Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete

39

See the histories of Masters Josselyn and Blome.

40

Haz. Coll. Stat. Pap.

41

Hobbes, Leviathan, part i., ch. 13.

42

"Cum prorepserunt primis animalia terris,

Mutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter,Unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus, atque its porroPugnabaut armis, quæ post fabricaverat usus."– Hor. Sat. lib. i. s. 3.

43

Hazard's State Papers.

44

New Plymouth Record.

45

Mather's Hist. New Eng. b. vi. ch. 7.

46

Ballad of Dragon of Wantley.

47

Acrelius' History N. Sweden. For some notices of this miraculous discomfiture of the Swedes, see N.Y. Hist. Col., new series, vol. i., p. 412.

48

"As soon as he rose,To make him strong and mighty,He drank by the tale, six pots of ale,And a quart of aqua vitæ."Dragon of Wantley.

49

The learned Hans Megapolonsis, treating of the country about Albany, in a letter which was written some time after the settlement thereof, says, "There is in the river great plenty of sturgeon, which we Christians do not make use of, but the Indians eat them greedily."

50

This was likewise a great seal of the New Netherlands, as may still be seen in ancient records.

51

Besides what is related in the Stuyvesant MS., I have found mention made of this illustrious patroon in another manuscript, which says, "De Heer (or the squire) Michael Paw, a Dutch subject, about 10th Aug., 1630, by deed purchased Staten Island. N.B. – The same Michael Paw had what the Dutch call a colonie at Pavonia, on the Jersey shore, opposite New York: and his overseer, in 1636, was named Corns. Van Vorst, a person of the same name, in 1769, owned Pawles Hook, and a large farm at Pavonia, and is a lineal descendant from Van Vorst."

52

So called from the Navesink tribe of Indians that inhabited these parts. At present they are erroneously denominated the Neversink, or Neversunk, mountains.

53

Since corrupted into the Wallabout, the bay where the navy-yard is situated.

54

Now spelt Brooklyn.

55

At present a flourishing town, called Christiana, or Christeen, about thirty-seven miles from Philadelphia, on the post road to Baltimore.

56

This castle, though very much altered, and modernized, is still in being and stands at the corner of Pearl Street, facing Coentie's Slip.

57

Hariot's Journal, Purch. Pilgrims.

58

This Luyck was, moreover, rector of the Latin School in Nieuw Nederlands, 1663. There are two pieces addressed to Ægidius Luyck in D. Selyn's MSS. of poesies, upon his marriage with Judith Isendoorn. (Old MSS.)

59

See Van der Donck's description of the New Netherlands, Collect. New York Hist. Society, vol. i., p. 161.