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Cornell University Library 1993.MELYtf PAPERSMETiTTV PAPERS
1640-1699
[Deed for Staten Island, July 1640]
We Willem Kieft, Director General and Councillors in
behalf of the High Mighty Lords States General of the
United Netherlands, His Highness of Orange and the Hon.
Managers of the General Privileged West India Company,
residing in New Netherland: Make Known that on this
underwritten date we have given and granted as we are
giving and granting by these presents (by virtue of a cer-
tain Act, dated July 1640, conceded by said Lords Man-
agers), to Cornelius Melyn the entire Staten Island, situated
on the Bay and North River of New Netherland, excepting
so much land as appertains to a farm which by us Director
and Councillors before mentioned had been granted and
given—before the date of the before mentioned Act—to
David Peterse De Vries of Hoorn, which land has also been
occupied by him David Peterse; all under express condition
that he, Cornelius Melyn, or those by virtue of the present
entering upon his rights, shall acknowledge the said Hon.
Heeren Managers as their Lords, under the Sovereignty
of the High Mighty Lords the States General; and hereto
obey their Director and Councillors as good inhabitants are
bound to do; providing he, Melyn, or those entering upon
his right, submit in whole and in part to all such charges
and requisitions as—in accordance with the exemptions of
New Netherland—have been already levied or shall yet be
levied by the Managers; consequently constituting in qual-
ity and by virtue as expressed before, said Comelis Melyn,98
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in our stead, real and actual possessor of the aforesaid parcel
of land; granting him by these presents perfect power, author-
ity and special order to take possession of cultivate, inhabit,
use, the said Staten Island—except the said farm—as he
may do with other his patrimonial lands and effects, with-
out we, the grantors, in the aforesaid quality are reserving
or retaining any the least share, claim or authority in the
same, desisting of the same in behalf of as above.
The above is a true copy of the Part of a Patent as it is
found in the Dutch book of Record in the Secry’s office of
the Province of New York.
Pr. M: Clarkson, Secry.
[Translated from the Dutch]
In manner and on conditions hereafter expressed the
Very Noble Jongheer (Lord) Godert Van Reede, Lord of
Nederhorst, etc., has agreed with Cornelis Melyn that the
said Lord of Nederhorst shall receive and possess in owner-
ship the just half of the colonies acquired by Cornelis Melyn
from the West India Company on Staten Island or else-
where to be selected as well in regard to jurisdiction as to
ownership of the lands, woods, and all other rights, appertain-
ing to the said colony. Which one half said Melyn by these
presents cedes to the Lord of Nederhorst; the other half as
well as in regard to jurisdiction, lands, woods and rights
appertaining to the same remaining to the said Cornelis
Melyn; provided that said colony with the consent and ap-
probation of both parties, shall be divided in two equal parts,
an exact map of which shall be made and sent over by the
said Melyn, to be then drawn for by the said Lord of Neder-
horst, and by the said Melyn. And in case the said Lord of
Nederhorst should draw the part upon which said MelynMELYN PAPEKS
99
should have incurred any expenses, said Lord of Nederhorst
in such case shall pay indemnification, upon the award of
expert arbitrators. With the distinct understanding that
each for his own share shall bear his own expenses and shall
people the same, and further each shall regulate his own
property in such a manner as they shall deem proper without
having anything further in community with the other; with
express condition that if the Lord Count of Solms in regard
to his Colony should happen to acquire any more privileges
from the West India Company or their High Mightinesses,
that said Lord of Nederhorst shall also exert himself as much
as possible that said Melyn, in such case, shall also receive
similar condition and privileges for his portion, without how-
ever being obliged to positively acquire the same. Said
Melyn promising to act as superintendent and to take care
that the people to be sent there by the Lord of Nederhorst
(who will do so as soon as his Honor shall find an opportunity)
shall be held to their duty, and to report on the same from
time to time. The said people to be sent there by the said
Lord of Nederhorst are not to act in weighty matters unless
with the advice of the said Comelis Melyn. In ratification
of which parties mutually pledge their respective persons and
goods, submitting the same for this purpose to all Lords,
Courts and jurisdictions. In testimony respective parties
have subscribed to this present (which remains in the custody
of me Jan De Graeff Notary Public at Amsterdam) in the
presence of and with me Notary, at Amsterdam, this sixth of
May, old style, of the year sixteen hundred forty one.
Agrees with the minute of the deceased Notary Jan De
Graeff, this 16th January Anno 1648.
By me
F. Steur, Notary Public
1648.
Endorsed:
Agremt with the Lord Nederhorst and Comelis Melyen
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We, Willem Kieft Director General and Councillors
for the High Mighty Lords States General of the United
Netherlands, his Highness of Orange and the Hon. Heeren
Managers of the privileged West India Company, residing
in New Netherland, Make known and declare by these
presents that on this underwritten date we have granted
to Burger Joorissen a lot situated on the bank of the East
River on the Island Manhatans to the East of the Fort,
extending to the East eleven rods and to the North ten rods,
being an uneven square amounting to one hundred and ten
rods of land; with express conditions and stipulations that
he, Borger Joorisen, or those acquiring by virtue of this
present his right, shall acknowledge the aforesaid Heeren
Managers as his Lords and Patroons under the Sovereignty
of the High Mighty Lords States General, and here their
Director and Councillors to obey in everything as good in-
habitants are bound to do; and provided he, Burger Joorisen
further submits to all such charges and duties as have al-
ready been imposed or shall yet be imposed by the Hon.
Heeren. It is also stipulated that Burger Joorissen, in one
or two years time, on the said lot on the strand shall yet cause
to be built a good house. Therefore confering upon said
Burger Jorissen, or those entering upon his right in our stead
real and actual ownership of said lot, granting him by these
presents absolute and irrevocable power and authority and
special order to build on, inhabit, and use said lot, as he
might do with other his patrimonial lands and possessions,
without we grantors, in our afore stated quality, having,
reserving or retaining any the least share, ownership or
authority in the same, but in behalf of as above from now
on and forever renouncing everything, promising further
firmly, irrevocably and unbreakably to observe and carry
out this their Conveyance, all under pledge as expressed by
law; without guile or craft this has been subscribed by us
and confirmed with our seal in red wax, in Fort Amsterdam
April 28th, 1643, New Style. Was signed Willem Kieft.MELYN PAPERS
101
By order of the Hon. Heeren Directors and Councillors
of New Netherland
Cornelis Van Tienhoven
Secretary.
Lib A fo. 58
A true Copy
David Jamison	D: Secry
Endorsed in Dutch
Grant of Burger Jorison, of the 28th April 1643.
[Translated from the Dutch]
In the year after the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ one thousand six hundred four and forty the 17th day
of December, appeared before me Cornelis Van Tienhoven,
Secretary of New Netherland, Burger Jorisen, Farrier (hoefs-
mid) and inhabitant here, who declared in the presence of the
below subscribed witnesses to convey and transfer in a true
free ownership to Mr. Cornelis Melyn, his house and lot
situated on the island Manhatans, as he is by these presents
conveying and transfering said lot and house by virtue of
ground brief & conveyance granted by the Director and
Councillors of New Netherland, dated April 28, 1643. On
account whereof he Burger Jorisen Constitutes in his stead
as real and actual owner of the said lot and house said
Cornelis Melyn or those entering upon his right, granting
him irrevocable power, authority and what has been expressed
before, so that he, Melyn, may do with and dispose of the
same as he might do with other his patrimonial estate, with-
out he, the grantor, retaining in the same any ownership or
claim (the bill of sale having been satisfied), but renouncing
the same from now on for ever. In testimony hereof, the102
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Minute of the present has been subscribed to at the record
office by Burger Jorissen, Will. De Kay & Gysbert Opdyck,
as witnesses invited for this purpose. Done at Fort Amster-
dam in New Netherland, December 17,1644, New Style. It
was subscribed to with the mark of Burger Jorisen and signed
in the name of Burger Jorisen.
On March 18, 1661 the here standing
name has been put down by
Burger Jorisse.
To which we testify
N. De Sille, N. Bayard
A true copy taken from the Records being much toorne.
(signed) David Jamison. D:Secry.
Endorsed in Dutch: Conveyance of Burger Joris to
Cornells Melyn, December 17th, 1644.
[Translated from the Dutch]
[Mandamus April 28, 1648]
The States General of the United Netherlands, To the
first Marshall or Messenger having power to serve when
requested, Greeting: Make Known, that we, having re-
ceived the humble supplication presented to us by and
in behalf of Jochem Pietersz Cuyter and Comelis Melyn,
containing that they, petitioners, with permission and leave
of the Assembly of the XIX of the General West India Com-
pany, with wife and children and with private means, besides
a large herd of cattle, in the year one thousand six hundred
and thirty nine, transported themselves from these countries
to New Netherland, so that they, petitioners, after enormous
expenses, difficulties and inexpressible labor, got into condi-
tion, in the year sixteen hundred forty three, their lands,MELYN PAPERS
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houses and other undertakings which in the aforesaid year on
account of the war (waged by Director Kieft unjustly and con-
trary to all international law, with the savages or natives of
New Netherland)they have been obliged to abandon and as a
consequence lost all their property. On account hereof the
petitioners, besides the other six Selected Men took counsel
and in the name of the joint Commonality in New Nether-
land in the year sixteen hundred forty four by the Blue Cock,
sent two letters: to the said Assembly of the XIX, as also to
the Directors in Amsterdam, containing their grievances
regarding this matter, the disasters grown out of these actual
murders, massacres and many other cruelties (which is ap-
palling to every Christian conscience having information
hereof) which Director Kieft at the time, has caused to be
perpetrated by his forces among the simple and innocent
savages, as may be learned more at large from the original
letter to the XIX; so that the Eight selected men did not
know that they had transgressed in this matter, but had
hoped that the same would have been taken in good part
by the Lords Directors. But petitioners find on the con-
trary that their writings were taken in the worst part by the
Lords, who consequently returned said letter with the New
Director Stuyvesant to New Netherland to Director Kieft,
from which subsequently followed that said Kieft began to
proceed very vigorously against the Eight Select Men (es-
pecially against both petitioners) and has caused them to be
prosecuted by the Fiscal. In such a manner that Director
Stuyvesant (in order to please said Kieft in the matter) has
banished petitioners for a number of years out of the country
because they were not willing to repeal the truth, and adhered
to their previous writings. Petitioners thereupon turned to
us, requesting, imploring and praying for God’s Sake, that we
should be pleased to maintain them in their just cause, that
they might again be able to join their poor, desolute wives
and children, and to be reinstated in their former condition
on their devastated lands. And in case petitioners have104
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transgressed through any improper documents (tending to
the damage of New Netherland or the common weal, which
they have never attempted) they submit to such punishment
as we shall find to be proper. But on the contrary it will be
shown that petitioners in their writings did not consider
anything but that the common prosperity and the desire for
peace in New Netherland might again be restored, and that
the inhuman cruelties, tryanny and evil government (which
in that country from time to time have been inflicted by the
officers of the West India Company especially by Director
Kieft upon the inhabitants of New Netherland) might be
stopped. As a consequence of these barbaric proceedings
the entire government of that country has been erupted the
householders chased away, their lands laid waste, the farms
and plantations to the number of fifty or sixty burnt and re-
duced to cinders. And, worst of all, the the name of the
Netherland nation, on account of the cruel acts is most
thoroughly detested by the Heathens of that country. And
then when the poor inhabitants complained about these and
other harsh proceedings to the High Sovereign Government,
they were, by the Director, chased out of the country, in such
a manner that in course of time the country was denuded of
the Dutch inhabitants, and at present there are found there
little more than a hundred males (excepting the private
traders), and therefore it is to be feared that the English
(who arrived some years after the Dutch, and within fifteen
years increased to about fifty or sixty thousand souls in New
England) and already now have had a taste of the fruitfulness
and also of the convenient navigable rivers of our New Nether-
land, will in course of time attempt to become masters of the
same. On account whereof petitioners again cordially pray
that this aforesaid, and their humble petition may be con-
sidered by us, and they may be granted their reasonable and
just request, which has even been promised by the Assembly
of the XIX in their Freedoms of 1630 to all Patroons and Free
Residents. Considering which we order and command you,MELYN PAPERS
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commissioning you by these presents, that at the request of
the said petitioners you summon in our behalf the aforesaid
Director Stuyvesant and the members of the New Netherland
government before mentioned, besides all others; if necessary
to come and appear, or send attorneys, on an appropriate
day, before us here at the Hague, to maintain and defend
the aforesaid sentences and the tenor of the same or if they
deem proper to renounce the same; to see and to hear the
same pronounced null, void and of no value and in conse-
quence modify and correct the same, as per law, if such be
necessary; to reply to such questioning as petitioners shall be
inclined to put on the proper day, in order, parties heard,
petitioners may be granted by us such remedies of Justice,
and also of grace, if necessary, as shall be found requisite,
and be appropriate to the cause. Further forbidding and
most rigorously ordering on our behalf if need be on certain
heavy penalty, the aforesaid defendants and all others, that
pending the case in appeal they do not act, attempt, nor
innovate anything against nor in prejudice of the same, nor
of the said appellants; but in case anything should have been
done, attempted or innovated contrary to the same, that
immediately and without delay they repair the same, putting
it in its first and proper state. Leaving, in behalf of defend-
ants, copy of the present and of your service, relating to us
on the said day what you shall have done in this matter.
Given at The Hague, on the twenty eighth of April, sixteen
hundred and forty eight.
Hieron: Eybenvt
By order of the above named Lords
States General	Com. Musch
1648.
Endorsed as follows: The States General of the United
Netherlands, To all who shall see or hear read this present,106
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greeting Make Known, that having paid attention to the
later petition made to us on this day in the name and on
behalf of Jochim Pietersz Cuyter and Comelis Melyn our
subjects, and residents of New Netherland, have amplified,
as we are amplifying by the present, the mandamus inscribed
on the other side of this present, in such a manner that the
said mandamus may be served not only by a messenger,
marshall or Notary but by such other person, whether offi-
cial or private, as the said petitioners, either together or sep-
arately, shall be able to acquire and agree upon. Ordering
and commanding each and every one whom it may in any
way concern, exactly to regulate themselves in conformity
herewith, in every appearance as if the aforesaid amplifi-
cation had been verbally inserted in the aforesaid man-
damus. Given in the Hague on the Sixth of May, sixteen
hundred forty eight.
J. Van Gentvt
By order of the above named Lords States General
Com. Musch
[Translated from the Dutch]
[This Document without the above endorsement is
printed in the “Documents Relating to the Colonial His-
tory of the State of New York.” Vol. I, p. 250-1.]
[Melyen vs. Van der Capellen]
The Hon. Lord Debit
1. By appraisal of arbitrators is to pay for
the bam, rick, well, palisades, etc.
and guardhouse etc, the amount of guilders 1500MELYN PAPERS
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2.	For 6^ Morgen (13 Acres) of clear land guilders 650
3.	For postrails, according to the decision
of arbitrators
4.	For the Cattle, as per the Contract
5.	Also according to account as sent to
His Honor on Sep. 18, 1651 for what
I have advanced for His Honor’s
Farmers
Bill delivered this 15 December 1652,
to Mr. Lubbartes Van Dincklagen
and Jabock Van Couwenhoven for
advances made to this date to the
said farmers
4948:0:8
[Melyen vs. Van der Capellen]
Credit
1.	For as much as he has paid to me in
Fatherland in 1650, as appears in the
Contract.	guilders 1200
2.	For two pairs of plough oxen, ordered in
my account, sent on September 18,
1651.	“	400
guilders 1600
3.	December 13, 1652, for an assignment
drawn on the said date to the charge
of the said Lord	“	600
171:8
800
1395:3:8
430:9
guilders 2200108
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4. Balance of the present account	guilders 2748-8
guilders 4948-8
5. Note that the 280 wagon loads of manure
have not been considered in the ac-
count of the arbitrators but have been
left to the discretion of the Hon. Lord,
by me Comelis Melyn.
