Bears Island fortified, [45]

Beaver, The (ship), [161]

Beeren (Bears) Island fortified, [45]

Bellomont, Earl of, in stock company to fit out privateer, [170]; succeeds Fletcher as Governor of New York, [170-71], [180-181]; Captain Kidd communicates with, [174]; royal Governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, [175] (note); uprightness, [181]; espouses Leislerian cause, [181-83]; death (1701), [183]; revenues under, [191]

Berkeley, Lord, [145]

Beverwyck, [72]

Birds of Hudson region, [28]

Bissels, associate of Van Rensselaer, [40]

Blagge, Captain, defense of Leisler, [157-59]

Block, Adriaen, [135]