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nie; they lightned ye Ship wth some boats ye were left there by ye Dutch that had been there ye year before a tradeing wth ye Indians upont there oune accompts & gone back again to Holland & so brought ye vessel up; there were about 18 families abroad who settled themselves att Albany & made a small fort; and as soon as they had built themselves some butts of Bark: ye Mahikanders or River Indians. ye Maquase: Oneydes: Onnondages Cayougas. & Sinnekes, wth ye Mabawawa or Ottawawaes Indians came & made Covenants of friendship wth ye sd Arien Jorise there Commander Bringing him great Presents of Bever or oyr Peltry & desyred that they might come & have a Constant free Trade with them wch was concluded upon & ye sd nations came dayly with great multidus of Bever & traded them wth ye Christians, there sd Commanr Arien Jorise staid with them all winter and sent his sonne home with ye sd Deponent lived in Albany three years all which time ye sd Indians were all quiet as Lambs & came & Traded with all ye freedom Imaginable, in ye year 1626 yr Deponent came from Albany & settled at N: Yorke where she afterwards for many years and then came to Long Island where she now lives

The sd Catelyn Trico made oath of ye sd Deposition
before me at her house on Long Island in ye Wale
Bought this 17th day of October 1688.
WILLIAM MORRIS
Justice of ye pece

It will be seen that these depositions of Catalina Trico do not substantiate the Statement hitherto made by our historians concerning the early settlement, at the “Waal-Boght,” of the Walloons. (See Note 2, p. 25, of this volume.) One of these historians, Dr. E. B. O’Callaghan, of Albany, corrects his earlier error by very kindly placing at our disposal the following translation of a Minute of the Dutch Council, which establishes the date of the first settlement on the West end of Long Island.

(N.Y. Col. MSS. X., Part iii., p. 93.)

The Director General & Council of New Netherlands hereby certify and declare at the request of John Cooper an inhabitant of Southampton on Long Island, that it is true and truthful that the six or seven Englishmen who attempted to settle in the year 1640 on Long Island in Schout’s bay,