Category: History - American
I. UP THE GREAT RIVER Page 1 II. TRADERS AND SETTLERS " 17 III. PATROONS AND LORDS OF THE MANOR " 32 IV. THE DIRECTORS " 51 V. DOMINES AND SCHOOL-TEACHERS " 83 VI. THE BURGHERS " 102 VII. THE NEIGHBORS OF NEW NETHERLAND " 123 VIII. THE EARLY ENGLISH GOVERNORS " 137 IX. LEISLER...
The story of the French and Indian wars on our border does not fall within the scope of this chronicle; but in order to understand the development of New York we must know somet...
5. CHAPTER IVThe first Director-General of the colony, Captain Cornelis May, was removed by only a generation from those "Beggars of the Sea" whom the Spaniard held in such contempt; but thi...
7. CHAPTER VIIn the earliest days of New Netherland there were no burgers because, as the name implies, burghers are town-dwellers, and for a number of years after the coming of the Dutch no...
6. CHAPTER VBecause the Netherlander were not, like the New Englanders, fugitives from persecution at the hands of their fellow-countrymen, the Dutch colonization in America is often spoken...
4. CHAPTER IIITheir High Mightinesses, the States-General of the United Netherlands, as we have seen, granted to the Dutch West India Company a charter conveying powers nearly equaling and of...
2. CHAPTER IGeography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred and fifty miles from the mountains t...
10. CHAPTER IXThe story of the so-called Leisler Rebellion illustrates the difficulty of sifting conflicting historical testimony. Among the earlier chroniclers of New Netherland there is the...
11. CHAPTER XSloughter did not live long to enjoy his triumph over Leisler, and his death came so suddenly that the anti-Leislerites raised their eyebrows and whispered "poison," while the L...
3. CHAPTER IIAs he was returning to Holland from his voyage to America, Hudson was held with his ship at the port of Dartmouth, on the ground that, being an Englishman by birth, he owed his...
13. CHAPTER XIIAmong the children of the Palatines imported by Governor Hunter in 1710 was a lad of thirteen by the name of John Peter Zenger. Instead of proceeding to the Palatine colony, his...
8. CHAPTER VIIMachiavelli observed that to the wise ruler only two courses were open--to conciliate or to crush. The history of the Dutch in America illustrates by application the truth of th...
9. CHAPTER VIIIThe English Government was fortunate in its first representative after the surrender of Stuyvesant. Colonel Richard Nicolls, who had enforced the surrender with all the energy o...
14. CHAPTER XIIIAs early as the eighteenth century New York had become a cosmopolitan town. Its population contained not only Dutch and English in nearly equal numbers, but also French, Swedes,...
12. CHAPTER XIWhile Captain Kidd was still on the high seas and pirates were still infesting the lower Hudson, the Earl of Bellomont arrived in New York (in April, 1698), accompanied by his w...
1. VOLUME 7I. UP THE GREAT RIVER Page 1 II. TRADERS AND SETTLERS " 17 III. PATROONS AND LORDS OF THE MANOR " 32 IV. THE DIRECTORS " 51 V. DOMINES AND SCHOOL-TEACHERS " 83 VI. THE BURGHERS...