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John Underhill and Isaac Allertont are authorized by the Honorable Director and Council in Newr Netherlands, to settle the accounts between Mr. Moor and Mr. Wedderley to their * Stein in Netherlands and Germany is used for castle. Trans. t Both of these persons were of some note in the annals of New England.— AHerton was originally settled at New Plymouth ; he afterwards removed to New Amsterdam, but is supposed to have passed the latter part of his life at New Haven, where he died in 1659. Morton's Memorial—Ed. of Judge Davis. Appx. 393. Mass. Hist. Coll. 3d Series, vii. 243. Memoir of Isaac Mlerton.-~ Underhill died at Oyster Bay, in 1672. See an interesting memoir of him in Thompson’s valuable History of Long Island, p. 336.382 MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS, best knowledge ; and having thoroughly and impartially exam- ined said affair, so it is, that they declared that the half of the bark ought to remain the property of Mr. Moor, provided he delivers to Mr. Wedderley 250 lbs. tobacco, or its value, and leaving it further to Wedderley to settle with Ridder in Virgin- ia. Whereas for the truth thereof, this act has been signed on 26 November, 1644, in Fort Amsterdam, in New Netherlands. John Underhill, Isaac Allerton* CASTLE ISLAND. Vol. xxiv. 167. Extract from the answer of Governor Stuyvesant to the application of the General Court of Massa- chusetts, soliciting a free passage for their vessels on the North river to Fort Orange, April 20, 1660. “ That this North river of New Netherlands was first dis- covered at the expense of the Netherlands in the year 1609, by Hendrick Hudson, skipper and merchant of the yacht Half- Moon, in the service of the East India Company; upon the report of said Hudson, several merchants of Amsterdam sent in the following year, 1610, another ship up the North river, who obtained the next year a grant of their High and Mighty Lords, the States General, to sail upon that river and to navi- gate ; for whose security they built, in the year 1615, a small fort from which an island near Fort Orange yet bears the name of Castle Island, and the monuments of which can yet be shownwhich small fort by high water and ice was three years after highly injured, so that at length it entirely decayed.5’ CONTRACT FOR THE BUILDING OF A CHURCH. Vol. iii. 31. “Appeared before me, Cornelius Van Tien- hoven, Secretary in behalf of the general privileged West India Company in New Netherlands, the Honorable William Kieft, church-warden, at the request of his brethren, the church- wardens of the church in New Netherlands, to transact and in their name to conclude the following business. So did he, as church-warden, agree with John Ogden about a church in the following manner, viz.:— John Ogden of Stamford, and Ritsert Ogden, engage to build, in behalf of said church-wardens a church of rock-stone, seventy-two feet long, fifty-two feet broad, and sixteen feet high above the soil, all in good order, and in a workman-like manner. They shall be obliged to procure the stone and bring it on shore * Isaac Allerton was plaintiff in a suit before the Burgomasters’ Court in fort Amsterdam, March 24, 16.54.MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS. 383 near tbe fort at their own expense, from whence the church- wardens shall further convey the stone to the place where it is intended to build the church, at their own expense. The church wardens aforesaid will procure as much lime as shall be required for the building of the aforesaid church. John and Ritsert Ogden shall at their own charge pay for the masonry, &c., provided that when the work shall be finished the church wardens shall pay to them the sum of 2500 gl.,* which payment shall be made in beaver, cash, or merchandize, to wit:—if the church-wardens are satisfied with the work, so that in their judgment