 | New York (State) - 1829 - 348 pages
...institution, which has in part obtained ever since. The controversy respected Indian deeds, and thenceforth it was ordained, that no purchase from the Indians,...license executed in his presence, should be valid. The strength and numbers of the natives rendered it necessary to purchase their rights ; and to prevent... | |
 | William Smith - New York (State) - 1829 - 438 pages
...institution, which has in part obtained ever since. The controversy respected Indian deeds, and thenceforth it was ordained, that no purchase from the Indians,...license executed in his presence, should be valid. The strength and numbers of the natives rendered it necessary to purchase their rights ; and to prevent... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1836 - 618 pages
...tradition (Hecke welder's Account, chap, ii.) that they first received the Dutch, is correct t Trurabull's History of Connecticut, passim. VOL. II.« 6 It appears,...Indians and the Dutch, had ceased prior to the year 1655.f The several tribes of Long Island spoke kindred dialects, of which we have two specimens ; Mr.... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1836 - 628 pages
...Delaware tradition (Hecke welder's Account, chap, ii.) that they first received the Dutch, is correct It appears, from the researches of the Hon. Silas...Indians and the Dutch, had ceased prior to the year 1655. f The several tribes of Long Island spoke kindred dialects, of which we have two specimens ;... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1829 - 658 pages
...institution, which lias in part obtained ever since. The controversy respected Indian deeds, and thenceforth it was ordained, that no purchase from the Indians,...license executed in his presence, should be valid. The strength and numbers of the natives rendered it necessary to purchase their rights ; and to prevent... | |
 | Thomas Aspinwall - Massachusetts - 1865 - 44 pages
...this litigation ; which proved so troublesome and embarrassing to Nicolls, as to induce him to ordain, that no purchase from the Indians, without the Governor's...license, executed in his presence, should be valid (Smith's New York, p. 27). Hardly was this controversy disposed of, when Nicolls was troubled with... | |
 | Virginia. Commission on Boundary Lines (1870-1874) - Maryland - 1873 - 476 pages
...institution, which has, in part, obtained ever since. The controversy respected Indian deeds, and thenceforth it was ordained that no purchase from the Indians,...license, executed in his presence, should be valid." — Smith's History of New York, p. 35. In addition to all this authority, the Legislature of Virginia... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1863 - 548 pages
...this litigation; which proved so troublesome and embarrassing to Nieolls, as to induce him to ordain, that no purchase from the Indians, without the Governor's...license, executed in his presence, should be valid (Smith's New York, p. 27). Hardly was this controversy disposed of, when Nieolls was troubled with... | |
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It appears, from the researches of the Hon. Silas Wood, that there were not less than thirteen distinct tribes on Long Island, over which the Montauks, who inhabited the easternmost part of the island, exercised some kind of authority, though they had... 