Materiotty, or men of blood, the Dutch so called by the Indians, 8.

Matouwacs, the island of, 115. (see Long Island.)

Matsepe, the Indians of, attacked by the Dutch, 16.

Maurice river, 21. ; Mayano, an Indian sachem near Greenwich,

killed, 14.

convention, 942, 950. /

Megapolensis, Rev. Mr., the Kort Ontwerp, Of, 2

Melyn, Cornelis, colonie of, 6; banished, from N. Netherland, 110; his son drowned, 111; narrowly escapes drowning, ib.

Memoir of Lieut. Goy. Delancey, 1035; of Hon. James Duane, 1061.

Menard, Rey. Réné, 292.

Menitsings, the, aid the [Esopus Indians, 46, 48, 63.

Menonists in N. Netherland, 22.

Mereury, the New York, 385. ;

Merekewacks, or Indians of Brooklyn, 102.

Mexico, bay of, an inland navigation feasible between the province of New York and the, 173.

Meyndertz, Myndert, colonie of, 6, 9.

Miantenimo excites the Indians of N. Netherland against the christians, 9.

Middelwout. (see /latbush.)

Milet, Rev. Pierre, 393.

Militia of the Prov. of New-York, ordered to be enumerated, 167; act regarding the, passed annually, 180; names of the officors and soldiers belonging in 1738, to the, 208.

Mine, a gold, supposed to be near the South river, 22; a silver, in New Netherland, ie

Minerals of N. Netherland, 117; of the Prov. of N. York, 174.

Minnisinck, population of, in 1738, 185.

Miscellanies, 1059.

Missionaries, a list of the early, among the Troquois, 291; caveat entered at Fort Stanwix against alichating the Indian lands by two N. Eng., 390; intrigues of the N. Eng., 397.