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205 NotestotheAnnotatedTranslation 1. For this native man, see also the appendix: Esopus, “Mannonck.” “[M]anonck,” his wife, and two unnamed sons reappear together on pages [2] and [67]; these page numbers have been allocated in editing the account book. The activities on those accounts span the period between an undetermined month in 1717 and October 1726. In addition, “manonck” himself appears on [99], with an account dating from November 1726. His burial in January 1727 is mentioned on [83] and referred to on [101]. An unnamed son is active on the account of the Indian man “Kattener” on [5], in September 1724. Several of his sons are mentioned in the account book with their names: “Jacob” on [2] and [67]–[68]; “kattias” on [69]; and “mattiso” (also “matisso”) on [67] through [69], [73], [83], and [107]–[108]. The latter’s wife, “pitternel,” appears with her own account on [108]. “[M]anonck” and his kin developed the highest recorded debt in this account book; the third largest in this account, of 566 guilders; and the largest, amounting to 586 guilders and 10 stivers (half a guilder). See the account on [67]. 2. The Spanish “peso,” consisting of eight “reales.” 3. This total is incorrect; it should have been 232 guilders. 4. A tromp, in this context, can be a part of a horn, a gun barrel, or a Jew’s harp. Considering the low price of the item, the latter is the most likely possibility. 5. The remainder of this line is empty. 6. Sentence ends abruptly; hat (had) would be expected here. 7. This debt is among the highest in the account book. 8. All accounts on this page relate to the account of “manonck” and his relatives on [1]. 9. The tax assessment of Ulster County in January 1716–17 listed Jan van Kampen Sr. as living in Marbletown and Jr. as residing in Rochester. It is unclear which of the two is recorded in the account book; see UCTAL. 10. It is possible she reappears in an account of almost six years later on [73], as “debora [,] maggel[’]s wife or wido[w].” 11. For a note on this individual and his relatives, see [1]. 12. A son of “manonck.” He reappears in the account of “manonck” and his relatives on [67]–[68]. It is uncertain if he is the same individual as “Jacob the savage” on [23], 206 | Munsee India n Tra de in Ul st er Coun t y “Jacob the big savage” on [43], or “Jacob the savage[,] gerti’s husband at paponeck” who is described elsewhere as “jacob or nockkehan”; see [71] and [89]. 13. Opleggen, of which gelyt may be derived, in commercial exchanges is “to raise” or “to lay onto/on top” (of a price for instance). 14. In this manuscript, the pages are not numbered, and the page number used in this reference cannot be checked. It is the only internal reference of this kind in the account book. But “manonck,” his wife, and two sons reappear frequently in the pages of this account book. 15. This individual and many of his relatives occur frequently in the pages of this account book. For a profile of this Esopus leader, see the appendix: Esopus, “Hendrick Hekan.” He has his own accounts on [55] and [91], and is active on other Indians’ accounts on [61], [62], and [109]. Together, these activities cover the period between September 1724 and September 1728. His relatives who are listed with an account of their own are: his wife “sar,” “Krwamo[’s] daughter,” on [13] and [91]; his son “wadde” (also “waddie”) on [78] and [109] through [111]; his other son “magh,” on [109]; and his “oldest son,” on [77]–[78]. Other relatives are active on the account of several Indian customers. They include: his son “kryn” on [67]; an unnamed daughter on [77]; and, besides the unnamed son on this page, one or various additional unnamed son(s) on [55], [77], [78], [91], and [110] (twice). His relatives’ accounts and appearances in accounts of others cover the period between April 1719 and August 1729. Robert S. Grumet lists this prominent native man’s occurrences in colonial records that span the period 1699–1758 in “The Minisink Settlements: Native American Identity and Society in the Munsee Heartland, 1650-1778,” in The People of the Minisink: Papers from the 1989 Delaware Water Gap Symposium, ed. David G. Orr and Douglas V. Campana (Philadelphia, PA: National Park Service, 1991), 205...

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