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occafion to go and wait upon the Sachems ; 

 for they always came into my habitation 

 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 Engla?id', the 

 others returned fafe. 



The firft colon ifts in New York were 

 Dutchmen : when the town and its territo- 

 ries were taken by the Eng/i/h, and left 

 them by the next peace in exchange for 

 Surinam, the old inhabitants were allowed 

 either to remain at New York, and to enjoy 

 all the priviledges and immunities which 

 they were polTefied of before, or to leave 

 the place with all their goods : moft of them 

 chofe the former ^ and therefore the inha- 

 bitants both of the town and of the pro- 

 vince belonging to it, are yet for the great- 

 eft part Dutchmen-, who ftill, efpecially the 

 old people, fpeak their mother tongue. 



They begin however by degrees to change 

 their manners and opinions j chiefly indeed 

 in the tov/n and in its neighbourhood : for 

 moft of the young people now fpeak prin- 

 cipally Englijh, and go only to the Engiifi 

 church ', and would even take it amifs, if 

 they were called Dutchmen and not Englijh' 

 men. 



Though 



