INDEX

Adventure-Galley, The (ship),
170, 171, 172, 173

Albany, name of Fort Orange
changed to, 137; refuses to
send delegates to Fort James,
153; preeminently Dutch, 154;
refuses to recognize Leisler, 154,
156; Leisler sends troops to as-
sistance of, 156; congress (1754),
219,220-21; court-house, 220;
see also Orange, Fort

Alexander, James, supports Van
Dam, 196; contributes to New
York Weekly Journal, 197;
counsel for Zenger, 198-99

Amersfort, 77

Amsterdam, Fort, established, 54;
condition in 1638, 61; becomes
Fort James, 137; see also
James, Fort

Andros, Sir Edmund, Governor
of New York, 144; asserts
authority in New Jersey, 146-
147; recalled, 147; appointed
Governor-General of "Domin-
ion of New England" (1688),
149; imprisoned in Boston,
151; instructed to suppress
piracy, 167

Angola, Paul d', one of the first
negro slaves, 25

Archer, John, 140

Arlington, Lord, 139

Arms of Amsterdam, The (ship),
26

A very, buccaneer, 173

Barents, Reymier, 156

Barentsen, Pieter, 54

Bayard, Mrs., sister of Stuy-
vesant, 86

Bayard, Nicholas, 154, 155, 159,
160,163

Bear Mountain, replica of Half
Moon at foot of, 16

Bears Island fortified, 45

Beaver, The (ship), 161

Beeren (Bears) Island fortified,'
45

Bellomont, Earl of, in stock
company to fit out privateer,
170; succeeds Fletcher as Gover-
nor of New York, 170-71,180-
181; Captain Kidd communi-
cates with, 174; royal Gover-
nor of Massachusetts and New
Hampshire, 175 (note); up-
rightness, 181; espouses Leisler-
ian cause, 181-83; death (1701),
183; revenues under, 191

Berkeley, Lord, 145

Beverwyck, 72

Birds of Hudson region, 28

Bissels, associate of Van Rens-
selaer, 40

Blagge, Captain, defense of
Leisler, 157-59

Block, Adriaen, 135

Block Island, 135, 174

Blommaert, Samuel, 36, 40

Blucker, of Albany, 156

Bogardus, Rev. Everardus, 88-
90

Boston, 151, 168

Bradford, William, printer, 193

Bradley supports Cosby, 196

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