Chapter 03 Roeloff Swarwtout, Schout of Esopus, 1634-1715, pp 90-137
CHAPTER 111. ROELOFF SWARTWOUT, SCHOUT OF ESOPUS. 1634-1715. THE hostilities in 1616 between the Mohawk and Mohegan Indians having caused the colonists at Fort Orange to abandon the settlement and…
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CHAPTER 11. TOMYS SWARTWOUT, SCHEPEN OF MIDWOUT. 1607-1662. THE baptismal registers of the Reformed Church {doopregistcrs dcr Gercformecrde-kcrk), in nine volumes, preserved in the Old Archive of Groningen, contain the…
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25 THE SWARTWOUT CHRONICLES who, by reason of the controversie they had with the territories thereabouts, were so blinded, as Jacob Hildebrand, bourgomaster, who was chicfe commander of the king’s…
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Excerpts including origins of the family name, Swartwout… In the first ages of the world people were distinguished by names descriptive of their origin, appearance, traits of character, and by…
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