlain in honor of his patron Charles

Soissons.'\

Gulf Bay. Mount Desert Island, very lofty. St. Barnabe Island in the Grand River, near Bic. Lesquemain where there is a little river abounding in Salmon there was formerly a Whale fishery [below Tadoussac]

&

Trout; alongside this

is

a

little

rocky

islet

where

;

Y. Z. 2.

3.

Larks' point {Ailx AUouettes) [at the mouth of the Saguenay River] where in the month of September there is an inconceivable number of them as of other sorts of game and shell fish. Hares Island, thus named from some of them having been caught there when it was first discovered. Lesquille harbour, which is dry at low water; there are two streams there that come from the mountains. [There is a river of this name at Annapolis.]

low water there are two islets full, at the proper season, of strawberries, raspberries & blueis a good harbour for ships, and within the harbour are two small streams. Platte River, coming from the mountains is navigable for canoes; this place dries very far towards the water and at the Traverse is good anchorage for ships. Isle aux Couilres, a league and a half long, where there are quantities of hares, partridges and other game in season. At the south west point are meadows, and a number of shoals towards tlie water. There is an anchorage for ships between said Island and the north shore. Cape Torment, one league from which Sieur de Champlain had erected a Settlement which was burned by the English in the year 1628; near this place is Cape Brule, between which and the Isle aux Coudres is a channel of 8. 10. Salmon harbour, dry

at

;

berries; near this place

4.

5.

6.

&.

12

fathoms of water.

On

the South shore are

mud and

rocks

&.

on the North, high land

&i,c

12

CHAJvrPLAJx's EXPEDITIONS INTO

NORTHERN AND WESTERN NEW-TORK.

7.

The Island of Orleans, six leagues long; very beautiful ami pleasing on account of the diversity meadows & vines in some parts, with nut-trees. The west end of this island is called Cape Condo.

8.

Montmorency, twenty fathoms high; formed by a River which comes from the mountains and empties River St LawrCTice a league & a half below Quebec. St Ch'arles River, which rises in Lake St. Joseph; very beautiful & agreeable, with meadows at low water; Vessels On this river are built the churches and establishments of the at high water can go as far as the first Rapid. Revd. Jesuit and RecoUet Fathers. Game abounds there in Spring and Fall. Ftchemins River, by which the Indians go to Quinebequi, crossing the country with difllcuKy on account of Rapids and shallow Water. Sieur Champlain had this discovery made in 1628, and there was found an Indian

of timber,

Falls of

itself into the

9.

10.

11.

tribe within 7 days journey of Quebec, called the Abenaqui-oit. Champlain River, near that of Batisquan, north east of Grondines.

12.

Indian River.

[Trois Pistoles.]

13.

Green Island,

five or six leagues

14.

Isle

15. 16. 17.

18. 19.

20. 21. 23.

24.

from Tadoussac.

de Chasse. Batisquan River, very agreeable and full of

fish.

Grondines and some adjoining Islands; good place for fishing and hunting. Sturgeon and Salmon River, where there is, two leagues from St Croix, a waterfall 15 to 20 feet high, which forms a sort of little pond that flows into the Great River St Lawrence. St Eloy Island; there is a passage between this Island and the north shore. Lake St Peter, very fine; has three fathoms of water; full of fish; environed by hills and flatlands with interval meadows, and several small streams and rivers which empty into it. River du Gast, [the Nicolet?] very pleasing, though shallow. River St Antoine. Yroquois River, [Richelieu] very beautiful, with several Islands and meadows. It flows from Lake Champlain, which is five or six days journey in length; abounding in fish and game of various sorts; vines, hickory, plum trees, chestnuts are very common in many parts; there are also meadows and beautiful Islands in said Lake. A large and small rapid must be passed to reach it. Falls of the Sagucnay liver, 50 leagues from Tadoussac; it falls over ten or twelve fathoms high.

25.

Great Fall, which descends some 15 feet in height and three leagues wide.

26. 27.

Mouton harbour [Nova Scotia] Canseau bay.

28.

Cai>e Baturicr, at St Johns'

29. 30.

31. 32. 33. 34.

among

a great number of Islands.

It

ia

half a league ia length

[now Pr. Edward's] Island. River by which people go to the French Bay, [of Fundy.] Elk hunting.

Cape Richelieu, east of the Island of Orleans. Little Bank near the Island of Cape Breton. River des Puans, which comes from a Lake where there is a mine of red copper. Gaston Rapid [Sault St Mary] nearly 2 leagues in width which falls into the Mer douce coming from another very large Lake [Superior], which and the Mer douct contain according to the report of Indians, 30 days journey in canoes.

Returning

to the

Gulf of St Lawrence and Coast of Acadie.

35.

Gaspey River.

36.

Chaleur River. Several Islands near Miscou, as well as Miscou harbour between Cape of the Island St John, [Prince Edward]

37.

38. 39. 40. 41.

42.

43. 44.

Rossignol Harbour [N. S.] Platte River, [near Halifax N.

47.

48. 49. 60.

islands.

S.]

Cape Naign' harbour. There was a French post in the Bay of said Cape, commanded by Slcur de la Tour, which he named Port Latour, where the Revd. RecoUets Fathers resided in the year 1630. Cape Sable Bay Seine bay Bay Courantc, where there is a number of Islands abounding with game, good fishing, and excellent harbours for vessels.

45.

two

[Barringlon Harbour, N.

S.]

Cape Fourchu harbour, very agrcablc, but tis almost entirely bare at low water. a number of Islands and gooil hunting. Long Island gut, (near bay of l undy] There is good cod fishing here.

Contiguous to this place are

[Chiegnccto Ray, N. S.] low water arc found in the rocks .ilong the Coast small pieces of very pure copper. where there are quantities of vines, nut, plum and other trees. pleasing, Bacchus Island, very

Cape of tho two Bays. Port dcs IMines where

at

CHAMPLAIn's expeditions into northern and western NEW-YORK. 51. 52. 53-

13

[Saco?] Islands near the mouth of the River Chouacoet. Very lofty islands to the number of 3 o 4 at the entrance of Long Bay, and 2 o 3 leagues from land. Bay of Islands, wiicre there are places suitable for harboring vessels; the country is very good and peopled by a number of savages who cultivate the soil in these places are pines, vines and hickory. [Boston Harbor.] The Suspicious Islands about a league seaward. Long Bay. The Seven Islands. Eschemins River. ;

54. 55. 56. 57.

The Virginias where the English are

settled

from 36

to

37 degrees of

About 36 or 37 years ago Captains Ribault and

Latitude,

Laudonniere had discovered and made a settlement on the coast adjoining Florida. 58.

Several rivers of the Virginias which discharge into the Gulf.

59. 60.

The coast of a very fine country inhabited by Savages Point Comfort.

61.

Immestan (James town.)

62. 63.

Chesapeacq Bay. Bedabedec; [Pe

64.

Beautiful Prairies.

65.

The Place in Lake Champlain, where the Yroquois were defeated by said Sieur Champlain, Little Lake by which we go to the Yroquois after passing that of Champlain. Bay des Trepassez, Newfoundland. Chappeau Rouge. Bay du Sainte Esprit. [Bay of Fortune.]

66.

67. 68. 69.

70. 71.

72.

73.

n:

quid

?]

who

cultivate

it.

the west coast of the river of Pemetegoet.

[Penobscot.] in the

year 1606.

•

The Virgins. Port Breton, near Cape St. Lawrence in Cape Breton Island. The Bergeronnettes, three leagues below Tadoussac. Cape d'Espoir near Percee Island. [Now sometimes printed Cape Despair.]

74.

Forillon at Gaspe point.

75.

Island of Mont-real at Sault St. Lou^lkin the River Saint Lawrence.

76.

River des Prairies, which flows from a lake at Sault St. Louis, where there are two Islands, of which that of Montreal is one. Trade was carried on with the Indians there several years. Chaudiere Rapid on the river of the Algomniequins [Ottawa] which has a fall of 18 feet high; it runs through rocks where it makes a great roar. Lake of Nibachis, an Indian Chief who resides there and cultivates a little patch of ground where he plants

77.

78.

Indian corn. 79.

80. 81. 82.

83.

Eleven lakes, one near the other, containing 1, 2 and 3 leagues; abounding in fish and game. The Indians sometimes take this route to avoid the Calumet Rapid, wliich is very dangerous. A portion of these places is loaded with pines which discharge a quantity of resin. Rapid of Calumet rock which is like alabaster. Island of Tesonac, an Algonkin Chief where the Indians pay tribute to be allowed to pass to Quebec. Tesoauc river where there are five rapids to pass. River by which several Indians go to the sea north of the Saguenay, and to Three RlvefS, matting some portage overland.

>

89.

Lakes by which people go to the North Sea. River which flows to the North Sea. Country of the Hurons, so called by the French, where there are a number of tribes and 17 villages inclosed with triple palisades of wood, with galleries all around in form of parapet, to defend themselves from their enemies. This country is in latitude 44 degrees and a half, very good, and the land is cultivated by the Indians. Portage of a league, over which canoes are carried. River which discharges into the Mer douce. Village enclosed by 4 pallisades, where Sieur Champlain went to war against the ADtouhonorons, where he look

90.

Very high waterfall

84.

85. 86.

87.

88.

several Indian prisoners. at the

head of Sault (qu. Lake?)

St.

Louis; descending which various sorts of fishes become

dizzy. [Niagara.] 91.

Small river near the Chaudiere rapid, where there is a waterfall nearly 20 fathoms high, which throws the water in such a volume and with such velocity, that it forms a very high arch, under which the savages pass for amusement without being wet; a thing pleasant to behold.

CHAMPLAIn's expeditions into northern and western NEW-YORK.

14 92.

very fine, and passes through a number of beautiful lakes and meatlows by which it is bordered) a of islands of various lengths and widths; abounding in deer and other animals; very (,-ood fishing of excellent fish, quantity of very good cleared lands, which have been abandoned by the savages on account

This river

is

number

of their wars.

This River discharges into lake St. Louis, and divers Nations pass into these countries to hunt [River Trent, Canada West.]

for their winter supplies.

91.

Chestnut woods, where there are a great many chestnuts on the shore of lake St. Louis and numbers of meadows, vines and hickories. [Oswego.] Species of salt water lakes at the head of la Baie Francoise, [B. of Fundy.] reached by the flux and reflux of the tide. There are islands with a number of birds and a quantity of meadows in those parts. Into these sorts of lakes discharge small rivers by which one can reach the Gulf of St. Lawrence, near the Island of St. John.

95.

Isle Haute,

93.

one league in circumference, flat on the top, where there is fresh water and plenty of timber; one league distant from Port aux Mines and Cape des deux Bayes. It is more than 40 toises high on all sides, except one place which slopes where there

number of birds i

is

a triangular rocky point, and in the middle a pond of salt water and a

that build their nests in this Island,

River of the Algomequins. [Ottawa.] From Sault St. Louis to near the lake of the Bisserens, there are more than 8U Rapids big and little, to be passed, either by land or by force of oars, or by towing on land by ropes. Some of these Rapids are very dangerous, especially coming down.

Petun Nation

is

a tribe that cultivates that plant [Tobacco] in wliich they drive a considerable

They have large villages, enclosed with timber and plant Indian corn.' Cheveux relevez, are savages wliich do not wear a breech cloth and go quite naked except in winter when they cloth themselves in skins, wliich they lay aside going from home into the interior. They are great hunters, fishermen and voyageurs, cultivate the soil and plant Indian corn dry blue and straw berries, in which they carry on a great trade with the other tribes, from whom Some of these they get in exchange, peltries, wampum, thread (filets) and other commodities. cut the body in rays to which they apply tribes pierce the nose from which they hang beads charcoal and other colours wear the hair very erect, wliich they grease and paint red as well d.. trade with the other nations.

;

;

;

their faces.*

The Neutral Nation,

a tribe which maintains

is

against the Assistague-ronons.

The Antouho-norons

are

15

It is

itself against all others

and has no war except

very powerful having for^villages thickly peopled.'

villages built in strong positions

;

enemies of

all

others except the

and in a good chmate near the river St Lawrence, the passage

Neutral nation ; their country is fine of which they block to all other nations, the consequence of which

is

that

and plant their lands. The Yroquois and the Antouhonorons make war together against

it is less

frequented.

They

cultivate

all

the other nations, except

the Neutral nation.

Carantouanis

is

a nation to the south of the Antouhonorons in a very beautiful and rich country,

where they are strongly lodged, and are friends with all the other nations except the Antouhonorons, from whom they are only three days distant. They formerly took prisoners from the Dutch, whom they sent back without doing them any injury, believing they were Frenchmen. Called by the French Quieunontates, Kionontates, or Tionontates; by the English, Dlonondadies. It was one of the Huron Tribes. After the destruction of the Hurons by the Iroquois in 1649, a remnant of the Dionondadies took refuge among the Chippeways of Lake Superior, and are referred to in Dongan's time as in the vicinity of Michilimakinac. They removed afterwards to Detroit and are found in 1721, taking a leading part in the councils of the western tribes. 1

five confederated

2 Sagart calls this tribe, the Andatahouats,

who wear

their

hair topped up in front,

" more

erect Ih.an a lady

s

peruke."

3 The Neutral Nation were called Attiuomdas by the French. They were four or five days journey, says Sagart, south subsequent maps they are laid down ot the Quieunontates. Champlain locates them on the south shore of Lake Eric; but in on the north shore. Sagart estimates the number of their warriors, in 1625, at 5 to 6,000, and says their country was nearly

one hundred leagues fire,

447,

in extent.

" Firo Nation;" Secsta, or Assista signifying, in the Huron tongyc, was located in the country near the Great Lakes, where Charlevoix t. I., under the name of Mascontins, or Nation du Feu. In 1721, they were found in Wisconsin and the north

Assistagui'-eronnons were called, also, the and Eronnons, Nation or People. This nation

The

mentions a tribe

of Illinois.

The name Mascontin

signifies literally, a Prairie.

Sec Gallatin's Synopsis, 61.

x.«AMPLAIn's expeditions into

From Lake rapids

;

St.

Louis to Sault

northern and western new- YORK,

Louis, which

St.

is

quantity of beautiful lakes and fine islands

hunting and fishing

;

fit

to

be settled were

it

15

the great river St. Lawrence, there are five ;

the country agreeable and abounding in

not for the wars the Indians have the one against

the other. Tlie

Mer

douce

abounds with

is

a vast lake in wliich are an infinite

fish of all sorts

seasons as in the wide ocean.

there

is

Lake

and of a monstrous

The south

a quantity of rocks and a great Bisserenis

is

coast

many Elk

is

number of

size

Islands

;

which are caught

much more

it

is

very deep and

at divers times

and

agreeable than the north, where

(Caribou.)

very handsome having a circumference of 25 leagues and a number of islands

and meadows where the savages camp to fish in the river for sturgeon, pike and carp they are caught in quantities game is also very abundant size and very excellent agreeable on account of the rocks in most places. though the country is not very

full of trees,

of monstrous there,

;

For the localities occupied by the several tribes above mentioned the reader panying this Vol.

;

is

referred to Champlain's

Map, accom-

11.

PAPERS EM.*.TINO TO

THE

SixBt 0tttlemcnt of

'^m ^oxk

BY THE DUTCH.

Vol.

III.

3

—

NEW NETHERLAND.

DESCRIPTION AND FIRST SETTLEMENT OF [From

Numerous voyages

realize so

they afterwards 1624.

these.

was

It

Description of

Ne«j^Nether- flourlsliing

IVassenaers Historie

much

settle

;

1621-1632.]

profit for adventurers that they discover other countries,

and

Virginia, a country lying in 42^ degrees,

plant.

first peopled t f

colony.

Van Europa. Amsterdam

by J the French

The Lords

:

5

afterwards by and J the Enelish ^

is

is

which one of

to-day J a

abundance of

States General observing the great

their

people as well as their desire to plant other lands, allowed the West India company to settle that

same country.

Many from

the United Colonies did formerly and do

yea, for the greater security of the traders, a Castle

—Fort Nassau—

laad

still

trade there

;

been built on an Island in

42 degrees, on the North side of the River Montagne, now called Mauritius. But as the Natives there were somewhat discontented, and not easily managed, the projectors abandoned it, intending

now

Colony among the Maikans a Nation lying 25 miles' on both sides of the River,

to plant a

upwards. Bay,

Tliis River, or the

lies

Thames, and navigable

in 40 degrees, running well in full fifty miles

;

being as broad or wide as the

up, througli divers Nations, wlio sometimes manifest

themselves with arrows, like enemies, sometimes like friends

"

;

but

when they had

seen

the ships once or twice, or traded with our people, they became altogether friendly.

Below the Maikans are

situate tliese Tribes

jock, Wyeck, on the East

What

Nations

side.

;

Mechkenfowoon, Tapanfs, on the West side

Two

^hc Fislicr's liook are Pachany.

are thereabouts.

Esopes, are two or three Tribes.

Nations

lie

Warenecker

there lower

down

Wiekag-

at Klinckersberg.

Warrawannankonckx:

Tlie Manhates are situate at the

;

In one place, r 7 In the

mouth.

many, as the Maquas. Full fifty miles further are found likewise many villages, River to trade from the interior Avhich is very swampy, great quantities of water running to tlie River, overflowing the adjoining country, which was frequently the cause that Fort Nassau lay under water and was abandoned. This country now called New Netherland is usually reached in seven or eight weeks from here. The course lies towards the Canary Islands thence to the Indian Islands, then t""saiuo"tws towards the main land of Virginia, steering right across, leaving in fourteen days tlie country, g^liamas on the left, and the Bermudas on the right hand where the winds are variable with which the land is made. interior are also all

which come

to this

;

we as yet cannot learn that they have any knowledge of God, but there something similar in repute among them. What they have is set over them by the "Cabal" from ancestor to ancestor. They say that mention was made by their fore-

Respecting Religion is Rdig'ion.

fathers for

they burn

fires 1

many thousand moons, of good and evil spirits, to whose honor, it is supposed, They wish to stand well with the Good spirits they like exhorta-

or sacrifices.

The miles

stated in this paper arc Dutch, one of

;

which

is

equal to three American miles.

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW-YORK BY THE DUTCH.

20

The Ministry of

tions about them.

whicli, I think,

their spiritual affairs

When any

Priest.

is

is

one among them

bawls, roars and cries like one possessed.

man

attended to by one they call Kitzinacka, sick,

is

he

visits liim

;

by him and

sits

he is laid in the earth without a cofliii, This Priest has no house of his own. He lodges where If a

die,

with all his costly garments of skins. he pleases, or where he last officiated ; must not eat any food prepared by a married woman. It must be cooked by a maiden or old woman. He never cohabits with them, living like a capuWhen a child arrives at the age of twelve, then they can determine whether he shall be a chin. Kitsinacka or not. If tis so ruled, then he is elevated to such office. Becoming of age, he vmdertakes the exercise of

it.

All the Natives pay particular attention to the sun, the moon,and the

having like summer and winter.

interest to tliem, as to us, Virginians observe most.

that ^

tlic

stars, as

they are of as great

But Geographers are aware

length and shortness of the days differ, on account of situation.

Tli first

_

moone _

.

following that at the end of February great devotion, and as

it

rises,

and revel in

they

is

comphment

greatly honored it

wdth a festival

way, with wild game or

They

by them. ;

w^atch

it

with

then they collect together

and drink clear river water to their fill, without being intoxicated. It appears that the year commences then, this moon being a harbinger of the spring. Shortly afterwards the women begin to prepare what is to be for food by planting, putting everything in a state of preparation, and carrying their seed into the field. They allow the succeeding moons to appear without any feasting but they celebrate the new from

all

quarters,

their

fish,

;

August moon by another

festival, as tlieir

harvest then approaches.

sequence of the great mildness of the climate.

Tlae

It is

very abundant in con-

summers are frequently very

Indian corn is wliicli produces abundance of fruits and grain. pounded by the women, made into meal, and baked into cakes in the ashes, fasliion, and used for food.

land moist, is

The

hot,

and the

abundant there, and

As

experience

after the olden

they care nothing o for the spiritual, they direct their study principally to the ./

The women there are the most experienced tlieir rising, there is scarcely one of them but can name all the stars star gazers the position of the Jirctos, that is the wagon, is as well known to them as to us, and setting But Him who dwells above they know not affording name them by they o J other names. J Non est volenlis, cirr. ntis ™,i to thank Him, that He hath so beneficently favored us, ciu'lstians an argument ~ mise•rentes Del. ofthe

women

Autronomy.

in

piiysical,' closclv observiuG; l O thc seasons. ^

;

;

;

; /

aiit

9.

not of him

leaving these in darkness tliat willeth,

nor of liim

so that wliat the apostle says is

;

tliat

runneth, but of

j

•/

'

Horn.

God

found

to

be

true.

It is

that sheweth mercy.

They live almost all free. In each There is little authority known among these nations. village, indeed, is found a person who is somewhat above the others and commands absolutely when there is war and wlien they are gathered from all the villages to go on tlie "'liv.ng."'^ war path. But tlie fight once ended, his superiority ceases. They are very much afraid of the dead but when they perceive that they must die, they are very brave and more ferocious ;

When

he buys her generally in a neighboring village, and this done, the daughter is then deUvered to him by two or three other women, w ho come carrying on tlieir heads meal, roots, corn and other articles, to the young man's hut, and he receives her. than beasts.

a lad courts a

girl,

with a vent hole above to let out the smoke closed with circular They sleep on the the bark of trees wliich are very abundant there. most of four doors, consisting tlie Each higlily sit on ground. At their meals they ground covered with leaves and skins. The women sew skins into clothing, prepare esteems his own cliildren, who grow up very lively.

The dwellings

are

commonly

bread, cook the meat which the

;

;

men

liunt

and

kill witli

arrows, especially in the winter

when

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW-YORK BY THE DUTCH. all is

bare in the

fields

and but scanty forage

is

be picked

to

off the

21

snow

;

then the animals

api^roach the villages and are shot.

common among them for one man to buy and when he journeys five or six miles he finds

very

It is

place

;

Polygamy,

j^j^

to

have many wives, but not

mllcs further, he again finds another wife

,

who

another wife

in

one

also takes care of

who keeps house and

on

so

to

commonly buying up peltries through the country. among them, they come dowp tliemselves to the rivers and trade with the Nations Also those who will trade with them must furnish them food at an inhabitant's best they can. the village let them cook their meat and fish there, as much as they like, and then they thank

several

But as those inland find that furs

;

are sold clieap as

—

in

the one lodges with the other ; Those who come from the interior, yea thirty considerable water every where and tliat the upper country is

In other respects, they are extremely hospitable

the trader.

without any ceremony, on similar compensation. days joiu-ney, declare there

marshy say

they

;

may be

is

of great freshets which lay waste their lands ; so that what many Hudson's Bay runs through to the South sea, and is navigable, except when

make mention

true, that

It were desirable that it were once proved. Those who made the last voyage are of the same opinion, as they found all open sea, a rapid current and whales. They live in summer mostly on fish. The men repair to the river and catch a great quantity in a short time, as it is full and furnishes various sorts. The arrows they use are pointed

obstructed by the ice to the northward.

The in

with

food of

little

They cau

sJmmer"^

bones, iron or copper, with wiiich they are very expert, being good marksmen, catcli deer,

Oxen and

;

horses tliere are none.

In the woods are found profusion.

all

Tobacco

sorts of fruits

is

;

plums, wild cherries, pears

planted in abundance, but

Vines grow wild

Called Virgimau.

Jile'cmulivy!

all such. The country is full of game by the skins which were brought on board.

fawns, hares and foxes. and

hogs, bears, leopards, yea lions, as appears

tliere

;

were

much

tliere

;

yea, fruits in great

better grows wild in Brazil

;

it is

vintagers and were they acquainted

with the press, good wine could be brought hither in great quantity, and even as Must, the voyage thence being often

made

in thirty days.

Their trade consists mostly in peltries, which they measure by the liand or by the finger. It bappcucd that a woman who had seen a skipper's lace shirt, fell sick ; finding slie sliould irade of

The

^'^^ §^^^ ^'^^^ husband three fine peltry skins to present to the skipper for the shirt, which he willingly gave her, for she wished to be buried in it they outstrip tlie Christians the sumptuousness of tlieir burials. In exchange for peltries tliey receive beads, with wliicli hinl.'"'

;

in

they decorate their persons

which they require

for

;

knives, adzes, axes, case-knives, kettles and

all sorts

of iron

work

house keeping.

In their waters are aU sorts of fowls, such as cranes, bitterns, swans, geese, ducks, widgeons, wild geese, as in tliis country. Birds fill also the woods so that men can scarcely go

through them for the whistling, the noise, and the chattering.

*wa'tc? fowl."'

catch them with

little difficulty.

they are chased by the foxes like fowls.

Tm-key beans

is

a very

Whoever

common crop.

is

not. lazy can

Pigeons

fly

wild,

Tortoises are very small, and are not eaten, because there

plenty of other food. The most wonderful are the bull-frogs, in size about a span, whicli croak with a ringing noise in the evening, as in this country. 'Tis surprising that storks have not been found there, if it be a marshy country. Spoonbills, ravens, eagles, is

iirvirgu.T

sparrow-hawks, vultures are numerous and are actually shot or knocked down by the natives. 'Tis worthy of remark that so great a diversity of language exists among the numerous Of the Ian. guages.

language

Tribes. ;

Tliey vary frequently not over five or six miles;

they meet and can hardly understand' one another.

forthwith comes another

There are some who come sixty

—

:

FIRST SETTLEMENT OK

22

NEW-YORK BY THE DLTOl.

miles from the interior, and can not well understand those on the River.

and and

appears by the statements of the Highlanders, there are larger animals in the interior.

On

;

forty strong

more; and then they return upwards, being outer clothing being all skins and furs.

order to get a

that forcibly, in

It

All are very cmminflr

yea, frequently, after having sold every thing, they will go back of the bargain, thia-ty

Trade

in

their

;

little

seeing the head of Taurus, one of the signs of the Zodiac, the women know how to ^ ma" huiio explain that it is a horned head of a big, wild animal which inhabits the distant coxintry, upper couutry.^^^^

them, then

is

when

uot thcir's, and

rises in a certain part of the

it

the season for planting; then they begin to break

throw in the seed ; like the Boors time from the signs.

in Italy

who appear by

heavens, at a time

known

to

the soil with axes {hylen) and to

Virgil in Bucolicis to take their proper

Tlie science of prognostication, or foretelling of events

them

up

is

and unkno\Mi to little know-

altogether dark

uttering or delivering no oracles about the one or the other, as they have very

;

ledge of future or past things. Good

What's very strange

consti.

that

is,

among

these almost Barbarous people, there are few or

°^

nouc, cross-cyed, blind, crippled, lame, hunch-backed or limping

people

strong in constitution of body, well proportioned without blemish.

men." ;

;

all

are well fasliioned

In some places they have abundant means, with herbs and leaves or roots, to administer to There is scarcely an ailment they have not a remedy for; but in other locahties their sick.

they are altogether devoid of succour, leaving the People to perish like cattle. Chastity appears to be of some repute among them, for the women are not all equally loose, There are some who would not cohabit with om-s for any compensation. Others hold of cbastiiv tiie

women,

small estcem

jj.

;

especially as they are free, living without law.

ofispring, they exhibit great tenderness

Whilst rearing their

nevertheless as children rapidly increase with these people,

;

they forbid theirs (the house) as not beseeming ; yea, command them not to return back. They are not, by natui-e, the most gentle. W^ere there no weapons, especially muskets, near,

would frequently

Nature of the t^i^y iiihabiianin.

fall

i^gfyj-e fiyp

kill

At the first coming (of the whites) they were accustomed to gun but now they stand still from habit, so that the first Colo-

or slx Huiskets.

prostrate on the report of the

nists will stand in

the Traders for sake of the plunder; but whole troops run

;

need of protection.

The South-bay,' some

miles nearer Florida,

is

a more temperate country.

there save in January, and then but for a few days. Their luimerals run no higher than ours incir nuOf

merais.

They

fwcntv, they stick the ten fingers

ui>

There

is

no winter

twenty being twice ten. When they ask for and with tliem turn to the feet on which are ten toes. ;

t-^

coimt, Hons/at, Tcgcmj Ilasse, Kojeri, Wisk, Jajiick, Satachj Siattege,

Tioc/ifc,

OJen.'

Cuerano, the first with them, February: 2. Weer-hemska names of their montlis are these 6. Hagarcrt 5. Oneratack, then men begin to sow and to plant Z.Heemskan: i. Oneratacka the grain and every Gcnhendasta then thing 9. is ripe. Ilatterhonagat 8. 7. lakoiivara/ta December they take note, beijig January and no of Of 10. Digojaijutt/ui, then is the seed housed. T!ie

:

:

no use

A

to'dol'"^'

necessary 1

;

to them.

wi.ni .hoMcwho

ua"e

:

:

:

tliat

Dolnwarp Ray.

tion of the

ship

was

fitted

out under a commission from the West India Company, and freiglitrd

with families, to plant a Colony among this People.

first,

But

to

go in

s;ilety, it is first

of

all

they be placed in a good defensive position and well provided with arms and a 2

The author oT (his paper must have obtained his Information from some Iroquois, as with the names of the numerals accoriling to the Mohawlf anil Ononilaga dialects. The

llirse arc

approaches the Seneca.

the exceplast (Ojeri)

—

;;

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW-YORK BY THE DUTCH. fort, as

the Spaniard

and as

tlie

who

claims

Spaniards have

deem

all

23

the country, will never allow any one to gain a possession there

made many

incursions as well above as below, in Florida, Virginia and

something thereof, being a mirror in which every one can and defend himself, and how the Spaniards always aim as well generally as individually at Monarchy. Sucli description shall be related in the commencement of Part the Seventh, as this thereabouts, I

it

not foreign to

tell

see

^ook cannot

Homo Of

Colonies

est

contain

it.

in some sense a description, of man. Men's Uve peaceably together, from which arose Hamlets, and afterwards Chiefs were chosen among them. These remarking

animal sociable,is in some sense a definition

;

sociablUty ledtliem to congregate and to -,

Ihe^a'lucntf were begun,

Villages

and

^j^^^

coUcctcd licaps frequently so increased

Cities,

themselves, a portion separated therefrom,

who

tliat

they could with diflUculty support

took up and settled the neighboiu'ing places.

Patriarchs of the Old Testament, finding themselves altogether too

many

in their country, sent

The some

The Assyrians wishing to Monarchy caused their subjects to inhabit the invaded countries in great numbers Those of the Persian Monarchy did no less. But the Greeks extended their limits very far for they by navigation peopled entire Islands, as appears by the highly learned Petrus Culverius, who The Romans domineering furnishes us correct information on all points in his published Italy. of theirs into the uninhabited valleys, and cultivated these accordingly. enlarge their

;

all over it, as is proved by the excavated stones found every where; but what order they observed herein is well known to us. Tliose sent thither, must acknowledge the senders as their Lords, pay them homage, and remain imder their sovereignty they were also protected by these by suitable weapons furnished also to them. And whereas, God be praised, it hath so prospered that the Honorable Lords Directors of the West India Company have, with the consent of the Noble High & Mighty Lords States General, undertaken to plant some

over the western world, spread colonies

Colonies, I shall give the particulars of them, as follows

We treated in

Reader will learn count of vir.

:

our preceding Discourse of the Discovery of some Rivers in Virginia

how

affairs

proceeded.

The West

India

;

the studious

Company being

chartered to

navigate these Rivers, did not neglect so to do, but equipped in the spring [of 1623j a vessel of 130 lasts, called the JVew JYethei'land

whereof Cornells Jacobs of Hoorn was

Skipper, witli 30 families, mostly Walloons, to plant a colony there.

They

sailed in tlie beginning

of March, and directing their course by the Canaiy Islands, steered towards the Wild Coast, and

gained the westwind which luckily (took) them in the beginning of

Rio de Moiitagnes,

now

the River Mauritius, lying in 40 1 degrees.

May into the River called, first He foiuid a Frenchman lying in

mouth of the River, who would erect the arms of the King of France there but the Hollanders would not permit him, opposing it by commission from the Lords States General and the Directors of the West India Company and in order not to be frustrated therein, with the assistance of tliose of the Mackerel which lay above, they caused a Yacht of 2 guns to be manned, and convoyed the Frenchman out the River, who. would do the same thing in the South River, but he was also prevented by the settlers there. Tliis being done, the ship sailed up to the Maykans, 44 miles, near which they built and completed a Fort named "Orange" with 4 bastions, on an Island, by them called Castle Island. They forthwith put the spade in the ground and began to plant, and before the Mackerel sailed, the grain was nearly as high as a man, so that they are bravely advanced. They also placed a Fort named the

;

;

" Wilhelmus " on Prince's Island, heretofore called Murderer's Island

;

it is

open in

front,

and has

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW-YORK BY THE DUTCH.

2t a curtain in the rear and tliere, tlie

course

lies for

is

garrisoned by sixteen

men

for the defence of the

the west wind, and having got

it,

to the

On

River below.

Bermudas and

leaving

so along the channel

The Yacht, the Mackerel, sailed out last year on the 16th June and arrived yonder on the 12th of December. That was somewhat late, but it wasted time in the Indian Islands, to catch fish, and did not catch any, so lost tliis opportunity. The Honi'i^. Daniel Van Krieckebeeck, for brevity called, Beeck was Commissary here, and so did his duty that he was in a short time towasds Patria.

thanked.

Respecting these Colonies, they have already a prosperous beginning

;

and the hope

is

that they

through provided they be zealously sustained, not only in that place but in South River. For their increase and prosperous advancement, it is higlily necessary

will not fall ^coLu^es"!*

means both of support and defence, and that being Freemen, they be settled there on a free tenure that all they work for and gain be their's to dispose of and to sell it according to their pleasure that whoever is placed over them as Commander act as their Father not as their Executioner, leading them with a gentle hand for whoever rules them as a Friend and Associate will be beloved by them, as he who will order them as a superior will subvert and nullify every tiling yea, they will excite against him the neighbouring provinces to which they will fly. 'Tis better to rule by love and fiiendsliip than by force. that those sent out be first of all well provided with

;

;

;

;

At THE same

time that the

received here in Of the^n""

They

fleet

arrived fi-om Archangel, a large quantity of otter skins were

Amsterdam from France,

finer than

had ever been seen

habit of clothing themselves with

them

;

in

tliis

The Tribes

were the product of Canada and the circumjacent places.

country.

are in the

the fur or hair inside, the smooth side without,

which, however, they paint so beautifully that, at a distance,

it

resembles lace.

It is the

opinion that

what has poor fur they deem unsuitable for their clotliing. When they bring their commodities to the Traders, and find they are desirous to buy them, they make so very little matter of it, that they at once rip up the skins they are clothed with and sell them as being the best. They use the Beaver skins mostly for the sleeves, as they are and they frequently come several days journey from the interior, to exchange not so expensive they

make use

of the best for that purpose

;

;

theirs

with the Tribes.

Agriculture progresses in

New

Netherland in

tliis

wise.

It is

very pleasant,

all

products being in

Grapes are of very good flavour, but will be, henceforward There are all sorts of bcttcr cultlvatcd by our people. Cherries are not found there. bitterns, abound. The men geese, ducks, fowls, both in the water and in the air. Swans,

abundance, though wild. New

Nvthcr.

scarcely ever labour, except to provide

and then they have provided every soil,

&c.

When

some game,

thing.

our people arrived there,

either fowl or other description, for cooking,

The women must attend to the remainder, tilling the Before this they were busy cleaning up and planting.

had left, the harvest was far advanced. It excites little attention if any one [of the Indians] abandon his wife ; in case she have cliildren, they usually follow her. Their summers are fine, but vessel

the days there are shorter than witli us here.

cbiefB."

wooded and it is some respect paid

The winters

are severe, but there

is

plenty of fuel,

whoever wants it. but these are no wise There is to those in authority amongst them richer than others. Tliere is always so much ado about them that the chief is feared and obeyed as long as he is near, but he must sliift for himself like others. There is notliing

as the country

is

well

at the service of

seen in his house more than in those of the rest.

;

25

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW-YORK BY THE DUTCH.

As Of

the

regards the prosperity of first

May

New

learn

by

arrival of the ship

tlie

began to advance bravely and continues in friendship with the natives.

to^N'w'Neth-

trade, remains in the

West India company, others being forbidden

beavers, otters, martins and foxes are found

and

we

Netlicrland,

whereof Jan Tlie colony

of Hoorn, was skipper, that every thing there was in good condition.

The

fur, or other

to trade there.

Rich

This cargo consists of five hundred otter skins,

tliere.

huntlied beavers, and a few other things, which were in four parcels, for twenty-eight

fifteen

thousand, some hundi'ed guilders.'

This country, or

tlie

,

river Montagne, called

by

was

our's Mauritius,

by West

the worthy

first sailed to

Indies, he When he went a voyage Hcndrick Christiaensen vail Cleef happened near there. But liis vessel being deeply laden, and a ship belonging to Monichendam having been wrecked in tliat neighborhood, he durst not approach that land ; this he postponed, being desirous to do so another time. It so happened that he and the worthy Adriaen Elock, chartered a ship with the skipper Ryser, and accomplislied his voyage thither, bringing back Though very dull men, they were expert witli him two sous of the principal sachems there. Hi,w the

to the

rivfr

enough in knavery. Hudson, the famous Enghsh pilot, had been there also, to reach the south sea, but Ibund no passage as men will read in tlie Netherlands History, in the year 1012. This aforesaid Hendrick Clu-istiaensz, after he had dissolved partnership with Adriaen Block, made ten voyages tliitlier, in virtue of a grant from tlie Lords States, who gave him that priviOn the expiration of tliat privilege, this country was lege for tlie first establishment of the place. granted to the West India company, to draw their profits tlience as has already been done, and ;

;

shall

still

further increase from the products

be given in the next, as

^Pi'^'^S ^o

As Of

as follows

it,

the country

the condi-

cm'iVtfy'and

whereof further

directors of the

West India company,

is

New

Netlierland, special attention

was directed

:

well adapted for agriculture and the raising of every thing that

placc wlth

many

^^^.^^

is

and

thlthcr, at

lils

rlsk whatever

was

requisite, to wit

;

produced

to

provide

who under-

necessaries, tlu-ough the Hon'^'^. Pieter Evertsen Hulst,

agricuiture.

^^^^

in the

this montli, (April,)

here, the aforesaid Lords resolved to take advantage of the circumstance, tlic

detail will

provldc everything for the colony in Virginia, near the Maykans on the river

Mauritius, by us called

to rehiforce

there,

success.

Good care having been taken by the

1625,

New' Ne'ther° land ciuny.

much depends on

which are manifest

one hundred and three

stallions, mares, steers and cows, for breeding and multiplying, besides

head of cattle all the hogs and sheep that might be thought expedient to send thither and to distribute tliese in two ships of one hundred and forty lasts, in such a manner that they should be well foddered and attended to. Each animal had its own stall, with a floor of three feet of sand fixed as comfortably Each animal had its respective servant who attended to it and knew its wants, as any stall here. so as to preserve its health, together with aU suitable forage, such as oats, hay and straw, &c. In addition to these, country people take with them all furniture proper for the dairy all sorts of Seed, ploughs and agricultural implements, so that nothing is wanting. What is most remarkable is, that nobody in the two sliips can discover where the water is stowed for these cattle. As it was necessary to have another [ship] on that account, I shall here add the above parties caused a deck to be constructed on board. Beneath this were stowed in each ship three hiuidred tons of fresh water which was pumped up and thus distributed among the cattle. On this deck lay the ;

;

;

;

:

1

Vol.

III.

The cargo of

the

New

—

Netherland, was sold in Amsterdam on 20th Dec. 1624.

4

26

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW-YORK BY THE DUTCH,

ballast

and thereupon stood the horses and steers, and thus there was no waste. He added the third tliat, should the voyage continue longer, nothing may be wanting to the success of the

ship so

In the eyes of the far seeing, the plan of this colony, which lay right beside the

expedition.

Spanish passage from

tlie

West

Indies,

In company with these, goes a

was well

laid.

In these aforesaid

fast sailing vessel at the risk of the Dii'ectors.

new comers or The natives of New Netherland are very the Directors/ well disposed so long as no injury is done tliem. But if any wrong be committed against tliem they think it long till they be revenged and should any one against whom they have a grudge, • be peaceably walking in the woods or going along in his sloop, even after a lapse of time, they will slay him, though they are sure it will cost them their lives on the spot, so highly prized is vengeance among them. vessels also go six complete families with

nt the risk of

so that forty five

inhabitants are taken out, to remain there.

In our previous discourses, mention tion of N.-« Neih-

some Ireemen,

:

On

is

made of New Netherland.

and moon.

is

addititional informa

•

a greater iSac/ama (pointing to

Wlien they wage war against each other, they

fortify their tribe or

it

is

^ac/ama, [Sachem] but above him the sun

Here

named Heaven) who riiles

further enquiry

found, that they have a chief in time of war, is

They liave enemy and discharge aiTows. carry their husband's arrows and

nation with palisades, serving them for a Fort, and sally out the one against the other.

a tree in the centre, on which they place sentinels to observe the

exempt in war, but the Priests, and the women Avho food. The meat they eat consists of game and fish but the bi-ead is cakes baked fore-father's fasliion, in the ashes they almost all eat that in war. They are a wicked, bad people, very fierce Twenhuyzen, once a skipper', inarms. Thir dogs are small. When the Hon^ie Lambrecht had given them a big dog, and it was presented to them on ship-board, they were very much afraid

None

are

;

;

of

it

;

calling

it,

also,

The

a Sachem of dogs, being the biggest.

dog, tied with a rope on board,

was very furious against them, they being clad Uke beasts with skins, for he thought they were game but when tliey gflve him some of their bread made of Indian corn, which grows there, he learned to distinguish them, that they were men. There are oaks of very close grain ; yea, harder than any in tliis country, as thick as three or There is Red-wood which being burned, smells very agreeably; when men sit by four men. When tliey keep the fire on benches made from it, the whole house is perfumed by it. p?odScts. ;

watch by night against tlieir enemies, then they place it [tlie fire] in the centre of their they do not sit, then, up in the tree, but make a hole in the roof, and their feet by it keep watch there, to prevent attacks. Poisonous plants have been found there, which should be studied by those who have a fancy Hendrick Christiaensen carried tliither, by order of his employers, to cultivate land. The Directors J?ucks, and Goats, also Rabbits, but tliey were found poisoned by the herbs.

huts, to

warm

;

'

intend to send thither

tliis

spring voyage, [1G25J a quantity of hogs wliich will be of great service

by cows, with young calves. Very large oysters, sea fish and river fish are in such great abundance there, that they cannot be sold and in rivers so deep, as to be navigated upwards with large ships.

to the colony

;

to be followed

;

The two lads brouglit hither by Adriaen Block, were named Orson and Valentine. This Orson was wlcked scamp, and on his return to his own country was the cause of Hendrick ofihenauvos ^ thoroughly Christiaensen's death 1

Traded

aa carl^

m 1614,

;

but he was paid in like coin.

1615, to tbii ooaiiti7, under a special charter.

He

got a bullet as his

See O'CaU. Hist. N. Net)icrlasd

i.

74

recompense. ct s«q.

;

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW- YORK BY THE DUTCH.

27

among them, they being unwilling to cohabit tliose who are single, evince every friendly digpogitjon. Fui'tlicr information is necessary. Whatever else is of value in the country, mines and other ores shall by time and further exploration be made known to us. IMuch

Chastity appears, on further enquiry, to liold a place ^'vith

Of the Women,

such as

profit is to

be expected from good management.

At the same

New

time arrived a ship from

The next

Netherland, mostly with Furs.

The vessels with

concerned, all goes well there.

j^j^

But

ours, tlirough fear of their husbands.

which our Colonists had planted, looked will bring their owners good news.

A SHIP came, at

well,

As

far as

good order

the cattle had not yet got there

;

is

the crops

but there was no certain inlbrmation thereof.

Company from New Germany, loaded mostly with vojage. The Cattle carried thither, were removed

the same time, to the aforesaid

whlch had a favorable upwards to a convenient place abounding with grass and pasture. Only two animals dietl Tliis gave great satisfaction to the adventurers, who had found tlie on the passage. pcltrics,

November, N.'^Neiher"

voyage so pleasant.

.

In our preceding Treatise we made mention of

New

Netherland and

its

colony planted by the

West India Company, situate in Virginia on the River, called by the French Montaigne^ and by us, Mauritius, and that some families were sent thither, which now increased to two hundred souls and afterwards some ships, one with horses, the other with cows, and the hay two months afterwards a fleet was equipped, carrying sheep, hogs, wagons, ploughs and

1626.

ofJi^Ntih'^l

;

third all

;

other implements of husbandry.

landed on Nut Island, three miles up the River, where There being no means of pasturing them there, they were Of the Cattle, sluppcd iu sloops and boats to the Manhates, right opposite said Island. Being put out to pasture here, they throve well, but afterwards ftdl twenty in aU died. The cause of this was that they had eaten something bad from an uncultivated soil. But they went in the middle

These

cattle

were, on their arrival,

fii-st

they remained a day or two.

new grass, as good and as long as covdd be desired. The Colony was planted at this time, on the Mandates where a Fort was staked out by Master It wiU be of large dimensions. The ship which has Of Fort Am. Kryu Frederycke an Engineer. sterdam. i-etumcd liomc tliis month (Nov.) brings samples of all the different sorts of produce of September [1625] on

'

there.

7246 Beavers, 675 Otter skins, 48 Minx, 36 Wild

Tlie cargo consists of

other sorts

;

several pieces of oak timber,

The counting house

there

cat,

and various

lilckory.

kept in a stone-building, thatched with reed; the other houses are of

is

the bark of trees.

and

Each has

liis

own

house.

The Director and Koopman

live together

there are thirty ordinary houses on the east side of the river which runs nearly north and

^clnditio*n

south.

The

Hon'^'*.

Pieter Minuit

is

Director there at present;

Jan Lempo Schout

Huyck, Comforters of the Sick, who, whilst awaiting a on Sundays, from texts of Scripture with the Comment. Francois Molemaecker is busy building a horse-mill, over which shall be constructed a spacious room sufficient to accommodate a large congregation, and then a tow^er is to be erected where the bells [Sheriff]

;

Sebastiaen Jansz Crol and Jan

clergyman, read to the Commonalty

tliere

brought from Porto Rico will be hung. 1

The Arms

of Amsterdam, sailed from the Manhattans on 23d Septr. 162€.

28

FIIIST

The Council

there administered Justice in criminal matters as far as imposing fines {locf-strafe'J,

but not as ^^iiM'^j.cj"e"'rraust

now.

Director there; Willem

another there wlio

is

work

by the Company

who

without the

Should

fills

no public

;

but when

May

any one deserves

that

tliat is

He

the second in the year 1625.

oflice

he

;

is

tliat,

he

of Hoorn was in the year 1624,

busy about

liis

own

returns

Men

affairs.

upwards, southwards and northwards; another

Each farmer has

liis

farm and the cows on the land purchased

but the milk remains to the profit of the Boor

work every week.

receive their wages for fort,

haijjien

it

Cornells

Van Hulst was

there as in Holland; one trades

builds houses, the third farms.

^"lula.^*'"

people

punishment.

tar as capital

be sent to Holland with his sentence.

tlie first

Tliere

SETTLEMENT OF NEW- YORK BY THE DUTOT.

completed, they will

The houses all

;

he

those of the

sells it to

now

of the Hollanders

repair within, so as to garrison

stand it

and

be secure from sudden attack.

Those of or the South Kivcr.

South River will abandon their Fort, and come hither

tlie

men

sixteen

traded

;

Maykans which they It

;

no more than

fifteen or

remain at Fort Orange, the most distant point at wliich the Hollanders the remainder will come down to the Manhates. Right opposite is the fort of the will

built against their enemies, the

Maqmcs [Mohawks]

a powerful people.

hapi^ened this year, that the Muylams, being at war with the Maquaes, requested to be assisted

by the Commander of Fort Orange and six others. Commander Kiueckebeck went up with them a mile from the Fort, and met the Maquaes who peppered them so bravely with a discharge of arrows, tliat they were forced to fly, leaving many slain among whom were the Commander and three of his men. Among the latter was Tymeu Bouwensz., whom they devoured, after having well cooked him. The rest they burnt. Tlie Commander was buried with the other two by his side. Three escaped two Portuguese and a Hollander from Hoorn. One of the Portuguese was wounded by an arrow in the back whilst swimming. The Indians carried a leg and an arm home to be divided among tlieir famiUes, as a proof that they had conquered their enemies. Some days after the worthy Pieter Barentsen, who visually was sent ui)wards and along the coast with the slocps, visited tliem they wished to excuse their act, on tlie plea that they had never injured the wliites and asked the reason why the latter had meddled with them; Had it been otherwise, tliey would not luive acted as they had. There being no Commander, Pieter Barentsen assumed the Command of Fort Orange by order DircctoT Mluult. There were eight families there, and ten or twelve seamen in the New Commander. ^ojupany's scrvicc. Tlie fort was to remain garrisoned by sixteen men, without women, and War.

;

;

.

the families were to leave there this year in order to strengthen with people the Colony near the

Manhates who were becoming more and more accustomed

to the strangers.

The Natives are always seeking some advantage by thieving. The crime is seldom punished among them. If any one commit that ofience too often he is sfript bare of his goods, and must res(^-t to other means another time. The husband who al^andons his wife without Living, But as they love the in like manner the wife the husband's. cause must leave all her's The Girls allow children ardently, these are frequently the cause of their coming again together. They work their hair to be cut all around, like the priests, when they are unwell lor the first time. They remain a stick. furnished them on food separate house, where is apart from all the men in a again, and are abroad aj^pearance Then they make their therein until they are sick a second time. allowed to marry. They tlien again dress their hair, which before they would not touch. The ;

married

women

let their

hair

grow

to the waist

&

smear

it

with

oil.

When

they are unwell they do

The men

not eat witli their husbands, and they sup their drink out of the hand.

grow on one ished whoever

side of the liead fir a braid; tlie rest is cut

;

it

concerns meditates vengeance

off".

if satisfaction

If

one

kill the

be not made.

other,

it

let is

the

liair

not pun-

In the mouth of August

NEW-YORK BY THE DUTCH.

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF

a universal torment seizes them, so that they run like ditches,

and

respect.

mad dogs

like

resting no

The Birds most common

men

possessed, regarding neither hedges nor

where except from sheer are wild Pigeons

They hold this in singular numerous that they shut out

inability.

these are so

;

29

the sunsliine. The n^me the

Wheu

of

fun.

thc

rjij^g

staked out at the Manhates, will be completed,

fort,

-p^^.^

^l^g

South River

is

it is

to be

For purposes of trade, only one yacht is sent fhere, in order to avoid expense. The Sirkenanes dwell about tlie North, between tlie Brownists and the Dutch.

made an agreement Jaques Elekes had imprisoned him in ransom, or else he sliould "cup" him. nation hath lately

consists of small beads they

named Amster-

already vacated, in order to strengthen the Colony.

witli Pieter Barents, not to trade

The

chief of this

wuth any other than him.

the year 1622 in his yacht and obliged liim to pay a heavy lie paid one

hundred and

forty fathoms of Zeevmn,

which

On

manufacture tliemselves, and which they prize as jewels.

this

account he has no confidence in any one but Barentsen now. Of

The Brownists, who live beyond them, are Englishmen, who removed thither by consent ^^^^ King. They are .called Puritans, because they seek after Purity in the Orthodox Tliey wished not to live in England desiring not wealth, but merely necessaries and

ihe

Brownists.

religion.

j

frugality.

known

Tlie most distant Nations from there, Of

to the traders, are the Indians

from French Canada.

Thereabout are the Orankolcx, the Achkokx and others, both men and women.

(he

Nations.

River,

if

yaclits witliout tlaese,

they bring

women

with them,

'tis

a sign they are friends

;

if

On

entering

they visit the

every one must be on his guard.

Maikans regarding tlie separation of the Soul is, that it goes up westward on body Tliere 'tis met with great rejoicing by the others who died previously ; Belief of the there they wear black Otter or Bear skins, which among them are signs of gladness. They have no desire to be with them. The .Mahieu, Captain of the Mayka7is, who is named Cat, pretends that Death is the oflfspring of tlie Devil, who is evil. A Skipper denying this, said, God had control over Death. Thereupon he asked, if He being good had the power to give, or take away, life ] And he was answered, Yea wiiich he could not understand, how' this good God should inllict Evil, that is Death. But tliere was no one to furnish him proper instruction he therefore remains in his darkness. When they have a corpse, they place it, in the act of dying, squat on the heels, like children sitting in this country before the fire and so lay it in the grave, aU sitting its face to the East.

The

belief of the

Icaviug

tlic

.

;

;

;

It

appears that the Sickanamers, before mentioned, in a hill in

^thTsick^a.

which they place a

them, or procured. they

all

away, according

AVlien there

is

a sort of sacrifice.

They have a hole by

a great quantity collected a snake comes in, then

depart, and the Alunittou, that to the

make

kettle full of all sorts of articles that theyhave, either

is

the Devil, comes in the night and takes the kettle

statement of the Koutsinacka, or Devil hunter,

who

presides over the

ceremony. This Pieter Barentz, already spoken

with the Sickenames, to

of, is

whom

conversant with

all

the wdiole North coast

the Tribes thereabout is

tributary

;

;

he traded

with the Sinnekox,

Muquacs and Maikans, so that he visited all the Tribes with sloops and traded And he brought back this year a in a friendly manner with them, only for peltries. valuable cargo in the slup the Arms of Amsterdam, whereof Adriaen Joris is Skipper, who went out there on the lO'h of December of the year 1G25 with the ship the Sea-gull (ket Meeutje) and conveyed Pieter Minuit aforesaid, who now sends for liis wife thither. The Sea gull arrived ^iln"ua°cs

there 4th

May, 1626.

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF

30

Two SHIPS came W ith ten tliousand

Oct. 1628. ships from

from

New

NEW-YORK BY THE DUTCH.

Netherland for the benefit of the said (W.

Peltries, or skins, togetlier

building of the vessels which are shortly to be launched.

land.

by the Commander

there, called Minuict

;

I.)

Company,

with a large quantity of timber,

fit

for the

Those ships were despatcht

one ship was the Three Kings, Skipper Jan Jacobsz.

Arms of Amsterdam. The government over the people of New Netherland continued on the 19"' of August of this year in the aforesaid Minuict, successor to Verhulst, who went thither from Holland on 9'*»

of Wieringh;' the other was, the

Government.

January, Anno, 1G26, and took up his residence in the midst of a nation called MaiUiates^ building a tort there, to be called Amsterdam, having

Ibui- points and faced outside entirely and compact. The population consists of down, are now more with two hundred and seventy souls, including Men, Women and Children. They remained as yet without They are situate tliree miles from the Fort, in no fear, as the Natives live peaceably with them. the Sea, on the River by us called Mauritius^ by otlrers, Rio de Montagne. These strangers for the most part occupy their farms. Whatever they require is supplied by the Birf Directors. Tlie Winter grain has turned out well there, but the Summer grain which ripened Occupation. before it was half grown in consequence of the excessive heat, was very light. The cattle sent thither have had a good increase, and every thing promises better, as soon as. the land is improved, which is very poor and scrubby. There are now no iiimilies at Fort Orange, situated higher up the River among the Maikans. They are all brouglit down. They keep five or six and twenty persons. Traders, there. State of Orange. he remained there since the year 1626, Bastiacu Jausz Crol is Vice Director there

stone, as the walls of sand

fall

;

when

the others came down.

Those of the West India Company have removed all those who were at the South River. Only there. Traders who come from a great distance make mention one trading i o o vessel is kept Trade. not be bartered, because they are used which will for clothing, being much Lion skins of

warmer than others. Beyond the South

River, in 37 degrees. Englishmen are settled, freemen, but planted there by Mcrchauts on condition that they deliver as much tobacco to their masters as is agreed remainder is theii- own. Considerable trade was carried on with them, and many

Another Nation.

.

ships

come

thither from England. t'^©

Another

Nortli side are the English Brownists,

acquire considerable strength, supporting

tlieir

who maintain themselves very

reputation bravely with

tlie

well and

Natives,

whom

they do not fear, having acted strictly with these from the first, and so continuing. In the beginning of this year, war broke out between the Maikans near Fort Orange and the Mitkwaes, but these beat and captured the Maikaris and drove off the remainder

have settled towards the North by the Fresh River, so called cultivate the soil

;

After the Riglit

the

to

thus the war terminated.

]Ion''ie

Lords Directors of the Privileged West India Company in the United

Netherlands, had provided for the defence of

1630.

'VameZo

And

who

where they begin again

New

Netherland and put every thing there in

^^^^ OYdcT, tlicy takiug into consideration the advantages of said place, the favorable

and soil, and that considerable Trade and goods and many comraodities may be olitained from thence, sent some persons, of their own accord, thither witli all sorts of cattle and implements necessary for agriculture, so that in the year 1628 there already resided on the Island of the Manluittes^ two hundred and seventy souls, men, women & children,

Nrw

Noihcr!

"^ture of

tlic

air,

1

Sent in 1627 Trom the Dutch as Delegate

2 Connecticut Rivor.

to

New

Plymouth.

FIRST SETTLEMENT OE

NEW VORK BV THE DUTCH.

31

under Governor Minuit, Verhulst's successor, living tl^ere in peace with the Natives. Eut as the land, in many places being full of weeds and wild prcxluctions, could not be properly cultivated in consequence of the scantiness of the population, the said Lords Directors of the West India Company, the better to people their lands, & to bring tlie country to produce more abundantly, resolved to grant divers Privileges, Freedoms and Exemptions to all Patroons, Masters or Individuals who should plant any Colonies and cattle in New Netherland, and they accordingly have

and published in print these following Exemptions, to atford better encouragement and infuse greater zeal into whomsoever should be inclined to reside and plant his Colonic in New constituted

Netherland. [Here foUows the "Charter of Patroons," already printed in various works on the History of New-York.]

•EARLY DUTCH SETTLEMENT ON THE DELAWARE. [

Deed Book, VII.

]

N.York, february

14: 16S4-5.

The Deposicon of Catelina Trice aged fouer score yeares or thereabouts taken before the right Thomas Dongan Leu*, and Governour under his Roy", high^s James Duke of Yorke and Albany etc. of N York and its Dependencyes in America, who saith and Declares in the p sens of God as foUoweth That she Came to this Province either in the yeare one thousand six hundred and twenty three or twenty fouer to the best of her remembrance, and that fouer Women Came along with her in the same Shipp, in wliich ship the Governo"" Arian Jorissen Came also over, which fouer Women were married at Sea and that they and their husbands stayed about three Weekes at this place and then they with eight seamen more went in a vessell by ord^ of the Dutch Governo^ to Dellaware honoi^i^. ColP.

River and there

settled.

This

I Certifie

under

my

hand and y^

scale of this province.

THO. DONGAN. The Deposicon of Arien Dirksen Korn aged about sixty five yeares being Deposed saith That he Came in this Country of New York formerly called the new Netherlands in the yeare one thousand six himd^. and thirty the 24*'' of May with the sliip Vnity John Brower Commander, and hath ever since continued here in this coimtry, and saith further that att the said time of his tlais Deponent heard and was Informed by persons then arriving here from Delleware River that the said River was settled by the dutch west India Company who had sent a parcell of men there in order to whale fishing, and this Deponent saith further that some short time After to his best Remembrance it was about one yeare or one yeare and a half after news Came here att New York from Deleware, that all the said people in Delleware were Cutt of by the Indians, and further

arrivall here

this

Deponent

saith nott.

me

Deposed by the said Aron Dirksen Korn Coram

the 16'^.

March 1684-5.

Peter Lawrrnsen aged sixty seaven yeares being deposed saith that he came into this Province a servant to the west india

Company

in the yeare

1628 and in the yeare 1630 by order of the West

Company hee with seven more were sent in a Company had a trading house with ten or twelve

India

>

sloope with

hoy

sayle to dellaware

servants belonging to

it

where the

w^hich the deponant

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF

32

NEW-YORK BY THE DUTCH.

himselfe did see there settled, and he further saith that at his retiirne from Delaware River

tl;e

said

Depouant did alsoe see a settlem*. of a brickhouse belonging to the west India Company, and the Deponant further saith that upon an Island neare the falls of tliat River and neare the west side thereof the said Company some three or fouer yeares afore had a trading house where there were three or foure familyes of Walloons the place of there settlem^. he saw and that they had been seated there he was Informed by some of the said Walloons themselves When they were returned from thence and furtlier tliis Deponent saith not. This Deposicon was taken upon oath before me which I doe- Certifie under the scale of this Province tliis 24th of March A°. 1C84-5 in vessell stopt at the hoorekill wliere the

New Yorke.

T. D.

-

THE FIRST WHITE WOMAN [N. Y. Col: MSS.

IN ALBANY.

XXXV.

J

Catelyn Trico aged about 83 years born in Paris doth Testify and Declare that in y* year 1623 she came into this Country w^h a Ship called y^ Unity whereof was Commander Arien Jorise belonging as soon as they to y

Court Marshal.

