The Story of American History for Elementary Schools

CHAPTER VII. PAGES 88-105.

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THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK; THE QUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

TOPICS FOR COLLATERAL READING.--Henry Hudson: his voyages, voyage upon the Great River, his tragic fate, see Fiske's _The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America_, Vol. I, pp. 83-95. William Penn: see the Index to Fiske's _The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America_.

REFERENCES FOR READING.--_The Great Peace Maker_ (Penn) (Daring Deed Series); Abbott's _Peter Stuyvesant_ (Ajax Series).

OUTSIDE READINGS.--Butterworth's _Wampum Belt_ (Penn); Irving's _Knickerbocker's History of New York_ (humorous and satirical account of the Dutch Colony of New Netherland); Paulding's _The Dutchman's Fireside_ (Colonial Life in New York).