[404] "The crooked bay," i.e., Peconic Bay.
[405] Block Island, discovered by Adrian Block. The journalist is wrong as to Rhode Island not lying within the coast.
[406] Vineyard Haven.
[407] It can hardly have been more than a beacon. The first lighthouse was built in pursuance of an act of 1715, the preamble of which begins, "Whereas we want of a lighthouse at the entrance of the harbour of Boston hath been a great discouragement to navigation," etc. The new lighthouse was to be erected "on the southermost point of Great Brewster, called Beacon Island."
[408] George's Island; next, Castle Island, with the "castle" first built in 1635.
[409] Beacon Hill.
[410] Simon Bradstreet, elected in May, 1679, was governor of Massachusetts till 1686—the last governor under the old charter. He had come out in 1630, and was now seventy years old.
[411] Original, "Jan Tayller of [Dutch for or] Marchand Tayller." No John Taylor of Boston answering to the description has been identified.
[412] Sluyter was from Wesel, on the Rhine. Though it was a German town, many of its inhabitants were Dutch (like Peter Minuit) and Walloon.
[413] Captain John Foy appears in the records of the court of assistants, as still master of the Dolphin, in 1691.