Catelyn Trico aged about 83 years born in Paris doth Testify and Declare that in y« year 1623 she came into this Country w^h a Ship called y^ Unity whereof was Commander Arien Jorise belonging to ye West India Company being y® first Ship yt came here for y« s^ Company ; as soon as they came to Mannatans now called N: York they sent Two families & six men to harford River & Two families & 8 men to Delaware River and 8 men they left att N: Yorke to take Possession and ye Rest of y®

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Passengers went w'"^ ye Ship up as farr as Albany wliich they then Called fort Orangie When as y® Ship came as farr as Sopus which is I way to Albanie ; they lightned ye Ship w'^ some boats yt were left there by y" Dutch tliat had been there y^ year before a tradeing w^'' ye Indians upont tliere oune accompts & gone back again to Holland & so brought ye vessel up ; there were about 18 families aboard who settled themselves att Albany & made a small tort ; and as soon as tliey had built themselves some hutts of Eark: y^ JVIahikanders or Kiver Indians, y^ Maquase : Oneydes : Onnondages Cayougas. & Sinnekes, w*h ye Mahawawa or Ottawawaes Indians came & made Covenants of friendship w^^ ye s^ Arien Jorise there Commander Bringing him great Presents of Bever o' oy Peltry & desyred that they might come & liave a Constant free Trade with them w*='i was concluded upon & y° s"^ nations came dayly with great multidus of Bever & traded them vj^'^ y^ Christians, there s'^ Comman' Arien Jorise staid with them all winter and sent his Sonne home with ye ship ; y® s*^ Deponent lived in Albany tlu^ee years all which time ye s'^ Indians were all as quiet as Lambs & came & Traded with aU ye freedom Imaginable, in ye year 1626 ye Deponent came from Albany & settled at N: Yorke where she lived afterwards for many years and then came to Long Island where she now lives.