FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW-YORK BY THE DUTCH. 49

EARLY DUTCH SETTLEMENT ON THE DELAWARE.

[Deed Book, VII.J '

N.Yorlf, february 14: 1684-5.

The Deposicon of Catelina Trico aged fouer score yeares or thereabouts taken before the right hono''''^. Coll". Thomas Dongan Leu', and Governour under his Royii. high^s, James Duke of Yorke and Albany etc. of N York and its Dependencyes in America who saith and Declares in the p^sens of God as folio we th

That she Came to this Province either in the yeare one thousand six hundred and twenty tliree or twenty fouer to the best of her remembrance, and that fouer Women Came along with her in the same Shipp, in which ship the Governor Arian Jorissen Came also over, which fouer Women were married at Sea and that they and their liusbands stayed about tiiree Weekes at tliis place and then they with eight seamen more went in a vessell by o^d^ of the Dutcli Governoi". to Dellaware River and there settled. This I Certifie under my hand and y^ seale of this province.

THO. DONGAN,

The Deposicon of Arien Dirksen Korn aged about sixty five yeares being Deposed saith

That he Came in this Country of New York formerly called the new Netherlands in the yeare one thousand six hund'^. and thirty the 24t'i of May with the ship Vnity John Brower Commander and hath ever since continued here in this country, and saith further that att the said tinte of hisarrivall here this Deponent he-ard and was Informed by persons then arriving here from Delleware River that the said River was settled by the dutch west India Company who had sent a parcell of men there in order to whale fishing, and this Deponent saith further that some short time After to his best Remembrance it was about one yeare or one yeare and a half after newsCaiut; here att New York from Deleware, that all the said people in Delleware were Cutt of by tile Indians, and fm-tlier this Deponent saith nott.