Home / Colonial & Dutch Records
📜 Colonial & Dutch Records
Dutch colonial documents, Van Cortlandt deeds, and early Westchester settlement
1,719Passages
4Source Documents
Sources
| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 → |
Passages
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] what transpired. He is, moreover, a man on whom I have great reliance. They, therefore, set out for the fort. In the interval of their visit three cannon were fired the meaning of which I did not understand. On their return …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Louis returned to my tent, the Nontague Chiefs came to summon me, on the part of the Commandant of the Fort, to strike my flag which I had hoisted over my Tent, inasmuch as I was under the guns of the Fort. I always answered…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 10* of next month; and that all my forces will be collected at Fort Frontenac by the 25th of the same month, unless the weather be unfavorable. I should have been highly gratified, My Lord, to march at the head of the army, …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Should the Five Nations take sides with the English, they would abandon them the moment Chouaguen was no more. The Indian tribes having no longer a resource with the English to obtain intoxicating liquors, I shall insensibly…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] and the other of 16 guns — to cruize in the latitude of Chouaguen. A corps of Scouts, Canadians and Indians, were sent on the road between the latter place and Albany, to intercept Runners. The Marquis de Montcalm left Front…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] On the ll,h, at break of day the Canadians and Indians advanced to within a quarter of a league of, and invested Fort Ontario, situated, as we have stated, on the right bank of the River Chouaguen. Sieur Decombles, sent at 3…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] We had orders to send back our batteaux to Frontenac for Guyenne's and Beam's Regiment and the Artillery." 3 Now, Sandy Creek Bay. " We marched all the night of the 9th and 10th, (says another account) when we joined Mr. Rig…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Indians. The number of prisoners was nearly 1700 men; to wit Shirley's and Pepperefs regiments, arrived from old England and who were at the battle of Fontenoy, a detachment of Schuylers regi-ment, Militia of the Country, ab…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] So much munition of war and provisions found at Chouaguen — the fleet which secured the com-mand on Lake Ontario to the English — the additional reinforcements they expected from day to day — all announced designs on their p…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] the old Fort, which continued for 24 hours when Lieut Col Littlehales, who succeeded to the command upon Lieut Coll Mercers being killed sent out an Officer and Drum with a white Flag, soon after the surrender took place, & …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] That they told the Indians upon their leaving the place, You see we do not want to seize your Lands, only to drive the English away whom we are much obliged to for supplying us with Artillery & Tools which we were in want of…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 3000 sheep, All these articles were to have been sent in a few clays to Corlaer (Schenectady.) 1500 horses, 300 of which were taken by the Indians and the greater number consumed for the support of the detachment. The proper…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] NEW-YORK, IN NOVEMBER, 1757.' A few days after this Massacre and desolation had been perpetrated, Sir William Johnson des-patched Geo. Croghan, Esq; Deputy-agent, with Mr Montour, the Indian interpreter, to the German Flats,…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Conaghquieson then proceeded and said : ' Brother, ' I can't help telling you that we were very much surprised to hear that our brethren the English suspect and charge us with not giving them timely notice of the designs of …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] them not to let us at the Uper Castle know anything of their design. As soon as the man I sent 1 Lyman C. Draper, Esq,, of Phila., has had the politeness to communicate this " Narrative." * A Stockaded Work round the church,…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] intimidated John Ehel, a Waggoner, to such a Degree, that he leap'd out at a window, thinking to make his Escape, but was soon killed; the other five defended themselves witli great Intrepidity, having killed one Indian, unt…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] XIII. ]
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 1st. When their High Mightinesses shall be pleased to take this Province under their own gracious safeguard, and to allow their Fatherly affection for this Land to be promulgated and made manifest, throughout the United Neth…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Suitable Burgher Government, such as their High Mightinesses shall consider adapted to this
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] and quietness, and enjoy their liberty as well in trade and commerce as in intercourse and settled limits. 2d. That their High Mightinesses would be pleased to preserve us in peace with the neigh-bouring Republicks, Colonies…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] We pray and hope that the name of New Netherland and the conversion of the Heathen which ought to be hastened, shall move their H. M. hereunto. Expecting, therefore, a happy deliverance we commend their H. M's persons and de…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] In the meanwhile shall the Nine men continue for three years longer, and have Jurisdic-tion over Small Causes arising between Man and Man, to decide definitively such as do not exceed the sum of FiftyjGuilders, and on higher…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Sheriff,2 two Burgomasters and five Schepens, from all of whose judgments an appeal shall lie to the Supreme Council, where definite judgment shall be decreed. " In the Election of the aforesaid persons every attention must …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] In the first place, the Sheriff shall, as the Director General and Council's guard ton of the law in the district of the city of New Amsterdam, preserve, protect and maintain, to 1.e best of his knowledge and ability, the pr…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] court messenger, or his deputy to observe the peace, and to forbid them committing any assault, on pain of arbitrary correction at the discretion of the Burgomasters and Schepens. 9. He shall not have power to compound with …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Which being done, he shall, as before, surrender without any delay the apprehended person with the information taken to the Fiscal, to be proceeded against by him in due form as circum-
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] those in office as Regents of this City for the term of one current year, As Schout Anthony de Millt. Johannes Van Brugen, As Burgomasters ^ Johannes de Peyster, Egedius Luyck. Willem Beeckman, Jeronimus Ebbyng, As Schepens …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] the Commissioner to be qualified for that purpose by the Honble Govern1' General, nominate a double number of the best qualified honorable and wealthy persons, and only such as are of the Reformed Christian Religion, or at l…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Jacob Maurice Garrett Vesey Widdow Bush Johannes Craft Samll Beekman Mr Honan Widdow Cortland Widdow Keisteed Hendrick Mester Abraham Webrana Edward Blagg Capt flinch
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] [Vol. 1. 1 52 DIRECTOR KIEFTS PATENT TO THE TOWN OF GRAVESEND. ANNO 1645. [ Gravesend Records. ] Whereas it hath pleased the High & Mighty Lords the Estates Genl of the United Belgick Provces— His Highness Fredrick Hendrick …