84 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1663. 



have shown them every mark of friendship, and were always 

 willingly and cheerfully employed in reconciling diiferences be- 

 tween them and other savages, &c." They also reminded Beek- 

 man, that three years ago one of their nation had been murdered 

 at New Amstel of which they took no noticci Presents were 

 exchanged and thus the matter was ended. 



They, however, had determined to prosecute the war with the 

 Senecas in the spring, having secured the services of eight hun- 

 dred '"'' Sivedish Minquas" two hundred of whom had already 

 arrived. They " solicited the Christians to provide them with 

 the amunition of war, when they paid for it."^ 



It appears that towards the close of this year, " Miss Printz, 

 (Mrs. Papegoya,) made a conveyance of the Island of Tinicum 

 to a Mr. La Grange, and had received from him a bill of exchange 

 as part of the purchase money, which bill was protested. Beek- 

 man visited Tinicum for the purpose of arranging the matter, but 

 after using every exertion failed. From this transaction much 

 litigation ensued, which was not ended till after the government 

 passed into the hands of Peun. The letter of Beekman, commu- 

 nicating this matter to Stuyvesant, is dated at " Tinneconk, N. 

 Leyden^'" December 23rd, 1662. 



Harmonious action, between the oflBcers of the City and those 

 of the Company, was not established by the new arrangement 

 entered into between the parties. It became apparent, that a 

 joint occupancy of the river must ever be attended with difficulties, 

 that would prevent the rapid settlement of the country, and 

 would materially interfere with the prosperity of the Colonists. 

 Under this impression, the Burgomasters of the City in the early 

 part of 1663, made application to the company for authority to 

 extend their jurisdiction, "from the sea upwards as far as the 

 river stretches." After considerable negotiation, a cession was 

 accordingly made to the city, embracing a margin of nine miles 

 on the coast, and extending to the English Colony on the Avest 

 side of the river, on conditions that made its Colony almost wholly 

 independent of the Company. The cession was not however 

 actually made till near the close of the year, until which time 

 Beekman continued to perform the duties of his office. 



A trade had sprung up between the Colony of the City and 

 the Marylanders, which under the new arrangement that excluded 

 the Company's officials from the river, the city hoped to extend ; 

 it having been offered by the English, in case they would trade 

 with them, " fo make a little slit in the c?oo?-,"^ whereby they 

 could be reached overland. In a proposal submitted by the com- 

 missioners to the Burgomasters of the City, cargoes amounting to 



• Ha/,. Aun. 341 ; Albany Rec. xvii. 

 2 N. Y. Col. Doc. ii. 201. 



