History of Long Island: Containing an Account of the Discovery and Settlement; with Other Important and Interesting Matters to the Present Time |
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... sent annually to other places from the bays and harbors of this island must have amounted at least to $ 60,000 for the last forty years . The value of a good part of which last article has been returned in ashes and other manure . The ...
... sent annually to other places from the bays and harbors of this island must have amounted at least to $ 60,000 for the last forty years . The value of a good part of which last article has been returned in ashes and other manure . The ...
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... sent his men to obtain a supply . It may well be that they landed upon Coney Island , in the town of Gravesend , which was the nearest land ; and if so , the Canarsee Indians were the first to hail the approach of the long - to - be 52 ...
... sent his men to obtain a supply . It may well be that they landed upon Coney Island , in the town of Gravesend , which was the nearest land ; and if so , the Canarsee Indians were the first to hail the approach of the long - to - be 52 ...
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... sent his men on shore in a boat , who , according to the words of his Journal , " caught ten great Mullet , a foot and a half long , and a Ray as great as four men could haul into the ship . " Here , he says , they found the soil of ...
... sent his men on shore in a boat , who , according to the words of his Journal , " caught ten great Mullet , a foot and a half long , and a Ray as great as four men could haul into the ship . " Here , he says , they found the soil of ...
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... sent with all public messages , and pre- served as a record of all public transactions between nations . If a message was sent without the belt , it was considered an empty word , unworthy of remembrance . If the belt was re- turned ...
... sent with all public messages , and pre- served as a record of all public transactions between nations . If a message was sent without the belt , it was considered an empty word , unworthy of remembrance . If the belt was re- turned ...
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... sent Captain Ma- son to Long Island to require payment of the tribute due from the Indians , and to make arrangements for its more punctual dis- charge in future . In 1656 the Montauk chief visited the com- missioners at Boston , and ...
... sent Captain Ma- son to Long Island to require payment of the tribute due from the Indians , and to make arrangements for its more punctual dis- charge in future . In 1656 the Montauk chief visited the com- missioners at Boston , and ...
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Page 175 - ... before a justice of the peace to be dealt with according to law...
Page 90 - Company, and their successors for ever, to be holden of us, our heirs and successors, as of our manor of East Greenwich, in our county of Kent, in free and common soccage...
Page 349 - Be it remembered, that on the day of in the year of his majesty's reign, and in the year of our Lord...
Page 90 - Higansetts, abutting upon the main land between the two rivers, there called or known by the several names of Connecticut and Hudson's river, together also with the said river called Hudson's river, and all the land from the west side of Connecticut river, to the east side of Delaware bay...
Page 79 - This renowned old gentleman arrived at New Amsterdam in the merry month of June, the sweetest month in all the year, when Dan Apollo seems to dance up the transparent firmament...
Page 95 - As touching the threats in your conclusion, we have nothing to answer, only that we fear nothing but what God (who is as just as merciful) shall lay upon us; all things being in his gracious disposal, and we may as well be preserved by him with small forces as by a great army; which makes us to wish you all happiness and prosperity, and recommend you to his protection. My lords, your thrice humble and affectionate servant and friend, P. STUYVESANT.
Page 485 - If any inhabitant have a mind to remove himself he shall have a year and six weeks from this day to remove himself, wife, children, servants, goods, and to dispose of his lands here.
Page 128 - Esq., or, in his absence, to such as for the time being take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws in their Majesties' province of New York, in America.
Page 349 - Singular the appurtennces thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining to have and to hold the Said tract of land with its appurtenances to the Said parties of the Second part their heirs and assigns forever...
Page 468 - ... in free and common socage according to the tenure of East Greenwich, in the county of Kent, in his Majesty's kingdom of England.