Petition of John

all

Andrewes Esq. Gouernor Generall Vnder

Manning Sheweth

in all

humble manner That

Pef

is

the most

Hon"" out of your abundant goodness pleaseth not to take his Misserable

Pious consideracon hopeing and prayeing that all the paipers may be received and have a favorable Construction which shewes in what condicon the ffort was in, the weekness of Strength, the ai)prehension of Enemies in o' Bowells, the potent Enemy without us, yo"" Houo" State into

y"""

without aduice or Councill and haueing but eighteen bowers before the discomagement and dismaying Cap' Carr gaue to our Men saying how greate their strength was & that we was not he aboard the shipps from came when he when he went to make Condicons All which sudaine Returneing able to withstand them, and his not Peticoner being wholy

Enemy came

left

to attack us beside the great

and Confusion Amongust the Men as to our Insufficiency for defence upon serious examinacon I higlily blame myself for first ray unaduisodness and indiscrccon in tiikeing the chai-ge of the Garrison at Gouernor Louelace his goeing away & allso surprisall occasioned strange amaisemt* disorders

—

.

RESTORATION Of NEW'-VORK TO TIIK ENGLISH. that

did not see

I

tl:e

Articles signed before

tlie

siu'rend""

w'^"*

I

55

doe to

my

state. Yo'^Hou" Pef had not those Consideracons owne Wellfare and the Welllare of his neiglibours and friends.

through yesuddaine Hurry of

meete

for his

Therefore doeth liumbly craue

yo--

Hon^s fauorable oppinion in

intended of disloyalty or unfaitlifullness to his Ma^'e or the Inhabitants heare soe leauing myself to

yo«"

Honi^^

Greef Acknowledge in

liis

niiude as was

this State of his their being nothing

Royall Highnesses Intrest nor detrim' to

liis

Mercy and Clemancy.

Jany 29, 167f

NAMES OF THE WITNESSES. Persons sumansed to Apeare before ye Gouern"" about y^ Axamination of Cap* Jn° Maning on ffryday ye 29 of Jany. 1G74. M"^.

Jn° Sharpe

M^

Tho

Mr Jno M"" Jno

Tomson

M''

Tho Berryman M^ Edward Ellitt and

M'".

Tailer

Worsencraft

Churcher,

his

man,

M*" Jn" Cooly

Mr Henry Newton Volatiteers. M' Jn° Ray Pipe maker, Then

Sodgars but

now

out of saruis

dismist

Baynes, Fitzgerald, Dowdale,

serg^^ before,

being cal'd u'oon appeared.

ARTICLES AG^T qj^p^n jqhn MANNING COMANDER

IN CHIEFE IN JAMES FORT IN

NEW YORKE AND GOVERNMT AT THE TAKING THEREOF BY THE DUTCH

1. First,

IN

JULY

1673-

That on or about the 28* day of July 1G73 the

Fleate of

Ennemyes

ships

coming

into the Bay,

s^ Cap* John Manning having notice of a Hee did not endeavour as hee ought, nor put

the Garrison in such a fitting posture of Defence as hee might,

and

slighted such as proffer'd

their service. 2.

That on or about the SO'h day of July the s

Wee

w^hose

York we had

in the ffort

gargeants

Jolinftz Geralt

Ben:Comly

)

>

+David Thomas

Tho». Bassett y Cantwell

-{-Joseph Stanton

Copstaffe

Thomas Guinne

-|-Lewis Collens -f-John

Wattkens

-[-Andrew Stocker -f William Hatter

-|-

Perry

-f-John Taylor

-f-

Brayday

John Wassingale

Peter Good

Edward Suter

Tho: Cheescman

Niclos Paine

Robert Gardner

RESTORATION OF NEW-YORK TO THE ENGLISH.

63

DIVERS ORDERS ISSUED BY CAPT. MANNIJ^G. You are hereby required in liis Ma^'e* name immediately vppon receipt hereof for to di-aw your troops togeather and repaire towards Vtrecht or Grauesend to observe the motion of the Enemy and make all the discouery or resistance you canne, and send an officer downe hether to ceiuft sucli orders as shall bee thought necessary, Hereof ye must not faile as you will aunswer

my hand

the contrary att your Vttermost perriH: Given vnder 11

:

this 28">

Day

of July 1673 past:

of the clock att night

John Manning.

To Lieutenant The WiUet Doughty or

or to Corronett

them

to Either of

New York this 28th halfe an

To

Lieute'

Willett

hower

of July 1673 at past 10 at night

•

In the absence of the Gouernor and Tour Cap* haueinge received recent intelligence of 10 Saile of Sliipps ariued witliin

Sandy Hooke,

I

haue thought proper

bring your troope together, and that to niglit you faUe not to sende to receive farther orders

and

in the

mean time you

do good Seruice

will

you

to accquaint that

down an to

fortliwith

officer [to the fferry]

God, yo^ King and your

untrey and

Your humble Seruant John Manning.

New York this Cornett

:

29th

:

of July 1673.

Doughty

Yours

I

haue receiued by M^ Whitehead

&

retm*ne you thanks for your readines in the

Execution of the warrant to you wish you doe not [spend] time too longe

least the Enemie take [advantage] thereby, you will make a seuere returne. I [wish] tliat for wee may know our friendes from our Enemies ffor powder such wee haue you may count on as likewise Musketts, buUetts to bee runned into bulletts as to newes our boate is returned with the discouery of 21 saile greate & small their coulers apeared to be blew & a white Thus leaning you to the protection of God I remaine as ever Yours to serue your John Manning.

I could heartily

as for those persones that refuse I wish not but

:

:

AJl Subordinate

Men

as ffor yo"" orders

/

you are

to observe yo"" Warr**.

RESTORATION OF NEW-YORK TO THE ENGLISH.

54

CORNET DOUGHTY TO CAPT. MANNING.

My

Sir

Warrant

humble

Your Worsliip in the leftenantes [absence] I reseved your and to March towards Gravesend or Vtrick the Uftenante is

sarvis presented to

to getli the troope togethar

muskitt neare to asist me yet in obedience to yovur Wliai-ant I have sent and the [surjantj vppon resayt and sight hereof to repire with theyr hors and arms to Jamaco vppon thayr perell not to fail to be redy to etent thayr at command I have sent best a whay to the Liftenant according to yovur [order] I have sent one of ovur troapers Daniell Whithed in obedience to youi- command to whait on yor for furtlier ordai* soe I humble desier your worship to send hvs povdar and [shott] for whee are vnprovided and vnable to defend ovur selves if whe should meet with an enemy Nothing els bvt my prayers to the Lord to give yov wisdom and a valiant [arm] to Maneg and defend liis Ma^'^s interest and ovur ovne lives from the enimy that absent Nithcr a

to all the troapers

shall

upose them.

Jemaca

this 29*1^ of July 1673.

vr moyst

Humbl Sarvint to Command to

death

Elias Doughty.

MANNING TO

CAPT. CARPENTER.

Capt. Carpenter

You

are required in his Ma^'cs

of fiuzileers together by beete of

you cause forthwith

that

name immediately upon

Drumme and

Warrt, Hereof you are not

Armes to made them for

to faile at yo'' Perill

James in New York, July the To Capt John Carpenter at Jamaica upon Long Island or Samuel Riscoe his Ensigne.

Dated

such volunteers as

to repaire w"i their

entertained and haue due sattisfaccon yo''

all

at ffort

sight hereof to

&

ai-e

draw up yo' Company

willing to serue

this Garrison

where they

their paines.

And

as

liis

Ma''e

shal be straightway

for soe doeing this shall

you tender y« welfare of his

be

Ma'ies Seruice,

29n> 1673.

Whereas their was last night "Warr^s sent for the respective Capt« and officers of y«fFoote Companyes upon Long Island requireing them for his Ma^'^* Seruice to di-aw up their seuerall companyes by Warr's ye Cuntry being then allarm'd of an Enemy at Sand Beate of Drum upon sight of the s' That aU pai'ties consent that these articles being interchangeably signed be read to the respective Congregations from the Pulpit k and authentiq copies thereof sent to the other Dutch Churches in this Province to be V)y them kept & that notice hereof be given to the Classis of Amsterdam with the reqixest of both parties for their approbacon. Lastly. If M^ Freerman & his friends should not be pleased to consent to the above articles that then Cap" Joannes De Peyster be desired to produce the resolucon of the Classis of Amsterdam, whereby Peace is said to be recommended according to the order of the said Classis, as M^ Freerman intimates in liis letter without date to M"" Antonides that Capt. De Peyster aforesaid had shewn the same to him, together with the means to attain such a Peace. New-York 4'^ Mai-ch 170|.

By

order of the said Elders and Deacons, Abb-\h: Gouverneur,

Joseph Hegeman, J eronejius Remsen, Pieter Nevius.

Endorsed, " Proposals on the part of

M'

friends.

Antonides's 1708."

FURTHER PETITION OF DOM^ ANTONIDES' ELDERS. Sir:

Ma'"" Lieu* Gov^ & Comand' inCliiefof New- York & New Jersey and the hon* Councill of the same: The Petition of Joseph liegeman Peter Nevius & Jeronimus Remsen in tlie belialf of the Elders & Deacons of the Dutch Reformed Protestants Chui-ches of the towns of fflatbush flat-

To the Right

Honi^'e Rich*! Ingoldesby Esq' her

the Provinces of

lands

&

brookland,

IIcMHLY SlIEWETII,

That yo'' Pet'-» did in the time of the late Lord Lovelace petition his Ex' y sundry Iregularitys comitted in their Churches by M"" Bernardus freerman:

&

Coimcill against

99

PAPERS RELATING TO KINGS CX>UNTY.

That his Exr & Councill were pleased to referr the Examicon thereof iinto three of the members of this board to take ye same in the p^sence of sundry other Gent". That the said Gent" have long since finished the said Exinacon but by reason of the other emergent affairs

of this Province no report has as yet been

made

thereof.

Yor Pet" therefore humbly pray that for the p^venting of farther disputes & and settling the peace of the County where those Chiu-ches are the said members of the Councill may be ordered with all speed to make their report on that affair to this houi^i® board.

And

bound

yor Pef^ as in duty

shall ever pray.

By

New York

their order,

8*^ Sept. 1709.

AbRAH

:

GoUVERNEUR.

ORDER THEREON. Att a Councill held at New York this 8th day of Sep^ 1709

The Hono^'® Coll° Beekman Mr Van Dam

Present,

CoUo

lands and M"^

&

M' Mompesson

'

M"" PhilUpse

Cap' Provost.

Petition of Joseph

Hegeman

Peter Navius

&

Jeronimus Remsen in the behalf

Deacons of y« Dutch Reformed Protestant Chui'ches of y® Towns of

fiiat

Bush

fflat-

Brookland Praying y® Comittee appointed for examining into the disputes concerning

Freeman on the Chui-ches aforesaid may make their report thereof to

Antonides and

It is

Esqf Liv* Gov^

Wenham

Upon Read y^ of y« Elders

Rich*i Ingoldesby

this

Board.

ordered y' they proceed thereon according to y^ said Petition.

PETITION OF THE ELDERS OF DOM^ FREEMAN'S CONGREGATION. To

the Hon''ie Ricliard Ingoldsbey Esq"" Liev* Govern"^

of

New York New

The most humble

&

Comand'' in chiefe of the provinces

Jersey &c.

petition of

Dorus polliemus John Hansen Christian Snedecore

&

Jn° Snedecore

Elders of the Dutch Congregation in Queens County.

Sheweth Whereas

Freeman by orders from our late Governor the Lord Cornbm-y was to be Minister and none els wliich also was confirmed by the Lord Lovelace according which wc your Honrs petitioners were chosen & Constituted Elders of ye Church & now conM''

of this Congregation to

—

:

tinue to be so.

Nevertheless M' Antonides being very well apprized hereof but minding to make a Division & Disturbance in the Church here (as we are told he has done in Kings County) has latel}' (as we are informed) Taken upon liimself in concert with some few others to make choise of other Elders of the said Congregation

&

does design to pubUsh them as such at the Church or meeting hous at

100

PAPERS RELATING TO KINGS COUKTT.

Jamaica to morrow & also then to preach to the said Congregation, for the doing of wliich (as we humbly conceive) he has no manner of power or authority from yom- hon^. Wee therefore humbly pray for y« preventing of tlie ill consequences which such practices by Mm will inevitably produce that yo' Hon"^ will be pleased as has been usual to order that no Dutch Minister shall preacli or Exercise his Ministerial flfunction in this County besides M^ fEreeman till further orders from yo' Hon'

k

yof

Hon"

petitioners shall ever pray kc.

Thzodorus Polhemus Jno

HB

Hansen

Jan Snedeker

PETITION AGAINST DOM^ ANTONIDES. To the

Hont^ie Collonel Richard Ingoldesby Governor

and Commander

Her Majesties and Tracts of Land dej^ending

N York

in Chief of

and New Jersey k of all y« Territories yedient Servants 28'''

Sept' 1711

Endorsed,

Read 29

Sept^ 1711

L

Confirmed.

John Barberie

S:

Staats

A.

R.

Walter

I).

Piiilipse

T Bverley

Rip Van

Dam

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PAPERS RELATING TO KINGS COUNTY.

ORDER IN COUNCILL ON A PETITION OF DOM. ANTONIDES. [

Counc. Min. XI.

]

At a Councill held at fort Anne in New-York this 29th day of Sept^ 1713. Present His Excellency ^Robert Hunter Esq &c. Col.

D

M"" Barberie

'peyster

Doct. Staats

Ml' Phillipse

Capt. Walter

M"" Byerley

Dutch Churches of fBatbush fflatlands and Brookland in Kings County relating to the disputes between him and M"" ffreeman setting forth that notwithstanding the order of this Board of the 30*^ April 1711 M"^ flreeman in Contempt thereof did on the 6'h Sept^ Instant take upon himself to preach in the Church of fflatbush at the time when the Pef^ Congregation was to have mett there and thereby hindered your pef from officiating in the said Church and being apprehensive the same method will be taken by y^ said M"" fireeman in the other Churches abovenamed To the great Hurt and disturbance of the Pef and his Congregation & praying relief in the premises, being read The Consideration thereof is referred to the Gentlemen of tWs Board or any five of them.

The

Petition of Vincentius Antonides Minister of the protestant reformed

above detailed did not- terminate until the close of the year 1714, when a reconciliation between the Clergymen and their respective friends, the particulars of which will be found in Strong's Town of Flatbush, 1842, p. 86. Ed.

The unhappy was

differences

finally effected

Hist: of the

A TRUE LIST OF THE RESPECTIVE OFFICERS AND SOULDIERS BELONGING TO THE REGIMENT OF MILITIA IN KINGS county; 1715. RiCD Stili.wellCoII. Joust Van Brunt L. Coll, Jeromas Remsin Major Samuel Garrison agett The Troop.

Daniel Remsen Captt Rick Vansudam, Leff. Johannis Sebring, Cortt Marten Adrianse, Quartt GabriU Sprong Daniel Rapelje Klas ffolkerson John Simasin William Hogelantt Jacob Nagell John Rapelje

Hans Bargen Jacob Martensin John vanklecft George Anderson Joust debevoice Cornelius Simason

Stephen Korten Jacob Bennitt Aartt Willemse John vandervere William van Nuess Thomas Griggs

Abraham hegeman Lawrence Ditniarse Abraham Derje

DEMENICASVANDERVERECapt George Bloom

bans Bargen John Griggs

John Benham Ens William Howard

Joust Derje

Johannis Cornell John Bennitt hendrick keep Jacob vander boog

Barent Bloom Jacob debevoice John Garrison Nicholas Cowenhoven John van kerk Charles debevoice

Rem

Joressin

Jaques Tunissin

Rem hegeman Stephen Schenck Charles derje Barnadus Reide Cornelius Wickhoff Jacob bennitt

Jeromas vanderbilt William fferdon John van wickellen Samuel Gronendick Isaac Snediker

Peter Simson Hendrick van Sudam kort van Voierhuys Jeromas Rapelje=>=: 52

II.

Philip Nagell Leff.

Joseph hegeman Johannis ditmarss David Esubb Cornelius pulhemus Jacob pulhemus Cornelius vandervere John van der beltt John Stryker Johannis Jansc

Abraham Loot Johannis Ditmarss Peter hagewoutt Bartt vanderende Adrejan hegeman Class Simason Simon Loise

Richard Beets William van Borom Charls van Borom Elbartt

hegeman

Evertt van wickellon

Jureen Probuscoo Jacob Remson Reinear reinearsea Jacob Hagewoutt Isaac hagewoutt Aartt van derbilt rem Adriaanse Gerrett Adriaanse

John Lambertse Harmanus Gisberse Reinear ffollman William vandune Peter Luister Peter Stryker=

44

III.

Aartt van Pelt Captt Johannis Swartt Leff Thomas

fferdon

Ens

Jacob van Sutfen hindrick Janson

Andrew Emans Barentt Bantt Nicholas Lake Benjamcn Hulsart Rutgartt van Bruntt Tunis van peltt

PAPERS RELATING TO KINGS' COUNTY.

116 John van

peltt

hendrick

Emans

Jatiues Corteliau Abraham van Sutfln Johanis van Sutiin

Tiss Lane

Cherik van dick John van peltt Rutgart van Brunt Jacob Swartt

Anthony Hulsartt Okaa van nuies John van nuies Isaac van nues=:^2d IV.

Thomas Stillwell

StofFcl

Lauerence van Cleft van aarsdalen

FFRANCE TlTUS Captt

Gerritt Verbrick

ffredrik

John Elbertson Reinear van Sekellen

Tunis -wortman Ens. Cornelius van Katt John Missarole

=

Gerritt Lambartse 30 Jolxn Wallen

RouLiP Terhun'en Capt John Ameermon Leff.

Johannis van katt Peter Coljor Peter Laquer Isaac Loise

John hanson Marten Schenk Oka van voorhies William kowenhoven

amurmon

Samuel poling' Elias hubbard Thomas Craven Benjamen Griggs

Cornelius Monford

Daniel Griggs Jacobus Emans Daniel Lake Cornelius Stryker fifer. van Sekellen Tunis Gullyck Nicholas Williamson Peter Willimse

Abraham morgan Court Stevensin John Hide Johannis Emans Samuel Griggs Barnardus Verbrick Simon van aarsdalen

Aren Anderson

Court van voorhies Ens.

Isaac

Jacob Amurmon Daniel nortstrantt

Jacob Monford Evers van geldin Roeluf Schenck Roeluf van vourhies Lucus van vourhies Albart van vourhies John van Aarsdalfta Mcanu van vourhies Albart van vourhies Johannis Boyes marten neves Cornelius neves Peter neves hendrick van vourhies Christofer Qubartus

John Brouwyer Peter van Voirhies

Isaac Laquer

ffredrick

Simon Derje Andresse Andresin Johannis Coljor Garritt Sprong

Simon dehurtt Christofer Johnson Everadus Browyer

John Sprong

Tunis van Pelt nicholas van dick

David van katt

=30

Jacobus Coljor DIrick Adrajanse Johannis Bookhoutt

=

^

Blaw

haurey Blaw Peter States Garritt vandulne William Vanduine William fferdon William Bennitt

Abraham Laquer Charles Coenertt Peter Conselje Jacobus Cosine

John van Sekellen

Albartt 'tcrhunan

Jacob Bennett Isaec remsin Jacob kason John van Sekellen Jacob van dewater Simon Bogartt John Johnsin Isaac Johnsin ffredrick Bargin Isaac Sebring

Joras Isolius Johannis Albertsin

V.

Captt Barent Johnson Leff. van Sekelen Ens. Cornelius Boyes

ffer.

William ko'wenhoven Joseph hegeman John Loran

VI.

Simson Leff

David Aersin, Captt

Thomas van dyck John Petersin Henry van ilyck Jacob van dyck Samson Lafoy

Lambert van Sekols, Leff

Gerritt van ranss

Ewout Ewoutse, Ens.

Abraham Abramsin George Bargin George kowenhoven Cornelius van dewater

26

VII.

Garritt proust

Lamburt Andresin Jeromas Remsin Hendrick Hendrickse hendrick Vroom Jacob Browycr

John midagh

'

Mathew van Dyck

=

Cornelius Ewoutse' 48 Christofer Codellcrse Totall 255

VI.

PAPERS BELATINO TO

Gov.

STUYVESANT TO THE MAGISTRAATS OFF HEEiyiSTEAD. 17 July 16j7.

LoviNGE FRiNDEs

—Before

botli in settlingli off mister

mi departure from jou y was

in hoopes

;

off

m

a good act amongst jou

dentons continuance according to agrement off the tents for

tlie

present

Bade and reddy for mi returne Both ware Broock off By sum turbeleut but not satisfeyt therefore you may be Spirits jti' in the neme off the whole or any is jet ignorant expect the tenths vppon the field for the that wee as jett presents pleased to vnderstand by thes year present and accordanse to the value off them for the jcare past this therefore is ordered By these year

:

Butt Beejnge in

liest

;

;

present

tliat

before the gatheringe off the crop jou sal give tj-mly noticij that

we may

send a

men

and for the mhiistry You al doe knouw that Mister Robdid leaue the pleaic and alsoo the bert :j^rdim sum tymes minister [of] the town off heemsted knuwledge and for no or littel reasons therefore wee wish or without our exercys of the ministery ken not ad mitt him in such a mennor of comminge againe Soe after my servis recommendinge you al unto tlie proteckcon off the Almeytig I rest.

for the such or watt is the patrons

due

:

;

;

ANSWER TO THE ABOVE. Eight Wortschipfull

—Y" wee haue rec'd bearing date the

yu are vnsqtizfied heering

summe

speaches from sume pitlur

17 Jully wheare in wee vnderstand

[i.

e.

private]

man

or

men

not being

imployed by the towne nor hj ther knowledg or consent nether doe the towne owue what thay haUe said wee hoope according to the agrement made for a hundreth skeepell of wheeat for tlie

wich the towne agreed with y" and are willing to performe, our desiers hime a mounst vs and as for williugenesse and doubt not but y" are the same Sellfe wee haue had sufficient experience of Soe hoping will not take any exceptions a gainst the whoolle for late free and noble profer. by sume p'tilli" Estrauigant speches for soe it w ill sumtimes fall out wheare a generall voat is wee haue

tentes y" will be content the

are to Imbrace M'" dentons ministrie if god bee pleased to continue

y

y

y

sentM^ Simons the bearer heare of hee shall further in forme yr woorsliipe soo not further to truble woorschei)e att present wee remaine y^s in all seruice to command according to our power Richard Gildeersleue in

y

the

Hempsteed Addressed "

To

the Right Worschipfull peeter

Stiuasnt Gouernor Generall of the

new Nether foort

landes at his house

amsterdame thesse nreesent."

name & be this

haulfe of the towne

25 of July 1G57.

—

PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCHES IN QUEENS COUNTY.

li'J

GOV. STUYVESANT'S REPLY. Lovinge frindes

Your

letter

send

By

mister Semins and his information have given vs: ful satisfaction so that

yom- promisse

sal rest in

about the continuancy nott bee persuaded

oflf

hundert schepels,

ofi*

off

Weat for the wee sal use

mister deuton amongst jou

jou must locke for an other Abel and Godly

;

—

waht ys in our poui-e soo &c. Heemsteid sent the 29 July ady 1657.

sal contribu

wee

tcntes for the pTesent jeare al

endevors

we ken

jtf

man weerunto we on

hee ken

om* seyde

.

APPLICATION FROM HEMPSTED FOR A CLERGYMAN HoA'owERED Sir

Honowered Gouenoui* under

liis

Jenerall

Edmond Andros

—Govenor of new York

in his

magi sties

Koyall higlines Jeames duck of york, wee youi- humble peticlionars in

tlie

teritoris

behalfe

you Honom- that your Honour would be pleased to be mindful of your petitioners most humble requst, which is that the honoui- of god might be promotid and that his Saboths may be obsarued for the honoui" of god and the good of us and our posterity, and to that end yoiu- honour would be pleased to install such athority amongst us Avhich may be ameailes under god for the upholding and maintaing of the minestry and worship of god amongst us, your honom- being the father of this comon welth, we hope you will not be unmindfull of your petitioners, but will be an instrument under god for the upholding and maintaing of the gospell of the lord Jesus Christ, so hoping you will be pleased to di-aw a favorable constroction from this our petetion we shall not farther truble your honom- at preasant but leaue this our petetion to your honnours consederation, we rest and remain your very humble saruants and peticlionars to the best of om- pouer and for yom- honour we shall ever pray farewell Thomas C Champin Richard Gilderslaue of

sume

others doe

humbly

petition unto

:

his mark WiLLEM Jecocke Jems P Pine his mark from Hemsted November the 30th Anno 1674

Simon Saring Richard Gilderslaue Junior Jeremiah S Wood

-

his

Endorsed "

A Peticon from divers

of the Inhabit^ of

.

Hemp-

steed about their Minisf

James Pine &c.

1674" "3

dec"^

left to fui-dei-

—

information att next Sessions.".

mark

i20

PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCHES IN QUEENS COUNTY.

CONFIRMATION OF

JEREMIAH HOBBART TO BE MINISTER OF HA]\IPSTEED.

]\P

By THE Commander

in Cheife.

Vpon Representation made by the Constable and Overseers in the Behalfe of the Towne of HempJeremiali hubbart was and is by the Major Parte of the Inhabitants of the said Towne Chosen and Appointed to be Minister there for the which Desireing my Confirmacon, These are to Certifie that the said Jeremiah Hobbart is hereby allowed and Confirmed Minister of the said Towne accordingly in the Performance and Exercise of which function he is to Conforme himselfe according to Law. Given under my Hand in New-Yorke this Twenty-sixth Day of Aprill 1(583. Sted that

January 31th 168|. A Lycence of INIarriage was Granted to Jeremiah Hubbard of Jemeca on Long Island and Rebecca Brush of Huntington.

PETICON OF THE REV. M^ HUBBART. Delivered O^h Decem" 1686.

To

Thomas Dongan

his Excellency Colonell

Govern"" of the Prouince of N.

York vnder

his

most Excellent Majs*y James the Second King. &c. & his honourable Councill now sitting in James fibrt in tlie Citty of New York. The humble petition of Jeremia Hobart minister of the

Towne

Hempsfd on Long

of

Island in the province aforesaid,

Humbly Sheweth, That whereas your petitioner hath legally

for allmost five years since

approved by the then Commander in Chief

Hempst'd, yet allthough a building,

&

full

my

So

shall yo"" petitioner

Anthony

&

called,

and

after that

Brockolls, to be minister of sayd

agreem' was mutually had, between the towne

comfortable finishing,

to

maj""

been lawfully

as to annuall Sallary &c, neither is

&

myself, as to house

by the

pai'ish

performed

damage and allmost insupportable inconvenience. My humble request is that yo"" Excellency & Councill would be pleased to take cognisance of my afflicted low estate, and apply a remedy comensurat to yo' Excellency's pleasure k justice. great

Yo""

euer pray &c.

most humble

& poor

petitioner

Jeremy Hobart.

December y* behalfes

9'h

1686.

Do appeare

this

Read & ordered that the Inhabitants of ITempsted or some in to shew cause why this petition should not bee granted.

REGARDING THE MAINTENANCE OF THE MINISTER OF JAMAICA, L

Me" Byarde—Much request you to do us

respected Sir

tliat

their

day Sen'at

after

kindcnes as to

my

let

servis presented inito

our

jiefilion

wee

left

you these are

1.

in all love to

with you be presented

to

our

honourable Goveruour and his counsel and to procure us an answer to that perticuhu' which

PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCHES IN QUEENS COUNTY.

121

conserns the mayntenans of our minister soe that as liitherto ho hath bene mainetained that say by

tlie

towne

in generall every

man

is

to

paying acordlngto i^roportion though they diflered in judge-

ment or would upon any other pretens deny payment that then as formerly wee might by authority take by destres or exsecution soe mucli of such persons estates as is there proportion to pay as hitlierto hath bene done in such cases and as wee conseive was promised by the generals when wee toke the oath of our ofiises for there are two men in our towne which dotli deny to pay theire proportion and giveth such tlireatning speeches th&t there is hardly any perswadeing of any one to goe with tlie marshall to asist him in the exsecution of his offis for they have a consaite that unless wee liave an order from the governor to take it by destres of every one that wee cannot doe it of ourselves by the power wee have alh-eady there being somthing sed in om- Instructions that

we

any other way of chm-ch government then wliat is acording to the senod now he is noe ways repugnant to that senod but if hee were we ought to pay him for the time past nowe my humble request to you is that you would be pleased to send mee by this Bearer Me^"" Jonas woode an order from the governor tliat those two men namely humphrey underliill and are not to maintaine

of dort

William Creede with any other that shall refuse to pay shall be compeled to pay by authority the which if you will doe I shall thingk my selfe much ingaged to you and I hope it may prevent a gret deale of truble which otherwise I feare may arise thus in haste commending you to god, I rest

hopein to heare from you by this bearer youi- friend redy to serve you in what

I may. Nathaniell Denton

from Jamaica this 9 of

alies

Rustdorpe

may 1674

Addressed, for Me^*" Nicholas Byarde Secretary at

New

Oraniae

these

MATTHIAS NICHOLS TO THE REV. MR. PRUDDEN OF JAMAICA. Reverend you desired

S'""

—

I

must crave

yo>"

Excuse tlmt

I liave

at Jamaica, touching liberty of Setting a

God more

not ere

now

day a part

returned yon an answer of wliat

for yo^

Conegregacon to assemble

have comunicated the Same to the Coimcell, who are well content therewith & that you make vse of the publcke meeting house in yo^ Towne any day this week or next following where none are to presume to give you disturbance in yor divine exercise You laying no Injunctcon on any but leaving them to their freedome who together to worshijD

particularly at this Season,

are willing to partake with you therein. Successe you

ayme

at or

may

In which

desire, for the

I

pray God give you Comfort

good of the Church or

N. Y.

June

24: J

I

The humble

petition of

&

take leave

the good

&

remaine

very hiunble Serv'

M. N.

the Excellent Colloni

THE REV^ M^ PRUDDEN.

Thomds Dongan Governour Comander

New Yorke &

its

IG

in Chief

under his majesty

dependants

John prudden quondam minister of Jemaica

Island Sheweth 111.

So

1678.

over the province of

Vol.

State.

Yo""

PETITION OF

To

I

in

Queens County upon Long

PAPERS RELATiyC TO CHURCHES IN QUEENS COUNTY.

i22

humble petitioner having served the town of Jomaica in the work of the minister for the space & term of Ten years late past, liath sufferd much wrong upon ye account of a certain sallary engaged by y*' inhabitants of y^ said Town ta be paid unto him yearly for his labour, y' a considerable part of his sallary is unjustly withheld from him tlirough ye defect of severall Inhabitants denying to pay their proportion levied by yearly rates though no priviledg or advantage of my ministry hath been denyed to them. Wherefore your humble petitioner makes liis application to your Excellency and Houoiud Councill for Relief and Redress as you shall see meet not doubting of your Readines to doe what ever shall apear to be Rationall & just and cause it also to be done by others, but hopeing y*^ your excellency togetlier with your Honored councill considering the circumstances of ye premisses will take the most eflfectuall care and order that what is due to your petitioner by contjact & agreement for y* time past may be honestly payed and performed to him (without trouble and constraint by course of Law which would be unpleasant and discomendable on all hands) your petitioner willingly submits to your pleasure therein being persuaded that That

3'oiir

;

;

your Excellency

will not allow^ y* after

your petitioner hath

(to his disadvantage) served a people

ten years upon y^ account of a firm contract he should be defrauded and deprived of a considerable

part of his reward engaged, nor necessitated to desert his caling and the collony to prevent y* like abuse

which would unavoidably carry some reflexion upon those

remaines

prevent or

to

Your humble

redi-es

&

maintain him at

tiieir

requesteth further that

pers^'asion should be desirous y^ he

own

whose power

it

is

&

such wrongs.

petitioner only

tional! profession

in

cost

&

if

a considerabl

would continue

numbr of the congrega-

to

be their minister and

charge by a voluntary contribution your Excellenc}'

&

the

Honored Council would pleas to give approbation thereunto which we hope will neither be offensive nor prejudiciall to any person or persons under y* Liberty granted by our gracious Soveraign

:

your so doing

will give

encouragment unto us

yt are settled in this province

olhers or at least remove evill surmizals against y^ goverment whicli too

many

&

in yc

Collony are apt to entertain to the prejudice of his Majesties intrest in this province.

y* heavens assistance petitioner

Remaines

&

at

direction to guide your consultations to y^ glory of

an invitation to Neighbouring

Thus

cra\ ing

God & comon good }oui

your service.

John Pruudkn.

1C88.

CERTIFICATE.

We

whose names are subscribed doe

and ffreeholders of Jemaica at a pul')lick meeting call to treat with jM"" Jolm Prudden to be their minister June y^ I9'i> 1G76 did (after lie had declared his judgment and proposed his terms) by a town act freely and firmly proniis and engage to g'wc unto M"" prudden the accomodations which he now possesseth and a yearly sallary of fourty

pounds

testifie

that the inhabitants

to l)e paid to liim or his

order so long as he should continue in y*

Town

in ye

work of ye ministry and his fire-wood brought home free as specified in ye town Furthemore we doe testifie that registry. John prudden hatli continued in this towne discharging the work of a minister acconling to the Avay of yc churches in New England the ffull term of ten years and more since the Town caled him & covenanted with him for his labour in y''8 officers both civil and military are hereby required to be aiding and assisting unto you as the execution hereof. Given under my hand att fort Anne in New Yorke this foui-th day of July 1704.

Cornbury.

To Tho: Cardie Esq' High Sherilfe of Queens County. Endorsed

"An

order to the

High

SherrilTe of

Queens County."

AN ORDER TO THE CHURCH WARDENS AND SHERIFF OF By

Edward Viscount Cornbury Cap* Gen" and of New York New Jersey &c.

his Excell.

Gov

JAMAICA.

in Cheil' of the provinces

You and every of you are hereby required forthw"* to sell and Dispose of for y* best price and advantage that Cann be made and gotten the corn collected by or Delivered to you or any or either of you for

tlie

maintenance

ajui benelitt of the Minister of

Jamaica and yc moneys thereof made to

139

PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCHES IN QUEENS COUNTY.

you Receive further orders from me for the payment of the same to the uses for w'h the s'' corn was Dehvered to you and hereof you are not to faile att your Perill Given under my hand att fort Anne in New York tliis 4t'> day of July 1704. CORNBURY. To the Church Wardens of the Church of Jamaica and to tlie High Sherriflfe of Queens County. These. retain in your

hands

untill

AN ORDER TO THE JUSTICES AND CHURCH WARDENS OF JAMAICA. By You

Edward Viscount Cornbury Capt GenH and GoV in of New York New Jei-sey &c. hereby Required to pay ye moneys made of y^ Corn Collected

his Excell.

are

Clieif of the

for the

Provinces

maintenance of a

Remains in your hands to the RevTown of Jamaica in Queens county and Mr William Urquahart and for soe doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant. Given und' my hand att Ifort Anne in New Yorke tliis twenty eighth day of August 1704. Minister for the

erend

Cornbury.

To

the Justices of the Peace for Queens County & to the Vestrymen and Church Wardens of the Church of Jamaica in'

the said County.

AN ORDER TO THE JUSTICES AND VESTRYMEN TO LEVY A TAX FOR THE MINISTER OF JAMAICA.

By

Ills

of

You

Excellency Edward Viscoimt Cornbury Cap' Gen" and Govern'' in Cheif of y^Pi-ovinces

New York New

Jersey kc.

are hereby required forthwith to lay a

Tax on

the Inhabitants of Queens County for raising

the maintenance for the Minister of Jamaica in the said County for his present year and the said

Tax

Levy and

Levyed and

Act of assembly day of September 1G93 Entituled an act for selling a Ministry and raising a maintenance for them in the Citty of New York, County of Riclimond, Westchester, and Queens County and hereof you are not to faile Given under my hand at ifort Anne in New York tliis twenty foui'th day of August 1704. To the Justices of the Peace of Queens Covmty pnd the Vestrymen of the Church of Jamaica in the said County. laid to

Collect or cause to be

collected pursuant to the

passed in the sixth Session of Generall Assembly begun the

f

Vol.

111.

For state of the Church of England

17

in

Queens Co.

12*i»

in 1704, see ante p. 75.]

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130

ORDER TO FINE THE CHURCHWARDENS, ^ETC, FOR REFUSING TO LEVY SAID TAX. [Council Min. IX.]

In Council,

The Church Wardens & Vestry

summoned

31.

March 1705.

this day and Robert Coe one of the Church Wardens & John Talman Henry Wright Samuel Carpenter Sam' Higby Antliony Watson John Everett Jolm Coe Jonathan Hazard & Daniel Lawrence nine of the Vestry appearing accordingly they were called in and examined concerning their neglecting or re-

fusing to raise a tax for

tlie

of Jamaica being

I)ursuant to

it is

this

Province and having offered nothing to

this

for that

Board

iu

ordered that the Peualtyes expressed and contained in said Act be Levyed

directions thereof

tlie

Board

tliis

maintenance of the Minister of that place directed to be raised

purpose by the Act of Gen" Assembly of their Justification

to appear, before

on every of them y*

s*^

Churchwardens

&

Vestry so neglecting or

refusing to do their duty as aforesaid

*REV°

MESS'^^

URQUIIART

& JOHN THOMAS

TO THE SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS. Long

Island,

July 4th, 1705.

HoN^ie Gentlemen

Having

this safe

Evans we are humbly bold

opportunity by the Rev.

tation of our circumstances here according to our Orders

bours

& and

tli.e

information of

Indepen's

@

only two upon the Island that are Church ministers

tlie affairs

of our respective parishes.

what are not so are

eitlier

to transmit a represen-

from your venerable Society

The

We

Inliabitants of

tliis

County are generally

Quakers or of no professed Religion

& enraged

averse to the discipline of our holy mother the Church of England

—Being Neigh-

humbly present a joynt at all the generality

to see

her

have transj)lauted themselves from New do still keep a close correspondence & are buoyed up by Scliismatical Instructions from est which occasion all the disturbance & opposition we meet with in both our parishes. hitherto been used to a Dissenting Ministry & they still support one at Jamaica who

among them

established

:

The ancient

settlers

our people, who from their cradles were disaffected

Ministry

England

&

that Inter-

They have has a most

we God we have not been altogether unsiiccessfull having brought over some of the most rigid of them into close communion & hope thro' Gods assistance in sometime to have a more plentiful harvest among them, tlieir prejudice of education is our misfortune Our Church their Bugbear, and

pestilential influence over

to

conformity yet

bless

to

remove

that averseness

Excellency pr(jtecti()n

my

Lord Cornbury

never wanting

to us

the favorable influence of his

him zealously

they imbibe at their

to

is

&

first

principles

must be next

to a miracle.

His

a true nursing father to our infancy here, his countenance

next

to

heaven we may attribute the success of our endeavours

Government where

support that Interest.

This

is

inclination

as a

true son of the

& to

Church moves

the true state of affairs within our Parishes.

We

liave sixty pounds this Country money settled very precariously which by my Lord Cornbury's It is very expensive living infiuence we hope will be more firmly established by this assembly. liere & what we have from the Country could never afford us half a sustenance, in the condition

much less if we had families, without the suj^port of the venerable Society which is we depend upon. May God Almighty succeed your endeavours for his glory & the the good of the Church & and may he prosper the good cause ye stand for, and which we dedicate our Will Urquhart, Min"" Jamaica whole lives &, endeavours to is the sincere prayer of yours we

are in now, cliief

thing

:

John Thomas

Min""

Hamstead

PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCHES IN QUEENS COUNTY.

BEV^^. Mr.

131

GOODHUE'S COxMMISSION AS PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER OF JAMAICA [

Deed Book, X.

L.

I.

]

By His Excellency Edward Viscount Cornbmy Capt" Gen' & Gov in Chiefe of Provinces of N York, New Jersey & of aU Tlie Territories & Tracts of Land Depending thereon America & Vice Admiral of the same kc. Francis Goodhue, Greeting. in

To

M''

do hereby Licence & Tollerate you to be Ministr of the Presbyterian Congregation at Jamaica in Queens coimty on the Island Nassaw in the s^' Province of New Yorke & to have & Exercise the I

ifree

Liberty

&

use of yo^ ReUgion pursuant to Her Ma^y^ pleasure therein signilied to

Royal Instructions hereby Required this

day of

tliis

&

to

during so Long Time as to

Take

notice hereof.

Given

me

und''

shall

my

Instant January in the ffourth year of

seem meet

liand

Her

&

& all

Minisfs

seale at Ifort

Ma*>s Reign

Anne

me

In

lier

&

others are

in

New York

Annoq: Dni 1705.6. CORNBURY.

By His Excys Command Will™ Anderson D

* MY"". Mr.

secy

BARTOW TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS. W. Cht -ter

*****

N. York

1st

Decemr

1707.

The first half year being Winter I lodged at a pulilic house preaching once every Sunday & upon occasion visiting the sick After winter was over I lived at Col' Graham's 6 miles from the Church and, all the summer preacht twice every Sunday sometimes at West Chester & sometimes at Jamaica on Long Island about 2 miles distant from M'" Graham's at my own charge, nor have I had any board given me since I came & once I met Avith great disturbance at Jamaica.

—

having been for some time at Boston returned to Jamaica came to it, and sent to me at my lodging (being then in company witli one Carter her Majesty's Comptroller) to know if I intended to Chief Justice M"" Mumpesson & The next morning the bell rang as preach on the morrow, I sent him answer I did intend it usual but before the last time ringing M*" Hobbart was got into the church & had begun his service of which notice was given me whereupon I went into the church & walked straightway to tlie pew expecting Mf Hobbart would desist being he knew I had ordei-s from the Govern' to officiate there, but he persisted & I forbore to make any interruption In the afternoon I prevented him, beginning the service of the Cliurch of England before he came who was so surprised when after he came to the Church door & saw me performing divine service that he suddenly started back & went aside to an orchard hard by, & sent in some to give the word that M"" Hobbart would preach under a tree, then I perceived a whispering thro' tho Church & an uneasiness of many people some going out, some seemed amazed not yet determined to go or stay in tlie meantime some that had gone out retui-ned again for their seats & then we had a shameful disturbance iiawling & tugging of seats shoving one the other off, carrying tl>em out & retui-ning again for more so tliat I was fain to leave off till the disturbance was over & a seperation made by \\ hicli time I had but Ml"

Hobbart

their Presbyterian INIinister

the Saturday night as I

—

—

about half of the congregation the rest remaining devout

&

attentive the whole time of service

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door k committed the key into the hands of the Sheriff; v.e no sooner got into an adjoining liouse but some persons came to demand the key of tiieir meeting house whicli being denied tliey went & broke the Glass window k put a Boy in to open the door & so put in tlieir seats & took away the pew cushion saying they would keep tliat however for after wliicli Ave lock't the churcli

tvere

—

& wrangling that ensued are by me ineffible The next time Lord Cornbury he thanked me & said he Avould do the church & me justice, accordingly Hobbart ever more to he summoned M"" Hobbart & the head of the faction before liim & forbad preach in the Church, for in regard it was built by a publick tax it did appertain to the Established church (which it has quietly remained ever since & now in possession of our Rev^ Brother M'' Urquhart) my Lord Cornbury threatened them all with the penalty of the Statute for disturbing own

their I

Minister the scolding

my

saw

divine service, but upon their submission

&

&

promise of future quietnes?

peace he pardoned

the offence.

that

The above letter has reference apparently to the Riot of July, month. See Ante.

*

1703, noticed in the order of Council of the 27th of

THE SAME TO THE SAME. West Chester

in

America 30 October 1709

Sir

am

yon of the death of our late i{ev»i Brother M' Urquhart of Jamaica whose place is now suppUed by the Rev^ M"" Vesey M' Sharp &, the missionarys in the Province of New York every other Sunday until you can send another Curate. I

sorry at the occasion to acquaint

******

*THE NEW-YORK

MISSIONARIES

to the

BISHOP OF LONDON. New York 24th Novr

May

it

We

1709.

please your Lordship

think ourselves obliged by the

ties

of humanity

as those of Christian cliarity to the indigent to

worthy diocesan

k

make

&

tliis

sacred relation of the Fraternity as well rcj)reseiitation to yoiu-

Lordship

oiu-

most

the venerable Society for the Propngatiou of the Gospel in the behalf of the

virtuous Relicts of our late deceased Reverend Bretheru

M' Muirson and M^ Urquhart whose present we hmnbly hope will render them

»«****»*•* ****** «*#* «»» «**

difficult

circumstances as they extort this our Petition, so

proper objects of yoiu" commiseration

M' William Urquhart Minister of Jamaica on Long Island being amongst the greatest adversaries of the Cliurch was at great pains as well as charges to maintain tlie title of his Cluirch k parsonage besides repairs and his natural good inclinations to

The

other our dear Brother

settled

hospitality

k

of his character, as truly

and

its

him into extraordinary exjiences being 12 miles of New York has likewise left his Widow

frequent occasions leading

we cannot but

i)lty

and do therefore

such Incumbrances

jointly implore the Venerable Patrons of the ChiU'ch

missionarys to remove, by the equal benevolence

I

to support the credit in

;

PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCHES

And

further these being the

beg leave tlie

Widows

of your missionaries

*####*

if possible the too

&

frequent

QUEENS COUKTY.

133

of your missionaries hvve that have died in your service,

first

same

to entreat, that tlie

IN

cliaritable

who

sliall

difficult

Bounty of a years Salary may continue

hereafter die in

the service of

#*#***

circumstances of Ministers Relicts.

*

Evan Evans de

tlie

*

we

be paid to

to

Churcli, to

remove

***** *

*

*

Philadelphia,

Jno Thomas de Hamstead

Jno Sharpe Chap" to the Queens forces Saml Myles. Hen. Harris de Boston Jno Talbot de Burlington Jno Bartow de West Chester Christ Bridge de Rye :

SAM'L CLOWES TO THE PRESIDENT OF

THE COUNCIL Jamaica

11 April 1710.

HoNBLE Sir I

wish your Hon'" a great deal of Joy in the Trust the Queen has been pleased to confer on you

and begg leave

to acquaint

forceable Detainer in the

such forceable (as I think

'tis

Ways

yc Honr

Church

:

I

perswade myself yonr

hon'' will suppress

of proceeding so detremental to the public peace.

plaine they have none) the

Law

is

open.

I tlierefore

with

If they

all

your might

have any Right

pray yo^ Hon"^ Will pleas

due Encouragement to the Queens officers who have Comitted them for the ffact by directing y® Queens Attorney Gen" to prosecute the offenders whereby you will add the Glory of your Government by Defending the caus of Christs Church. I remane Yo"^ most obedient Serv*

to allow ail

&

:

especially

S.

To The

Honi>ie Coll

;

that y^ Dissenters here have this day committed a Riot or

to

Clowes.

Beakman

Liev* Governor of the

Province of

New

York.

ORDER OF COUNCIL ON THE ABOVE. In Council 13th April 1710

The President communicated

Board a letter from M"" Samuell Clowes' of y« 11"> Aprill setting forth that the Dissenters had that Day Committed a Riot or forceable Detainer of y" Church at Jamaica And therefore Desired y* all Due Encouragement might be given to the Queens officers who had committed the persons for that Fact Especially by Directing the Attorney Generall to prosecute the oifender 1

An

to this

,

account of this gentleman and of his descendants will be found in Thompson's

Long

Island

ii.

106.

Ifote.

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131

The President allso conimuiucated u Mittimus under tlie Hand and Sciil of Robert Read E&qf one Her Majesties Justices lor Keeping the Peace Ln Queens County whereby the High Slieriti'e thereof was Directed to take into his Custody Hugh Carpenter George Woolsey Jonas Wood Ricliard Olfield of

Samuel Mills & Jarimiah Smith wlio he setts forth are convicted of y* said forcable holding (by his own view) and tliem to keep in the Comon Gaol of said County untiU they shaU be thence dehvered by due CoiU'se of Law. Ordered tliat tlie respective Justices of Queens County or the major part thereof Enquire into the Facts abovementioned and Lay a true Representation thereof before this Board by Thursday next, and that a

Coppy of

this

Order be forthwith sent to ye said

Justices.

Jamaica

in

Queens County ye 19th of April 1710.

Wee

underwritten Justices of the peace of our Sovereigne I^ady the Queen for Queens County

assigned in obedience to an order from the honourable the president

province dated the 13"' Inst, (to us directed)

turbance in the Church of Jamaica to

Law &

that the Record he has

&

is

her

Ma^'^^s

Council of this

have Inquired upon oath into the matter of the Dis-

doe find that

made

&

M'' Justice

Read has proceeded therein according

a true Representation thereof.

We remaine

Yor Honours most obed' Servants

Tho: Willett

John Marston Tho: Jones

Jo" Jackson

Wi: Cornell Tho: Whitehead

John Tredwell Sam'I

Moore

Endorsed, " Lett" from y" Justices of y« Peace

A

for

Queens County."

In Coujf cil, 20th April 1710

Queens County Layd before this Board according to order a Representation of the Distiu-l^ance and Forceable Detainer of y« Church at Jamaica by some Dissenters wliich was a Record made thereof by Rob' Read Esq^ and Certificate of sevarall of y« Justices that the same is a True Record. Upon Consideration of this matter The Board is of opinion That the Law being open they ought

The

Justices of y^ Peace for

not to Encoui-age or Discourage the said Prosecution.

PETITION OF GEO. WOOLSEY AND OTHERS.

To

the Hon^i^ Coll Gerardus

of

New York and

The Peticon

& Most Ht

Beekman

President of

Her

Majesty's Council! for the Colony

Councill.

of George Woolsey

Hope Carpenter Jonas Wood Richard

Oldfield

Samuel Mills

Jeremiah Smith of Jamaica in Queens County.

MBi.Y

Shewkth

That yo' Peticoners Stand Comitted

till

they pay their

fline

and

chai-ges

upon a supposition

of

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Justice of

grounded on the conviction by

tlie

135

view of Robert Read

peace for Queens County whereof tliey are not conscious to themselves of being the and of which they hiunbly conceive they can give sufficient proofe to any Impartiall

tlie

least Guilty,

Judicature.

They

therefore liumbly pray that yo"" Hon«s will give

And

to Justice

they shall as in duty bound

them such Relief

as shall appear agreeable

,

Ever pray &c. Georg Woollse Hope Carpenter

Jonas

Richard Olufield

Samll Mills.

Wood

Jeremiah Smith

day of May 1710 & al partys to attend Read the on Monday & the Justices of tlie peace to be served with Copy of this Petition. IQtii

^

In Council, 23 May, 1710.

Mr

Regnier council for George Woolsey and others Petitioners on the Petition read at this Board

the IQih Ins' and M' Bickley Councill for the Queen and the Justices of the Peace of Queens County

appearing at this Board and being severally heard ordered that the several and respective fines Imposed on the petitioners by the Justices of

It is

the Peace in Queens County at the last Court of Sessions be remitted. But are,

or

tlie

charges which alredy

not shaU be taxed within the Bounds of Moderation by the Judge be paid by the

if

said petitioners.

MEMORIAL OF THE INHABITANTS OF JAMAICA. To

his Excell day of Sei)t in tlie 1G93. at a town meeting the deputed nine persons (some of which were professed Chiux-hmen k some Dissenters) in these words (viz') to carry on the work of a Church or meeting house and to see the same truly completed k ended. Soon after this vote of the Town, in the year 1G99 an Act of General Assembly was made to enable the respective towns within the whole pro\'ince to build and repair their meeting houses & other public buildings upon which they laid aside the prosecution of building according to the said Town vote and took hold of the said Act by virtue whereof the present Church was l)uilt and erected in the middle of the highway in the maiu street and distress was made on Churchmen Quakers Anapromiscuously for the payment of the rates towards baptists people of the Dutch Congregation the same But before this time conformable to instructions from his late Majesty King William to the Governor for the encouragement of Religicm in general and the Estal>lished Church in particular and to settle parishes withi^i the said province in the year 1093 an Act of General Assembly passed whereby it was enacted that in the several Cities k Counties therein mentioned there should be called and Inducted and Established a sufficient protestant minister amongst which one was to be for Jamaica and the two adjacent towns and another for Hempstead and its adjacent towns but so unhappy was this province as to remain a scattered people without any true Shepherd till the year 1097

—

—

—

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when

tlie

Jie\"

Excell.

is

pleased to desire

me

to

answer,

&

impowered by y«

acts of humbly conceive that they all relate to y^ Duty assembly to Raise y^ money for ye minister and poor, therefore do Avith all submission refer your Excellency to y^ Justices of Peace who can fully Inform your Excellency of their pi-oceedings, and

of the Several officers

I

also of the

Chm-ch wardens, Vestrymen and other

officers

Concern'd therein, and of the Severall

Defaults or neglects, any persons have been guilty of in y^ Execution of those acts, out of their

books In w^iich

(I

suppose)

Questions seem to enquii-e

is

of,

enter'd

all y*^

transactions relating to y« whole matter

yo''

and I do assure your Excellency I have not received one

Excellencys fiartlaing

of

by vertue of those acts since my Induction. This, I humbly hope joyn'd wath y^ memorials and Petitions I formerly preferr'd, will sufficiently inform yo"" Excellency of the state of my Case, and answer your Excellency's end, since that is ali-eady transmitted to y® Lord Bishop of London by

my

sallary dues

May

it

Your Excellency s most obed^ humble Servant

Jamaica January 30'h 17" A

* COLL

please your Excellency

Tho» Poyer.

HEATHCOTE TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING THE GOSPEL.

New York

—Since my

Jany 30th

1711

have had the surprising account of a Representation drawn up by some of the Gentlemen of the Clergy concerning the State of the Cliurch at Jamaica wherein they have laid the blame of those misfortunes on Coll Hunter's ill conduct. If tlie information Sir

last of

the

Ins^ I

Gentlemen of the Clergy must unwarily be led into that good men could be guilty of so great a mistake. It is matter being otherwise impossible so many true when some of the alterations were made in some of the Officers in that County on \\ hich the Government Enemies would charge the Church's ruin there I was not a little surprised at it myself and was of that mind for some time until Coll Hunter convinced me both by words and actions that

we have

relating to this matter are true the

what he did was for want of thorough knowledge »of the tempers of those who had advised him to it and assured me if they would but for a while be easy under it they should be restored or have

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14-8

others to their satisfaction and of this they were told liowever designing

men have

ever since kept

up the flame and have made them take contrary resolutions notwithstanding the pains that otliers besides myself liave taken with them on that account as my letters by this conveyance to the Society will inform you had the Intent of the representation had no other plot than to have procui-ed peac« to tlie Ciiurch in Jamaica & to have served her interest there the Gentlemen of the Clergy would have been councilled and liave taken therein the advice of the Members of the Society in these parts and tlie first and most regular step would have been to have laid it before the Grovernor and if no relief was to be had on this side the Water tlien to have applied home for it and had tliey been pleased to put

it

to this issue neitiier the Society tlie Clergy nor

matter because long before any representation was his relief lie could desire of wliich I liave

conveyance, the best

I

have since

manner

When

M''

I

my being

first

M""

been particular in

my

all

letters

trouble in this

the fair offers in order to

by the mast

fleet

snd

this

informed of this representation endeavoured to inform myself

could concerning that

Poyer

made

we should have any

Poyer had

affair

which

is

as followeth

arrived in this province bringing with

him

the Bishop of London's Letter

had sent him from Jamaica CoU Hunter did immediately thereupon give him Induction but M'" Urquhart's Widow who was then in possession of the Parsonage house did by a Wile deliver up Poyer coming to town and acquainting the Governor the same to the Dissenters upon which therewith he sent for the Chief Justice M^" Mompesson and desired his advice upon that occasion being very desirous to serve the Church in tlie best manner he could the Cliief Justice having taken sometime to consider of it gave under his hand that it was not safe or advisable for the Governor to concern himself therein for that the disi)ossessing of them otherwise tlian by a due course of law was a high crime and misdemeanour as was decreed by my Lord Statfords case. CoU Hunter did Poyer and prayed him to proceed in that manner and that thereupon send the Judges opinion to that he

he would at his own expense support him in it some time after M"' Poyer came to complain of the and that he was in want of his Salary and could get no wairaut from them for it upon which the Governor commanded them to Town who to excuse themselves brought under the Collectors hands that there was no money in Bank, his Excellency did then not only reprimand but with Justices

them at the unreasonableness of not answering M*" Poyer's Salary them that it was impossible the Act could mean any otherwise than to support a Minister of the Church and tliat they ought for their own sakes take some speedy care in that matter for Poyer with his purse to carry on the suit not only through this province that he would assist but to England if need was and calling tor Pen Ink and Paper did while the Justices were there write to M' Poyer pressing him to begin the suit without loss of time and after sealing the letter Poyer he begged it might be sent by some other olfering it to one of the Justices to deliver to hand It being hard for him to carry his own accusatiim and one M'' Regner happening to be there told the Governor he was ge paid him ed by Law which he did on the 27>h following being nine days or not he could not

for

any application petition or memorial

to the

Governor

after, so that before there

was no room

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153

Wliat he gives as an answer to the several Questions the Governor proposed

modesty

I

think became him for

it

was

he being the person aggrieved and not to bid the Governor do that that letter joined with the memorials

&

is

lus proper business to get the Information the

Petitions

liimself

:

not with that

Gover^ desired

he concludes with hoping

he had formerly preferred would

sufficiently

inform

his Excellency of the state of his case.

Any

and the foregoing parts of his letter would any elfect but as it is plain by what goes before he could not, so really he did not, and nothing is more untrue than what he asserts for the Governor protests he never had any other papers petitions or memorials from him or any body else relating to the Church of Jamaica than the Copy N" ( ) and that N" ( ) the first person or Stranger to tilings

tliat

read

conclude that he had presented several memorials

a loose Scrip of paper signed by nobody

have given

to

tliis

&

petitions without

& wrote in such

a manner as

I

should have been asliamed to

an equal the other a Copy of a Kecord of Court signed by the Clerks but

give themselves leave to say anything

who can be

if

men

will

safe.

still makes a tool of tliat weak man Poyer witli him prevailed upon M" and Talbot as I am told by some of themselves to sign a Representation in direct terms against the Governor this representation was not made (as all representations ouglit to be) at a general meeting of the Clergy but drawn up in private and so sent about to get the subscriptions of as many as they could for this end they brought it to M'' Makenzie on Staten Island wlio no sooner read it but discovered the falsehood & wickedness of it and convinced Mr. Talbot wlio I believe signed without reading of it on the credit of M'' Vesey Henderson and Poyer for he exclaims very much against Vesey for surprising him into tlie signing of a paper just as he was taking Boat this Representation by the unanimous consent of these that were there present was destroyed but however a representation running in their heads and they a Gogg to be dabbling in politics (an inclination which I wish our missionarys had less of) a representation was resolved upon It was signed by those to be made to my Lord of London of the state of tlie Church of Jamaica. signed about get the hand the rest many of whom it tlio' at the remowho were there and sent to of test distance and probably Strangers to matters of fact as well as unconcerned in things relating to tliis Province. The Governor being informed of these things resoh ed to set that affair in a true light and convince those of their errors whom weakness and not malice liad engaged in it Accordingly sent for all the Clergy in his Government and to as many as came he made this Speech N° ( ) who next day presented the address N° ( ) they seemed to be ashamed of their procedures and I suspect they have but too much reason to be so for all our endeavours cannot prevail on them to discover the contents of that Representation and why they should so industriously conceal it I can't see except it be that it won't bear the light in this part of the world where matters can be examined

Vesey who had and

M"^

Evans of

Philadelpliia

;

^

:

*

*

into.

*

* GOVERNOR

HUNTER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING THE GOSPEL.

Sir

New York Feby 25th 1711. you will think that I make too ample amends at this time for the short & imperfect hints which the perplexity of affairs on this side permitted me only to give you until now neither did I think there was any thing amiss ^n the conduct of our Missionarys tliat time &

—

Sir

1

I

am

In another

Vol. nr.

afraid'

copy — "

I

am

glad."

Ed.

20

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PAPERS RELATING TO CHURCHES IN QUEENS COUNTY.

good advice might not rectify for they are mission in

tlie

&

men

&

of piety

I

had not altered

my

opinion of them as to the generality

industry and whilst they keep themselves witliin the sphere of

function unexceptionable as sucli I have ever treated them

most perfect

surprise you than

friendsliip

it

startled

me

and confidence,

Tliis serves for

&

tlieir

them as I thought which will not less

lived with

prologue to a story

me

was privately informed that there had been a representation some of the Clergy for subscriptions I could not believe it being conscious to myself of nothing that I had done left, undone or intended with relation to the Churcli's Interest that the most consummate malice could ground a representation upon. That worthy Gentleman was of the same opinion but positive that there was such a representation for which reason he in conjunction with Coll Morris as members of the Society thought fit to write a letter to ^M"" Vesey and M' Henderson in whose liands they undei-stood this paper to be and who were the principal contrivers and promoters of it Signifying that they had been made acquainted with the designs and desired to know the meaning of it that if anything were wanting for the Church's Interest they might join with them in proper measures to procure it & redress what was amiss; all the effect tliat this letter had upon these two Gentlemen was a deep concern for the discovery and some sharp reproaches on one another as the discoverers neither could the Eev*^ M"" Sharp obtain a sight of it tho' he solemnly promised to join with them in representing anytliing for tlie. Church's Interest provided it did not contain unjust or groundless reflections on the Governor that Gentleman has given an account to the Lord Bishop of London how he was used by them I shall not trouble you with it so am to answer to accusations from persons I know not whom, of crimes I Coll:

against

know to

Heathcott told

me

that he

carried about to

whom

nothing of & before Judges

remain a Mystery to

me

I

am

not to

know

for after all

our

without measures which nothing can induce

efforts this

me

matter

to take,

is

like

and indeed

without the repeated advice of these two worthy Gentlemen founded on their appreliension of the old maxim Jlliquid Mharehit I would have been silent. I

must begin by

attesting the all discerning Searcher of Hearts of the sincerity of mine in

my

good

wishes and best endeavours for propagating the true interests of our Holy Mother in whose com-

munion ever

since

resolved to die.

