Liz, thanks for this. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:41 PM, E Johnson <iris.gates@gmail.com> wrote: > There was no Dutch government at NY in 1692. The English took over the > Dutch colony in 1664. The Dutch briefly regained their colony in 1673, but > had to return it to England at the signing of the Treaty of Westminster in > November 1674. > > I read elsewhere that Waples petitioned the Whorekill Court on 2 September > 1692 for a license to keep a ferry across the Indian River near his house. > The Whorekill (Hoorkill or Hoorenkill) was the old Dutch name for the place > that is now Lewes, Delaware. > -- Marjorie "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."~ Henry Van Dyke