370 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1657-1 660.

Liber H. H.

then in process of tyme Conquered and Seated in Europe,
America or Elsewhere whereof the aboues^d province of the
new Netherlands the Jlands of Curacoe and Brasille became
the true proper inheritances to the Dutch Nation in those parts
in that respect.

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Secondly, As for the Generality The ffrench were in the
yeare of our Lord God Allmighty 1524 the Second followers of
the Discovery in the Northerne parts of this America by
Jehan de Verazzano a fflorentine
Then Came the English and Dutch afterward also, and tooke
possession in the parts wee are in now. for Since the yeare
1606, or 1607, to about 18 or 20 The English established and
seated their Colony of Virginia by Distinct pattents from the
Degree 34 to about 38. The Dutch the Manhatans from 38
to 42, And New England from the degree 42 to 45, The
ffrench slaine in fflorida beheld Canada (Spaine the West
Indies or Mexico, The Portugalls Brasyll) And thus is this
New World divided amongst the Christian princes of Europe,
by Communication of each others Embassadors agreed vpon
Out of which Reason King James of England Did Will Com-
annd and require that the Colony or province of Virginia, and
the province of New England should remaine asunder and not
meete together within the Distance and space of a hundred
leagues which was allotted for the Dutch plantations then called
by the Generall name of Manhattans, after the name of the
Jndians they were first seated by And is here to be noted
that they deeply mistake themselues who interprett the Gene-
rail name of Manhattans aforesaid, vnto the particular Towne
built vpon a little Jland because as it is said it signified the
wholl Countrey & province, or at least that particular place in
that province as per Example, like it is frequent still to this
Day amongst some to Say to goe or Come from the Manhat-
tans when they meane the whole province like vnto Virginia
or Maryland for that particular Towne it selfe is never named
the Manhattans, but New Amsterdam. And as for the Sowth
River or as it is Called by the English Delaware int particular:
The said River was in the primitiue tyme likewise possessed,
and a Collony planted in the Westerne Shore within the mouth
of the Sowth Cape called the Hoore Kill to this day, The
Dutch Nations erecting there and all over the Countrey their
States Armes and a little fforte, but after some tyme they were
all slained and murthered by the Jndians Soe that the posses-
sions and propriety of this River at the first in his Jnfancy is
Sealed vp with the bloud of a great many Sowles. After this

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in the yeare 1623 the fforte Nassaw was built about 15 leagues
vp the River on the Easterne Shore, besids many other places
of the Dutch, and the Dutch Swedes to and againe settled.