I

was capable of a sober

In the next place

a testimony of

my

ticular facts of

which

conduct in I

am

my it

opinion of such as think that

tliought I

appeal to

tlie

have lived and by the blessing of God

evidence of

all

sober

men

am

Clergy or Laity for

station with relation to that interest but being to guess at the par-

accused

sucli a representation unless

I

I

can think of none that can so

be the all

laws

affairs

much

as afford a pretence for

of Jamaica Church here and that must only be in the

human &

divine are to be set aside

when they come

in

compelition with what they conceive to be the secular Interest of the Church. I see by one of yours that the Society is not unacquainted with the true state of that matter but

must beg leave to inform you so far as I have been concerned in it. Mf Poyer having the Society's Mission & my Lord Bishop of London's recommendation to that Church I upon his first application granted him induction. The Dissenters were in possession of the Manse house by contrivance of the Widow of INP Ur(|uhart the former Incumbent whose Daughter was married to a Dissenting Minister there, I consulted the Chief Justice Mompesson how far I might I

proceed towards putting M"" Poyer in possession who gave his opinion in writing that it could not be done otherwise than by due course of law without a high crime & misdemeanor this opinion I sent to

Mr Poyer & begged

liim to

commence a

suit at

my

cost but heard nothing

from him until some

complain that the Justices of that County had not done him right when time after required in procuring him his Quarters stipend upon which I sent for the Justice he named and expostulated with liim [on] the imprudence and unreasonableness of that proceeding he replied that

he came

to

me

to

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155

do by law and give me the reasons of the Church "Wardens County Court which Avere as follows, First because we had no money Secondly we had no orders from the Justices of Vestry according to an Act of Assembly Thirdly Because we thought M'' Poyer not qualified according to the Act. So after having argued the matter of right with liim from the words of the Act in presence of Coll: Morris and M'' Regnier he had done

all

that he

was empowered

against the complaint of M'' Poyer in

to

tliat

would forthwith give directions that M"" Poyer should commence a suit it might be dropped thro' M' Poyer's present wants for he should not want wherewitliall to carry it on through all the lengths so just a cause required and accordingly wrote to Poyer to that pm-pose which letter I desired tlie Justice to carry and he begged to be excused alledging it were hard to oblige him to carrj^ his own condemnation so I gave that trouble to M'' Regnier who undertook to dehver it with his own hands M' Coe the Justice mentioned told me that all this was a practice of one Clous a most vicious wretch into whose hands M*^ Poyer unfortunately fell at his first setting out and lodg'd in his house led by his pretended zeal for the Church but as he himself has since owned to M'' Sharp, he was soon obliged of this place

against

I told

him and

him that

I

that they should not flatter themselves that

own Communion

come near him whilst he was in so bad company for said JNI^' Coe there were other Justices of the Church's communion upon the place which might possibly have made a stretch in her favor if they had been applied to and which we might have acquiesced in for quiet. But the fetch was that I by going these lengths disobhge all those of my own communion or refusing incur the displeasure & harsh opinion of the Gover' Sometime after perceiving that M"^ Poyer made no account of what I had said or wrote to him being on Long Island I took occasion to pay him a visit & pressed him again in the presence of both parties to commence his suit all other methods besides the legal being a real detriment to the Chui'ch's Interest and only a temporary decision; some time after when M' Poyer did me the favor of a visit I begged of him since he was not pleased with the methods tha I had advised he would be pleased to write me down what it was that he would have me do protesting that if it was not against the estabUshed laws or known rules of Justice I would comply with it, all the return he gave me was that he had long since submitted it to his superiors at home & so could make no further to

change his lodgings few of his

desiring to

'

steps in

This set this

it

is

without their advice. the true state of this case, I shall

matter in motion.

The Rev*

M''

now begg leave to discover the secret spring that has Vesey Rector of Trinity Church here had, it seems, in

to a great man then on tliis side, taken occasion to use me ill, before he knew me of was soon informed after my arrival and for which reason I did all that was in the power of man by good ofiices and civilities, which he was pleased to call constrained, to persuade him into a better opinion of me; His Provocacons increased in the Proportions that my kind usage did (I speak nothing but what is known to the whole Pi-ovince) and despairing ever to extort a Persecution from me he casts about for another Plot to hurt me, Pei-swades M"^ Poyer that there is danger and a deep design in the TryaU that I so much prest, by this means he gains these Points, takes an opportunity from me of manifesting my zeal for the Church, which he has so often called in Question and gets y^ unwary & least discerning part of the clergy here to set their hands to a paper without enquiring into the truth of the matter contained in it, it being mentioned to them as an aifair that required the greatest secrecy & of the last consequence to the Interest of the Church, Thus had this gentleman contrived to put me under a necessity as he thought of either doing an Act of violence in the favour of the Chiu-ch (whereas the wound given her by an act of that nature in the same case remains smarting to this day) and so unavoidably and deservedly being recalled with disgrace Irom my Government or of running the hazard of being represented no friend to Her Interest and conse-

compliment

which

I

quently unworthy to continue in

it.

PAPERS RELATi:: Article we say, that it is very difficult to comprehend, what is meant, by forcing them to acknowledge M«" Ladhe to be their lawl'ul Teacher, and to declare that he must and sliall communiNo Body goes to hear IDm but cate with tlie Dutch Laidhe is not forced upon any Person such as chuse it, and he communicates with none, but such as voluntarily come to commimicate

deny

chat

—

—

with him.

M' Laidlie is in Communion with the Dutch, he is intitled to the Revenues we do not understand that the Communicating witlitlie Dutch, can give him

It is farther said, that if

of the Dutch Ministers,

any more Right with the Dutcli

to tlie ;

tlie

Revenues of

tlie

Dutch Ministers,

tlian

any other Person that communicates is paid by a voluntary Sub-

Temporalities are not bound for his Salary, but he

scription, as has been already exi)l;iined.

woidd produce the

Reverend Classis of Amsterdam, a full Answer to this Point will therein be seen The Dutch Hearers pay notliing, either for Ministei-s or Pew-Rent ; tlie English Hearers at the Sole Expence of English Preaching every member of the Cliurch goes to hear wliom lie pleases, and attends the Sacrament where he pleases, without any Constraint whatever, and the Complainants may rest satisfied that no one desires They are left entirely at to compel them to acknowledge M' Laidlie, or to communicate with him to us whether they no Consequence do or not They have taken great their Liberty, and it is of Pains to rend the Church to Pieces, but happily, they have not succeeded ; their Party is continuaDy decreasing, and it is now reduced to an inconsiderable number of inconsiderable People, and the If the Complainants

Letter, they receiAed from the ;

—

— —

Congregation

is

in as floiu'ishing a Condition as ever

it

was.

Our Proceedings have been as far as we know exactly conformable to the Rules of our Church, and agreable to the Sence of the Classis of Amsterdam, and the Event of a tedious k expensive Law Suit evinces that nothing has been done by us contrary to the Laws of the Country from all which we humbly conceive, it will a]ipear to Your Excellency and this honourable Board of Coimcil, that ;

the said Complaints are altogetlier vexatious and without Foundation.

The Consistory have all due Confidence in the Wisdom, Justice, and Prudence of the Government and are with great Respect for His Excellency and tlie Honourable Board, his & their most o])edient Humble Servants

By Order

of

Joan

New York 23 September 17G7 November 11. 17()7. Read in Coimcil and Order made dismissing the Petition.

tlie :

Consistory

Ritzejia p:

t:

Prseses.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE CITY OF NEW-YORK.

315

PETITION OF THE REV. IVP TETARD. To

his

the Province of

The

Henry Moore Baronet New York &c &c &c

Excellency Sir

petition of

Captain General

&

Governor in Chief in and over

'

John Peter Tetard, Clerk

humbly Sheweth, this Province in tlie year of our Lord 1703 As also by Deed of Purchase, the Property of the french Church of this City is vested in the Person of the Minister and Elders of the same lor the time being, and their Successors for ever That in April 17Gi M'' Carle, the late Minister of said Church,' returning to Europe, Your Petitioner, before his departiu-e, legally succeeded to him in the Ministerial functions of the same; And in that Station Continued uninterrupted till tlie 29'i>day of June 17G6, (being a Sunday,) when Messi'** daniel Bontecou, John Hartier, James Buvelot, Francis Basset and Frederic Basset, all of the City of New York, in a riotous manner and contrary to the Peace of our Sovereign Lord tlie King, took Possession of said Church, before the usual time of di\'ine Service, and there by main force opposed the Elders and every regular officer of the same in their respective Duties, absolutely refused your Petitioner Admittance into his Pulpit, And after having different ways profaned that House of Prayer, they then proceeded to break the locks of said Church, and affixed Locks of their own to Every door by means whereof they, to this day, have most unjustly and illegally kept possession of the same to the inexpressible Detriment of this Pious Institution, and to the great

That by an Act of the General Assembly of

the

;

Scandal of Civil Society as well as Rehgion.

To whom

therefore can your Petitioner so properly apply for Redress in so unprecedented a

grievance as to your Excellency in Council

Your

Petitioner therefore begs that

?

Your Excellency and the Honorable Board

will be pleased

under your wise Consideration; And then he is well Assured that he For which, as in duty bound, Yom* Petitioner will Ever pray Justice ; ample most

to take his case tl^e

J.

17 Oct. 1767.

Read

in Council ]

&

Referred for further Consideration.

Rev. Jean Carle succeeded

Mr Rou

in 1754.

Smith.

shall obtain

P. Tetard.

PAPEBS RELATING TO THE CITY OF NEW-VORK

316

PROCLAMATION AGAINST THE SONS OF LIBERTY.

By liis Excellency Sir Henry Moore Baronet Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Province of New York and the Territories depending tliereon in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the same.

A

procla:mation.

Wliereas sundry seditious Papers have lately been wrote printed and Secretly dispersed in this City in

tlie

Words

WHEREAS

or to

tlie

creants under the

Name

of Stamp Masters in the year 17(j5

of a similar Natiu'e, It is

;

and

it

is

now

leared that a set of

do not mean those lately arrived at Boston) whose odious Business is may soon make their Appearance amongst us in order to execute their detherefore hoped that every Votary of that celestial Goddess Liberty, will hold

Gentry called Comissioners testable Office.

purport and Elfect following.

a glorious stand for Liberty did appear in the Resentment shewn to a Set of Mis-

(I

themselves in Readiness to give them a proper Welcome

;

Rouse, my Countrvmen, Rouse

!

PRO PATRIA. to bring the Author or Authors thereof to condign Punishment, I ha ve thought by the advice of his Majesty's Council to issue this Proclamation hereby in his Majesty's Name oflering a Reward of fifty Pounds to any Person or Persons who sliall discover the Author or Authors of the seditious Paper aforesaid, so that he or they be thereof convicted and over and above the said Reward, I do hereby promise his Majesty's most Gracious Pardon to any Accomplice or Accomplices Avho sliall discover the Author or Authors of the said Paper so wrote printed and

lu Order therefore

fit

dispersed as aforesaid.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms at Fort George in the City of New York the twenty Day of December One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty seven, in the Eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Gef)rge tlie Thii d by tlie Grace of God of Great Britain France and

first

Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth.

By Ills Excellency's Command, Gw Banvar

D

Scc'ry

God savk the King. BioGRArmcAr. Sketch ok Governob Moore. prandson of John Moore Esq. 'vho srUleil at Rarbailoes in tlie reign of Cliarles II. & who having amassed projiprty in (hat Island, reii.ovod to Jamaica, wlicrc he left four cliildrcn two sons and two daughters. Samuel, the younger of the sons, m. Elizabeth Lowe anil loft an only surviving son and heir Henry, who married Catharina ISIaria eldest daughter of Samuel Long Esq. Chief Justice of Jamaica, and Sister of Edwanl Long, Judge of !he court of Vice Admiralty & author of the History of that Island. Mr. Moore acted as Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica from Tehy 17"i6 to 17r>2 with the exception of one year. The following extr.^cts from Rriilge's " Annals of Jamaica," Vol. II. for which we Sir

Henry Moore was

—

are indebted to the politeness of Dr. Harris, the learned Librarian of Harvard College, furnish ample details of Gov. Moore's history previous to his ".\. D. 17dS, Oct. 3d.

ton]

was

at

coming

The

to

New- York

royal disallowance of the act of removal [of the seat of government from St. Jago to Kings-

length proclaimed

;

and Lioul. tiovcnior

iMoore

was empowered

to

hold the Courts, over which he presided

;

PAPERS RELATING TO THE CITY OF NEW-YORK.

317

TO THE BETRAYED INHABITANTS OF THE CITY AND COLONY OF

My

NEW

YORK.

dear fellow-citizens and countrymen,

In a day wlien the minions of tyranny and despotism in the mother country and the colonies, are Indefatigable in laying every snare that their malevolent

a

free j^eople,

when

this unfortunate

and corrupt hearts can suggest,

country has been striving under

three years past, to preserve their freedom

;

which

to

an Englishman

is

many

to enslave

disadvantages for

as dear as his

life,

—when

the merchants of this city and the capital towns on the continent, have nobly and cheerfully sacrificed their private interest to the public good, rather than to

the representatives of this

promote the designs of the enemies

might justly be expected, that in this day of constitutional light, colony would not be so hardy, nor be so lost to all sense of duty to their

of our liappy constitution:

It

example of the colonies of Massachusetts Bay and Sovith committed to them. This they have done in passing the vote to give the troops a thousand pounds out of any monies tliat may be in the treasmy, and another thousand out of the money that may be issued, to be put out on loan, which the colony will constituents, (especially after the laudable

Carohna before them)

as to betray the trust

be obliged to make good, whether the bill for that purpose does or does not obtain the royal assent and that they have betrayed the liberties o£ the people, will appear from the following consideration, to wit That the ministry are waiting to see whether the colonies, under their distressed cir:

cumstances, will divide on any of the grand points which they are united

with the mother country; by which they administration.

when and where

—For

lie

if this

may

should not take place, the acts must be repealed

considered most convenient."

"

in,

and contending

for,

carry their designs against the colonies, and keep in

Tlie

low murmurs of

discontent,

\\

;

w^hich will be a reilec-

nieh arose from the five disap-

pointed parishes, were drowned by a proclamation which divided the island into judiciaiy districts, and (Oct. 21) by a declaration which made Kingston, Savanna la Mar, Montego Bay, & Port Antonio, free ports; measures which soon united

& healed all wounds while such additional wheels in the machine of government rendered its motion both more rapid, & more secure. The system of administration under Moore was accurate; that of superintenilence not less so. The fountain of justice was once more cleansed by the removal of Pinnoch, the corrupt chief justice, &c." "On two occasions the flames of civil discord had, however, nearly broken out afresh one was an attempt of the assembly to refuse the elective franchise to the members of the Council; a measure suggested by the subserviency of some of its members to the corrupt purposes of the late Governor; the other, when a claim was made by tlie House to the exclusive privilege of franking letters. Neither object was attained; & half the council peevishly threatened to throw up their seats; but the judicious management of Moore allayed the tumult. He had seen, perhaps he had felt, the abuses of a venal & oppressive administration & his own example gave weight & energy to his exertions to establish thepeace of the colony. He eminently all interests,

;

;

;

succeeded in the attempt, until its civil administration was interrupted by its military defence." In the spring of the succeeding year (A. D. 1759, July) Haldane assumed the government. His health had been ruined by laborious service (in the expedition against Guadaloupe,) & in a few weeks his friends wept over his untimely grave, when (A. D, ITCO) Moore resumed, & judiciously ailministered, the executive, until the accession of George the Third." "When the colonists were mirror the opening prospect of prosperity, a formidable enemy was collecting in the bosom of the they found themselves involved in a contest which required & seemed to exceed the most vigorous exertions of their undivided strength. The disaffected slaves, who since the last revolt had not been watched with that vigilance "Which African perfidy requires; had become so strong and formidable, that they meditated nothing less tlian the extirpation

viewing

in a deceitful

country,

&

—

of a conspiracy in

—

Two Coromantee savages, their barbarous names were Tacky & Jamaica, were the projectors which were evinced more than ordinary skill and caution — Easter monday was to be tlie fatal signal for

of the white inhabitants. a general massacre,

&

the

where the slaves belonging

first

movement proved the destruction of the garrison, & the seizure of the Fort at Port Maria, made themselves masters of the ammunition, arms, & stores. The inhabitants

to Captain Forrest

of the neighboring country were assembled to celebrate the holiday, Si they were all barbarously butchered at the supper table. The slaves advanced & retreated with a rapid diligence which surprised the security, & eluded the pursuit, of their

— Every

hour produced some horrid tale of a strange & wanton cruelty; & the sad tiilings were spread with the terror. Martial law was proclaimed, & Moqre headed the two British regiments in person, while the Maroons acted as auxiliaries. The disciplined troops found, to their cost, that however despicable their foes might appear, caution & vigilance were still the most important lessons in the art of war. Moore was twice taken in ambuscade, & narrowly escaped the most barbarous of deaths. He had spared thi-ough humanity, but he now punished from necessity. After some examples of success & severity, he set a price upon the heads of the rebels, & it was not long before he was

victims.

speed of grief

&

—

318 tion

TAPKRS RELATING TO THE CITY OF NEW-YOBK.

on their cuuduct, and

will bi iiig llie roproacli

aud clamour of the nation ou them,

fur the loss of

trade to the empire, which their malconduct has occasioned.

Our

money

acknowledging the authority that enacted the reon us, as these acts were enacted for the express purpose of taking money (^it of our puckels without our consent ; and to provide lor the defending aud support of government in America ; whicli revenue we say by our grant of money, is not sufficient for the purpose aforesaid ; therefore we supply the deficiency.

venue

grantiiig acts,

and

to the trooi»s, is implicitly

their being obllgatf»ry

This was the point of view in which these acts were considered, by the Massachusetts and South Carolina Asseml>lics, and to prevent that dangerous construction, refuted point

we have

dillered with these spirited colonies,

it.

and do implicitly approve of

On

this

all

the tyrannical

important

conduct of the ministjy to the Bostonians, and by implication censure their laudable and patriotic

For if they did riglit (which every sensible American thinks they did) in refusing to pay money, surt'ly we liave done wrong, very wrong, in giving it. But our Assembly says, that tliey do their duty in granting money to tlie troops Consequently the Massachusetts Assembly did not do tlieirs, in not obe} ing the ministerial mandate. If this is not a division in this grand point, I know not what is And I doubt not but the ministry will let us know it is to om* cost for it will furnish them with arguments and Iresh courage. Is this a grateful retaliation to that brave and sensible people, for the spirited and early notice they took of the susi)cnding act ? No, it is base ingratitude, and betrayiiig the common cause of liberty. To what otlier influence than the deserting the American cause, can the ministry attribute so denial.

tlie billeting

:

;

:

pusillanimous a conduct, as

we have

tliis is

of the Assembly

used, and opposition that has been

duct of the British Parliament

!

no other.

to

;

made by

so

repugnant and sul)versive of all the means and the other colonies, to the tyrannical con-

tliis

Can there be a more ridiculous

farce to impose

on the

people than for the Assembly to vote their thanks to be given to the merchants, for entering into On

& guided the But though his men were disciplined Si bold, this new species of warfare, so jjainful &. lingering, so obscure £i ignominious, wearied their patience, &. consumed their hopes. On the other hand, the partial defeats & losses of the African chieftains served only to strengthen their force, & display their courage, or their cruelty. The life of Moore was once exposed to imminent danger by the intrepid curiosity with which he persisted in exploring a secret and unguarded path. The barbarians rose in ambush around him: he vigorously si)urred his horse down a steep & slippery descent; the animal fell, Si, but for his consummate skill as a plentifully supplied with them, by their treacherous countrymen.

valor of his troops,

& was

often obliged to expose his person

&

all

occasions of danger, he inspired

exert his abilities.

—

would scarcely have relieved him from three athletic slaves who rushed upon him. At length his fell by the fu st discharge of a small field-piece, many prisoners were raptured, &. the survivors, for a time, dispersed. In this last action the maroons exhibited a disgusting instance of their native barbarity. They seized the body of Tacky, & after taking his head as a trophy, they roasted &. devoured the heart of their countryman. Encouraged by the disalTccted slaves, who continued to flock to the sound of their shell, and animated by the hope of a reinforcement from the free negroes, the disjiersed rebels soon rallied, & rose again, in various directions, nothing itismaycd by their late defeat. Armed with rustic weapons. Si with irresistible fury, they issued from their haunts; appeareil determined to try the chance of battle; & their secret movements in the woods disconcerted the grave Ji elaborate tactics of the Hriti:ih troops. A tight commenced in the morning, & was maintained till the sun was set, &. the night fallen while the soldiers were astonished at their unusual courage & their formidable numbers. The sincerity of history declares that the glory of Jamaica was sullied by the disobedience of her defenders, who were beaten back, & exposed to severe hardships in the centre of a wild & unfrequented country. Tlie calamity was ascribed, williout proof perhaps, but not without i>robal)ility, to the defection of the militia, • some of whom had secret & tender reasons for desiring to spare the lives of certain slaves opposed to them. A veil of obscurity is, however, drawn over the circumstances of this disgraceful transaction; & all wo know is, that RIoorc instantly assembled the free negroes, put them under experienced olHrers, & while the militia in the distant parishes ran to arms, he headesing their offices. If he dissolved the assembly tliey would not give him his Siilary.

De Lancy

Tlie

how

family knowing the ascendancy they have in

useful that influence

tlie

present house of Assembly, and

be to their ambitious designs, to manage

Avill

a

new Governour, have

left

no stone unturned to ])revent a dissolution. The Assembly, conscious to themselves, of having trampled on the liberties ol the pet^ple, and fearing their just resentments on sucli an event, are equally careful to i)reserve tlieir scats, expecting that if they can do

imagined

tlie

grand controversy

time they hope objects, the

odds

tlie

De Lancy

it

at this critical juncture, as

winter, tlioy will serve for seven years

To

;

it

is

which

in

secure these several

family, like true politicians, although they were to all ajipearance at mortal

companies as an enemy to his country, yet a them the sovereign lordship of this colony. The the abominable vote, by which the liberties of the people ai-e

and represented him

now formed

in all

in order to secure to

coalition

is

effect of

which has given birth

betrayed.

tliis

people will forget the present- injuries done to them.

M"" Colden,

Avitli

will be settled

to

In short, they have brought matters to such a pass, that

form of our hajipy constitution are destroyed.

the checks resulting from the

all

The Assembly might

as well invite the council to

save the trouble of formalities, to take their seats in the house of Assembly, and place the Lieut.

Governor in the Speaker's chair, and then there would be no wast of time in going from house to house, and his honour would ha\ e the pleasure to see how zeahnis his former enemies are in promoting his interest to serve themselves. Is this a slate to be rested in, when our all is at a stake 1 No,

my

ratlier

your

countrymen, rouse

Imitate the noble example of the friends of liberty in England

!

than be enslaved, contend for their right with

—

g, lords

be torn from y^u, by your representatives

liberties to

in tlie streets of

k

Charles-Town

You have means

!

yet

1

and commons. And

Tell

it

not in Boston

left to ])reservc

;

will

;

you

jiublish

who, suffer it

not

a luianimity with the brave C'f tyrants. The way tiie vote passed, that What I would advise to

Bostonians and Carolinians; and to prevent the accomplishment of the designs

house was so nearly divided, on one would have prevented

it

;

the suliject of granting the

}ou have,

money

in the

thereline, a respectable miiiorily.

on Monday next, where your sense ought to l^e taken on this important ])oint notwithstanding the impudence of Mv. Jauneey, in his declaring in the house that he had consulted his constituents, and that they were for giving money. After this is done, go in a be done

is,

to asseml)le in the fields, ;

body

to

your members, and

insist

on their joining with the minority,

refuse ytmr just requisition, appoint a committee to it

in

to

till-

sjieakers of

England, and

t!ie

draw up a

to

oppose the

state of the

seveial houses of assembly on the C(mtinenf, and to

i>ubli.sh it in

the

news papers,

tliat

the whole world

bill; if

they dare

whole matter, and send the friends of our cause

may know your

sentiments on

—

PAPERS RELATlNCi TO THE CITY OF NEW-YORK.

321

way your circumstance will admit. And I am confident it will spiiit the and chagrin our enemies. Let the notification to call the people be so expressed, that whoever absents himself, will be considered as agreeing to wliat may be done by such as shall meet ; and tliat you may succeed, is the unfeigned desire of this matter, in the only

friends of our cause

—

A SON OF LIBERTY New York,

Dec. 17, 1769.

By the Honourable Cadwallader Golden Esquire his Majesty's Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief ot the Province of New York and the Territories depending thereon iu America.

A PROCLAMATION. Whereas a

certain

within the City of

and

seditious

New York

libelous

Paper was

lately printed

published and dispersed

the Betrayed Inhabitants of the

—

New York December 16"i 17G9 directed in these Words " To City and Colony of New York" and containing many insolent daring

dated

and infamous Reflections on the Honour Dignity and Authority of the three Branches of the Legislature of the said Province Which having been taken into Consideration by the General Assembly, The House did on the nineteenth day of December Instant, come to the following Resolutions ;

thereupon. " Resolved that the said Paper

is

.

Nemine Contradicente

Resolved

of the House,

is

a false seditious and infamous Libel.

Paper highly reflects on the Honour and Dignity Minds of the good People of this Colony against their Re-

that the said

calculated to inflame the

presentatives in General Assembly, and contains scandalous Reflections on the three Branches of the Legislatiu-e.

come down in a Body to the Freedom and Independence of this House, and consequently the Rights and Privileges of the Inhabitants of this Colony, introductive of Anarchy and Confusion, and Subversive of the Fundamental Principles of our Happy Constitution. Resolved Nemine Contradicente that the Author or Authors Aiders and Abettors of the said Paper, is or are guilty of a liigh Misdemeanour and a daring insult on the Honor Justice and Authority Resolved

House,

is

Nemine Contradicente

an Audacious Attempt

that the proposal therein contained to

to destroy the

;

of this House. Resolved

Nemine Contradicente

that an

Humble Address be

presented to His

tenant Governor, requesting he will be pleased to issue a Proclamation offering

hundred Pounds

to

any Person or Persons who

shall

Honor the Lieua Reward of one

Discover the Author or Authors, Aiders and

may be brought

to condign Punishment have therefore thought fit by and with the Advice of his Majesty's Council to issue this Proclamation, hereby in his Majesty's Name offering a Reward of one hundred Pounds, to any Person or Persons, who shall discover the Author or Authors Aiders and Abettors of the above mentioned Seditious Paper so printed published and dispersed a^ aforesaid so that he or tliey be thereof convicted And over and above the said Reward I do hereby promise his Majesty's most gracious Pardon to any Accomplice or Accomplices, who shall discover the Author or Authors Aiders or

Abettors of the above recited Paper, so that they I

;

:

Abettors of the seditious Paper aforesaid.

Vol.

III.

41

322

PAPEHS Kt LATlNG fU THE CITV OF NEW-VORK.

Given under niy Hand and Seal

Arms

New York, the twentieth day Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Tliird by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth. at

at

Fort George in the City of

of December One thousand seven Imndred and sixty nine, in the

tentli

God save the King.

By

tlie

Honom-able Cadwallader Golden Esquire

Gov' ernor and

Commander

his Majest}

in Chief ol the Province of

's

Lieutenant

New York and

the

Territories depending tliereon in America.

A PROCLAMATION. Whereas a certain seditious paper was lately printed published and dispersed in this City directed " To tlie Publick" in the words following. " The Spirit of the Times renders it necessary for the Inhabitants of tliis Colony to convene " in order eil'ectually to avert the Destructive Consequences of 'the late base inglorious Conduct of " our General Assembly, who have in opi)osition to the loud and general V'oiceof their Constituents " the Dictates of sound Polic}-, the ties of Gratitude, and the glorious Struggle we have engaged in " for our invaluable Birtli Rights, dared to vote supplies to the Troops without the least Shadow of a " pretext for their pernicious Grant the most eligible place will be in the Fields near M*" De la ;

" Montague's, and " friend

to his

the time

Country

— —between 10 & 11 o'clock in the

morning, where

We

doubt not

ev ery

will attend."

"

Which Paper having been taken

LEGION."

by the General Assembly of the said Province, the House did on the nineteenth Day of December Instant come to the Ibllowing Resolutions into Consideration

thereupon.

Nemine Contradiccnte, that the said Paper is an infamous Libel, and contains a Scandalous Reflection on the Conduct Honor and Dignity of this House. Resolved Nemine Contradiccnte that the Author or Authors of the said Paper is and are Guilty Resolved

of a high Misdemeanour. Resolved

Governor,

Nemine Contradiccnte, re(piestiiig

any Person or Persons who they

may be brought

that an

Humble Address be

presented to his

Honour

he will be pleased to Issue a Proclamation otlering a Reward of

to

sliall

the Lieutenant fil'ty

pounds,

to

discover the Author or Authors of the above recited Pa])er, so that

condign punishment.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE CITY OF NE\V-\'ORK. I

have therefore thought

Proclamation

who

Persons

;

hereby in his

fit

JNIajesty's

shall discover the

be thereof convicted

:

And

by and with

Name

tlie

323

advice of his Majesty's Conncil

offering a

Author or Autliors of

tlie

Reward of

Fifty i)ounds to

to

issue

this

any Person or that he or they

above mentioned Paper, so I do hereby promise his Majesty's most

over and above the said Reward

gracious Pardon to any accomplice or accomplices

who

shall disco\er the

Author or AuIIhjjs of

tiie

Seditious Paper aforesaid.

Given under

Day

my Hand

and Seal

at

Arms

at

Fort George in the City of Xcav York

tlie

of December one tliousaud seven hundi-ed and sixty Nine, in the Tenth year of

Twentieth

tlie

Reign of

Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Eritain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth. our So^

e^reign

By his Honour's Command. Gw Banyar

God Save the

KiNf;.

On tlie 20th Dec. John L^mb, afterwards a Captain in Montg^oniery's expedition against Canad:;, and since known as General Lamb, was brought before the Assembly on the Speaker's warrant and examined, on the following day, touching his conduct regarding the two preceding "Libels." As it did not appear that he had acted at the Meeting of the Citizens in consequence of those obnoxious papers, though it is slated that he was the proposer of the Resolutions there, he was discharged. Gen'l Lamb, after seeing considerable service through the Revolutionary War, ilied in New York " in poverty and distress -' on the 31 May, 1800, in the 66th year of his age. The Life and Times of Gen. Lamb were published in the course of the last year by Isaac Q. Leake, Esq., to which work the reader is referred for further particulars relative to

on the 18lh

this Patriot.

Meanwhile the reward

by government for the discovery of the author of the above addresses, had the cflect of in Ihe employ of James Parker, the printer of a newspaper in the city of New York, made some disclosures which procured the arrest of his employer on the 7 P'eb. 1770. Parker being at the time a clerk in i,he post office was threatened with dismissal unless he disclosed the name of the author. He made certain avowals, and Capt. Alexander McDougal was arrested, and on refusing to give bail, committed to prison. A Bill was found against him at the ensuing April term, and on consenting to give bail in the sum of £1000, he was set at liberty, but the suit never was prosecuted. On the 20th Dec. following McDougal was arraigned at the bar of the Assembly as the supposed author or publisher"' of the address signed " A Son of Liberty.'' Repleaded, in reply, that as the grand jury and Assembly bad declared the paper in question to be a libel, he had nothing to say further than, being under prosecution already in the Supreme Court, he conceived it would be an infraction of the laws of Justice to punish a British subject twice for the same This defence was voted "a high contempt," offence, for that no line could be run he miglit be punished without end. and McDougal was sent to jail, Messrs Gale, Van Cortlandt, Col. WoodhuU, Capt. Seaman and Mr Clinton voting in the negative. A writ of Habeas Corpus was sued out of the Supreme Court in the course of the following month, to w.iich it was returned that the prisoner was " committed by a warrant of the Speaker for a contempt of the authority of this House." The Assembly was eventually prorogued on the 4th March, 1771, when Mr McDougal was liberated after an imprisonment of 81 days. His recognizance was discharged on the 27th of san-e month after being under bonds nearly twelve months and actually suffering twenty-four weeks imprisonment, in consequence of both these arrests. He was subsequently a member of the Provincial Convention, and in 1775 was appointed Colonel of the 1st N. Y. Regt. He rose in the course of the war of the Revolution (1776) to the rank df Brigr General, and in 1777 to that of Majr Genl in the U. S. army; was a prominent member of the N. Y State Senate from 1784 until his death, which occurred in June, 1786. He is reprcsenteil by one Author, as a native of Scotland; Allen's Biograph. Diet, states that he was the son of a Scotchman who sold milk in the City of NewYork, and that he was not ashamed to acknowledge that when a boy he assisted his father. For further particulars See, Journ. of N. Y. Prov: Convention, and American Archircs bth Scriex, Vol. 1. Ed. stimulating informers.

offered

A journeyman

—

.

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PAPERS RELATING TO THE CITY OF NEW-YORK.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF REV. Mr. DUBOIS OF NEW- YORK, [Note to

p. 271.]

Gualtherus du

Bois, Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church of the city of New- York, was born in the year Province of Holland, of which place his father, Dome Petrus du Bois, was at the time pastor. The latter removing subsequently to Amsterdam, Gualtherus passed with great credit through the Latin school of that city, and at the age of twenty, was sent to the university at Leyden, where he studied humanity, science, philosophy and theology under Professors Van Es, Hollebeck, Van Peencn and Francius. After having "sate six years at the feet of these four Gamaliels," he returned to Amsterdam, and underxvent his preparatory examination on the 1st July, lt)97,

The

R 1709.

This Board do resolve for their encouragem* to Certifie the advance of what money shall be paid

Germans as afores'' and to recomend the same to my Lord High Treasurer in the same manner as it was done on Coll" Wenhams und''takeing the same the Germans haveing offered to give their personale security for y« Repayment thereof in case it be not paid in England in a year. to y^ said

A

LIST

Of those Germans wlio by a Common Division have taken in to their possession all the Tools, which by Her Majestes Bounty were given to Melchior Gulch, Palatine Joyner JosHUAH KocHERTHAL 1 Barrel of Lime 3 Gouches 2 formers 1 Grindingstone 1 square and several i)ieces more. 1 Rule 1 Compass Hermanus Schuneman 2 Handsaws. 1 Great Saw. 3 Gouches. 2 Agors besides several pieces

— — —

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

more.

Michael Weigand,

1

great

file. 1

smaller dito,

1

mortising chisel,

1

Joynter,

1

Agor

besides several]

pieces more.

Andreas Volk,

1

Cross Cut Saw,

1

Smoodiug

plain,

1

wiping saw, another

sett

of Gouches, besides

severall pieces more.

The widow Plettel, more Jhohn Fisher,

1

wiping saw,

Tenant saw,

1

1

1

great hamer, 1 Gimlet,

Gimlet,

1

hammer,

1

small

1

Tenant saw, besides severall pieces Joynter, besides severall

file, 1

hatchet,

little

hamer, 2 Agors,

1

pieces more.

Peter Rose,

Ghipott,

I

1

Wliimplingpitts,

1

hatchet,

1

1 Jo}Titer,

besides

severall pieces more.

Jacob Weber, .

1

Box with White Lead Knife

besides several pieces more.

&

Compass,

1

adde, 2 Gouches,

1

mortizing

cliisel

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES. Isaac Turk,

1

Glupott,

1

Box with white Lead,

& comiiass,

knife

333 Gouches,

Saw-file, 3

1

1 fore plain,

besides severall pieces more.

LoRENz SwiTZER,

1

Grinding-stonc,

1

square,

1

Miterbl?)ck,

1

little

Gimlet, 2 Agors,

1

Smooding

Adde, 2 Agors,

1

Gimlet besides severall

plain, besides

severall pieces more.

Henry Rennau,

1

Cross-Cut Saw,

1

pieces more.

The WIDOW Wemarin, another

sort of

smooding

plain, 1 little

hatcliet besides severall pieces

file, 1

more. Isaac Feber,

1

Broadaxe,

hatchet

—

1

Smooding

1

little

1

square. 1 Miterblock,

file,

1

Kule,

1

fibrmer, besides severaU

pieces more.

Daniel Fiere,

1

Broadaxe,

1

Tenantsaw,

1

Joynter, besides severall pieces

more.

N. B.

Bounty

It is to

be understood, That Three

to the said

Apprentice

Melchior Gulch,

viz'

full Setts

of JojTier-Tools were given by

Her

Majesties

one for him, the second to his Son, and the Third for an

—Whereof he hath only seen these

by the Persons above

specified parcells en passant

named. Wherefore he humbly prays Tliat the order to be granted to liim against them, may not only be directed for these few parcells, but also and Generally for obtaining all the rest (belonging to the said Three whole Setts of Tools,) from those in whose possession they shall be found. read 29 Aprl 1710.

SECOND IMMIGRATION OF PALATINES. [Counc. Min. X.]

In Council IS'h June 1710.

The President (M' Beekman) informed having brought a considerable number of

the Board that the ship Palatines for

whom

Lyon

is

arrived in this Port

her Majesty has

commanded him

to

Provide Lodging and Provisions and desired the Gentlemen of the Councill to give their opinions

what measures are proper to be taken with respect to them. And the Mayor of this City having presented a Petition Corporation seting forth that there

is

to

tliis

Board from

just Cause to believe there are

many

liimself

and the

contagious distempers

among them which they are apprehensive will Endanger the health of the Inhabitants of tlie Citty if they be Landed in any part thereof and hinder the Trade and welfare of it by deterring the Country people and others from resorting and coming hither as usuall and praying they to

come within the It is

may

not be permitted

citty.

the opinion of this Board thereupon that Nutten Island

'

is

the properest place to put the

Huts should be made for theM, and Doctor Law, Doctor Moore and Doctor Garran be Desired to go on board the said ship this afternoon and visit the said Palatines making their Report to this Board of the State and Condition of health they find them in. It is ordered that Johannes Hebon and Peter Wllliamse two carpenters do wait on the President at two o'clock this afternoon to Nutten Island witli^respect to the Building the aforesaid Huts and that so many Boards and other materials be bought as the said Carpenters shall judge necessary for

Palatines on and that

that service. 1

Now, Governor's

Island, N. Y.

334

PAPERS RELATIIJG TO THE PALATINES. ordered that what stores are on Board the said

sliip be forthw"' sent ashore and that the guard and the store keeper do dispose the same in the fibrt in the best and securest manner they can

It is

officer of the

ordered that the Palatines w ith their Goods be forthwith landed on Nutten Island.

It is

In Council, 16 June 1710. and Conimissionated Clieife Justice M'' Barberie M' Bickley to Execute y« Office of Attorney Gcnerull doe Draw ui)p a Scheme for y^ Ordering Ruleing and Government of Palatines as neare as may be Agreeable to the Laws of this Provmce with Instructions for the officers and ^linisters to be appointed over them for that purpose. It is the opinion of this Board tliat a Proclamation doe Issue to prevent Exactions and Extortions in tlie Price (jf Bread & otlier Provisions whereby the Palatines may be tlie better and easier Provided tlierewith and ordered that the Attorney Generall prepare the same forthwith. It is

ordered that the

In Council, l?"- Jime 1710. M"^ Cheife Justice

on

Reference

tlie

Reported to his Excellencey that himselfe M' Barberie and M'' Bickley have met

made

to

them yesterday

to consider of a

Scheme

for the

good Governing the Pala-

and haveing Considered the same, Proposed that Commissions of tlie Peace and other Commissions be Granted to some persons among them for that End and that an Ordinance Issue tines,

Impowering Justice

& Mf

to heare

and determine Small Causes,

all

wliich his Excellency Referred to M'' Cheife

Bickley to prepare such Commissions and Ordinances.

ORDER FOR APPRENTICING THE PALATINE CHILDREN. Council 20 June 1710.

There haveing beene severall Proposalls made for the takeing many of the Palatine Children for a Terme of Yeares and there being many Orphans who are unable to take care of themselves to work,

and many who by sickness are Rendered uncapable of doeing any service for some time and in that Condition would be a great expence and there being noe Prospect of Settleing them this siuner by Van Dam or either reason its soe much advanced His Excellency does appoint Doctor Staats and other Children Orphans and whose Parents out the such Placeing take Proi)osalls for of them to Writeing Cloath VictuaU and use them Instrument in to into an have a numerous ITamily Enlring well and to deliver them to the Government when called for. It is ordered that an Advertisement be printed Signifying that his Excellency is willing to Dispose of Such Orplians and other children as aforesaid and directing all Persons wno are willing to take any

to api)ly themselves to

[The above

oriler

Doctor Staats or M"" Van

was amcnJcd on

Dam

27 July directing tl4R the Boys be

15 years.]

For a

list

of the Children apprenticetl under this order see post.

or either of them. bound

until the age of

7

and the girls

till

they reach

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

335

AN ORDINANCE FOR ESTABLISHING COURTS OF JUDICATURE INNUTTEN An Ordinance

by his Excellency Robert Hunter

the Provinces of

New York & New

and Vice Admirall of

tlie

same

Council! for the Province of

c^

New

Esq"" Capt. Generall

and Governour in

Cliiefe

of

Jersey and Territories depending thereon in America

By and with

the Advice and Consent of her Majesties

York, for the Establisliing Courts of Judicature for the

now upon Nutten Island and Whereas her most Sacred Majesty by her Royall Letters Patents Good Government of the

ISLAND.

Palatines

all

others resorting thither.

bearing date the Twentieth

day of December in the Eighth Yeare of her Raigne did (amongst other things therein mentioned) Give and Grant unto his said Excellency full Power and Authority with the advice and consent of her Majesties Councill for the said Province to Erect Constitute and Establish such and soe

many

Courts of Judicature and Publick Justice within the said Province and Territories depending there-

on as his said Excellency and Councill should think fitt and necessary for the heareing and determining of all Causes as well Criminal! as Civil! according to Law and Equity and for awarding Execucon thereupon witli all reasonable and necessary powers authorities fifees and Priviledges belonging to them,

And

body of any County of that are

for as

this

now Estabhshed

Impartially administered

much

Island called Nutten Island lyeth not within the

as the said

Province and in noe wise subject

within the same,

among the

And

to the Jurisdiction of

any of

tlie

Courts

End that Publick Justice may be duely and now being on the said Place and others Resort-

to the

severall Palatines

His said Excellency The Governor hath thought

by and with the advice and consent him Given by her said Majesties Letters Patents to Pubhsh Ordaine and Declare, And his said Excellency the Governor by and with the advice and consent aforesaid Doth hereby Publish Ordaine and Declare That any one of the Justices appointed to keep the Peace within the said Island called Nutten Island is by these presents fully Impowered and Authorized to have Cognizance of aU Causes Debts Trespasses or other strifes or Controversies arriseing within the said Island to the value of fibrty shilUngs and under Which Causes and Cases sliaU be heard Tryed and Determined without a Jury by any one of the The Process to be by Sumons under the hand of Justices of the Peace within the said Island. the Justice Directed to the Constables of the said Island Which Sumons being personally served or a Copy left at the Defendants place of abode two days before the heareing of tlie said Cause or Case shall be sufficient Authority to and for the said Justice to Proceed to heare such Cause or Case and Determine the same in the Defend'^ absence by his Defalt And the said Justice is hereby Impowered to award and Grant Execution on any Judgement by him to be given by Yertue hereof against any person or persons or against liis or their Goods and Chattels at his discretion as hee shall soe Give Judgement against and Condemne in the said Cause or Causes Which said Execution ing thither

fitt

of her Majesties Councill by virtue of the Powers and Authorities unto

shall be Directed to the Constables of the said Island

Execute Gaole of

tlie tlie

same and

to

keep and detaine in

Island for that purpose to be

strict

made

who

is

hereby Directed and Commanded

Custody such Person or Persons in the

untill satisfaction of the said

to

Comon

Judgement, or to

levy the same on the Goods and Chattels of such Person or Persons according as the said Execution shall Require and Command them to doe. And it is hereby further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid

any Person or Persons shall think themselves agrieved by the Judgement of any one of the manner and forme aforesaid to be given TJiat then the Party soe agrieved may appeale from the same Judgement unto any two of the Justices aforesaid wlio are herel^y authorized and Impowered to heare Trye and finally to Determine the same Cause in the same manner and forme as is before Directed and appointed, and in Case the said ffirst Judgment shall by tlie two Justices on such

That

if

Justices in

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

330 appeale he afiirmed.

That then

sucli Justices are hcrel)y aiitliorized

and Impowered

to

award such

Costs against the Appellant to the Appellees as the said Appellee shall have beene put to by reason

of the said Appeale as the said Justices in their Discretion shall tliiuk ecution shall be stayed on the

ffirst

fitt.

Provided that noe ex-

Judgement by such appeale above the space of

vided also that sucli appeale be entered and

made

before any two of the

ffive

days, Pro-

said Justices within

two

dayes after such Judgement soe to be given as aforesaid or otherwise not to be allowed, any thing to the contrary hereof notwithstanding

that there shall be held

And

It is

hereby further Pubhshed Ordauied and Declared

and kept on the said Island

at

such dayes and times and

at

such Convenient

Place as the Justices of the Peace of the said Island or any two of them under theh* hands and Scales shall for that pui-pi^se

from time to time as often as occasion shall Recjuire

—appoint

Court of Sessions of the Peace and Comon Right Wliich said Court shall have diction to hcare

Trye and Determine

within the said Island to

Comon Jind It

Pleas is

now

all

all

One Generall and Jui-is-

full i)ower

Causes and Actions whatsoever Criniinall and Civill ariseiug

Intents and purposes as any of the Coui-ts of Sessions of the Peace

and

Established within any of the Counties within this Province hath or ouglit to have,

hereby further Ordained and Declared That the severall Justices of the Peace of the said

them sliall be Judges of the same Court, And they or any two of them are hereby Impowercd to heare Trye and Determine all Causes both Criminall and Civill in the said Coui-t and shall and may Give Judgment and award Execution thereupon according to the Lawes of Great Brittaine and of this Province ^ind it is hereby further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that the said Justices of the Peace for the said Island or any two of them be and are hereby sufficiently Impowercd and Authorized to make Ordaine and Establish aU such Rules and Orders for the more regular proceeding in the said Court as fully and amply to aU Intents and jiurposes as all or any the Judges of any otlier Court within tliis Province legally doe or may Provided that noe Judgment be Given in any Cause or matter depending in the said Court against any Person or Persons, but where the ffact shall be found by a Jury of Twelve Men (unless by Confession of the Party or by Defalt for want of a Plea) as the due course of Law Requires, Provided also and it is hereby further Ordained and Declared That in all Judgements in all CiviU tJauses and Actions that shall be Given by the said Court Wherein the Debt and Damages Exceed the Sume of Ten Pounds and not otherwise, It shall and may be Lawfull for any party that shall think himselfe agrieved by such Judgement to enter his or iheir appeale from such Judgement before the Governor and Councill who arc hereby Impowered to heare Trye and finally to determine the same and award Costs against the appellant in Case the said ffirst Judgement shall be by them affirmed, Provided -Asoi^ That noe such Appeale I'rom the said Court sludl be Received unless the same l)e entred within Twenty dayes next after such Judgement Given nor any Execution stayed on such Judgement untill Secm-ity be given by the Ajipellant to Prosecute his appeale with Elfect and to jmy the Del>t or damages on such Judgement with all such Costs as the Governor and Councill shall award in Case the said ffirst Judgement shall be affirmetl. Given by his Excellency Robert Hunter Esqr Captain Generall and Governor in Cheife of y*' Provinces of New York and New Jersey and Territories depending thereon in America etc' and Vice Adinirallof yesame &c. in Councill at ftbrt Aiine in New York Twelveth day of July Anno Dm. 1710. and in the Nintli yeare ol the raigne of our Soveraigne Lady Aime by the Grace of God of Great Brittaine ITrance and Ireland Qneene Defender of y* ffaith Ro: Hi NTEu. Island or any two of

.

By Order of his Excellency in Councill.

;

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

337

PETITION OF THOMAS BENSON.

To His Excellency Robert Hunter Esq'" Captain General and Goveruour Majesties Provinces of

New York and New

Jerseys and of

all

and

in Cliiefe iu

ov^er

Her

the Territories _and Tracts of

Land thereon Depending in America and Vice Admiral of the same. Humble Petition of Thomas Benson Chyrurgeon in most humble manner Sheweth Unto Your Excellency That Your Petitioner is by Profession a Surgeon, That he hath Tlie

as such

attended the service of the English Nation in fflanders, in Ireland, and at sea, about eighteen or nine-

which time he hath not out of a covetous mind made it his Bussyness to lieap up I)ut hath with all lus power, Skill and alulity all along promoted the welfare of those unfortunate jieople, wiiose mishap it was either by reason of sickness or wounds, to be committed to his care, and liatli as lie well hopes discharged himself with a good conscience, as well as success in the prosecution of his said ffaculty, and being moved by pity and charity towards the teen years

;

in

riclies to himselfe,

people of the Pallatinate

whom Her

Majesty of Great Britain out of her constant and unlimited

compassion and Goodness, hath been pleased

to

Transport into this Province, to accompany

people as a Surgeon, and Phystian for the preservation (under God as

much

as in

him

tlie

said

lyeth) of their

several healths, in order thereunto did voluntarily for a very small consideration, ship himselfe on

board of the Transport Ships called the Lyon of Lieth, whereof Captain Stevens

and

i]i

his passage

which have during

all

all

on board the said Ship

liath

Commander

is

;

administered aid and Medicines, to above 330 p'sons

been sick at One time in the said passage, and none but liimselfe to assist tliem the Medicines whicli your Petitioner on that occasion expended were his

the said time

;

own; and amount to the sum of eiglit pounds and six pence, as pr. particulars herewith shewn may be But so it is, may it please your Excellency, that soon after your Petitioner's arrival in this seen. Province, he was taken with a Rheumatism which disabled him to procure to himselfe that subsistance which wai needful, and lia^ ing by means of tlie said Distemper contracted some Debts in this and being City ; which he holds himselfe in Conscience bound (if Possible) to pay and make good Recommended by Certificate under the hand of Frederick Stare of London M. D. and one of Her Majesties Commissioners appointed to the care of the said i^oor Pallatines as well to tlie flavoiu- and Encouragement of the Governom- of New-York (which Honour the Queen of Great Britain from a wise Election hath been pleased to invest your Excellency with) as to that of the Captain of said Ship Lyon, as by the said certificate may appear Now your Petitioner for these Reasons Dotli in most humble and Dutylull manner Pray your Excellencys fifavour, that his said Circumstances may be considered, and effectual order taken, both for allowance of his subsistance since his arrival into this Province ; and also that the aforesaid sum of eight pounds and six pence, for medicines, So by him as afore expended for Reliefs of the said poor distressed Pallatines may be made good to liim, by such p'son or p'sons as your Excellency shall from yoiu- wisdome and Justice appoint that so your Petitioner may be in a Capacity to Defray the chai-ges, and pay the just debts, that his said sickness ;

;

;

;

;

hath occasioned

;

and that he may

also be the better enabled to ship himselfe again, in one of the

Ships that lately arrived in this port, and Britain

;

is

Kingdome of Great want of timely Supply And your

just ready to set sail for the

which opportunity he further prays may not be

lost for

:

Petitioner herein Relieved, Shall as in Du

56

• The poor widow's son whose name Bcquently famous in New- York annals. prictor and publisher of the N. Y. Weekly

this paper

was

orileced to be burnt

Anna

by the

amid

llie

cheers of

llie

30 26 3S 36

Anna Catharina Anna Alaria Gablin wid Anna Maiia Benodiclus Kuhncr Anna Felice Jacob

36 27 ^

38 42 14

6 3

\

53

4 10

X

66 40 16 13

6 ,S3

13

7 lU 34

7 36 40

A

4 9

Eva Barbara Anna Elizabetha Nankin

42 iMargarctta Schmidtin, wid.... 27 Johan Daniel A 30 Daniel Teffa

Marianna

42

Abraham

13 16 12

7

50

4

Margaret Meserin, wid Johannes Susan Cath Maria Galete wid Sarah Margaret Jacob

5

Simon Vogilt

30

5 31 31

15

10

38 7

In consc'iuencc of the boldness of

Common hangman

crowded court.

.ind

its

strictures on the

/cnger the Palatine, was indicted

4

_

found here among this crowd of obscure fi helpless Immigrants became He was apprenticed to \Vm. Bradford the printer and became afterwards tlie Mcsscii'^er.

4

11

is

this occasion thai Han\ilton of Phil.idelphia so

acquittal

J ohan Jacob Christina Cath Elizabetha Nollin, wid A])ollonia Lintzin wid Anna Catha

23

Mari.a

42 15 13

Johanna Zangerin, wid John Pelcr* Johannes

2

Frederick Maul A nna U rsula John Jacob Anna Catharina

'.Hi

3

Niclaus Anna Engell Niclaus Heisterbach

11

A

19 25

Anna Margt Anna Eva

45

X

24 50

Jacob Melchior

13

9

Calharina

21 12

17

47

Anna Eliz Maulin, wiil Anna Calharina Anna Ursula

.'jl

Anna C()nig John Christo,iher

4

55 20

Ulrich Siinendingcr Anna Alargaretta Christian Custleman Anna Judcth Eva .Maria Calh John Doilrich Scahtz

1

31

Sclioneborin « Elizabetha iMullerin, wid

10

Magdalena Hans Pelcr

Johan Deitrick Wanncrmacher. 28 Peter .laeoh Kornnian ilead .... Anna Conigunda dead 52 Susannah Weisin Unibcrt Rosin Maria ISai bara Onin Conrad Lcin

21

Anna Eliz

13 37

Anna Rosina John (Jeorge

1

35 23

40 27

Catharine

]

Christopher Werner i^laria Alagdalena John .Matheus Johan Paul Badncr

13 11

wid

11

Deitricli I'eversback

9

Eliz. I.anipcrlin,

18

36 30

]4

1

Maria Christina Anna Maria

8 6 48

J2

17

1^1 iz

28

Anitreas Elich

on

)

32

.Anna Apolonia Anna Barbara Michael Hcnneschid Anna Catharina Casper

5

John Fred John Jacob Melchior Dausiveber

8 6 10

Anna Harbara Anna Eva Morellin, wid

40 40

Anna

1

^

Eliz

Magdalena Offin, wid Johan .lacob

A

y

Johannes Bacr

2f)

Joli.inncs ^^d Christiiplier lialwermarker •••• 28

11

39 39

iMagdalena

36

Anthony' Maria Agnes Andreas Weidnecht Margaret George Fred John George

15 ]3

John Peter Maria !?ophia John Peter ffucks Anna Margt Anna IMaria Hoidin, wid

Anilreas

8

dcail

8

30 23 23 25 32 28

X

43 39

Johan Bcrnhard Johan l.orcntz

10

11

••••

1

6 14

Alexander Caspar Hart wig

Anna

41

Anna Gertrude

11

Anna Kliz

Anna

Johan VVni .Schneiiler Helena Urilniannin, orph \altin: Brcssler Christina Anna Eliz

3tj

Anna Alnicrodrin wid Johan Hcnricti

44 14

14

Justina

Catliarine

Johannes John Henrich

6

Jolm Matheus Keiser Johannes Trilhaiiser X Bern hard Lickard

39

IMagdalena Anna Barbara

36

Anna iMagilalena Anna IMaria Sacksin, wid

31 15

Anna Eliz

36

Gerlraude

12 32

Marcus John iMartin

8

Maria Catharina Johatmes Kuatz 40 IMaria Cath: Hebmannin, wid.. 40 Anna Engel 21

7

John Panl orph Peter WickhauB Eliz Catharina Maria Catha Veronica Zwickin, wid

Johannes Lohrentz Anna Margaretta

12

Eliz

Old Y'ng

m- NB

Anna JMargaretta

Johannes

4

Anna Margatla Johan Henrich Newkirk Anna Maria

42 32 44

Anna Margareta Anna Maria Uenderin wid Eva Catharina Anna

11

George Ludwig Leicht

10 7

Anna Conegunda Rusin, wid... Anna Catharina Anna Margaretla

Ki IH

iNlaria iMaigl

14 12

Peter Ableman

14 Li

John Jacob John George Maria Eliz X Johannes

Margareta Anna Maria

Arnolil Falck

41 40

Anna Magda

18

John Matheus

-Jo

John Coniail Liicas llaucli, ilemi

46

Juliana

Con rail

34

Anna Morga

Maria Marga

Abraham 6

Anna Kliz. Hcliull/.in wid Conrail l^'reilerich Anna Alaiia John

Old Y'ng

Y'ng

siro-

jiro-

government,

for I.ibel in 1731.

It

was

trimnplianlly vindic.dcd the liberty of the Press and obtained Zenger'l

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES. Old Y-iig

Old Y'lig

Christina

John

Wm ffelton

Anna

2Q 30

^

.Cliristina

•r

2^*

Anthoni

/

11

Anna Clara Hermanus HoUnian X

Otillia

50

Cathaiina

16 lo

Anna Dorothea

Clements

Wilhelm Hans George. Jolm N iciaus

20

Anna Maria

18

Daniel Scliumachcr

Fuclis frau.. 22

Bernliaril Krkcl

5.i

Anna Maria Anna Eliz

30

tiead

Aimu

Anna

Cath. Grauin

...

30 3U

,

,

8

iMarj^arctta

.

3(i

.

-10

.

40

13

9

Anna Maria

5

Johan Fred ch Neli. Johan Johannes Dorncr

7 :

54 54 24

a

Conrail

Johanna Eliz

11

Ilenrich Scliniidt Anna KViz

J

17

Old Y'ng 10

Sopliia

Johannes

30 HO

Maria Gertriule These two remains at Uackensaclc at John Lolz's Ludolf Xornmg £0

ITT"

341

Hans Niclaiis Johan Lenhard

8 5

Kva Cathariija Phillip Petr Graubcrgcr Anna U.irbara

12 29 33

Maria Cath

i'.i

9

NAMES'OF THE PALATINE CHILDREN APPIIENTICED BY GOV. HUxNTER 1710—1711. NAMES OF CHILDRE;^.

DATE.

Aug Sept

John Philip Lepper.

31 14

Justina

21

George flVederick Daniel Artopee

.

Pliillips Daniel

22 S( (i

Anna Margt. Lanil)erton Jno. Paul Denbig Hans Jeriek Coons....

Hans

25

Anna Harber

26

27

Hans JericU Paer Anna Cathrina JohannesLodowickTroit Susan ftlaria Harmin .... Anna Maria Harmin .... Hanna Catrina Laparing

28

Hendrik Porter

Adam f liaving brouglit in his

tlie

Prise yof.Pef abated

Pounds Six

Shill's for wliioh

lie

has not yet been able to

obtain any Satisfaccon and beinsat this time greatly straigtened for money, He humbly Prays yo' Ex^y to direct the Secretary to pay the said

New York the 5"' Sept. 1711.

yo'

P1'-

And

yo^

IVf

as in

Duty bound

shall

accompt

Twenty Pounds thereof So

ever Pray &c.

Sume

to

. .

.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

STATEMENT

343

number of Persons Hudsons River. Winter, 1710.

of heads of Palaten famileys and side of

o s

NAMES.

in both

Towns on ye west

W 00

—

1 Jno. Christ. Gerlach Capt 2 Peter iMaurer 3 Philip Muller 4 Jno. Georg Spanhimer.

5

Jiio. ffrici

:

1

Caselman...

.

1

1

12

.

1

1

1 1 1 1

Valin: fFaulkinberg

1

Wilheim

1

iMuller

Jungin Jho Ritzbacus Elisab: Bayherin Peter Keiseler Jno Keifcr Jno Henrich Schram Pefer Egner

—

Si-,

PS

CSoo

.

1

1 1

..

1

— 1 1

.

Petei Diebel

22 Jno. Hen: Krantz 23 Jno. Straub 24 Frank Keller 25 Jno. Rccker 26 Jno. ifred Conterman. 27 Philip Kelmer 28 Henrich Man

1

Catha: Schutzin

—

Meyer

1

Christian

Peter Overbach

1

Henrich Moor Conrad Merdin Maria Highrin Ana Mar: Emrichin... Adam Hardel Godfrey Fidler Jacob Dimouth Godfrey Rigrel

:

Thomas Ehman

30 Alb:ffrid: Marterstork 31 Augustin Voschell 32 Peter Voschell 33 John Eberhard

Peter Wohleben

1

2

— —

1

—

1

1

—

— 1 1 '

1

Hyron: Schib Anna Maria Kuntz Nicolaus Kerncr

—

Dietrich

—

Anthony Kremer Herman Hastman

1

1

Jho Michel Emrich ... Georg Hen: Stubenrau.