This account is endorsed in English: L. Capelle acct wch
he owes to Cornelius Melyen.
[Though the account mentions neither the name of the
debtor nor the locality on account whereof the debts were
contracted, it is evident that this is Melyen’s account with
Baron Van der Capellen concerning the latter’s colony on
Staten Island.]
[Power of Attorney to J. Schellinger]
[One line entirely destroyed]
. . . Melyn on her departure ... declared to constitute
and [half a line out] her son in law Jacob Schellinger ... to,
in her prospective absence, the cattle [out] her . . . are on
the Staten Island, to have them as early as possible ferried
across, and to sell the same to her largest profit, to pay the
debts resting on the same, as well to Andries Pos, as those
incurred in conveying the same and other expenses, and as
quickly as possible to send over the balance as per verbal
orders given concerning the same; and further generally in
the above case, to act and do in everything as she, the principal
or her husband himself, if present should and might do, even
if further or more specific power might be required than is
here expressed. Promising to consider and to have consid-MELYN PAPERS
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ered valid, binding and well done what her aforesaid attorney
shall have done and executed in the aforesaid matter. Bind-
ing her person and goods, provided that the attorney, under
equal bond, be held upon request to render account, proof
and reliqua of his receipts and disbursements. Thus granted
and passed in the presence of Caspar Steymets and Isaack
Kip, as witnesses invited this April 6th 1656, at Amsterdam
in New Netherland.
witnesses
Janneken Melyen
Casper Steinmets
Isack Kip
Known to me
Jacob Kip, Secretary.
To the Hon. Lords Managers of the privileged West India
Company at the Chamber of Amsterdam.
Makes Known with due reverence Cornelis Melyn Patroon
of Staten Island; that he petitioner in the year 1640, on July
2, obtained from your Honors liberty to found in New Nether-
land, wherever he might think proper a colony and that for
this purpose he selected the said Staten Island, which selec-
tion was approved by your Honors and entered in your
Honors’ Colonial registers, as can be further seen by Act
and Conditions of the same.
The petitioner, in extending and erecting his colony has
sustained several unexpected obstacles damages and great
disasters: First, on August 13, 1640, when he was going
thither with people, cattle, goods and all implements neces-
sary for agriculture, he was taken by a Dunkirk frigate, on
account whereof he was prevented said year till Anno 1641,
when through your help and assistance he arrived with the
ship “Den Eyckenboom” (The Oaktree) in New Netherland110
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on the said Statten Island with 41 persons. He immediately
began to build houses, to plough land, and to do everything
conducive to establishing a good colony, begrudging neither
money nor labor. But thereupon a second unexpected dis-
aster took place owing to a war with the savages or aborigines,
commenced in New Netherland. My houses and farms and
everything were burnt my cattle besides some people were
shot dead, so that I was obliged to flee for the sake of saving
my life, and to sojourn with wife and children at the Menatans
till the year 1647, when the new Director Petres Stuyvesant
proceeded very severely against the (8) Eight Men, one of
whom was myself; elected by the community, on account of
two letters so written to your Honors in the name of the poor
ruined community treating of the cause of the war, disasters
and the consequences of the same, which letters had been
read by your Honors and returned to him Stuyvesant. As a
consequence hereof I, besides one Jochem Pietersen Cuyter
were by said Stuyvesant banished from New Netherland for a
number of years, according to the sentence pronounced
regarding the same, and departed for Fatherland from New
Netherland with the ship The Princess Amelia in company
with Director Willem Kieft. However owing to mistakes
and wrong calculations we entered the “ Verkeerde Canaal”
(Bristol Channel) where during the night, the ship went to
pieces, many people were drowned, and after having floated
hither and thither at sea for about eighteen hours, the Lord
be praised, I at last reached land, where I found Jochem
Pietersen Cuyter and some other people and subsequently,
after much trouble, arrived in the fatherland, where I ad-
vised with Jochem Pietersen Cuyter about complaining to
their High Mightinesses of the unjust sentence pronounced,
the violence and trouble caused us by the Director in New
Netherland, with request of Mandamus on account of appeal,
which was granted us, Herewith, in the year 1648, we re-
turned to New Netherland, in the hope, in the future to be
permitted with wife and children, peacefully to live on ourMELYN PAPERS
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lands. But whereas said Director used every means to sus-
tain his unjust sentence, and the Secretary Comelis Van
Thienhooven (who most believe to be the cause of all dis-
asters and calamities fallen during his time upon New Nether-
land) was by him sent to Fatherland to appear in his stead
before their High Mightinesses, I resolved also to go thither,
besides some delegates of the Community, in order to be
present in cases which might concern me, but mostly to look
for means to restock my ruined Colony and again, if possible,
to retore the same, as my power and capital, owing to the
said causes, had been very much diminished. Consequently
I received some money from good friends, some of whom I
have yet to pay, and futher, for the said purpose I agreed on
certain conditions with the Hon. Lord Hendrick Van der
Capellen to resell etc., about one-third share of my Colony
on the Staten Island, which upon contract he agrees at his
expense to people with settlers, and to bring his share up to
condition, which he has demonstrated. Consequently about
70 strong and with fresh necessaries for agriculture I again
set sail for New Netherland, with the ship named the New
Netherland Fortune. But whereas we encountered very bad
weather and unfavorable conditions, after much trouble,
many dangers and out of provisions and water, we at last
arrived at the Red Island, where we were obliged to provide
ourselves with some victuals and water, and therefore to
exchange some merchandise. We therewith arrived in New
Netherland in front of the Staten Island where owing to con-
trary wind and tides we cast anchor. The people belonging
there, joyfully went on land, thanking God for Having been
freed from the water and the ship. Meanwhile about sunset,
Fiscal Van Dyck arrives on board with the Sergeant and a
few soldiers to guard the ship, so that no merchandise should
be discharged from the same. Thereafter we arrived at
the Menatans, expecting to be welcomed by the Director, as
well as by the community and all lovers of New Netherland
and of the Company, owing to the arrival of the ship and112
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such a splendid multitude of country people consisting of
farmers and farm laborers, the like of whom, it was averred,
had never yet been seen (to arrive) in New Netherland. But
on the contrary the Director began by manifesting his old
hatred and partisanship asserting first that at the Staten
Island something should have been discharged which looked
like contraband; second that I should have sold goods at the
Red Island; third that one Casper Verlet, who said to be part
owner of the ship should have been deprived of his claimed
share in the ship and the merchandise; fourth, that I had too
much encouraged the skipper in his evil intent and further
several allegations not worth while enumerating here but
which can be seen from the documents regarding the same.
Owing to these before enumerated causes he begins, through
the fiscal, to proceed very rigorously against ship and goods,
attaches everything, arrests my person guarding me well
with soldiers; as a consequence my newly arrived country
people began to grumble, the desire for work, because I could
not be present there, they began to loose to my great damage
and expense; the crew were arrested, and thus were forced to
make such declarations as pleased the authorities; (which
arrest) caused me great expense to the crew, and for the ships
repairs, up to the time when it pleased him to confiscate ship
and goods and to appropriate the same to his own use. Not
stopping at this, but for the purpose of absolutely ruining
me, also my real estate being at the Menatans, consisting of
some houses and lots, was attached and sold to my great
damage under appearance of “rugrant” of the shipper and
owners; so that owing to these before related acts I have
clearly perceived that for me there was no security at the
Menatans owing to these many arrests, citations, summonses
and molestations and I have resolved to quit the Menatans
and, thus Wronged and plundered, to join with wife and chil-
dren my people in my colony on Staten Island. And I left
the Director at the Menatans with all his proceedings to
continue as he pleased without defending my just cause, as itMELYN PAPERS
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would not have done me any good anyway, and further in-
tending to repair my above mentioned losses, and attend to
the support of my wife and children, which has again been
assiduously undertaken by myself and my people, and com-
menced to cultivate the land which had been laying so long
fallow to clear, plow, sow, mow, thresh, make a harbor to
build houses, racks, barns for the purpose of lodging the
people, and the cattle we were using, as an ornament of New
Netherland and an honor and credit to the Hon. Company
and further as an incentive and spur to all other country
people as well villagers as detached farmers, and even to those
arriving from the Menatans itself, who were surprised at the
large crop of grain which had this year been produced through
our diligence; and there had been commenced sixteen hand-
some farms as well by myself as by my children as also by the
people taken along by me for the Lord Van der Capelle and
sent over by His Honor; which farms were covered with
twenty seven buildings; houses, racks and bams, each well
provided with cattle as well beautiful plow oxen, milch
cows, as calves for increase, so that every thing began to be
abundant on Staten Island, and through God’s blessing I
again began to recover my losses. But Director Stuyvesant
again became active, as if it appeared that my prosperity
began to trouble him. For when, in the year 1655, in
August, he had received some soldiers from Fatherland by
the ship the Waech (Balance) Captain Frederick De Coon-
inck, to sail with them on an expedition to the South River,
he dispatched said Cooninck with the Fiscal Comelis Van
Tienhoven and some soldiers to the Staten Island for the
purpose of fetching me; but being ignorant of the same,
about two or three hours before, I had gone in my boat to the
Menatans in order to attend to some business concerning
my colony. The Director Stuyvesant met me with some
soldiers, and he immediately exclaimed Take hold of Melyn,
conduct him to the guard house and secure him well. There
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boat with the said Capt. Coninck and Fiscal Tienhoven. He
thereupon convened his council and the said Captain, has me
brought before him, asks me “where are the letters you have
received from the Swedes?” which sounded to me as strange
as if I had been asked for letters from the great Turck, and
gave for answer not to know of any letters from the Swedes,
nor that I was expecting any. To this said Stuyvesant
replied “you will soon be taught to speak differently,” and
ordered the fiscal to have me conducted to prison and to
secure me well. I was there conducted and thrown in a dark
hole, and I was not to see nor to converse with any one. This
lasted twenty five days without a further hearing until the
16th of September when the Savages set fire to all buildings
around the Menatans, and killed and murdered a large
number of our people which at the Menatans and the whole
country [here three quarters of a line obliterated] interceding
and running to and fro of my wife and children as well as
others, permitted me under certain conditions to leave the
hole. I then immediately departed for the Staten Island to
see whether I could save my people, houses and goods from
the savages; but in vain; for a few days later the savages
arrived there in great numbers and commenced to attack our
people, to set fire to the houses, stacks, bams mostly full of
grain, so that the people were obliged to seek safety in my
house which they (the savages) also succeeded in setting
afire. And when the cinders began to fall down on us we
were forced to leave it and obliged to break through the
savages to enable us to retire to another small house standing
close to the shore. Here we held out for some time longer,
hoping meanwhile to receive some assistance from the
Menatans. But all in vain. At last the savages called out
to us that if we desired quarter they would grant the same to
us, whereupon we resolved as we saw no other refuge [here
nearly an entire line obliterated] because from among our
number already 15 or 16 persons, among whom my son 22
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dead, besides some wounded; and thus fifty one in number
went into captivity among the savages, where we remained
during thirty one days until I had raised a ransom of about
1,400 guilders for myself, wife, son and son in law, which was
to be paid if we did not want to be burnt alive in a fire which
for this purpose had been already prepared and was burning.
Subsequently arriving at the Menatans, as miserable as we
well could be, we hoped to enjoy some quiet after our sad
imprisonment. But the day following there arrived at my
lodgings Secretary Van Reuven with a sergeant in command
of soldiers armed with firearms and sword, saying “Melyn the
Director sends us hither and lets you know that you must
try to find more ransom, for the savages are not yet satis-
fied,” and forced me immediately to go in search of 60 or 70
guilders additional payment, if I did not want to be put in
the former prison. It appeared to me somewhat suspicious
that the savages were so bold, and at the Menatans, through
the servants of the Company, dared to vex me yet further;
(it occurred to me) that the same might have been trumped
up in order to at once ruin me. I submit to your Honour’s
judgment after all that had befallen me and I being in such a
sorrowful and miserable condition, my children and people
murdered by the savages, the houses, racks, bams to the
number of 25, burnt, the people, cattle and farms destroyed,
my goods stolen, and in place thereof debts incurred for my
ransom, and retaining the bitter hatred of the Director, I
have resolved to quit the Menatans, in order not to perish
absolutely with wife and children and for the time being
to put myself under the protection of the English; and con-
sequently departed with my family for New Haven, until I
shall have found opportunity and means to pay for the trip
hither, Meanwhile making your Honors acquainted with my
distress as related heretofore, with humble request to sustain
me in my just cause against the aforesaid Petrus Stuyvesant
regarding the evil acts and great damage unjustly inflicted
on me, and to assist me in regaining my own, in order with the116
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same means and your Honors’ assistance to refound my ruined
colony for the third time, and to restore the same to its
former condition.
Which doing etc.
Endorsed in English
The Remonstrance & Petition of Cornelius Melyen to ye
West India Company in Amsterdam Ano 1659.
[Translated from the Dutch]
Upon this thirteenth Day of June 1659-----Mr Cornelius
Melyen (who untill this time hath been Patron, & hath had
Jus Patronatus of ye Colony of Staten Island scituated in ye
mouth of ye North River in New Netherland) for himself,
his heirs & Successors acknowledged to have bargained &
agreed wth the Lords ye Directors of ye privileged West
India Company at their chamber here in Amsterdam freely
& most amicably by these presents (Yizt) That he con-
sented to desist deliver over, transfer & Transport all ye
Pow’r, Authority, Highness, Jurisdiction, preheminencies,
prerogatives, Profitts, Emoluments, Liberties, & exemptions
belonging to him in quality of Patroon & belonged to him
until now in upon ye lands & Colony of ye sd. Staten Island
with ye following dependencies & appendencies thereof none
excepted by him procured, according to ye Resolutions, Acts,
articles, freedoms & exemptions & other instruments as like-
wise by ye letters of conveyance made over especially unto
him by Willm. Kieft Governor of New Netherland, & other
letters of concessions, which may have been granted concern-
ing ye same, none excepted, which he also agreed to deliver
up unto ye abovementioned Chamber, as well here as in New
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are made to cease Expressly upon ye following conditions.
Vizt. That ye abovementioned company & chamber shall
in New Netherland make restitution of all such Sum or Sums
of money, which were produced from certain his houseings
& Lotts scituated & being upon ye Manhatans in New Am-
sterdam neer ye ffort (which were sold by Governor Stuyve-
sandt by Execution in behalf of Daniel Michiels master of ye
Ship ye New Netherlands Fortune) shall be restored to him
again in New Netherland by sd. Company & chamber for ye
sd. Moneys or so much thereof as yet may be found to re-
main wth ye sd. company.
And moreover that ye Just Sume of fifteen hundred gilders
shall be forthwith paid him, & likewise that he shall enjoy ye
Freedome & exemption of ye Custome both here & in New
Netherland of ye value of about one thousand gilders Stock
of Merchandise, being necessary utensels for cultivating land
& permitted, wch he should think fitt to carry wth him into
New Netherland.
