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E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856) 1005 189,431 Original →
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848) 325 61,761 Original →
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848) 236 43,115 Original →
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849) 153 26,639 Original →

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 358
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] and in this manner made themselves masters of the fort. Seven or eight of the Company's soldiers have come hither with Adriaen van Tienhoven. The remainder, with Commandant Bicker and almost all the freemen, have remai…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 358 (part 2)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Whereupon Commandant Gerrit Bicker hoisted the Prince's flag on said fort and commanded this deponent accompanied by four freemen, namely, Egbert Gerritse, Cornells Teunisse, Cornells Mauritz and Peter Harmans to proce…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 358 (part 3)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] To which he, deponent, received for answer: I have nothing to do with you; let your commander speak. Further, he, the deponent, asked Gerrit Bicker there present, whether he may not go aboard to see whether he might no…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 358 (part 4)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Thereupon, the Governor slapped him, deponent, on the breast, and said : Go, tell your Governor that. He, the deponent, coming ashore with his companion, Peter Ebel, found the fort beset with Swedish sentinels, as well…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 358 (part 5)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Before me, Cornells van Ruyven, Secretary of New Netherland residing in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, appeared the worthy Peter Ebel of Meckeienburch freeman, aged about 40 years, who, on the requisition of Cornell…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 359
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] had sent Ambassadors to their High Mightinesses to ascertain if their High Mightinesses had authorized and ordered to locate Fort Casimier at this place, and to encroach on the limits of territory belonging to the Crow…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 359 (part 2)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Before, etc., appenred Cornells Jansen Coelen, skipper of the yacht V Vliegende hart, who deposeth and declareth the same as Peter Ebel, except that he does not know that Bicker was requested to give orders, and that h…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 359 (part 3)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] After the Commandant had surrendered the fortress, he, the deponent, as a servant of the West India Company, requested his arms of the Commandant, HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VIII. 605 which he repeatedly refused, and said, tha…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 359 (part 4)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Who returned and reported, that she was a Swedish ship, and that she came to seize the fort for the Crown of Sweden, whereupon some of the garrison repaired for orders to the Commandant for the defence of the fort. To …
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 359 (part 5)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Jan Adamse, late Corporal in the South river of New Netherland, being legally summoned to Court, and the annexed his declaration dated 11 June, 1C54, being distinctly read to him word for word, and being asked on the r…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 359 (part 6)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Hendrick Siljaques, a soldier, being legally summoned to Court, to whom the annexed, his declaration, dated ll"" June, 1654, is distinctly read, word for word, and being on the requisition of the Fiscal asked, if his d…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 359 (part 7)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Matthew Boucheine, a soldier, being legally summoned to Court, to whom the preceding, his declaration, dated ll"" June, A" 1654, is distinctly read, word for word, and being, on the requisition of the Fiscal asked, if …
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 359 (part 8)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] As this is a matter of greater consequence than can be decided among Servants, who must only obey orders, the Sovereigns on both sides have to settle this matter among themselves, and agree among themselves about it, e…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 360
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Conditional that the Commandant remains on this day to deliver into the hands of the General the Fort Casimier, with all the guns and ammunition, material and other effects belonging to the General Incorporated West In…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 361
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 610 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS Chamber at Amsterdam to the States General. [ From the Original in the Boyal Archives at the Hague; File, West Jndie. ] To the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Nether…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 361 (part 2)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Nevertheless, the chief and principal men of that nation give out and declare to be well satisfied with, and inclined to remain within the limits of the aforesaid Provisional Boundary, in case Director Stuyvesant could…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 362
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Boundary there. The abovenamed Directors have to take care that a similar Acte of Ratification of the aforesaid Articles be also issued by the Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : VIII. …
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 362 (part 2)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] That on Long Island, a line drawn from the westernmost part of Oyster bay, and thence in a direct and straight course to the sea shore, shall be the Boundary between the Dutch and English on Long Island; the Eastern pa…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 363
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] [ From the Bundle endorsed Yersclwide Sliikken rakeilde de Colonie van Nieiiw Nederlandt, Nos. 2, 8, in the Stad Buys, Amsterdam. ] To the Honorable the Committee of the City of Amsterdam for the affairs of the West In…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 364
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] are products of the Company's district, and the Board of Admiralty ought not to derive any profit from the misfortune that hath overtaken the Company there. Re-solution of the Common Council of the City of Amsterdam. […
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 364 (part 2)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] That, also, the administration of New Netherland, as far as the possessions of the West India Company and the alienation thereof are concerned, was, with the knowledge and approbation of their High Mightinesses, fully …
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 364 (part 3)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] ] Thursday, 16"" March, 1656 Holland Documents, Mess" Man, Wilmerdoncx and Van Beeck having made a report at length of the ^^''^''' further conference they have had yesterday afternoon, pursuant to the resolution of th…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 364 (part 4)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] [From the Original in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague; F\le, DuitschUjmd.'\ The undersigned Resident Minister of iSweden finds himself, by special instructions, obliged to represent hereby to your High Mightinesses tha…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 365
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] government. At the Hague the 22 March, Anno 1G56. ( Signed ) H. Appelboom. Resolution of the States General on the preceding Letter. [From the Regislerof West India Affairs, 1652 — 1663, in tlie Royal ArehiTCs at the H…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 366
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] March, 1656. Read in the Assembly, a certain Memorial presented to their High Mightinesses, by Mr. Appelboom, Resident of the King of Sweden, to the effect that he, the Resident aforesaid, found himself obliged by expr…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 367
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Money for theWai-General of Holland, the sum of Fifty Thousand Guilders, towards the fund collected for the distressed Waldenses. Done March 29, 1656. By order of their Worships. (Signed) J. Corver. Council of Amsterda…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 367 (part 2)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] John van Berckel, for the waidenssa. j^gggjygr-General of Holland and West Friesland, the sum of seventeen thousand, five hundred and sixty-six guilders, eleven stivers and eight pence, say fl.l7,566:ll:S, which sum, o…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 367 (part 3)
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] re-V J v o ^"on°f3 ^IT^-s^l look into a certain draft connected therewith, caused the said draft prepared by Ketheriand. \^\^Qny and cnregistercd in the Muniment Register, B,, f" IIS, et seq. to be read in Council. Whi…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 368
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] [ From the Bundle endorsed Veracheidt Stakken rakende de Ojlonie van H'iemo Nederlandt, No. 26, in the Stad ITuya, Amaturdam. ] Draft of Conditions to be Remarks of tlie Directors of the West India Company on the oppos…
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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 369
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Council shall, also, have the absolute election of Burgomasters and Common Councilmen, together with the nomination of Schepens, in order that the selection as above may be made therefrom. 17. The Schepens shall give j…
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