A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County by Stephen M. Ostrander

Author:Stephen M. Ostrander [Ostrander, Stephen M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2017-07-06T22:00:00+00:00

FOOTNOTES

1 See appendix in second volume for explanation of system of Dutch family names.

2 American Ancestry, vol. v., 1890.

3 A History of Long Island, from its First Settlement by Europeans, to the year 1845, with Special Reference to its Ecclesiastical Concerns. By Nathaniel S. Prime. 1845.

4 Richard M. Bayles, in Long Island Magazine, September, 1893.

5 At the time of the discovery the Iroquois, or League of the Five Nations, claimed to have subdued and mastered all the Indian tribes from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. The Iroquois occupied in particular the middle and upper region of New York State. The earliest of the general histories of this remarkable confederacy was written by Cadwallader Colden, who died on Long Island in 1776.

6 New York Historical Society's Collections, vol. iii. p. 324.

7 Antiquities of Long Island, p. 29.

8 Among Brooklyn's manufactures in recent years rope-making has taken a prominent place.

9 A History of the City of Brooklyn, including the Old Town and Village of Brooklyn, the Town of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh. By Henry R. Stiles. 1867.

10 Van Twiller.

11 Address before Long Island Historical Society, 1880.

12 "The Ladye Moodye, a wise and anciently religious woman, being taken with the error of denying baptism to infants, was dealt with by many of the elders and others, and admonished by the church of Salem (whereof she was a member); but persisting still, and to avoid further trouble, etc., she removed to the Dutch against the advice of her friends."— Governor Winthrop's Journal.

13 Also described as a Council of Eight.

14 The function of the schepen resembled that of the squire or petty justice, particularly in communities so small as not to have a burgomaster.

15 By the wording of contracts dated November 22, 1646 (New York Col. MSS. ii. 152), it appears that Teunissen was called "Schout of Breuckelen" before this date.

16 As we have seen, Rapalje, who made one of the earliest purchases (1636), did not begin living on his Wallabout farm until probably 1655.

17 "No other figure of Dutch, nor indeed of Colonial days is so well remembered; none other has left so deep an impress on Manhattan history and tradition as this whimsical and obstinate, but brave and gallant old fellow, the kindly tyrant of the little colony. To this day he stands in a certain sense as the typical father of the city."—Theodore Roosevelt, New York, p. 26.

18 Bayard Tuckerman, Peter Stuyvesant, p. 62.

19 Stiles, History of Brooklyn, vol. i. p. 229.

20 "Among the Dutch settlers the art of stone-cutting does not appear to have been used until within comparatively a few years, with but few exceptions, and their old burying-grounds are strewn with rough head-stones which bear no inscriptions; whereas the English people, immediately on their settlement, introduced the practice of perpetuating the memories of their friends by inscribed stones. Another reason for not finding any very old tombstones in the Dutch settlements is that they early adopted the practice of having family burying-places on their farms,

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