As likewise that himself, his family & his people wth
him shall be transported over thither with their own ships
or ships hired at ye charge of the company according to ye
Prsent use. Also that he for ye future as a free Coloneer
& inhabitant for himself & his Successors shall hold & pos-
sess as free & legal estate, ye lands houses & lotts, which he
hath there in ye sd. Colony, & hath hitherto made use of &
which he yet shall be able to improve (& by others not
possessed) they shall enjoy ye Succession thereof or by will,
writings, donation or gift, agreemt. or otherwise may dis-
pose thereof, as according to ye Articles of Privilege & Ex-
emptions granted to Patroons & Coloneers. That likewise
his eldest son being capable (& ye sd. Colony having need of
a Schout, & one to be appointed thereupon) shall be pre-
ferred before any other by ye aforesd. Company &
Chamber. And Finally that by ye present Governor Steuy-
vesandt shall be shewed & maintained a perfect Amnestia
of all Strifes, hatred & differences, which formerly may118
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have risen between them; as well in respect of ye Company
as their own private concerns; ye same hereby to remain
forgiven & forgotten & for ye future they to be good friends
& to respect & acknowledge each other in his quality & to
demonstrate all resaonable Assistance. To ye performance
of all ye premises He Cornelius Melyen bindeth himself &
his estate movable and unmovable, present & future none
excepted to ye Submission of ye Court of Holland & all laws
& Judges as well in New Netherland as herein this Countrey
—In Witness whereof this is underwritten by ye under-
named Lords & Committe of ye West India Company there-
unto authoriz’d by ye Lords their fellow brethren on ye be-
half of ye aforementiond company & chamber by special
Comission dated ye tenth of April last past, & by ye aforesd.
Cornelius Melyen at Amsterdam ye day & year aforesd.
was underwritten & signed. Edward Man as Direct.
Abraham Wilmerdonck as Directr H: Bontemantel as
Directr Cornelius Melyen late Patroon of Staten Island in
ye presence of me as Notary, H: Schaef No. P.
It agreeth with ye original signed
agreement being in my Custody
In Witness
Examined this with ye Dutch
agreemt. & find it to be a
true translate to ye best of
my understanding as Witness
my hand	Leisler
H: Shaef Noy Public
Also by me
vera copia
George Turfry
Endorsed: A Copy of ye Translate of ye Agreement of
Melyen wth ye West India Company Examd Pr
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[This Document is printed in O’Callaghan’s History of
N ew Netherland. . . Vol. 2, pages 575-6.]
To the Hon. Heeren Managers of the Privileged West
India Company at the Chamber of Amsterdam, and to the
Hon. Commissioners appointed to negotiate with Comelis
Melyen regarding his colony on the Staten Island, viz. Mr.
Edwaerd Man, Mr. Abram Wilmerdonck, Mr. Hans Bonte-
mantel, as Managers.
Hon. Gentlemen I trust that it is still fresh in your
Honors’ memory that, on June 13, 1659, at Amsterdam, I
most amicably agreed, covenanted and contracted with
your Honors, viz, in such a manner as can be seen from the
contract entered into on the said date; whereafter, with the
ship The Love by way of Curacoa, On March 5, 1660, I
safely arrived with God’s help in New Netherland. I showed
the said agreement and contract, besides your Honors’
good intentions to the Hon. Heer Stuyvesant, and verbally
proposed to him that I hoped and trusted that the same
would be followed up and carried out by his Honor. He
answered in substance according to my best recollection,
that he would regulate himself according to the orders of
the Hon. Heeren Managers, his masters and principals.
And a little time afterward I went to His Honor, and in-
formed him that for account of the said Company and
Chamber in New Netherland there shall be returned to me
all such monies as have proceeded of certain my house and
lots, standing and situate on the Menatans in New Amster-
dam near the Fort, which, by Director Stuyvesant, by exe-
cution levied in behalf of Daniel Migielse, skipper of the
ship the New Netherland Fortune have been sold, or as
much of the monies as should yet be in the hands of the
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any monies produced by the sale. Here upon I requested
His Honor to afford me some information about where they
were or who had received them, or how to get at them. He
refers me to Commissary Caerel Verbrugge in order to ob-
tain from him information and light regarding the same,
who, after I had several times petitioned, requested and
accosted him, at last said and gave me for answer that he
had much sought after the same and had not succeeded in
finding it. With this I had to be satisfied until May 23,
1661, when the Director General had bidden me to attend
his meeting, as can be seen from the attached copy of his
resolution. Among other things we had several debates
concerning this matter also some debates and talks con-
cerning the sale of house and lots though it had not been
expressed or mentioned in the Resolution, as it appears that
their Honors don’t bother as much about this matter as about
other questions, contrary to their Honors favor and good
opinion. Arriving now to the second dispute in the con-
tract, broached by Director and Council: their Honors also
grant me exemption from tolls, as well here as in New
Netherland on the amount of about one thousand guilders
capital, in merchandise, which I should import. Now the
Hon. Lords in addition to their aforesaid exemption have
permitted about fifteen hundred guilders’ worth to follow
me, in conformity with their verbal promise that a couple
hundred guilders difference would not matter, which has
been actually substantiated by your Honors. Will also
show gratitude at occurring occasions. Now upon arriving
here I request to enjoy the same favor as at Amsterdam,
according to the tenor of the agreement. In opposition
to this it is argued that it is their Honors’ opinion "exemp-
tion at Amsterdam but not in New Netherland, Upon
sending the goods again tolls must be paid.” I answer if
it had not been the opinion of the Hon. Heeren Managers
they would simply have said "Here at Amsterdam,” not
“As well here as in New Netherland,” from which it is plain-MELYN PAPEBS
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ly to be understood: “In New Netherland as well exempt
as at Amsterdam,” where the Hon. Heeren have granted
the freedom, and still so much more as has been stated
before. Thirdly His Honor and his Council dispute about
freight and passenger charges for myself and accompanying
people, in this manner in regard to this article:	“And fur-
ther that he and his family and accompanying people with
hired or owned vessels, shall be conveyed thither by said
Company, at the expense of the Hon. Company, in accord-
dance with the present custom.” This “present custom”
is here by the Director and Council understood: that the
expense and passage charges are to be paid upon arriving
here. Answer, if this was the case it would have been
unnecessary to have made any condition regarding it, or
to enter the same in a contract, and would [my]self have
sought means of conveyance or have agreed with the skip-
per. Fourth, it is disputed and illy explained that which
the Hon. Heeren opine justly and in good faith, viz: that
from now on as a free colonist and inhabitant for himself and
his descendants he shall have and hold as a free allodial
property the lands, houses and lots which in the said colony
there he possesses, and has hitherto occupied, and which
he shall yet there take up and, are not possessed by others,
and shall enjoy the succession of the same or may dispose
of the same by will codicil, donation or gift, contract or
otherwise, as per the articles of Freedoms and Exemptions,
was granted to the patroons and colonists. Surely it is plain
and visible, from the abovesaid that it is not the Hon. Lords
opinion and desire to take away from me the liberal grant,
made and conveyed to me in their Assembly of July 3,1640,
and further on February 18 & 26,1641, by which the before
mentioned grant is renewed. And further the groundbrief—
being the conveyance—also expresses the granting of the
entire Staten Island as a consequence of the consent men-
tioned above, signed by the Heer General Wilm Kieft, dated
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surrender all letters and documents concerning the juris-
diction and what appertains thereto, which I have also
immediately done, requesting again a new groundbrief of
the lands of the Staten Island, in the manner as I possessed
and occupied the same heretofore, as can be seen by said
Act and Letters; this opinion of the Hon. Lords is thus ex-
plained by Director and Council, if he was to remain in
possession of the said entire Island, why then had it been
necessary to stipulate that he and his descendants should
possess and retain as free allodial good the lands, houses
and lots he possesses on the said Island and which up to
the present he has occupied, and still shall be able to occupy.
This forsooth is to be surely and clearly understood that
the Hon. Lords let me keep that which thay have granted
and given me, as was said before. For it has been occupied
nor expenses incurred for, by anybody else but myself and
those who received my permission. On the other hand if
the Hon. Lords were of opinion that I should not remain
proprietor of the Island, and their Honors had retained it
to themselves to grant away, why then did the Hon. Heeren
have need to agree with heirs of the Hon. deceased Lord
Vander Capelle, whom, by contract, I ceded one third portion
of the entire Island, which still remains hypothecated (mort-
gaged) for my advanced moneys. As also in what manner
I have yet pointed out and promised and agreed with many
others about my lands, besides with the Hon. Heer Van der
Cappellen. But neither this nor several other clear proofs
and arguments I desire to produce for the Hon. Heeren
but refer the Hon. Heeren to my petition delivered in to the
meeting—where on April 10, by resolution, the above
named gentlemen were appointed—from which can be seen
the great expenses, exceedingly hard work, great damage
and difficulties, come to me on account of the said entire
Island. These gentlemen after having maturely considered
and discussed this entire matter, in accordance with your
Honors’ wise and intelligent understanding shall conclude,MELYN PAPERS
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in every respect, that I deserve to be maintained in my just
causes, which I also hope and firmly trust shall thus be done
by your Honors, and that Director General Stuyvesant shall
then be ordered by the high authority of the Hon. Heeren
Managers of the Chamber of Amsterdam, to let me peace-
bly enjoy the perfect effect of the favor of the Hon. Lords’
good intentions, so that I, besides those who have yet re-
mained and besides myself have saved their lives from the
savages, resolve again to take up our former lands and re-
new our dwellings; and orders might be issued by your
Honors that the means towards this end should not be pre-
vented and that I might be shown where I can find the
moneys of my sold houses and lots, which means would
now also be serviceable to me on the Staten Island, and give
courage to my dispersed people, who would gladly return
to their lands, in order to put them in the same good con-
dition as before.
Endorsed in Dutch:
Copy of a letter of Comelis Melyn to the Managers at
Amsterdam, concerning his opinion about the Contract en-
tered into with the Gentlemen.
Endorsed in English:
A copy of a Letter of Cornelius Melyen to ye Committe
& Lords of ye West India Company at Amsterdam com-
plaining of ye evil usage & bad exposition of Govemr Steuy-
vesant relating to ye Agreemt made about ye Title of
Goverm. upon ye Colony of Stat Isld.
[Translated from the Dutch]
Cornelius Melyen at ye desire of the Lords of the West
India company at their chamber in Amsterdam, declares
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the Indians in New-Netherland, & what they receiv’d for ye
payment of it, Sayith that Anno 1640. (at which time ye
aforesd. Lords had granted him License to plant & manure
his sd. Colony of Staten Island) he went to ye late Govemr
Walter Vantwilder (then being at Amsterdam) of whom he
amongst other things Enquired into ye circumstances of ye
purchace of Staten Island of ye Indians, who answered him,
that ye Island was bought & paid for by ye Governr Minne-
wit, who immediately preceded him; He desired him (if he
could) to do him ye kindness of furnishing him with ye rela-
tion thereof in writing, wch (at his request) he did, & gave
him some days after a written Copy taken out of ye purchac’d
deed (or bill of Sale) which shew’d what pay ye Indians
receiv’d for sd, Island, vizt. Some Duffies Kittles, Axes,
Hoes, Wampum, Drilling Awls, Jews Harps, and diverse
other small wares, which were all particularizd, wch Bill of
Sale was signed by diverse Indians & remaind in his custody
intill ye Dunkirkers took him, his Ship, people, Cattle & all
his writings— The Year following arriving in New Nether-
land & being come on Staten Island I (ye sd. Cornelius
Melyen) caused ye Indians to be askt whether they were not
well recompenced by Minnewit for sd. Island, They gave me
for Answer, yt they had sold it to sd. Minnewit & were paid
for it, but that it was their custome, when a New Govemr
came to such a place, that there should be a Gratuity given
them; thereby to continue the friendship between ye Indians
& or nation, which I did to ye great content & Satisfaction of
them all—After this when I took out my Patent from
Gover1 Willm Kieft pursuant to ye grant of ye aforesd.
Lords, I desired that ye Indians might once again be ask’d
if they had yet any pretence to any Right upon Staten Island,
or could pretend to make any, which was done by ye Secre-
tary Cornelius Van Tienhooven, who could speak in ye
Indian Dialect very well, whereupon they answered that they
were well satisfied & well agreed with me, & they (ye sd.
Indians), after that made no pretence till ye year 1649—atMELYN PAPERS
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which time I was in ye mind to go with my wife, children &
people to live upon sd. Island again. The Indians began
then of to speak of buying ye Island again; I then demon-
strated to them ye aforesd. Sale & agreement, which they
acknowledged they knew very well, & that they did not speak
of that, but they supposed that ye Island by reason of ye
war, by killing, burning & driving us off, was become theirs
again, and therefore thought that there must be a newbargain
made, which I wholly refused them & would neither give, nor
promise them any thing saying unto them, that which is sold,
must remain sold & that ye Dutch will not pay twice for any
thing, which they have once bought, but if they will once more
have a small gift gratis to maintain good friendship as had
been done before I would give it them, whereunto (after
mature deliberation among themselves) they resolved; where-
upon I gave them amongst them all two Coats of Duffles con-
taining Six Ells four fathom of wampum, 5, or 6, little kittles,
some awls & needles wherewith they were all well satisfied &
cryed unanimously (Keene, Keene, Keene orit nietap) i.e.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Good friend, and they
were very well satisfied until Lubbert Vant Dincklagen began
to speak with ye Indians of buying Staten Island again of
them, who did it on purpose to find occasion to write to ye
Lord Capell to try whether under that Covert he might bring
about ye getting of some goods of ye sd. Lord into his hands
to dispose thereof for himself & to give little thereof to ye
Indians for there is indeed nothing at all due to them for
by such means ye Indians would be induced often to make
outrages, that they might ev’ry now & then be paid again &
not only to play such Prancks upon Staten Island, but throout
all New Netherland, where the Lords of ye West India Com-
pany’s Governmt. extendeth. I trust therefore that ye
honour’d Lords will not approve (or allow) of such bargains,
in order to ye preventing more mischiefs.
This is as much as I can write of Testifie of this matter
This done at Amsterdam ye 30th of Janry 1659—by me—126
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Staten Island is bought for ye use & acct of ye Honble Lords
of ye West India Company Augst ye 10. Anno 1630 by their
Ministers.
Wieromies
As appeares by ye Records of ye date abovesd.
Appeared before me William Bogardus Notary Publick in
New-York, admitted by ye Honble Francis Lovelace by his
Royal highness James Duke of York & Albany etc. Governr
General of all his Territories in America & before ye after-
named Witnesses; Yochem Beekman, aged about 49 years, &
Thomas Koninck aged about 55 years both inhabitants of
this City at ye request of Mr. Jacob Melyen, who verbally
inste’d of a Solemn Oath attest & declare, that now about 30
years since according to their best remembrance being in
service of ye West India Company as Souldiers, were present
upon Staten Island when ye former Sachems & owners of
Staten Island aforesd. had some difference wth sd. Melyens
Father Cornelius Melyen about ye free hunting upon ye
aforesd. Island, which ye sd. Cornelius Melyen, conceives
that they parted with their right of at their Sale, & after some
debates more ye sd Jacob Melyen’s Father referred it to
Nicho8 Kartenz Noorman, who was interpreter, when ye Sale
of ye aforemention’d Isld. was made, & would make it appear
by him, wherewith ye Indians were satisfied, whereupon ye
aforesd. Nicho: Kartenz by sd. Jacob Melyen’s Father was
sent for to come to sd. Staten Island, & ye aforesd. Sachems
& owners were thereupon assembled together, again, where-
Peter Minnewit
Peter Byleveldt
Jacob Elberts Wissingh
John Lampo
Reynier Harmenss:
Symon Derksen Pos.
of ye following Indians
Krahorat
Tamekap
Tetemackwemama
Piearewach
Sackwewah
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upon ye aforesd. Nicho:s Kartenz (by sd. Jacob Melyen’s
Father’s desire) related unto them what pay they had re-
ceived for that & for ye aforesd. Island, Vizt. Some Duffles,
Blanckets, Axes, Kittles, Wampum—Wherewith ye Indians
were convinced, who then declared that they could not well
be without the Liberty of Hunting & desired Earnestly to
agree with ye sd. Melyens Father, what they shall yearly
contribute to him for it; whereupon then was agreed that they
should yearly contribute to him for it; whereupon then was
agreed that they should yearly contribute & deliver Tenn or
Twelve Deer & some Turkeys not remembring the Just
Quantity, & ye Deponts further declare that they were pre-
sent & did so that some Deer for ye fulfilling ye promised
contribution were deliver’d to ye aforesd. Melyen’s Father;
concluding herewith their Deposition & are ready in case of
need & desired to confirm it by Oath. This done at NewYork
upon Manhatans Island in prsence of Henry Williams, Baker,
& Adolph Pieters, Carpenter as witnesses hereunto desired
who have signed unto these prsents wth me Notary Pubck
underwritten June 27. Anno 1672 -
Agreeth wth ye Original, wch
Testifieth
W Bogardus Notay Pubck
Endorsed: Several Testimonies & writings relating to ye
Purchace of Staten Island
Extract from the Register of the Resolutions of the Hon.