Wagner

— — — — — — 2 — — — —

—

Elizab: Sweden

20 Philip Wolleben

o Eh

1

Wm

14 15 Welhelniin.. 16 17 Ana Maria Braberin... 18 Henrich Schorman 19 Valentin Wolleben

34 35 36 37 38 39 40

1

Elisab:

13

29

1

Mr

:

11

21 Peter

Agnus Lapin Melch Tousweber Kocherthales Jacob Mand Matheus Schlimer George VVm Kiel Peter Becker

6 Jno. Leher 7 Fred: Mirclile 8 Georg Schaffer 9 Jno. Adam Friedrich.. 10 Valinten Benilor

S

NAMES.

1

1

1

Miillerin

Stephan Frolich

Magde:

Weiden

Streiten

Jno. Franck

.

ahl

Andreas Ross

41 Gartrud

Eikertin 42 Joseph Richart

—

1

—

Hyronimus Weller

77

Totall

1

'

1

•

1

Where blanks occur

in the

above names, the MSS.

is

84

13

33

14

257

destroyed.

PALATINE VOLUNTEERS FOR THE EXPEDITION AGAINST CANADA

;

171L

QUEENSBURY 1

Johan Cond Wiser Capt

11

2

Christian

Haber

12

Andreas Bergman 4 Johannis Feeg 5 Mattheus Kuntz 6 Mattheus Reinbolt 7 Jno Beter Dopfif 8 Jno Jaco J Reisch 3

9 Carl Nehr 10

Henrich Jung

13

Hen: Hoffman Werner Deichert Geo: Muller

14

Fred Bellenger

15

Hen Widerwachs Geo Mathias Cristo Hagedorn

16 17

18

19

20

Frantz Finck Andreas Schurtz Peter Hagedorn 356 men,

Weber

21

Niclaus

22

Wm George Lieut

Fred Schaffer 24 Antho: Ichard 25 Jno Pet. Sein 26 Jno. Jac. Munsinger 26 Johan Leyer 23

:

28 .

29 30

women &

Jacob Kuhn Henr. Mathous Nicklaus Eckard children in this

31

Martin Dilleback

32

Niclaus Feller

33

Jacob Schnell Jacob Webber

34 35

William Nelles

36

Johannis Kislei Geo: Breigel

37

38

John Schaffer George Dachstader Johannes Zaysdorf

Town.

A True Coppy from

the Original

He-^by Mayer.

o-

/

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

144

HAYSBURY. John Cli r ist opli d" Joha \Vm Dales

J

2

Hammer

Micli Ittich

Christian Ruuch

Johan Kyser 9 Jacob Cup

retor xlayil

U

Paulus Dientzer

OCIldll

\\ III

243

12

Melch: Foltz John Segendorf

13

Phillip Laiix

14

Abraham Langen Jno Jacob Schultz

11

7 Q O

•JUliU

4

Henr.

flfiicWs

15

men women &

Wm. Hambuch

10

Jno.

17

Niclaus

V o

1

i

Laux

Niclaus Guttel

19

Paulus Keitchoir

37

Marcus Bellenger

chiltl:

ANNSBERG. Niclaus

Hayd

25

Valtin

Kuhn

1

Hartnian Wineileclcer

Capt.

2

Jno Wtn

3

Peter Spies Herman Bitzer

Henrick Klein 26 Ilenrich Winter 13 Hen. Bait. Stuper 27 Jno Geo. Reiffenberg 28 Jno. Mhn Linck 16 Casper Ranch 29 Jno. Mart. Netzbach 17 Hans Hen: Zeller 30 Johannes Wcis IS Johannes Zeller 31 Jno. Adn Walbourn 19 Samuel Kuhn 20 Gerhard Schaffer 32 Jno. Hen. Arendorff UU'ich Bruckhart 33 DanI Busch .2i •34 Jno. Hen. Conradt 22 Jacob Ess 23 Ferdo Mentegeu 36 Hen. Belling-er 36 Johan Schneider 24 Conrad Kuhn Jacob Dings Henrick Fehling Job Jost Petry Lud. W. Schmit.

4

Johannes Schue Schneiiler John t> 7 Jacob Bast 8 Johannes Blass 9 Johan W'm Kanimer 10 Johannes Bonroth Johannes Bernhard 11 5

Wm

12

13

.

14

Dill

Sebastian Fischer

250

men women &

38

Phill Schafler

39

Johan Kradt

40

Christ Sittcnich

41

Jno. Hen. Schmidt

Jno Phill Zerbe Jno Phill Theis 44 Martin Zerbe 45 Niclaus Ruhl 46 Adam Mic Schmidt 47 Coad Maisinger 48 Thos Ruffener 42 43

children

a True

Coppy from the Original

Hen: Mat

WARRANT OF SURVEY FOR THE GERMANS AT QUASECK CREEK By

his Excellency

of of

Robert Hunter

New York New Same

&.c

Jersey

&

Esq""

Cap* General]

& Governour

Territories thereon depending in

in Chiefe of tlie Provinces

America and Vice Admirall

— In Councill

You are hereby required to Survey & lay out for y« Germans at Quasseck Creek in }"-' County of Ulster such quantity of Land as is by them petitioned for and approved of in Councill by a Report Confirmed and tliat you survey for each of them his quantity distinctly and of wluit you shall have done therein to make Rcturne unto me in Councill in writeing under yo^ liand and for yo'' so doeing tliis shall be yo' waiTant. Given under my hand and scale at ffort Anne in New York this Thirtieth day of Aprill in y^ Twelfth ycare of her Majesties raigneannoq: Dm. 1713.

To Augustus Graham

l-'sq""

Surveyor General of y* province of his

New York or

Deputy

*

RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

PJSPEUS

345

PETITION OF THE GERMANS AT QUASSECK CREEK.

To

Excellency Egbert Hunter Esq'' Cap' Geu"

liis

New

&

Govt

in Clieife of tlie province of

New York

Jersey and Territories tliereon Depen4ing in America and Vice Admirall of the same &c.

The humble

petition of

George Lockstadt on behalfe of himself and the

rest of the

Germans

settled neare Quassaick Creek upon Hudson's River.

Skeweth That Pursuant veyor Generall

to yo^ Excellencey's

hatli

warrant of survey the thirtieth day of aprill 1713, The Sur-

surveyed and laid out for

yo""

Petitioners a Certaine Tract of

Land on

the west

Hudson's River in the County of Ulster and by such survey hath allowed for each of them his quantity thereof distinctly as by the Returne of the said Survey may appeare side of

Eut

in as

much

as the said Tract of

Land

soe Laid out for

yo''

Petitioners

and ffamilys thereon

is all

upland,

yo''

Peti-

some meadoAV Land for ffudder for their Cattle in winter. And there being a small quantity of vacant and unappropriated meadow Ground Lyeing behind yo'' petitioners said Lotts about an English mile from the tioners find they cannot be able to subsist themselves

Limitts of their said Lotts very Convenient for Yo''

most humbly pray yo"" meadow Ground and that the Surveyor

survey for each of

to

yo''

Generall

may

be Directed by

yo""

Excellencey

petitioners a proportionable quantity thereof according to their severall

allotments of upland laid out for

them

as aforesaid

New York 17'i»

petitioners said Settlements

Excellency will be i)leased to Grant unto them the said

petitioners

quantity of

yo'"

for w'ant of

and

yo""

pefs shall ever pray

&c

June 1714.

Georg Lockstadt.

PETITION OF JOSHUA KOCKERTHAL.

To His Excellencey Robert Hunter Esq"" Cap* Gen" & Governour in Chief of the Provinces of New York New Jersey & Territories thereon depending in America & vice Admiral of the same &c The humble Petition of Joshua Kockerthal on belaalfe of him selfe & the rest of the Germans settled neare

Shewet That pursuant

to

Quaseck Creek upon Hudsons River,

your Excell. warrant

tlie

Siu'veyor Generall did survey

k

lay out for your Petit,

a certaine Tract of Land on the West side of Hudsons River in the County of Ulster beginning on the Nord-side of Quaseck Creek

&

&

extend Northerly up Hudsons River on a streight line 200

&

19

woods on tliat side 100 chaines, containing two tliousand one hundred k ninety acres, which said Tract of Land he thereby divided into nine Lotts, the whicli are numbered from 1. to 9. Each Lot containing a suitable quantity for each family to which they are appropriated, there being allowed for each head fifty acres, and 500 acres for a Glebe as by the Return of the said Survey appear. That on the 12 of August 1714 your Excell: in Councill was pleased to order a warrant to tlie attorney Generall to prepare a Patent for the Lands petitioned for by them according for the severall allotments expressed in the surveyor Generall's Return of the warrant of survey, but tliat therein a Grant be made for your Petit. Joshua Kockertlial their Minister, his heires& assignes of 250 acres being the North part of the 500 acres laid out for a Glebe & that in lieu thereof the Land laid out chaines,

into the

your Petitioner Joshua Kockerthal be by the said survey added Vol. 111. 44

for

to the

Glebe

346

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

Now

in

asmuch

as the warrant

the letter Patent above said,

above directed by your Excell. to the Attorney Generall

not as yet

is

made

out,

your

Petit,

humble crave leave

Excell. that as they conceive the said Letters Patents being ordered to be

made

to

prepare

to acquaint

your

out, for each respec-

Name of them & their respective wives & children, according Return, may hereafter be a means of Disturbance and Disagreement

tive Division as aforesaid in

tiie

to tlie said Sui'veyor Generall

in their respective familys with tlieir children.

And your Petit. Joslma Cockerthal for his own Part most humble crave, leave to acquaint your Excell. that he believes with submission, there is some mistake or misunderstanding in that part of the aforesaid order of Council! where it relates to your Petitioner particularly, for tliat your Petitioner was

&. is

contented with the 250 acres laid out for him in

tlie

said survey

&

did not

desii'e

change the same as in the said order is expressed, what your Petitioner by his former Petition humbly prayed your Excell. was That yom" Excell. would be pleased further to grant him a cerfaine

to

Portion out of the 500 acres laid out for a Glebe for your Petitioner's more comfortable subsistance

according to her late Majest. order, for the late Lord Lovelace for that purpose.

humble pray your Excell. would be pleasetli to order your Excellencys warrant to the Attorney Generall to prepare Letter Patent to your Petitioners by Name Georg Loockstad, Micliel Weigant, Herman Schuneman, Christian Henicke, Joshua Kocherthal, Peter

Your

Petitioner therefore most

Rose, Jacob Weber, Johannes Fisher, for the severall allotments

respective wives

And

&

by

tlie

& Andrew

Volck, for the alforesaid Tract of land according

said surveyor exprest, but not in the

Name

of

them &

their

children.

that therein a Grant be

made

to

your

Petit.

Joshua Kockerthal his heirs

&

assignes of su'^h

a suitable Portion of the 500 acres laid out for a Glebe on the South side thereof next adjoining to the lott laid out for your Petit, as to your Excell. shall seem meet,

&,

the remainder thereof only to

be for a Glebe.

And your

Petitioner as in

Duty bound

shall ever pray.

New Yorck 28«i>

Joshua Kockerthal.

June 1718.

PETITION FOR

To His

Excellency Robert

THE DISPOSAL OF THE GLEBE.

Hunter Esqr Captain General and Governour

in Cliiefe of his

Majesties Province of New York and New Jerseys & Territories thereon depending in America & Vice Admiral of tlie Same in Council. The humble Petition of Christian Hincke on the Behalfe of Sundry Palatines Settled at Quasick creek in the County of Ulster.

Sheweth Unto Your Excellency and of the Chiu-ch

&.

tlie

honourable Council That whereas there has been aloted to the use

Minester five hundred acres of Land upon proviso that the said Miuester do resid at the j^lace aforesaid and there do and perform the office and Duty

and dwel with the Inhabitants of a Minester

Now

the present Mincster utterly refusing to

having resided with the Said lidiabitants lor

Comply with

the Said proviso and not

above the Space of Nine years

last past

whereby they

have been destitute of any Spiritual assistance from him. The said Inhabitants do therefore in most humble and submissive manner pray that the Sume of four hundred acres of Land (part ot the above mentioned

five liuiulred)

may h?

settled

upon some other Minister or Teacher

that shall undertake

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

347

to Administer to the said Inhabitants as becomes a good and faithful Pastor and that, the said four hundred acres of Land as also the other of the said five hundred acres may be setled upon the Church and Minester that it may not be in his power or of any Incumbet to AUenate or Convert the Same to any other use then as aforesaid And your Petitioners herein relieved as to Your Excellency's Wisdom may apper fit they as in Duty bound will ever pray.

Read

8 October 1718.

coppy of

&

referred

and ordered that the Petitioners do serve

M"^ Cockerill

with a

this Petition.

[No Report seems

to have been

made on

this Petition.

Ed.]

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL UPON THE PETITION OF CERTAIN PALATINES. In pursuance of

yo""

Honoms

reference

in Council the 17"i of this Instant of the peticon

made

of AndreAv Volck and Jacob Webbers of the IV^ December 1719 in behalf of themselves and the

We

have perused inquired into and considered the same as also Secretary Boyle to the then Lord Lovelace in his lifetime of the 10"! of August 1708 Governour of New York by her late Majesty of blessed memory her speciall directions in their favour. As likewise the return of the survey Card and ground platt of the late Surveyor Generall of A certain tract of land on the West side of Hudsons river above the high lands in the County of Vlster neer to a place called Quassaick containing two thousand one hundred and ninety acres laid out into nine lotts for the said palatins and a glebe of five hundred acres for a Lutheran minister and his successors forever. It being set forth in the s^ peticon, that other palatins therein menconed the letter of

Honorable

then

tlie

their minister Joshua Cockershall Deceased for w^hora one of the said lotts

widdow & another title

lott

and

Who

children

survive him, and

tliat

of the said land of one hundred acres

interest

on the same

a valuable consideracon.

to

And

is

is

laid out,

hath sold and alienated

one Burger Meynders a blacksmith that

are of opinion

hath

laid out,

Peter Rose, another of the said palatins for

A warrant

lives

all

left

a

whom

the right

amongst them

for

be directed by yo^ Honour to the Com-

tlie drawing of a grant of the same ground plot beginning on the north side of quassaick creek and extending northerly up Hudsons river upon a straight line two hundred and ninteen chains and into the woods from Hudsons river at both ends & the said whole length one hundred chains conteining two thousand one hundred and ninety acres in manner following viz* lott N» 1 by Quassaick creek, conteining two hundred and fifty acres to George Lockstcdt and Anna Elizabetha

missioner for executing the office of the Attorney Generall for tract of land pursuant to the said draft or

his wife, Margaratha, fifty

Anna Sarah and

Catharina their three children that

acres thereof and their heirs and assigns forever respectively.

dred and

fifty

acres to Michael

their three children that

is to

Weygand & Anna Catharina say to each of them

fifty

acres thereof

Lott No. 3 conteining one hundred acres to

beth his wife that

say to each of them

ever respectively. assigns forever.

fifty

acres thereof

Lott N° 4 conteining one hundred acres to

and

to say to each of tliem

N° 2 conteining two hun-

his wife, Tobias,

for ever respectively. is to

Lott

is

George and Anna Maria

to their heirs

And

Herman Schuneman and

assigns

Eliza-

and assigns for Christian Heinriken his heirs and

and

to

their heirs

Lott N" 5 Conteining 250 acres to Sybilla Charlotta Cockersliall the

widow of

who was their Lutheran minister and to Clu-istian Joshua, Benigna Sibylla, and Susanna Sibylla their children that is to say the whole two hundred and fifty acres to tliem and their heirs and assigns forever to each of them respectively a fuurth part thereof Lott N" 6 contein-

Joshua Cockershall

\

348

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

ing one hundi-ed acres to

tlie

said Burger

ing two hundred acres to Jacob

Eva Maxia & Evah Ehzabetha

Me}nders

Webber one

liis

heirs

and assigns forever Lott

of the said peticoners and

Anna

7 contein-

Elizabetha his wife

two daughters that is to say to each of them fifty acres thereof and their heirs and assigns for ever respectively Lott N° 8 conteining one hundred acres to Johannes Fisher and Maria Barbara liis wife that is to say to each of them fifty acres tliereof and to their heirs k assigns forever respectively. Lott N° 9 conteining tliree hundred acres being the northermost lott to Andrew Volck another of said peticoners and Anna Catliarina his "wife George Hieronymus, Maria Barbara & Anna Jertruyd their children that is to say to each one sixth part thereof and their heirs

and

asssigns forever respectively.

To hold severall

their

k

the same nine lotts to the same nine setts of grantees severally

&

respectively to their

respective uses and behoofs and of their heirs and assigns forever, under the like quitrent

of two shillings

k

sixpence for every hundred acres thereof wit!i

tlie

usuall clauses provisions con-

dicons limitacons and restriccons as by his Majesties Royall instruccons are directed limited and

appointed for granting of Lands there being about the quantity of forty acres

for highways and roads And as to the Glebe of five hundred acres laid out and situate between the said lott N° 5 and the said Lott N" 6. We are of opinion it be granted to the same two peticoners in trust and impropriated to the maintenance and support of a Lutheran minister forever which trust may be conteined in the said peticoners Andrew Volck and Jacob Webber during tlieir naturall lives and at their decease or the decease of any one of tliem that it be in the power of the male tennants of the sd tract of land to assemble and meet together at any place upon the said Glebeland being each of them of the age of twenty one and upwards by the majority of voices to Elect and choose otliers

in

tlie

room of

for the ordering

the said Deceased so that there

and management of the

sliall

left

be conteined for ever hereafter two trustees

said Glebe land for the uses aforesaid

and no other use

whatsoever provided always in the leasing of the said Glebe land or any part thereof the said trustees

and

for the

term of SGven years

tlieir

Successors forever shall not at one time

make

longer lease thereof or of any part thereof than

and that they

shall always take to tlieir assistance the

Lutheran minister of that parish for the time being (when there shall be one) and provided always that all the rents and profits coming by the said glebland shall be impropriated to the maintenance of such Lutheran minister and his successors forever and to no other use whatsoever and it being granted for a pious intent you

may

cause the quitrent to be reserved for the said Glebeland be the

yearly rent of one peppercorn if the same be legally

demanded which

neverthelesse

is

humbly

submitted.

By Your Honours Most Obed* Humble servants A D Pevster :

New -York Dec'

18'b 1719. ,

:

Gerard Beekman Rip Van Dam John Barberie A. D. PuiLIPSE

T

BVERLY.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

FERRY BETWEEN NEWBURGH To

the Honourable

Province of

MD

349

FISHKILL.

George Clarke Esqr. Lieutenant Governor and Commander Territories thereon depending in America &c

in Chief of the

New York and

In Council

The Humble

Petition of

Alexander Colden of Ulster County,

Sheweth. That your Petitioner

is

Interested in

&

Entituled unto part of a Tract of 2190 Acres of Land in

and Jacob Webber beginning on the North Side of That your Petitioner is Settled & has made Considerable Improvements on j^art of the Said Lands. That as there are now many Settlements on botli Sides Hudsons River aforesaid, Persons frequently have Occasion to Cross over from one Side of the said River to the other, Eut are often obliged to wait a Considerable time for passage over the same, tliere being no Ferry yet Established on Either Side thereof That your Petitioner is willing to provide proper Boats and persons Constantly to attend for the Transportation of Passengers Horses and Goods a Cross the Said River to & from the Ulster County formerly granted to Andries Volck

Quassick Creek and Extends northerly up Hudsons River iipon a Streight Line 219 Chains.

aforesaid Tract of

Land now Commonly Called New Burgli

Patent.

the Owners of the land on the Easterly Side of the said River to gers that shall have occasion to Cross

tlie

said River witli tlieir Horses

great use and Benefit to Travellers and other persons

He

tliat

And

lias

obtained Liberty of

Land or take on board any Passenand Goods which

may have occasion

will

be of

to Cross the said River.

Humbly Prays Your Honour

will be favourably Pleased to grant to him ms Heirs Ever his JVIajesties Letters Patent for the soil under tl^; Water One hundred foot into the River from the High Water Mark the whole length of the aforesaid Patent So Granted to the aforesaid Andries Volck & Jacob Webbers (So that he may be Enabled to make proper Wharfs and Landing places) And also for the Establishing keeping & using of such Ferry as aforesaid. Together with such Ferriage ffees as to your Honour & his Majesties Council Shall seem Reasonable, under such Moderate Quitt Rent as to Yom- Honors Shall seem meet And your Petitioner Shall Ever pray &c. Alexander Colden.

therefore

and Assigns

May

for

ye 24«h 1743

Rates heretofore taken by way of Ferriage for Crossing Hudsons River above the High Lands Viz»

£ For Every Man & Horse For Every person without a Horse And if bad Weather a Man & Horse Rates proposed to be taken Viz'

For every Man & Horse But if three or more together for Each Man & Horse For a Single person only For Each footman (if three or more together) For Every Horse or Beast Single But if tlu-ee or more together for Each for Every Calf or Hogg for Every Sheep or Lamb

s

d

6

2 10

JE

s

d

2

6

2 1

9 1

6

1

3 6

4

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350

''APERS

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RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

£ Every full Barrcll fgj Every Empty J3arrell for Every Pail of Butter fur Every Firkin or Tub of Butter lor Every Bushell of salt or Grain for Every liundred Weight of Iron, Lead &c For Every Chaise Xittoriu or Sleigh For Every Waggon or Cart

for

And

d

S 1

4 3 6

3 9

:

4 b

so in proportion for all otlier things according to their

Bulk and Weight. Council 24

May

1743.

His Honor withdrawing the Gentlemen of the Council resolved themselves into a Committee to Consider

tlie afs''

Petition.

The Committee

liaving taken the said Petition

into Consideration

and being agreed the Report

to

& be

the Rates proposed to be taken for ferriage

made

thereon

&

his

Honor

acq^uainted there-

with.

His Honour returned

to the

Council Chamber and took his Seat

Ordered that the said Report be made Immediately The Committee are of opinion that his Honour do grant

to the Petitioner Alex""

Letters Patent for the sole Keeping of a Ferry between any

the Soil under

tlie

water so far only as his

own

Water Mark, under the yearly Quit Rent of five See above,

&

Colden His Majesty's

every part of the said Tract, and for

land runs 100 foot into the Water from High

shillings

and under the following Rates

Rates proposed."

Report apjiroved accordingly.

PALATINE GLEBE AT NEWBURGH. To

Honourable George Clinton Captain Generall, and Governour in Chief and over the province of New-York and the Territories thereon depending in America, Vice Admiral of the same, and Admiral of the White Squadron of liis Majesty's Fleet.

his Excellency tlie in

Tlie petition of

Christian Knoll Minister of the Lutheran protestant Congregation

Michael

in tlie City of NewYork,

Ht MBLV

and the Consistory of the

said Church.

SlIEWKTII

That great numbers of protestants formerly residing

witliin tlie

Dominions of the Prince palatine

of the Rhine being driven out of their native Country by the Hardsliips Occasioned by

War were

obliged to betake themselves for a Refuge to the Brittish Dominions, and were graciously received and encouraged by her late Majesty Queen Ann That many of the said palatines arriving within this province of New York, some of them obtained Letters patents from his late Majesty King George the first bearing date tlie eighth Day of December one thousand seven liundred and nineteen for two thousand one hundred and ninety Acres of land at a place called Quassack in Ulster County, whereof five hundred acres were granted to Trustees for the Use Benefit and Behoof of a Lutheran Minister forever. That the said Grantees immi diately entered upon the said Lands, but the same Lands being

very po

ir

and

entirely n«nv

and uncultivated, and very hard

to clear,

they were put to great

Diffi-

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

351

culties to support tliemselves and Families by their Labour thereon, and could make little or no Improvement upon the said Glebe, nor otherwise contribute to the support of Religion and the publick Worship of God among them for a great number of years. That during these Exigencies, tlie Lutheran Congregation of New York, at their sole expense^ supplied them twice a year by their Minister, who at stated Seasons attended upon them to preach and Administer the Holy Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper among them. That no profits could arise from the said Glebe till within about sixteen years last past, and during the whole Time no more has been received for the services done on the said Glebe by the

Lutheran Ministers of

New

York, for preaching

& administering

the Sacraments for near thirty

years last past than about five hundred schipels of Wheat.

That in the year one thousand seven hundi-ed and twenty seven, the said patentees became New York by Covenant under the Hand and Seal

incorporated with the Lutheran Congregation at

of the Trustees of the said Glebe and the Minister and Consistory of

tlie

Lutheran Church of

New York

mutually executed on both parts since which Time the said patentees and the said Lutheran Congregation of New-York have been one Congregation and the small produce of the said Glebe within a few Years has been paid to the Lutheran Minister of this City.

That during the Time aforesaid the said Lutherans have built a small Church upon the premises: But so it is, may it please your Excellency That the Lutheran Inhabitants living on tlie said granted Lands being now^ reduced to a small number, having some of them sold their Lands and bought elsewhere, tlie present Inhabitants have taken Occasion therefrom to deprive your petitioners of the said Church and Glebe, and have lately hindered your petitioner Michael Christian KnoU from performing divine Service in it, and forbade the Tenants to pay the Rents to yom^ said petitioner, pretending that the said Glebe and Church have reverted to the Crown for Want of Lutheran Inhabitants to enjoy them, notwithstanding your petitioners do aver, that within a convenient Distance from the said Lands, as great a number of Lutheran Famihes and persons are living as are sufficient to make a Congregation for divine service at those times when your petitioner Michael Christian Knoll

Your

by

liis

Agreement

Petitioners tlierefore most

is

called to preach at that place.

humbly pray your Excellency

in

tender Consideration of the

premises, to grant to your petitioners the Minister and Consistory of the protestant Lutheran Church at

to

New

York, as a Bodye politick and corporate, his most gracious Majestys Letters patents,

confirm the said Church and five hundred acres of Land, for the use of a Lutheran Minister of

the City of

New York

for ever,

who

will

be obliged

to

perform the usual Services of Religion, for

the Benefit of the said Lutherans in that neighbourhood, either on the said Glebe or at such othei

place as shall be found most convenient, as has been heretofore used.

And

your petitioners

shall ever

pray &c.

Michael Christian Knoli Charel Beekman Laurens Van Boskerk George Petersson Johann David Wolff Jacobus van buskerk.

New York

y« 12th of

May

1749.

352

PAPERS RFXATIIfG TO THE PALATINES.

PETITION OF THE

To

his Excellency the

this

LUTHERAN CHURCH

IN N. YORK.

Houom-able George Clinton Captain General and Governor in Chief of Territories thereon depending in America Vice Admiral of

New York, and

Province of

the Same and Admiral of the Wliite Squadron in His Majesty Fleet. HUMBLY SHEWETH That a Petition the 11*'' of May a. c. being brought in, from Your Excellency's petitioner Michael Cliristian Knoll and his Consistory, in Cause and for 500 Acres of Land for a Glebe at Quassaik

Creek in the Highlands

That

}"our Excellency

had been pleased

;

more points of Declaration should be

laid before

Your

Excellency In Obedience of Litr'^

A. Shewing

-wliicli

we

lay

down

proper terms of

tlie

liis

Majesty most gracious Letters patents concerning those

500 Acres. Liti-a

what manner

B. In

from time

oiu*

Ministers of

New York have

observed the Service of Worship

to time.

By ^vhat Autliority our Ministers are gone to Serve at Quassaik namely, 1 By Indulgence of our Honourable Governours 2. By Corporation of tlie Trustees there, with om- Churcli m N. York Litra T>. An Extract of Circonstances, in what Manner, they now there (upon the 2190 Acres Land :) living Inliabitans, English Presbyterians and Dutch Reformed have taken Possession

Litra c_ .

the Churcli and Church

Wliereof

it

Land

of of

there.

appears, that Birgert Mynders, our one Trustee having sold his

Laud too, he being removed at the

the last of they, there settled Lutheran Inliabitans on the 2190 Acres, and he being

Walenkill, and our second Lutheran Trustee being one of our Tenants upon the Glebe

Inhabitans tliiuk to be master of the Glebe, and have lockt

most humble

petitioner, nor tlie said old Trustees, not

up

the Cliurcli there, meaning

have any Right

:

the

new

your want of

tliat

at the Glebe, lor

settled Inhabitans upon the 2190 Acres, although there live as Tenants upon the Glebe and there about, on both Side of the River, more then Jhirty Families of oiu- Protestant Confession, and higher at Bacliwaik a thirty Families more. Therefore as in the former Petition Your Excellencies ordering and Will is humbly pra3 d for, that the said 500 Acres of Land may be granted luito our Church in New York for the Use Benefit and Behoof of the Families romid about Quassaik, although the not are settled Inhabitans upon tlie 21 90 Acres, tliat they may there Congregate at Quassaik Glebeland or upon any conveniant Place, and may have tlieir old and own Trustees under them in Coi-poration with the Church of New York, in the End they may performe their Sacred Service without Envie Hatred and Scandal. And we shall ever pray &c Michael Christian Knoll Protestant

Lutheran

Lutlieran Minister in N.

Charel Bexkaian George Petterson JoHANN David wol>'f.

New York

y

5th of

1749 Oct' 29.

October 1749.

Read

&

Council of opinion that nothing can be done on this petition.

York

PAPERS fiELATING TO THE PALATINES.

353

EXHIBITS ACCOMPANYING PRECEDING PETITIONS. [Litra A.]

Copie of his Majesty's Letters Patents concerning

tlie

500 Acres of a Glebe Land by the Quassaik

Creek in Ulster County.

George by the Grace of God King of Great Brittain France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith &c: To all to whom these Present shall come Greeting. Whereas our loving subjects Andries Volck and Jacob Webber by their Petition, presented to our Trusty and WeU beloved Colonell Peter Schuyler,

New York, in behalf of themselves and others have our grant by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of the Province of New York for a certain Tract of Land in Ulster County Scituated on the West side of Hudsons River above the Higlilands near to a Place called Quassaik, containing two thousand one President of our Councill for our Province at

have prayed

originally Palatines

to

hundred and ninety acres, wliich Petition the seventeenth Day of December instant was read and reserved to a Committee of our Councill for tlie same Province who thereupon on tlie eighteenth Day of December instant did report, that they had inquired into and considereth of the suggestions of the said Petition a Letter from the Right Honourable ]VP Secretary Boyle, to the Lord Lovelace Governom- of this Province of the Tenth of August Seventeen Hundred and eight in their favour, by Her late Majesty Queen Anne (of blessed memory,) Speciall Directions as likewise the Survey or Ground-Plat of the Surveyor General of tlie same Land laid out by the Directions of our Trusty and Well beloved His Excellency Brigadier Hunter before his Departure for Great Brittain into nine Lotts for the said Palatines with a Glebe of Jive hundred Acres thereof, for the use of the Lutheran Minister and his successors forever. It being sett forth in their said Petition that Joshua Cockerthall leaving a

who was

Minister since the Surveying and making of the said

Widow, and small Children.

valuable consideration has sold his a Black Smid of

who

lives

Land be granted

riglit

And and

amongst tliem and

to tlie

interest in the Lott laid out for is

a Lutheran.

same Palatines, according

the proper Alterations to these Contingencies.

Ground Plate

is

dead,

that Peter Rose another of the said Palatines for a

And

And

him

to

Burger Meynders

are of opinion that the same Tract

to the said

return of the said Siirvey, with

that the five hundred Acres thereof laid out for a

Glebe, be sett apart and impropriated towards the maintenance of a Liitheran Minister and his successors

forever,

and maintained

side of Quassaik

Creek

to the best maintaining thereof,

&

which

said Tract of

Land

lies

on the North

extends northerly up the Hudsons River,

And wee have

of our Especial Grace certain knowledge and Confirmed, and do by these presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors for ever give grant ratifie and confirm unto the aforesaid Andries Volk and Jacob Webber and to their successors for ever, as Trustees to and for the Benefit and Behoof of a Lutheran Minister to serve and have care of souls of the Inhabitans of the two thousand one hundred and ninety Acres of Land a Glebe of five hundred Acres of the same Tract of Land, laid out and Surveyed, between the aforesaid Lotes Number five and six, with all other the premises hereditaments and appurtenances of in and to the said Glebe of five hundred Acres of Land belonging and appurtaining as was and are before granted to tlie aforesaid George Lockstedt and Anna Elizabeth his Wife Margaretha Anna Sara & Catharina their three Daughters, and with same or like Exceptions and Reservations as in their said Lott number one was and are reserved unto Us our Heirs and Succes-

and meer motion given granted

ratified

sors for ever

To have and to hold

,

the said Glebe of five hundred Acres of the same tract of

premises unto the aforesaid Andries Volck and Jacob Webber, as Lives and their successors for ever

Vol.

III.

45

first

Land and

Trustees during their naturell

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PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

354

But, to and for the sole and only proper Use BeJiefit and Behoof of a Lutheran Minister to serve and have Care of the Inhahitans of the same two thousand one hundred and ninety Acres of Land and their successors for ever And for the perpetuall Continuation of the aforesaid Trust and the preservation and Improvement of the said Glebe to and for the said Use aforesaid

We

do likewise

upon the Death or Disability or Absence of the same Andries Volck and Jacob Webber or either of them or any of their successors It shall and may be lawfull to and for all the Inhabitans of tlie same Tract of Land being Males and above the Age of twenty one Years to assemble and meet together at any time and times hereafter upon some part of the Glebeland, and by Majority of voice to elect and chuse other Trustee or Trustees in the Room or stead of such Trustee or Trustees so dying removing or otherwise disabled, which Trustee or Trustees so chosen hereafter shall be Trustee or Trustees of the same Glebeland to all Intents or Purposes as if the have been herein nominated, lor the Ordering or Management of the said Glebeland, and have and shall have full Power and Authority to lease or grant the same Glebeland or any part thereof at a certain Rent, and to liave and receive the same Rent to and for the use aforesaid Provided allwais tliat the said Trustees for the Time being shall not lease the same or any part thereof for longer Term for one Term, then tlie Term or space of Seven Years And that they give grant

tliat

the said Trustees for the time being shall alwais take to their Assistance in the doing thereof

Lutheran Minister of that Parish

for the time being if there

bee any Incumbent.

tlie

And Wee

do further by these presents grant, that the said Trustees and their Successors for ever hereafter are and shall bee one Body corporate and politic in Fait and Name, by the Name of the Trustees of the Palatin Parish by Quassaik, and by that name be and shall be forever hereafter capable and

Law to sue and be sued, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, iu any Court of Law an Equity within the province of New York In Testimony whereof we have caused the Great Seal of our Province of New York to be affix-

able in the

ed

to these Presents

and the same

to

be entered of Record in one of the Books of Patents in oui

Witness our said Trustee and WeUbeloved Colonell Peter Schuyler

Secretary's Office remaining

President of our said Councill in Councill at Fort George in

December

in the Sixth

New York

this

eighteenth

Day

of

Year of our Reign Annotj Domini 1719 J BoBiN Dept Secry

MORE DECLARATION POINTS WHEREOF THE ORIGINALL CAN BE PRODUCED IF COM>IANDED. Lif» B In the Books by our Church Fol 28 is to be found, that, our, then. Minister Justus Falkenier has baptized Ao 1710 y** 19"> April in tlie House of one of tlie Trustees, of which Time he has continued to serve the People thn o e\ ei y Year witliout any Profit of the Glebe. He is deceased

Anno

1723.

In the year 1725 the Minister William Cliristoffer Berkenmycr came here, and Service at Quassaik too

In

:

following L'nions-Contract,

Anno 1730

or 1731

In the year 1733

He

tliirty tlie

tlie

year 1727. lie

is

by Writing desired

commenced

te

to administer there, after the

not receiving fur his Service from the Products of the Lands then

Cheepels of Wheet

Minister Michael

C.liristian

Knoll upon his Vocation to stand here in

New

York and at llakkiiisack, and at Quassaik Creek, and at the Weapons Criek, he served that Year and every Year, according to his Vocation at Quaissaik, twice, receiving a Year thirty Chepels of Wlieat some of the last Years being unpaid Lit^" C. i. His late Excellency William Burnet, Favorising the Min^ Will. Christ. Berkenmyer, has protected liim in

tlie

service of Quassaik, self

by a Letter Missive

:

:

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES. Translation.

Copia.

Reverendo

Viro Domino Wilhelmo

To

Reverend Minister Will. Clirist. BerkWilliam Burnet Greeting Concerning tlie Glebe in the Country which

Christo-

Guliemus Burnet S. P. D. Quoad agrum in Colonia Campensi de quo video litem aliquam oriturara, nil aliud dicam phoroBerkenmeijro

omnibus pateat

&

nisi

quod

siee

debent dirimi in curiis civilibus secundum

Justitia

leges. Literse Patentes

tur

;

quibus

mwii bono

nuper

ho'i'es certi

illius

colonics,

355

Gontrover-

datai sunt, ut vocan-

agrum istum pro com-

&

posident,

si

aliqua

tlie

enraijer ^

as

see

I

more,

will

every one

;

come

in Proces, I shall

that the

tlien

Justice

and the Controversies

dissolved in the Courts of

speak no

stands open for are

to

Common Law.

be

after

the Direction of the Law. Letters Patents, as the

by which

are called; are newly given

certain

controversia de sensu illarum literarum oriatur

Families do possesse such Glebe Land, as a Com-

coram judicibus litigandum est. Non amplius mei juris est, nisi forsan coram me lis veniat,

mon Good

quare nihil debeo de

ing of these Letters Patents, the Cause

ilia

re vel affirmare vel

and

if

or for the

any Disputes

Common

Best of the Colonie^

be brought before the Justices.

negare

Datum Calendis

Martii Novse Eboraci A. C.

MDCCXXVL

meanmust

arrise concerning the

It

stands not

by me, if not, can be, the Cause should come unto me, for which Reason, I ought not

further

determine, or

to

to

dislike

anytliing

in

the

Cause.

Written ye

1st

of

March,

at

New York

A. C.

1726. fLitra C: 1

:

His

late

Excellency William Cosby, His Honour G. Clark,

George Clinton, have been graciously pleased, in the Lawfull Functions of his Vocation.

to allow

Hi'-

Honourable Excellency

our present Minister, Leave and Permission

The aforesaid Unions-Contract In the name of the Holy Trinity We underwritten Trustees of the Palatine Parish at Quassaick Zacharias Hofmann and Tobyas Wygaud on the one Part and the Consistory of the Protestant Lutheran Congregation of New York, of the other Part, Make this Contract and Covenant. Whereas we Lutherans in the Highlands dwelling on the 21 90 Acres of Land granted by a Patent, bearing Litr^i C. 2.

:

Date the

18*'^

Dec. 1709 not being able to maintain a Minister amongst

am selves

;

That the aforesaid

Communion, does consent, that the Lutheran Minister of New York at liis going to and from Albany, may come twice a Year among us, and minister to us in his holy Function, for which Service we promise to pay him yearly the Rents and Profits of the 500 Acres Glebe Land, according to the Agreement with the Tenants thereof As we do likewise herewith by the Power and Authority, given to us by the aforesaid Patent Call, Constitute and Receive M"" William Christoffer Berkenmyer p. -j- Lutheran Minister of New~ York, Consistory being pleased to receive us into their

Teacher of the Parish of Quassaik, to minister unto us, twice a Year, after the manner aforesaid, as well in preaching the Holy Gospel purely, according to the Holy Scripture and the Symbolical Books of our Lutheran Churcli, as in Administring the Holy Sacraments to Christi

for our lawfufl

and practising the usual Ceremonies of the fellow Believers of the unalterable ConPromising likewise to pay to him the Income of the 500 Acres aforesaid as soon as any tliere shall arise, and acknowledge him not only as our Teacher, but also the Authority given to him by the aforesaid Patent, as also wheneVer he lands .on cm- shore to receive him and bring him back on board of the Vessell.

Institution,

fession of Augsburg.

we can make no use of the Bell, given to our Parish aforesaid, we thereby Oral Permission of his Excellency William Burnet, Esq^ etc. to the Lutheran

Moreover, since hitherto fore give the said Bell,

;

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES

356

Church at New York. However on this Condition, if it should happen, that by Increase of our Lutheran Congregation in this Place, we should be able to build a Chui-ch of our own, at any Time hereafter, that then the Lutheran Church of New York shall be obliged, either to restore us the same Bell, in such conditition as now it is, or else to buy and send us another of the same weight

And

same Churcli of New York is never to leave us destitute of a Minister, but always in their Call for a Minister, and also in his Ministration to acknowledge us as Brethren, unless it appears tliat their Minister be not truly of the unalterable Confession of Augsburg or should want sufficient Credentials to demonstrate to be such an one. Then in such Case we will not be obliged to perform any of tlie Ai'tieles contained in this Presents. In Confirmation of all this, we the Trustees first above mentioned, as also the Miiiister and Consistory of the Protestant Lutheran Congregation of tlie City of New York have interchangeably put our hands and seals this thirtieth Day of Marcli in the thirteen Year of His Majesties Reign Annoq Dm. 1727

and value.

the

Zacharyas Hoffman

Signed Sealed and delivered In the presence of us Lauren van Boskerk

dat

is liet

Merck

X

Johannes La Gransie

van Tobyas \Vygand. Nicholas Bogardus Dit

is

het

merk

X van Joh Jargen Maus.

The 23^ of June on a Saturday Hofmans Place, and Church there. None of the English Wygand upon confirmed, which done in the Tobias new was and Dutch new Inhabitans of other Confessions appearing, altlio' the were knowing of our Election. Anno 1747 the 2

July the Cluu-ch was

Some

Justice of Peace,

full

of People, taken out of the Country from both sides

and some with sword &

sticks

were there in the Church, in

Presence of the English Minister M'' Watkings, the Englisli Minister, which was come to preach there the

first

Our Minister

time the same Sunday.

alter oral

& publick Protest

the Cliurch went into a private House upon the Glebe to do divine Worship for

at the

tlie

Door of

Lutherans.

of July, our Minister Avas by

Albertson, to ask if they have by M' Colding to(^ upon their which M'' Albertson Negative, he did protest again, and preached in the Church, the 3'^ of July to come there, the Simday but M'' Colding did consent, be cause the English Minister, was not did prohibite the Church, not being willing to allow Preaching The 2'' of October: Our Minister was Preaching in the Chiu-ch without speaking with the newIn the

year 1748 y

received Authority

for

2''

pretended

tlieir

Possession,

and

also

;

;

Trustees.

This year 1749: our Minister

lias

not been there on the shore: the Cause being laid before

Excellency, and the Church being lockt In the

Time

u]}

Birgert Mynders, the last of the settled Lutheran Inhabitans on the 2190 Acres

one of our Trustees

;

has sold

liis

lands,

Your

and

lives

now

at the

Walen

Kill.

and

PAPERS RELATINR TO THE PALATINES.

PETITION OF GOLDEN, ALBERTSON AND OTHERS FOR

To His Excellency of

of the

THE PALATINE LANDS AT NEWBURG.

the Hon'''^ George Clinton Captain Generall and

Province of

tlie

357

New York &

Same and Admirall of

tlie

Governour in Cheif Depending in America Vice Admirall White Squadron of His Majesties Fleet &c.

Territories thereon

In Council Tlie

Humble

Petition of

tlie

Land above the Newburgh Patent

Proprietors and Inhabitants of a Tract of

Highlands at a place Called

Quassaick

now commonly

Called

in Ulster Country.

Most humblv Sheweth That

-

Lord Lovelace was Governor of this Province lie liad promised (Pursuant to an Intlie late Queen Anne or a letter from the then Secretary of State) a Grant to nine Palatines of a tract of land above the Highlands at a place Called Quassaick and Accordingly the same was Siu-veyed by the then Surveyor Generall and laid out into nine Lotts lor them with a Glebe of 500 acres fur their Minister, The whole Tract Containing 2190 Acres, But nothing further was done therein during the life of Lord Lovelace, nor during the Goverment of Brigadier Hunter, But after liis Departure from this Province Coll Peter Schyler then President of the Council on the Eighteenth of December 1719 by Letters Patent of that date Granted Eight of the Lotts so laid out to Eight of the said Palatines and their Families, and the ninth Lott to one Burgher Myndertse a Black-Smith who had purchased a Bight of one of the said Palatines And by the same Letters Patent Granted to Andries Volck and Jacob Webber and their successors for ever as Trustees for the Benetitt of a Lutheran Minister to have the Care of Souls of the Inh ibitants of tlie same 2190 wliile

struction from

—

acres of

Land a Glebe of 500

acres of the

same Tract To Hold the said Glebe

to

them

as first

Trustees During their naturall Lives and their Successors forever But for the Sole use of a Lutheran Minister to have the Care of Souls of the Inhabitants of the same 2190 acres of the Death or Absence of the Trustees or their successors

it

Land and upon

should be Lawfull for

all

the Inhabi-

same Tract being Males and above the Age of Twenty one years to meet upon the Glebe Land and by majority of voices to Elect other Trustees in the room of those Dyeing or Reraoveing which persons so chosen should be Trustees of the same Glebe Lands, and further Granted That the said Trustees and their Successors for ever thereafter, should be one Body Politick and Corporate in Fact and in Name By the Name of the Trustees of the Palatine Parish of Quassaick, and by that name to Sue and be Sued &c. with Power to the Trustees for the time being to Lease the said Glebe Lands or any part thereof but for no longer Term then Seven Years at any one time and by the same Grant one pepper Corn only p'r Annum was Reserved as a Quitt Rent for the said 500 acres of Land Which Grant of the said Glebe Lands your Petitioners Conceive was in order to Encourage other Palatine Familys to settle and Improve other Vacant Lands near to the aforesaid Tract, But so far was it from liaving the Efl'ect Intended. That sometime after the Passing the said Grant all the said Palatine Familys sold their several Lotts in the said Tract to your Petitioners and those luider whom they claim, and they with the aforesaid Trustees Removed into the County of Albany or some other parts And your Petitioners further shew That the said Trustees being so Removed The Male Inhabitants of the said Tract above the Age of twenty one Years on the Twenty Third Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty seven met upon the said Glebe Land and by Majority of Voices Elected your Petitioners Alexander Colden and Richard Albertson Trustees of said Glebe Lands who took the Possession thereof. But as your Petitioners are all English Protestants the Grant of the said Glebe if Confined to the use of a Lutheran Minister only would be entirely tants of the

358

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

But your Petitioners are Advised and Conceive That if the Palatines had Continued on Tract and They or Their Descendants had Conformed to tlie Church of England They miglit have Called and Cliosen a Minister of the Cliurch of England to have the Care of souls there, wlio would in that case have had the benefit and use of the aforesaid Glebe Lands. And tliat if the said Palatines could haxc done so, Consequently liis Majesties Naturall Born Subjects who now by purcliase Succeed the said Palatines in the right they had in the same Lands, may do the same. And youi- Petitioners Do also further shew That the Trustees of the said Glebe Lands liaving power by the said Grant to Lease the said Lands for no Longer Term then seven years Prevents the Sciine being improved or of that advantage that it might be, had they power to Grant tluee Hundred Acres tliereof for ever in acre Lotts Reserving no less then five Sliillings for each acre as a Kent For Ever Which Rent would in Part Support a Protestant Minister and Schoolmaster to have the Care of Souls and the Instruction of the Children of your Petitioners and the neiglibouriug Inhabitants, and the Remaining Two Hundred Acres thereof would be sufficient for settlements for such Minister and Schoolmaster, and had yom* Petitioners Power to Hold a Fair on tlie said Lands on the Second Tuesdays in April and October annually it would not only be an advantage to your Petitioners, but to all the Inhabitants of that and the Neighbouruseless

:

the aforesaid

ing Counties.

Wherefore your Petitioners most humbly Pray His Majesties Grant and Confirmation of the Hundred Acres of Land to the Present Trustees and their successors to be Chosen Pursuant to the Directions of the aforesaid Grant with such further Powers and under such Regulations and Restrictions as to your Excellency and Council! shall seem Proper.

aforesaid Five

And Your

Petitioners as in

Duty bound

shall

Ever Pray &c.

175L

Sept. 6th

Edmund Concklin

june*",

Caklass leveredge,

WiLLiA.M Ward,

Henry

Jacb wendel,

W^illiam Mitchell.

James Denton,

Alex"" Colden,

William Smith,

Nathan Furman,

Smith,

Richard Albertson,

Daniel Thuston,

Thomas Ward,

Michakj. Demott,

Duncan Alexander, Joii WANDLE, Samuel Morel] of the Coimty of Ulster in the said Province Yeoman of full age being Sworn upon the Holy Evangelists oi Almighty God Deposcth and saith New York. ) That he was present on the twenty third Day of June in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Seven on the Glebe at or near a place called Quassaick in Ulster County aforesaid Granted as this Deponent is informed in trust to Andries Volck & Jacob Webber by her Majesties letters Patent dated tlie eighteenth Day of December in the year of oiu* Lord one thousand seven Huncbed and nineteen. When the majority of the Male Inhabitants of the said Tract of Land Granted by the said Letters Patent who were above the Age of Twenty one years being assembled on the said Glebe made choice of Alexander Colden and Richard Albertson to be Trustees for the said Glebe according to the Directions of the said Grant, and that the said Alexander Colden &

Province of

)

'

Richard Albertson have ever since acted as Trustees for the said Glebe Lands.

Sworn

this

Samuel Morrell.

23^

of September 1751 before

me

Cadwallader Colden.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

Ward

359

Yeoman and Margaret his Holy Evangelist of Almighty God wife both of full age being Duly Sworn upon ) Depose & say, that they very well remember Andries Volk & Jacob Webbers the First Trustees of the Glebe at or near a place Called Quassaick in Ulster County mentioned in the before written affidavit of Samuel Morell That upwards of Twenty years ago the said Andries Volk & Jacob Webbers removed to the Province of Pensilvania and that after their Removal no other Trustees chosen for the said Glebe untill the twenty third day of June in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and forty seven when the Inhabitants of tlie Tract of Land Granted to the said Andries Volk & Jacob Webbers (in Trust for themselves and other Palatines) by Letters Patent Dated the eighteenth Day of December one thousand seven Himdred and nineteen being males above the age of Twenty one years assembled upon the said Glebe and by a majority of votes Chose Alexander Colden and Richard Albertson to be Trustees of the said Glebe according to the Directions of the said Grant and these Deponents further say That all the said Palatines to whom the said Tract was Granted or their Descendants have sold & Disposed of their rights in tlie said Grant & as they verily believe to English Protestants and that not one person professing the Lutlieran Rehgion now Resides upon any part of the said Tract except This Deponent Margaret Ward who was formerly entituled to Fifty Acres of the said Tract which these Deponents long since sold & Disposed of and the said Margaret Ward further saith That she is now willing and Desii'ous to Conform to the Church of England as by Law Established William Ward Sworn this 23^ of September Province of

William

)

of Ulster County in the said Province

'

New York

tlie

'

1751 before

me

Endorsed.

The

Ward

Margaret

mark

Cadwallader Colden Petition of Alex' Colden

and others praying that the 500a. of Land formerly may be

granted to Trustees for Maint. of a Lutheran minister at Quasaick in Ulster County granted to the said A. Colden

Church of

EngliJ

&

&

R. Albertson in Trust for the maint^e of a minister of the

a School master.

1751 Nov. 4, Read and Granted.

In Council.

G. Banyar,

D

Clk, Con.

ORDER TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO PREPARE PATENT CONVEYING THE PALATINE GLEBE AT

NEWBURGH TO THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

By His Excellency The Honourable George Clinton Captain General and Governour in Chief of the Province of New York and Territories thereon depending in America Vice Admiral of the same and Admiral of the White Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet. To William Smith Esqi" his Majesty's Attorney General of the Province of New York. You are hereby directed and required to prepare a Draft of Letters Patent to Alexander Colden and Richard ^.Ibertson for the Glebe Land of Quassaick in the County of Ulster containing the Quantity of five hundred Acres And further bounded and described as in and by Letters Patent under the Seal of this Province bearing date the eighteenth day of December 1719 may appear, To hold to them tlie said Alexander Colden and Richard Albertson as first Trustees during their Natural lives and to their Successors for ever to be chosen as is directed by the said Letters Patent But for the Sole use and benefit of a Minister of the Church of England as by Law Established and a Schoolmaster to have the care of Souls and the Instruction of the Children of the neighbouring Inhabitants The said Trustees and their Successors for ever to be one Body Politick and Corporate

360

PAPERS RFXATING TO THE PALATINES. the Trustees of the Parish of New Burgh with such powers and and their successors tor ever as are mentioned and expiessed in Letters Patent abovementioned by which the said Glebe Lands were granted in Trust to and tlie benefit of a Lutlieran Minister Together with sucli further powers and authorities unto tlie

in Fact

and

autliorities tlie

for

Name by

unto

tlie

the

name of

said Trustees

and their Successors forever as are mentioned and set forth in the Petition of the said Alexander Colden Ricliard Albertson and others a copy of which Petition is hereunto annexed Also witli power and Right to the said Trustees and tlieir Successors with the Consent of the major said Trustees

;

part of the Freeliolders of the Tract of '2190 acres of land granted by the aforesaid Letters Patent

being Resident thereon from time to time and as ofl^n as the same shall be vacant to Call Choose and present a good Sufficient Minister of the Chm-ch of England as by Law Established to officiate upon tlie said Glebe and to liave the care of Souls of the Lihabitants of the aforesaid Tract of 2190 acres of

Land and

to

nominate and appoint a good and

the Children of the said Inhabitants

sufficient sclioolmaster to

— Provided always that

Teach and instruct

such Minister shall be instituted and

Inducted in such manner as shall be most suitable and agreeable to his Majesty's Instructions to the

Governors of the said Province of

And under

New York

for the time being.

such Quit Rent Reservations and Restrictions as are directed and appointed by his

Majesty's Commission and Instructions

GivEx under my of March 1752

liand

and Seal

at

And arms

doing this shall be your Sufficient Warrant.

for so

at Fort

George in the City of

New York

tlie thii-d

day

in the twenty fifth year of his Majesty's Reign.

G. Clinton.

By

his Excellency's

Command

G^ Banyar D

Secry

COLDEN AND ALBERTSON'S SURRENDER OF THE GLEBE LAND AT NEWBI RGH IN ORDER THAT

IT

Come

MAY BE VESTED

IN

THE ENGLISH CHURCH.

We

Alexander Colden and Richard Albertsou Trustees of the Palatine Parish of Quassaick send Greeting Whereas onr Late most Gracious Sovereign Lord King George the First by liis Letters Patent Bearing Date the Eighteenth day of December in tlie Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Nineteen and in the Sixth Year of his Reign Did among other things Grunt, Ratifie and Confirm unto Andries Volk and Jacob

To ALL Pkople To wh(nn

tliese

Presents shall

and Behoof of a Lutheran Minister to Serve and have the Care of Souls of the Inhal)itants of a Tract of Two Thousand one Hundred and Ninety 'Acres of Land atQuasaick in Ulster County by the same Letters Patent Granted to Sundry Palatines, a Glebe of Five Hundred Acres of the said Tract of Land Laid out and Surveyed Between the Lotts Number five and Number Six with all the Premisses Hereditaments and Appurtenances to the same Glebe of Five Hundred Acres of Land belonging and Appertaining To Have and To Hold the same unto the aforesaid Andries Volk and Jacob Webber as First Trustees During their Natimill Lives and

Webber and

to their Successors to

and

for the Benefitt

Successors forever for the use aforesaid

And

for the Preservation of the said

Trust his said most

Gracious Majesty by his said Letters Patent Did Give and Grant that upon the Death Disabihty or absence of the saiii Andries \ ()lk and Jacob Webber or Either of them or any of their Successors it

should and might be Lawfull for

all

Two Thousand One Age of Twenty One Years to Assemble upon some part of the said Glebe Land and by

the Inhabitants of the aforesaid Tract of

being males and above the

Hundred and Ninety Acres ot Land and meet Togetlier at any time or times hereafter

PAPERS RELATING 10 THE PALATINES.

3G1

majority of voices to Elect and Chuse other Trustee or Trustees in

tlie

Room

or Stead of such

Trustee or Trustees so Dying Removing or otlierwise Disabled which Trustee or Trustees so Chosen thereafter should be Trustee or Trustees of the said Glebe

they had been therein Nominated to

whom

the said tract of

And

Land

to all Intents

Whereas after the passing the said Grant

Two Thousand and One Hundred and

Granted Sold their Severall Lotts in the said

Land

to

and purposes

all

Ninety Acres of Laud aforesaid

English Protestants and the said Palatines with

the said Andries Volk and Jacob Webbers the Trustees in the said Letters Patent frorh the said Tract

as if

the said Palatines

Named Removed

and tliereupon on the Twenty third Day of June in the Year of our Lord One

thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Seven the Male Inhabitants of the Said Tract being above the

Age

of

Twenty one Years Assembled and Mett upon the

said Glebe

Land and by majority

of Voices

Elected and Chose the said Alexander Golden and Richard Albertson Trustees of the said Glebe

Lands And Whereas the Present Proprietors and Inhabitants of the aforesaid Tract of Two Thousand One Hundred and Ninety Acres of Land which they hold by Sundry mesn Conveyances under the aforesaid Palathies being Desirous of Obtaining his Majesties Grant of the aforesaid Glebe of Five Hundi-ed Acres of Land for the use of a Minister of the Chui-ch of England as by Law Established to have the Care of Souls of ^he Inhabitants of the said Tract and of a Schoolmaster to Teach and Instruct the Children of the said Inhabitants in necessary Literature Therefore

Know

Ye That the said

Alexander Colden and Richard Albertson Trustees as aforesaid for and in Consideration And to the Intent and Purpose that our now most Gracious Sovereign Lord King George may and will Give and

Name of the Trustees of the Parish of Mewburgh all and Singular Hundred Acres of Land for the uses last above mentioned and Erect the said Trustees and their Successors into a Body Politick and Corporate Have Surrendered Yielded up and by these presents Do Surrender and Y'^ield up unto oiu* said now Sovereign Lord the filing the aforesaid Grant so made to the said Andries Volk and Jacob Webl:)ers so far as Relates to the aforesaid Glebe of Five Hundred Acres of Land and Incorporation of theia and their Successors as Grant unto the said Trustees by the

the aforesaid Glebe of Five

Trustees of the Palatine Parish at Quassaick

mand whatsoever which

And

the Estate Right Title Interest Claim and De-

all

the said Alexander Colden and Richard Albertson as Trustees of the said

Palatine Parish at Quassaick

now have

in or to the said Glebe of five

Hundred

acres of

Land by

Virtue of the before Recited Letters Patent and Grant of Incorporation aforesaid Lv Witness

whereof they the said Alexander Colden and Richai'd Albertson have hereunto put their hands and Seals this fourteenth Day of March In the Twenty fifth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and fifty two. :

Alex' Colden (Seal) Richard Albertson (Seal) Sealed and Delivered In the presence of

Thorns Lewis

William Melay.

Memorandum That on

the fourteenth

Day

March Anno Domini 1752. Personally Came and One of his Majesty's Councill for the Province of New of

Appeared before me CadwaUader Colden Esq"" York the witliin named Alexander Colden and Richard Albertson Trustees of the Palatine Parish of Quassaick and Acknowledged that they Executed the within Deed of Surrender as their Voluntary Act and Deed for the uses therein mentioned and I having Carefully Perused the same and finding no material! Razures or Interlineations therein than what are taken notice of before the Sealing and Delivery thereof do allow the same to be Recorded. Cadwalladeh Colden »

.

Vol.

III.

46

362

PAPERS RELATING TO THE PALATINES.

Recorded In the Secretary's &,c=i

office of

and the Record Exam'^ herewitli

New York

this 23*1

in Lib: Patents

Commencing

1**

June 1739 pa 379

day of March 1752 By

D

G" Banvar Secry. above Tract bear date 26th March, 1752, and will be found on Record in See's off: also in Eager's Hist, of Orange Co., to which work the Reader is referred for further information on the subsequent interesting history of these Glebe I^ands. Those who may not have this work convenient, can turn to 3 Jackson's Reports 115, for the particulars of the ejectment suit brought in 1»U6, against St. George's Church, Newburgh, to recover a part of the original Palatine Grant. Ed. The Letters

patent to Colden, Alberfson et

aL

for the

PETITION FOR MOKE TAVERNS AT

NEWBURGH;

17G7.

the Province of

Henry Moore Baronet Captain General and Governor in chief in and over New York and the Territories depending thereon in America, Chancellor and

Vice admiral of

tlie

To his Excellency

The

Petition of

Sir

same.

John Morrell and Joseph Albertson Inhabitants of the Glebe Land of the

Parish of Newburgh in Ulster County. Most Humbly Sheweth, That on the said Glebe Land there are about seventeen Dwelling Houses, wliich are situate at or close by a very publick Landing Place on Hudson's River, whither many People From the Back parts of the Coimtry bring their Produce to send New York having at least three Boats belonging to the place that constantly go from thence to New York and return back again with Goods which That in consequence of tliis Trade it was for many years pastj creates a very considerable Trade.