the 2500 gl. shall have been earned, then the said church-wardens shall reward them with 100 gl. more ; and fur- ther promise to John Ogden and Ritsert Ogden to assist them whenever it is in their power. They further agree to facilitate the carrying the stone thither, and that John and Ritsert Ogden may use during a month or six weeks the Company’s boat; en- gaging themselves and the aforesaid John and Ritsert Ogden to finish the undertaken work in the manner as they contracted. Done in Fort Amsterdam, in New Netherlands. (Signed) William Kieft, John Ogden, Richard Ogden, Gysbert op Dyck,, Thomas Willett.f EXTRACT FROM JOSSELYN’s VOYAGES.jl “ The whole country is divided into colonies, and for your better understanding, observe a colony is a sort of people that come to inhabit a place before not inhabited, or colonus quasi, because they should be tillers of the earth. From hence by a About one thousand dollars. + There is no date legible in the original of this contract, which was signed by the parties in the book of Records. The date was probably inserted at the beginning, which is rendered partially illegible by the mouldering of the leaves ; but as the other documents both immediately preceding and following this m the Records are of the date 1642, there can be no doubt that it was executed in that year; the church was commenced in 1643. This is the church mentioned by De Vries (see above p. 265). It stood within tne walls of the Fort, and remained unaltered until 1691, when it was remodelled, and afterwards used for the service of the church of England. It was. finally destroyed by fire in 1741. The Dutch congregation built a church on Garden street in 1691, to which they removed. Governor Stuyvesant erected a chapel near his country-house about 1660, on the present site of St. Mark’s Church. The church in the Fort and the Governor’s chapel were the only churches existing in the city prior to tho one in Garden street, with the exception of the original place of worship that preceded the stone church, and which De Vries calls a *~barn ’ from the homeli- ness of its appearance. At what period the latter was erected is unknown.. The first notice of it that we have seen is in the deposition respecting the pub- lic property taken in 1638, at the commencement of Kieft’s administration- (See above p. 279). t “ An account of two Voyages to New England, &c. By John Josselyn^ Gent. London, 1674.” Dedicated to “ the Right Honorable and Most Illustri- ous the President and Fellows of the Royal Society.”384 MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS. usual figure the country where they sit down is called a Colony or Plantation. “ The first of these that I shall relate of, though last in posses- sion of the English, is now our most southerly colony, and next adjoining to Maryland, scil. the Manadaes or Manahanent, lying upon the great river Mohegan, which was first discovered by Mr. Hudson, and sold presently by him to the Dutch, without authority from his sovereign the king of England, anno 1608. The Dutch in 1614 began to plant there, and called it New Netherlands, but Sir Samuel Argal, governor of Virginia, routed them; the Dutch after this got leave of King James to put in there for fresh water in their passage to Brazil,* and did not offer to plant until a good while after the English were set- tled in the country. In anno 1664, his majesty Charles the Second sent over four worthy gentlemen commissioners to re- duce the colonies into their bounds, who had before encroached upon one another, who marching with three hundred red-coats to Manadaes or Manhataes, took from the Dutch their chief town then called New Amsterdam, now New York; the twenty- ninth of August, turned out their governor with a silver leg, and all but those that were willing to acknowledge subjection to the king of England, suffering them to enjoy their houses and estates