Heer Director General and Councillors of New Nether-
land, adopted in their Assembly on Monday May
23, 1661.
Invited to be present at the meeting, and standing inside,
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by the Hon. Heeren Managers and the said Melyn in date of
June 13, 1659, in regard to Staten Island, said Melyn was
asked whether he had in his possession any papers and docu-
ments regarding said Island, and whether he was prepared
in conformity with said contract, to deliver the same to the
Director General and Councillors, and further to convey said
Island in behalf of the privileged West India Company at the
Chamber of Amsterdam, excepting the lands, houses and lots
he is occupying or may be able to occupy as per the said
contract.
Whereto it was answered in substance by the said Comelis
Melyn that he was ready to hand to the Director General &
Council the papers and documents concerning the same, in
his possession, which he has also immediately done, delivering
the papers specified below, declaring to have no others con-
cerning the said island; in regard to the transfer and convey-
ance of the said island in behalf of the Hon. Priv. West India
Company (excepting the lands, houses and lots he is occupy-
ing there etc.) said this had never been his opinion, but only
that he should grant, convey, cede and transfer all the power,
authority, rights, jurisdiction, preeminence, prerogatives, etc.
belonging to him in his quality as patroon of the said island;
requested on the contrary since he had now surrendered the
deed granted to him for said island by the deceased Heer
Kieft, that he should again be granted a new deed for the
ownership of the said island.
It was answered if it had been the intention that he should
remain possessed of the said entire island why it should have
been necessary to stipulate that for himself and his heirs he
shall hold and retain as a free allodial possession the lands,
houses and lots owned and up to now occupied by him, and
which he may yet be able to acquire etc.; and further if the
entire island belongs to him, what, then, the Heeren Man-
agers have bought of the heirs of the Lord Van Capelle, who
have now also conveyed their right to the Hon. Company?
In regard to which said Cornelius Melyn acknowledgedMELYN PAPERS
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having ceded and vacated one third of the said island to the
Lord Capelle, but that he even yet had large claims against
the same; in regard to the two remaining thirds, it had not
been his opinion—as expressed before—to renounce his
ownership; but that it would be well to enquire how the Hon.
Heeren Managers understand the same.
Said Melyn was also informed that he had been charged
for his own passage and for that of the servants taken with
him, just like others, carried over at the expense of the Com-
pany, because it is stipulated in the said Contract that he
shall be conveyed with his family at the expense of the Com-
pany, as is at present customary: which means that the ad-
vanced passage money be here refunded. Said Melyn main-
tains, that it is his opinion and was also the opinion of the
Hon. Heeren Managers that he and his people were to be
carried over absolutely free of charge, without repaying the
advanced moneys; also because he was granted freedom of
tolls on a thousand guilders principal, and not having taken
with him so large a principal (capital) from Holland he would
be permitted to deduct the balance here in paying duties or
tolls.
After divers debates for and against it was resolved to
send a copy of the present to the Hon. Heeren Managers and
not to proceed with this business, until we shall have received
further explanation regarding said contract of said Heeren
Managers.
Acted on the date written above.
The papers surrendered by Mr. Comelis Melyn concern-
ing Staten Island are as follows:
A petition of Cornelis Melyn to the Hon. Heeren Man-
agers, and disposition on the same, by which he is permitted
to found a colony on Staten Island and he is acknowledged as
Patroon, dated July 3,1640.
A further petition of said Melyn to the Heeren Managers
dated Feb. 18,1641, presented after he had been taken by the130
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Duynkerckers, requesting leave to depart with wife, children,
servants and some cattle in Company’s ships for New Nether-
land.
Two extracts of the resolution of the Hon. Heeren Man-
agers dated 18th and 25th February, 1641, by which the afore
said consent is renewed.
A groundbrief being the conveyance of Staten Island to
Cornelis Melyn granted in consequence of the consent men-
tioned above, signed by the Heer General Willem Keift,
dated June 19, 1642.
Agrees with the aforesaid Register,
C. V. Ruyven, Secretary.
Endorsed In the margin in English:
Govr Steuyvesant in Council, his Evil construction of ye
agreemt of ye West India Company & Melyen.
[Translated from the Dutch]
Extract from a Letter of the Hon. Heeren, Managers to the
Messrs. Director and Councillors of New Netherland,
dated Jan. 27, 1662.
Concerning the contention of Cornelis Melyn, that he
surely did sell and deliver to the Company the title and the
right of patroonship of the Staten Island, but not the lands
themselves, we can not observe that the same can be deduced
from the contract entered into with him concerning the same,
but assured by the opposite, as there is entered, as your
Honors have justly remarked and argued against him, that
from now on, as free colonist and inhabitant, he shall have
and hold for himself and his descendants as a free, allodial
possesion the lands, houses and lots he has in said colonyMELYN PAPERS
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and has occupied hitherto and which he shall yet be able to
occupy. Ergo not the remaining lands which are laying
fallow and uncultivated, so that the same neither can or
must be permitted to be questioned.
Agrees with the Letter mentioned above,
C. V. Ruyven.
Endorsed in Dutch:
Copy of a letter of the West India Company concerning
the Staten Island.
Endorsed in English:
A Copy of a Letter of ye West India Company, wherein
they Justifie Steuyvesant’s evil Construction.
[Translated from the Dutch]
June ye 4th 1668
Upon the Petition & Request of Mr Jacob Melyen That
his Fathers interest may be taken into consideration, upon ye
settlement of Staten Island, The Governor ordered it to be
Entered upon Record that Care should then be had of him,
so farr, as that he shall be allotted a Convenient proportion
of Land upon ye said Island, In lieu of what was reserved
by his Father, & promised him by ye West India Company.
Extracted out of ye Records in ye
Office at Fort James in New
Yorke.
Matthias Nicolls, Secry
Endorsed: A Copy of a Record of or Interest upon Staten
Island ordered by Govr Richard Nickolls, being ye first
English Goverr132
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To the Hon. Very Respectable Lord Anthony Colve,
Governor General and the Lords High Councillors of
New Netherland.
Makes known with respectful humility Jacob Melyen,
that his deceased father has been proprietor of the Staten
Island and has inhabitated and possessed the same for many
years, until he was surprised by a general war with the sav-
ages, many of his children and farmers murdered, their houses
and goods burned and destroyed, on account of which great
damage and ruin, and also owing to the temporary danger of
the savages, he was forced to suffer the said island during
some time to remain uninhabitated. Some little time after-
ward he went to Amsterdam and there entered with the Hon.
Heeren of the West India Company into a contract, con-
cerning the Patroonship and jurisdiction of the said Island,
provided he retained to himself, his heirs and successors all
his lands, according to the letter of the said contract, of which
right your Honors’ petitioner’s deceased father and his heirs
have been deprived, partly owing to lack of means, sickness
and death of your Honors’ petitioner’s deceased father,
partly owing to the scattered residences, smallness of means
and immaturity of years and understanding of his heirs, and
also partly owing to various changes of government. How-
ever your Honors’ petitioner having made known his right
to the aforesaid, to the first English Governor Colonel
Nicholls, the latter, before his departure, consented—and
had registered by his secretary in the minute book—that a
considerable tract of land should be surveyed for the heirs of
said Melyen. The last acting governor, Louies (Lovelace)
also several times promised Your Honors’ petitioner to permit
him to retain and enjoy the same. And about 8 or 10 days
before his departure for Hartf ort he promised with many words
that if God favored him he would have measured for and con-
firmed to Your Honors’ petitioner and friends a parcel of
land, situated between two branches of the Millriver, as alsoMELYN PAPERS
133
the point to the West of the mill, stretching toward the
Schoetters Island, which point of land he, Governor Lovles,
said he had intended to grant to his brother Thomas Lovles,
but desiring to make a reality our long deferred hope, he
would accommodate him [his brother] elsewhere. And
whereas I now understand of Thomas Lovles, that he peti-
tions You, Hon. Very Respectable, to be granted land there,
and thus absolutely to deprive my aged mother and her
children of all hope ever to receive anything any more of our
father’s inheritance, the island having been almost entirely
apportioned to various individuals.
In consideration of the great expenses and miseries
suffered and experienced on the island, therefore I find it my
duty, in behalf of myself, wife and children, as well as my
brothers and sisters and their children, to pray You Hon.
Very Resp., very seriously and humbly that you be pleased
to deny him Thomas Lovles his desire to obtain any land
there, but that you Hon. Very Resp. be pleased to confirm the
petitioner and friends in their right, that being delivered
through your Hon. Very Resp.’s authority from the English
nation, they may again live together in our calling, under our
natural Authorities. In expectation of Your Hon. Very
Resp’s favorable answer, remain Your Hon. Very Resp’s
subject and servant,
Jacob Melyen
New Orange 1674, April 12/2
In the margin of the above petition was written in Dutch:
Fort Wm Hendr, Apr. 18,1674.
The petitioners within fourteen days from date must
produce whatever claim they have on any land on Staten
Island, or at least on the land granted to Thomas Lovelace.
Dated as above.134
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By order of the Hon. Heer Governor General and
Councillors of New Netherland. N. Bayard, Secretary.
Endorsed in English:
A petition to the Dutch govr Anthony Colve and his
Consill:
Nickols Bayard, Sekretary.
In New Orange 1674: Apr 12/2
[Translated from the Dutch]
Extract from the Register of the Minutes of
the Hon. Ld Governor General and Councillors
of New Netherland, held in Fort Willem Hendrick,
on October 12, 1674.
Received and read the petition of the children and heirs
of the deceased Cornells Melyn, assisted by the guardians
of the absent heirs of the said estate, and besides the same
delivering—in accordance with the order of 18 April last—
the documents in proof of their right to Staten Island; re-
questing that, in consideration of the same, they may be
shown and granted in ownership a parcel of woodland
situated on Staten Island between the two branches of the
mill creek, with the point to the West of the said Mill,
stretching beyond Schutter’s Island to a certain fresh river,
running into the country, mth the valleys bounding on the
same; calculating the same to be about a farm for each child;
offering at the same time to renounce any further claims
thay may have had on the said land; which petition havingMELYN PAPERS
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been taken into consideration the Lord Governor & Coun-
cillors (after having examined the produced documents)
render the following decision:
The petitioners are granted for each child of the de-
ceased Comelis Melyn, on the said land, a farm of thirty
morgen [about 60 acres] amounting for the five children
together to one hundred and fifty morgens, provided none
of said lands, prior to this date have been granted [to others]
and that thay shall be cultivated by the petitioners as per
the orders of the government; In regard to the petitioners
further request concerning said parcels of land, they are per-
mitted to have the same measured by the sworn surveyor
and further disposition shall be made after receipt of his
report.
Agrees with the said Register,
N. Bayard, Secretary.
Endorsed in English: A Grant of ye Dutch Govorr
Anthy Culve. In answer to ye Petition of Jacob Melyen
whereby he grants 5 Farms with Medows sutable & comon-
ages for ye same.
[Translated from the Dutch]
At a Council held at Fortt James in New Yorke the 22d Day
of May 1684.
Present
The Governor. &c.
The Petition of Jacob Meleyne in behalfe of himselfe
his Brother and three Sisters for a Confirmation of their
Pretended Right to Land on Staten Island being Read was
Rejected the land being allready Pattented & Possessed136
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however the Governor said if he could show them any
other Kindness he would willingly do it.
By order In Council
J. Spragg Secry.
Endorsed: The governor’s answer to the petition Re-
lating Staten Island ye Gouvr Thomas Dunghon Pr Secre-
tary Sprage.
To his Excey Richard Earl of Bellomont,
Capt. General & Governor in Chief of his Majties
Provinces of the Massachusetts Bay, New York,
&c and of the Territories thereon depending and
Vice Admiral of the same.
The humble Petition of Jacob Melyen,
most humbly sheweth
That yor Petitioners Father Cornelius Melyen by ver-
tue of a Grant from the West India Company of Holland
bearing date the Third of July 1640; was Governr & Pro-
prietr of Staten Island in the Province of New York & was
confirmed in the Govemmt and Propriety thereof by Governr
Kieft by a Patent bearing date the 19th of June 1642 and was
in the quiet Possession & Enjoyment of the Governmt and
Soyle of the sd Island as his rightfull inheritance, until he
with his people [were] driven from thence by the Indians in
the year 1643; and he was after that resettled thereon with
diverse families, his servants, until another quarril was
made at New-Amsterdam (now New York) with the Indians,
Anno 1655 & were then cutt off upon Staten Island, having
about twenty psons slain, who were of sd Melyen’s Children,
Nephews, Servants & Tenants. The Town consisting ofMELYN PAPERS
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about forty houses, which were burnt, & the Goods made
plunder off, & yor petitioners sd father & mother & two sons
with all those that survived were taken into a barbarous
Captivity by the heathen; Yor Excellcy’s Petitir was one
of the Sons who was much wounded, but recovered not
wthout great difficulty. That his sd Father Cornelius
Melyen upon some considerations did afterwards, vzt
June 13, 1659, Resign his Right of Governmt back to the
sd. West India Company of Holland upon sundry conditions,
which were not all by then observed; But he never alienated
or sold his Right to the Lands of the sd. Island or any part
of his Estate there; but expressly reserved the same to him-
self And His heirs &c for ever as may appear by the sd
agreement between the sd. West India Company & his sd
Father, bearing date the 13th Day of June 1659, and that
upon the Delivery of the Govemt of New York to the
English, One of the Articles of Agreement between the
English & Dutch Commissioners expressly confirms unto all
the Dutch Inhabitants, that continued there their freedome
as Denizens and the Enjoyment of their Estates as before;
Yet he the sd Jacob Melyen hath been ever since by fraud
& Injustice denyed and hindred from the Enjoyment of his
sd. Father’s Inheritance he being the Rightfull heir, & this
notwithstanding he hath made applica” to ev’ry Governr
that hath been sent thither by the Kings of England, by
which means he hath suffered much Damage; All which
will plainly appear to be true by the Records of New
York, Copies of which have hitherto been denyed the Sup-
plicant.
Yor Petitior therefore being well assured of yor Excellcys
great regard to Impartial Justice most humbly Prays that
Yor Excellcy will take his case into Yor serious Considera“
and permit him to take out of the Records copies of such
Instruments & Papers as are necessary to prove ye Truth
of what he hath before sett forth in order toYor Lordship’s
more full Satisfac11 That Yor Petitir hath a Right to the Soyle138
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of the sd Island & that he may be better enabled to possess
himself of the same.
And Yor Petitir as in Duty bound will
ever pray etc.
Endorsed: Jacob Melyen’s Petition to his Excellcy
Richard Earl of Bellomont etc.
