New-Utrecht Jaques Cortelleau Younger Hope Gravesend James Hubbard John Bowne Flatlands Elbert Elbertsen Roeloffe Martense Flatbush John Striker Hendrick Gucksen Bushwick John Stealman Gisbert Tunis Brooklyn Hendrick Lubbertsen John Evertsen Newtown Richard Betts John Coe Flushing Elias Doughty Richard Cornhill Jamaica Daniel Denton Thomas Benedict Hempstead John Hicks Robert Jackson Oysterbay John Underhill Matthias Harvey Huntington Jonas Wood John Ketcham Brookhaven Daniel Lane Roger Barton Southold William Wells John Youngs Southampton Thomas Topping John Howell Easthampton Thomas Baker John Stratton Westchester Edward Jessup ---- Quinby The people of Long-Island considered the language of this address as too servile for freemen; and were exasperated against the makers of it to such a degree that the court of assizes, in order to save the deputies from abuse, if not from personal violence, thought it expedient, at their meeting in October 1666, to declare that “whosoever hereafter shall any wayes detract or speake against any of the deputies signing the address to his royall highnes, at the general meeting at Hempstead, they shall bee presented to the next court of sessions, and if the justices shall see cause, they shall from thence bee bound over, to the assizes, there to answer for the slander upon plaint or information.” The deputies subsequently to the address made to the duke of York, made one to the people, in which they set forth their reasons for agreeing to the code styled the duke’s laws. APPENDIX, NO. 2. The following is a copy of the first charter by which the corporation obtained any color of title to the land between high and low water mark, on the Brooklyn side.