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Dutch colonial documents, Van Cortlandt deeds, and early Westchester settlement
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
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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 → |
Passages
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] of this Prouince by vertue of ye authoritie abovesaid & with ye aduice & consent of ye Councell of State heere established have given and graunted & by virtue of these presents doe give grant & confirme unto ye Honoured Lady…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] in all loialtie k fidellitie demeane themselves towards them k theyr successours accord'g as the In-habitants of this prouince in dutye are bound, soe long as they shall [be] within this iurisdictn k att the experat" of ten …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 413 In the name of the LORD — Amen. Description of the Founding or Beginning of New Utrecht, for the information of us and our successors. Together with their Grants and Privileges likewise the names of their
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] The beginning and progress of New Utrecht. This land was originally granted to the Heer Cornelis Van Werckhoven, who was born in Utrecht in the Netherlands, and who here personally undertook to plant a colonic After some yea…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] In the margin stood " let the petition be granted, provided that they deliver by the first oppor-tunity, a map thereof, to the Director General and Council. Dated fortress Amterdam in New Netherland, this 16th January A. D. …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] house, and then Cornelis JJeeckman with his companion Willem Willemse erected one which shortly after was burnt. Some of the above named 20 settlers abandoned their lots, and others came in their places by whom the cultivati…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] C. V Ruyven, Secretary. 416 PAPERS RELATING TO LONG ISLAND. After the preceding there was another Proclamation applying to the Town of Utrecht, first pub-lished by the Director General and Council on the 9th of October 1655,…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] The Director General and Council of New Netherland daily hear great complaints that the posts, rails, clapboards, and other fencing, made with great cost and trouble of the inhabitants, (for the preserva-tion of the crops) a…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] All done in the Assembly at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherlands on the 9th of October 1655. The inhabitants of the Town being diligent in the observance of the foregoing order or command, the Fiscal thereupon drew out of the C…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 1659, for the purpose of drawing for the meadows, it being understood that the Director General and Council directed that the plantation of the Lord Werckhoven should draw two lots, and also Antony Jansen Van Sale two, and h…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] The Lord General on the 6th of October 1659, with many soldiers who were volunteers, a company of Citizens with the Orange banner, and a company of English well wishers, went to Esopus to fight the Indians. Thereupon having …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] rods, and in length 25 rods : the land known as lot No. 9 being in width 26 rods, and lying Northeast against the land of Jacobus Backer, South-west by the village of New-Utrecht, stretching South-east and containing 25 Morg…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Petrus Stuyyesant on the behalf of the Noble High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands, and Noble Lord and Director of the Privileged West India Company of the Chamber at Amsterdam, Director General …
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Signed Petrus Stuyvesant. (Here follows another Patent to De Sille for No. 8.) On the 15th of February 1660, Jacob Van Curler, and Jan Tomassen who had the oversight and charge of the Town, sent to the Fiscal N. de Sille a l…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 2. An order relating to the saving of powder and lead. 3. An order relating to the building plots of the inhabitants. 4. An order relating to those who own lands but neglect to cultivate and build on the same, and who remain…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] they being promulgated for the benefit of the Town of New Utrecht. Thus done &c. 23d Feb. 1660. On the 25th of February accompanied by my deputy Resolveertt Waldron, I came to the village of New -Utrecht with the above ordin…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 422 PAPERS RELATING TO LONG ISLAND. Salee, Turck, but he made satisfaction to the Director General and Council for the same. Also another was Albert Albertse who hired a part of the plantation of C. Van Werckhoven on the Na-…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] They granted his request and allowed and permitted to the said Jan Zeelen the lot in question known as No. 18, no man being allowed to sell lands for which he had no patent
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] the knowledge of the Fiscal, sold out his third part to said Jan Van Cleef, the Fiscal being security for both of them, and having paid out already more than 400 guilders ($160) on account of the mill. The Fiscal seeing that…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 423 and Council, to prevent the above mentioned evil practices, from this time forth hereby expressly interdict and forbid the slaughtering any cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, or goats, by any person or by the owners of the sam…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Witness Cornelius Van Ruyven, Secretary. On the 6th of Dec. 1660, 1 sent a petition to the Director General and Council, in which in conse-quence of my being confined to my house with a sore leg, I requested them to commit t…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] that were necessary in a new settlement. The Indian Deed for the land is on Record. It is from the four Indian Sachems, Paggatacut, of Manhansett : Wayandanch of Miantacutt : Momoweta of Corchaki : Nowedonah of Shinacock. It…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] being the amount of monies paid for the purchase of the Lands," and a certificate of the delivering to said Bond the writings of the said purchase and all the Interest that was thereby purchased dated 16th April 1651. On a b…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] and the penalties not very severe. There are only three or four cases of corporal punishment and none of capital. In the year 1653 the Indians were somewhat troublesome. Powder & shot were sent for to the mouth of the Connec…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Oliver Cromwell about this time called on all the Colonies to assist in an expedi-tion against the Dutch at Manhadoes, particularly New Haven and Connecticut who were nighest the Dutch. Major Sedgewick of Massachusetts was t…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] hath given free liberty & power to the said Lion Gardiner, his Heirs, Exe'rs and Assigns and their Successors for ever to enjoy the possession of the aforesaid Island, to build & plant thereon as best liketh them, and to dis…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Notwithstanding [allowing] the said Lion Gardiner to trade with the Indyans for Corneorany Kinde of victuals for the use of the Plantation and no farther : and if the said Lion Gardiner shall trade in Wampum from the Indyans…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] [Vol. I.] 59 POPULATE— 1647. GOV. STUYVESANT TO THE STATES GENERAL. [ Hoi. Doc. XI. ] I need not intrude on your Illustrious High Mightinesses with a long narrative as to the low con-dition in which I found New Netherland on…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] JAMES DE LANCEY TO BOARD OF TRADE. New York 1st December 1757. My Lords — I had the honour of your Lordships letter of the 9th of June directing me forthwith upon the receipt thereof to take the most effectual method for obt…
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Latitude 45 the Proclamation of His present Majesty of the 7lh of October 1763, leaving the juris-diction Southward of that Latitude as it stood before, tho' it prohibits for the present the further Extention of the Grants a…