as before. Thirteen days after Sir Robert Carr took the fort and town of Aurania, now called Albany; and twelve days after that, the fort and town of Awsapha [Esopus]; then De-la-Ware Castle, manned with Dutch and Swedes. So now the English are masters of three handsome towns, three strong forts and a castle, not losing one man. The first governor of these parts for the king of England was Colonel Nicols, a noble gentleman, and one of his majesty’s commissioners, who coming for England in anno Domini 1668, as I take it, surren- dered the government to Colonel Lovelace. “New York is situated at the mouth of the great river Mo- hegan, and is built with Dutch brick alla-moderna, the meanest house therein being valued at one hundred pounds; to the landward it is compassed with a wall of good thickness. At the entrance of the river is an island well fortified, and hath command of any ship that shall attempt to pass without leave.” pp. 152—154. * The same story is told in Thurloe’s State Papers, that the Dutch “ by the permission of King James had granted from him to their States only a certain island, called therefore by them States Island [Staten Island], as a watering place for their West India fleets; although as they have encroached upon, so they have given it a new Dutch name, * * * wiping out the old English names in those ports of America in their old sea charts, and have new Dutchijied them.” See the document at length in Hazard’s State Papers, i. 604—5. This story of a * watering place ’ is as probable as that of the sale by Hudson; both equally 'unsustained by the history of the country.TABLES OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. The following statistical tables are taken from De Laet’s History of the West India Company. That work has not been translated, but from an examination of its index it appears to contain nothing else of interest relating to the colony of New Netherlands. EXPORTS, From New Netherlands by the West India Company, from A. D. 1624 to 1632. Date. Beavers. Otters, &c. Guilders. 1624 4,000 700 27,125 1625 5,295 463 35,825 1626 7,258 857 45,050 1627 7,520 370 12,730 1628 6,951 734 61,075 1629 5,913 681 62,185 1630 6,041 1,085 68,012 1632 13,513 1,661 143,125 1633 8,800 1,383 91,375 1635 14,891 1,413 134,925 IMPORTS. 1624 In two ships, goods, wares, &c. Guilders. 25,569 1625 Several ships, 8,772 1626 Two ships, Schepens. M. Yan Geele, Pieter Wolfersen, The Burgomaster Marten Krigier absent. A List of the persons who shall provisionally contribute the following sums for the purpose of putting the city in a state of defence. guilders. His Mightiness Werckhoven, 200 Johannes van Beeck, 200 Johannes P. Verbrugge, 200 Johannes G. Verbrugge, 100 Johannes de Peyster, 100 Cornelis van Steenwyck, 200 Govert Lookermans 150 Olof Stevensen, 150 Jacob Schellinck, 200 Pieter Prins, 100 Antony van Hardenbergh, 200 Johannes Nefius, 100 Gulyan Wys, 200 Pieter Buijs, 10Q Adriaen and Johannes Keyser, 100 Paulus Schrick, 100 Jacob G. Strycker, 100 Francoijs Fijn, 100 Matewis de Vos, 100 Adriaen Blommaert, 100 Evert Tesselaers Commisen, 200 Jacob Backer, Nicolas Boodt, Isaack Foreest, Abram Geenes, Jacob Steendam, Antony Claesen, Jan Jansen, jr. Borger Joris, Jan Vinje, Arent van Hattem, Marten Krigier, Paulus Leendersen, William Beekman, Peter van Cowenhoven, Maximilyen Geel, Allard Antony, Abram de la Nooy, Daniel Letschoet, Philip Genaerdy, Egbert van Borsum, Hendrick Kip. guilders.. 