—

thought necessary for the Convenience of the Country people to permit Taverns or Public Houses

up at or near the said Landing for tlieir better accommodation and entertainment. That until about two years ago your Petitioners or one of them were permitted to set up Taverns and retail Liquoi s, and During tlie Time tliey had their permits they kept very good and orderly Houses, and never had tlie least Complaint made against them. But since one James Meftjre

;

In anotlier paper among- the

tliis

S"!

1

provided the said land be not disposed of

the Magistrates of

Sfjitembfr, or else 1

Ever pray kc.

that a survey of ye said land be

UKide

Van Rensselaer's

shal

made

Albany

into y* Secretaries office ;

&

&

085 200 Acres to

any others

the patent taken out before y" last day of

license to be void.

Rpcnnls of the Secretary's

olficp, a

piece of land, ilescribeil to the northward of Killian

patent of PotknUt (South of Kindcrhooke) and East of Maj. Abraham's patent of Claverccke,

hy Van Sehayck and others

;

the purchase be

is

petitioned

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

371

INDIAN DEED FOR TAGHKANICK.

Know ye

all

Land

men by

these Presents that

called Tachkanik,

wee underwritten Indian owners, and native Proprietors of liis Brother, by ye Indians call'd

Tataemshatt, and michael

viz'

Wagnassamo, Impom-ed by there Broy"

that

is

att

Canida,

amesett;

call'd

Item

Tawiliaes,

Nigliotowaw minasees, nanamawe & Takaemihatts Moy'" Tautapeuowa a Squae netopoes wife, and mamattittawawpe, mohowacghqua, & guttatamo for and in consideracon of these following goods in ]iaud Paid in y^ Presence ot y^ command^ & Magistrates of Albany, to witt Six hundred ;

;

& tliirty gild^s, black and white Strung wampum; Seven Blankets, & one little Blankett, eight faddom of Strouds, ten faddom oft" DuffeUs, Seven gunns, Elevin kitles, five cask of Rom, four half fatts

of Beer, five Baggs of Pouder, Sixty barrs of lead, fourteen Coats

Tenn

great Shirts

Stockings,

&

five

&,

Twelfe

litle

Pare children

made of

Strouds,

&

Duffells,

ones, thii-teen axes, tenu pare great Stockings fyve Pare of

dito, nine hoes, fifty knives, four Rolls of

womes

Tobacco, four yron Potts,

Two hundred awles. Two Serge Coats, four hatts, four capps, five Pare of shoes, Two Edges, Two Two Plains, Six botles, and three earthen Juggs, the Receit whereof, we doe owne

haelmeses,

and acknowledge, and of y^ Payment doe fuUy Discharge, have bargained. Sold, aliened. Confirmed Transported, and by these Presents, doe Bargain Sell, alien, confirm and Transport all our Right Title and Intrest of ye Land called Tachkanik unto Rob' Livingston his heires and assigns for ever, day of June he having a graunt from y^ Right hon'^'c Col. Thom: Dongan gov^' gen' dated y^ 1685 to Purchase y^ Same w*» Said Land is scituate lying and being, behinde Patkook, one a Certain

&

kiU or Creek

y'

runns into hudsons River, and there called

ye north west side of

s"^

killy'

minnissichtanock where

Two

Runns along y^

flatt

Roeloflf

Jolmsons

kill

beginning on

or Plain land, att a Place called by y" natives

Black oak Trees are marked w'

L & from

thence along a small

hill, to

a valley, y' Leads to a small Creek called by y^ Indians Quisichkook, and over y® said creek to a

Two

blak oak Trees are marked w' L and is called by the natives kachkawyick, from thence westward, to a small hill, on ye Side of a creek called Slcaankook, where two white oak trees are marked L and So Runns along ye east Side of

high Place to ye westward of a high mountain, where

ye

S«^

Creek which a

litle

lower

is

called

by ye name of Tawastawekak, and

is

ye westerly Bounds;

all there Right and Title to ye eastward of sert Livingston and Allida

of the said Robert Livingston uses all Pine Trees

now

now

Stands and to

ffell

Gut down and Convert

or hereafter gro^\•ing on the said

AA'ife for the Consideration liereinbeforementioned Ha\'e given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto the said Robert Hunter his Heirs and Assignes for tlie use benefit and behoof of her said Majesty lier Heires Successors and Assignes Owners and Possessors of tlie said Tract of

his

Land

or any Part tliereof flfull and ll'ree Liberty of Setting or Laying out off making keeping repairing and maintaining One Common Road or liighway Bridge or Bridges from the said Tract of Laud unto

the

now mannor house

of the said Robert Livingston with free Ingress Egress and regress in by and

and every time and Season of the Year And Executors Administrators and Assignes doth Covenant Promise and Grant to and witli the said Rol^ert Hunter iiis lieirs and xissignes for the use benefit & behoof of her said Majesty her lieirs Successors and Assignes That her said Majesty her heirs thro' the

same with Horses Carts and Can-iages

Lastly the said Robert Livingston for himself

at all

liis lieirs

Successors and Assignes Owners and Possessors of the said Tract of their Tenants

and under Tenants

shall or

Lawfully

may from

Land and of every Part

time to time and at

all

tliereof

and every time

and times hereafter lor Ever Quietly and Peaceably lia\ e and Enjoy tFull and ftree Liberty Enrring into and upon the said mannor or Rcinited ]Man nor of Livingston (Except witliin three English miles of the place where the Sawmills of the said Robert Livingston now Stands on the said River called Roeleff Jansens Kill) and to ffell Cut doAvn and Convert to their own use and uses all Pine Trees

now growing

which hereafter shall grow whicli shall not at the time of Cuting thereof be fiit for making of Boards Planks Slitw'orks as they are now usually made and now are or shall be growing witliin Six English miles of the Saw mills of tlie said Robert Livingston his heires and assignes which now or hereal'ter shall be Erected as aforesaid and the same to take and Carry away or to burn at or near the Place or Places where tlie said Trees were Cut down and there to make Pitch or Tarr of the same with ffree Liberty of making and using kills for that Purpose and the said Pitch and Tarr so made to take and Carry away and Convert to their own uses and Likewise shall and Lawfully may from time to time and at all and every time and times hereafter for Ever Quietly and Peaceably Have and Enjoy ffull and ffree Liberty of Setting and Laying out and of making and keeping repairing and maintaining One Common Road or Highway Bridge or Bridges from the said Tract of Land unto the the now Mannor house of the said Robert Livingston with ffree Ingress Egress and Regress in and by and thro' the Same at all and every time and Season of the year without any manner of Lett Suite Trouble vexation Eviction Disturbance or molestation whatsoever of the said Robert Livingston his heirs and assignes or any other Person or Persons whatsoever having any thing or Lawfully Claiming in the said Mannor Tract of Land or Premises or any Part or Parcell thereof by from or under the said Robert Livingston his heirs or Assigns In Witness whereof the Partys ffirst abovenamed to these present Indenlures have hereunto Interchangeably set their hands and Seals the day and Year ffirst abovewritteu the

Saw

or

mills for

390

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

Robert Livingston (L.

named Aug: Graham. Memorandum that this ffilth day of October Anno Dm. One Thousand Seven liundred and Tenn. Peaceable and Quiet Possession of tlie said Tract of Land and Premises in this Deed Contained was Delivered by the witliin named Robert Livingston to tlicA\itliiu named Robert Hunter according to tlie IForm Ellect and Litent of tliis Deed in the Presence of those whose names are hereunto subscribed, Aug: Graham, I Bridges Ar: Kennedy, Me-mohandi m that on the ffifth day of October One Tliousand Seven hundred and Ten appeared belbre me %ter Schuyler Esq'' one of her Majestys Couiicill for the Province of New York the within named Allida tlic wife of the within named Robert Livingston Esq"" k being Secretly and apart Examined by me Declared her Consent to the within written Deed and that she Executed tlie same iireely and voluntarily witliout any Compulsion from her said husbanti and further that the wit])iu named Robert Livingston then Likewise appeared before me and acknowledged that he Executed the within written Deed. Robert Livingston

Esq''

Alida Livingston (L. S.) Sealed and Delivered by the within

S.)

and Allidu

his wile in the Presence

ol" J.

Bridges.

P. Schuyler.

M» DU PRE r

VERNON.

TO

Lonil. Doc.

XVHI.

]

N. York, 4 Oct. 1710

Honored

By

SIr

the Kingsail

you with any

Man

of

War

I

gave myself the honor

to write,

steps taken for settling the Palatines, since that time

insuperable difficulties in settling of 'em

down

but could not then entertain tlie

Governor having found

in the lands that w'ere thought upon,

more from making

the Scituatiiin than otherwise, they being at a great distance from the River, the charge of the necessary magazines had possibly surpassed the original value so that

obliged to Cast his Eyes elsewhere and

oflters

having been made

to

Ills

Excellency hath been

him, by one Robert Levingston

hath a great Tract of good manuring Land, on his Progress to Albany he viewed the same with

who

the adjacent Pine Lands

& upon

his likeing thereof hath contracted with the said Levingstone for

6000 acres good improveable Laud with the liberty of making use of the Pines adjacent where the Palatines may find work enough for 2 or 3 score years to come Others as the Patrone (as he is called' here)

&,

Collonel Schuyler

whom you

have seen, have done the

like, so that the

experience M''

Bridges hath had of making Tar from the Trees as prepared by him, makes him confident that

cannot

Two

fail

of good success, and nothing else than the want of support from

home can prevent

it it.

years will be required to prepare the Trees, but afterwards there will be such a succession

of them as will enable the sending Tar

&

Pitch enough not only lor supplying the Royal but

even the whole Navy of England, & will give such a life to y« Trade of this country, as may very much contribute to encourage the wollen mainifaotory at home &, discourage of it in the Planta-

by making the returns from tliis so iar exceed the import, that Emporium of the Continent in America. I think it Sir needless to

tions,

this intended design, the l^enefit of Great Britain

hint

ment

it

to

make you espouse

if neeil

The

it

& become

is

week

of the time after they h.ivc i)repared

will

make

it

it,

this

Port the

your countenance

so visible therein, that tliere need

SoUicitor and promoter of

be for a}ipointing a fund for setting of

Palatines begun last

it

sollicit

in

no more than

with the ministry

&

in Psu-lia-

briskly a going.

where they are to be settled, the rest Pitch making & Tar they shall employ in raising the Trees hr

to

embarck

for the Places

those things that will be fitting for their future comfortable subsistance

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

391

you about my small concerns, the which having already laid, before you I sliall not enlarge on, only pray your assistance in procuring an order to his Excellency tur repaying me the expences I have been at on the Coast of England and for allowing my salaries from Christmas last. His Excellency hath honoured me with the Post of Commissary of the Stores beg again leave

Sir, I

to trouble

with an allowance of necessaries of

life

myself to your favor and with

me

yearly which obliges

JB

my

expence

to great

London & cloathing twice the

are as dear here as at

and provisions or

;

Price.

I

recommend

prayers for the welfare of your illustrious family, shall conclude

with subscribing myself with profoimd respect

Honoured Sir Your most obedient

&

most

faithfully

devoted servant

Du

Jas. ***

For Gov. Hunter's

Pftf

purchase of Germantown see ante p. 338.

letter relative to the

Somma Vol.

III.

50

£5703

13 6

—

APERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

394

MR

CAST TO GOV. HUNTER. [

#

*

*

*

"pi^g

Translated.

]

March

27.

1711.

They persuade

people contemplate present settlement for a couple of Years.

themselves that Canada will be taken this campaign, and that upon the conquest of that country,

on the lands destined for that purpose.

to secure their settlement, they will be established this opinion, they are

up

inhabitants

confirmed by the reports of those

who wintered

there are in consequence very apprehensive of losing

at Alljany,

tlie profit

who

In

say that the

they derive from the

Indians, and the hay tliey annually cut on said lands.

Some days ago, settlement. They

and a home in a

agreed,

is

were

around the

sitting

fire

conversing on the prospect of their

selection of the Levingstou lands

tliat tlie

New York

was well planned

Sopes and Albany was very convenient

;

—that

that the proximity

of great advantage and that the exemption from the fear of enemies affords peace

to tlieir families.

moment

remove

to

all

between

their situation to the river

five Palatines

But the desire

to possess

afterwards, all these conveniences

Tlie

a good deal of land upset and demoUshed,

more moderate and

sensible

among them,

them

this, said to

rights, the Governor will not give you any other lands and be determined that we pass oui' whole lives here ? What can youthen do? Nothing, continued the same man, but draw down by the disgrace of the Governor, evils we do not experience here, and deprive ourselves of the good we now enjoy. For in fine (he continued) as it is our duty, and we must absolutely work for the Queen, it can-

Wliat

if,

in return for all

your pretended

than those in the rear of our

villages,

not be otherwise than that her majesty will put us in a position to earn om- bread for she will not

keep us always

in this

way.

—

Earn our bread, said another. We came to America to estabhsh our families to secure lands for our children on which they will be able to support themselves after we die, & that we cannot do here. What is to be done in that case ? Only to have patience replied the first. " Patience and

Hope make fools of tliose Whereupon the whole I

wlio

fill

their

hnnds with them."

five burst out a-laughing

and changed the Conversation.

asked Mr. Kocherthall in what way his people behave

manifestly with repugnance, and merely temporarily

minds, a Land of Canaan for

tliis

reason

it is tliat

—and

guarantee, did

tluit tlie

the

they agree,

it

is

He tells me all are at work and busy, but

—that the

tract intended for

them

He

is,

in their

a very dangerous place to settle at present, and

they are willing to have patience here for a couple of years.

not listen to Tar-making.

gardens

— that

?

But they

will

thinks this repugnance can be overcome as was that to cultivate tWeir

future will furnish with difficulty what the present time might easily

people conform to the intentions of those above them.

MR CAST TO

GOV.

HUNTER.

[Translated.]

Sir

I

supphed 3'' May.

have received the 20 barrels of Pork which all witli

some

to the lO'h M;iy.

This will cause Mr. Baggs

lo

I

distributed

among

the people at this side and

Tlie people on the otlier side have been supplied to the

be looked for earlier than the

lO'h with his portion of

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON. poi-k.

never saw salted meat so poor nor packed with so

I

almost one eiglith of

was

it

much

pork was.

In truth,

salt.

The

117 barrels of flour of Mr. Beekman.

I likewise received the

salt as this

395

following

is

the weight

&

the

tare— 53 barrels are from M^'

Beekman

32 from Mad^ Exvin the widow, and

32 from Mf Rotzen 117

The experience

that the tare of

tlie

Barrels

is

very incorrect, and that such deception causes the

people not to take the flour in barrels according to the Tare, but ordinarily to return the barrels to

me

that I

may make

a

new

tare, led

me

to

make

a bet with M'" Robert Levingston Jun'' that a

was universally censured for making such a wager. But when tlie Barrel was emptied and well shaken and cleaned it weighed 211bs tare. Judge, Sir, what I sent M"" Baggs 20 barrels to day of M'^^ Exvin, marked E D. and a loss of flour this is. requested him also to investigate the cheat. 18 barrels are tared 161bs: 1 barrel 17lbs and one 191bs. I would make another bet that not one of them runs below 20lbs tare. It is too palpable a fraud to mark so many at IGlbs. M'' Baggs will not fail to advise you how the tare turns out. At the close of the last quarter, 25 March, I introduced the New York method for the ascertaining the persons to be supported. I keep the register myself and have it signed by the Captains in order to obtain a more full knowledge of the condition of the people. In the absence of such exami nation I tell them what to do. I oblige them by this examination to proceed more exactly with their declarations, and I have found occasion to make a greater deduction when necessary after the account and distribution have been made out. bari-el,

tared 171bs., weighed 20lbs.

It is for

the 12"i

distribution only

May

on the

I

then. Sir, that I have need of provisions and, M"" Baggs will

5'*'

I

am

May

his

with great respect. Sir

Your most humble 1

commence

May.

&

most obedient serv*

1711

J.

Return of the Palatines;

On

1

May

1711.

the East side of Hudson's River,

Hunterstown Queensbury Annsberg Haysbury

Persons

334 350

252 258 1178

On Elizabeth Thown George Thown New Village

the West side.

148 Ill

324 583 Total. 1

.

.1761

Cast.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

396

GOV.

HUNTER TO THE BOARD OF TRADE. [Lond. Doc. XVIII.]

I

gave

yom

Lordships in

my

last

New York, 7. May 1711. an account of the purchase of Four thousand acres of ]and for

her Majesty, her heirs, and Successors for

tliat

Queens

gift,

Tlie small Tract

being not sufficient for Settleing the remainder,

adjacent tract, belonging to M""

Two Imudred Sixty on the East side in the

purpose from M"^ Livingston for

Six pounds thirteene shillings and four pence Sterhng.

Thomas Fullerton who

is

me power

in Scotland, wlio has by his letter of Attorney given

I

have taken

now Concerned

for that

purpose an

in her Majestys

to dispose of the

Customes

same, wliich tract

contains about Eight liundred acres of very good land, whicli will cost more in proportion than

the Lands purcliased of M'' Livingston, he reckoning the neighbourliood of that people more than half the price, M"" Fullerton reaping noe benefit from that Scituation.

ground

in

I shall

endeavour

to find

more

in the

If I find

neighbourhood at easy

them streightened

rates, for I find the extent

of ground a great encouragement to the people. I

have met with great opposition from many of the

that there were better lands for

there

;

being informed from

all

hands

tliat

disposed Inhabitants, that they were

these Suggestions

people idle and backward, and sometliing Avorse, on againe, having remained

ill

them on the Fronteers, and

Some days amongst them,

my

account of labouring

tliere as

who dayly

fforce

enough

to

make

visited

I

appearance convinced them of the

to

insinuated

used in being planted

returne from the Jerseys

ill

tlie

them

intentions

work they were destined for, there which they had a mind to, besides they must lay their

of those wlio had misled tliem, that they could not follow

being no Pine on these lands on the Frontiers,

had been of

ill

tlie

the Israelites did of old, with a sw^ord in one hand and the axe in the

having by these meanes to

my

thinking quieted them

I left them, but Avas overtaken a few had been in a mutinous manner with tlieir officers, declaring they would not settle these lands but would liave others, upon which I retui-ned and ordered them to send Deputies from each Village next morning with tlieir demands, but they then came in a body, and when I found I could prevaile little with reasoning, and was thinking of some more etfectual method to keep tliem to their duty, I ordered the contract which they had all signed to be read to tliem in High Dutch, and asked then whether they were resolved to keep to the terms tliereof or noe, that I miglit take my measures accordingly. After some small deliberation they returned me for answer that tliey were resolved to keep their contract and would for the

other

;

miles off by an Express w hich acquainted

me

that they

future be directed entirely by me, soe wee parted good ffiiends.

.

SEC^ CLARKE TO THE LORDS OF TRADE. [Lonil. Doc.

XVIII.]

New York

Mv

30th

May

1711.

Lords,

have said nothing more of the Palatines in my other letter than that his Excellency was gone them to work on preparing the Pine trees, not having then received any clear account of their deportment, 1>ut since I closed that I have'had one full and particular whicli it will require more time to give it your Lordshii)S, especially at length, and with the Copys of some Papers I

up

to set

requisite to a thorough prospect of their proceedings than I

every minute,

for this,

however,

I will

endeavour

to

now have,

be as pai-ticular as

I

for I

expect to be called on

can now.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OE LIVINGSTON.

About a

fortnight agoe his Excellency having received iuformation from

tlieir

Overseers and other

making Pitch and Tarr nor to remain on the land they are settled upon for that purpose, but even by force, if they could not otherwise effect it, to remove to Schohfiry (a Tract of resumed Lands) and that tliey had actually hindred the Surveyors from laying out more Lots to them, streugtliening each other in tliese Resolutions by a Secret Association, his Excellency was forced to send for a Detachment of Sixty from the Garrison of Albany to meet him at the Manor of Levingston, wliich is about two miles from their Settlement on the West side of the River, so soon as his Excellency arrived there, he sent to all tlie Villages on that side of tlie River to know how tliey dared disobey his orders, and officers, tlaat these

/

work

397

People had taken a resolution neither

hinder the Surveyors and other

By tlie

their

officers to

Deputys they retimied

do

tlieir

to

in

duty.

for answer, tliat

when

tlie

Surveyors came to lay out the land,

People called them out, told them 'twas worth notliing, they Avould liave no more, so that

'twas needless to survey

them by

it

& that

tliey

would have the lands

at

Schohary which the Queen had ordered

their Contract. told them tliat if any man by cliance had a bad Lott, him out another, as they were ordered, that those who had was given them, might upon application to the Surveyors, have more, and if what he

His Excellency replyed that

lie

had often

the Surveyors on application would lay cleared w^hat

had akeady purchased was not sufficient he would purcliase more, provided it lay on the river, and near the Pines, that they might ffollow the manufacture tliey were destin'd for, and obliged to by their Contract. That as to the Lands of Schohary its the malice of those wlio would have them for their Slaves that put them on demanding it, for that those Lands the Indians had not yet parted with, nor were they fit for their labour, no Pine being within Twenty miles of it, that it would be impossible to subsist them there, or defend them against y« French and French Indians, and besides they had obliged themselves to settle on such lands as he should assign them, and then desired their final answer, which was that they would have the lands appointed tliem by the Queen Whereup" his Excellency, in writing, told them tliat since neithp" their duty, allegiance or regard to her Majesty's unparallelled Charity and goodness in taking them up, and providing for them when they were starving, and abandon'd by all ye world besides, had been of any force to keep yn within the bounds of their duty, and since they had no regard to a solemn contract signed by them, he was come to require and enforce the execution of it, Copys and Translations of which they had ;

own

Then

his Excelli^y desired that w'hat past between them, Copies whereof communicated to the people and their last resolution &, final answer the were then given y" might be next day at four in the evening. A few Minutes after the Deputyes were gone, His Excellency was informed that a body of three or four hundred of them were then passing the brook, the Deputyes among whom were the Captains, returnVl to him and in appearance seemed softened, and then went to the people who were drawn up on the hill above the House, towards whom his Excellency marching with the Detachment, one of the Commissarys who had been with them told him they wanted to pay their compliment to him, so his Excellency walked up to them, and ask^ them what they meant by appearing in arms, they told him what they had told the Commissarys, whereupon his Excell^y ordered tliem home to their habitations, and being gone about a mile they discharged all their Firelocks, but their saying they came to pay their Compliment was only a Pretence, for they told two of their officers, as they were going home, that they came to relieve their Deputvs in case they

in their

hfid

language.

•

been confined.

The next day

tlie

Deputys came according

a desire that his Excell^y would

assist

to orde'r witli their answer,

them,

tliat

they

may

which

])egins

indeed with

be settled in the lands of Schohary,

398

PAPERS RELATING TO THE JNIANOR OF LIVIXGSTON. soon forgot that humble

stile, and told his Excellency that they had rather lose their where tliey are, that they are cheated by the contract, it not being tlie same that was read to them in Eug^ There, the say, it runs thus, that seven years after they had had forty acres a head given tliem, they were to repay the Queen by Hemp, Mast Trees, Tar and Pitcli or anything else, so tliat it may be no damage to any inan in liis Family. Upon

])ut tliey

inimedialely tlian remain

liv'es

these terms tliey will perform the contract, but to be forced by another contract to remain on these lands

What

docs

They them

in

and

will

tlie

and work

for her

signify they say to promise

be obedient to the Queen but

Majesty for the ships use, that

them

Land, that

tliis

tliey sliall

tliey will

make

in

have the promise kept, that

tliey will

England, and upon that land

never doe,

Pitch and Tar. Mi"

Cast read to

was promised them they will be there, cannot they desire three or four men may goe for England and lay their case

High Dutch

if tliey

before

tlieir lives,

all it

wliicli

many

Queen, they say likewise there are a great

household Goods, working Tools

ws orders and their

granted by her Majestys Patent

relation to tlie Palatins within the Province of

witli

contract are obliged to follow

appoint you or any three of you

tlie

401

New- York, who by her

manufactury of Naval Stores within the said Province, I do Number Rob' Livingston or Rich^ Sacket is always to

(>of w

be one) to be a Court for Regulating and forwarding the said work, with

full power to take Misdemeanours Disobedience, or otlicr wilfull Transgressions in the said people, with relation to the above mention'd work and power to punish the same by confinement or Corporal punishment, not Extending to life or mutilation, as in like cases is practiced by overseers over Ser-

Cognizance of

vants also for

all

Giving

:

me

as often as there is occasion a perticular

hereby Impower'd

head of the

put you,

and

Ace* of such

y'^'

in case of

fallen out, the oificer

whom

all

your orders are

to

Tumult, disobedience, or*any

be directed,

who

is

fit

are

person

to see

them

mutinous proceedings as

otlier

commanding the Detacliment now

You

proceedings.

nominate in Each Village or Settlement of the said Palatins a

Village orSettlem' to

in Execution,

have already

to

at Man"" Livingston

is

to Assist

need be toward the Suppressing the Same, preserving the publick peace and Securing

if

the Delinquents in order to

tlieir

being brought to tryal and Condign punishm' for

be your Sufiicieut warrant Givin, at Man"^ Livingston

tliis

present

12'i»

all w"^^ tliis shall

June 1711

Ro Hunter. Att

a meeting of the

Commas appointed

to

manage y" affairs of tlie

Palatins held at

Mannor Liv_

ingston 4'h July 1711.

Present

John Cast

Ro: Livingston '

Rich'*

And: Bagge

Sacket

Capt Har: Holland, Corar of the Detachm' of her Majtys

forces.

it of absolute necessity tliat Staves should be dressd fitt for making and having sent for the Palatine Coopers -divers times, and ordered them to go about the work, and several other Palatins for tlieir assistance, doe find that some neglect, and others refuse to perform said Service, tho all reasonable terms have been offered for their Incouragm'. (2) It is resolvd by the Commiss'''' that Every Two Palatine Coopers, (whereof there are 12 on this side and 4 on the other side Hudsons River) have four Palatins for their assistants, to cut down, saw, and split tlie Timber and assist in the making barrel staves fit for the containing Tarr for Transportation, and that the respective List masters or heads of Every Village on this side Doe detach 24 men and 12 men on the other side every munday morning in their Turn, according to the number of Inhabitants in Each village, and there to work till Saturday night and then the munday following others in their room keeping an exact list of those that have performed the Service. Returning the names of those y' absent, neglect, or refuse said Service, in order that they may be punished according to their deserts, at the discretion of the Coium''% pursuant to the power In^'est-

The

Tarr

Commiss'"s finding

barells,

ed in them. (3)

The Coopers

inhabiting the west side being called in, they were told

what directions were given

w

^ was that if we to the Coopers on this side and that they should have the same Incouragment could not agree for the barrels after they were made, y' Indiiferent persons should dcside what tliey

were

and and

to

have, or be discounted for their work, having a due regard to

the Queens Tools w^^ they tools

Vol.

were

III.

delivered to

made

use oif

They were

them accordingly.

'

51

tlie

Assistance they received

willing to proceed on the

same Conditions?

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

'102

Att

a MEETING of

CoMMiss's 5 July 1711.

Present

John Cast

Rob* Livingston Rich*!

Andrew Bagge

Sacket Cap* Hen: Holland

The

were sent for and warrants delivered to them, persuant to his Excellys Commission, and told they were to take care their people do not Stragle to again, that if they want to go to work in the Harvest, Leave shall be given them provided it may be known wlietlier they goe, that they may be sent for upon occasion. They were likewise told that those people went with leave, Should be allowed provision but those that went without leave should be cut olf. (2) It is thought tit by the Commiss'^ y' M"" Sacket do draw out an acct of the Tarr that is already made, and how many kills are ready to be sett fire to, and what quantity of knots are gott together that his Ex'^^y may be informed, what lias been done, since the Trees have been barked, and in regard the grass is very liigii and diflicult to find tlie knotts itt is thought fitt (as M'" Sacket proposes) y' only tenn men be imployed in gatliering knots, and rideing them to the place where (1)

the kill (3)

is

The

List masters of the respective villages of the Palatins

to be

made,

till

such time that seasoned Casks be gott ready' for Tarr.

List masters of the Respective Palatin villages appearhig before the Commiss'^^

gay y'

they are wilhng to Serve her Maj'y and the .pubhc in y' Station, but hoped the Commis'*' would consider, that while they attended that service they could not

work fur others, to gett a penny fur tlic Support of their would be pleased to recommend their Case to las Excell''>'. That they may have

tlie

their poor circumstances,

in

tlie

(4)

their

own

Doe pray

private affairs, nor that the

Gentlemen

tlieir arrears, which would be a great help to them in would be Incouraged to proceed with all Alacrity Imaginable

usual Salary ami

by which

tliey

Execution of y^ Commis

^

The Commis"

Livingston

desire

mind

familys.

orders.

who

is

going to York, to acquaint his Excell^y with the

List masters request. (5-) The Names of the List masters of Each respective Palatine Village on the East and west Hudsons River, To whom warrants have been granted by the Commis" are as follows: On the East side in Dutches County: For Hunterstown John Peter Kneskern Qucensbury John Conrad Weiser Annsbury Hartmau Windecker

— — — Ilaysbury —John

On

Clu-istoph''

Tucks.

the west side in the County of ^^Ibany:

—

Town John Christoph^ Gerlach George Town Jacob Manck New Town Philip Peter Grauberger Elizabeth

—

—

side

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON. ]\P

403

CAST TO GOV^^ lIUiNTEll [From

the French.]

The

13th July 1711

Sir

*Iam

no longer afraid of seeing the store destitute of provision. That convinces me we liave gained on the people. In fact experience of what occurred to M'" Bagg regarding the flour satisfies

me that the issues are not so urgent as formerly. And I may be allowed to take, at the next distribution, either

t]iink

on a partial view, that the people on condition that

for the jiast or future,

the entire supply be given them, supposing that they will not get as

claimed Therefore

I shall

much

as they

be no more uneasy at seeing myself short of one item.

have hitherto

But whatever

may receive, I only hope that tlte meat which is to be brought me will be of good quality. For however submissive the people are at present, in comparison to wliat they have been, I could not avoid arranging with the List Masters to induce the people to take tlie meat last sent me. I shall be in despair should I have again to receive any such. On this consideration, I beg you, sir, to attend to it and to relieve tlie people as much as possible from salted provisions. It may be said that it is less difficult to retrench bad than good food. But he must also bear in mind that this is carrying things to extremes. I would like to accustom the peoj)le by degrees, to the reduction of the rations by gaining always something in this space of time. little I

Tlie overseers of the people

The one and

communicate some instances of

the other act with fervor, but the

number of

their discontent

with the government.

well affected to the public good exceeds

that of interested persons.

Mr

Sacket

is

now busy

Those belonging

constructing a Bridge for

tlie

conveyance of the Tar

the interested party wish to dissuade

to

design of these Reformers, he pays no attention to tliem

him from ;

it,

but as he

River side. aware of the evil

to the is

continues his bridge and laughs at them.

The people perceiving that the construction of this bridge foreshadows the manufacture of a large number of Barrels of Tar, disapprove likewise of its erection and say the bridge will rot before it is put to that use Meaning that they do not intend to remain on Livingston's lands long enough to make use of said bridge. This last opinion does not disturb me. The advantage already gained oxev tlie people makes me hope to effect a complete victory over them. But the dissension in the Court leads me to apprehend a bad effect. For how can things be pushed ahead by a Board that does not act in concert, especially when having to deal with so perverse a people wlien every thing that the one proposes is suspected of partiality when meetings are avoided as much as possible so when the President of the as not to be obliged to take part in the affairs to be discussed there

—

;

;

—

court who, in view of the public interest, ought to be the least in the Board on account of his

makes no scruple of despising and treating with indignity a colleague who, with a good intention, confers a pleasure on the people, which the other does not find to his advantage when others renounce every employment and conceive no other object than that of ridding themselves of the su])erintendance of the people Wlien all this, I say, is experienced among the members of a Court, what good can be expected therefrom 1 Formerly when Mr Levingston and I were alone, I acted with him with great circumspection, and we always agreed I did not remark any desire for superiority in him ; every tiling passed in harmony. I always cpmbatted his foibles as well as I was able. But since tlie reconstruction of our Board, I have found that his design has ever been to obtain the management of all tlie supplies private interests,

—

—

;

for the People,

and had

he would have seized

what he could not

get

I

it

not had the foresight to dema,nd a ileclaration from the general commission altogether and had

me

to

—

do

that

is,

made Mr Meyer

everything that

his clerk

may

whom

he would have got to do

content his cupidity

;

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OK LIVINGSTON.

401 Such,

sir, is tlie state

return from at least will

me

New York make

with a word by

it

of

Thus

aflairs.

acts every one according to

expect an attempt will be made to Imiwse on difficult for me to judge clearly. Therefore I

letter,'in

French, to inform

me what

I

am

to do.

Youi' very

I

a great solicit

am

I

On my

ruling passion.

liis

me

many

you,

things

sir,

to

which

honour

Sir,

^

humble &

very obedient serv'

Jean Cast.

PALATINE VOLUNTEERS FOR THE EXPEDITION AGAINST FROM HIJNTERSTOWN 1

C.lNxU)A

16 JULY 1711.

J

Jno Peter Kneskern Capt.

David Iluppert 3 Conrad Schawerman 4 Henrick Sex

2

14

Jno Geo: Schmidt

15

Con^ Goldman

16

Geo Bender

17

Jno. Hen.

UH

Schumacher

5.

Fredrick Bell

18. Tho.

6.

Jacob Kobell

19

Peter Schmidt

7.

Jacob

Warno

20

Johan Schwall

8.

Johannes Schulteis

21

Geo. Lud.

9.

Reinhard SchafTer

22. Veil

10. Johannes

Roschman

11

Carl Uhl

12

Baltz

13

Conrad Keller

23.

Koch

Musig Gro. Kerchmer

24. Christ. Hills

Anspach

25. Rudol. Stahl

336

Att a Meeting

cliild

:

of Justices in Kingstown

tliis 5ti>

P'^scnt

men women and

Octob. 1711

Coll" Jacob

Evert

Rutsen

Capt Dirk Schepmoes

M'

Wynkoop

Cornelis Cool Justices.

Coll.

Secrytary by his Excell: Order setting forth that

Rutsen haveing Received a Letter from

severall pallatines leave their settlements

&

seek to settle themselves on particular

own

men

theire

Laud

and Ordered y« Justices to send them to their W'ith a Coppy of this order that they cause all the pallatines to go to theire own Settlements forwarne all of theire Districts that they do not Hai-bour any pallatLues att their- perrill.

towns, ordered that each Constable be served

&

PAPERS KELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

405

HUNTER TO GENERAL NICHOLSON,

GOY:

New I

hope

tliis

you

will find

safe at

Boston and ready to Imbark,

York, 22nd Oct. 1711.

wish you a safe Voyage and all Suc-

I

'

cess in yo"" affaires in England.

I have lately Rece'^ a Letter from M""

Du

His words

Cast one of y^ Commissaries of y^ Palatines.

are these.

du desaprouvement du General et I'a prie d'en vouloir faire son rapLe General trop sage pour vouloir parler d'une chose qu'il n'a pas veu et sans avoir examine le Sieur Sackett & schulement sur le Recit d'un homme si interess^ que I'est Mons'' Livingston. Though all this be mysterious to me, I cannot forbear takeing notice of tliis proceeding of M'" Livingstons as a most base and Villanous practice, if there be any truth in it, and I hope I have deserved that Justice from you, tliat you will as soone as may be acquaint me with what M'' Livingston has thought fitt to represent I know him to be y'' most selfisli man alive Mons'' Livingston s'est servi

port en Angletcrre Mais Je Crois

>

;

but

I

cold never have believed

would take

it

into his

head

to

tliat

man who

a

make any

lay under so

Representations to

my

many

obligations to

me

as

he does

prejudice without acquainting

me

at

manner wee have Liv'd togeather and y'^ mutuall Confidence betweene us you would engage yo'' Selfe in anytliing of that nature upon y« Suggestions of such a man. I have Sufler'd here by giveing him too much Countenance And if any Man has any Advantage by y« Palatines here it is he, I beg j oul cleare that matter to me, because hee has too considerable a trust to be continued to him after soe base and barbarous a practice I have sent to Coll Dudley a copy of y^ Couucills Resolutions herewith relation to y« neutrahty. least, neither

can

I

be perswaded

tliat after

I

am

y®

with

much

respect

Yo''

S""

most obed'

humble

serv'

Ro: Hunter.

General Nicholson.

Mr

Livingston has taken advantage of tlie General's disapprobation and requested Iiim to report it in England. But General toi) wise to speak of a thing he has not seen & without examining Mr Sackett, and solely on the representation of a man so interested as Mr Livingston is. 1

I believe tlie

Mannor Livingston

24th

Xber

1711.

AccoMPT of the Subsistence of the Palatins on the East and West Sides Hudsons river from y^ 30th September last to this day both Inclusive at the rate of 6*1 per diem for Adults, and 4^ per diem for young Persons of the age of 10 years and under. Reduced

Month

Days

Young

at to

4d pr diem 1

31

30

24

344 348 353 378

tid

Adults

at

Adults

Totall

22' IA •'-'3

232 235i 252

Great

Diem

Alt 6d pr.

Totall

|ir.diem 1311 1343 1248 117U

1540i 1575 1483i 1422

A-38 1220 1112 853

„

10

„ 2

„ „

12

„ 6

X3224

„

1540i

48825 44500 34128 128yy3J

;

.,

„ 4 „ -

10

16

„

8

406

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

MATTHEWS TO

COL.

HUNTER

GOV.

Albany Jan.

Extract.

8. 1712.

men that had broke

Yesterday I receiv'd a Lett' from M"" Cast with the names of fourteen

open M' Bagg's Store house I have taken up Eleven of them whoe were liere Tlie other three are in the Palatine towns. I have secured them In one of the upper roomes in tlie Barricks in the fort; I have not Irons to put

them

in,

here

is

but three

[sets]

of Irons

& two

of tliem are on the deserters, but I

further Orders fr om

y Excell, When the Guard Came for them they ask'd why they were made iirisoners they were tould by Coll° Schuyler it was for breaking open the Stores house they made answer and said it was Cast ordered them to doe what they did ; wee would, not Enquire any more of it but sent them to the fort. shall

endeavour

to

Secure them

till

GOV.

HUNTER

TO COL. MATTHEWS. N. Y. January 28th nil|]2

I

have your Letter of the

you have secured,

S"" Ins* as to the Palatins

as soon as the

Weather

will

Permit, I will order them to the County where the fact was committed in order to their Tryal, in the

mean time

You'll take care that none of

I desire

them make

their Escape.

25th March 1712

Acci" of the Subsistence of the Palatines

of Dutches and Albany horn the

Diem

for Adults,

and

•1''

p''

diem

Month.

GOV. 1"'

on the East and West Sides Iludsons river

in the Counties

December last to this day both Inclusive at the rate of 6'' per young persons of the age of 10 years and untler, officers Included.

25^''

for

Adults.

Youn?.

Tottal.

7

81!11)

31

36673

10H36 48701

29 25

3-13()7

28775

2646 12028 11397 9475

107945

3.5546

Days.

nt(i

i

In hast.

WARRANT

TO ARREST CONRAD WEISER.

Gentlemen, I am informed that one John Conrade Wiser a Covenanted Servant of his Majesty, who has been G uilty of Several Mutinous Riotous and other disobedient & illegal practices is now skulking in yoiur

County

to avoid punisliment

you are

prehending the said Wizer and

to

York That he may be proceeded

therefore on sight hereof to Issue your

cause

him

against

as-

to

To To

tlie

Ap-

New

the Nature of his Crimes shall require hereof I

N. York 22 July 1715.

for the

to the City of

Warrant

be sent down in safe Custody

fail

not

am Gent

Your humble Serv^ Albany or any of them. Dutchess or any of them.

Justices of the Peace of the Co. of

the Justices of the peace Cou^>'

ORDER TO THE ATTORNEY GEN^ TO PREPARE A DRAFT OF LETTERS PATENT FOR THE

MANOR OF LIVINGSTON. By His Excellency 1-iobert Hi nter Esq'' Cap* Generall and Governour in Clieife of ye Provinces of New York New Jersey & Territories thereon depending in America and Vice Admirall of ye same &c You are hereby required to prepare a draft of letters ])atent of coniirmacon for Robert Livingston of the manor of Livingston reciting first the bounds of a patent granted to him by Colonel Thomas Dongan then Governour of this Province of New York bearing date the 4''' day of November 1684 of a certain tract of land by

Roeloff Jansens kill on the East side oi

Hudsons

river as tliereiu

described then reciting the bounds of a patent granted by the sii

ml nili Uiiilsnn's liivrr

i

iiffri/

in

yi

Umte

.

Crunty.

Ki/1 in tJif f'oiinh- I't'AN'iiny anil Dtilr/iiss

AMMO

1714i.

ntfiisiirf/i anil In hi

nil fir him

Sfiiil Jfiincr

Jlif/iiiiiini/ rii 7/ir J'.iixl xi/ff il'lliirlsonx

Indiitn Irnijui ll'nr/urnk/issi/i

.

/'ri'in

VifJiri

runn ini/ I'.as t hy

/rin^an/f

hrinif

siUmtf

Hivi r SriiiliHariJ from \

DAY OF NOVf 1715.

Johannes Dyckman, Capt Tobias ten Broeck Leivt Johannes Spoor Ensign

WiUiam

John Decker Ephraim Rees Hend Bress

Scot

Abraham Vosburgh WiUiam White

i >

Corpra

y

Johs Dyckman Junr Drum

Winne Leendert Konyn

Kiliaan

Jonathan Rees Claas Brusie

Johannes Pulver Vincent Brusie Nicolas Styger

Nicolas Smith

Coenraet Ham Coenraet Schuyrman Bastiaen Spekerman Johannes Schans

Joh Emmerik Pless :

Joscpli

ApUn

Juriacn Decker

Jonas Smith

Harme van

.lohn

Daupliince

Solsberge

Coenraet Petri

Hend Nies

:

Lawrence Knickerbackcr John Cliissim Roeloffd' Duytser Peter Teunise Lawrence Teunise

Abraham Tewise Isak Spoor

George White Joshua White Fiaus Dinsbagh

423

PAPEnS RELATING TO THE MA!VOR OT LIVINGSTON. Solomon

Gysbert Oosterhuit Andrew Gardner Jan Vosburgh

Gabj-eil Qrusie

Wm Cole Adam

Cole

Baltus

Anspagh

John William Simon Jacob Coens all

Baltus Stiever

Jan Willemschoen Diderigh Snytier Teunis Snyder Harmanus SegendorfF

Derek Vosburgh Marte Vosburgh John Leggat John Seger

Peter Smith

In

Hans Jury Kolemer Jury Ryverberger

Nicus Janse Witbeck John Witbeck

Sctiutt

Jacob Slower Johannes Rosman

William Dalis

Tho:Cornik

one Capt one Leiv' and Ensign Three Serjeants Three Corporis one

Drum and

fifty

eight

Privat Centinels. The

orig. of the above

is in

the handwriting of Mr. Livingston.

BRIGADIER HUNTER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF TRADE. [

Lond. Doc. XXI.

]

London ye 26th July

1720.

Sir I

have the honor of yours

their Lordp^

commands

witli the

relating to

copy of a Petition from Wyser and other Palatines with

it.

Such of that people as were sober and industrious remain on the Lands where I settled them & which I was obliged to purchase for them on Hudson's River for the Ends proposed by those who sent them viz' the Manufacture of Naval Stores these are well enabled to subsist themselves the rest have been wanderers. About fourty Families of tliem went and took possession of Lands granted to several persons at New York and Albany Against repeated Orders at first

;

:

to

make them an

after at a

offer

Women

and children I prevailed with the proprietors of these lands of the Lands free from all rent or acknowledgment for ten years and ever

In compassion to the Innocent

very moderate Quit Rent.

The Majority accepted

could not execute the agreem' for fear of the rest

of the Conditions

who had been tampering with

but

diu-st

not or

the Indians

who

had resigned their Claims to these Lands to the Crown, but I have some reason to believe that in the meantime it is compleated or speedily will be so. Their lordships know that all the lands of any value were granted away before my administration There is still a great Tract of Land but very remote on tlie Frontiers formerly granted to Domine Dellius of fifty miles square & resumed by act of Assembly wliich may be granted to them if they are Willing to transplant themselves thither In a body so as they may be secure from the attempts of the French Indians their nearest neighbours, but

has given

much

trouble and

may

give more.

of that settlement a letter to the present Governor for

Lordships from further trouble

Query

how

far

such grant

if

may

neighbourhood with our Indians fit to make them an offer that purpose will do the thing & free their tlieir

If their Lordships think

they are willing to accei)t of the Offer but avail

them

until his Majesty has

Governor can grant them Letters of Denization there being no such powers mentioned in his Letters patent. I act or whether the

Sir

approved of the Naturalization to enable

am

them

to hold

Lands,

with the greatest respect

Your most obedient humble Servant Ro: IIUKTER.

—

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON

423

MINUTE OF GEN^ NICHOLSON & ]\P JEREMY LONG'S ATTENDANCE AT THE BOARD ABOUT THE PALATINES &c. [

Lond, Doc. XXI.

]

Whitehall Tuesday 6th Septr 1720.

At a Meeting of His

Majesty's Coramiss" for Trade

&

Plantations.

Present.

Earl of Westmoreland

M"^

Sir Charles Cooke

Geni Nicliolson attending, as desir'd, as also M"" tines

&

other Germans at

New

Doemiuique

M' Bladen Jeremy Long who appears .

York, whose Petition

-

&

case, as also a letter

in behalf of the Pala-

from Brigadier Hunter

on the same subject are mention'd in the Minutes of the 21^' of July & 2^ of August last, the said case & Letter were again read ; And Gen' Nicliolson being ask'd Avhat he knew of the Allegations set forth in behalf of the said Palatines ; He said that he understood the Number of the Palatines That he knew nothing of any promises made to them; first sent over to New York, was about 3200 That he had about 300 of the said Palatines with him on the Expedition to Montreal, who w'ere subsisted during that Expedition, but that he knows of no Engagements concerning their Pay ; That he is a stranger to tlieir settlement at Schories That as to the Arms made use of in the Expedition, he knows of no direction for leaving what the Palatines had in their possession, but that ;

—

—

—

there was an order for leaving some of

—

And Mr Long above mention'd

them

in the Plantations as Stores for the Magazines there

being unable to

make proof

of any of the Particulars set forth

he was acquainted that Copies of the several Papers relating to their Petition, shou'd be transmitted to M^ Burnet Gov of New York, and the settlement of sucli of them as desire to remove to proper places, recommended to him, the' it was observ'd to in the said Case of the Palatines

M^f

Long

that

it

;

seem'd sev' of the said Palatines had behav'd themselve." very undutifully to His

Majesty and his late Governor of that Province.

Charles Cooke.

THE CONDITION GRIEVANCES AND OPPRESSIONS OF THE GERMANS IN HIS MAJ^s PROVINCE OF

NEW YORK

In the year 1709 was her late Majesty Queen

IN AMERICA, 1720.

Anne most

graciously pleased to send a body of

between 3 and 4000 Germans to New York under the Inspection and Care of Robert Hunter then Goyernour there, with particular orders and Instructions to settle them on lands belonging to the

Crown, and such as were most proper for raising pitch, tair, and other Naval stores Before they left England, they werepromis'd 5 pounds in money p^ head, of which they have received :

nothing

att all.

was likewise promis'd, that on their arrival there, each of them should receive Cloaths, utencils, tools and other Conveniency's belonging to Husbandry, aU wliich were sent with them from England for their use, but of these they receiv'd but very little. It

They were moreover

to

have a Grant of 40 acres of land

to

eacn person, but

it

was never per-

form'd.

On

their landing at

New-York they were quartered

on the Comon and divided in six ComComand tliem (of which niunber John Conrad

in tents

paynieSj over each of which was a Captain appointed to

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

424

Weiser arrivVl here in london 1718

:)

with an allowance of 15j£ per

annum

each, but not one farth-

ing has been hitherto paid tliem.

About the same time took the

said Gover' without

and against

their Consent

them, and bound them to severall of the Inhabitants of that province

till

many

children from

they should arrive to

the age of 21 years, particularly two Sons from Captain Weiser, one of twelve and another of 13 years

of age, by which means they were depriv'd of the Comfort of their Childrens' Company and education as well as the assistance

and Support they might

in a small time

have reasonably expected fr-om

them.

must be observ'd tliat during their voiage ;) were remov'd to a tract of Livingston, where they liv'd in houses erected by themselves till the land belonging to one Spring following, when they were order'd to tlie woods to make pitch and tair, and continued there near 2 years, but as the land was improper to raise any sort of naval stores in any Considerable quantity, their labours turn'd to a different account, and the profits of building and improving the lauds fell to a private person, they being not able to make more then near 200 barrils of pitch and tair. The small prospect they had of being in a Capacity to serve the nation, who had so generously and Cliaritably advanced very great sums of money for their relief and Support and the Impossibihty there was of raising Corn, Cattell, and other provisions for their subsistance on such ordinary and almost barren land obUg'd them to petition the aforesaid Governour, that they might be put in Possession, and settle on the land CalFd Schorie which the Indians had given to the late Queen Ann for their use he answer'd, that tho' the land was theirs, he could nor would not take it from them neither could he settle them there, because it would oblige him to maintain to many Garrisons. Tlie said Governor thought fitt some time after to visitt all the Villages, where they were setled and view the people there, who with one consent apply'd to him again, humbly praying they might go and inhabit the above promised land, upon which he in a passion stamped upon the ground and said, here is your land (meaning the almost baren Rocks,) where you must live and die. The second year after their arrival were orders sent to them to detach 300 able men to serve on the late unfortunate expedition against Canada, which they willingly and ChearfuUy did, and on their return, were their arms taken from them, tho' all that went on the Expedition should have kept them by her late Majesty's particular order without paying them any wages or sallery (notwithstanding they were put on the Establishment of New- York and New Jersey or both, and the money receiv'd by the se tract of laud call'd Schorie, which they immediately granted, saying they had formarly given that s'^ laud to Qveen Anne for them to possess, and that no l^ody else should liinder them of it, and they would assist tlicm as farr as they were able, Whereupon these Chiefs returned to the people, acqvainting them of the Indians favorable disposition. Tliis j)Ut the

people in some heart, and finding

so providently bestow'd

on

tliem, all

woods of 15 miles long with

Which being

tlie

effected, 50 familys

setled, they there receiv'd orders

hands

fell

it

to

absolutely necessary to embrace that opportiuiity

work and

in 2

weeks time Clear'd a way thro'

tlie

utmost toyle and labour, tho' allmost starv'd and without bread

were immediately sent to Schorie, when being arriv'd and allmost from the Governour, not to goe upon that land, and he who did so,

shou'd be declar'd a Rebell. Tills Message sounded like thunder in their ears, and surpris'd them beyond expression, but having seriously weighed matters amongst themselves, and finding no manner of likelyhood of subsisting elsewhere, but a Certainty of perishing by hunger. Cold, etc, if they return'd the found them-

selves

under the

fatall necessity

of hazarding the fiov^^ Resentments, that being to

all

more

Eligible

than Starving. In the same Year in March, did the remainder of the people (tho' treated by the Governour as

Pharao treated the

Israelites)

proceed on their Journey, and by God's Assistance, travell'd in fourt-

night with sledges thro' the snow which there Cover'd the ground above 3 foot deep. Cold and hun-

and Countrymen in the promis'd land of Schorie. The number of Germans who came hitlaer to search for bread for themselves, their Wifes and Children were more then tlie land allready granted them by the Indians Cou'd supply with settlements, and some of the people of Albany endeavouring to purchase the land round 'em from the Indians on purpose to Close them up, and deprive them of any rang for their Cattle, tliey were ger, Joyn'd their friends

oblig'd to sollicit all the Indian Kings there adjoyning lor

'em

&

more

land,

which they willingly granted

sold 'em the rest of the land at Schorie, being woods. Rocks and pastaridg for 300 pieces of

Eight.

No

sooner had Governour Himter notice of their settlement and Agreement with the Indians,

but he order'd one

Adam Vromen

to

endeavor

to

persuade the Indians

to

break the Agreement

made. .Upon the

first

settlement of this land

the misery s those

poor and allmost famish'd Creatures

underwent were incredible, and had it not been for the Cliarity of the Indians who shew'd them where to gather some eatable roots and herbs, must inevitably have perish'd every soul of them, but what God said in anger to Adam was in mercy fulfilled, viz. thou shall eat the herbs of the fields, when they Coatinu'd about one year on this land, build small houses and huts and made other Improvements thereon with their blody sweat and labour and under the most grievous hardships and dayly hazard of their lives from the french and Indian Ennemys, as well as from those more dreadfull one hunger and Cold, severall Gentlemen Came to them fron\ Albany, declaring they had bought that land of Governour Hunter, and if tlijey iiitentioned to live thereon they must agree with them, to which demand these poor people answered, that the land was the King's and that VoT..

in.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

426

the were the Kings Subjects and had no power to agree to any thing about his Majesty's lands

without his special order, upon which these Gentlemen said,

German's reply'd that

King was

their

Wee

are King's of this land, but the

and that the land shou'd not be taken from them

in England,

without his Majesty's particular order.

Some time take the

s*)

after did these

Gentlemen send the Sheriff with some others upon the land, and to life, but he having timely notice of it was on liis Guai-d, so they

Captain by force, dead or a

were prevented. These Gentlemen finding the Inhabitants resolut in keeping possession of the lands tliey had thus improv'd and from whence they drew the only support to themselves and family's fell on another

which was Clandestinely and basely to endeavour to sew Enimity betwixt them and the Indians, and if possible to persvade them (fur money or Rumm) to put them in possession of the land and declare them riglitfull owners thereof, but in tliis also they fail'd tho' not without great troubles and Charge to those poor people, w1io were forc'd to put themselves on the mercy of the Indians, by giving them out of their notliing and begg of them, that since they had so long sukled them at their breast, not to wean them so soon and Cast them of. In the Spring, 1715 the Gentlemen from Albany sent a man to affix some papers on the land Containing in substance that whosoever of the Inhabitants shou'd see those papers, must either agree project

with them, or leave the land. This with

tlieir

Treatnings being done in the Spring, the best planting time for Indian Corn, (the

Chief of their subsistance) damp'd the

spirits

of these poor people, slackned their Industry and did

'em great damage. In

tlie

year 1717

Schorie, that 3

men

Came

the Gouvernor to Albany, and sent orders to the Inhabitants of the land

of every village shou'd appear before

him on a day appointed, and

particularly

the abovenam'd Captain Weiser.

When them

to

tliey

appear'd before him, he said, that he wou'd hang John Conrad Weiser, and order'd

answer him the 3 following questions

viz.

Wliy they went to inhabit the land Schorie without his order. 2. Why they wou'd not agree with the Gentlemen at Albany. 3. Wliy they concerned themselves so much with the Indians. Their to the first question was, that His Excell had ordered them to shift for themselves, and denied them farther subsistance, the utmost necessity and poverty forc'd them to remove thitlier to earn their bread for the maintenance of their Wifes and Cliildren, and tliat they continued their settlement on the same motives in expectation of His Majesty's Grace and His Excell. favoiu*. When they mention'd His Majesty, the Governour in a great passion said. What Great Britain, Lewingstnn added, here is y King, meaning tlie Governor, Whereupon they beg'd liis parand don, and that he would forgive them their Ignorance and Inadvertency. To The second question they return'd this answer, that the people were so many, the land so small and the wags so bad, tliat it was impossible to agree with the Gentlemen on their extravagant terms, especially after the vast expence and labour they had luid, not mentioning, that the Indians liad given it to the Crown for their use, and that there was no direction imediately from his Majesty 1

.

:

to confirm

it

to them, they being sent over witli a promise of so

serv'd any body,

it

much

land pf head, and

if

they

must be the King and not a privat person.

They answerM to tlie tliird jioiiit, tliat because tliey liv\l on the borders of the french as a frontier, and were liable to their dayly insults against whom they could scarcely stand, they were oblig'd to keep fair with the friendly Indians amongst Whom, they dwelt, wliich was the only way to be protected and

li^

o in pea^e.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MAJNOK OK LIVINGSTON.

427

Governor Hunter then order'd, that those who w ould not agree with or turn tenants

to those

Gentlemen of Albany, to whom he liad Sold the land for 15U0 pistoles sliou''d remove from their habitations and Improvements and that they should make two lists, one of those that wou'd agree, the other of those tliat wou'd not agree witli tlie Gentlemen, and that he soon expected an order :^om England to transplant tliem to another place, but no such tiling was perforni'd. They then most submissively remonstrated to the said Governor, how hard it wou'd be to leave and abandon their houses lands and Imiirovements for nothing, besides that they were indebted for other

woud send 12 men to examine their works and improvements and give them money to pay their debts, but it was never perform'd. The Winter following they sent 3 men to New York to the Governour humbly beseeching him to grant them liberty to plough the lands or he wou'd other wise take care of them, but he answer'd, necessarys, tliereupon Governour Hunter answer'd, that he

What

said, is said,

is

meaning the Prohibition of plowing

at

Albany.

This was a thunder Clap in the ears of their Wifes and Children and the lamentation of

all

the people

increased to such a hight, and their necessitys grew so great, that they were forc'd for their

preservation to transgress those orders and sew some

have

Summer Corn and

fruits or else they

own must

starv'd.

These Gentlemen have thrown one of their women in prison man for plowing the land, and will not release him security, the same has also hapned to others.

as also a

The Governor

at

Albany,

till

who

still

continues there

he gives one hundred Crown's

Germans should take their oaths of being faithfull, and which they willingly agreed to, in hopes of a settlement, but this promises formerly maid unto them, was in vain. sent orders, that all the

withall to pay 8 shillings p^ head,

with

all tlie

(Endorsed)

Grievances of the Palatines in

Rd Augt

A BRIEF ALLOWING

New

20ti'

ROB'^

York.

1722.

LIVINGSTON TO MAKE A COLLECTION IN AID OP BUILDING A CHUKCH ON HIS MANOR. [Deed Book XI.]

William Burnet

New

Esq''

New York America and Vice Admirall of the

Captain Generall and Govern'' in Chief of the Provinces of

Jersey and Territories

thereon Depending

in

same &c.

To

all

in

Christian and Charitable people within

America sendeth

Greeting—

the Provinces of

New York and New

Jersey,

Whereas Robert Livingston Esqr Sole Proprietor of the Manor of Livingston hath proposed and doth propose to Estabhsh a Church or Meeting House and to send for and Call some able and Pious Dutch Reformed Protestant Minister from Holland according to the Constitution and Direction of the Reformed Church in Holland Agreeable to the Discipline And Government of the Dutch Church as is

by the Synod

at Dort in the Year 1618 and 1619 to Officiate therein for the Inhabitants and Sojourners within the same Manor Agreeable and suitable to the Vulgar Language and Education of the said Inhabitants, which pious work and the Building of Such Church or Meeting House wiU require a larger Sum of Money than Can reasonably be expected to be adv anced by any one particular person. I being willing and Desireous to promote and Encourage so pious an undertaking

established

428

PAPEHS RELATING TO THE MANOR OK LIVINGSTON.

Have

Therefore thought

Collect

&

fitt

to grant unto, the

same Robert Livingston Leave and Lycence

within the said Province towards the Carrying on and Finishing of the same this shall

be to him a

Anno Domini

1721

Warrant

sufficient

Anuoq Regni R'

Given under

Georgij

Magn:

my hand &

;

And

Twenty

seal this

for his so

first

his Excellency's Is

doing

day of June

Brittan. Franc, et Hib: fid: Defensoris Septimo.

W By

to

Receive the tree and Voluntary Charity and Contribution of any of the Inhabitants

Burnet.

Command Robin

Dy Secry

THIRD IMMIGRATION OF PALATINES. In Council, Oct ye 27. 1722.

Present His Excellency William Burnet Esq'

&c &c &c

This Board being informed that a ship was arrived here with Palatines from Holland which had lost many of its passengers in tlie Voyage & upon Examinaand Doctor Cobus who had been Ordered to go on Board and Visit tlie said Vessel] and the Surgeon thereof, It does not appear to tliis Board there was any Contagious Distemper on Board the said Vessel] but upon Consideration of the Number of Persons who have been sick in the Voyage, and the quantity of Cloaths which may have Contracted Noisome Smells through the Length of the Voyage It is ordered by his Excelly with tlie Advice of the Council that the Commander of the said Ship do not Suffer any Person to Come on Shoar on this Island with any Cloaths Chests or otlier fui-ni-

touched in England, and wliich had

tion of Doctr Braine, Doctor Nichols

tui'e till

same have been thoroughly air d upon Nutton Island Commander shall Answer the Contrary at his Peril.

the

as the said

GOV:

dui-ing the pace of sixhoui'satleast

BURNET TO THE BOARD. [Lond Doc XXII.]