Boston. Novembr 30th. 1698 [or 99]
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277.	Walter R. T. Jones__
278.	Claudius L. Monell__
279.	Byam K. Stevens, Jr. ..
280.	Francis Many........
281.	Henry M. Taber......
282.	T. M. Peters........
283.	John B. Cornell.....
284.	Solomon Alofsen.....
285.	Same................
286.	Robert B. Minturn, Jr.
287.	George Tugnot.......
288.	Rufus S. Bergen.............Greenpoint, N. Y.
289.	Benjamin W. Bonney..........New York City.
290.	Benjamin W. Bonney, Jr......	“
291.	John S. H. Fogg.............Boston, Mass.
292.	John H. Wright............... “
293.	William Wood.................New York City.
294.	Francis G. Van Woert.
295.	Alexander T. Stewart
296.	John B. Cronin....
297.	George D. Morgan—
298.	Homer Tilton......
299.	Samuel Frost......
300.	Same..............
301.	James H. Pinkney..
302.	William T. Pinkney. ..
303.	Charles H. Phillips. ..
304.	James Eager.......
305.	William Underhill—150
SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND
SHARE
306.	John D. Clute......
307.	Abraham B. Emburt. ..
308.	Charles L. Richards...
309.	William Beard......
310.	James H. Welles....
311.	John Gallier.......
312.	Charles Le Boutillier.
313.	Thomas Le Boutillier.
314.	John G. Lamberson—
315.	Russell C. Root....
316.	Clarkson Crolius...
317.	William Murphy.....
318.	Daniel T. Willets--
319.	Charles Gould......
320.	John B. Bartlett...
321.	Mathias Clark......
322.	Robert M. Roberts. ...
323.	Jas. Hasbrouck Sahler
324.	Frederic DePeyster...
325.	Same...............
326.	Same.................
327.	John J. Latting....
328.	David Buffum.......
329.	F. H. Parker.......
330.	George W. Thompson..
331.	Thomas F. Youngs...
332.	Oliver G. Barton...
333.	Abram E. Cutter....
334.	William E. Lewis...
335.	John H. Johnston...
336.	William B. Clerke—
337.	John C. Connor.....
338.	Henry T. Morgan....
339.	Abram A. Leggett...
340.	James Davett.......
341.	Erastus S. Brown...
342.	Asher Taylor.......
343.	Edward Bill......
New York City.
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New York City.
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151
SHARE
344.	William H. Tuthill. ..
345.	Henry S. Terbell...
346.	George W. Abbe.....
347.	Sidney Mason.......
348.	Charles Shields....
349.	George B. Dorr.....
350.	Gardiner Pike......
351.	John C. Beatty.....
352.	Lora B. Bacon......
353.	Charles H. Ludington
354.	James Brown........
355.	Charles O’Conor....
356.	Charles B. Collins—
357.	John H. Wright.....
358.	Wm. S Constant.....
359.	Geo. W. Wales......
360.	John L. Deen.......
361.	T. Matlack Cheesman.
362.	Maximillian Rader—
363.	J. Hobart Herrick--
364.	Louis P. Griffith..
365.	Barrow Benrimo.....
366.	Edward F. DeLancey.
367.	Samuel L. Breese...
368.	D. Henry Haight....
369.	John Adriance......
370.	Same...............
371.	Joseph W. Alsop....
372.	Henry Chauncey.....
373.	Frederick Chauncey..
374.	William Habirshaw—
375.	Henry A. Heiser....
376.	William H. Jackson. ..
377.	Elijah T. Brown....
378.	Henry K. Bogert....
379.	Addison Brown......
380.	Ernest Fiedler.....
381.	J. Watts DePeyster...
Tipton, Cedar Co., Ia.
New York City.
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New York City.
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SHARE
382.	William Remsen.......
383.	Walter M. Underhill...
384.	Samuel W. Francis....
385.	George Livermore.....
386.	Same.................
387.	Same.................
388.	Same.................
389.	John F. Gray.........
390.	Henry G. Griffen.....
391.	Thomas S. Berry......
392.	Calvin Durand........
393.	Robert B. Minturn....
394.	F. A. P. Barnard.....
395.	William Bryce........
396.	James Bryce..........
397.	Augustus Belknap.....
398.	Andrew Wilson........
399.	William J. Van Duser. ..
400.	John C. Havemeyer....
401.	John T. Agnew........
402.	Same...............
403.	Charles E. Beebe.....
404.	Nathaniel W. Chater...
405.	George C. Collins....
406.	William H. Goodwin...
407.	Charles G. Harmer....
408.	William Hegeman......
409.	Peter V. King........
410.	George W. Lane.......
411.	Louis F. Therasson...
412.	Henry F. Sew all.....
413.	Elizabeth Clarkson Jay,
414.	William E. Dodge.....
415.	William E. Dodge, Jr. ..
416.	George W. Robins.....
417.	John D. Locke........
418.	John McKesson........
419.	Richard M. Hoe.......
New York City.
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420.	Robert Hoe.................
421.	Peter S. Hoe...............
422.	Augustus W. Payne..........
423.	William Oothout............
424.	Edward Oothout.............
425.	Edward P. Hopkins..........
426.	David E. Wheeler...........
427.	John H. Sprague............
428.	Theodore Van Norden........
429.	George De Heart Gillespie. ...
430.	Benjamin G. Arnold.........
431.	Coridon A. Alvord..........
432.	Same.......................
433.	Same.......................
434.	Same.....................
435.	J. Otis Ward...............
436.	James Lenox................
437.	Same.......................
438.	Jabez E. Munsell...........
439.	Arnold C. Hawes............
440.	Jacob W. Fester............
441.	Daniel Spring..............
442.	John C. Green..............
443.	David L. Holden............
444.	Joseph W. Patterson........
445.	Gordon W. Burnham..........
446.	Samuel Wilde, Jr...........
447.	William B. Taylor, Jr......
448.	William V. Brady...........
449.	Oliver Hoyt................
450.	Charles W. Lecour..........
451.	John H. Swift..............
452.	Hugh N. Camp...............
453.	W. Woolsey Wright..........
454.	Jed Frye...................
455.	Henry Owen.................
456.	William A. Young...........
457.	John Buckley, Jr...........
New York City.
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New York City.
153154
SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND
SHARE
458.	D. Randolph Martin............New York City.
459.	Samuel	L. M. Barlow............... “
460.	E. W. Ryerson...................... “
461.	Samuel	Shethar.................... “
462.	Geo. Brinley..................Hartford, Conn.
463.	Augustus F. Smith.............New York City.
464.	William H. Hurlbut............ “
465.	Henry A. Hurlbut, Jr.......... “
466.	Sophie H. Scott (Mrs. Bolton
Hall)......................
467.	The N.	Y. Society	Library....	“
468.	Thomas	K. Marcy................... “
469.	Jas. Y. Smith.................Providence, R. I.
470.	Wm. B. Bolles.................Astoria, N. Y.
471.	Gouv. Morris Wilkins..........New York City.
472.	James T. Fields...............Boston, Mass.
473.	Horace P. Biddle..............Logansport, Ind.
474.	A. L. Roache..................Indianapolis, Ind.
475.	Eliza S. Quincy...............Quincy, Mass.
476.	Alfred Brookes................New York City.
477.	Henry Youngs, Jr..............Goshen,	N.	Y.
478.	Jeremiah Loder..................... “
479.	Thomas H. Armstrong................ “
480.	William C. Bryant.................. “
481.	Matthew P. Read.................... “
482.	Manning M. Knapp..............Hackensack, N. J.
483.	Lockwood L. Doty..............Albany, N. Y.
484.	Walter L. Newberry........... .Chicago, 111.
485.	Hamilton Fish.................New York City.
486.	Wm. B. Towne..................Boston, Mass.
487.	Same..........................
488.	Same............................... “
489.	Same............................... “
490.	Sidney W. Dibble..............New York City.
491.	Charles J. Seymour............Binghamton, N. Y.
492.	D. A. McKnight................Pittsburg, Pa.
493.	Chas. H. Housman..............New York City.
494.	James M. Chichester........... “SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND
155
SHARE
495.	William W. Greene..........New York City.
496.	Francis	F. Dorr.................. “
497.	Charles	W. Whitney............... “
498.	Robert D.	Hart................... “
499.	George H.	Mathews ............... “
500.	Thomas Addis Emmet............... “
501.	Andrew	J. Smith................. “
502.	William	D. Maxwell............... “
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503.	Charles A. Macy, Jr........ “
504.	Thomas W.	Field.................. “
505.	Charles Gorham Barney.......Richmond, Va.
506.	Benj. B. Atterbury.........New York City.
507.	Richard W. Roche.... .
508.	Thomas H. Morrell...
509.	Smith Barker...
510.	Everardus B. Warner
511.	Augustus T. Francis..
512.	Wm. A. Slingerland. ..
513.	Riley A. Brick. ...
514.	Same...............
515.	Walter M. Smith....
516.	Henry Elsworth.....
517.	John Hecker........
518.	Warren Ward........
519.	Charles G. Judson__
520.	J. Meredith Read, Jr.......Albany, N. Y.
521.	John H. Van Antwerp............. “
522.	Wm. M. Van Wagenen.............. u
523.	Wm. T. Ryerson.............New York City.
524.	Edwin Hoyt...................... “
525.	John Van Nest. ................. “
526.	Clinton Gilbert................. “
527.	J. Carson Brevoort.........Brooklyn, N. Y.
528.	Same............................ “
529.	Isaac D. Russell...........New York City.
530.	Henry Oothout................... “
531.	Alexander P. Irvin.............. “
532.	Beriah Palmer..................  “156
SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND
SHARE
533.	Robert Schell........
534.	Alfred T. Ackert.....
535.	John H. Watson.......
536.	Abraham Baldwin......
537.	Ezra A. Hoyt.........
538.	William G. Lambert...
539.	Charles S. Smith.....
540.	Charles A. Macy......
541.	Samuel Raynor......
542.	Lucius Tuckerman.....
543.	William Betts........
544.	William K. Strong....
545.	John D. Jones........
546.	Same.................
547.	Thomas C. Doremus....
548.	Rudolph A. Witthaus, Jr
549.	F. W. Macy...........
550.	J. N. Ireland........
551.	William Montross.....
552.	Samuel R. Mabbatt....
553.	Jacob S. Wetmore.....
554.	Marvelle W. Cooper...
555.	Abraham M. Cozzens...
556.	Jacob Van Wagenen....
557.	John H. Riker........
558.	Wm. Alexander Smith..
559.	George Dixon, Jr.....
560.	Hamilton Odell.......
561.	Charles B. Richardson. ..
562.	Horatio Nichols......
563.	George T. Hall.......
564.	Henry A. Burr........
565.	Franklin H. Delano...
566.	James M. Deuel.......
567.	Richard Iryin, Jr....
568.	Dudley B. Fuller.....
569.	Henry A. Smythe......
570.	Josiah S. Leverett...
New York City.
Rhinebeck, N. Y
New York City.
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571.	J. S. Davenport.......
572.	Bronson Peck........
573.	William A. Allen....
574.	William Dowd........
575.	David L. Baker......
576.	John G. Shea........
577.	Clarkson N. Potter..
578.	David D. Field......
579.	William H. Appleton_
580.	Samuel J. Tilden....
581.	James W. Gerard.....
582.	Timothy G. Churchill...
583.	Parker Handy........
584.	Nathaniel Hayden....
585.	John G. Holbrooke...
586.	Robert H. McCurdy—
587.	Rush C. Hawkins.....
588.	L. M. Ferris, Jr....
589.	Theodore Roosevelt..
590.	J. Butler Wright....
591.	George Palen........
592.	George Griswold.....
593.	0. D. Munn..........
594.	Frank Moore.........
595.	William H. Lee......
596.	H. P. Crozier.......
597.	Henry E. Clark......
598.	Jackson S. Schultz..
599.	John Carter Brown---
600.	John Carter Brown, 2d
601.	Peleg Hall..........
602.	Charles L. Anthony__
603.	George W. Hall......
604.	J. T. Leavitt.......
605.	Joseph Howland......
606.	John W. Munro.......
607.	Parker Handy........
608.	Same................
Boston, Mass.
New York City.
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New York City.
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SHARE
609. Same.........................New York City.
610.	George Griswold......
611.	Willard Parker.......
612.	Alexander W. Bradford
613.	Benjamin L. Benson...
614.	Edward Schell........
615.	A. B. Kellogg........
616.	Joseph O. Brown......
617.	E. B. Oakley.........
618.	Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr_
619.	David S. Duncomb.....
620.	Augustus K. Gardner. ..
621.	L. Bayard Smith............. “
622.	Louis de V. Wilder.......... “
623.	William E. Bird............. “
624.	Franklin B. Hough...........Lowville, N. Y.
625.	Thomas P. Rowe..............New York City.
626.	Samuel Osgood...
627.	Charles A. Meigs.
628.	Edward H. Purdy.
629.	Joseph F. Joy..
630.	Hezekiah King__
631.	Horace W. Fuller
632.	William H. Post...
633.	Edward D. Butler
634. Henry B. Dawson.............Morrisania, N. Y.
635. Almon W. Griswold...........New York City.
636.	S. Townsend Cannon................ “
637.	Theodore M. Barnes................ “
638.	Joel Munsell................Albany, N. Y.
639.	Same........................ “
640.	Thomas A. Bishop............New York City.
641.	Same........................
642.	Nicholas F. Palmer................ “
643.	J. L. Leonard. ............Lowville,	N.	Y.
644.	David C. Halstead...........New York City.
645.	Thomas Morton	“
646.	J. F. Sheafe
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SHARE
647.	Henry A. Bostwick.....
648.	Hiram D. Dater........
649.	George H. Williams....
650.	Aug. W. Reynolds......
651.	Silvanus J. Macy......
652.	Henry J. Scudder......
653.	N. W. Stuyvesant Catlin.
654.	H. Tracy Arnold.......
655.	Benjamin R. Winthrop....
656.	Same..................
657.	Benj. R. Winthrop, Jr—
658.	Egerton L. Winthrop...
659.	Franklin Edson........
660.	Robert C. Melvain.....
661.	Archibald Russell.....
662.	William I. Paulding...
663.	John Romeyn Brodhead...
664.	John L. Kennin........
665.	James Stokes, Jr......
666.	John A. Russell.......
667.	E. M. Wright..........
668.	Everardus Warner......
669.	Everardus B. Warner___
670.	John C. Hewitt........
671.	Peter Stryker........
672.	Wilson M. Powell....
673.	Samuel H. Brown.......
674.	Ellsworth Eliot.......
675.	John T. Klots.........
676.	Charles H. Dummer.....
677.	Henry D. Bulkley......
678.	J. K. Hamilton Willcox..
679.	Appleton Sturgis......
680.	William T. Salter.....
681.	William Rockwell......
682.	E. H. Janes...........
683.	Thomas B. Newby.......
684.	Louis de V. Wilder....
New York City.
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685. Same.........................New York City.
686.	Samuel Coulter................. “
687.	Ralph Clarke................... “
688.	Thomas F. De Voe............... “
689.	John Groshon................... “
690.	S. L. Boardman...........Augusta,	Me.
691.	Charles J. Folsom.........New York City.
692.	George Folsom.................. “
693.	Everardus Warner............... “
694.	George C. Eyland............... “
695.	C. F. Hardon..............
696.	Franklin Wiley...............   “
697.	Alexander Wiley................ “
698.	John W. Scott...............Astoria, N. Y.
699.	Edward Anthony..............New York City.
700.	Chauncey P. Smith...........Wolcott, N. Y.
701.	Henry Camerden, Jr..........New York City.
702. George Bancroft............. “
703. Abraham R. Warner........... “
704.	James W. Purdy..............Suffem, N. Y.
705.	Chas. Congdon...............Brooklyn, N. Y.
706.	Long Island Historical So-
ciety. .....................
