Minuit, Peter, first governor of the colony, 13; character, 15; buys Manhattan Island from Indians, 14; relations with Indians, 16; relations with English, 18; rule of, 18; recall of, 19; enters Swedish service, 19; leads band of Swedes to the Delaware, 26
Morris, Chief-Justice, expelled from office, 124; conservative principles of, 137
Morris, Gouverneur, type of Whig party, 150; attitude in the Revolution, 151; leader of Federalist party, 181; position in 1812, 201; elected senator, 189; plans Erie Canal, 215
New Amsterdam, founded, 14; mixture of population, 14, 34; beginning of stable existence, 34; compared with New England, 35; society in, 35, 36; incorporation of, 36; appearance of the town, 37, 38; costume in, 39; amusements, 39; seized by England, 43, 44; name changed to New York, 46, 57
New England, English settlements in, 3; compared with New Amsterdam, 35; colonists held in check by Stuyvesant, 40; settlers opposed to aristocracy and Episcopacy, 49; united to New York and New Jersey, 69; action on fall of the Stuarts, 74; indifference to welfare of New York, 99; quarrels with Gov. Fletcher, 99; indifference to New York’s prosperity, 129; sympathy for, in New York, 146
New Englanders, characteristics of, 23; kept in check by Colve, 56
Nicholson, Sir Francis, leader of aristocratic party in 1689, 74; quarrel with militia, 78
Nicolls, Col. Richard, seizes New Amsterdam, 44; agent for Duke of York, 47; rule in New York, 47; character, 47, 51; refuses right of election of representatives, 50; treatment of Indians, 51; benefits of his control, 51; returns to England, 52