150 100 100 100 100 50 50 100 50 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 50 100 50MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS. 387 TAX LIST OF NEW-AMSTERDAM, a.d. 1674. The extraordinary expenses attending the repair of the fortifi- cations, and providing for the public defence, after the re-conquest of the city by the Dutch, in 1673, led to the imposition of a direct tax on those citizens whose estates were worth at least 1000 guilders. The following list was made out by a Board of six Assessors specially appointed for that purpose. Adolph Petersen, estate valued at (guilders Holland value,) 1000 Andrias Jochems, 300 Albert Bosch, 500 Abraham Carmar, 300 Allard Anthony, 1000 Abraham Jansen, carpenter, 600 Anthony Jansen Van Sale, 1000 Adrian Vincent, 1000 Abel Hardenbroeck, 10 JO Abraham Verplanck, 300 Asser Leevy, 2500 Abram Lubbersen, 300 Anthony De, 1000 Anna Van Borssum, 2000 Barent Coersen, 3500 Balthasar Bayard, 1500 Boele Roelofsen, 600 Barnadus Hasfalt, 300 Bay Rosevelt, 1000 Balthasar de Haert’s House, 2000 Claes Lock, 600 Carsten Leursen, 5000 Cornelis Steenwyck, 50,000 Cornelis van Ruyven, 18,000 Cornelis Janse van Hooren, 500 Claes Bordingh, 1500 Coenraed Ten Eyck, 5000 Christopher Hoogland, 5000 Cornelis Chopper, 5000 Corel Van Brugges’s Houses, 1000 Cornelis Van Borssum, 8000 David Wessels, 800 Cornelis Direksen, from west- veen, 1200 Cornelis Barentse Vander Cuyll, 400 Dirck Smet, 2000 David Jochems, 1000 Daniel Hendricks, 500 Dirck Van Cleef, - 1500 Dirck Wiggerse, 800 Dirck Sieken, 2000 Dirck Claesse, Potter, 400 Aegidius Luyk, 5000 Egbert Wouterse, 300 Evert Pieterse, 2000 Evert Wesselse Kuyper, 300 Evert Duyckmgh, 1600 Ephraim Harmans, 1000 Elizabeth Di-iseus, 2000 Elizabeth Bedloo, 1000 Ffrancois Rombouts, 5000 Ffrederick Philipse, 80,000 Ffrederick Arentse, turner, 400 Ffrederick Gisberts, 400 Guiliane Verplanck, 5000 Guiliam de Honioud, 400 Gabriel Minville, 10,000 Gerret Gullevever, 500 Mary Loockermans, 2000 Harmanus Burger & Co., 400 Hendrick Kip, sen., 300 Hendrick Bosch, 400 Hendrick Wessels Smit, 1200 Hendrick Gillesse, shoemaker, 300 Hendrick Willemse Backer, 2000 Hermanus van Borsum, 600 Hans Kierstede, 2000 Hendrick van Dyke, 300 Hartman Wessels, 300 Harmen Smeeman, 300 Henry Bresier, 300 Johnannes Van Brugh, 1400 Johannis de Peyster, 15 000 Jeronimus Ebbmgh, 30,000 Jacob Kip, 4000 Isaacq van Vlecq, 1500 Jan Meleynderse Karmar, 300 Isaack de Foreest, 1500 Junan Blanck, 1600388 TAX LIST OF NEW-AMSTERDAM, A1674. Jacob de Naers, 5000 Jan Hendrick Van Bommel, 1500 Jacob Leumen, 300 Jeremias Jansen Hagenaer, 400 Jacobus van de Water, 2500 Jan Dirckse Meyer, 600 Isacq Van Trieht, in his bro- ther’s house, 25(*) Jacob Abrahamse, shoemaker, 2000 Jan Van Breesteede, 500 Jonas Bartels, 3000 Jan Herberdingh, 2000 Jacob Teuniss Key, 8000 Jan Spiegelaer, 500 Jan Jansen, carpenter, 300 John Lawrence, 40,000 James Matheus, 1000 Jan Reay, pipemaker, 300 Jan Coely Smet, 1200 Jan Schakerley, 1400 Jan Joosten, Banquier, 2500 ♦Jacob Leyslaer, 15,000 Jan Vigne, 1000 Jacob Varrevanger, 8000 Laurens Jansen Smet, 300 Luycas Andries, Banquier, 150G Laurens V an de Spiegel, 6000 Lammert Huybertse Moll, 300 Laurens Holst, 300 Luyckes Tienhoven, 600 Marten Kregier, sen., 2000 Marten Jansen Meyer, 500 Matheys de Haert, 12,000 Nicholas de Meyer, 50,000 Nicholas Bayard, 1000 Nicholas du Puy, 600 Nicolas Jansen Backer, 700 Olof Stevensen Van Cortland, 45,000 Peter Jacobs Marius, 5000 Peter Nys, 500 Paulus Richard, 5000 Peter de Riemer, 800 Paulus Turcq, 300 Pieter Van de Water, 400 Pieter Jansen Mesier, 300 Philip Johns, 600 Reynier Willemse Backer, 5000 Stephanus Van Cortland, 5000 Simon Jantz Romeyn, 1200 Sibout Claess, 500 S’ouwert Olp heresse, 600 Thomas Leurs, 6000 Thomas Louwerss Backer, 1000 Wilhelm Beeckman, 3000 Wander Wessels, 600 Willem Van der Schueven. 300 The foregoing list was copied from the Colonial Records, and published in Moulton’s sketch of New-Orange, (as the city was called on its re-conquest by the Dutch,) with some interesting de- tails relating to that period. * This remarkable man took the lead in a popular movement in 1688, when he assumed the government. He was afl erwards tried on a charge of high treason and executed. His attainder was reversed at a later period by act of Parliament, and his estates restored to his family,—Ed.