707.	Brooklyn Mercantile Library
Association (now Brooklyn
Library)
708.	New Bedford Free Library...New Bedford, Mass.
709.	John David Wolfe...........New York City.
710.	Catherine L. Wolfe......... “
711.	George W. Cook............... “
712.	James L. Woodward.......... “
713.	William Frederick Poole....Boston, Mass.
714.	Benjamin H. Field..........New York City.
715.	CORTLANDT DePeYSTER FlELD___	“
716.	John Fitch........................ “
717.	Same.............................. “
718.	F. Augustus	Wood................. “
719.	John H. Dillingham..........Haverford College, Pa.SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND
161
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720.	F. Augustus Wood......
721.	Charles A. Peabody----
722.	Edwin F. Corey, Jr—
723.	John G. Lamberson.....
724.	Same..................
725.	John E. Parsons.......
726.	Gratz Nathan..........
727.	Bemjamin F. De Costa.
728.	Henry C. Potter.......
729.	Henry Nicoll..........
730.	George E. Moore.......
731.	John F. Trow..........
732.	Same..................
733.	Same..................
734.	Same..................
735.	Same..................
736.	Same..................
737.	Same..................
738.	Same..................
739.	Same..................
740.	Same..................
741.	George H. Moore.......
742.	Same..................
743.	Same..................
744.	Same..................
745.	Same..................
746.	Same..................
747.	Same..................
748.	Same..................
749.	Same..................
750.	Same..................
751.	William J. Hoppin.....
752.	James W. Beekman......
753.	Joseph F. Loubat......
754.	Carlisle Norwood, Jr..
755.	James Havemeyer.......
756.	The Peabody Institute
757.	T. Harrison Garrett. ..
New York City.
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SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND
SHARE
758.	The Librart of the University
of Toronto.................Toronto,	Canada.
759.	Francis Baker.................New York City.
760.	Goldsborough Banyer................ “
761.	David Gardiner	Thompson.......	“
762.	Charles H. Winfield...........Jersey City, N. J.
763.	Maturin L. Delafield..........New York City.
764.	William Libbey..................... “
765.	Same..........................
766.	Same..........................
767.	Same..........................
768.	Same..........................
769.	Same..........................
770.	Same..........................
771.	Same..........................
772.	Same..........................
773.	Same..........................
774.	New York Public Library.......	“
775.	Elihu Chauncey...................... “
776.	Library Co. of Phila..........Philadelphia, Pa.
777. Cornell University............Ithaca, N. Y.
778.	John A. Weekes................New York City.
779.	John Jay...........................    “
780.	Henry W. Bookstaver................. “
781.	David Williams...................... “
782.	William H. Webb...............Tarrytown, N. Y.
783.	John A. King..................New York City.
784.	Banyer Clarkson..................... “
785.	Amos F. Eno......................... “
786.	Frederick F. Thompson............... “
787.	Henry Keteltas...................... “
788.	William D. Sloane................... “
789.	Robert R. Willets................... “
790. Williams College..............Williamstown, Mass.
791.	Henry L. Morris...............New York City.
792.	Richard S. Ely................Washington, D. C.
793.	William S. Sloan..............New York City.
794.	John H. V. Arnold............. “SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND
163
SHARE
795.	Henry W. Poor..............New York City.
796.	John H. Abeel................... “
797.	J. Muhlenberg Bailey............ “
798.	William O. Wheeler.........Sharon, Conn.
799.	Frederic W. Jackson........New York City.
800.	Jacob Wendell................... “
801.	Henry J. Willing..........Chicago,	111.
802.	Charles T. Harbeck.........New York City.
803.	Society of Colonial Dames of
the State of N. Y.......... “
804.	Harry D. Spears................... “
805.	Rev. Eugene A. Hoffman.......	“
806.	Gherardi Davis.................... “
807.	Ansonia Library.............Ansonia,	Conn.
808.	Theodore F. Jackson..........New York City.
809.	The University Club.......... “
810.	King Library.................Andalusia, Pa.
811.	Thomas Reed, Jr..............Rhinebeck, N. Y.
812.	Stuyvesant Fish..............New York City.
813.	William F. Wyckoff...........Brooklyn, N. Y.
814.	Alexander M. Welch...........New York City.
815.	Henry H. Cook..................... “
816.	Orrando Perry Dexter.............. “
817.	Charles A. Sherman................ “
818. Newburgh Free Library........Newburgh, N. Y.
819. David F. Davids..............New Rochelle, N. Y.
820.	Mrs. Adelaide R. Kenny.......Batavia, N. Y.
821.	U. S. Service and Staff CoLLEGE.Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
822.	New York Athletic Club_______New York City.
823.	General Society of Mechanics
and Tradesmen of the City of
N. Y........................
824.	Samuel V. Hoffman............ “
825.	Suffolk County Historical So-
ciety.......................Riverhead, N. Y.
826.	Clarence Storm...............New York City.
827.	Henry A. Clark. ............. “
828.	Henry A. Du Pont.............Winterthur, Del.164
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829.	Alain C. White..............New York City.
830.	South Carolina Historical So-
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829. Litchfield Historical Society .. Litchfield, Conn.INDEX
Abramse, Jacob, grantee, 10, 12,13; house of,
mentioned, 12.
Abramsz, William, grantor, 7.
Albany, N. Y., mentioned, 14, 17.
Anthony, Allard, land of, mentioned, 29, 56.
Arentsen, Frederick, grantee, 54.
Ashfield, Richard, witness, 93.
Backer, Hendrick W., house of, mentioned, 19.
Backer, Nicholas J., house and land of, men-
tioned, 6, 76; grantor, 43, 45.
Bakers, mentioned, 127.
Balance, ship, mentioned, 113.
Bargeman, mentioned, 34.
Barkmill, mentioned, 13.
Barnard, the taylor, land of, mentioned, 54.
Bastiaensz, Frans, a free negro, grantee, 42.
Bayard, Balthazar, grantor, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25,
26, 27; grantee, 23, 24, 33.
Bayard, Nicholas, grantee, 52; Mayor, 86;
mentioned, 39,40,41, 52, 57; Secretary, 76,
81, 84, 134, 135; witness, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 102.
Bayard, Samuel, witness, 93.
Bealoo, Elizabeth, grantor, 39, 40, 41, 42, 57,
58.
Bedloo, Isaac, mentioned, 39, 40, 41, 57.
Beeckman, Cornelis, land of, mentioned, 72.
Beekman, Jochem, declares what he knows
concerning the purchase of Staten Island,
126, 127.
Beeckman, William, grantee, 26, 27; grantor,
52, 69; land of, mentioned, 10, 23, 26; men-
tioned, 44, 79; witness, 38.
Bellomont, Gov. Richard, petitioned by Jacob
Melyn to allow him to prove his title to
lands on Staten Island, 136, 137, 138.
Bensich, Dirck, land of, mentioned, 71.
Bergen, N. J., mentioned, 77.
Berry, James, house of, mentioned, 87.
Bevers graght, land near, sold, 13, 34.
Billopp, Thomas, witness, 82.
Blacksmiths, mentioned, 11, 101.
Blanck, Juriaen, grantor as guardian, 45, 46.
Blue Cock, ship, mentioned, 103.
Bogardus, William, Notary Public, 85, 88,
126, 127; witness, 18.
Bontemantel H., Director of the West India
Company, 118.
Boodt, Nicholas, land of, mentioned, 69.
Boot, Nicholas, land of, mentioned, 44.
Bording, Claes, house of, mentioned, 8.
Bos, Jan P., land of, mentioned, 39; grantee,
40.
Bosch, Hendrick grantor as guardian, 45, 46.
Boston, Mass., mentioned, 138.
Bout, Jan E., estate of, sold, 43; grantee, 69,
70; land of, mentioned 3; mentioned, 44,45.
Bout, Wessell E., house of, 13.
Brasier, Henry, grantee, 17.
Brewers Street N. Y. City, house on, sold, 81,
87.
Brewhouses, mentioned, 5, 30, 45, 80, 81, 84.
Brewers, mentioned, 30,45.
Bridge (new), house and lot near the, sold, 19.
Bridge Street, N. Y. City, mentioned, 6.
Bristol Channel, ship Princess Amelia wrecked
in the 110.
Broadway, N. Y. City, house and lot near,
sold, 8; house on, sold, 35; land on, sold, 6,
38, 56, cemetary near, mentioned, 38.
Broeders, Bartelmaen, estate of, sold, 7.
Broeders, Geertie, estate of, sold, 7.
Brouwer Street, N. Y. City, house and lot on,
sold, 51.
Butchers, mentioned, 34.
Byleveldt, Peter, mentioned, 126.
Carfoe, Daniel, grantee, 56.
Carmen, mentioned, 9.
Carmer, Abraham, land of, mentioned, 54.
Carpenters, mentioned, 127.
Cassier, Maria, grantee, 3.
Cassier, Philip, mentioned, 3.
Cemetery near Broadway, mentioned, 38.
Charlton, Richard, witness, 60.
Chirurgeons, mentioned, 14.
Churchmasters of the City of New Orange,
grantors, 37, 38.
Cingell, house and lot near the, sold, 17.
City Land Gate, land outside of, sold, 5.
Clabbord’s Valley, N. Y. City, mentioned, 29,
32.
Claesz, Andries, house of mentioned, 34.
Clarkson, Mathew, Secretary, 98.
Clopper, Cornelius, grantor as attorney, 6;
mentioned, 7; house of, mentioned, 60.
Cobes, Ludovicus, witness, 60, 62.
Colve, Gov. Anthony, grant from mentioned,
44; petitioned by Jacob Melyn to respect his
claim to land on Staten Island, 132, 133,
134; grants 5 farms on Staten Island to the
children of Cornelius Melyn, 135.
Cooninck, Ariaen J., grantee, 35.
Cooninck, Capt. Frederick de, sent to arrest
Melyn on Staten Island, 113, 114.
Coopall, Jan H., estate of, sold, 47, 48.
Coopers, mentioned, 7.
Cornelissen, Jan, mentioned, 79.
Cortilyou, Jacques, survey by, mentioned, 14,
15, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 35, 39, 40, 41, 47, 50,
56, 74.
Court Messenger, mentioned, 35.
Cousseau, Jacques, witness, 75.
Cousseau, Mr., witness, 59.
Coustrie, Elizabeth, grantor, 36, 37.
Coustrie, Hendrick mentioned, 36, 37; land
of, mentioned, 48.
Coutririer, Elizabeth, grantor, 36, 37.
Cow pen, N. Y. City, mentioned, 84.
Cray, Teunis, mentioned, 35.
Cripplebush, mentioned, 23, 25, 26.
Croesvelt, Bay, grantee, 12.
Crommessie, land near, sold, 42, 43.
Curacoa, W. I., mentioned, 119.
Cuyter, Jochem Pietersz, Mandamus issued
by the States General of the United Nether-
lands upon the petition of, 102-106; loss
of his property in the Indian War waged by
Gov. Kieft, 103; sends letters of grievance
to West India Company and Directors in
Amsterdam, 103; is proceeded against by
Gov. Kieft, 103; banished by Stuyvesant,
103, 110; appealed to the States General,
103,104, 106; sailed on the Princess Amelia
which was wrecked in the Bristol Channel,
110; returns to New Netherland, 110.
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INDEX
Damen, Jan J.f grant of land to, 68, 69.
Darvall, William, grantor, 8, 9, 58, 59; witness,
10,	58.
Davids, Mortie, land of, mentioned, 32.
Davis, Moerice, land of, mentioned, 29, 32.
De Forrest, Isaac, land of, mentioned, 15, 16,
45, 56; grantor, 54; widow and heirs of,
grantees, 44.
De Forrest, Sarah, grantor, 54, 55, 56, 57.
DeGraeff, Jan., Notary Public at Amsterdam,
99.
DeGroot, Jacob P., land of, mentioned, 29,30;
grantee, 31, 32.
DeHaert, Jacob, grantee, 14.
DeHoneur, William, grantee, 50, 51.
De Jongh, Jan J., mentioned, 70.
Dekay, William, witness, 102.
De Lange, Jacob, house of, mentioned, 74.
De la Montagne, Johannes, Jr., land of, men-
tioned, 44, 69.
DelaPlaine, Nicholas, 77.
Delavall, Capt. Thomas, mentioned, 45, 51;
grantee, 82.
De Meyer, Nicholas, house of, mentioned, 50;
witness, 78.
De Peyster, Johannes, witness, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
11,	12, 14, 15, 17, 19, 37; grantor as
guardian, 18.
DePotter, Elizabeth, grantor, 38, 40, 41, 42.
DeSille, Nicasius, land of, mentioned, 72;
witness, 102.
DeVries, David P., his farm on Staten Island,
mentioned, 97.
DeWaerham, Ambrosius, land of, mentioned,
39; grantee, 41, 42.
Dircksz, Cornelis, grantee, 21.
Dircx, Lyntie, grantee, 49; grantor, 53.
Dongan Gov. Thomas, denies the claim of
Melyn’s children to land on Staten Island,
135, 136.
Douckles, Willem, land of, mentioned, 34.
Dreper, Hans, grantor, 18, 19; land of, men-
tioned, 76.
Drisius, Rev. Samuel, house of, mentioned, 22;
garden of, mentioned, 35.
Duke of York, mentioned 78, 80, 126; grant
to Richard Nicholls, 81, 82.
DuPui, Nicholas, mentioned, 11.
Dutch measure, wood foot, 45.
Dutch Thanksgiving Proclamation, 83.
Duycking, Evert, house of, mentioned, 36;
land of, mentioned, 48.
Dye, Gertie, house of, mentioned, 85.
Dyer, Edward, witness, 59.
East River, lot on the bank of, granted to
Burger Joris, 100.
Ebbinck, Jeronimus, house of, mentioned, 51.
Ebbing, Jeronimus, land of, mentioned, 44,45.
Edsall, Samuel, grantor, 6; house and land of,
mentioned, 6.
Everts, Dirck, grantee, 34.
Evertse, Jan., grantee, 70.
Eyben, Hieronimus, witness, 105.
Eyckenboom, ship, mentioned, 109.
Farmers, mentioned, 31.
Farrier, mentioned, 101.
Flatbush, L. I., mentioned, 15.
Fluyd, Dirck E., grantee, 34.
Foot, Dutch measure, 45.
Forne, Mathew, grantor, 56.
Foreest. See De Forrest.
Forster, Miles, grantor, 89, 90, 91, 92.
Forster, Rebecca, grantor, 89, 90.
Fort Amsterdam, N. Y. City, house and
garden near, granted to Jan Stevensen, 67;
land near, sold, 71; mentioned, 69, 73, 77,
100, 102.
Fort James, N.Y. City, mentioned, 79, 81,135.
Fort William Henry, N. Y. City, mentioned,
84,134.
Frederick, Thomas, grantor, 77, 78.
Fresh Water, N. Y. City, land near, sold, 10;
26; mentioned, 42.
Gabrie, Daniel, land of, mentioned, 15.
Gabry, Tymotheus, witness, 78.
Garden, The, mentioned, 8.
Garland, John, mentioned, 7.
Gerrardy, John, mentioned, 4.
Gerrits, Jan, land of, mentioned, 72.
Gerritz, Elizabeth, grantee, 55.
Gerritz, Geurt, grantee, 55.
Glynn, Alexander, grantor, 59, 60, 61, 62.
Gramercy, N. Y. City. See Crommessie.
Gravenraet, Isaac, house of, mentioned, 20.
Gravesend, L. I., land in, sold, 61.
Great Kill, N. Y. City, mentioned, 29, 32.
Gunsmith, mentioned,85.
Haal, Thomas, mentioned, 26.
Haegenaer, Jan J., mentioned, 34.
Hague, Holland, mentioned, 105, 106.
