2IO November 1748. 



their fubje&s, than conftables in a meeting of the 

 inhabitants of a parifh, and hardly fo much. On 

 my travels through the country of thefe Indians^ 

 I had never any occafion to go and wait upon the 

 Sachems; for they always came into my habita- 

 tion without being afked : thefe vifits they com- 

 monly paid in order to get a glafs or two of 

 brandy, which they value above any thing they 

 know. One of the five Sachems, mentioned 

 above, died in England > the others returned 

 fafe. 



THE firft colonifts in New Tor k were Dutch- 

 men : when the town and its territories were taken 

 by the EngliJI^ and left them by the next peace 

 in exchange for Surinam, the old inhabitants 

 were allowed either to remain at New Tork, and 

 to enjoy all the privileges and immunities which 

 they were poflefled of before, or to leave the 

 place with all their goods : mod of them chofe 

 the former; and therefore the inhabitants, both 

 of the town and of the province belonging to it, 

 are yet for the greateft part Dutchmen > who ftill, 

 efpecially the old people, fpeak their mother 

 tongue. 



THEY begin, however, by degrees, to change 

 their manners and opinions ; chiefly indeed in the 

 town and in its neighbourhood ; for moft of the 

 young people now fpeak principally Englijh, and 

 go only to the Engltjh church ; and would even 

 take it amifs if they were called Dutchmen and 

 not Englifamen. 



THOUGH the province of New York has been 



inhabited by Europeans much longer than Penfyl-* 



vqnia* yet it is not by far fo populous as that co- 



" 4 . lony. 