New York

My

******

21st

Novr

1722

Lords

When

I

was

at

Albany

I

expected to have fixed the Palatines in their new

Settlement which Iliad obtained of the Indians for them at a very easy purchase, but

I

found them

tlie cunningest among them fomt-nting their Divisions on purpose number might leave the Province and tlien the great Tract of Land lately purchased would make so many considerable estates to the few Familys that should remain and with this view they told me that they found the Land was far short of w hat the Indians had represented it to them

very

much

divided into Parties and

that the greatest

and that not above twenty Familys could subsist there which I shewed them was a mere pretence by naming a Tract where 130 Familys live and flourish, which by their own confession was less and no better soil than theirs how e\ er since I found it w as tlieir humour to luidervalue Avliat had been done

for

them

I

thought

it

best to wait

Tract rather than to shew too desiretl to

be

much

in a distinct Tract

till

they should of themselves be forward to settle this

earnestness in pressing tliem to

from the

rest

&

it.

were those who had

But all

new

as about sixty familys

along been most hearty

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OK LIVINGSTON.

429

•

Government

have given them leave to purchase land from tlie Indians, between the present Hunter & part of Canada on a Creek called Canada Creek where they will be still more immediately a Barrier against the sudden incursions of the French, who made tliis their Road when they last attacked & burned the Frontier Town called Schonectady The other Paktines have since my return to New York, sent some of theii'bod) to desire a warrant of Survey for the

EngHsh

I

settlements near Fort

—

New

me that I had done right, in not being too was at Albany And indeed in my dealings with those people I find very little gratitude for favors done tliem, k, particularly that those who were best taken care of & settled m good Lands by my Predecessor are the most apt to misrepresent him and this is managed by a few cunning persons among them that lead the rest as they please, who are for the generality a laborious and honest but a htadstrung ignorant people. for

Tract already purcliiiscd, which convinces

ernest in that alfair

when

I

SECRETARY CLARKE TO

W WALPOLE. N. York Nov. 27th, 1722.

Sir I find

myself obliged to give you the trouble of

ing w'h impatience their

ill

succes hitherto are

tlils

to

prevent the malice of

now with new hopes about

my

enemies

to attack

who bear-

me from

another

quarter: I will be as short as possible.

Brigadier Hunter wanting Certificates from the palatins themselves to prove that he had subsisted them pursuant to ye Queens orders & his acco'^ sent me a draft of a certificate giving me liberty w'l^all to alter it if I saw occasion and wrote to several others of his friends here to consult wt'» me and to be assisting in the alfair, I considered his draft as thurroughly as I could shewed the Gov"" & some others those parts w^^ I thought most liable to' objections k discoursing upon the capricious humours ol those people I proposed some alterations in the draft of y«= Certificate to make it go down the better, and a paragraph at the end to still their fears of entering thereby into an additional obligation t repay the King the money expended for their Subsistance how idlesoever tliis would have been vere they reasonable men it was then thought pertinent enough, I shewed the Brigadeer'S friends who vouchsafed to talk w'*» me the alterations I had made and receiving their approbation I gave it to one of them w*h my earnest request to proceed w*'' the utmost caution and temper he took it and went to albany wth the Gov'' round about wci> place most of th.e palatins live, and where they were to wait on his Exart and Bellomont on the

him

other, an agreement had been entered into to equip a privateer on shares for their mutual advantage. t

Kidd shortly

after

deceived his associates and brought down trouble on all those who had been unfortunately, though innocently, connected with him. On the death of Lord Bellomont in 1701, the Leisler party, which was strong in power and had long been desirous to wreak vengeance on those who had brought their principal leaders to the gallows, caled on Livingston to account for a large sum of money which had passed through his hands. Having failed to comply with this invitation, the Assembly demanded that he be deprived of all his offices, and passed an act sequestrating his estates until he should account. It became now incumbent on him to return once more to Europe. Previous to his departure, he had the tact to obtain from the Indians authority to act as their agent and representative in England, "contrary (as the Assembly declared) to the duty and allegiance he owes to his Majesty and to the peace of this government. "J He was suspended from the Council on the 20ih of April of the following year. Misfortune was not yet tired of him. The vessel in which he was a passenger was captured off Bristol by a French Privateer, and Mr. L. was put ashore, after having been " used very barbarously." After considerable delay he obtained (in 1705) the Queen's warrant restoring him to all his offices, but notwithstanding this authority, the Council not only refused to vote him any salary, but declared his Indian office useless and demanded that it be abolished. Mr. L. however, very prudently continued to perform its duties and on the arrival of Lord Lovelace, remonstrated against the Council's proceedings. The act of ITOl, still remaining on the Statute book, he now turned his attention to secure its repeal. He succeeded in getting himself elected representative for Albany, anil took his seat for the first time in the Assembly, in 1709. In November of that year, tlie law was repealed. He continued to represent that city until Sept. 171-1. Having now amassed considerable wealth through his various contracts with the government and his connection with the Palatines, he set about securing for his own Manor the privilege of being specially represented in the Assembly. This being accomplished, he took his seat as its representative in 1716. He was chosen Speaker of the Assembly in 171K, and resigned all the offices he held in Albany in favor of his eldest son Philip, in 1721. He served as Speaker until 1725, but continued member of the Assembly until 1726, when he finally retired from public life. During * Holgnie'* thill

t

he

Amer: Geneulogy.

was "of

Scoll

See Lond. Doc.

md xiii.

Capt. Kidd. }

Auemb.

Jeurn.

i.

VJT

In Loiid. Doc. X. 173,

l>y lurth,

but horn after King

it

is

alleged that he

James

I.

cime

to the

was " born of Scotch crown of England."

456 ct seq. tot ihe agreement belweeu BoUomoiU, Livingston

&

parenls in Rotterdam

Kidd,

&

but he wiys himself (Ibid. 301)

Livingston'* bond to BcUomoiit aa security for

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

her heirs

&

and to which was also referred the report of the Surveyor General pursuhim from the Councill Have Considered of the Same and are of opinion that

successors

ant to a Reference to

your Excellency

Hagendorn

435

may Grant to & assigns

their heirs

Jacob Sharpe Johannes Heiner Johannes Kolman

& bounded

six thousand acres butted

of land for a Glebe for the use of a palatine minister for the time being school which

is

by the

trilstees aforsaid to

der in trust for themselves

&

«Sc

Christopliel

as in the petition fburty acres

who

is

hkewise to teach

be ,Laid out of the unimproved Lands

send the

remain-

the other palatine heads of familys inhabiting the said Six thousand

Each of the said Inhabitants his & her heirs & assigns so much of the Sai of

March 1700, When by King WiUiam's Confirmation of an Agreement between

this

Province and Connecticut, the Western Boimds of that Colony were setled at twenty miles from

Hudson's River And they cannot find any other Alteration in tlie Eastern Bounds of this Province, and have no Reason to beheve any other was made before or since that time. 6''> That King James the first by Letters Patent bearing date the 3^ 14,

1753,

GOV. CLINTON TO GOV. SHIRLEY.

New York

„ biR

1st

October 1753.

communicated your Excellency's Letter of the 1 7*'' ult" and the Papers accompanying it to his Majesty's Council of this Province, who were of Opinion they should be referred to the Committee of the Council and Commissioners appointed to examine into the Eastern Boundaries of this Government, that they might consider of them and make Report to me on the Subject which I have referred accordingly and as soon as I receive their Report shall send you a Copy of it. In the mean time I can assure you from good Information that Michael Hallinbeek who was lately confined in the Goal of Dutchess County made his Escape from thence witli several Debtors Nor can I think he met with any severe Treatment while there It must be a mistake tliat he was confined in a Dungeon, there being I am told no such tlace belonging to that Goal, and as to Bail I

—

being refused for his Appearance, in this too, I imagine your Government has been misinformed

454

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

for as he

was committed on the Proclamation

I issued

with the Advice of the Council he could

not have been admitted to Bail but by Application to the Chancellor or to one of the Judges.uf the I am well assured no such Application was ever made. have a just sense of your Excellency's good Intentions to bring this unhappy Controversy about our Boundaries, to an amicable Issue and am fully convinced notliiug is more likely to advance this good End than a mutual Condescension and ^loderation which I shall endeavour to

Supreme Court and I

promote by every Method in

my Power as

long as I continue in the Administration. I

am

REPORT ON THE PAPERS FROM LIASSACHUSETTS BAY.

May

it

please your Honor

In obedience to an Order in Council on the 29*^ day of September

last referring to the

Committee

of Council and the Commissioners appointed to examine into the Eastern Boundaries of this province

A Letter from his Excellency last together

Bay of the

Governor Shirley

to the late

Governor Clinton of the

with a Representation of the Council and Assembly of

tlie

IT'ii

of September

province of the Massacliusets

An

Act of that Province to appoint Commissioners to examine into the Boundary Line or Lines between Massachusetts Bay and New York and to treat witli the Commissioners appointed by the Colony of New York respecting tlie same As also a Vote of the said Council and Assembly relating to the Confinement of one Micliael Hallinbeck ia the Goal of Dutchess County We have duly weighed and considered of the same But before we proceed to Report our opinion thereon to your Honour beg leave briefl}- to recite the proceedings touching the said Matters as they appear in the papers laid before us which we find as follow. That upon Complaints of Encroachments made by people of the Massachusetts Bay On Lands long since granted under the great seal of this province a Committee of the Councill of the said province did in their report of tlie Twenty Eighth of ffebruary Last set in a clear light his Majestys right To the Jurisdiction and soil of the Lands westward of Connecticut river and northward of the Colony of Connecticut as part of this his Majesty's province of New York and then pointed out and Considered all the Grants within their Knowledge, by which the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay have pretended To claim, and showed tliat they could not under any of tliem ijglitfully claim any soil or Jurisdiction west of Connecticut river and proposed that the Generall Court of the Massachusetts Bay should Inform tliis Government "By what Warrant tliey Chiim or Exercise "any right

To

ll'^ September to

soil

Governor Shirley and

To wliicli the Generall Com-t of the made no answer. But Instead thereof proposed

or Jurisdiction west of Connecticut river"'

Massachusetts Bay after Considering the said report

the appointment of Commissioners by Both provmces for settling the Bounds Between the said Colonies.

That the Councill of this province on the first of May Last Exhibited Sufficient reasons why Commissioners ought not To be appointed on the part of this province for that purpose. But that the Colony of the Massacliusetts Bay ought to answer the former plain request' made Concerning tlieir

Warrant, to Claim Westward of Connecticut River.

That on the Twelfth of June Last the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay gave a Generall But no particular answer To the said Question Twice proposed to them But Instead thereof resolve to pr».c :cd in

tlie

matters Urst Complained of by this Government.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

That the

Coiincill of this province

on the

lOt'i

455

of July Last, particularly pointed out the defects

and Insufficiencys of the answer of the Massaclmsetts Bay to said Question. And the injustice of and take upon themselves To be the judges, in Contempt of his Majestys Sole right to Judge in this matter, and tliat the said Councill propose the sending them a Coppy of the act of tliis province for appointing Commissioners To Examine into the Eastern Bounds of this Colony, and also propose the stay of Exercising the Jurisdiction of this province on any lands Easttheir Resolution to proceed

ward of our

antient grants

till

the final Settlement of this Controversy or his Majestys plea

Bay would make no other Encroachments on the But that sliould they Continue tlieir Encroachments it would tlien be the Indispensable duty of this Government to protect his Majestys Subjects thereof. That some person or persons pretending To Be Officers of the Massachusetts Bay came into the mannor of Livingston in this province (which manor has been in the quiet possession of Robert Livingston Junr and his Ancestors about Sixty Years under grants of this province) and on or about the nineteenth day of July last with the aid and assistance of a great number of persons in a Riotous manner Entred the house of Robert Vanduesen in tlie said Mannor of Livingston, and by force took Bound and Carryed away the said Robert Vanduersen and his son Johannes out of the said Mannor of Livingston in Order to Confine them In some Goal of the Government of tlie Massachusetts Bay pretending they acted under a Warrant or Authority from that Government. That on the Twenty Eightli day of July Last a proclamation was Issued by the Late Governour Clinton to apprehend the said Rioters and all who should for the future enter upon any Lands granted under the great seal of this province By Colour of any Authority from tlie Massachusetts Bay or New Hampshire and to Committ them to Goal to remain till delivered by due Course of Law. And That Michael Hallenbeck one of the said Rioters was by Vertue of the said proclamation, apprehended and Committed to the Goal of Dutchess County. Tliese things premised we shall beg leave to report our opinion on the Papers referred to us and first as to Michael Hallenbeck's confinement in Goal in this province we have seen a Coppy of a Letter from Governour Clinton to Governour Sliirley of the first of October Last, acquainting him with Hallenbeck's Escape out of Goal and the mistakes of their Information Concerning him which renders any other answer in Our opinion needless Save that it has been proved to us that the Land on which the said Hallenbeck Avas settled at the time of the said Riot, has been held by him and Others befoi*e him under the said Robert Livingston and his ancestors as part of the Mannor of Livingston above Sixty Years upon annual rents. We Conceive that the Massachusets Bay could not with any propriety, Interfere in the matter of his Imprisonment even had his Bail been refused after proper application wliich however was not sure should be known, if the Massachusetts said antient Grants,

done.

As to the said Representation of the 11th of September The two Houses of the Massachusetts Bay declare therein

that " they proposed the mutual appointment of Commissioners for Settling the Boundary Line [whicli] this JVew York Government did not agree to. But on the advice of the Councill there in a very Magisterial manner It was demanded of this Government what right they had to soil or Jurisdiction west of Connecticut river? Upon which we Beg Leave to remark that when they made the proposal to appoint Commissioners which was on the 12tii of Aprill they had the report, of the Coimcill of this province of the 28th of flfebruary under their Consideration In which the Question which they are pleased to Term.

Magisterial was Contained and that it was a proper and the only Rational Question that Could be put will appear upon Considering that report and in part from the purport of it herein Before set

*

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

456 forth.

'Tis a question to

which

this

Goverunient had Intitled

Equality of doing To us as we had done

to

it

self

To a

them by our liaveing given a

fail*

fair

answer by the rule of

answer, in such manner

had been put by the Massachusets Bay to this Government, and Tis a ques& thereby have set forth their right if any other they had tlian what by that report is pointed out and shown to be void. We would further remark that they Omitt the reason given by the Council here on the first of May Last why it was improper to appoint Commissioners for the purpose Requested and are pleased to Introduce tliis which they call Magisterial as if it had Been the answer of tliis province to their request But why this representation of the matter is made by them, tliey can best account. To the next paragraph wherein they Question What the Councill here had declared in their Report of the 1^' of May Concerning their knowledge of this aifair. We say the Council here are on their Oaths in all their Transactions as Councillors and it seems to stand in need of some Apology to call iL question what they had so declared. They ate then pleased to Express themselves thus "As diverse of our ancient and best Towns had been settled West of this river about an hundred years and the Shire Town of Springfield near an hundred and Twenty years" with respect to Those things tliey might have been so and yet not have Come to tlie Knowledge of the Councill here, and if they are so (which we know not) Yet we do not apprehend tliat they will make a Title to any Lauds against his Majesty. On the first readijig of the above paragraph few of us doubted but that the Shire Town of Springfield had been situated on the west side of Connecticut river Till we were informed that it is on the East side of that river & that M*" Poplis Large map Represents it so which Information some of us doubted and still doubts the Truth of^ Because of the Difficulty of Reconciling it with what was Conceived the Obvious sense of the above paragrapli. We believe that their Committee did Last May Enter into the Manor of Livingston (quietly possessed under a grant of this province about Sixty years without any pretence of the Massachusetts Biiy) and are Informed that notwithstanding the said Robert Livingston had then offered to shew them his Title and had actually shewn them a Coppy of the said report of the fiebruary and also the report of their Generall Court of the 12"» of Aprill proposing To appoint Commissioners for the Settlement of the Boundary s in question and had represented to them the injustice of their proceedings and the undue means taken to Corrupt his Tenants and to induce them to disown liis title and pay him no more Rents and even after the said Committee of the GeneraU Coiu-t had appeared Satisfied of the Injustice which had been done to him and had in his presence recommended to his Tenants To pay their rents and agree with him as well as they Could till the line was settled Yet Several persons did about ten days after proceed by order of the said Comme as we are Informed to the Surveying and running a line within the said mannor and we believe that Instead of the said as if the Like question tion

We

'

suppose they would have answered,

wit]\ Iiim "tliat all proceedings should be stop't till further Orders were taken by tlie Two Governments" They did Only recommend to his Tenants the Conduct above set forth. But that he agreed to give up his mannor or any part of it To them or to any of his Corrupted Tenants or to lay aside tlie Exerciseing his just right within his mannor as is in part Insinuated we And as to Josiah Lumis M'' Livingston has proved before us that tliink is against reason to Believe. he was for about Six years a Tenant at Will on his Mannor and that about two years agoe he was warned to go ofl" and M'' Livingston requested him to provide some other place out of his Mannor whereon tlie said Lumis by Letters shown to us, Beged leave of M'' Livingston to stay so long as to raise one crop of Summer Grain and promised then to remove which request M"" Livingston coniplyed with but when he had gathered tliat Crop M^ Livingston was Informed that Lumis was preparing to put iu another Crop whereupon lie sent Lumis notice that if he did put in another Crop he might

Committees agreeing

PAPERS RFLATlNt. TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

depend on it he should not reap put in anotlier Crop and gave out

But notwithstanding that, in defiance of M'' Livingston he did tliat Massachusets-Bay would defend him, and fce with many others it

Livingston's Tenants, were prevailed

of

set fortli)

To have

On

to sign the petition (In the Representation before us

grants from the Massachuscts Bay, for which Heason

duty, if he would preserve his

457

Mannor and Tenants

to

it

became

M'' Livingston's

perform what he had declared That Lumis

went with a Sufficient nunAer of people and did accordingly Cutt Down and Carry away that Crop as it was Lawfull & right for him to do. No autliority in the County of Hampshire had any Riglit To take Cognizance of any offence (if that Avas one) done in the manor of Livingston witliin this province and it was highly Criminal in any of their Officers to Execute any \Aarrants there, and the demand of the DeUvery up of tliose officers to be sent here for their Tryalls we do not apprehend was extraordinary or unprecedented but Rational and Just for suppose officers of this Province, by a Vvarrant from him, Avent to Boston, and Broke Open a house there, and brought away the people, and Committed them to Goal here, for an offence done in Boston, would it be very Extraordinary or unprecedented, to demand those officers from this Government for their tryalls in Boston, for that high Crime Committed there by should not reap that Crop and

them

?

But the Cases are alike

this province as

Boston

is

Livingston in ^uly

for the

last

Manor of Livingston we Conceive

part of Massachusetts-Bay,

and while the

to

be as clearly part of

said Report of

ffebruary Last, and what they call the Magisterial Question therein, stands unanswered, it

will appear so to every Impartial

man who

reads

tlie

we

28'''

of

Believe

it.

The Massachusets Government have been pleased

and place for tlie meeting of would liave been pleased to have Recollected that the Government of this province is his Majesty's Immediate Government, which theirs is not, it would have been sometliing more Decent to haue referred the nameing of those things to this Government. And as his Majesty is Concerned in the Controversy, and no Settlement which can be made by any authority Derived from Both Governments Avithout the Ruyal Direction participation and Concurrence, can be Binding on the CroAvn, Ave Conceive that the appointment of Commissioners for that purpose Avould not only be fruitless and Ineffectual to tlie Determination of the ControA'ersy but also Derogatory To the rights of the Crown and disrespectful! to his most Sacred Majesty. Had the Government of the Massachusets Bay giuen a fuU and perfect Answer to the Report of the 28t'i of ffebruary last and shoAvn a Colour of Title they had by Grants of the CroAvn to Soil or And shoAvn any reasonable Cause to doubt whether tlie Jm'isdiction West of Connecticut River. Connecticut River was the Eastern Boundary of this province. It's possibly there might from thence have arisen some Cause for the meeting of Commissioners of Both sides to Come to a riglit understanding on the Doubtfull matters thereby arisen But Avhile the Title of this Province to be Bounded by Connecticut River, does stand Clear in that Report and no Title appears For the Massachusetts Bay to any soil or Jurisdiction west of that River We cannot apprehend any use even for the meeting of Commissioners, nor that its in the poAver of this Government to give their Commissioners any other Instructions than to receiA'e the ansAver of the oMassachusetts Bay to the matters in the said report. To deliver which Ave see no need of the Charge of the meeting of Commissioners on either side, Avhen it may be done by a Letter by the post There are some other facts set forth in the said Representation Avhicli Ave think are of very little or no Consequence to the matter in question, av he ther they be as set forth or not, for Avhich reason Ave have declined Examining into them and takeing any other than this notice of them. As To his Excellency Governour Shirley's said Letter Ave agree in opinion with him, that there ought to be Mutual Condescentions on both sides, and that there can be But Little prospect of any Accomodatheir Commissioners with those of this province

VoL.

III.

58

:

to appoint a time

If they

458

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

and whatever Condescention is reasonable to be granted by Government, \^ doubt not will Be Complyed with when requested, and as M'' Livingston has already been at very considerable charge concerning the apprehending of Vanduersent & his son and procuring Bail for them we beg Leave to recommend it to your honour to desire of Governour Shirley tion of those differences without them,

this

that the said Vauduersens

And

carrying

of

As

lastly

on

it

their Bail be discharged to save further

Expence

in that matter.

likely to be protracted to a very unreasonable length without the least

is

determination

its

and

Controversy hath ali-eady subsisted a Long time and in the present Method of

this

We

pray

} our Honour will be pleased to lay

tliis

Appearance Report before the Governm'

of the Massachusets Bay to be Communicated to the next General Com-t hopeing

tliat they will come Government on what their Claim to Soil or Jurisdiction Westward of Connecticut River is founded, and how far the same extends that this Government may Consider of the same, and do therein what shall appear just and reasonable. But if that Government should

to a Resolution to signify to this

:

still

decline, or neglect to take this Step,

may shall

be prepare, and

have come

lay before yoiu-

we

shaU, agreeable to the Trust reposed in us, as soon as

Honour, a proper Representation of the several matters, which

our Knowledge, and may be thought material in

to

tills

Controversy In order to be

transmitted to his Majesty.

All which

is

neverthless

By

humbly submitted

order of the

Commee

Jn° Chambers Chairman

New York 16

By

)

Novem' 1753

order of the Commissioners

Paul Richard Chairman.

)

ROBT LIVINGSTON TO

GOV.

DE LANCEY. Mannor Livingston ye

May As

it

12 ffebr 1764

please your Honour

I still

continue to be troubled by the people of the Massachusets Government

I find

myself

Obliged to address your Honour for assistance and protection as an Inhabitant of this Province, whicli from the

I have had of your honour, and your Love for Justice, and punish the Guilty, leaves me no room to doubt of your Honours readiagainst the Incroachments ol these restless people, and to fall upon some way

Long personal acquaintance

to protect the Inosent,

ness to defend

me

Effectually to protect

Two years,

my

of

&

tlie

me from

Tenants latter

their Insults for the future.

]\Iichial

Ilalenbeck and Josiah Loomis the former a tenant for above thirty

about 12 whorae as he was an ore Diger

my

Late Father gave liberty to build

a small house on his ore bed for the Conveniency of his family, these two persons have been to Boston tliis

winter, with David Ingersol of Sheffield, alias Westenhook, to Solicit the General Court for

ray Lands and returned IG days agoe in high Spirits

&

Report among

my

other tenants that they

them by the General Court to bear their Expences and incouraged to go on assurance to be baild by them in case this Government Sliould order them in Goal and to have all tlieir Charges paid them, tliat a Committee was to come out about the middle of march to lay out a township in my mannor and that they had a letter from the General Court to M^ Lydius to bail Joseph Pain whome I last fall sued fur Trespass for distroying upwards of 1100 trees near my Furnace on which lie was committed to Albany Goal, with which letter Pains wife had each

JEIO, given

in troubleiiig

Is

gone up

to

me

witli

Alh;my but not

yett returnod, tho' daily exprotod witli her

husband,

whome

I

doubt

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459

not but she will bring with her, These proceedings of the General Court

behaviour

late

of

my

tenants

usual and

out

my

I

I

have no reason

who were

have reason

if

true (which from their

doubt) have a manifest tendency to Confusion and hostility,

to

before this easy and Quiet

now

to fear that tliey will join the

begin to be Shy of coming to

me when

Committee against

my

many

house as

they come to lay

Lands.

must intreat your Honour to order the Sherift" of tliis County to Raise tlie posse Comitatus & come to my assistance as soon as he shall have notice from me that this Committee is come, in order to take & confine them as rioters, and the Justices of the County that they be Vigilant also to Suppress this riot or whatever else your Honour and the Members of his Majestyes Councill shall Judge necessary to be done on this occasion. And I must beg your Honour that you will be pleased to advise me how I am to behave inWherefore

this

I

dangerous

affair-

The Honourable Committee and Commissioners of our Province, I hope has before this, drawn up a Representation of this affair of the Massachusets Government and presented it to your Honour to be transmitted as to

Lords of trade, as

to the

many more

in this province, the

this is necessary

more

so, as I

Massachusets Bay were to do this Last Sessions, yett Compleatedj to

recommend the same

to

am

and of great Consiquence informed that

tlie

to

me, as well

General Court of the

hope yom- Honour will be pleased if ours be not be done speedily, and your Honour will Infinitly oblige I

Your Honours Most obediant & most

Humble

Serv*

Rob* Livingston Jun'.

REPORT OF THE GENL COURT OF MASS: ON LIVINGSTON'S PROCEEDINGS AGAINST PAYNE.

May

it

please your Excellency

The prospect of a Controversy opening between this Province & the Province of New York respecting the Western Boundary of this Province, has been very disagreeable to the Assembly, and it was with much Pleasure that we were informed of the good Disposition lately discovered by his Honour the Lieutenant Governor of that Province, towards an amicable Settlement of that affair, & the assurances he has given your Excy of his making all reasonable attempts to effect it. But it gives us no small Concern to observe while the People of this Province are on their Part apting with

all

&

Lenity towards the private Persons in that Province engaged

this

publick Dispute, and this Province are suspending the Pro-

possible Moderation

in actions here that

grow out of

secution of such measures as they had publickly resolved, only in Compliance w"' a Proposal of

made by his Hon"" the Lieut' Gov' of that Province, and from a Disposition to avoid every thing that might tend to hinder their Success, That at tlie same time, the Conduct of some of the Gentlemen in that Province is directly the Reverse, & such as attempting a mutual Settlement of this Dispute

tends very

much

to

The exorbitant tant on the

Lands

prevent such. Agreement.

Bail

demanded by

in Controversy,

the Sherriff of the County of Albanj' from one Pain an Lihabi-

& now

a Prisoner in Albany Goal, at the Suit of

M'

Livings-

tone for Trespass in Cutting Timber Trees on those L^nds,& the Reason offered by the Sheriff for his requiring such Bail, are equally extraordinary

Action for less than £1000 lawful

Money

of

&

surprising,

New York,

For he refuses

to accept Bail in tliat

assigning this as his Reason therefor, vix*

460

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

That the said Pain

is

suspected as liaving been concerned in a Riot committed there, w hen the

said Pain lias been never indicted or any

accept of Bail even in that extravagant

red in that action to

tliat

time,

method of proceeding, and we

tlio'

way prosecuted

Sum

And

tlierefor.

would

unless the Prisoner

no Tryal had been had thereon,

liurably conceive peculiar to

the

first is

Sherriff refusing to

pay him the Cost incur-

altogether a

City of Albany,

tlie

if

new

&

illegal

not limited to this

particular Case. Tlie

Conduct

advices

&

also of M"^ Livingstone towards the People settled there (according to the repeated

Complaints

we have from

tliem) in his threatning

their Possessions, to destroy their buildings,

oned,

them,

&,

is

in sending Parties of Riotous

&

&.

in otfering large

them to drive them by Force from Sums of Money to have them impris-

disorderly Persons from time

to endeavour- to

apprehend

such as we should not have at any time expected from a Gentl" of his Character and

Quality, mucli less should we have imagined he would have taken such Measures at a time when he was very sure, that the Execution of the Measures consulted and determined by this Province respecting tliis matter was suspended on a Prospect that a pubUck Determination of this Dispute Si a Settlement of t!ae Boundary Line between the two Provinces would probably soon be made,

& when

the People there had special Reason from his express Declaration, as well as from the

Nature of the thing

to

expect he would suspend

all

further Prosecutions against them, untill such

attempt of a publick accomodation should have been made.

These Proceedings both of the Sheriff are such as

we

k

of

M^

Livingstone

(tlio'

excite an Uneasiness with those Gentlemen, as well as our Concern

Persons,

& we

not equally extraordinary) yet

could not have expected, and such as cannot be justified, and such as

& Compassion

may justly

for the suffering

doubt not your Excy will be of the same opinion respecting these matters.

We thei-efore most earnestly desire your Excy to embrace tlie first Opportunity of writing to his Honour the Lieut' Gov' of New York in tlie most pressing Terms, that notliing be done by that Governm' or any of their People that shall tend to raise a Contention between the two Governm'* when a strict Friendship & Union seems more than ever to be necessary. That such unreasonable Proceedings as have been raention'd

be allow'd the Privileges

tlie

Law

dispute, all Proceedings against

them

&

tliat

for the future,

That the poor Prisoner may on those Lands in

as to all the People living

for matters relative thereto,

may be

intirely suspended,

And

improve their present Possessions without Fear or Interruption the proposed method of a mutual Determination of this Dispute shall have been properly

that they untill

may be

may be prevented

allows him,

suffered quietly to

attempted.

Which

is

humbly p

In Council April 11, 1751

offered

S.am'

Watts p

Order.

—Read & Ordered that this Report be accepted, & that Sylvanus Bom-n

&

Joseph Pynchon Esq" with such as the hon'''e House shall joyn be a

to

His Excy accordingly. Sent

down

for

Comm*«

to present the

same

Concurrence Tiio^

In the House of Repi'ves April 11, 1751, Read and Concur'd

&

Clarke Dp'x

Secry.

Col" Worthington, Col° Richards

Capt" Ashley arc joined for that Purpose.

Tho» Hcbbard

Copy examined p

J.

Willakd

Secry.

(Endorsed)

29 April Read to the

Commee

in Council Referred So

Commissioners.

Spk''.

&

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GOV. SHIRLEY TO

GOV.

461

DE LANCEY. Boston April 22nd 1754

Sir *

*

*

an Application made

me by

House of Representatives of Payne I must desire of your Honour that nothing may be done by the Government of New York or any particular persons tliere, that shall tend to raise a Contention between the two Governments at a time when a strict Friendship and Union seems more than ever to be necessary and tliat such severe Proceedings as are said to be liad against the said Payne may be prevented for the future, and that tliis poor Prisoner (if he has been hitherto debar'd) may be now allowed the Privilege of Law more especially in relation to tlie extraordinary Bail demanded of him and that he may l)e set at Liberty upon reasonable Bail and tliat as to the other People living on Lands in Dispute between the two Governments, a Suspension may be had of all proceedings against tliem, and that they may be suftered (juietly to improve tlieir Possessions untill the Proposed method for adjusting the Dilferences between the two Governments shall have been this

Pursuant

to

to

the Council and

Province occasioned by a Petition of one

;

;

;

attempted. I

thank you

for giving

lately finished at Coas

The Assembly

is

;

me

Intelligence of the Report at

Albany concerning a French

Fort's being

as also for that concerning the strength of tlieir furt at Niagara.

upon the Point of

rising

and the Post of

its

departure

;

so I

have only time

to

subscribe myself Sir

Your Honours most humble and most obedient servant

W.

Shirley.

REPORT ON THE PRECEDING.

May

We

it

please your Honour

had under Consideration two Letters from his Excellency Governor Shirley, one of January and the other of the 22^ of April with two Reports of the Council and of the 21 Assembly of the Massachusetts Bay the first without date and the second of the If' of April and a vote of that Government of the 1 1*'' of April appointing Commissioners for settling (in conjunction with ours) the Line between the two Governments. Which were referred to the Committee and Commissioners appointed to examine into the Eastern Boundaries of this Colony, that they might Report to your Honour their Opinion thereupon. We humbly conceive the principal Matters contained in the first mentioned Report are fully ansAvered in that from this Government of the 28''> of February 1753 and those subsequent to it: Or if a further answer should be necessary, as your Honour proposes to appoint Commissioners to meet the Commissioners of that Province, these Avitli the other Points relating to the Controversy must fall under their Consideration, and for this Reason we decline to make any observations upon them. As to what relates to the extravagant Bail demanded of one Pain and tlie Conduct of M"" LivWe beg leave to lay ingston in this and the other particulars complained of in the second Report. before your Honour that Gentleman's Affidavit, vvliich shows, if there be any Cause of Complaint have St

lately

;

462

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

respecting the refusal, or

and the Metliud this

for

tlie

demand

of Excessive Bail,

Redress in this Case

open and

is

it is

Dispute has been confined within the limits of his

able in our Opinion,

— being ]»rincipal]y directed

not against M"" Livingston but the Sherif

free.

appears M'' Livingstons Conduct in

It

own Manor, and

to i)revent the

therefore very justifi-

People of the Massachusets Bay from

setling his Lands or prevailiiig upon liis Tenants to take Titles for them under that Government and wlien it is considered tliat lie and his ancestors have been in Peaceable and quiet possession sinci)oiuted by the Mas-

M^ Livermore that Hendrick Brusie, Adam Shefer & came to tell me of January last David Shirts On the Jacobus van Duesen had been at his House the day before and told him that they '\vere sent round by the Boston People to the Tenants in the Manor Livingston to ask them whether they would join That in Case they w ould they should have all their witli them against their Landlord or not they had already been to several to discourse them on this Nothing That for them Irom Lands David Shirts answered Subject and had got their Answer, But what that was they would not inform That he had hired the Lands of them that he had nothing to do w ith the New England People sachusets

Bay Government

to lay

out those Lands are Cap' Watts M'' Bradlbrd and

—

—

—

—

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

me, and that as long t'.ien

as they continued

desired him, that

if

463

mine he would have nothing to do with any other. They me against them he would join with the New England

he came out with

People, and that they would return for his

Answer in a fortnight.

me tliat he had heard that tliey the New England People had raised a Company of One Hundred Men part on Taglikanick and part higher up in the Mountains to Defend Coenradt Rosman informed

Taghlfanick against themselves of

my

French and Indians but

tlie

that

I

am

was supposed

it

was in order

to possess

with greatest respect

Your Honours

Honourable James \ To De Lancey Esq"" his Majestys J Lieutenant Governor and [ tlie

Commander

it

Lands

and >

in Chief in

over the Province of

Most hble Serv^ Livingston

New I

Jun"".

York and

Territories de- A pending thereon in America /

New York

ffebruary

1755.

JOSEPH PIXLEY'S AFFIDAVIT. Claverack February 8th 1755.

V Ranslar and Dsrick Holy Evangelus Declares and Complains That le is In Danger and Now Will Take him & Bring him Into the Goal in is Afraid that Robert Noble or Some Other Person Obeyed the Orders of the Colony of New York. Reason that he hes Massachusett Bay for the Only AbRAHAJVI FONDA JUSt^ H Renselaer Ju'^ DiRCK W. Ten Broeck Jus^e This Evening Appeared Joseph Pixley Before us

upon

T. Broek Esq"" and

Abraham Fonda Henrey ^

tlie

:

:

WHITE'S AFFIDAVIT. Claverack Februry 8: 1765.

This Evening appeared William White

Ju''

Personally before us

Abraham Fonda Henrey V Ranslar

and Derick T Broeck Esq^es and Declares that on the 7U» Day of this Instant Februry Robert Noble and Some Others Assisting, Took the Body of Clark Pixley the Constable and the Body of Jolin Morreso and Have Carred tliem of To their Common Goal in Springfield and the said White Further Says that he is now Afraid and in Danger of Being Taken and Carred To tlie said Goal and for the Only Reason that he Obeys the Orders of the Government of New York.

Abraham fonda

Just"

H Renselaer Jus^ DiRCK

W. Ten Broeck

Justice.

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464

STEVENSON TO CAPT^ LIVINGSTON. Dear Sir yours of the 31" Ultimo am sorry that you are Scituated near so troublesome Neighbours am more appreliensive of greater Trouble Coll" Renselaer has been with me this Evening and sliewed me Copy of two Affi(la\ its taken before Abraham Fonda Henry Renselaer k Dirck Tenbroeck I reed

and

the one swears tliat he believes himself to be in Danger of being Carried off by one Noble who Acts by a Commission under the Governm' of Massachusett Bay and for no other Reason but because he obeys tlie Orders of this Governm' the otlier swears to the Same purpose but more that 2 men are actually Carried

oti'

one of tliem a Constable at Claverack.

me farther Arms on tuesday

Coll" Renselaer told

Companj s

in

Noble and your friend Michael Hallenbeck are to have their

tliat

Renselaer and the Sheriff goes

down

to

morrow and

will

on

tuesday take Kinderhook and Claverack People with him and endeavour to take Noble and the others wlio were aiding in taking the Constable and other otlier Affairs

I

Man

have on iiand or should gone in Company

I

I

am

busy with the Tax List and some

think

tliis

is

a publick Affair as

it

Woodbridge was here about ten Days agoe He told me that he had been lately at Boston and by what he understood tlieir Governm' meant not to take away your Property and that he did not believe you would loose any thing Considerable perhaps not one foot of Land only their Taxes were higher than in this Governm* and that would be all you could loose I have no time to enlarge as their is Company with me and tlie person who is to carry tlie Letter goes away as is said Early in the Morning I am with Respect seems only

to relate to tlie Jurisdiction

M''

Dear Sir Your most liumble Serv' Ja Stevenson.

Sunday the 9 Fe])ruary 1754 Eight at

Niglit.

AFFIDAVIT OF SHERIFF YATES. Claverack in the County of Albany Feb^y 13ih 1755. }

Abraham Fonda Esq'" one of his Majesties Albany, Abraham Yates j' Esq"" high Siieritf

Personally Appeared liefore nte

justices of the

of the city and & County of and being Duly sworn on the holy Evangelist Deposetli and Sayeth that on the Eleventh Day of tliis Instant Febf>' being Commanded by Henry Van Renselaer Esq'' one of his Majesties Justices for the Citty & County afores^ to take Into his the Deponents Custody one Thomas Wittney of Claverack afores^i whicli he in Obedience to their Commands accordingly did. But that afterwards on tlie Day afores^ tlie said Wittney was Rescued out of the Custody of the Deponent By Robert Noble of Claverack afores'' wlio witli a Pai-ty of About fifteen or twenty men made up to the Deponent and Presented his Pike to his Breast as If he Intended to Run him thro' The Body, S

Peace for the City

county of Albany

afores''

Men Presented their Guns at the Deponent, the Deponent further Sayeth, that him of what side he was, to whicli tlie Deponent Keplv'd, he was High Sheriifof s*! Noble asked the City and County of Albany, upon which said Noble ask'd him what Business he had there, at the same time ordering his party to seize on tlie Deponent which tliey aocoidingly Did and Confind him to a house Belonging to tlie said Noble where he was striclly watched By two Centinals By order of said Noble from about Elpvon in the Morning 'till ten at Night and then he the Deponent wliilst several of his

PAPERS BELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

was Conveyed

Custody

to Sheffield still in

for his appearance at their

till

May

ten next night

465

where he was obliged

to give in Bail

The Deponent further saith that he was bound sum of one hundred and fifty Pounds Lawful money, and further

Next Court

to appear Said Court or Ibrfiet the

in

next,

the Deponent Sayeth not.

Abraham ffonda

Justice.

(Endorsed) Febry 13 1755. Affidavit of Jun"^

Abraham Yates

Esqf

AVHO SEIZED

THE HIGH

NAMES OF PERSONS SHIRREF OF CITY & COUNTY OF

ALBANY THE 11 FEBREB 1755.

m Robert Noble

William S Halenbeck

Thomas Willnie

Myhiel Halenbeck Hendrik A Brosie

Jacob Bacon Joseph Jelht

William Ja Rees

Benjn Lovejoy

Francis Bovie

Elysa Stodder

Andris

Benjamin Chittenton Richard Vane

William

Talvenis Stevens

Hymon

Wheat Herk

Andrew Lovejoy

J. J.

Rees

Halenbeck

Natan Lovejoy Spenser

Daniel Lovejoy.

IT. GOV.

DE LANCEY TO

GOV. SHIRLEY.

New York

17

Febry 1755

made a complaint to me that he is threatned and disturbed in the by some of the Magistrates & others of your Government, and I am informed that Robert Noble an inhabitant of this Province has a Commission as a Captain from you, and that some others have also Commissions & that the said Noble has taken Clark Pixly a Constable and John Morreso & carried them to the Goal at Springfield, I persuade myself your Excellency has not been fully acquainted with these circumstances as I am assured you would not give into M*' Livingston has lately

possession of his lands

measures that tend to create a

civil

war between

his Majesty's subjects especially at a time

when

I expect from your Excellency's jusbe immediately discliarged and that you will be pleased to revoke the Commission given to Noble & others who are inhabitants of tliis Province and have long l^eld their lands by title under it. Nothing Cjould give me a greater concern than to be laid all ovu* attention is requisite to

tice that

you

under the necessity disorderly

Vol.

oppose our natural enemy.

will order the Constable

& Moreso

to

at this time of enforcing the authority

&

laws of the Government against these

and seditious persons who disturb the peace of the Province,

HL

5»

I therefore

hope your

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

466

Excellency will discountenance them and sion, tlie proposal of a

Massachusetts

made by

such as appears to

ment one

temporary line the

tliird

me

pvrt

a stop to such evil practices as must end in confu-

Avest side of

Housatanik River

to

100 yrds West of Fort

the Commissioners of this Province at Albany to your Commissioners

very reasonable to be embraced by Massachusetts Bay,

it

is

leaves your Govern-

of Westenhook Patent which was granted under this Province in the year 1705 and

purchased of the Indians in 1085, the rather as from the Records I have seen and the arguments used, it seems very evident, that liis Majesty's rights extend eastward as far as Connecticut River,

which

is

to give

above thirty miles beyond the

you

now you

this trouble,

ble I could not avoid

I shall

it,

line

proposed by

this Province.

I

are so deeply busied in other matters,

conclude with wishing you success

&

am

sorry to be obliged

Your Excellency

is

sensi-

with the assurances of

my

being with great esteem

Yours &o

Gov Shirley

.

New York

AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN YAN RENSSELIER.

John Rensselaer of the Mannor of Rensselaerwick in the County of Albany Esq' of full age bei)ig Duely sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God Deposeth and saith, that some time in the beginning of this month of February, he Received Infbrlnation, that one Robert Noble ss

severall otlier of his Tenants, within the said mannor, had Entered into a Confii-mation with some Boston People, and disclaimed being any Longer Tenants to or under him and gave out and pretended to hold their Lands and possessions within the said ^Mannor under Boston Government, and that they had taken Clerk Pixly one of the Constables of Claverack in the said Mannor, and by force of Ai-ms, had Carried him theuce, and one John Morress prisoners into Boston Government, and also had been Guilty of other Outrages and Threatenings upon severall other of his Deponents Tennents in order to force and Compell them to Join in opposing the Deponents Rights and Title in the said Mannor, and holding their possessions which they had from and under him, under Boston Government, Whereupon the Deponent took to his Assistance Abraham Yates Esq"" high Sheriff of the City and County of Albany, and went to Claverack, and from thence, went in Company with his Brother who is a Justice of the peace for the said County, and the Sheriff and severall other persons, in order to goe and see what his said Tenents were about, and if he Could prevent their falling from him, and Joining the Boston people, in Committing breaches of the peace. That in Travelling along towards Nobles House they overtook one Thomas Wiiitney, who they were Informed, was one of the persons that took Clark pixly the Constable, and John Mcrriss prisoners as aforesaid Whereupon the Sheriff Yates was ordered by tlie Justice to take him into Custody, untill a proper Enquiry Could be made about the matter and tlie Deponent, and his Company went on towards Nol)les House, and as the Deponent Came near the House, he was Greatly surprized by seeing severall of his own Tennents, and M' Livingston's Tennents with severall New-England people from sliefiield altogether armed witli Guns Swords, Clubs and other Weapons, and Robert Noble as their Captain witli a pike, that as the Deponent was advancing towards them, they Called to him and Swore bitterly, Whereupon the Deponent nevertlieless that they would sluite him, if lie Came within the ffence Damn'd, and be asked bid them where the sheriff" was, and some them shute and rode up to them, and of them, said he was well, and that tliey liad him in the House, and told the Deponent he fiad nothing to doe there, and that they would not Let the sheriff goe unless tho Deponent would give them a

and

•

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Bond

that he

would

let

them

alone,

and not meddle with them

467

untill the Controrersie should

be

Decided, That the Deponent saw the sheriff in Custody in Nobles House, and has been since Informed

they Carried him a prisoner to Sheffield in Boston Government, and the Deponent furtlier saith, that he was informed that his Excellency Governour Shirley had given the said Robert Noble a

Commission he had

to

be Captain of a Company within Claverack in the Manor of Renslaerwick and that and Commissionated severaltother Military Oincers to Doe Duty and Have Juris-

also appointed

Manner of Livingston, and the Deponent also saith Government of Boston intended to Build two Foorts in the said Mannor, and keep Soaldiers in them, in order to protect them, and that in a Little time they would Come and Lay the Land out for them, that they also intend to Lay that part of the Mannor out in Townships and sell it, and the Deponent fui-ther said that the said Robert Noble, hath been a Tenant on the said Manor where he now Lives, under him the Deponent about six or seven years, and that his the Deponents father, had settled severall other of the Tennents there, (as he hath been Informed and Verily believes to be True) upwards of Thirty years past, and also saith that he and his ancestors with those who were owners of tlie Colony of Renslaerwick, have beem in possession thereof, ever since the Dutch settlements in this Country and further saith not. John van Rensselaer ) Sworn the 22d of diction witliin the said

that severall of

liis

Mannor, and

Tenants, told

February 1755. Before

me

Jn.°

R.

also in the

him

that the

)

Chambers.

LIVINGSTON TO LT. GOV. DELANCEY. Mannor Livingston ye

May

IT

8

March

1755.

PLEASE YOUR Honour

On my return home from New- York I was informed by Lieu* Dirck Ten Broeck, that he had had an information, that Michial Halenbeck of Takanick iu my mannor, had taken a Commission of his Excel' y Governor Slierley, for Cap* of a Company of Malitia at Tackanick, and that he was to make Ms appearance & train his Company, on a Certain day some time last month ; that thereupon Lieu^ Ten Broeck ordered my Company to appear, at Takanick the same day in order to prevent him from training & if possible to take him and his men & to send them to Goal, when he came with his men to Halenbeck's house he found that Halenbeck had 17 men or there abouts, in liis house all armed, he was refuzed to be admitted into the house, but asked Halenbeck whether he had taken a Commission from the Boston Governoui-, he answered no, but that he had been offered one k would not accept of it. WMle Ten Broeck Stood with liis Company at the door, which was till near sim

he saw several men lurcking in the Bushes with their Arms, in order as he supposed to go to HaUenbeck's house, which Ten Broocks men chased away ; but in coming away from the house he met foiu' men well armed, who when they saw our men, rid as fast as they could to Jolm Hallenbeck W'hich is about 800 yards distance & there fled into the house & locked the door, when Ten sett,

Broock came up to the house he desired them to open the door, that he might se what armed men were come in there, & what their business was, that after some little time Jan Halenbeck opened the door, and our men Enterd where they found three Neyv England men of Sheffield with their arms in their hands wliome they took k found one of them to be the person who acted as Sargent at Noble's when the Sheriff was taken, the other two confessed they were sent by Capt John Ashley of Sheffield

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463 to assist Michial

Halenbeck

Goveruour Clinton, and I

;

the next day they were sent to Goal upon the Proclamation Issued by

liave since

heard that our Sherilf has admitted them

to Bail,

which

am

sorry for.

The same Evening

men were

these three

taken, one Jury

with Lieut. Ten Broock tarryed behind at Tackanick to

&

gitt

Rosman

a Tenant of mine wlio had been

& was

a bag of In: Corn

taken by Josiah

Loomis & 4 New the Sherift' of Springfield took if any body would come to bail him, & when none came in that time liim by a Warrant of Brigadier Dwights, and Carryed liim to Springfield Goal where he now lays to England men

Carryed, the same night to Sheffield were he was kep 4 days to se ;

the great loss of his poor fomily. I

must

Honour

on some Effectual method to prevent these violent proceedAlbany must be ruined by a parcell of Bendity on the we must arm ourselves in our defence, which we are not able to do, without

Intreat of yoiu*

to fall

ings for the future, else this whole county of

back of

us, or else

assistance from the

Government.

am told a Committee is Shortly to come from Boston to lay out a Great part of Coll" Renselaers, Lands, & to give Grants thereof to our Tenants, & to appoint officers & to Exercise Jm-isdiction, my & I

which send

if true, will certainly

me

be a means of blood Sheed,

as well as the Justices

&

Slieriifs

I

must therefore beg of your Honour

of Albany and Dutches, your orders

how

to

to act, in Case

they do come, & offer to lay out our Lands k,"- that we may be prepared to meet them, I have lately been informed from Boston that a Comniitte of war from thence was to go to New York to advise or treat with our Government on affairs of great Importance to all the Colonyes, this may p haps be a good oppertunity to Settle a line of peace witli that Government, and I hope youi- Honour will Insist upon it, with those Gentlemen that it may be done Speadily that we may again live in peace So Good neighbourhood & joyn together in good Earnest to attack oui- Common Enemy and that yoiu* Honom* will be pleased to write Governour Sherly to desire him to order Hosman out of Goal again,

&

to

send his orders to the magistrates

to Exercise any Jm-isdiction witliin oiu- antient

&

known

officers

of Sheffield, Stockbridge

Limitts or whatever else yoiu-

not

Honour

Shall

think will be more conducive to Establish a lasting peace between the two Governments, wliich will exceedingly oblige

May

it

please your

Honour

Youi- Honours

Most Obliged & Most Humble Serv* Rob'' Livingson Jun"".

P. S.

Court the

Since writing the above 3'^

Tuesday

in

Rosman

may which

is

is

come home having given

very hard upon this poor

SHERIFF YATES TO

bail to appeal- at Springfield

man

LT. GOV'^ DELiVXCEY. Albany 29th March

May

1755.

Please Your Honour I Presume to Give you this Trouble to Inform you, that I am Involved In a Great Deal of trouble Occasioned by tlie Government of Massachusets Bay Claiming Jurisdiction in tlie Lands that Have been long Settled under tlic Government of New York Last Winter I turned two men out of Possession one of them had been first Settled under M'' Livingston and the Other under MrReuselaer* it

But of Late Pretended

to

hold under the Government of Massachusets Bay.

TAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

469

weeks ago I Wass taken Prisoner By a Great Number of Armed men and Carried to and tliere Detained teil I gave Bail for my Personal Appearance at Springfield, at a Court there to be held the Second Tuesday of May next I am very Apprehensive if I go there to Discharge my Bail that they Will Not Only Lay a heavy fine upon me, but Commence Suits against me in the Name of the two men I turned Out of Possession And by that Means hinder me to do the Duty of my Office, and that at a time When our Inferior Court, and Court'of Sessions for this County Will Be Near at hand, and Perhaps the circutt Likewise, Noble Who took me Prisoner

A few

Shiffield,

has made a kind of fort of his House, made Loop Holes in it to fire out of, and there are Continually a Number of Armed men going together there Abouts, So that it is unsafe lor me or any officer of this

You to

will

Act

Government,

to

Your Honour

I bes; that

Be Pleased

to

Give

Execute Our

will

me

Offices in these Parts.

Be Pleased Directions

to take the Affairs into

how

to

Demean my

Your

Consideration, and that

Self in these Circumstanc

and how

for the future. I

^

am With Profound Respect May it Please Your Honour Your Honours most Obedient and most Humb'e Servant

•

Ab'i Yates Jun'.

To

the Honorable James Delancey.

(Endorsed)

29 March 1755.

PROCLMATION TO ARREST ROBERT NOBLE.

By the Honoi^'^ James De Lancey Esq"^ His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Cliief in and over the Province of New York and the Territories depending thereon in

America

A PROCLAMATION. Whereas several Incroachments have lately been made by the Inhabitants of the MassachusetsBay upon the Lands and Possessions of divers of his Majesty's Subjects holding the same by virtue of Letters Patents iinder the Great Seal of this province, on pretence that the said Lands are

And many of the Inhabitants of this Government, have been taken and carried away by force, and to prevent their Imprisonment in the Goals of that Province, have been compelled to give excessive bail for their appearance before tlie Courts of the Government, to answer for supposed Trespasses or oftences Committed on Lands, which the peoxde concerned in the said Riots, do alledge are within the Province of Massachusets-B;iy though the contrary be most

included within that province.

notorious.

of

Abraham

A recent instance of Avhich riotous and illegal proceedings, is fully proved -Yates Jun*" Esq'

High

Sheril"

in

an affidavit

of the City and County of Albany of the 13 of February

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470

who

last,

declares that on the eleventh day of that month, being

Justices of the peace, to tal^e witliin tlie province of

of his Majesty's

(a place well

York) he did accordingly take the said Whitney, but

tliat

known

to be he was rescued

who with a party of Men made up to him the said Sherif, and presented his pike to liis breast, Men in Company with the said Noble, presented their Gims at him, and by the

custody the same day, by one Robert Noble of Claverack aforesaid,

out of

liis

about

fifteen or

twenty

several of

"wliilst

New

Commanded by one

one Thomas Wliitney of Claverack

tlie

and confined him to a House belonging to the said Noble, where he was Guarded by two CentineUs from about 11 "Clock in the Morning, till 10 at Night, and then conveyed to Sheffield, where he was detained until ten "Clock the next Niglit, and tlien in order to obtain his Liberty, was obhged to give Bail in the sum of £l 50 lawfull money, for his appeardirection of the said Noble seized

May

ance at the Court to be held in

next.

unknown, may be and audacious, daring a breach Condign Punishment for so of the peace, brought and contempt of his Majesty's Authority within tliis Government ; and that others may be deterred trom the like the end therefore that the said Robert Noble and his associates, as yet

To

to

practices, which if not speedily prevented, may endanger the peace and quiet of both proand destroy that harmony and good understanding, wliich ought at all times, but more I have thought fit by and with *,]ie advice particularly at this juncture, to subsist between them. Proclamation, this Hereby strictly commanding the said Council to issue his Majesty's and consent of Sherif and all other Officers within this province to apprehend the said Robert Noble, and all or any

wicked

vinces,

of his associates abetting aiding or assisting in the Riot aforesaid, and him and tliem to keep in

Custody in the Goal of the said City and County, until thence delivered by due course of And in like manner to apprehend and keep in safe Custody all and every other person or Persons, wlio sliall hereafter be Guilty of such Riotous and illegal proceedings. And all liis Masafe

Law.

of the said City and County are to give due assistance to the said Slierif who is empowered and required if necessary to summon the Posse or whole power of the County for putting

jesty's Subjects

the premises in Execution.

Given under

my

of April in the year of our* eiglith

Seal at Ai*ms at Fort George in the City of New

hand and

Lord one thousand seven hundred and

York the second day

fifty five

and in the twenty

year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord George the second by the Grace of

Britain France

and Ireland King De^iender of the Faith and

By His Honom-s Command

'f Ja/nvu Jk 4ayn^ f) r^.

gwbanvak

D

God of Great

so forth

^

.

c/t

^

Secry

God save the King.

SHERIFF YATES TO Sir

—

LT. GOV.

DE LANCEY. Albany April 18th

I

think

it

is

my Duty

to acquaint

Your Honour,

that I have In

my

1755.

Custody four of the

up By vertue of the Proclamation. Wait on Your Honours Direction Wliat to Doe witli tliem and Remain Your Honours most Obedient Humble Servant Abrahaai Yates

Rioters, taken I shall

Jun''.

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471

AN ACCOUNT OF THE MURDER OF WILLIAM REES. Albany Apll 18th

May

it

1755.

please \^ hon'

Sir

Pursuant to yom* Honour's Proclamation I went with a Party of men to take Robert Noble and his them Noble and the Rest being fled to Shefiield upon hearing of my coming of which he was Informed By one of three we took this was on Tuesday last. And on Associates, But got only three of

Wednesday morn Part of the Company who were with me went to apprehend One WiUiam Rees Living in the Man"" Livingston another of Nobles Associates, and being Desir'd to open the Door, he Refused and swore he would Kill them all upon which one of the Company broke a Board out of the door thro' which Rees then put his

Gun and

snaped

It three

times at

tlie

men who

stood before

the door, they then Rushed in the house and Rees got on the Garret, from whence thro' the Ruff he

jump'd out and then Snap'd at one Mathew furlong, who shott him thr'o the Body as he was turning about to Shoot Again haveing already Cock'd the Gun, as It now Lies with the Body, furlong Immediately Surrender'd himself to M"^ Dirk Broek Justice The Coroner is gone down to Call an Inquest on the Body. Y"" Honour will Observe By the above Narration how Difl&cult It is to take those Rioters (who all swear they will be kill'd or kiU before they are taken) without Endangering the Lives of Both ourselves and them. So that without some means be found to Indemnify This Furlong for killing Rees. we shall never be able to surpress these Rioters as no one will Venture to take them without he knows wether he may shoot a man that Snaps his Gun at him. The Rioters grow daily more Audacious, haveing now again taken a Constable who has been obliged to Give in Excessive Bail. It can be prov'd that 8*^ Rees at several times said he would Kill one. and more Especially when the Sheriff was taken, he being one of them that took the Slieriff. I Begg yf Honr will speak to M"^ Chambers about the Affair, and see wether some mfeans cant be foUnd at Least to Bail

tliis

Furlong.

Submitting to

y Discretion I Remain

Sr yr Hon"-

Very Hum'e

Ser^t

John Van Rensselaer.

LT. GOV.

PHIPS TO LT. GOV. DE LANCEY. Boston April 28th 1755.

Sib

At the desire of the Council and House of Representatives of this province I now acquaint Your Honour with the Information laid before tliis Government of a Barbarous murther committed upon the Borders of the Town of Sheffield upon the Body of one William Race by a Company of Arm-d men the particulars of which are contain'd in the Declaration of John McArthur sworn to before me and lus majesty's council of this Province Copy of which I herewitli inclose. I do therefore desire your Honour to use all possible means for taking up and securing said murtherers, and conveying them to the County of Hampslifre in order to take their Trial in case they or any of them are fled to the Government of New York and that Your Honour would take effectual means until the present controversy shall be settled for restraining the Inhabitants of Your Gov;

PAPERS REI-ATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

472

ernment from all Acts of violence against the persons and Estates of the Inliabitants in those parts tliis Government will otherwise be subjected to the charge of providing means for their security

as

&

Defence against such unwarrantable Invasions

&

for prevention of

War k

Bloodshed between the

People of the two Provinces.

At and

the desire of the Assembly I have issued a Proclamation for apprehending the murtherers

offering a

Reward of one hundred Pounds to such Person You a Copy of this Proclamation but

to Justice, I should send

I

am

them L bring them

as shall discover it is

with great Esteem

now

in the Press.

Sir,

Your Honour's most obedient

Humble Servant

L* Governor DeLancy

13

May Read

in Council

DECLARATIOxN OF

S.

J.

M^ARTHUR RELATIVE TO THE DEATH OF

Phips.

W^^ REES.

McArthur Husbandman dwelling in the Western about twenty miles distant from Hudsons Hampshire ) 13'h River That on the day of this month of April he was inform'd that a number of arm'd men had broke open tlie House of Jonathan Darby living on Land supposed to belong to this province, and that they had carried away one Josiah Loomis to Albimy Goal. That on the 14^'' day of said month the Declarant was inform'd that the same company were coming to attack the houses in his neighbourhood, that soon after he heard the noise of men & dogs as he apprehended at some distance & following the- noise lie discover'd thirty or forty men going away from the House of Robert Noble, & as soon as they were out of sight the Declarant went down to the said Nobles house, that the said Nobles Wife told the Declarant that about forty or fifty men arm'd with Guns and Swords among whom were Colonel John Van Ranslaer and also Hemy Van Ranslaer Esq' had been at said house, that one of the Company ask'd for her Husband who was gone to Sheffield, that they broke open the Chest took her Husbands Gun away, & also his Spear, the Gun they return'd that she told them if they would spare the house she would persuade her Husband to submit to the Renslaers and acknowledge their Title whereupon the said arm'd persons left her house. The Declarant further says that he w'as inform'd that said company went from said Nobles house to Nehemiah Hopkins's & pull'd great part of it down, and tlie Declarant afterwards went to said House & saw that the Boards were all pull'd off from tlie sides of the house, & an attempt made to break up tlie roof Tliat the next day being the 1 5'h he was inform'd that some of the same arm'd Company had that morning just at day liglit broke into the House of William Race who liv'd about the same distance from Hudsons River witli the Declarant, and that said Race forc'd his way through the Roof of tlie House & attempted to Escape but as he was running away from said Company he The next Day the Declarant went to the place & saw the Dead Body of the said W'as shot Dead. Race with seven wounds which appeared to be made with Buck shot; that on the same day tlie Coroner came from Sheffield & having impannel'd a Jury sat on said dead body. The Declai-ant has no Copy of their Verdict, but was informed that they found that said Race was murdered. John McArthur. Sworn before the Hou^ie Lieut, Governour k Council the 28'i» of April 1755, Province of

Massachusetts Bay.