Harberding, Jan, grantee, 10.
Hardenbrook, Abell, grantee, 11; grantor, 55.
Harmense, Dowe, land of, mentioned, 7.
Harmenssen, Reynier, mentioned, 126.
Harperding, John, grantee, 57, 58.
Hartford, Conn, mentioned, 132.
Hatters, mentioned, 12.
Hedger, Henry, witness, 55, 56, 58.
Heerewegh, N. Y. City, house on the, sold, 55.
Helgate, land near, upon Long Island, sold, 4.
Hendricks, Jacob. See Varrevanger, Jacob H.
Hendricksen, Albert, grantor, 53.
Hendricksen, Lyntie, grantor, 53.
Hendricksz, Albert, grantor, 53.
Hendrix, Lawrence, house of, mentioned, 85.
Herberding, Jan., grantee, 12, 13.
Herlyn, Maghdaleentie, grantor, 50.
Herman, Augustine, mentioned, 39,40,41, 57.
Herman, Ephraim, witness, 9, 13, 17, 19, 20,
22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36,
37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51,
52, 53.
Heywood, Thomas, witness, 82.
High Street, N. Y. City, house and lot on,
sold, 4, 12, 36; land on, sold, 13, 50; men-
tioned, 47.
Hoorn, Holland, mentioned, 97.
Hqppen, Andries, mentioned, 5.
Hoppen, Geertie, grantor, 5.
Horse Mill, N. Y. City, mentioned, 79.
Horton, Abraham, witness, 82.
Hudden, Andries, land of, on Long Isand,
mentioned, 65.
Husbandmen, mentioned, 5.
Idusse, Teunis, grantee, 29; land of, men-
tioned, 30, 31.
Indian War waged by Gov. Kieft, mentioned,
103.
Indians, attack Melyn’s colony on Staten
Island, 114, 115, 136, 137; purchase of
Staten Island from the, described by Melyn,
123-125; names of those who sold Staten
Island, 126.
Jacob, Hans, mentioned, 9.
James, Duke of York, mentioned, 78, 80, 126;
grant to Richard Nicholls, 81, 82.
Jamison, David, Deputy Secretary, 101, 120.
Jans Marrettie, grantor, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26,
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Jansen, Barent, grantee, 66.
Jansen, Frans, grant to, 76, 77.
Jansen, Jeremias, grantee, 19. 20.
Jansen, Hendrick, mentioned, 80.
Jansen, Michiel, land of, mentioned, 46;
mentioned* 44.
Jansen, Peter, grantor, 49.
Jansen, Thomas, land of, mentioned, 72.
Jansen, Tymen, land of, mentioned, 80.
Jansz, Hendrick. See Van Beest, Hendrick J.
Jansz, Michiel, grantor, 69.
Jansz, Roelof, grantor, 34, 35.
Jansz, Simon, grantor, 3.
Jansz, Willem, land of, mentioned, 7.
Jochemse, David, house of, 13.
Johnson, Michiel, brew house of, mentioned, 5.
Joosten, Rutger, grant of land to, 72, 73.
Joris, Burger, land of, mentioned, 12; land
belonging to his widow, mentioned, 37;
widow and heirs of, grantee, 47; grant of
land and houses to, 80; assigns the same to
Thomas Lewis, 81; mentioned, 79.
Jorissen, Burger, grant of land to, 100, 101;
to build a house, 100; deeds his house and
lot to Cornelius Melyn, 101, 102.
Juriaens, Mettie, land of, mentioned, 15, 18.
Juriaensz, Andries, grantor, 43, 45.
Kalckhoeck, N. Y. City, land on the, granted
to Jan Jansen Damen, 68; meaning of, 68.
Kartenz, Nicholas, mentioned, 126, 127.
Keersteede, Hans, land of, mentioned, 56.
Keteltas, Jan E., grantee, 46.
Kieft, Gov. William, grant to Jan Mainje, 65,
66; grant to Jan Stevensen, 66, 67; grant to
Jan Jansen Damen, 68, 69; grant from,
mentioned, 78, 80; grants Staten Island to
Cornelius Melyn, 97; grants land to Burger
Jorisen, 100, 101; Indian War waged by,
mentioned 103; proceeds against Cuyter &
Melyn, 103; charged with cruelty and
tyranny, 104; ship-wrecked on the Princess
Amelia in the Bristol Channel, 110; men-
tioned, 116, 121, 124, 128, 130,136.
Kiersteede, Hans, grantor, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24,
25, 26, 27; land of, mentioned, 41.
Kings Farm, mentioned, 5.
Kip, Isaac, witness, 109.
Kip, Jacob, grantor as an Executor, 6, 47, 49;
grantor, 38; Secretary, 70, 72, 109.
Knight, John, clerk, 86.
Knyffe, William, Schout of New Orange,
grantor, 52.
Koninck, Thomas, declares what he knows
concerning the purchase of Staten Island,
126, 127.
Kray, Theunis, land of, mentioned, 4.
Lampo, John, mentioned, 126.
Land Gate, land outside of, sold, 5.
Laurier, Christiaen, grantee, 39; land of,
mentioned, 40, 41.
Lawrence, Thomas, grantee, 4.
Leendersz, Poulus, land of, mentioned, 29.
Leendertz, Jacob, house and land of, men-
tioned, 3.
Leisler, Jacob, grantee, 25; land of, mentioned,
26; mentioned, 118.
Leurse, Carsten, grantor, 12, 13, 14; house of,
mentioned, 21.
Leursen, Carsten, grantee, 10.
Levy, Assur, grantor, 13,14; grantor as execu-
tor, 47, 49.
Lewis, Thomas, grantee, 81.
Libertee, Jan, mentioned, 89.
Linde, Pieter, grantor, 66.
Lispenard, Anthony, grantee, 86, 88, 89.
Litscoe, Anna, land of, mentioned, 59.
Loockermans, Govert, estate of, sold, 18, 21,
23,	24, 25, 26; house of, mentioned, 14;
land of, mentioned, 12, 17.
Loockermans, Jacob, grantor, 18, 21, 22, 23,
24,	25, 26, 27, witness, 60, 62.
Loockermans, Marrettie, grantor, 18, 21, 22,
23,24, 26.
Love, (The) ship, mentioned, 119.
Lovelace, Gov. Francis, grant from mentioned,
20; mentioned, 126; promised to confirm
Gov. Nicolls grant of land to Jacob Melyn
on Staten Island, 132, 133.
Lovelace, Thomas, Jacob Melyn to furnish
proof of claim to land on Staten Island,
granted to, 133.
Lowrier, Christian, grantee, 58.
Lubbersz, Abraham, grantee, 77, 78.
Lutheran Church, N. Y. City, mentioned, 8.
Maiden Lane, (Maegdepaetie) N. Y. City
house and land near, sold, 10.
Mainje, Jan, grant of land to, 75; his widow
married to Peter Linde, 66.
Malthouse, mentioned, 30.
Man, Edward, Director of West India Com-
pany, 118.
Mandamus, issued by the States General of
the United Netherlands, upon the petition
of Jochem Pietersz Cuyter and Cornelia
Melyn, 102-106.
Manyee, Jan. See Mainje, Jan.
Mariners, mentioned, 56, 61.
Marketfield, N. Y. City, house and land near
the, sold, 28, 33, 34.
Marketfield Alley, N. Y. City, house and lot
near, sold, 44, 45.
Marketfield, Street, N. Y. City, land on, sold,
74.
Markevelt Street, N. Y. City, land on, sold, 3.
Masons, mentioned, 5.
Mathews, James, granter, 18, 19.
Measure of a wood foot, 45.
Megapolensis, Rev. Johannes, grantee, 71;
grantor, 74, 75; house of, mentioned 28;
mentioned, 32, 33, 76.
Megapolensis, Maghtell, grantor, 32, 33, 76.
Melyn, Cornelius, grant of Staten Island to,
97; his agreement with Lord Nederhorst,
98, 99; Burger Jorissen deeds his house and
lot to, 101, 102; Mandamus issued by the
States General of the United Netherlands
upon the petition of, 102-106; loses all his
property in the Indian War waged by Gov.
Kieft, 103; sends letters of grievance to
West India Company Assembly and Direc-
tors in Amsterdam, 103; is proceeded
against by Gov. Kieft, 103; banished by
Stuyvesant, 103, 110; appealed to the
States General, 103, 104, 106; his account
with Van der Capellen concerning the
Colony on Staten Island, 106, 107, 108;
sells his cattle on Staten Island, 108; re-
monstrance and petition of, to the West
India Company, 109-116; is taken by a
Dunkirk frigate, 109; arrives on Staten
Island with 41 persons, 110; the Indians
attack his colony, 110; sailed on the Prin-
cess Amelia, which was wrecked in the
Bristol Channel, 110; reaches Holland and
requests Mandamus, 110; returns to New
Netherland, 110; goes again to Holland to
defend himself and to restock his Colony,
111; agreement with Vander Capellen, 111;
sails for New Netherland, 111; arrives at
Red Island, 111; arrives at the “Mena-
tans” but not welcomed, 111, 112; accused
of carrying contraband and other charges
and is arrested, 112; his ship and goods176
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Melyn, Cornelius—Continued
confiscated, 112; returns to Staten Island
•with his family, 112; his flourishing Colony
there, 113; Stuyvesant sends soldiers to
arrest, 113; thrown into prison, 114; re-
leased, and returns to Staten Island, 114;
his settlement on Staten Island destroyed
by the Indians and several of his family
killed, 114,115; ransomed from the Indians,
115; departs for New Haven with his fam-
ily, 115; his agreement with the West India
Company in reference to his title to Staten
Island, 116-118; his son to be appointed
Schout, 117; letter to the managers of the
West India Company in reference to his
agreement with them, 119-123; interviews
Stuyvesant in reference to the agreement,
119; is asked to attend Council meeting,
120; discusses the agreement with the Coun-
cil, 120, 121, 122; hopes Stuyvesant will be
ordered to allow him to again take up his
lands, 123; his declaration concerning the
purchase of Staten Island, 123-125; testi-
mony concerning his purchase of Staten
Island, 126, 127; extract from the Register
of the Councillors of New Netherland con-
cerning his agreement with the West India
Company, 127-130; papers surrendered by
him concerning his title to Staten Island,
129, 130; West India Company decides
against, 130, 131; his son Jacob allotted a
portion of Staten Island, 131; son Jacob’s
petition to Gov. Colve in reference to land
on Staten Island, 132, 133; petition of his
children and heirs read, 134; Gov. Colve
grants five farms on Staten Island to his
children, 135; his children’s claim to land
on Staten Island rejected by Gov. Dongan,
135,136; his son Jacob petitions Gov. Bello-
mont to allow him to prove his claim to
land on Staten Island, 136, 137, 138; cap-
tured, and his son Jacob wounded by the
Indians in 1655, 137.
Melyn, Jacob, requests testimony concerning
the purchase of Staten Island, 126, 127;
allotted a portion of Staten Island in his
father’s interest, 131; petitions Gov. Colve
to respect his claim to land on Staten
Island, 132, 133; must produce his claim
to land granted to Thomas Lovelace, 133;
upon his petition Gov. Colve grants five
farms on Staten Island to the children of
Cornelius Melyn, 135; petitions Gov. Don-
gan to confirm his title and those of his
brother and sisters, to land on Staten
Island, 135; their titles rejected, 135, 136;
petitions Gov. Bellomont to allow him to
prove his title to land on Staten Island, 136,
137, 138; was wounded by the Indians in
1655, 137.
Melyn, Janneken, gives power of attorney to
her son-in-law, Jacob Schellinger, 108;
orders the cattle on Staten Island sold and
debts paid, 108, 109.
Menetans [Manhattan], attacked by the
Indians, 114.
Merchants mentioned, 13, 16, 18, 25, 27, 57,
74, 89.
Mesier, Pieter J., grantor, 49, 50; mentioned,
53.
Mespat [L. I.], mentioned, 47.
Mespath Kills, L. I., mentioned, 4.
Michiels, Daniel, master of the ship New
Netherland Fortune, mentioned, 117, 119.
Migielse, Daniel, mentioned, 119.
Mill, belonging to Cornelius Van Ruyven,
sold, 30.
Mill river, Staten Island, mentioned, 132, 134.
Ministers, mentioned, 71, 74.
Minuet, Gov. Peter, mentioned, 124, 126.
Minvielle, Gabriel, grantee, 16, 27, 28; house
of, mentioned, 33; witness, 58.
Moesman, Jacob J., house of, mentioned, 17.
Moll, Abraham L., grantee, 59; house of, men-
tioned, 60.
Moll, Lammert H., grantor as guardian, 5.
Mud Alley, New York City, mentioned, 50.
Musch, Cornelius, mentioned, 105, 106.
Myer, Marten J., grantor, 11, 12.
Nederhorst, Lord of, Cornelius Melyn’s agree-
ment with the, 98, 99.
Negro, deed of land to a free, 42; land of a,
mentioned, 11.
Nevius, Johannes, Secretary, 75, 78.
New Bridge, house and lot near the, sold, 19.
New Haven, Conn., Melyn removes to, 115.
New Netherland, Gov. Kieft’s evil govern-
ment of, 104; fear of the States General that
the English may become masters of, 104;
members of the government of, summoned
to the Hague, 105; extract from the Register
of the Director General and Councillors of,
in reference to Melyn’s agreement with the
West India Company, 127-130; Extract
from a letter of the West India Company
to the Director and Councillors of, 130-131;
Governor General and Councillors of, grant
five farms on Staten Island to the children
of Cornelius Melyn, 134, 135.
New Netherland Fortune, ship mentioned,
111, 117, 119; crew of, arrested, 112.
New Orange, mentioned, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35,
36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47,
48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 133.
New Utrecht, L. I., land in, granted to Rut-
ger Joosten, 72, 73, 74.
New York, City of, deeds land to White Tim-
mer, 85.
Nicolls, Mathias, Secretary, 79, 81, 131.
Nicolls, Col, Richard, grant from, mentioned,
8, 16, 18, 27, 29, 30, 32, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51;
grant to Oloff Stevens, 78, 79; grant to
Burger Joris, 80, 81; buys the Duke of
York’s house 81; sells same, 82; grants
Jacob Melyn a portion of Staten Island, 131
mentioned, 132.
Noorman, Nicholas K., mentioned, 126, 127.
Noortwyck, N. Y. City, house and land at,
sold, 29.
Nys, Peter, grantor as an Executor, 6.
Oak tree, (The), ship, mentioned, 109.
Obe, Hendrick, grantee,4; grantor, 8; house of,
mentioned, 20.
Oelferts, Suert, house of, mentioned, 55.
Olphertse, Giourt, grantee, 5.
Opdyck, Gysbert, witness, 102.
Otto, Aries, land of, mentioned, 50.
Oxen, price of, in 1651, 107.
Patterson, William, house of, mentioned, 15.
Paulet, Maria, mentioned, 51.
Pearl Street, N. Y. City, house and land near,
sold, 8; house and lot on, sold, 20.
Peer, Henry, land of, mentioned, 43.
Peers, Hendry, grantee, 9.
Pels, Evert E., grantee, 53.
Peterse, David, his farm on Staten Island,
mentioned, 97.
Philipse, Frederick, house of, mentioned, 51,
witness, 55.
Pieters, Adolph, witness, 127.
Pietersz, Adolf, grantor, 38.
Pietersz, Albert, grantor, 16, 17.INDEX
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Pietersz, Jan, land of, mentioned, 9, 39;
grantee, 40.
Pietersz, Jacob, grantee, 31, 32.
Pipemakers, mentioned, 11, 15.
Pluvier, Cornelius, land of, mentioned, 8.
Pos, Andries, mentioned, 108.
Pos, Symon D., mentioned, 126.
