The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-12-08

which is also entered upon the pages of the
old record book. In these letters, he re-
minds the Governor of the great service he
did the province in making the map for his
late father, the first Lord Baltimore, of
"blessed memory" &C., and accuses his
enemies of intercepting and opening some
of the letters he had sent to the Governor
and council. In one of these letters he
speaks of "John D. Hinoyossa, who was
up to fetch his master Lockaman's ne
groes." From this we infer that the trade
in slaves was being carried on between the
English settlers along the shores of the
Chesapeake and the Dutch about New Cas-
tie. This John D'Hinoyossa was probably
the son of Alexander D'Hinoyossa, who
was one of the prominent men in the Dutch
settlement at New Castle. Hetirst appears
in the history of that place in 1856, at
which time he was lieutenant under Cap
tain Martin Krygier, who was commander
of the military force of the Dutch. In 1863
he succeeded Jacob Alricks as vice director
of the company in Amsterdam, under whose
auspices the colony at New Castle then
was. He appears to have been quite as
hard-headed, stubborn and vindictive as
Peter Stuyvesant the Dutch Governor of
New lork, to whom he should have been
subordinate, but whose authority he did
not hesitate to set at defiance whenever
he chose to do SO. In 1862, William Beck
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| company and the peer of D'Hinoyossa,
complained to the authorities at
New York that D'Hinoyossa had sud
denly departed to Maryland. This sud
den departure of D'Hnoyossa was in an
swer to letter which he received from the
Governor of Maryland, inviting him to
meet him at the house of Herman, on b.
hernia Manor. Of what took place at that
meeting, or why it was held, we are not
informed, but short time after the meet
ing was held, Beekman accuses him of sell
ing every article for which he could find a
purchaser, even powder and musket balls
from the magazine. Beekman states that
Augustine Herman was one of the pur-
chasers.
The only conclusion that we can arrive
at, after reading the account of the conduct
of DHinoyossa during the latter part of
his official career in Delaware. is that he
studied to advance the interests of Mary
land more than those of Delaware. He
probably had reason to apprehend the ulti-
mate extinction of the Dutch authority on
the Delaware, and wished to have an asy
lum in which to take refuge when the time
of need arrived.
In 1864, the Dutch settlements on the
Delaware were conquered by Sir Robert
Carr, and D'Hinoyossa took refuge in
Maryland. His property, including an
island in the Delaware river, was confs-
Gated and given to Carr, the commander Of
the expedition that had conquered the
Dutch. d Hinoyossa received grant of
the whole or a part of Fosters Island,
which is part of Talbot county, in the
Chesapeake Bay, from Lord Baltimore.
No doubt this was on account of the favor
he showed the English in Maryland during
the latter part of the time he was in au-
thority in Delaware. He was a soldier of
fortune, and is said in his early life to have
been in Brazil. He returned to Holland
and engaged in the war against Louis XIV,
and died in Holland. OUILP.