)

The

Declaration of John

parts of the County of

—

Attest

Copy Examined 13 May Read iu Council.

J.

p

Tiio«

WiLLARD

Clarke Dcp'y

Secry.

Secry.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

DIRCK SWART TO

473

LIVINGSTON. Manor Livingston May

6. 1753.

HoN'e Connoi- went to Warn the People to Assist on Thuesday Morning at Taghkanick On Monday and as he Arrived to Anchorana about Sun Down he Was Informed that tlicre Was a procUination Irom y^ Livetenant Governour of Bps ton Nailed upofi Dirck Spoor Door and M' Conner Toeing Uneasie to know wliat Was Meant by tlie proclimation being put up there lie Went to Dirck Spoors and Wlien they seen him Comeing towards the house they took it of and Locked it up in one of their Ciiest But Mf Conner Insisted Upon Seeing the paper that was Nailed to tlie Door and After Some Dispitte Got it out of the Chest Which is Now Inclosed and sent to You for Your Better Information and as M^' Connor was in Comeing Whome he Came by Anchoram Where he Stayed till Ten O'clock at Night he Likewise ordered the people of Anchoram to keep together in one house and to be Sure to Make Detfence, But in Steed of Deflfending Themselves the fled after a Base Maunor and

Made No

Ressistance at

all.

you have tlie Number of Men Which Ware taken This Morning out of Anchoram By the New England Company and your Serv' Jacob Knight Who Was among them and Call'd out to the New England People to ty the Anchoram and as INP Connor Liformed me tliat the New England Sherili' Come up to M"" Decker and Shook hands With him and said he Would not take liira and M'' Decker never offerd to make any Ressistance and all against him and it's said they are to Come and take M^ Conner and the Rest of the Anchoram People and We are Going there Now With a Company of men to Assist him as far as We Can. P. Inclosed

I

am

hon^

S"^

yom- most

Obedient

& faithfull

Serv*

Dirck Swart.

THE NUMBER TAKEN FROM ANCHORAiM. James Elliot, the Clarke ; Niel Ma= Arthur, Founder Hugh Ma=Cay, Filler; Jacob Showers Founder, Samuel Herris Do, Charles Maf

upon

the City.

affidavits

made

of this riotous disorder, I issued out a Proclamation with the advice of

&

who

liis

him in taking & carrying away the High Sheriff upon which tlie under sheriff went into t'ae Maunor of Livingston to apprehend William Race or Rees, who snapping his gun at one Matthew Fiudong was immediately shot by tlie said Matthew, not witliin the Government of the Massachusetts Bay, but tlie unliappy deceased was as M^ Livingston within tliis at 17 miles distance from Hudsons River

Majesty's Council of this Province to api^rehend the said Noble

tliose

assisted

;

informs, his tenant, his Fathers

peace,

I

have ordered

Shirley that

any

ot^ier

I

it

will advise

person

who can

impartially administred.

&

should abide the law

him of

Furlong surrendered himself

Grandfathers. &.

take his trial next June

the Precise time

give testimony touching I

shall d all in

when t lis

my power

the Court

affair

is

to

&

to a Justice of the

have ac.juainted

Gov

be held that McArthur or

may be heard on

the trial

to restrain the inhabitants of this

&,

justice be

Government

from Acts of Violence, but still I must ]irotect tliem Ji^ainst the Aets of Violence & injustice by riotous persons under Pretence of the jurisiliclioii of Mass'" Day in the ancient settlements of this I'rovince I have already sent the opinion of liis Majesty's Council to Gov Shirley on the methoils proposed

for putting

an end

to the

dislurbaiucs .on the Borders at

tliis

Critical juncture

shall gladly

come

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475

any reasonable metliod [or thiit purpose I luive seen tlie procluni;itif»n you issued & shall only tliat it appears by M'' Livingston's affidavit that the place were Race unliappily was killed is within this Province & cannot by any pretence, as I conceive, be within Mass's gay, j suppose it into

observe

was under color of your Proclamation that several Rioters entered the Mannor of Livingston and carried away from Ancram a place lying west of Connecticut, several workmen from his Iron Works who were employed in making Carriage Wlieels & casting shot for the use the Government, The disturbances I hope they will be released immediately that tlie pubhck service be not retarded. upon the Borders between liis Majesty's subjects have given me a great deal of trouble & concern since the administration devolved on me k no man is more desirous than I am that an amicable end may be put to them that the thoughts of all liis Majesty's subjects on the continent may be Sir wholly employed against the Common Enemy. I am with great Esteem

To Lt

Govi-

Phipps

GOV. SHIRLEY TO

F GOV.

DE LANCEY. Boston

May

21. 1755.

Sir, I inclose

on the

1 7"i

Your Honour Copies of and 1 9''' instant upon

tlie

Advice of

tlie

several matters contain'd in

instant inclosing M'" Livingstons Compl'

and the Report

Province dated

of this month

line in dispute

between the two provinces

upon

in their late Sessions,

and

I

;

hope

his Majesty's Council for this

tlie

&

Your

Province given

letter to

me

of

tlie

me 8*^

advice of his Majesty's Council for your

proposal of the Massachusetts Council for settling the is

it w'ill

the same with

tliat, w^''

the whole assembly determin'd

be approv'd of by Your Honour's Governm* as

it

seems

unhappy controversy now depending an unexceptionable one, But that it would

the shortest, most amicable and effectual method for settling

tliis

between the two provinces, For my own part I think it have been more perfect Avith tliis addition viz' " such line to be the settled tween the two Governmts until his Majesty's Determination in Council upon

Upon my

acquainting the Sheriff of Albany with the Order,

I

line of Jurisdiction beit sliall

should send to

tlie

be known." Justices of the

proceedings upon

liis Recognizance and those of the bound over to tliat court on ace* of the late Riots committed on the Borders, to the next court, he let me know, he was Appreliensive that the persons w^ho were bound for his and their appearance at the present court, would not consent to stand bound for it at the next whereupon I wrote to the Justices to find some persons at Springfield, But to prevent any disif they could, who would be Bail for their Appearance at the next court appointing in the matter, and put things upon as amicable foot as I could, I conven'd tlic Council again, and upon my laying the matter before them a second time, they gaxe me the advice w*"!* is contain'd in the inclos'd Copy of the minute of Council dated the 19''' instant, and J have accordingly given orders for the Attorney General to enter a noli prosequi in tlie case of those who are bound over by Recognizance and for the discharge of M"' Livingston's workmen upon the conditions and in the manner advis'd to by the Council, and Your Honour may depend upon it^hat nothing in my power shall be wanting to restore the Borderers to that natural State of Tranquility and Friendship which ought to Subsist between the two Governm's in this, and every other respect. I am with great Regard and Esteem Sir, Your Honours most Humble Hon^'''= James DeLancey Esqf and most Obedient Servant. W. Shirley. 5 June Read in Council.

Court of Sessions at Springfield, others belonging to

New York

to

continue

Governm',

all

w*^**

w^ere

;

;

;

»

^

476

PAPERS KBILATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

Province of the Massachusetts Bay.

At a Council held

Council Chamber in Boston upon the

at the

17*i>

day of May 1755.

His Excellency William Shirley Esq'

Present

Josiah Willard Jacob Wendell Daniel Russell John Wheelwright Andi-ew Oliver Joseph Pynchon

Thomas Hutchinson John Erving Esq'"s. Advised that His Excellency recomend it to the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Hampsliire at tlieir next Term to continue the Recognizance and Trial of Abraham Yates Esq'' and also of such other Persons charged with any riotous Disorders near the Line, until the next Succeeding Term; And further advised, That his Excellency write to Israel Wilhams, Josiah Dwight and Jolin Worthington Esq" in tlie County of Hampsliire, directing them to make inquiry into tlie circumstances of the Committment of divers persons taken at M' Livingstons Iron works, or of any other persons committed on Account of the late riotous Disorders near the Line, and that they cause tlie Said Persons to be admitted to Bail upon their recognizing with Sureties for their appearance, and taking their Trial according to tlie natui-e of their offence. Provided that they are not cliarged with the actual murder of William Race, and that the Said Gentlemen represent the State of this affair to his

may

Excellency as Soon as

be.

And furtlier advised that his Excellency be desired again to propose to the Lieutenant Governour of New York the appointment of three disinterested Persons of the Neighbouring Colonies, to join with

tliree

Persons alike disinterested witliin Said Colonies to be appointed by this Government in

order to Settle the Line of Jurisdiction between the two Governments, Such Settlement to be laid before his Majesty for his Royal approbation.

A

true

Copy Examined p Tho« Clarke Dp^y

Secry.

ORDER RELATIVE TO PERSONS CONFINED IN MASSACHUSETTS. Province of the

>

Massachusetts Bay

)

At

a Council held at the Council Cliamber in Boston upon the 19^^ day of

May

1755.

Present

His Excellency William

Siiirley Esq''

Andrew Oliver Joseph Pynchon Thomas Julm Erving Esq"

Josiah Willard Jacob Wendell John Wlieelwright

Hutcliinson

Advised that his Excellency write to Col« Williams, Col" Dwight and Col" Worthrington directing Livingstons Ironworks so called tliere that if upon Examination of tlie Persons lately taken from shall not appear sufficient grounds for their standing committed as being actually concerned in the

Murder of William Race tliat in such case all such Persons be so far discharged as to be sent with a Proper Guard towards Hudsons River and that they be set at Liberty immediately upon the release of Persons of this Province

who now-

stand committed at Albany.

his Excellency giN!^ orders to the Attorney General to enter a

noli

And

further advised that

Prosequi in

riotous proceedings of any Persons near the line calling tliemselvcs inhabitants of

upon

the

engagement of the Province of New York

tlint

the

same Orders

all

actions for any

New York

shall be given

relying

on their

Part.

A

True Copy Examiiu d

P Tho' Clarke Dp'y

Secry.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

THE JUSTICES OF SPRINGFIELD TO

477

GOY. SHIRLEY. May

Springfield

21. 1753.

Sir,

Agreeable to Your Excy's direction and order, Livingston Iron works

who were committed to

we have examin'd

tlie

persons taken at M''

the Goal in Springfield by a mittimus from

Justice

Ashley upon suspicion of their being aiding &' consenting to the murder ot William Race and have endeavom-'d to get the best light and Evidence we are capable of obtaining in tliat matter at pre-

and upon the whole we apprehend there is no great prubability of tlieir being convicted of being actually conceru\l in that murder furtlier than their being in the company wlien the man was kill'd makes them so, and tlierefore are determined to send them under a suitable Guard as sent,

far as Sheffield directl}', there to he detain'd

till

tliose

persons belonging to this province that are

Albany be released and return'd to Sheffield, and then set at large, and by Express shall inform the Authority in the county of Albany hereof also letting tliem know that unless our people be Discharged as propos'd their's will be remanded to Goal. Tlie Sheriff of Albany & others had renew'd their Recognizances k were gone home before the

now

confined in the Goal at

receipt of

yourExcellv orders of the

19'^ inst

We

are your

Excys most obed'

Serv'^

Js Williams.

His Excy Gov^ Shirley

John Worthington

THE SAME TO THE SAME. Springfield

May

22d 1766.

Sir Since our writing by Colonel Choate, and before prisoners and

we had

commit 'em

to a

we had

convenient opportunity to discharge the

proper Guard, in order to convey them towards Hudsons River as

propos'd in pursuance of your Excellency's order

&

further of the it

affair,

was our Duty

Ic^s

whose Examination

to acquaint

also

under oath

your Excellency with

is

The

direction.

cated to us by M"^ Ingersole, and having enquir'd of the person

who

inclos'd.

inclos'd

was communi-

brot the Letter, what he

We

knew

w^ere of the opinion that

this further Intelhgence before

we put your Excel-

former orders into Execution, that your Excellency might have an opportunity to determine

What

shall

be further done in the

affair

upon

tliis

new

opening, and shall wait

Your Excellencys

further directions.

We

are under apprehensions should the prisoners be sent along unless the

nary there would be danger of their Escaping, and our

We are

own

people

still

extraordi-

with the greatest Reverence

Your Excys most obed' hu^^'*

His Excy Gov' Shirley

Guard was

detain'd under confinement.

Serves

Js Williams. John Worthington. Josiah Dwight.

478

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OK LIVINGSTON.

JOHN IIALENBAKE TO

LNGERSOL Sheffield

M""

Sir is

May

the 19, 1755.

Ingersole

— To iiifonu you

tluit Liviiif^ston is

with them a building a

pray you

to

now & Conner & all

tliey luive brouglit three

read this letter to the Committee and inform

ingston S(ras

among

and

i'ort

lie

come down

cant

the English and

they keep him up

&

to tlie court

he

is

tlie

lils

men

Several

at

Taconnet and the murderer

Guns with them, and

Court that Darick Spur

warn'd him out of his house he cannot cume down

liatli

would not

him come down,

let

is

very angry with him for coming

no more but remain

voui-

would

I

kept by Livinto- Sheffield

to the court fur

Friend to Serve

John Holbigg.

Copy examin'd.

AFFIDAVIT. John Hollambigg of lawful age

testifys that

on Monday

last afternoon

on country land so called West of Sheffield on the west side

ling house

being at his (jf

Dwel-

fatliers

Taghkanuck mountain, ^lassachusetts Bay and

and on the Land in dispute between and daim'd by both the Gov'^ of the New York his Erother Dirk Ilollambig aged ab^ 19 years & his sister Cornelia Hollambigg aged ab' 17 years both came home to his fatliers house aforsaid from his uncle John Holla lubiggs & inlbrm"d them as follows viz' That one Tim" Conner & a considerable number of men to tlie number of 30 or 40 (they not being able to number them exactly) came to the Dwelling house of the De})oii'« said uncle John Hollambiggs on the same controverted countrey Lands L brought w*h them 3 Swivel Conner & Guns, & Earrells supposed to contain Store of j^rovision k ammunition, and that the coraj)any enterM his

ney

&

s"^

Uncle

Joliiis

Dwelling house

then planted one of the Swivel Guns,

planted another there and tore

down

pect and play w'^> the Gun, and that there Y!^^

&

that IVP Livingston

was soon

tliem to dress provisions

Law bouse afures'J &

his Sister in

Ids Bro'

Dirck

Springfield

Hami)shire

&

L

had

sister Cornelia

tlie

s''

talk'd

&

May 22, 1755. May 22, 1755. him Subscribed

Conner

to follow after

& Company

said they

w 'h 100 men more and

were going

&

to build a fort

also y' they brot a

serve as cook, and that his aunt (wife of his uncle John

w

came from

the

same place

&

his

men

Conner

&.

at the

same time

they confirmed

tlie

Wench

afores**

and

to his fathers

above acct of

further saith not.

John Hollambigg.

John Hollambigg personally appearing made

ss

Declaration by

broke a hole thro' the back part of the chim-

a sort of log shop or house adjoyning in order to have fair pros-

his Brotlier Roberts wile)

said they

&

&

another hole thro the back part of the house

is

the truth

&

Oatli that the

above

nothing but the truth.

Sworn before

David Ingersole Just Pace.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

GOV. SHIRLEY TO LT. GOV.

479

DELANCEY. Boston

May

26. 1755.

Sir Since closing mine of the 2pt Instant I have received, the Inclosed Returns from two of the Justices of the Sessions at Springfield,

my

and Attorney General

there, of their doings in pursuance of

Orders to them concerning the Discharge of tlie Sheriff of Albany and others bound over to that

men there in Custody by the were continued upon their Recog-

Court, on ace* of the Riots upon the Borders, and of M'' Levingstons

former of them your Honour will

see, that tlie Sheriff

and

(jtliers

;

my Orders for entering a noli prosequi my Orders were suspended with regard

nizances to the next Court, and gone from Springfield before

and by the latter, that the Execution of men on account of some New Violences (coutain'd in the copy of the Inclosed Depositions) having been Committed by some of his People Among wiiom your Honour' wiU observe it is said, tliat he that kill'd Race was seen However, upon the Receipt of the last mention'd Return, giving an account of the Suspension of my orders as to M'' Levingston's Workmen, which was sent me by Express, I instantly sent the Messenger back to Springfield witli Orders to have M' Levingstons Men sent towards Albany to be deli^'er''d upon tlie like Release of the People belonging to this Province, whom your Government hath detain'd according to your Honour's proposal Depending entirely that you will Cause an Inquiry to be fortliwith made into these New Violences on the part of Your Province, and take effectual Measures for putting an Immediate End to them. arriv'd tliere to

Mr

;

Levingston's

;

;

;

ROBT LIVINGSTON TO

May

IT

L'^

GOV.

DE LANCEY.

Please Your Honour.

Inclosed, I transmit to your

Honour, a Letter from Mess""* Livingston and Smith, Containing a Narrative of what gassed last week upon the Borders, relating to the Dispute Between us and the Massacliusets Bay A Regard to tlie Province in General, the County of Albany in particular. My own Interest^ and Compassion to the Distressed state of tlie Poor people, who live on the Eastern parts of tliis Province, Adjoining to the Massachuset's Bay Government, induce me to Intreat Your Honour, to consult some method or other for tlie Protection, Peace, & Safety of those, who claim under tliis Colony. It is Impossible for the Tenants in my Manor, the people of Claverack, Kinderhook and jiarts adjacent, who are poor and Live on scattered Farms, to Maintain their Possessions,

—

—

against au

Armed Body

of Men, Wlio are easily collected and sent out, from the Western

Government

Towns &

and unless a Speedy stop is put to their Encroachments, we have great Reason to expect, that they will in a Short time, extend tlieir Possessions as far as Your Honour will find by the Inclosed Letter, that above one Huntli-ed Armed Hudson's River men, were Last week Laying out Townships in mine, and the Manor of Renslaerwick The Account settlements of the Massacliusets

;

—

;

of

Such a Body,

so

alarmed the Inhabitants, that upwards of Forty of tliem, betook tliemselves

and Lived together Armed, from the IG"' till the 24'^ Instant^ New England men were returned home. During their absence from Sober, a place where I liave erected a Forge, about five Hundred Weight of Bar Iron, was pilfered and Carried off and Whether any other of the Inhabitants had suffered by tliis Invasion, I liave not yet been informed. How Distressing to Husbandmen, so great a Loss of time must necesfor Protection, to a small Inclosure,

when they were Informed,

tliat

the

;

sarily be, is easy to

conceive

;

nor

is it

Less Difficult to forsee, that the Repetition of these Irruptions,

ISO

RELATING TO THE. MANOR OF HVINGSTuN.

PAPIiKS

must

naturally tend to

Subdue

tlie-

their Farms, or hold tlieni under

Spirits of tlie

our Inhabitants, and Either Induce them to Abandon

Massachuset's Bay Government.

The

very next week, the

be convened upon the Borders, and what may be the Consequence of their I thank Your Honour, for the favour of proceeding any fiu-ther, I know not, hut fear the icorst

Committee

will again

Your Promise,

—

and hope witli Submission, that Your Honour and that Board, will think proper to send an Express to Boston, to prevent if possible, the Committee's making any further Encroachments upon this Province. I sliould be glad to receive Your Honour's Directions, if any are necessary to be sent, to the Judges and Justices of Albany, with respect to the prisoners that we have apprehended, who are eitlier imprisoned or bound over to appear there, at the next General Session of the Peace, which will open on the first Tuesday of next month. Ptclying upon the Vigilance and Activity of this Government, for the restoring a General Tranto lay

the inclosed before the Council,

—

quility to the poor People

on the Border" I

am witn

New York

aJl due respects, Your Honours most humble

May. 1755.

29"'

MESS«« SMITH

Serv*

Rob^ Livingston Jun'.

& LIVINGSTON

TO LT. GOV. DELANCEY; ENCLOSED IN THE PRECEDING.

New York 28th May 1765. Please Your Honor In Obedience to Your Order of Yesterday, we beg leave to lay before You in Writing, the Account then Verbally given, concerning the Proceedings of Sundry Persons of the Massachuset's Bay Government last Week. On Friday the IG'^ Instant, at the Request of Robert Livingston Jim"" Esq-", we set out from his House

May

IT

at tlie

of

tlie

Mannor of Livingston, with an

Intent to meet a Committee appointed by the General Coiu-t

Massachuset's Bay, to transact Sundry Affairs relating to the Lands Claimed in

by both Provinces.

Men had

in tlie

We proceeded to Tachonick,and

Common

were there informed, that about One Hundred

Morning, passed Soutliward under the west Side of Tachonick Mountains, and

from thence Westward towards Hudson's River, and that their Business was to run lines for

Townships,

we

to

be laid out and settled under the Massachuset's Bay Government.

new

In the Evening

Company who were gone out from thence j Here we found the Committee, who were Brigadier

arrived at Sheffield, and were informed that the

consisted of about

One hundred and Ten men.

We

held a Conferrence with them, upon the Dispute them an Office Copy of the Report of Council of the 8"' Instant, and informed them, that an Express was gone from Your Honour, to his Excellency Governour Shirley, and urged the Committee, by the Prospects of a Speedy Settlement of the Line of Jurisdiction, and the Consideration of the mischiefs and Blood Shed, that would probably ensue upon their proceeding any lurther at present, to desist from the Execution of their Powers, or at least to Postpone it for a few Days untill it could be known how your Honour's Letter and the Advice of Council, were Received by their Governour and Council. In this Conference, the Gen-

Dwight, Coll" Choat and Major Hawley between the two Governments,

:

laid before

tlemen declared their disapprobation of the present metliod of Proceeding, on the Part of both

Governments,

in Seizing

and prosecuting the Inhabitants upon the Borders, and confessed that such

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON. Courses, had no suitable Tendency, to bring about a Settlement, but

Still

alledged in their

481

own

Jus-

Government, had made reasonable Proposals to the Province of New York for an Accomadation or Settlement of the Dispute, which being rejected, rendered it proper for the Massachuset's Bay, to extend its Jurisdiction & Possessions, as far westward as its Right did extend. We were very particular in our Inquiries, as to tlie Nature of those olfei-s, and tlie time of their tification, that their

— Brigadier Dwight and Major Hawley confessed, that their knowledge concerning them be true —but Coll^ Choat declared, upon frequent Informations, which they believed

being made

depended

to

House of Representatives, when they concurred in the Offers Last Winter, and moved an Amendment, which he carried, That the Tenor of the Proposals was for each Province, to chuse two Commissioners in the Nature of Referees to settle the Line, granting them power to Chuse a fifth man, if they should happen to be equally divided That their Adjudication was not to be final without his Majesty's Confirmation, but tliat untill Such Confirmation, the Jurisdiction Coll** Choate of both Provinces, was to be regulated by the Judgment of the Commissioners. would not take upon him to assert, that M'' Shirley had transmitted an Account of these Proposals to tliis Province, but believed he had and thought that he had seen a Letter from Your Honour to M' Shirley, declining a Compliance with their offer. Tlie next morning we offered the Committee, a Copy of the Minute ot Council of the 8^^ Instant, and beged a Copy of the Vote of the General Court, under which they now acted, but the Gentlemen declined the former, and refused the latter which nevertheless they permitted us to peruse. The purport of it, was, as well as we can remember, to enable them, to grant Rights under the Massachusetts Bay, West of Sheffield & Stockbridge, We observed to the Committee, that they had a dangerous as far as to the Province of JYew York. part to act, their Government Reserving by this Vote, a Right of Judging any of the Lauds they might grant, to be within or without the Province of New York. At Springfield on the 20 Instant, Coll" Partridge also insisted, that the Massachuset's Bay Government, had made that offer last winter of which ColP Choat had informed us, and assured us, that he had seen a Letter from Your Honour Coll^ Williams and Coll° Vv'orthingto Governor Shirley, declining an Acceptance of the Proposals heard, and beleived it to be true, that such offers, had been made ton, declared that they had often by that Government, and refused by this k Coll" Dwight of Springfield, afterwards confirmed the same Account. Coll" Clioat spent the Evening with us, and seemed then to declare with more Certainty, concerning Your Honours Letter to M"" Shirley, than he had done before at Sheffield. While we were at Springfield, Abraham Yates Esq'' the Sheriff of Albany, arrived with Dispatches from M*" Shirley to Messi's Dwight Williams and Worthington and we accordingly waited upon these Gentlemen, to know the Contents of His Excellency's Letters, and were informed that they were desired, to Bail James Elliot and the other Prisoners, that were apprehended upon tlie Death of One Race, if they were not Charged with the ./Idual Murder. And that the Court of Sessions, which was to be opened on that day, were also desired, to Continue Abraham Yates and others on their Recognizances to the next Court. His Excellency having hopes, that the Provinces might come The Justices of the Court, refused to continue one Rossman, to some Agreement in the Interim. Who had been apprehended by that Government, and was bound over to appear there, and insisted upon his entring into a new Recognizance, to appear at the next Sessions, on the last Tuesday in August next. Nothing that we urged, against so unreasonable a Proceeding, drawn from the Design, Operation, and Letter of the Recognizance, M"" Shirley's Letter, which desired that the Persons might be continued on their Recognizances, or their own former Practice, as declared by the Clerk of the Court, was sufficient to prevent the additional Trouble and Charge of giving a new Recognizance. In the Evening, we spent some time with Mess'^s Worthington Williams & Dwight, and pressed them to consider the Case of the Prisoners and Bail them if possible, We had laid before them, a that he Avas in the

:

—

—

;

;

Vol.

III.

61

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482

Printed Copy of Your Honour's Proclamation of the 28 April, and Contended, that the Prisoners

when they were summoned

to attend under the Proclamation, were admitted that Race had been murthered. We farther insisted that tliey ought at Present, to make the Mittimus by which the Prisoners were committed, and not the Real merits of the Cause, the sole Rule of Judging, Whether they were guilty or not, and if so, we had reason to hope, that they would Bail them, because the Mittimus (a Copy of which we inclose) did not certainly charge the Prisoners with any Crime Whatsoever M' Wortliington seemed to join in opinion that the Mittimus was InsuflBcient. The next morning we waited upon Collo Worthington, who informed us, that they had examined the Justice, by whose Warrant the Prisoners had been committed, and that they had determined, not to let them to Bail, without further Directions. Before we left Springfield, we enquired of Coll^ Choat, What the Committee had done at Sheffield, but he declined giving any other Information than that their Business there was not compleated. When we arrived at Sheffield, we were informed that the Committee were to return there in the week now next Ensuing, to lay out another Townsliip; and that two Townships, each of the extent of Five miles West, from the Tachonick Mountains, & Seven miles North and South, had been laid out, which we Suppose, by the account given to us, must be chiefly in the Mannor of Renslaerwyck, and may perhaps include, a few Families Settled on the North side of the Mannor of Livingston. That the Committee presented as a Gift to such Tenants of Robert Livingston Jun"" or Jolm Renslaer Esq's as would accept them, and hold tlie Lands against their Land Lords, Releases for One hundred Acres of Land each, and that the Residue of the Lands, were Sold or Released at Two Shillings lawful money per acre. Having thus concluded the Narrative, of the most Material, Transactions upon the Borders, We beg leave to Subscribe that

being present at the killing of Race,

removed

all

suspicion of their being Criminal, even tho'

it

—

we

are,

Your Honour's most Obedient humble Serv'^ W"" Smith Jun' Rob' R. Livingston.

ROBERT LIVINGSTON TO

LT.

GOV^ DE LANCEY. Mannor Li\ingstonye

May I

it

15

June

175S.

please your Honour

have been credibly informed that the Sheriff of Albany County has

&

sett lOur

of the prisoners,

Carrying him to Sheffield, at Liberty

and that they homes in Coll^ Ronselaers Manner; this I tliink Extreanily hard while my folcks taken from my Iron works are still ConfinVl in S}>ringfie]tl Gc^al, and a Committee from the General Court of tlie Massacluisets Bay daily laying out Coll^ Renselaers & my lands, and giving Quit claims to his & ray tenants for the Lands they live on. I cannot think your Honour has given tliese orders to our Shorrilf witliout sufficient assurances from that Government that our Iblcks Should also be set at Liberty, and tliut a line of peace & Jurisdiction should be Immediately Settled, and in the mean time all should rest Quiet, and things be left as tliey where beibrc, otherwise it would be laying Coll^ Konschier & myself under very great hardships; as this affair Concerns me in a very tender point I must beg your Honour to lett me know

which were Confin'd

are

now

in his Goal, for taking

at tlieir respective

;

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483

what agreements the two Governments are come too in order to Settle this grand dispute, and that your Honour will do all in your power to gitt a Line Settled Speadily, that we may once again live in peace on our Borders, I remain very Respectfully May it Please your Honour Your Honours most obediant

Humble

Ser*

Rob* Livingston

Jun"".

THE SAME TO THE SAME. Mannor Livingston ye 23 June

May

IT

1755.

Please your Honour

Your favouis of y^ 10 Current, with Copy of an Extract of

his Excellency

Governour Sheileys

Letter to your Honotu-, and^Copy of a Deposition of Jan Halenbeck inclosed, did not

when

come

to

my

from Claverack. I shall now in obedience to your Honours Request very particularly inform you of the violances, as they are Called, complained of in the deposition taken before David Ingersol the Justice at Shieffield, that your Honour may be able to vindeceive Governour Sherley on this head It's now about two years Since, that I ordered Jan Halenbeck a tenant of mine the person in whose house Timothy Connor is Sayd in the deposition to have Enterd, to Look out for another place to live on, as his Leese was Expired, I would not suffer him to live any longer on my lands, and that he must take care not to plough nor Sow any more on them, for that if he did, I would come & reap it, which he promised me to Comply with, but some little time after being sett up by that wicked Vaiiet David Engersol, he fell a ploughing and in the fall a sowing the farm with wheat as usual, and when it was fitt to reep the last harvest I whent thither according to my promise & took 50 men with, me in order to cut it, when I came there, he had already got 1 5 hands in the field busye a mowing, whom I ordered immediately to go home telling them that I was able to mowe my owne Crop, and at the same time thanking them for the trouble they had already taken and then Jan Halenbeck in mowing w^hat they had done, upon which they all wiient Quietly home sent John TenEyck to me in the field to know whether I would be pleased to agree with him for the Crop as it stood, upon which as it would save Expences & trouble I asked him 300sk. of Clean wheat, which he thought too much, and offered me 200, to be delivered at Ancram on the 20 day of January, became bound for the delivery of it which they accorwhich I agreed to, and he and his Son dingly did by the time, and the Said Jan Halenbeck did then also in the presence of at least 20 Evidences deliver up the farm to me, on Condition that he might tarry in the house till the first day of May following, which I agreed to, and then I sent two of my hands with 2 ploughs and 12 horses to plough the land for Summer fellow, and in the fall had it sowed Avith wheat, and the fences well mended & sent my people from time to time to look after it and on the first day of May last, I whent hands

.till

yesterday,

I

received

it

;

;

to take possession of the

house according to agreement when

of the Children where gone out of

my manner to

the household goods removed, but he had

left

I

came there Jan &

two daughters & a wench in

the daughters fained hei-self Sick, I had her carefully carryed in to

his wife with

some

a place he had bought near Sheffit ld, and some of

one of the neighbours where she desired to be,

th'e

other

&

the

remauiing part of the household Goods on the outside of the fence

tlie

my waggon

house

on a

tlie

Eldest of

featlier'd bed,

wench I turned aAvay &; put tlie from whence they where fetclied

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PAI'EKS

KELATIKG TO THE MANOR OK LIVINGSTON.

by Jan's people, and I left one of my Iligli dutch Servants iu the house in order to take care of the wheat & to make a gardin & wheut home, some very few days after there came a wliite man an Indian who took the Servant & Carryed him to Sheffield where I am told he is Listed to go on the present Expedition.

And while I was at New York on tlie C of may last there came out from Sheffield & the mountains &a 103 men and 5 Indians to my Iron works & took thence Several of my workmen & Carryed them to Springfield Goal where they are still confined, the want of which, was the reason of my Furnace blowing out iu a little time after; and at my retui-n from New York which was on the 15 may

my

&

horses where again (in the farm on the next day I whent tliither & ; to se it; and found the fences in a very bad & brooken Condition, and was told there by my Trusty Tenants, the same Evening that the New England people where runing Lines to lay out a Township in the North part of my Mannor, the next morning I sent two men to se if they could find them, who came back in tlie afternoon & brought me word that tliey where gone out of my Mannor into Coll" Renselaers by the mai'ked trees they had seen, but that they had not seen the Company; Then

of

was informed by

I

people, that Jan Halenbecks Cattle

that they distroyed the wheat, I had Caused to be sowed there

the

monday

following as

it

was very necessary

thy Connor to go with about 40 or 50

men

my

^vheat should be taken cai-e of, I orderd

to Taclikanick

&

Timo-

go in the house where Jan Halenbepk

would follow him with provisions, in order to make up the fences to secure the whent &, I met him there the same afternoon he carryed with hhn order the three mentioned Guns in the deposition and Each man a small arm, or Sword, or by my Cutlass in order to defend me and the men from a parceU of bandity, that live back of me in Tachkanick mountains to the Eastward, and from the people of Slieffield who wliere tlien in the woods in Cello Renselaers & my mannor, I tarryed with my men till Thursday & orderd my kitcliin the Loghouse mentioned in the deposition to be pulled down to make up the fences & saw tliat all the fences were put up in good order, and a piece of In. Corn planted, and then wlicnt li^mc, and orderd This Sir is the whole truth of the matter, all my men to come away the next day, which they did and the Caution I took of arming my self iu the manner I did, I thought so very necessai-y as I had but verj^ shortly suffered Extreamly in tlie loss of my workmen that I believe no Impersial man will blame for ; and had a body of whites or Indians come to Interrupt me iu my business, I doubt not but we sliould have made use of our ai'ms, if this be acting (as they ai-e pleased to call it) by violence on lands of my owne settled by my Grandfather 70 years agoe, by wliat appelation must we call their comhig into our Settlements armed k, stealing away our people when ever they have any opportunity, & sending bodyes of men out armed to run lines on our Lands, and to this day sending for my Tenants to Shelfield to take Quit claims for my Lands, they live on from tliat Government, with additions of 3. & 400 acres to each farm, and that for the Valuable Consideration of ten S'tillings, this I tliink every lioncst man must &, will look on to be acts of violance, but not self defence, as in my Case, The above account may it Please youi- Honour I presume will sufficiently justify me in doing what I did. I think it necessary further to Inform your Honour that the men Confined in Albany Goal which Governour Sherley demands in his Letter to be delivered up, & which he Calls men of tliat Province, are Tenants to Coll^ Renselaer, all but one, who was a tenant of mine &, they all have been our tenants for some years Consiquently no Inhal)itants of the Massachusets Bay so that Governour Sherlyes information with rcs2)ect to them must be wrong tliese men I hear are sett at Liberty & are now home, but my poor fellows whoes familyes are in a starving Condition still in Confinement, which has put it out of ray power to furnish Mess" Banker &, Dire hitherto with tlie Carrage Wilham Alexander with the Quantity of Shot, I engaged to deliver liim for the wheels and had lived

wheat

&

in, that I

Grass, he accordingly

;

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485

& Crown point, and yett notAvithstanding all this 111 treatment I have rehad the Expedition very much at heart I orderd my Furnace as soon as I came from 'New York to be Immediately repaired at a great Expence of upwards of ^£400 that I might still be able to furnish the Sliott as Soon as my workmen retiu-ned that the Expeditions might not be retarded on that accout, and I have now had her in good order since monday Last, but no workmen yett, so that I cannot proceed in the Casting of them I must therefore Intreat yoiu" Honour to use your best Endeavours with the Government of the Massachusets Bay to gitt these men Set a Liberty & sent liome and that a Line of peace may be speadily settled that we may once more live in peace & good Neighbourhood, on our Borders and I Expidition to Onjagera ceived, as I

;

shall take care that

my

my

May

it

my unruly

people remains Quiet, as long as

mannor Stay away, and

tlie

people of Sheffield leave

Honour Your Honours most Obediant

me

at rest

Tenants I

;

who

I

turned out of

remain very Respectfully

Please Youi-

& most Hum*^'® Ser* RoB^ Livingston Jun'.

ROBT VANDUSEN TO ROBt LIVINGSTON. Ancram

Oct. the 29th 1755

Honoured Sir This Eauening there Caime Eleauen or twelve Strang

my

Men from New England and haue

Dispos-

him and family out dores and Euery thing that he hass they took and will not alow them to be put in again and they say they wiU kill one of the Creaters to morrow morning for Damage or traspass these men I nor my sons Do not know one of them So Sir no better News from Your most Humble Seruant. sed

son Johonas and turud

and put them out

side of the fence

Hob''

Vendusen.

PETER LIVINGSTON TO HIS FATHER. Manor Livingston

Hon

31th October 1755.

Sir

Yester-day I went with M"" Decker om- overseer according to your Order to Tackkaneck to the House of John Van Deusen & their I found him turned out of his house with aU his family and Benjamin Franckland & his Son with 6 men more in it, when I came to the door with Decker & Robert Van Deusen old Frankland ordered the men to kock their Guns, I told them that I was not come to fight with them but to talk with them, & ask them By what order or Authority they turned the Man out of his house they say'd by orders of the Court of Boston, & that they would not go out of the house till they where forced out by the Barrels of Musquets or till Governour Shirley sends an order for them to go. They likewise told me that the Gen' that signed their orders was Collo Partridge,

&

Coll° Dwight. &c. I

remain Yours Dutifull Son

Direck Spoor told likewise told

me

me

that the Cheaf

that 60 familese

man was Benjamin

was coming

Frankland, he

to settle tlieir

Peter Litingston.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

486

M» LIVINGSTON

TO GOV. HARDY. Albany ye 9 Novemb. 1753

May

Please your Excellency This day M" Livingston sent me an Express to acquaint me, that there was a Company of New England men of tlie Massachusets Bay, to the number of 70 or 75, come last week to Tachkanick in my mannor, a place by Estamation about 16 miles East of Hudsons River, that they kep a Garrison there at the House of Michial Halenbeck one of my Tenants on Leese for Life and in the House of Johannis Van Deusen another of my Tenants, who they had Dispossesed and turned out with all his family the week before That they were to begin on fryday last, to run lines to lay out it

a Township

&

lay

it

my

That John Mills

Dam

of a pond, to River,

&

into Lotts

&

settle it as fast as

they could

Carpenter with two other men, were busye repairing

the water to

Supply

my

my Dam

at the

when they had a massage brought them by one of my Tenants from Tachkanick

not work any more there, for that the

them away another of

mouth

Iron works, which lays about 12 miles from the

New England

to

home

go

people would come the next day

&

take

& break down the Dam, and that one V^ittney the head of the Gan, told John Doffine my Tenants, that he would take my Carpenter John Mills & Carry him away, and that who was

Request of the Government of the Massachusets Bay relesed out of was now among the Gan at Tachkanick and I fear they have by this time turned out of possession Several more of my Quiet Tenants and Committed many other Josiah Loomis

Albany Goal outrages to

in

my

Wherefore

I

August

at the last

very great Damage must, as being a Subject of this Province, beg your Excellencyes Protection, and

assis-

which not only treatens me, and family with utter ruin, but many pour familyes settled under my Grand Father k father and that your Excellency will be pleased to take this matter into your Consideration, while his Excellency Governour Sherly is now in this Town, that you may fall on some Effectuall Metliod or other, to puta Speady Stop to those riotes Proceedings, and that these people of that Province now on my Estate without my leave may be forthwith orderd to leave it, and not come again to disturb me or any of my Tenants and that a Line of peace may be speadily Settled until his Majestyes pleasure be know, that so peace may be again restor'd to His Subjects & we hve in good Neighbourhood on the Borders, and your tance in this Grand

afiair,

;

Excellency will Infinitely oblige Youi- Excellencyes most Obedient

and most Humble Serv' Rob' Livingston Jun'.

THE SAME TO THE SAME. Mannor Livingston ye 23 NoTemb.

May

1755.

Please your Excellency Just now I received your Excellency's favours of the 20 Current, with inclosed Copy of a letter from the Commissioners of the Massachusets Bay now at Albany to your Excellency complaining in which they are pleased to say, of the detainer of one Joseph Paine, in Albany goal at my Sute that this man was arrested for a supposed Traspass, on Lands claimed by that Government, altlio' an hireling and at work in the field of another man In which I tliink these Gentlemen are misinit

;

;

PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

487

was a wood cutter for my Deceased father at his Ironworks above have a small farm near the works for him & his old woman to live on which after some time was granted, & where he lived unmolested untill 1753, wlien he whent in defyance of me with his Son in Law into my woods which had been in the possession of my Grandfather my father & self since the year 1686 & forwliich I have regular patients under the Great Seal of this Province ready to be produceji and there Girdled, & cutt down several tliousands of trees fit to make Coal for my Ironworks, to my ver}' great damage, & told the men I sent to forbid him, that the Lands were his & he would go on &distroy the timber as he pleased & Robert Livingston kiss his a s. so that it ajipears by this Impertinent answer he was principle & not an liireling and accordingly was arrested & for want of sufficient Bail clap'd in Goal & some time after I obtained a judgment of Court against him for said damage agreable to the laws of this Province. Nor may it please your Excellency was this Pain taken in sucli a violent manner by Patrick Migee, as Robert Van Deusen & his son Johannis two Tenants of mine were out of their house by a Deputy Sherriff, of Massachusets assisted by Josiah Loomis & several others, who tyed them on horses, & carryed away k Committed them to Springfield Goal where I was obliged to gitt Surityes to prerent their Laying in a Goal, and some time after these 2 men were ajudged in the Court of Springfield to pay Josiah Loomis a Tenant of mine for supposed Traspass 30, odd pounds Lawfull money of said money for Court charges, all which has been paid by me to tlie utmost farthing, and '

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PAPERS RELATING TO THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

499

& OTHERS DEMANDING AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE LIVINGSTON'S TITLE.

PETITION OF PETRUS PULVER

To

the Honorable the Legislature of the State of

The

Petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants

New York in Senate ana Assembly Convened of the Town of Livingston in the County of

Columbia

Humbly Sheweth That Thomas Dongan Leiutenant Governor and Vice Admiral of the

New York

bearing date

tlie

fourth day of

November One thousand Six hundred and

unto Hubert Livingston deceased a certain Tract of Land situate and side of

late

Province

now

Stale of

a certain Patent under his hand and Sealed with the Seal of the Province aforesaid

l)y

Hudsons River commonly

called or

known by

the

name of

l.ving

Eiglity four did Grant

on a Creek on

tlie

East

Roeluife Jolinsons kill described

Nekankook, Kichua Wickquashaka and two or three Two hundred Acres together witli Eighteen hundred Acres of Woodland l} iug and being between a small creek or kill l} ing over against Catts kill called Wackankasseck and a place by the Indians called Swaskaharaaka to the South of Roelofi" Johnsons Kill that is to say Two hundred Acres along the River side and the rest adjoining to the said Two hundred Acres and so running back into the woods And also all Woods underwoods waters runs streams ponds creeks meadows marshes fisliing hawking hunting and fowling and all otlier Liberties and Priviledges Hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to the as follows to wit "It being in three plains called

other small

tlatts

or plains

in all

about One hundred Morgans or

said Tract or parcel of Land belonging or in

anywise appertaining, the said Robert Livingston his Heirs

and Assigns rendering and paying as a quit rent for tlie same twenty shillings current money of the then Province of New York Yearly and every year at Albany on tlie twenty fiftli day of March unto his Majesty liis Heirs and Successors or unto such officer or officers as shoulc be appointed to receive the same.

And

your Petitioners further

Humbly shew

tliat

the said Robert Livingston by virtue of

another Patent under the hand of the aforesaid Thomas Dongan and Sealed with the Seal of the

New York

bearing date the twenty Seventh day of August one thousand Six was seized and possessed of another Tract of Land called Tackkanick described as follows to wit Lying and being adjacent unto the aforerecited tract of Land beginning behind Patt-Kook on a certain Creek that runs into the east side of Hudsons River and is known by the name of RoelofFe Johnsons kill beginning on the North west side of the said Kill that runs

then Province of

hundred and Eighty

along the

flatt

five

or plain

Land

Trees are marked with

at a place called

L and from

by the Natives Minischtanock where two black Oak

thence along a small Hill to a Valley that leads to a

smaU

Creek called by the Indians Quissichcook and over the said Creek to a high place to the Westward of a higli Mountain where two black oak trees are marked L and is called by Natives Kackkawanick from thence westward to a small Hill on the side of a Creek called Skaanpook where two white Oak Trees are marked L and so runs along the East side of the said Creek wliich a little lower is called by the name of Twastawekok and is the westerly bounds the Southerly bounds beginning on the other side of the Creek trees are

tliat

runs along the

marked and runs along the

foot,

flatt

or plain over against Minisicktanock where two

of the high Mountains to the Path that goes to

Wawigch-

by the Indians Mananosick where two trees are marked L on tiie South west Path from thence Westward to a Creek called by the Nati\'es Nachawawackkano where

tanock

to a Hill called

side of

tlie

two white Oak trees are marked L which Creek comes into the other Creek called Twastawekok which is tlie West bounds and so incloses all the Land above recited tlie Place wliere the two Creeks meet being called Mawichnanck the llatt or plain Land lying on botii sides of the said Creek

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—

PAPERS KEL^iTlNG TO THE MANOR OF I.IVINGSTOK.

500

coiitaining iibout three luindred

Morgan or Six hundred Acres

togetiier

with

all

and singular the

Woods Underwoods Swamps Moores Marshes Meadows Rivulets Streams Creeks Lakes Pools Ponds fishing Hawking Hunting and fowling and whatever else to the said Tract

Trees Timber W.iters

of

Land

witliin tlie

bounds and

limits afoi-esaid belonged or in

anj wise appertained" Yielding render-

ing and paying therefore yearly and every year unto his Majesty his Heirs and Assigns or unto such Oilicer or Officers as should be appointed to receive the

same Eight

Shillings current

money of

the tlien Province

And your

Petitioners further

Humbly shew

that the afores.iid Robert Livingston soon after the

Grants in form aforesaid made of the lands and premises aloresaid made application to the said

Tliomas Dongan then being Lieutenant Governor of the then Province as aforesaid, under antl fraudulent pretences tliat the said

false

Robert Livingston had "been at vast Charges and Expence

in puicliasing tlie said tract of Land from the native Indians and in improving and settling tlie same and for encouraging the future Settlement the said Robert Livingston applied to the said Thomas Dongan to constitute and erect the said Tracts or parcels of land within the bounds and limits aforesaid to be a Lordship and Manor and to confirm tlie same unto hira his Heirs and Assigns by Patent under the Seal of tlie Province. And did at the same time falsely and fraudulently suggest and represent to the said Tliomas Dongan that the Lands granted to him the said Robert Livingst* n by the said recited Patents were lying together and were bounded and limited in manner Ibllowiug that is to say " On the north by a Line to be drawn from a certain Creek or Kill over against the South Side of Vastrix Island in Hudsons River called Wachankasigh to a place called by tlie Natives Wawanaquassick where the Heaps of Stones lye being near the Head of a certain Kill or Creek called Nanapenahekan wliich come out of a Marsh lying near unto tlie said Hills of tiie said Heaps of Stones upon wliich the Indians throw upon another as they pass by fi-om ancient Custom among them and from thence extending to the Nortliermost end of the Hills that are to the North of Tachkanick known by the name of Ahashewaghkick and on the East from Ahashewaghkick aforesaid along the said Hills to the Southermost end of the same called Wichquiipakakat ar.d from thence by a straight line to the South end of a small piece of land called Sakaqua and NakawaeAvick and on the South by a straight line to be drawn from tlience to the Southermost Bounds or Bowcht of Roeloff Johnsons Kill and from thence by a straight line to a place on tlie River side called Sanskahamka wliich lies over against the Sawyers Creek and on the West by Hudsons River including all the Lfinds on both sides of Roeloffe Johnsons Kill And your Petitioners further Humbly shew that the said Thomas Dongan giving Faitli and Cretlit to the false and fraudulent Suggestions and Representations of tlie said Robert Livingston witliout any new Consideration to move him thereto or any interest resulting thereby to his then Majesty did on the Twenty Second Day of July One tliousand Six hundred and Eighty Six issue another Patent (called a Confirmation) to the said Robert Livingston but A^hether the same will by operation of Law comprize any more or other Lands than those contained in the Two above mentioned Grants Your Petitioners do not at present uiiiiertake to represent nor do they conceive the same material. And Your Petitioners furtlicr Huml)ly shew That the two first recited Grants were for small and inconsidei-able Tracts of Land to wit, the first thereof being for the quantity of Two thousand Acres only and the said Second Gnint l)eing for about the Quantity of Six hundred Acres wliich Your Petitioners stand ready to prove and maintain not only by the Grants themselves but by Boundaries thereof Wliereas the Land claimed by the Heirs and Descendants of the said Robert Livingston the greater part whereol" is now in their possession is of ranch larger extent and of much greater \'alue containing at least the urgh

Kof, quas hendrick, Sym herry. Jack, lam. Sezer, Jem

Jenneke Elmendorph

tam

.

.

.

Lambert

Sczar

liriiick

County: Listed by

Sare Sare

Mary bet, Nane, bet

bet

Dien Sus:in

Jan V;uiducse true List of the

Lane, peg hcs, tryn

.

A

of Negroes

»

Negroes

me— Dated

i\Iale

and female above the Age of fourteen years; of

this I'Jth

Day of

Mary, Susan the touwnship of hurley

In Ulsteri

Aprill. 1750.

Capt. JUHA.S.N'ES CRFSPEL.

CENSUS OK SLAVES.

1755

the 13 of ^'Jpiil,

507

By CajM Edward Wkittaker

and their J\''amcs and

An, account of the JYegro people males and females of Their Masters as it Here under Doth ctjjpear

lYie J\'ames

The A^ames of Their Masters,

T/ie

Negro people or Slaves

Females

Males.

Captn Edward Whittalcer

Widow: Klesabetli Wliittak Widow Hillitie VVhittaker Widow Hannah Schoonmalcer Widow Klsye Van Uunschoten

1

Widow

2

Cof Herry, Dick

S*as,

2 2

Gen

2

gen,

2 2

Jud gen Saar

1

Dyan

iViyndertse

Ilerry, torn

2 4

toon, Jack Jack, Jack, piet, Joo.

1

fiet

Betty

pegg, floor

mar Bet

tyen, Isac Cof.

2 1

Devenport peak Dewit Coruelis Langendyk Croninius Valkcnburgh Nalhan Dubois

Dyan

1

Cof

1

Troumbour

Deen

Diilo^

I

Chistiyan IVlyer

Bet, Jud

Ricliai'd

1 1

1 1 1

Daniel Whittaker

William Legg

Insign

1

Jack

1

2

Jacobus pcrsen Samuel Dubois Elesabelh Oosterhout Joiiannes

Jack, franck torn, ti'ump

2

Lutenent John Whittalver William iMyor Luttenent Tobias Wynlcoop Widow Antie Wynkoqp

Myndert

Will Jack

1

John Legg Junier HendrickSchoonmaker Widow Tedotia Sohoonmaker John Monk peter Van Luven Johannis Jury Elegh Johannis Mourse

gato Scazor

1

gen

Herry Cof

1

gen

1

Dyan

I

Kuben

2

Seazor,

1

Sharp Cof Cof

1

IMingo

1 1

Ruben

Hester

1

Saar

Jack

1

Severyn iJruyn

gen

1

Capt Harmonse's List. April if 2: 1755; Henilrick Heermans Negro man dirck Gerrei van waireiieri Negro man tarn

t7ie7i is is

their Mersters first Give up their Slaves to

63 jers old JNegro 30 jers old Negro

wens Nen is 40 ys old Negro wens Bet wens Dyaen is 40 jers old

me Cap^ is

51 yrs old.

Art van wugcneii Negro man jo is;.i6jers old Evert van waganon Negro man ton is 6

.

Pawby Robin Old Peter Joseph

6.


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CHURCH LOT IN RYE. William Bvrnet Esq"" Cap* General and Governor in Chief in an 1 over his Majestys Provinces of New York and New Jersey and Territories Depending, thereon in America and Vice Admiral of the same S:c. The Humble petition of the Chm-ch Wardens of the Parish of Eye in ye Province of New York May it please Your Excellency Whereas there is a parcell of Land in this town which for many years has been in the possession of tlie Minister of our parish for the time being, but now by Reason of our long want of a settled Minister to possess it, is Encroached upon and very much Lessened by the Inhabitants that Bound upon it; We therefore the Church Wardens of the parish of Rye afors*! believing Our selves in Duty Bound to secure and Defend the Rights of our parish Church, Do humbly pray your Excellency to

To

his Excellency

Grant Yo^ Warrant, to the Surveyor Gonerall to survey the s'i parcell, and adjust the true bounds thereof to prevent any such Encroachments for the future and your Petitioners be in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray Sam^'-

1722

To

Purdy

Uenry ffowler Jim'

the Secry

Let a warrant be

prepared accordingly

W.

Burnet.

PAPERS RELATING TO WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

575

PETITION FROM NORTH CASTLE AGAINST JUSTICE PELIIAM.

To

the Right Honourable

York

The

George Clark Esq' Commander

in Chief of

province of

tlie

New

& Joost Vredenburgh of the Manor of Fordham in the County of Westchester ^ Cordawiner Hendrick Magielse of the same place Farmer and Benjamin Corsen of Ne\T York ) the same place Farmer all of full age being duly sworn on the holy E\ angehsts of Almiglity God severally Depose and say as follows Tlie said Joost Vredenburgh Deposeth that on Satiuxlay the 29"^ day of September last he put up and fixed a printed Advertisement of which the abo^-e written is a true Copy on the Door of the Parish Church of Westchester and on ]\Ionday the 8^ day of Publick Notice

is

tlie

October following saw the same remaining there in the manner he had fixed the same and

tliat two Sundays had intervened from the day he so put the same up and the said 8"» day of October, And that the Deponent the third Sunday after the said Advertisement was so put up sent tlie said Hendrick Magielse to Westchester to see if the said Advertisement remained as the Deponent had The said Hendrick Magielse Deposeth that fixed the same on the Door of the Church aforesaid. Vredenburgh to see if the said Advertisement remained said Joost he was sent on a Sunday by the fixed on the Door of the Parish Chm-ch of Westchester as aforesaid and that he found the same remaining there in the afternoon of that day and read the same in the words or to the efiect of the Copy thereof above written and that as to the time he so went to Wcstcliester he believes it must have been the same Sunday on which the said Joost Vredenburgh herein declares it to have been

because he never except at

tliis

Time went on

the like occasion to Westchester,

And

the said

Benjamin Corsen Deposeth that he saw the said Joost Vredenburgh fix up the Advertisement aforesaid on the Door of the said Parish Church of Westchester which he believes was on or aliout the 29"! day of September last And that he saw the same remain so fixed thereon ^londay after the fourth Sunday next following the day the said Deponent Joost Vredenburgh put up & fixed Joost Vredenburg the same as aforesaid. 20''' Hendrick Nichelsen day of ? Sworn the Benjemen Corsen. ) Novenilier 17r)3 Before

Sworn

tlie

me 21*'

Bilbre

liis

Jn° Chambers day of November 1753 Honor tlie Governor in Council

G"^

Banvau D.

Clk. Con,

PAPERS RELATING TO WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

PETITION FOR LEAVE TO COLLECT FUNDS FOK BUILDING A AT NEW ROCHELLE.

577

NEW

MINISTER'S HOUSE

Cadwallader Colden Esq"" Lieutenant Governor & Commander in Chief of the Province of New York & Territories Thereon Depending In America A Petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of New Rochell Belonging to the Cliurch of England. S"" the Society for Propogation of the Gospel In forcing Parts have Been So Charitable as To Appoint Mr Houdin a trench Refuge a Gentleman of a Good Character Successor to their Late Worthy Missionary at New Rochell the Reverend M"" Stoupe In Consideration of which Particular Regard tliey Require and Insist that the People at New Rochell Should Do their Utmost To make M'' Houdin a Comfortable Support and tliat tliey Should Immediately Put the Parsonage House In Good Repair We Are Ready & Willing To Exert Ourselves To the Utmost According To Our Abilities, But To those that Are Acquainted with the Circumstances of the People Profesing the Church at New Rochell It will Appear To Require the Utmost Exertion of Our Abilities To Efford that Necessary Supj^ort To M'' Houdin that the Society Expect &, Require & If We Should Be Obliged to Raise four Hundred Pounds To Build a New Parsonage House, The Old Being So Decayed that It Is thought By No Means Worth Repairing Especially at tliis Burthensome Time We have the Greatest Reason To fear that It will Be So Extremely heavey that Many Will Be Discouraged & In that Case that M"" Houdin Must Leave Us, tho he Is the Only Minister In the Place, & Indeed there are But few Besides Professors of the Cliurch of England In the Place & We have Reason To hope that they May Be Induced To Conform Should A Wortliy Minister Contine Among Us Upon Those Considerations We Beg Your Honour Will Be Pleased To Grant A Brief tlirough this Province To Collect the Aforesaid Sum of four Hunder Pound for Building a New Parsonage House To Repair the Church In this Place & your Petitioners As In Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray Barnard Rynlander James De Blez Jacobus Bleecker Isaac Guion David Lespinard Jean Soulice. August 19"! 1761. Peter Bartine Read in Council &, granted.

To

the Honorable

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PETITION OF THE FRENCH CHURCH AT

To

the Honourable

Province of

The

Cadwallader Colden

New York and

Esq""

Lieutenant Governor

ROCHELLE.

& Commander

in Chief of the

the Territories depending thereon in America kc°-

Petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants of the

Pelham, in

NEW

Township of New Rochel

In Council

in the

manor of

the County of Westchester.

Humbly Sheweth That the Petitioners are members of the French Church

at

new Rochell

aforesaid,

and principally,

decendants from French protestants, wlio fled from the Religious persecution in France in the Year

one thousand six hundred and

eiglity

one and shortly thereafter settled a Tract of six thousand acres

Township of New Rochell, which was granted to Jacob Leisler from whom your Petitioners' said Ancestors purcliased by John Pell tlieii Proprietor of the said Manor of Pelham, in the year of our Lord one Thousand Six hundred and eiglity nine. That the said John Pell at the same time, did also give and grant to the said Jacob Leisler, the further Quantity of one luindred acres of Land, for the use of the French Cliurch Erected, or to be Erected, by the Inhabitants of the said Tract of Land, or Townslhip, or by tlieir Assigns. That the Petitioners' Ancestors, have long since built a decent Church within the said Township, and dedicated the same to the service of Almighty God and they and your Petitioners have Enjoyed the same, with the said

of

Land, now known by

the said

name of

the

;

Vol.

III.

73

578

PAPERS RELATING TO W'ZSTCHESTER COUNTY.

Tract of one hundred acres of Land as a Glebe thereto, to this day.

That on the twelfth day of

June, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and niue,

the tlien Inhabitants of the

all

Township, who were Members of the said French Church, excepting two, unanimously agreed & Consented to Conform themselves, in the Religious worship of their said Church, to the Liturgy and said

Clmrch of England as Established by Law, and by a Solemn Act or Agreement, did and put themselves under the protection of, the same.

Rites of the

submit

to

That fourteen Years before, and ever since such Conformity, their respective ministers and have been Invested with holy Orders by Episcopal Ordination; and have received their principal support, from the Society for propagating the Gospel in Foreign partsj and that divine Service since the said Conformity, hath constantly been performed in their said Church, Agreeable to the Rites and Liturgy of the Church of England as by Law Established, two Si;ndays out of three in the French Tongue, and every third Sunday in English, for the Instruction of such of the Inhabitants, as frequented the said Chui-ch and were Ignorant of the French Language. pastors,

And

the Petitioners further

decayed and out of repair

;

shew unto your honour, that

their said

Church

is

at present greatly

and their Minister or pastor but Indifferently provided for

make

Petitioners are sincerely disposed to

&

altho' the

a suitable provision for bothj yet the Petitioners cannot

accomplish this good design, unless by being Incorporated, they apply and improve, the Donations and Contributions that

may be

may become Enabled to receive among themselves ahd

Collected

;

given for that purpose by other pious and Charitable people

Your

Petitioners therefore most

Humbly

pray, that your

Honour

will be favourably pleased to

grant unto them his Majesty's Royal Charter, Confirming to them the said Church and the Lands

and other Riglits thereunto appertaining and also Creating and Constituting them, and the rest of the members of the said Church, a body politick and Corporate, for the purposes of managing Conducting and improving, the affairs and interest of the said Chm-ch with such powers priviledges and Imunities, as have been lately granted, to the Inhabitants ot the respective Townships of Jamaica Flushing and New Town, in Queens County on Nassau Island, in Communion of the said Church of England or otherwise as to your Honour shall appear fit and reasonable. And the Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray ;

;

:

New Rochell pt Feb. 1762. Michael Houdin Mini&r Jacobus Bleecker

James De Blez

r.

