[881] [One of the most interesting of such is The Anthology of New Netherland, by Henry C. Murphy, published (125 copies) by the Bradford Club in 1865, which includes, with enlargements, Mr. Murphy’s privately printed Jakob Steendam, a Memoir of the First Poet in New Netherland, The Hague, 1861. Steendam was the minister of the Protestant Church in New Amsterdam. Muller, Catalogue (1872), nos. 1,092 et seq.; (1877) nos. 3,063 et seq., notes several of Steendam’s publications. Cf. Carter-Brown Catalogue, ii. 862, 898.—Ed.]
[882] “Illa in terram suis lintribus, quas canoas vocant exuderunt,” says Peter Martyr.
[883] The Pompey Stone: a Paper read before the Oneida Historical Society, by Dr. H. A. Homes State Librarian, Albany, 1881.
[884] [It is no. 2,390 in the Catalogue.—Ed.]
[885] [Fac-similes of it are also given in Valentine’s Manual, 1858; in Pennsylvania Archives, second series, vol. v. Muller, Books on America, iii. 143, and Catalogue of 1877, no. 3,484, describe the only other copy known. It is a colored map, and extends from Panama to Labrador.—Ed.]
[886] [O’Callaghan, i. 433, gives a list of settlers in Rensselaerswyck, 1630-1646. (Cf. Munsell’s Albany, ii. 13, and the map of 1763 in Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii. 552, and Weise’s Troy, 1876.) In 1839 Mr. D. D. Barnard appended a sketch of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck to his discourse on the life of Stephen Van Rensselaer.
Much credit is due to Mr. Joel Munsell for his efforts to increase interest in the study of American affairs, and particularly for his labors upon the history of Albany and its neighborhood. He died in 1880. (Cf. Historical Magazine, x. 44; xv. 139, 270; N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1880, p. 239.) He gives an account of his method and results in issuing historical monographs in small editions, in Historical Magazine, February, 1869, p. 139. His Annals of Albany appeared in ten volumes, from 1850 to 1859 (pp. 27-36 of vol. i. were never printed); his Collections on the History of Albany, four volumes, 1865-1871. See N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1868, p. 104. He published in 1869 J. Pearson’s Early Records of Albany and the Colony of Rensselaerswyck, 1656-1675, translated from the Dutch, with notes; and Wm. Barnes’s Early History of Albany, 1609-1686, was privately printed by him in 1864, with a map of Albany, 1695. On the early Dutch history of this region, see also General Egbert L. Viele’s “Knickerbockers of New York two centuries ago,” in Harper’s Monthly, December, 1876; a paper on the Van Rensselaers in Scribner’s Monthly, vi. 651; and some landmarks noticed in B. J. Lossing’s Hudson River, p. 124, etc.—Ed.]
[887] [It is given in fac-simile in the Lenox edition (1862) of Jogues’s Novum Belgium, edited by Shea, who also gave it in his edition, 1865, of the tract, The Commodities of the Iland called Manati ore long Ile. Cf. Asher’s List, no. 3; Armstrong’s Essay on Fort Nassau, p. 7. Copies more or less faithful of De Laet’s map appeared in Janssonius and Hondius’s Atlas of 1638, and in the Novus Atlas of Johannes Janssonius, Amsterdam, 1658; again in 1695, with the imprint of Valk and Schenk; and earlier, in 1651, reduced and not closely copied, but with some new details, in the Beschrijvinghe van Virginia, etc.; and of this last a photo-lithographic fac-simile was made at Amsterdam a few years ago.—Ed.]
[888] [This map belongs to Robert Dudley’s Della Arcano del Mare, Firenze, 1647, i. 57, of which there was a second edition, corrected and enlarged, in 1661. The 1647 edition is very rare, and the only copy known to me in America is in Harvard College Library. The author of the note on the map in the Documents relative to the Colonial History of New York, vol. i., where a fac-simile of it is given, did not seem to be aware of its origin. The Rev. E. E. Hale, in the Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., October, 1873, describes some of the original drawings for Dudley’s maps preserved in the Royal Library at Munich, and says the engraver has omitted some of the names given in the drawing. (Memorial History of Boston, i. 59.) The map of New Netherland differs from other maps of its time, and is not noticed by Asher. Lucini says that he was at work for twelve years on the plates, in an obscure village of Tuscany. The work is usually priced at £20 or £25. Quaritch’s Catalogue, 321, no. 11,971. Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 2,747 (150 francs.)—Ed.]
[889] [Cf. the notes to Dr. De Costa’s chapter, in Vol. III.—Ed.]