PAGE. An Ord' for Capt Silvester about ye unruly Indyans at Shelter Island.... 671 Lycence given to Capt Silvester to Purchase some Necks of Land on Long Letter to S Jn' Heyden K. Governor of his Matyes Island Bormoodos.... 671 Letter from ye Governo' to ye Offiers of ye Militia upon Long Island..... 672 An Ord' about ye Lymitts of Hempstead & Oyster-Bay. The Governors Answer to ye Letter of the Massachusetts, by Mr. Paine.. 673 Certaine Priviledges Consented unto, & granted to the Troop of Horse at ye East end of Long Island under ye Command of Capt Jn' Young.... 674 Dec. 5. A new Order concerning the Boundaries of Nesaquake and Huntington, 676 1673. Feb. 17. An Ord' on behalfe of Mr. Terry about the Matinicock Land, &c .... 677 Petition from Inhabitants of Hemstead to Gov Andros for a Minister. ... 680 An Order about the Townes of Seatalcott and Huntington to attend A Warrant for Mr. William Shackerly to lay the Boeuyes at Sandy Point, 686 C. M. Payment of Taxes remitted to the Towns on the East end of L. I. Letter from the Governor of Rhode Island to the Governor of Massachusetts, 711 C. M. Aspersions made in a Boston paper against New York to be refuted. The Governors Ord to Mr Topping Concerning Mr James & Mr Baker.. 712 Petition of the Magistrates of Huntington reflecting upon the Court of An Order for John Coopers Fishing at Meacocks &c., near South-Hamton, 727 An Order to the Magistrates and Officers of the severall Townes on Long Island, to permit distressed People, to settle amongst them.. An Order to Mr Richard Woodhull, concerning a new way on Long Island, 729 C. M. The Governour of N. Y. accused by Connecticut as being at the Council Minutes. Long Island Towns to cut stockades for Fort James; Huntington and their Clergymen; Rockaway Indians; Militia on L. I.; Whalefishing at Southampton; Boundaries of Jamaica and Flushing.. 734 E FIRST PERIOD. From the first recorded Dutch Patents to the occupation of the Province by the English. (1630 to 1664.) INDIAN DEED TO KILIAN VAN RENSELAER FOR A TRACT OF LAND ON THE NORTH RIVER (Manor of RENSELAERWYCK). pro Whereas Bastiaen Jansen Crol, Commissary at Fort Orange, when here at the Manhatas, mentioned to the Honble Council of this place: that the land situate near Fort Orange could not be purchased from the owners thereof this present year and although it was done afterwards, it was sold by the Virginians only for as long a time as he, Crol, should continue to live at the Fort; and whereas, Wolphert Gerritsen who had also been directed by the Noble Lords Principals to inform them of the situation there, asked him, Crol, expressly, what information he should give to the Noble Lords and he answered, that there was no chance or means to obtain any land this year, repeating the same several times, according to the deposition made by the said Wolphert Gerritsen : and whereas, it has happened afterwards, that Gillis Hosset sailing up the river came on the 27th of July 1631* to the place, where Jan Jansen Meyns camped with men to cut timber for the ship, there came also by accident Cottamack, Nawanemit, Abantsene, Sagiskwa, Kanamoack, owners and prietors of their respective parcels of land, stretching along the river, north and south, from the Fort to a little south of Moenemines Castle, belonging to the said owners jointly and conjunctly and the land belonging to the said Naswanemit in particular called Gesmesseeck situate on the east side from opposite Castle Island to the said Fort, also from Petanock the mill creek northward to Negagonse about 3 leagues distance and when the said Gillis Hosset came and proposed to the same owners of the said land that they should sell, convey and transfer their respective parcels of land, the saine declared in presence of Jan Jansen Meyns, Wolfert Gerritsen and Jan Tyssen, trumpeter, that they were willing to sell, transfer, cede and convey their respective pieces of land, as on the 6th of August following before us Director and Council in New Netherland, residing on the Island of the Manahatas at Fort Amsterdam under the jurisdiction of their High Mightinesses, the Lords States General of the United Netherlands and the Privileged West India Company, Department of Amsterdam, they voluntarily and advisedly for a certain quantity of goods, which they acknowledge to have been paid to and received by them before the passing of this act, by virtue and under the name of a bargain, transfer, cede and convey hereby to and for the behoof of So in the original. |