Cliurch

Daviill>eespiiia Is;iac

(iiiioa

Jur

Elias Onion Isaac Guioii Peter nertain Jean Soul ice

Vestry I

men

I

J

Pefer Guion Abigail Bleecker Judith Le Conet Allada Guion Catharin Bertain Mary Bertine Peter Beitain Jur Josiah Lc Conte

Oliver Besley Isaac Besl°y Cornel iah Besley Frederick King

Davit! Guion

Susannah landrin Dina Guion Anne Panlonson John houdin Catherine houdin Kitty houdin Elizabeth houdin Rutprer Blee»kcr Sarah Bleecker

Elizabeth Lespenard Judith Bertain

Paul Seconl Lidia Sicard Jean Ally

Moses De St Croix Marie De Sain Croix

Joseph Antiiniz Content Antunez Peter Bonnet Mary Bonnet Peter Parquet

Mary Guion

Daniel Sulis

Manha

Del)ora ti'Ulon

Marie Neufiiille Map Stouppe l

de blez

Ilenjatnin Scacord

Rachel Guion

Abraham Seacord

Jan Nlcolie

Klizaheth Parquot Jane Seacord

Argues ante Nicolle Thomas Guion Judith Le Conic

Jame< McCevrs IJ May 17tj2.

Read

in

Council

&

Benjamen Guion Esaio Guion Elizabeth Guion Elizabeth Guion

Abram Guion Mary Angevine Easter Angevine

Joshua Soiis

Thos Steele Jane Contine Suzanne Contine Jane Mauraux Jonathan Seicard eslher le Conte Sarah Secord

James pine Susanna Soulil Jane Guion Ester Soulis

Mafdelene Soulil John Bonnet

Mary Rodman

Mary Bonnet

Hester

Daniel Bonnet

I.e Conte Agnis Donaldson Daniel 8e Cord francis I.e Conte Jno Bryan

Mary Bonnet .lames Besley

Edwd

Smith

Mary Seacord

granteil.

mcrl of itic nlmve mimed clerpymnn ia in llip N. Y. roniiril MIn xix. Of>9 On llip 9fllli of Jnnr. 1714. fiov. Clmtnn one Monsieur Miciikl IIouiiin inul u woiniin snid lo lie wife, wi-rf hiloly romc lo Town from Cnnailn. from which on Ihcir iirriviil lie hiul confined llicm to ilieir I.odi.'ini,"' * liml pliiccd two ("cnlnu U over llieni " llavme lieen I'XRninicil nl.ice llipv hnil liilrly Hcd. Mr. II. repre«eiiiiiig Dcfore the Council, tlie parties were orderril to live HI Jiimiiici. I. I .where lltcy remjoned until the month of Auf^iiitt follo\vinp. his circum^tniices ns \ ery low, mid ht% imihilily to do nny tliiiip to irel n livin^.aiid thnt liiitiftflf ntul wife must coiisc 273, 276 1 He wns received into the Church of Hue in 174!' iippoinied mi«s)oii«rT He wan orifinally. it said, a Recolle .1, /• recorded a« having left that couiiiry in 1746, Intt w« have no means of reconiiliug the diacrepiuiciee in these names and dale* Ed. Tlie enrliPM notirc \vc

" ncqiiainieil

ilie

Council

lliiil

niiil tluil

.

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PAPERS RELATING TO WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

LIST OF

579

WHITE INHABITANTS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY,

A^o-

•a

•a

] 16 Fame

fo

60

«

under

CO

o to

a

ails

und

•3 §

.-3

.-3

a

a

O O CO !-

bO

C^

92

West

wai'd

126 130 233 293 128 22

manor Cortland

Rike patent

73

201 47 200 62 312 268 365 318 143 116 35 28

1294 1785 1154

7330

A

112

270 417 242

Number

13

106

42 338 15 242 4 189 17 190 24 352 8 123 3 32

122 434 172 206 273 374 128 32

126 1472 1741

13 24 13 26 43 116 64

O

under

" s

w Bedford

rH

60 malls

m

(A

J3 13

1

V

ove

ider

d

1782.

1

2 5

3

'3

'3

a

a

12 21

26

o

10

6

6

30 45 116 63

28 49 90 63; !

199 275

13

293 272]

White Inhabitants of the County of Westchester, taken from it appears were by them taken exclusive of such parts of the precincts above mentioned as are most exposed to the Enemy and exclusive also of such precincts in which no Town Officers have been Chosen by reason of the Invasion of the Enemy, this 28th day of September 1782. Jesse Hunt SheriflF of the County Westchester. General return of the

of

the returns of the respective Constables which

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XIV.

PAPERS BELATIXO TO

UiBttx

^

IButcljesfs

Counties.

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KEV° MR BLOM FIRST MINISTER TO ESOPUS. [Vanderkemp's Alb. Rec. VIII.]

Whereas

God and the Salvation of men be proend religious meetings ought to be instituted and encouraged by the pure preaching of the word of God, the lawful administration of the Sacraments, the publick invocation of the name of the Lord, and what further is belonging to the dutiful worship and whereas the Situation of Esopus in New-Netherland requires, that a duly qualified person, be moted

it is

indispensably required, that the honour of

to the best of

our

abilities,

and

for this

sent thither as a lawfully ordained Minister,

who can execute

there the ministerial functions in every

Government and the word of God, and in unison with the laudable usages of the Reformed Churches in this country and who is able to maintain and defend these. Therefore, We, the Ministers of the word of God and Elders of the congregations of Christ, belonging to the Classis of Amsterdam, after the invocation of the name of God, and in his fear, with the approbation of the noble Directors of the West India Company, after a faithful examination in the principal doctrines of the Christian Reformed Church and after having received satisfactory evidence of the pious life and requisite talents for the ministry of the Gospel, and after he signed the Netherlands Confession, the Christian Catechism and canons of the National Synod, have ordained the Reverend pious prudent and learned Minister Hermanns Blom with the Solemn imposition of hands, to preach there, both on Water and on the Land and in all the neighbourhood, but principally in Esopus, the Holy and only Saving doctrine of the word of God, in its purity, to administer the Sacraments agreeably to Christ's institution, with propriety to give an example to liis congregation of publick prayers, to keep them with the aid of his consistory in a good discipline and order, all in conformity to the word of God and the formularies of the Netherland Churches and the Christian Catechism, Soliciting all our Brethern to accept him as a Lawful Brother, and lawfully called Minister of the Gospel of Christ, to honour him for the sake of his Ministry, and to assist him whenever it is in their power. So that he may officiate unmolested and chearfully, to glorify God's name and the conversion and Salvation of Souls. The Almighty God, who has called this Minister to the Service of his church enrich him more and more with all talents and the blessings of his Holy Ghost, so that his labours may be crowned with abundant Success, to the glory of his name, and Salvation of men, and reward and adorn him, at the appearance of the great Shepherd of Sheep with the never fading crown of eternal glory Done in a Classical meeting in Amsterdam 16 Febr. 1660 In the name and by order of all particular part in conformity to the church

—

(was signed)

Petrus Proeleus, Eccles. Amstelodamensis, et D©-

putatorum ad causas Indicas P' scriba

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582

DOMINIE BL0M15 DESCRIPTION OF THE MASSACRE AT THE ESOPUS, Rev^ Wise, right learned, and pious The state and condition of my Cliurcli,

1663.

:

Wiltwyck, in the Esopus country, somewhat prosperous, through God's blessing and mercy, as well in Members, which have increased from IG to CO, as in hearers, and all was well ordered in Church matters and consistory, so that every thing is placed on a good footing. I have also laid a good foundation, both by private and public Instruction of Catechists, both within and without my house, as also by the explanation of the Catechism, so that this newly rising community began to grow and to bloom right worthily, when a cruel blow overtook it, and the Heatliens fell on, and right sorely treated our Church and Commonality, and under the guise of friendship murdered and also captui-ed many they intended to destroy this Church altogether, and to devour it alive, had not the Lord our God wonderfully protected it, and they tied, having taken

New

in

Netherland, since

my 3 years

situate in the village of

residence there

is

;

So tliat we escaped witli the most part The Lord only be thanked therefor, not men

a fright in their heart, when no person drove tliem away. of the inhabitants, and have

men's help was far from us

for

retained the place.

still

for the soldiers

;

whom we

had before were discharged and sent

to

There lay the burnt and slaughtered bodies, together with those wounded by bullets and The last agonies and the moans and lamentations of many were dreadful to hear. I have

Holland. axes.

been in their midst, and have gone into the houses, and along the roads, to speak a word in but I went on my mission, and season, and that not without danger of being shot by the Indians ;

considered not

day

my

life

mine own.

I

say with Jeremiah,

how

manifold

I

am

he

who hath

seen misery in the

of the wrath of the Lord."

Consider well, Avortliy colleagues,

our wounded who I

may

tied for refuge to

much

encouraged our people as

God who

hatli

my

is

the suffering and lamentation amongst us, of

house, and of others

who

up tlie ghost near me. and particularly in prayer

yielded

as possible, out of God's word,

to

We

must behold God's flock taken away into captivity by the Heathen, unexpectedly by the windows, and cut oli" the children irom the highways, and

rescued us.

and Deatli come in the young men from the street so that I might exclaim 0! my Bowels my Boweis! I am pained and with Jeremiah, that mine head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of at my very heart for the dead lay as sheaves behind the mower. tears, that I might weep for the slain of my people The burnt bodies were most frightfull to behold. A woman lay burnt, with her child at her side, Other women lay bui-nt also in their as if she were just delivered, of which I was a living witness. houses and one corpse with her fruit still in her womb, most cruelly mm-dered in their dwelling with her husband and another cliild. The houses were converted into heaps of stone?, so that I might say with Micah, We are made desolate and with Jeremiali, A piteous wail may go forth in But in all this, my request to our brethren is to remember us and our suflcing Church his distress.

—

—

;

!

—

;

;

;

in tlieir prayers.

Witli Paul

'Tis then soe that

Lord

say. Brothers, pray for us.

see in all this

tlie

willingly bear the Lord's anger; for

to patience

42

we

I

and endurance

— Who gave Jacob

addition.

I

have

also

;

and

fur a spoil

lately, at

and

rod and

we have

Him who

uses

it

;

and with the Church of the

sinned against him, and

our monthly prayer-meeting,

Israel to the robbers

?

ic- v.

I

I

exhort ray Congregation

took

my

text from Isaiah

24, 25; and such other verses

in

every evening during a whole month offered prayers up with the congregation,

on the four points of our fort, under the blue sky. But the Lord strengthened me in all this. We trust and depend further on the help of our God, that he will not altogether forsake us, but vouchsafe U3 his mercy in the midst of his justice, and evince his power in our weakness; for

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may

mountains

depart, and hills

fall

away, but His mercy

shall nut

583

once depart from

this feeble

and infant congregation. For we lean on liis mighty arm, and He shall be a wall of lire r(nmd about Already He has us, and require and avenge tliis blood on the heads of these murderous heathens. begun to do so. Many heathens have been slain, and full 22 of our people in captivity have been delivered out of their hands by our arms. Another expedition is about to set out. ^The Lord our God will again bless our arms, and grant that the Foxes who have endeavored to lay waste the vineyard of

tlie

Lord

sliall

be destroyed.

The Indians have slain in all 24 souls in our place, and taken 45 prisoners, of whom 13 are still About the same number of theirs are in our hands. in their power. The Lord our God will make all turn out to the best for his Church, and for the peace and quiet of the whole land. The mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Fatlier, and tlie I'ellowsliip of the Holy Ghost be and remain with you, my wortliy colleagues fur ever; and may this Triune God give us all together after this strife, the crown of immortal glory and sliould we no more behold each otlier here, may we see each other hereafter in our Bridegroom's cliamber, securely sheltered behind the blue curtains of the Heavens in tlie third Heaven of Abraham's bosom, where shall be joy without sorrow, and a never-ending gladness, always and for ever and receive altogether the hearty greeting of me who am one of the least of the servants of Christ Jesus in the work ;

—

;

of the Lord.

Hermanus Blom. The

18th

September 1663

New Amsterdam

in

in

New

Egra manu.

Netherland,

PETITION OF SEVERAL INHABITANTS OF ESOPUS FOR A MINISTER.

1676.

Edmond Andros K' of Sauemares Leiuetenan* and Gouvrna'' Genarall Honorab« vndar his Royall Highnes Deuke of Yorke and Albany and Dependances. The humble petition of Seuerall of the Inhabittanse of Esopus humbly sheweth vnto yo"" Honor "Whereas this 'place, is destitute of a minister for the Instruction of the people It is our Ernest desiar and humb^ request, w'^ all Submission, that yo^ Hono^ will bee pleased to bee aiding and assisting in the procuring one for vs that can preache both Inglish and Duche, w^h will be most fitting

To

the

;

;

;

for this place, rainistares

;

it

being in

its

minoritty, and hauing great charges

is

not very able to maintaine two

nethor to hee at the charge of sending for one out of England or Holand Peettar TasetmakrMs at libarty,

Informed

sum time

officiated in this for

;

And

if to

who

is

bee procured,

a person well knowne to is

;

and wee are Hono"'

yo""

very well approued of and

much

and

desired

by moste, hee being a man of sobar life and conversacon hauing Deportted himselfe to sattisfaction of ye Inhabitance. Wherefor wee tlumbly pray that your Honor will be pleased to bee Instrumental! in the same, and yo'' Hono'^ humble Petticoners sliall Euer pray &c. Thomas Vaiidemark Hendriok Heiitlrickson

Garett

Van fflct Henry Pawlin^j

thos Garton

Thos Bickerstatfe

•Peter Hillibrand Guert Price

Georg- Maile Jolin liijrges George Porter

Peleisa Broadliead

Rnbart paycock m Gray •lacob Jonson Vaneter

W

Clans Tunisoii Aron Garreson 1

and

•Lambart Hubertson Rolof Swartwout •Garret H. Cornelisa Richard S WiUson IMolsar Clans Robart Ciiisam

In N. Y. General Entries, if

found

fit,

to ordain

XXXIl,

61, is an

John Cock

•Derrick Keyser Anthoine Crespel •Albert (^eucrssa

Wm Mc

Asforilbie

Garton

Wm H. Shea •Cornelius Dern E. J. Whittaker Jacob Jansa Decke.

Tennis Jacobson I'homas Matthews William Legg

•

Jolin

Ward

Hallett

Waller DannieU

Jansen

John

Thomas

Qiiynett

John Garion Anthony Aildison fho: Quirk

•

Flail

I'honias

Chadook

•Hcndrick Aldersa •Pttcr Petersa

order to the Rev. Gulielmus Newenhuyzen, dated 30th Sept. 1679, to examine as minihter of the Dutch Church at New Castle, Delaware. Mr. T. lost

Mr. Peter Tescheumaker,

his life at the burning of Schenectady, in the year 1690.

Ed.

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584

PAPEHS RELATING TO ULSTER AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES.

CENSUS OF ULSTER from

GO

CO. 1703.

above

e

as

The Severall Townes

in the

county

to

60

15 Malen

Males

C

n

g s children

£

Males

o

rt

6z

32 107

25 83

4

49

61

11

41

42

14

31 159

207

H6

12 46

19

23

305

lijti

357

H.i

36

187

1

5

9

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t-

QJ

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-5

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S3

3

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rt

Negroes fTemales

22 56 37

2

1

c3

^ 40 67 55 34

383

o

rt

af--

2

2 3 5 7

o

1

!=Z o 1

5

1

3

2

5 17

2 9

31

15

SECRETARY CLARKE TO THE GENTLEMEN AT ESOPUS. New York Gentlemen, M'' HaburnCj who administer

}'«

is

a Minister of

professes, but

and

this

it

;

who

is

I tliink att

1701.

his Excell. to

Least, to be provided for as well as

only tolerated to exercise y« unestablislit religion he

seems you have not been of that Opinion, or

if you have, you have not paid y* Commands, and that regard to this gentleman's Character, as was due, by mean accommodacons you provided before, I am tlierefore by his you know that you are immediately without delays in misconstruing any

to his Excellency's

appears plainly

Command

Excell"

Church of England, and sent by

Gospell to you, in this Vacancy, ought

a Dessenting Minister to y* Church

Obedience

Establisbt

August ye 30th

to lett

part of this to provide a good and Convenient house in your town of Kingstown thereto belonging (suitable to the Character of

M' Heburn)

for

him, and

if

tliere

w'''

be no

necessarys

otlier

house

you are immediately to put him in possession of y^ house Late of Boudy "Windewitt which was some time since Escheated for her Matie and make a speedy retuine of what you shall have done herein. I am Gentlemen very humble serv*

to be Gotten

Geo. Clarke.

PETITION OF THE

To

DUTCH CHURCH OF KINGSTOWN.

Robert Hunter Esq' Cap' Gen'i Gov' in Chfef of her Maties Provinces of New York & New Jersey and the Territories depending thereon in America & Vice AdmiraU of

his Excellency

the same

The

and the Hono'^'* Councill of

Petition of Petrus

tlie

Pro\ ince of

New

York.

Vos Minister of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of the Town of

Kingston in the County of Vlster Jacob Ausen, Wessell ten Broek Jacob Du Bois Eldera Jacobus Elmendorp, Gerret Wyncoop, Hendick Pruym and William Elten Deacons of the

same

Humbly Sheweth, Tliat

tlie

members

cessors having for

of tlie Protestant

many

Reformed Dutch Church

Town and their predeTown and dedicated the same to

in the said

years since erected a Church in the said

PAPERS RELATING TO ULSTER AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES. the Worship of

God acording

to the Constitucons

585

of the Reformed Churches of the United Nether-

lands Established by the Nationall Synod of Dort held in the years 1618

purchased about half an acre of ground for a Cemetry or Church yard

&

1619, and have allso

all at their

own Charges &

Expenses.

They tlierefore humbly Pray for her Maties grant under the great seal of this Province to incorporate them and their successors into a body Corporate knd Politick by the name and stile of the Minister Elders & Deacons of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Churcli, of the Town of Kingston in the County of VIster as near as may be to the Charter granted to the Dutch Church in the City of New York. And yo'' Pet''^ as in Duty bound shall ever Pray

By

New York

l^'

their order

May

of

Henr Beekilvn Jacob Ausen.

1712.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL ON THE FOREGOING PETITION.

May

it

please yor. Excellency

ffirst of May Instant We have Examined on y« Petition of Petrus Vas Minister of ye Protestant Reformed Cliurch of y« Town of Kingstown in y^ County of Ulster, Jacob Aerson Wessell ten Brook Jacob Du Bois Elders Jacobus Elmendorp, Gerrett Wyncoop Hendrick Pruym and William Elton Deacons of

In Obedience to

yo"^

Excellencies Order in Councill of y^

into y« matter Referred to us

y^ same praying for her Maj^'^s Grant under y« Great Seale of this Province vo Incorporate tliem and their Successors into a body Corporate and poUitick by y« name and stile of the Minister Elders and Towneof Kingstown in ye County of Ulster Deacons of y^ Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of as near as may be to y^ Charter Granted to y^ Dutch Church in y* City of New York, And Wee are

humbly of opinion that yo^ Excellencie may Grant Which is nevertheless submitted by

the said petitioners the Cliarter prayed by their

said petition

Yo"^ Excellencies

New York 2d May

most Obed' hiunble Serv"

Rip

Van Dam

John Barbarie A. D. Philipse A D. Peyster S. Staats

1712.

R Walter May

it

please yo'

Honour

In Obedience to your Honours order in Council of this day Referring to us the Petition of Petrus

Vas Minister of the Reformed Dutch Church of Kingston in Ulster County, and of Abraliam Delameter Captain Wessell Ten Brook, Guysbert Vanderburgh and Tliomas Jansen Elders and of Captain Nicholas Hofman, Lambert Cool, Captain John Rutsen and Tirck Van Keuren deacons of the same

Wee

have Considered of the same, and are of Opinion your Honour may grant a Patent of Incorporation to the said Minister Elders and Deacons and their successors for Ever for the free use and exercise of their said Religion and worship with the like liberty and Priviledges as are Granted to the Minister Elders and Deacons of the Dutch Reformed Chm-ch in tlie City of New York Church.

wdth

this Difference

only that the Rents of the Lands and Tennements to be held by them shall not

Exceed theSmn of three hundred pounds Vol.

III.

p' ann.

And 74

that

you may likewise Grant a Pattent of

PAPERS RELATING TO ULSTER AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES.

586

Confirmation of the ground and Cemitry or burying Place mentioned in the said Petition under the all w^'' is nevertheless humbly Submitted by Your Honours Most humble and most

yearly quit Rent of one Peper Corn if demanded,

Obed' Servants Rip Van

Walter Gerard Beekmam

Caleb Heathcote John Barberie

R.

:

New York Nov

Dam

A. D. Peyster

A D.

16"» 1719.

A LIST OF THE FFHEEHOLDERS WITHIN THE COUNTY OF ULSTER,

Philipse.

1728.

The Jfree holders for the Toxm of Kingston, Viz^ Willi.im Schepmoes

Doct Hans Kiersteeden

Coenraet Elniemlorp Esqr Doct Jacobus Elmcndorp

Cornelius iJelametre Johannis Delanietre

Simon Van Wagenea Tjerilc De Witt ^> alraii Du Mond Gerrit Van Wagenen John Sleght

Coll

Nicholas liofman Mattys Sleght Petrus Hoganhis

Samuel N lights William Kitiiige William Herris Henilrick Pruyn Major Johannis Wynkoop Maltys Persen William Doughty

Abraham Gaasbeek Chambers Christophell Tappen Mattys Van Kcuren Abraham J)e Lametre Gisbert Van Denbergh Johannis Taj)|)en

Abraham Low Thomas Van Stcenborge Jacob Ten lirook Kbqr

Phillip Viely I>pwi3 Duhois Junr

Johannis Ten Brook Jonas De Lange William Ploe-h John Crook Junr Henclrik Ooslerhout John Oosterhout Junr Mattys \'an Steenberge

Thomas Ueekman

Anthony Sleght

Jeronomtis Klyn Nicolas Dromboer

Nathaniel Devenpoort Johannis Low Maj JohannisIIartlenbergh Peter Tappen Tjerik Van kuercn Samuel Hurhans AUlert Kiersteeilen Evert Roo.sa Solonr.on Bunschooten Hemlrik H Schoonmaker

Clirislyaen INIyer

Peier Alouerse Juiya Uverjiagh

Juryan SnyJor Felter Fier

Peter

Wynnen

Lowrens Merkell Jacob Rut«eri Junr Coll Wcssel I'en Brook Johannis V. Sleeriberga Abraham V. Kteenberge Johannis Swarlt Philip

Moore

Johannis Janscn

:

E'^hbert Schoonmaker Eilwaril Whittaker Esqr Aris Van Sleenberge

Lowrens Hendrik Andries Heermans Johannis Turck

Stephen Gasharie Cornelius Van kueren Cornelius Swartt Tennis adamsc Swart

John Davenpoort Basleyaen Ue W itt Tobias Van Bueren

Barent Burhans Evert Wynkoop Esqr

John Persen Arie Newkerk Johannis Snyder Johannis Wni Snyder

Harmanus Honimel Frederik Merkel

Teunis Swartt

John Wels

W illian>

Johannis iMasten Adam Swartt William Swartt Jacobus De Lametre Lowrens Swart Cornelius KImendorp Johannis Schoonmaker Ilendrik Jansen John Oosterhout John Ploegh John Wood Senr John Wooit Juiir

Anilries Hoff

Edward Wood John Legg Peter LuyUs Peter Peele

James Whitaker W'lUiam Legg

Keel

Gysbert Peele Peter Van Leuven Moses Caniyn Mattys Du Bois Wilhelnius Hooghtelingh Peter Van Acken Boudwyn Lacount

Manuel Gonsalisiluck Manuel Gonsalis of Nov 1740 as also that Consistorial advice of that Most liev^ Consistory at Hamburgh cum annexis, bearing Date y* 30^^ Nov. 174fi, I the Subscriber of tliis do humbly Submit to both y" Political & Ecclesiastical Decision in this business, and do heartily agree with the most humble petition of our distressed Lutheran Bn-thren at

Poghquaick

in

Boekmaiis i)rccinct further relief and Deliverance or assistance against y*

unlawful & Unworthy Minister Hofgoed,

most Gratious Souvereign fc Especially Churches within this our Government.

I

Testify and agree

&

s^

Beg, Praying for y* safety of Our

for y« Prosperity of y^ Legislature

and

all

ye Protestant

William Christoph Berkenmeyer Protestant Lutheran Minister in ye City

&

County of Albany.

PAPERS KELATING TO ULSTER AND DUTCHESS COUNTY.

595

LiTRA C.

Anno

Lodwick Hofgood coming unto us in Dutcliess County in Beekman precinct, he was coming in the House of Andrees Freiderick Pecic too and at the same Time Earbara Tapper, Wile of Christian Tupper, was present seeing and hearing liiiu for some hours. And lie the said Hofgood, after Dinner going away, she tlie said Barbara told us freely, by good Heart, without any action of question, that she was knowing the Place of Great Ingersheim, but never she did know him, it should not be for good Songs *that he was gone from tlience that this is the Truth 1740.

Joliann

:

I testify.

fish Kill

Dutches County June y«

5*'"

1749.

Then personally appear*! before me James Verplanck Esq'' Andrees Frederick Peck and Ehzabeth Sharer who declare^ on oath that the witliin mentioned Barbara Tupper told them what is here in this

paper

set forth

and

farther Said not.

EXAMINATION BY CAPTAIN PAUL RYCAUT, TAKEN AT PAUGIIKEEPSIE Sertjt

Cassedys Account of the

ill

treatment he Received from Jnathan

Timotliy Driskill at the nine Partners Tliat

on

tlie

29th of Sejitember Lieu'

pursuit of three Deserters from

the 17th

when on Command after Lyons detached him & a

OCT.

Mead

THE

7tii 1771.

the Blacksmith

Deserters September the

30'''

Serg' of the 55'^ with ten

and

1761.

men

Regiment, wiiich he had information were concealed by

in th.

when he with the Command came to a place call'd tlie City ha one M

on a journey

M"" Nott being

still

to Ballston

in the possession of the

transportation of the books at the rate of a passenger, for letters sent

by the Post Master

to M-- Nott's.

The

be sound, having sustained no damage.

—Tripe's

(alias Tribe's) Hill, in the

town of Amsterdam, county of Montgomery.

After

arranging the necessary business respecting the transportation of the boxes of books frojn Albany to Utica, left

and having agreed with the stage owners

the city at 11 o'clock

sionary Ground.

which

it

24^/i.

The

may be

—travelled

to see

my journey,

Being considerably fatigued with proper to spend the Sabbath,

—Conversed

them safely delivered at Utica for $1, day 37, and now find myself on Mis-

in the course of the

I

ha\e concluded

and finding myself in a situation ia to tarry until

Monday.

with a number of intelligent people, and obtained the following information.

—

—

—

Amsterdam is 11 by 8 miles. It contains ne Presbyterian Chh, The Rev^ M^ Teneyck sometimes ofliciates in this and the neighbouring towns. He is a The people are nearly |ths of a good character. There is one reformed Dutch Chh, vacant.

extent of this town

v

vacant. gent,

—

town a few Episcopalians. Morals much as in New-England. A very considerable proi^ortion of the Dutch people can neither read nor write, but are very fond of hearing preaching, and have a great respect for pious clergymen. The greatest proporJ\'ew broad Jllban, North of Amsterdam, and nearly of the same extent. vacant, a few seceders. One meeting-house. The tion of the people Scotch presbyterians, character of the people much like that of those in Amsterdam. Johnstown., w^est of Amsterdam on the Mohawk extent, 11 by 8 miles. It contains one Scotch Presbyterian congregation, who have an elegant meeting-house. Simon Hosack, Pastor of the Chh)

English.

There are in

this

—

—

—

a gent, of learning and piety, educated at Edinburgh.

The town

contains an Episcopal congregation,

Urquahart, curate. Ciih.

M'"

who have an There

Congregation not numerous.

Vanhorn, an excellent character, pastor.

A

is

a very respectable congregation.

elegant stone church with organs.

is

also in this

John town one reformed Dutch

respectable congregation.

Further, there

New-England. —vacant,—the people principally —vacant. M^ Teneyck preaches among of Johnstown —extent 11 by

one large presbyterian congregation, Mayfield, north

This

is

from.

8,

thera

occasionally.

Amsterdam, Johnstown, New broad Alban, and Mayfield lie in a square, and were the ancient Cauglmawaga (i. e. cook the kettle.) Tlie ancient and eligant seat of Sir W'" Jolinson, commonly called the Old Fort, is in the town of Amsterdam. Near the center of this town Ouctanunda Vol.

III.

85

—

674

MISSIONARY TOUR THROUGH THE MOHA-\VK AND BLACK RIVER COUNTRIES.

—a very

and useful stream. Ou this stream and in tliis town and 3 saw mills. The soil in these 4 towns is, a little back from the river, a rich silicious earth very productive in wheat and grass. Timber, beach, maple, elm, and hemlock. Conversed with a number of Dutch people upon religious suljjects found tliem extremely ignorant, but thankful for instruction. July 25M. The people who live in a circle of about 3 miles convened at the house of M'' Jared Plumb, in number about 200. Preached in the forenoon from the Acts of the Apostles, 2 chapter Creek empties iuto the j\Ioha\vk

fertile

their stands 4 grist mills, 2 oil mills, one iron forge,

—

—

—

—

&

37th, 38th,

of a

39th verses.

number appeared

to

my

In the afternoon

The appearance of

Ecclesiastes.

text Avas the 10th verse of the 9th chapter of

the people was agreable.

be very

much

impressed.

They were very

When

the meeting

attentive,

was ended,

and the minds I made such

remarks upon the benevolent designs of the Missionary Society as I thought were proper. Before the people retired, I was urged by a number to visit the north part of the town, in which there is a large body of people; and as it is in the corner of three towns, concerning which I wish to obtain information, I concluded to visit them, and to preach a lecture to-morrow in the afternoon, and

from

tlience to go

July 26th.

on

to Utica.

—Preached

I find that I

this afternoon to

am

treated with great respect and kindness.

an audience of about 200 persons, at the house of Esq»

Lawrence E. Van Aulen, in the north part of the town of Amsterdam. The people gave good attention, and I hope received some good impressions. My text was in Gal. 4th ch. 19th verse. Ou enquiry, I found that North of Broad Alban there is a town by the name of Northampton, vacant. It contains 8 or 9 huiidred people, who have no preaching except from Methodists. WdlsPs Settlement lies N. of Northampton and Mayfield, Vacant. In this quarter there is a

—

considerable

number of

The utmost extent of

scattered inhabitants.

inhabitants. North of the

River in the county of Montgomery, is 30 or 35 miles. Wells Settlement lies round Lake Pleasant, and near the foot of ranges of low mountains, which extend towards tlie west. Palatine, west of

Johnstown and Mayfield

;

extent 15 by 12 miles.

—A place called Stone

and one Dutch reformed Chh.

Jlrabia

Mr Lubauch

and contains one Lutlieian Clih, is minand M' Crotz of the former. 4 miles west of Stone Arabia, in the same town of 4 miles west of Palatine, is a refoi nied Lutheran chh, to wliom M"' Crotz preaches part of tlie time. The lieyi M'^' Dozly, a German, this is a Dutch reformed chh, or presbyteriuu congregation. is

in this town,

ister

of the

latter,

pastor.

Manheim, the

last

town

in the

County of Montgomery,

—

extent, 6

by

6,

—vacant

;

not a large

congregation.* Salnbury, north of

One Presbyterian chh,

Manheim

—vacant.

—extent, about The

people,

6

it is

by 8 miles

;

contains not far from 1700 souls.

said are tolerably well united,

and wish

to settle

a minister.

Weather extremely hot and dry. The people in the towns tlu'o' which I have passed are something sickly with tlie dysentary and influenza. The Albany stage arrived at the public house which I now am at, 1 o'clock Ilerkcincr, Little Falls. carelessness of the driver, I soon found tliat the small box of unaccountable the thro' night last complete to my misfortunes and anxiety, I found that, contrary to my books was missing, and directions, the boxes had been placed behind the stage from Palatine, and that the bottom of the Ilode this day 3G miles.

;

I books were missing, 4 catechisms only excepted. what the property was, and the condition of my agreement The fellow appeared to be sliocked, and went directly back 3 miles, witli the stage owner at Albany. a man to go back at daj break, and he himself this morning willi agreeil but found nothing. He

large

box

h;id fallen out,

and that

all the

instantly inlbrmed the stage driver

* isua

General RamarUs, post.

f

—

MISSIONARY TOUR THROUGH THE

has retm-ned

down

The shock has been almost

o'clock.

them

the river, to find

MOHAWK AND BLACK RIVER if possible,

much

too

Ibr

aud

my weak

not yet returned

lias

nerves, aud

675

COUNTRIES.

I

am

—

it

is

now

ten

fearful the property

will not all be recovered.

They have

This parish contains six or 7 hundred inhabitants.

improve

may be found men

In this place

it.

diuver returned, having, fortunately, recovered I accidentally fell in

however, but

little

and the Oneida. o'clock

company with

Before

I

go to Utica

the books

which the large box contained.

M"^ Sergeants of

New-Stockbridge

thinks the best missionary ground

have concluded

I

and

the River, travelled 8 miles,

I left

all

the Rev^

He

time witli him.

new meeting-house, but do not At 2 o'clock the stage

a

of various religious sects.

called

to visit

—could

have,

between Fort Stanwix Faiifield and Norway. About 3 is

on some of the principal men

in Fairfield,

and

found things respecting religion very discouraging. I ofl'ered to tarry and prcacli the next dciy but it was tliought y' no people would attend. I find tiiat people are universally in tlie midst of

and that it is extremely difficidt for them to attend lectures. At night I arrived at Norway, 6 miles North of Fairfield. Korway, bounded East on Salsbury, west on Canada creek, south on Fairfield. A young gent, by the name of Johnson, has preachetl in tliis town for several Sabbaths and the people liave hired him for 3 or 4 Sabbaths to come. There is a considerable congregation of Presbyterians. their harvest,

;

But

in this town, as in all those parts.

it is

Universalists

almost

From

Tliere

is

is

one methodist chh,

the sou-th line of the

—numerous

town

;

to visit this place,

be able to make I

this

it

and several other towns

tists,

Methodists

3aiiiis, Waranawankongs, Wajipinges, Wanreneks, Konekotays, Matanaokowses, Armeomecks, |l']rmomex,| Macquaas and iilly others between New-York city and the Mohawk river.

interior of

;

—

—

MISCELLANY.

The head waters of is

the

Hudson

all,

New

"Great River of

called the

magnified, are transported

but near the

away

site wliere

made

are

725

to penetrate to

near the

St.

Lawrence

river,

which

England," while Lake Cham{)lain and LaJce George, higlily

east of the Connecticut river.

Philadelphia should be,

Philadelpliia

a place doubtless of

is

not set d\vn at

much

greater conse-

marked under the name of Mageckqueshon." The Map of which the description is iiere given, is doubtless a republication of tlie (jlder Dutch ]\Iaps of New Netherland (now New- York) pul^lislied by Yisclier, Jansson and others, nearly two hundred years ago, the title and other parts of which have been altered to suit the English market. The St. Lawrence was laid down by the Dutcli as far back as 1614 as the "Great river ot New Netlierland," and in 1656 or 1659 they called it the "Great river of Canada." We find Bassett now changing it into tlie Great river of New England! The names of the Indian tribes and quence

is

of the locality near Philadelphia are copied from the Dutch.

map was

Bassett's

York

in 1074.

point of view

It is it

published

we presume on

the restitution of

New

Duke

Netherland to the

perhaps the earliest English copy published of the Dutcli maps, and in

cannot

fail to

of

this

possess interest.

ANOTHER LAND MARK REMOVED. The famous " Old Dutch (Lutheran)

Chnrcli," in days of yore located on " Horse and Cart-street," from an inn near by, bearing the representation of a horse and cart f n- a sign, but in days on William-street, has at last been prostrated before tl)e marcli of improvement. Its

so called latter

dingy and time-worn walls liave been for S3 years, or since tlie year 17G7, the silent witness of the growth of New-Amsterdam, and have long remained among the lew relics of lier past insignificance.

was much the oldest church edifice in the city, and the congregation originally worshiping for a long time flourished under the powerful preaching of tlie learned Rev. Jolui Christopher Kunz, D. D. It was then known as the " Swamp Church,'''' being situated in a marshy district, (now at the junction of William and Frankfort-streets, east of French's Hotel) and in the The foundation stones will be removed in a few days, when it is exregion of the " Tan Yards." It

in

it

pected that sundry manuscripts, coins, &c., will be brought to light, forming interesting objects for antiquarian research.

Beneath

remains of a number of Revolutionary War.

officers

its

walls

is

a large vault, in which were formerly entombed the

and privates attached

to the

Hessian army,

who

fell

during the

History speaks of them as having been buried in their regimentals, with their

much pomp and circumstance. Tliey were disinterred, liowever, some years same time that the remains of the dead were removed from the old grave-yard which The " Old Dutch Chm-ch" is hallowed by many other interesting the rear of the church.

side-arms, &c., with since, at tlie

existed in

associations.

Of

late years it

occupants,

it

has sadly

flillen

from

its

former high

estate.

Since

it

was vacated by

its

original

has been used as a place of worship by a society of colored people, then as an auction

Its venerable galleries, where once listened tlie I'aillii'ul worshippers, were stored with provender, tlie under portion serving as stalls for horses. The whole has now been tumbled into I'uins, and from the site is to rise speedily a large hotel. J\ Y. Journal cj

house, and lastly as a stable.

.

Commerce, Dec. 23, 1850. The Rev. Dr. Kunze, mentioned in the above tained the pastoral office in Yorlc Churches.

New-York

article,

died on 24th July, 1807, aged 63

for twenty-three years.

Grcmhuf-s History of

;

he sus-

the JVew-

—

—

726

MISCELLANY.

FOUND ON BURGOYNE'S CAMP GROUND.

RIx\G

We

handsome gold and enamel monrning ring tliat was found in June last, in Greenwich, Washington county, on the banks of the Hudson. This relic was luund aViiint two miles north of the place Avhere General Burgoyne surrendered to General Gates, Octuber 7, 1777, and wliere tlie former General had his encampment. Tlie ring was found by a boy, while he was planting a field, and is in a perfect state, the enamel bearing, in distinct gold letters, " Robert Johnson, Ob. 16, Nov. 1775. M. 71." The probability is that the ring belonged to some oliiccr liave seen a very

of the British army.

jY. Y. Herald,

Dec. 25, 1850.

INTERESTING ITEMS CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY OF NEW-YORK.

We are

indebted for

following facts to the polite attention of the obliging correspondents whose

tlie

names are attaclied to tlie respective paragraphs First Vessel on Lake Erie. The first vessel on our western lakes was the " Griffin^ The keel was laid by La Salle on 2Gth of January, 1679, at the mouth of the Cayuga Creek, on the American side of the Niagara, about six miles above the great Falls. The place selected by La Salle was long after used as a ship yard by the Americans, and is now familiarly known as the " Old The i^recise date when the ship was launched is uncertain it must have been in ship yard." May or early in June, 1G7S), for Father Hennepin visited Fort Frontenac after it was launched, and readied the duck on his return on tlie 4th of August. The Griffin sailed from the mouth of the :

—

—

Niagara on her vo}'age to the upper lakes on 7th of August, 1079.

First Steamboat on Lake Erie. Water.''''

The

first

Lake Erie steamboat, was

called the "

WnUc

in the

She was launched at Black Rock, on the Niagara River, on the 2Sth of May, 1818, and

there on the

left

—The

first

trip to Detroit

on 23d August following, under the command of Capt. Fish. " In less than two liours she was hull

Buffalo Gazette in announcing her departure, says

'

:

from the shore, a distance of 15 nautical miles."

to'

—In

five dwellings, one tavern and one store, was surveyed by the Holland Company {Turner'' s Hist. Hoi. In 1806, it was inPurchase.) and in 1802 the settlement may be said to have lairly commenced. creased to sixteen dwellings, three stores and two blacksmiths' shops.

First Settlement of Buffalo.

all

constituted oilogs.

In 1801, the

1798 there were

site

—

First Mail to Buffalo. The first raailw^as received in 1803 on horseback, and continued once every two weeks, until 1806, when a weekly route was established.

to

be

tluis carried

First Newspaper.

—The

first

newspaper published here was issued Oct. 3, 1811, and called the k Co., printers and publishers. Extract of a Letter froia

" Buifalo Gazette," Smith H. Salisbury

O. H. Marshall, Esq., dated Bujulo, A'ov. 20, 1850.

First paper

Orange Co. The paper as August 14th, 1788.

in

village as early

called the "

First paper in Newburgh. The first newspaper in Van Home, and pub] islied on 22d September, 170G.

was

Goshen Repository " was published

was " The Mirror," edited by Philip When the army was here the printing

this village .

.

.

done by a press at Fislikill in Dutchess, as appears by the printed orders of the

that day.

Samuel W.

in that

Army

of

Eager, JYewburgh, JYov. 25, 1850.

First paper in Queens. The "Long Island Farmer " was tlic first paper published in Queens The first or specimen dated "Thursday Jan. 11, 1821." I have seen the 2d number, Co. day of the cannot be precisely the week or month before, but or so ibrlnight number was printed a

MISCELLANY.

by me.

stated, at least

The

I

have a

original editor emigrated west.

Journal as early as 1778 or 1779^

of M"" Henry D. Piatt

who

//.

Onderdvnk,

There was a

First paper in Dutchess Co. sie

"Farmer " from

of the

file

for,

resides at

727

Jr.,

to

tliis,

I.,

with occasional breaks.

A'ov. 25, 1850.

p;iper published in this place c;illed the

Ponghkeep-

was sliown some copies of it

at the liouse

a few years since

New

day

that

Jamaica, L.

I

At

Hackensack.

the time those luimbers were issued

the editor was State Printer, and the Legislature in session in this town, the Governor also resided here.

I

am

a

little

inclined to think that paper^

independent government of

paper for a few years. Tlie

tlie state,

was the

first state

paper under the- republican or

but cannot say with certainty.

At

all

events

it

was the

state

Isaac Piatt, Poughkeepsie, Dec. 28th, 1850.

Country Journal and Poughkeepsie Advertizer was established, Thursday, Aug. 15th, 1786, There was a Tlie Po'keepsie Eagle is a continuation of the same paper.

by Nicholas Power. paper before

this,

which

I shall

obtain information of

possible.

if

Wm. Schram,

Poughkeepsie,

JTov. 30, 1850.

The first paper in the county of Columbia was printed by Webster Hudson, and called the " Hudson Gazette." Its first impression is dated Tliursday, April 7th, 1785. Mr. Webster was Charles Webster of Albany, deceased. My father, Ashbel Stoddard his partner, printed the paper after the first year, in his own name, as Mr. W. went to Albany. It was printed until 1803, when it was sold out to the " Eallauce," printed by Croswell, Sampson & Chittenden. Wm. B. Stoddard, Hudson, Dec. 7th 1850. First paper in Columbia Co.

&

Stotldard at

—

First Printers and Printing in Albany. The first printing office in Albany, respecting which any information can now be gathered, was established by Alexander & James Robertson, who came up from New York for that purpose late in tlie year 1771. Hence Albany was the second place in the state of New York into wliich the art of printing was introduced. Their ofiice is said to have been in Barrack, now Chapel street.

The Albany

Gazette, the

by the Robertsons. daily papers

now

It is uncertain

The

first

newspaper printed in

size of the sheet

was commenced

in

November, 1771,

printed here.

how

long this paper was continued; but

ceased before 1776, as in that year the printers are

On

this city,

used by them was about one quarter that of the largest

known

it is

to

supposed that the publication of

have joined the

royalists in

it

New- York.

many others at Port Roseway^ where Alexander died 1784, aged 42. James died in London, many years later. The account given of them in Thomas's History of Printing is erroneous in many respects. A bookstore was kept before tlie revolution by Stuart Wilson in a Dutch house which stood on the elm tree corner of State and Pearl streets, and is the earliest of which anything is known. In 1782, Messrs. Solomon Balentine & Charles R. Webster established a printing office in Albany, and in May of that year published the first number of tlie JVew York Gazetteer and JYorthern Intelligencer. It was printed on a sheet of short demy, with pica and long primer type. First papers in Herkimer Co. It is supposed that the first paper was printed at Herkimer, about 1802 by Benjamin Cory, and was called the Telescope. This establishment was purchased of Mr. Cory, by David Holt and J. B. Robbins, who went from Hudson in January, 1805, to take charge of it. The Telescope was discontinued, and a new paper called the Farmers'' Monitor was issued by Holt & Robbins. Mr. Holt thinks the size of the paper was a small royal, but a copy of it in possession of Hon. John Mahon, dated April 28, 1807, measures 12 by 15 inches. The printers of those days were compelled frequently, by, the scarcity of stock, to vary the size of their the evacuation of that city by the British, they took refuge with

Nova

Scotia,

—

728

MISCELLANY.

papers, and this the tact that

The

it

may have been

has no

cohimn

the case with the copy in question, whicli

third paper in the county

sold out his

first

was the Herkimer

Pelican^

commenced by Mr. Cory soon

In September, 1821, the

now Rockton, by Edward

M. Griffing,

paper, called the Peopled Friend^ which he continued

of about 600.

more probable from

the

after

he

establishment.

First paper at Little Falls. Little Falls,

is

rules.

At

that time he sold to Messrs. C. S.

first

printing office was established at

who began

till

July

Benton &

5,

the publication of a democratic

1834, with an average subscription

Co.,

who changed

the

title to

Mohawk

Courier.

The Frankfort Democrat, was established at Frankfort in the fall by W. B. Holmes. It was subsequently removed to Herkimer, and its title changed to Herkimer County Democrat. Condensed ^rom an interesting article on the Press, in MunseWs Albany Annual Register, for 1851, First paper at Frankfort.

of 1842, by

J.

M. Lyon,

edited

First Steamboat on Lake Ontario. " Ontario.^'

month of

The

first

Steamer was built at this place and called the

She was commenced in the year 1816, and made her

April, 1817, the

day

I

cannot learn.

D. McCullock,

first trip in

the

first

part of the

Collector, Sackets Harbor, Dec. 21, 1850.

INDEX. Hansen and the Rct. Mr. Barclay, missionary at, 544 a list of the inhabitants and slaves in the city and county of, in 1714, 545 petition for rebuilding the Dutch church of, 546 the first English church in, ib.; petitions for 'the incorporation of the Dutch church of, 547, 548 report of council on said petitions, 549 order to prepare a patent for the incorporation of the Dutch church in, 550 schedule of lands belonging to the Dutch church of, ib.; petition

Abelsen, Hendrick, precentor of Kinderhook chvirch, 538.

;

Abenaqui Indians, 12.

;

Account, an, of Capt. Manning's proceedings previous to his surrender to the Dutch, 69 ; of the church in the province of N. Y., 74. the, 29. Act, an, of opposition to certain

;

;

Achkokx,

;

transactions

in the

;

French church at New Y'ork, 282. Adams, the town of, on Sandy creek, 6S1.

of the rector &c. of St. Peter's church in, for a charter, 552 ; Rev. 3Ir. Berkenmeyer, Lutheran minister near Hoosic, remarkable forliniestone, 684, 685. at, 594 ; Rev. Gideon Hawley passes through Address of the clergy of the church of England to Gov. number of'houses, in 1753, between Schenectady and, Hunter, 84 of the ministers and elders of the R. 628 ; Rev. Messrs. Barclaj' and Ogilvie missionaries Dutch church of N. Y., on hearing of the desecration at, 628, 629; in 1753, 630; mission of, vacant, of Trinity church, 270 ; of the French church on the 645 description of the country between Schenectady same subject, 272 ; to the betrayed inhabitants of and, 628, 685; rectors of St. Peter's church, 697; N. Y., 317. first episcopal church in, ib.; first newspaper in, 727. Administration of justice in N. Netherland, 28. Albany, first white woman at, 32 a church built in, Alexander, Rev. Mr., of Steuben, 677, 688. 70; state of the church at, 77 the Rev. I\Ir. Talbot Algiers, money collected in N. Y. for the redemption of captives in, applied to Trinity ehurch, 74. does not think it worth his while to stay at, 81 ; Rev. ,

;

;

;

.

;

i

Mr. Barclay, minister at, 84 the sheriff of, seized and carried off to Mass., 464, 465 papers relating petition of the Lutherans of, for leave to to, 523 bury their own dead, 525 Rev. Bernhardus Anthony, Lutheran minister at, permitted to officiate in, ib.; difficulties in the Dutch church at, 526; Rev. Gideon Sehaets, minister of, 529 ; the minister's misunderstanding between Dom. house at, 530 account of the Sehaets and the Lutherans of, ib comet that appeared at, 532 great scarcity of grain at, ib.; early negotiations between Dom. Dellius and the Dutch congregation of, 535 petition of the Rev. state of the Johannes Lydius, minister of, 538 Rev. Mr. Barclay's mission at, in 1710, 540 the Rev. Mr. Anpopulation of, in 1710, 541 drews, Indian missionary, arrives at, 542 pro-

Algomequins

;

;

;

;

i

!

Amsterdam i

i

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

ceedings

on

of

the

commissioners

his arrival in, ib.; difficulties

[Vol.

III.]

of

Indian

affairs

between Hcndrick

92

|

fort laid out,

(^lontgomery

27

;

erected, 29, SO.

town 673 character of the people of, 686. Ancram, a number of Mr. Livingston's men taken to ,

|

river, 13.

Almouchiquois, the, 5. American independence, a medal to commemorate tho triumph of, 717.

of,

co.) state of religion in the

;

Massachusetts from, 473, 483. Andatahouatj, the, 14. Anderson, Rev. James, presbytcrian minister at N. Y., 278, 279, 280, 281. Andrews, Rev. Wm., missionary to the Jlohawks, 542, 697 received by the Indians, 542 Rev. Thomaa Barcby accused of desiring to be a bishop over, 544 ; Rev. Mr. Van Driessen succeeds, as missionary to the Mohawks, 552. Rev. Wm., Minister at Schenectady, 697 aids ;

;

(

,

;

;

730

INDEX.

book of common prayer into the Indian tongue, 098. Andkos, Governor, calls cn Gov. Colvc to restore N. York, 45 refuses to land unless the place be given up, 46 reiterates his demand, ib.; a committee appointed by the common council to welcome, 47 receives a present of a coach and horses from Gov. Colvc, 48 answers of, to Gov. Colve's proposals, 49 receives New- York from the Dutch, 62 proclamation of, confirming rights and properties, ib.; letter to, respecting a clergyman at Hempstead, 119. Anglo-American church in 1776, State of the, 635. Animals in N. Netherland, 22. Anthony, Rev. Bernhardus, Lutheran minister at Albany, 525. Antonides, Rev. Yincentius, called to the Dutch

Apprentices, Palatine, a list of, 341. Arensius, Rev. Bernardus, pass to, allowing him to officiate at Albany, 526. Arisscs, Rev. Rarnardus, a Lutheran minister in N. Y., (See Arensius.) 246, 872. Articles submitted by Gov. Colve to Gov. Andros, on the restitution of N. X., 49; offered by Dom. Freeman's friends to Dom. Antonides' party, 97. Ashle}', Mrs., acts as Indian interpreter, 629. Asj)inwall, John, a benefactor to the episcopal church at Flushing, 197 ; Rev. Mr. Seabury's character of, 198. AssLstagues, the, 14. Astronomy, knowledge among the Indians of, 20. Atkarkarton, 71. Attigouotans, the, 7, 9. Attiuoindas, the, 14. Attorney General's opinion on the ciaim of the Montauk

in translating the

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Kings

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94

co.,

articles

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offered

by

the

Don). Freeman's party. 97 ; complaints against, 100 the majority of council report in favor of, 101 report of the minority of council against the, ib.; petition in belialf of, 103 oi'der of Lt. Gov. Ingoldesby on the claim of, 104 refuses to obey the Lt. Gov's order, 105; requests that the report of the majority of the council be confirmed, 100 ; petition of the sheriff and justices of Kings co. in fiivor of, 107 report of the council in favor of, confirmed, 108 petition of, against Doui. Freeman, 109 Lt. Gov. Reekman opposed to, 110, 115. Antouhonorons, the, 14. (Sec Enlouhonorons.) Appendix, the, 701. Apples, seedless, 085. friends

of, to

Indians, 237

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on obliging Quakers to swear

in their

signs a pedeath of, 206 a township in what is now Vermont, 308

Auchnmty, Rev. Dr., 202

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tition for

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biographical notice

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of,

640

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Rev. Mr. Inglis becomes

assistant to, 646.

Sir Samuel, a lieutenant general in the British army, 640. Autoirraph of Gov. Fletcher, 249 of Gov. Hunter, 276; of Sir H. Moore, 316; of Lt. Gov. Golden, 323 of Gov. Clinton, 450 of Lt. Gov. Dclancey, ,

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Avery, Rev. Mr., minister of Rye, death

206.

of,

B Babcock, Rev. Mr., minister of Phillpsbiirgh, death of,

206.

Bacchus

island, 12.

Baker, Nathaniel, fined for bringing home his ox. on Sunday, 212. Banyar, Sec, sends copies of Lt. Gov. De Lancey's proclamation to R. Livingston, 492. Baptists, eaily, of Flushing, 71 petition of the minister of the, N. Y., 290 prevail in the town of Petersburgh, 6S5. Barbary, certain natives of N. Y. made slaves in, 252 moneys cnllocted for the redenrption of, ordered to be paid to Trinity church, N, Y., 254. Barliour, Rev. Mr., 84. Barclay, Rev. Henry, 628 rector of St. Peter's, Albany, removed to N. Y., where he aided in the publication of an Indian book of prayer, 697, 698. Rev. Thomas, English minister at Albany, 84, 540 preaches at Sclienectady once a month, 540 the only minister between New York and the western frontier, ib.; performs part of the .service in Dutch, ;

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recommends

dians have a

lilieral

that the

missionaries to the In-

allowance,

542

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attends a meet-

ing of the commissioners of Indian affairs, with Rev.

Mr. Andrews,

ib.;

missionary at Fort Hunter, 543

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misunderstanding between him and ^Ir. Hansen, 544 accused of designing to be a bishop over iMr. Andrews, ib.; petitions for a change in the site of the proposed episcopal church at Albany, 547 Gov. Hunter grants a lot for a church to, 553 first rector of St. Peter's church, Albany, 697. Barcntzen, Pieter, commander at Fort Orange, 28 ; makes a treaty with the Sickenanes, 29 trades with several Indian tribes, ib. Barrington harbor, 12. Bartow, Rev. John, minister at Westchester, 76, 78, death of the, 570. 82, 131, 133, 144, 561 Basconi, Rev. Mr., minister on Sandy creek, 681. Bassett's map of N. England and New York, a notice of, 724. Batlsquan, 12. Battles between Champlain and the Iroquois, 6, 9. Beach, Rev. John, biographical sketch of the, 039. Beasley, Rev. Frederick, minister at Albany, 698. Bedford, the independant minister about to leave, 76 ;

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Denhani minister at, 80 people of the of, oppose Rev. !Mr. Pritchard, 564 census of, in 1712, 574; in 1782, 579. Beeck, Daniel, commissary at Fort Orange, 24 fights against the Mohawks and is killed, 28. Rev. town

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Beekman,

Col., ordered to proceed against the Moravians of Dutchess eo.; report of, 613. Gerardus, the uiembers of the council refuse to act with, unless he declare for Doiii. Antoiiides, ,

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quarrel between 'Squire Filkiu and, ib. AVilliani, 47.

Bellamont,

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Lord, deprives Rev. Mr. Bondet of his

letter of

Wm.

Christofier, arrives in

Gov. Burnet

to

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Bells brought from Porto Eico to the Manhattans, 27. 3.54

friend to, 84 complaint against the, 500 accompanies some French refugees to N. England, 562 ; removes to N. Rochelle, ib.; is deprived of his salary for signing a certificate in favor of Doin. Dellius, ib.; report of council in favor of, 563 commission of, as minister of N. Rochelle, 568 petitions for a charter for his church, 573 death of, ib. Bony pike, Indian name of the, 4, Boon's settlement, 695. Borghert, Coenraet, proceedings against, 539. Boston harbor, 12. ;

allowance, 562.

Berkenmyer, Rev.

731

X. YorR,

the, respecting the

glebe at Newburgh, 35.5 ; received as minister to the Palatines there, ib.; Lutheran minister at" Albany, 594. Beverwyck, a church built at, 70. (See Albany.) Beys, Rev. Mr., minister of the English church at Harlem, 80. Bioiiraphical sketch of Gov. Hunter, 276 ; of Gov. Moore, 316; of Rev. Mr. du Bois, 324; of Robert Livingston, 434 ; of Ll. Gov. Golden, 495; of Count Zinzendorf, 618 of Rev. Dr. Chandler, 637 ; of Rev. Dr. Cooper, ib.; of Rev. John Beach, 639; of Rev. Dr. Auchmuty, 640; of Rev. Joshua Bloomer, ib.; of Rev, Dr. Seabury, 044 ; of Rev. 3Ir. Cutting, ib.; of Rev. Dr. Stuart, 645 of Rev. Dr. Inglis, 646 of Rev. John Taylor, 672. Birds, in N. Netherland, 21, 29; singing, none in the American forest, 632. Bisserenis, lake, 14, 15. Bitary, Rev. Andr^ Saens de, a Spanish priest, 277. Black river, a missionary tour to the, 671 high falls on the, 694 remarks on the country of the, 695. Block, Adriaen, carries two Indian youths to P]urope, 25. Bloni, Rev. Hermanns, minister of Esopus, 72. 581 ; describes the massacre by the Indians there, 582. Bloomer, Rev. Joshua, minister of Jamaica, 201;

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Bouwenz, Tymen, devoured by the Mohawks, 28. Bowers, Rev. Mr., minister at Rye, 80. Boyle, secretary, letter of, to Lord Lovelace, in favor of the clergyman to the Palatines, 328. Bradbury, Rev. Dr., 615. Bradjey, R., attorney general of New York, 012.

Breuckelen. (See Broohhpi.) Brewers' street, Albany, 551. Bridge, Rev. Christopher, 80, 133; refuses to sign a representation against Gov. Hunter, 157 signs the address to him, 159; commission of, as mhiister of Rye, 569 induction of, 570 death of, 172, 570. Brooke, Rev. Mr., 79, 568. Brookhaven, town of, ordered to pay Rev. Samuel Eburne his salary, 218, 219; agreement of the town of, with the Rev. Geo. Phillips, 232 petition of ]Messrs. Floyd & Smith, on the part of certain counter petition from the, 234 ; inhabitants of, 233 order of council thereupon, 235 ; quakers in, 624. Brooklyn, state of the first church at, 72 names of the slaves in, 513. iiJiabitants of, in 1698, 87 (See I' -ooke.) Brooks, Rev. Mr. Broome countj-. (See Haivhy, Rev. G.) Brothers, the fast anchored, 557. Brown, Rev. Thos., rector of St. Peter's church Albany, some particulars of, 698. commences a suit for his salarj% ib.; argument of Brownists, the, 29, 30. counsel in the case of, ib.; the vestry of Jamaica Brownsville, trade between Canada and, 693. obliged by the court of chancery to pay the salary of, Brule, cape, 11. 204 date of the induction of, ib.; several of his pa- Brunholtz, Rev. Peter, Lutheran minister at Philadelrishioners carried prisoners to Philadelphia, 205 phia, 591. is rejoiced at the success of the royalists on L. I., fb.; Buckingham, Rev. Mr., called to Rye, 172. his praying for the king gives such oifence that he is Buffalo city, first settlement of, 591 first mail to and obliged to close his church, 206 first newspaper in, 726. biographical notice of, 640 referred to, 644. Bull, fort, 6G3. Board of Trade, letter of Count Zinzendorf to the. Burgomasters and schepens of N. Orange welcome Gov. complaining of the persecution of the Moravians, 618 Andros, 47. letter of, to Gov. Clinton, demanding explanations BuRNKT, Gov., letter of, to Rev. Mr. Berkenmeyer thereupon, ib.; report of the prov. council on the letrespecting the glebe at Newburgh, 355 reconnnendter of the, to Gov. Clinton, 619. aled to settle the Palatines at proper places, 423 Boel, Rev. Henricus, minister at New York, 576. lows some Palatines to settle on Canada creek, 429. Bogue, Rev. Mr., minister at Hanover, in the Mohawk Bu.shwj-ck, names of the inhabitants of, in 1698, 87; cotuitry, 676. slaves, in, 512. Bondet, Rev. Daniel, 78 Col. Heathcote's opinion of, Butler, Lieut., stationed at Fort Hunter, 630. 82; difficulties experienced by, ib.; Gov. Hunter a Bydner, Gudlop, a 3Ioravian minister, 613, ct seq. ;

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Cahiague,

Cahoos

7.

falls,

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Calesiue, 11.

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Camden, town

of,

679; population of

the,

in

1802,

690. Campbell, Rev. Alexander, bears testimony to the Rev. Mr. Foyer's character, 189 applies to be appointed missionary to Jamaica, 190. Camp-meeting in the town of Floyd, 676. Canada, furs from, sold at Amsterdam, 24. creek, 429; price of land, in 1791, on the, 654 mentioned, 663. Palatine volunteers against, 343, 344, 404. people of, in great want of missionaries, 683. Canal proposed at Little Fall.