Category: Historical Novels
The purpose of this series of stories is to show the children, and even those who have already taken up the study of history, the _home life_ of the colonists with whom they meet in their books. To this end every effort has been made to avoid anything savoring of romance, and...
From that moment until this I have never sought for employment; there has ever been something which I should do for others, or was in duty bound to do for myself, until I am com...
3. Part 3When this had been done, and I was kept at the task during the greater part of two days, each assortment was packed into a chest like unto the one we had taken ashore when the i...
4. Part 4However, we were not then at Plymouth, but nearly twenty miles away. That the Englishmen might have warning of our coming, word was sent ahead by one of the savages who had jour...
6. Part 6And this is the news which the messenger brought:--It seems that two days after our fleet had sailed from New Amsterdam, Master Van Dyck found an Indian woman in his orchard ste...
5. Part 5On the eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord, 1647, a fleet of four large vessels sailed into the harbor of New Amsterdam, bringing the new Director, Petrus Stuyvesant, h...
1. Part 1The purpose of this series of stories is to show the children, and even those who have already taken up the study of history, the _home life_ of the colonists with whom they mee...
7. Part 7He wore a long coat of blue velvet on which were silver buttons, and the huge flaps of the pockets were trimmed with silver lace. His waistcoat, so long that the front came near...