The Date of the Settlement of the Colony of New York |
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Page 14 - These cattle were, on their arrival, first landed on Nut Island, three miles up the river, where they remained a day or two. There being no means of pasturing them there, they were shipped in sloops and boats to the Manhates,
Page 9 - Company being ye first ship yt come here for ye sd company : as soon as they came to Manhatans now called N. York they sent two families & six men to Harford river, & Two families & 8 men to Delaware River, and 8 men they left att N. Yorke to take possession and ye rest of ye passengers went with ye ship up as farr as Albany which they then called Fort Orangie. When...
Page 10 - Dutch that had been there ye year before a tradeing wltl ye Indians upont there oune accompts & gone back again to Holland & so brought ye vessel up ; there were about 18 families aboard who settled themselves att Albany...
Page 10 - Deponent came from Albany & settled at N : Yorke where she lived afterwards for many years and then came to Long Island where she now lives.
Page 8 - In the afternoon, we took a walk to an island upon the end of which there is a fort built, they say, by the Spaniards. That a fort has been there is evident enough from the earth thrown up, but it is not to be supposed that the Spaniards came so far inland to build forts, when there are no monuments of them to be seen down on the sea coasts, where, however, they have been according to the traditions of the Indians. This spot is a short hour's distance below Albany, on the west side of the river.
Page 10 - Mahewayn or Ottawawaes Indians came & made Covenants of friendship wth ye sd Arien Jorise there Commander Bringing him great Presents of Bever or oyr Peltry & desyred that they might come & have a Constant free Trade with them wch was concluded upon & ye sd nations came dayly with great multidus of Bever & traded them wth ye Christians...
Page 9 - 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 which ship the Governor Arian Jorissen Came also over, which fouer Women were married at Sea...
Page 9 - James Duke of Yorke and Albany etc. of N York and its Dependencyes in America who saith and Declares in the prsens of God as followeth 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...
Page 9 - Trico aged about 83 years born in Paris doth Testify and Declare that in ye year 1623 she came into this Country with a Ship called ye Unity whereof was Commander Arien Jorise belonging to ye West India Company being ye first Ship...
Page 14 - The Colony was planted at this time, on the Manhates where a Fort was staked out by Master Kryn Frederycke an engineer. It will be of large dimensions. . . . The government over the people of New Netherland continued on the...