Poulit, Maria, estate of, sold, 4.
Prince graft, N. Y. City, land near, sold, 77.
Prince Graght, N. Y. City, land near the,
sold, 7; tannery near the, sold, 22.
Prince Street, N. Y. City, land on, sold, 11;
house and lot on, sold, 16; mentioned, 39,41.
Princes Street, N. Y. City, mentioned, 57.
Princess Amelia, ship, wrecked in the Bristol
Channel, 110.
Proclamation of Thanksgiving, issued by the
Governor General and Councillors of New
Netherland, 83.
Provoost, David, land of, mentioned, 6;
grantee, 22, 23.
Puddington, Elias, grantee, 58, 59.
Queen Street, N. Y. City, land on, sold, 90.
Rapalje, Cathalyna, grantor, 19, 20.
Rapalje, Joris, mentioned, 19.
Rapalye, Joris, house of, mentioned, 8.
Reay, John, grantor, 11; grantee, 15.
Red Island (Rhode Island), mentioned, 111,
112.
Richard, Paul, witness, 88.
Rombouts, Francois, witness, 43, 45, 47, 49.
Romeyn, Simon J., grantor, 3; grantor as
guardian, 5; grantor as attorney, 18, 19;
mentioned, 34; witness, 55, 57.
Rooy, Jacob J., mentioned, 71.
Ruyter, Claes J., land of, on Long Island,
mentioned, 65.
Rycker, Rynier, land of, mentioned, 17.
Ryder, John, mentioned, 51, 52.
Sabyns, Jannettie, land of, mentioned, 33, 71.
Sandford, Jacob A., grantee, 12.
Saphackenican, N. Y. City, house and land at,
sold, 29, 30; mentioned, 31.
Sascian’s maizeland, L. I., mentioned, 65.
Schaefbanck, Pieter, grantor, 35, 36.
Schellinger, Jacob, given power of attorney
by Janneken Melyn, 108, 109.
Schenectady, N. Y.f mentioned, 59, 61.
Schoetters Island, N. Y., mentioned, 133, 134.
Schoolmasters, mentioned, 66, 67.
Schout, Burgomaster & Schepens of the City
of New Orange, grantors, 52.
Schryers Hook, N. Y. City, house and lot at,
sold, 46.
Schuyler, Brandt, witness, 88.
Servaes, Lyntie D., grantee, 49; grantor, 52,
53.
Shaef, H., Notary Public, 118.
Sharpe, John, mentioned,^ 47; witness, 55, 56,
57, 58, 59, 60, 62.
Sheep Meadow, house and lot in, sold, 16.
Ship carpenters, mentioned, 49, 53, 58.
Shoemakers, mentioned, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
21, 40, 57.
Siecken, Dirck, grantee, 5; house of, men-
tioned, 10.
Simkam, Pieter, land of, mentioned, 38.
Slang, Jacob, land of, mentioned, 29, 32.
Slyck Street, N. Y. City, mentioned, 12, 14.
Smedes, Jan, grantor, 10, 11.
Smedes, John, grantee, 9; mentioned, 11.
Smee street, N. Y. City, land on, sold, 39, 40.
Smeeman, Harmen, grantor, 69; house of,
mentioned, 35; mentioned, 44.
Smith, John C., house of, mentioned, 12.
Smith, Marten M., land of, mentioned, 18.
Smiths Street, N. Y. City, house and lot on,
sold, 11, 15, 16, 18; land on, sold, 57, 85.
Smiths Valley, N. Y. City, house and land in,
sold, 10, 49, 53, 59, 60.
Snediker, John, mentioned, 13.
Solms, Lord Count of, mentioned, 99.
South River, expedition to the, mentioned,
113.
Spragg, J., secretary, 136.
Staates, Samuel, land of, mentioned, 90.
Staten Island, N. Y., granted to Cornelius
Melyn, 97, 98; farm of‘David Peterse De
Vries on, mentioned 97; agreement with
Lord Nederhorst in reference to, 98, 99; ac-
count between Melyn and Vander Capellen
concerning the colony on, 106, 107, 108;
Melyn’s cattle on, to be sold, 108; Melyn’s
remonstrance and petition to the West
India Company concerning his colony on,
109-116; Melyn’s arrival on, 110; agrees
to resell one third of his colony on, 111;
Melyn returns to, 112; Colony on, flourishes,
113; Melyn’s colony on, destroyed by the
Indians, 114, 115; Melyn’s agreement with
the West India Company in reference to his
claim to, 116-118; letter of Melyn to the
managers of the West India Company in
reference to, 119-123; hopes he will be
allowed again to take up his lands on, 123;
Melyn’s declaration concerning the pur-
chase of, 123-125; names of those who con-
cluded the Indian sale of, 126; papers sur-
rendered by Melyn, concerning his claim
to, 129, 130; Melyn’s title to, denied, 130,
131; Jacob Melyn is allotted a portion of,
131; Gov. Colve petitioned by Jacob Melyn
in reference to his land on, 132, 133; Jacob
Melyn to produce his claim to land granted
to Thomas Lovelace on, 133; Gov. Colve
grants 5 farms to Cornelius Melyn’s children
on, 135; Gov. Dongan rejects their claim to
land on, 135, 136; Jacob Melyn petitions
Gov. Bellomont for his land on, 136,137,138.
States General of the United Netherands,
issues Mandamus upon the petition of
Cuyter and Melyn, 102-106.
Stavast, Gerrit J., grantee, 14,15; grantor, 15.
Steelman, Jan H., land of, mentioned, 37, 48;
estate of, sold, 47, 48.
Steens, Maghtell, grantor, 33.
Steentgens, Maghtell, grantor, 32.
Steur, F., Notary Public at Amsterdam, 99.
Stevens, Oloff, land of, mentioned, 10; wit-
ness, 13, 14, 15, 17; grant of land to, 78, 79.
Stevenson, Jan, grant of house and garden to,
66, 67; extract of the agreement between the
heirs of, 84.
Stevensz, Olof, land of, mentioned, 5; witness,
5, 6.
Steyments, Caspar, witness, 109.
Still house. See Brew Houses.
Stone Street, N. Y. City, house of, sold, 81.
Stoutenburg, Peter, grantor as Executor, 9;
mentioned, 69.
Strand, house and lot on the, sold, 14, 18, 21,
48; mentioned, 33, 59.
Strand Gate, N. Y. City, land near the, sold
58.
Streets:
Bevers graght, 13, 34.
Brewers, 81, 87.
Bridge, 6.
Broadway, 6, 8, 24, 35, 38, 56.
Brouwer, 51.
Cingell, 17.
Heerewegh, 55.
High, 4, 12, 13, 36, 47, 50.178
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Streets—Continued
Maiden Lane, 10.
Marketfield, 28, 33, 34, 44.
Markevelt, 3.
Pearl, 8, 20.
Prince, 11, 16, 39, 41.
Prince graft, 77.
Prince Graght, 22.
Princes, 57.
Queen, 90.
Schryers hook, 46.
Sheep Meadow, 16.
Slyck, 12, 14.
Smee, 39, 40.
Smiths, 11, 15, 16, 18, 57, 85.
Smiths Valley, 10, 49, 53, 59, 60.
Stone, 81.
Strand, 14, 18, 21, 28, 33, 47, 58, 59.
Wall, 17.
Strycker, Jacob, grantor, 15, 16; witness, 70,
71, 75.
Stuyvesant, Gov. Petrus, land near the farm
of, sold, 9; grant from, mentioned, 16, 18,
29, 32; mentioned, 42; grant to Rutger
Joosten, 72, 73; grant to Frans Jansen Van
Hooghten, 76, 77; banishes Cuyter and
Melyn, 103, 110; summoned to the Hague,
105; proceeds against the Eight men, 110;
sends Secretary Van Tienhoven to represent
him at the Hague, 111; seizes Melyn’s
ship New Netherland Fortune, 112; sends
soldiers to arrest Melyn on Staten Island,
113; puts Melyn in prison, 114; demands
ransom from Melyn for the Indians, 115;
mentioned, 117; is interviewed by Melyn in
reference to his agreement with the West
India Company, 119; invites Melyn to
attend a meeting of the Council, 120;
mentioned, 123, 130; his construction of the
agreement with Melyn, upheld by the West
India Company, 130, 131.
Surgeons, mentioned, 14.
Susanna the negro, land of, mentioned, 11.
Swart, Albert P., grantor, 17.
Tadens, Michiel, estate of, sold, 46.
Tailors, mentioned, 38, 54.
Tan Mill, mentioned, 22.
Tannery, mentioned, 22.
Tannery of Coenraet TenEyck, mentioned, 77.
Tayne, Maria, grantee, 3.
Templar, Tunis, land of, mentioned, 59.
Templier, Teunis, grantor, 17.
Ten Broeck, Hendrick W., grantee, 36.
TenBroeck, Wessel, mentioned, 5.
TenEyck, Coenraet, grantee, 4, 5, 10, 12;
tannery of, mentioned, 77.
Teunisz, Jacob, land of, mentioned, 3.
Thanksgiving Proclamation, issued by Gover-
nor General and councillors of New Nether-
land, 83.
Thomassen, Jan, land of, mentioned, 9.
Timmer, White, grantee, 85, 86.
Tincker, Richard, grantee, 11.
Trompetter, Albert, land of, mentioned, 7;
mentioned, 79.
Trompetter, Albert P., grantor, 16, 17.
Turck, Paulus, grantee, 7; grantor, 7,8.
Turfry, George, mentioned, 118.
Turners, mentioned, 54.
Tyssen, Lysbet, mentioned, 49; land of, men-
tioned, 53.
Van, Cornelius, witness, 9.
Van Arnhem, Gerrit J., mentioned, 11.
Van Beest, Hendrik J., grantor, 9.
Van Bommel, Jan H., land of, mentioned, 11.
Van Borsum, Tymon, grantee, 15; land of,
mentioned, 16.
Van Brough, Gillis P., house of, mentioned,
81.
Van Brugge, Johannes, witness, 70.
Van Bruggen, J., mentioned, 45.
Van Brugh, Johannes, house of, mentioned,
14; witness, 19,20,22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30,
31, 32, 33, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 46, 47, 49;
grantor, 52.
Van Brunt, Rutger J., grant of land to, 72.
Van Cortland, Jacobus, property allotted to,
under agreement, 84; grantor, 86, 87, 88,
89
Van Cortland, Oloff S., witness, 5, 6, 12, 13,
14, 15, 17; land of, mentioned, 10; grantor,
38; grant of land to, 78, 79; extract of the
agreement between the heirs of, 84.
Van Cortlandt, Stephanus, grantor as attor-
ney, 17; house of, mentioned, 87.
Van Couwenhoven, Jacob, mentioned, 38,
107.
Van Couwenhoven, Maghdaleentie, grantee,
38.
Van Cowenhoven, Johannes, grantee, 30, 31.
Vander Borden, William A., grantor, 6.
Vander Capeilen, Hendrick, his account with
Cornelius Melyn concerning the Colony on
Staten Island, 106, 107, 108; agreement
with Melyn to resell one-third of the Staten
Island Colony, 111; mentioned, 113, 122,
125, 128, 129.
Vander Speigel, Laurens, witness, 22, 24, 26,
27.
Vander Vin, Hendrick J., house of, mentioned,
13.
Van Deventer, Dirck J., land of, mentioned,
4.
Vande Water, Hendrick, grantee, 60, 61.
Vandewater, J., witness, 76.
Van Dincklagen, Lubbartes, mentioned, 107,
125.
Van Dyck, Fiscal, boards the ship New
Netherland Fortune, 111.
Van Gent, J., witness, 106.
Van Gunst, John H., house of, mentioned, 55.
Van Hooghten, Frans J., grant of land to, 76,
77.
Van Horne, Jan C., mentioned, 78.
Van Houghten, Frans, land of, mentioned, 6.
Van Laer, Adriaen, grantor, 12; grantor as
attorney, 22, 23; mentioned, 13.
Van Laer, Stoffell, grantor, 22, 23; mentioned,
7.
Van Leyden, Jan, land of, mentioned, 4.
Van Meppelen, Roelof J., grantor, 34.
Van Reede, Godert (Lord of Nederhorst),
Cornelius Melyn’s agreement with, 98, 99.
Van Ruyven, Cornelius, grantor, 27, 28, 29,
30, 31, 32; mentioned, 33.
Van Ruyven, Cornelius, Secretary, 66, 73, 77;
grantee, 74, 75, 76, 130, 131; demands ran-
som from Melyn for the Indians, 115.
Van Tienhoven, Cornelis, Secretary, 66, 68,
69,101; sent to represent Stuyvesant at the
Hague, 111; sent to arrest Melyn on Staten
Island, 113, 114, mentioned, 124.
Van Tienhoven, Luykas, grantee, 8; grantor,
9.
Van Tienhoven, Rachell, estate of, sold, 9;
mentioned, 11; land of, mentioned, 26.
Van Tright, Gerrit, house of, mentioned, 28.
Van Twiller, Gov. Wouter, mentioned, 124.
Van Vlecq, Maghdaleentie, grantor, 50.
Van Vlecq, Tielman, mentioned, 50, 51.
Van Vredenburg, Willem I., grantee, 8.
Van Westveen, Cornelis D., grantee, 21.INDEX
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Varrevanger, Jacob H., grantor as executor,
4; grantor, 14, 15; mentioned, 51.
Veenvos, Christina, grantee, 89, 90, 91, 92.
Veenvos, Daniel, mentioned, 89, 90.
Verbrugge, Caerel, mentioned, 120.
Verdon, Thomas, land of, mentioned, 54;
grantee, 56, 57.
Verlet, Casper, mentioned, 112.
Verplanck, Abraham, grantor, 71.
Verplanck, Gulian, witness, 17, 20, 28, 30, 31,
32, 33, 35, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 50, 51,
52, 53; grantee, 6, 48.
Vigne, Jan, witness, 72.
Vinge, Gosen, land of, mentioned, 15.
Vingie, Jan, grantor, 5; grantor as Executor,
9.
Vullevever, Gerrit, land of, mentioned, 6.
Waal, New York City, land near the, sold,
47; meaning of the word, 48.
Waech, ship, mentioned, 113.
Waelings, Tryntie, mentioned, 46.
Waldron, William, grantee, 7.
Wall Street, house and lot near, sold, 17.
Wallabout, L. I., mentioned, 19.
Wandell, Thomas, grantor, 4, 5; house of,
mentioned, 47.
Waterside, land at, sold, 6.
West, John, clerk, 82.
Westerhout, Ariaen J., mentioned, 34.
Westerhout, Jeremias J.f grantee, 20; men-
tioned, 34.
West India Company, grants Staten Island
to Cornelius Melyn, 98, 99; remonstrance
and petition of Cornelius Melyn to the, 109-
116; agreement with Melyn, 116-118; Let-
ter to the Managers of, in reference to his
agreement with them, 119-123; Melyn de-
clares what he knows concerning the pur-
chase of Staten Island to the, 123-125;
Melyn refuses to convey his title to Staten
Island to the, 128; extract from a letter of
the Managers of the, to the Director and
Councillors of New Netherland, 130, 131;
mentioned, 136, 137.
West India Company’s Garden, mentioned,
8.
Willemstadt, N. Y., mentioned, 17, 18.
Williams, Henry, witness, 127.
Wilmerdonck, Abraham, Director of the West
India Company, 118.
Winder, Mr., house of, mentioned, 70.
Wissingh, Jacob E., mentioned, 126.
Witthart, Johannes, land of, mentioned, 4.
Wood foot, eleven inches to a, 45.
Woolnertz, Suert, house of, mentioned, 55.
Wouterse, Eghbert, grantor, 13.
Wren, M., witness, 82.