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were removed from there by order of the Director General and Council then in office, as appears by the extract annexed, and about the middle of May of the aforesaid year 1640, after they had by their own declaration, pulled down the Arms of their High Mightinesses long before set up there, and put a Fool’s head instead, after this westerly part of Long Island had, about eight years before, to wit in the year 1632, begun to be settled and populated by their High Mightinesses’ subjects; 8 or 9 years before any other nation had settled themselves on any part of Long Island. Dated 10 March 1664.

In regard to the derivation and meaning of the name “Waal-Boght,” we take this opportunity of giving the opinion of that excellent scholar, Mr. SAMUEL ALOFSEN, of Jersey City, who (in the Literary World, No. 68, May 20, 1848) maintains that the locality was named by the early Dutch settlers prior to the arrival of the Walloons; and, of course, without reference to their settlement there. The name, he thinks,—like that portion of the City of Amsterdam which bears the same appellation,—is derived from “EEN WAAL”“a basin of a harbor, or an inner harbor and ÒEEN BOGT,” a bend; and, like its European namesake, signifies “The Bend of the Inner Harbor.”

APPENDIX II.—(PAGE 26.)

INDIAN DEED OF BUSHWICK.—(N. Y. Col. MSS. G.G., 27.)

WE, THE DIRECTOR GENERAL AND COUNCIL OF NEW NETHERLANDS, residing on the Island Manhates in Fort Amsterdam, under thejurisdiction of their High Mightinesses the Lords States General of the United Netherlands, and the Incorporated West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam, acknowledge and declare that on this day, the date underwritten, before Us in their proper persons appeared and came forward Kakapoteyno, Menqueuw & Suwirau, Chiefs of Keskaechquerem, in the presence of the Subscribing witnesses and voluntarily and most deliberately declare with consent of the Tribe (gemeente), for and in consideration of Eight fathoms of Duffels, Eight fathoms of Wampum, Twelve Kettles, Eight Adzes and Eight axes, with some Knives, Beads, Awl blades, (which they acknowledge