VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. 39 



According to this story, Herman returned to New York, some time 

 after his settlement in Maryland, to find his estate in this city seized by 

 a squatter, and when Herman protested he was himself placed under 

 arrest. He feigned insanity, the story goes, and refused to be parted 

 from the horse which he had ridden all the way from Bohemia Manor. 

 Accordingly he was bidden to ride his horse to the second story of a 

 stone warehouse, where he and the horse were securely locked in. But 

 when all his enemies had departed, Herman mounted his horse and rode 

 straight at the closed window of his prison. Horse and man went 

 through the window and landed safe on the stones below, but with such 

 force that blood gushed from the nostrils of the horse. The escaping 

 prisoner then rode straight to the Hudson, swam his horse to the Jersey 

 shore, and in due time arrived at Bohemia Manor, having in the course 

 of his journey swam also the Delaware on the back of his horse. One 

 legend is that the animal died soon after this second feat; the other, that 

 he carried his master straight to the manor house. It is entirely probable 

 that Herman was arrested at the suit of a creditor, and that fearing the 

 tender mercies of the Dutch Government, he managed to escape on his 

 horse. At any rate there are two or three pictures extant of Herman 

 and his horse, the master being represented as standing beside the horse, 

 with the blood of the faithful creature reddening his hands. It is pretty 

 well authenticated that Herman himself caused at least one of these pic- 

 tures to be painted. This portrait of Herman shows a powerful Teutonic 

 face. He is clean shaven, his mouth is firm, his eyes are piercing, his 

 cheek bones are high. His hair, parte3 in the middle, falls in thick 

 masses to his shoulders. He wears a red frock coat ruffled at the wrist- 

 bands, and a full white tie that falls upon his bosom. 



Whatever Herman's quarrel with the Dutch, he was evidently on good 

 terms with the English conquerors of New Amsterdam, for in 1671 the 

 authorities at New York gave orders that those at New Castle, Del., 

 should clear half the way for a road from that town to Herman's planta- 

 tion. The people of Maryland were to clear the other half. But Herman 

 himself had larger schemes that a mere traffic by wagon road, and he is 

 believed to have projected a canal to connect Delaware and Chesapeake 

 bays, an idea realized in the present Chesapeake and Delaware ship canal. 

 Herman's friendship with the English conquerors of the Dutch posses- 

 sions in North America seems to prove that he had lost favor with the 

 Dutch, and an uncommonly interesting fact seems to furnish proof that 

 he needed other protection than that which he had enjoyed while an agent 

 of the Government at New Amsterdam, for in 1660 he applied to the 

 Council of Maryland for a patent of naturalization, and in that year he 

 and his five children received such patents. They seem to have been the 

 first persons to have been naturalized by an American colony. 



Herman, after his naturalization, received what Lord Baltimore did not 

 really own according to later treaties, the manor of St. Augustine, extend- 

 ing from the shore of Delaware Bay through to the line of Bohetnia 

 Manor. He willed this to one of his sons, but the family never made 



