History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
It would be foreign to our purpose to discuss these Articles of Capitulation, or as usually termed "Surrender," at length.* Those only which bear upon our subject will be mentioned, viz -- the third, eighth, eleventh, twelfth, sixteenth, and twenty-first. They are as follows : --
3 II. O'Call., 536.
< They are to be found in II. Col., Hist., 250 ; I. Brod., 762, and in many other historical wurks.
THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE MANORS.
" nr. All people shall still continue free denizens, and shall enjoy their lands, houses, goods, wheresoever they are within this country, and dispose of them as they please.
"VIII. The Dutch here shall enjoy the liberty of their consciences in divine worship and church discipline.
" XI. The Dutch here shall enjoy their own customs concerning their inheritances.
"XII. All publique writings and records, which concern the inheritances of any people, or the reglement ^regulation} of the church, or poor, or orphans shall be carefully kept by those in whose hands now they are, and such writings as particularly concern the States-General may at any time be sent to them.
"XVI. All inferior civil officers and magistrates shall continue as now they are (if they please) till the customary time of new elections, and then new ones to be chosen by themselves, provided that such new chosen magistrates shall take the oath of allegiance to his majesty of England before they enter upon their office.
"XXI. That the town of Manhattans shall choose Deputyes, and those Deputyes shall have free voyces in all publique affaires as much as any other Deputyes."