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our Bouweries and plantations without danger, or at least without 

 being discovered ; and in order to incite them the more, we have 

 promised them. Ten fathoms of Wampum for each head of the 

 above mentioned Raritans, and 20 fathoms of Wampum for every 

 head of the Indians who have most barbarously murdered our 

 people on Staten Island." (O'Callaghan Laws and Ord. 28.) 



1641. First occupants.—" ANNO 1641. The 20th August, the 

 ship Eyckenboom (Oak-tree) arrived here, in which came a person 

 named Malyn, who said that Staten Island belonged to him, . . , 

 I thought better things of the managers than this, as the sixth 

 article of privileges mentions that the first occupants shall not he 

 prejudiced in their right of possession." (Old South Leaflets 

 No. 168 p. 15; Narr. New Neth. 211.) 



"The 1st of September [1641] my men on Staten Island were 

 killed by the Indians ";..." Thus I lost the beginning of my 

 colony on Staten Island." (De Vries.) (Narr. New Neth. 211 ; 

 Old South Leaflets No. 168: 15, 16.) 



I2th Sept. 1641. Director and Council considered it advis- 

 able to erect a small redoubt on Staten Island. (Col. Doc. 13 : 9.) 



The 2d Nov. 1641. " The same day Commander Kief t asked 

 me whether I would permit Malyn to go upon the point of Staten 

 Island, where the maize land lay, saying that he wished to let 

 him plant it, and that he would place soldiers there, who would 

 make a signal by raising a flag, to make known at the fort when- 

 ever ships were in the bay, to which I have consented." (De 

 Vries.) (Old South Leaflets No. 168 p. 16; Narr. New Neth. 

 211.) 



1642. 19th June 1642. A title deed given, which is the con- 

 veyance of Staten Island (excepting as much of it as has been 

 granted to de Vries for a bouwerie) to Cornells Melyn, Patroon. 

 (Col. Doc. 13: 201.) 



1643. Indians rose in arms, on account of an attack upon them 

 by the Dutch on the night between the 27th and 28th February 

 1643, and destroyed all but two bouweries on Staten Island. 

 (Col. Doc. i: 151.) 



1645. July 7th, 1645. From Instructions for the Director & 

 Council of New Netherland : " The Director proceeds so rigor- 

 ously against . . . and the Patroon of Staten Island . . . and so 

 terrifying Cornells Melyn, on Staten Island, that he dare not 

 leave the place, nor entirely expose himself." (Col. Doc. i : 498.) 



