Note 458 — Chapter VIII · THE GROWTH OF A FRONTIER

Bradford, Plymouth, p. 313; Acts of the United Colonies, vol. II, p. 65 (Plymouth Records, X). These Acts, vols. I and II, form vols. IX and X of the Plymouth Records, and are hereafter cited as Acts United Colonies. J. R. Brodhead, History State of New York, vol. I, p. 204, gives the month as June; but the Records say January. Various Dutch documents, all of a later period, state that a settlement was contemplated, and possession taken, in 1623. Cf. Documentary History State of New York, vol. III, p. 50; N. Y. Colonial Docts., vols. I, pp. 286, 360, and II, p. 133. There is, however, no contemporary documentary evidence of it; and it is certain, at least, that there was no settlement actually made until that designed to forestall the English in 1633.