Michaëlius, Jonas, Manhattan in 1628

(New York :  Dodd, Mead,  1904.)

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Colonization                      175

in command of her. After what must have been a
protracted stay in this country, she returned to Hol¬
land with a valuable cargo of peltries.

Mr. Brodhead makes a curious mistake in speaking
of the distribution of the colonists. He says:' "An¬
other portion of the colonists, who came out in the
New Netherland, consisting chiefly of Walloons, soon
settled themselves at a *boght' or small bay on the
west shore of Long Island, nearly opposite to Nech-
tonk or Corker's Hook on Manhattan. This settle¬
ment, which was just north of Marechkawiek or
Brooklyn, before long became familiarly known as
the Waalboght, or Walloon's Cove. The colonists
throve apace. Other immigrants followed the first
adventurers from Holland; and here, in the month
of June, 1625, Sarah Rapelje was born, the first ascer¬
tained offspring of European parentage in the pro¬
vince of New Netherland, These early colonists are
not to be confounded with the Waldenses, who subse¬
quently emigrated from Amsterdam. The descendants
of the Walloons soon spread themselves over the coun¬
try in the vicinity of the * Waalboght'; and the names
of  many   of  the   most   respectable   families   on   Long

^ History of New Tork,  i, 153.
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