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Geography 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 to the sea through the heart of a fertile country and which offers a natural highway for transportation of merchandise and for communication between colonies. No man, however, could foresee the development of the Empire State when, on that memorable September day in 1609, a small Dutch yacht named the Halve Maene or Half Moon, under the command of Captain Henry Hudson, slipped in past the low hook of sand in front of the. | and English on the Hudson by Maud Wilder Goodwin 1 and English on the Hudson by Maud Wilder Goodwin Project Gutenberg s Dutch and English on the Hudson by Maud Wilder Goodwin This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York Author Maud Wilder Goodwin Illustrator C. W. Jefferys Release Date January 15 2011 EBook 34977 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DUTCH AND ENGLISH ON THE HUDSON Produced by Al Haines ROOSEVELT EDITION VOLUME 7 and English on the Hudson by Maud Wilder Goodwin THE CHRONICLES OF AMERICA SERIES 2 ALLEN JOHNSON EDITOR GERHARD H. LOMER CHARLES W. JEFFERYS ASSISTANT EDITORS Frontispiece LOWER BROADWAY IN 1650. From the painting by C. W. Jefferys DUTCH AND ENGLISH ON THE HUDSON A CHRONICLE OF COLONIAL NEW YORK BY MAUD WILDER GOODWIN NEW HAVEN YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS TORONTO GLASGOW BROOK CO. LONDON HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1921 Copyright 1919 by Yale University Press vii CONTENTS 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 150 X. PRIVATEERS AND PIRATES 165 XI. COLONIAL GOVERNMENT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 180 XII. THE ZENGER TRIAL 193 XIII. THE NEGRO PLOTS 206 XIV. SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON 218 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 231 INDEX 235 ix ILLUSTRATIONS LOWER BROADWAY IN 1650 From the painting by C. W. Jefferys. Frontispiece THE HUDSON RIVER REGION 1609-1770 Map by W. L. G. Joerg American Geographical Society. Facing page 12 1 and English on the Hudson by Maud Wilder Goodwin 3 DUTCH AND ENGLISH ON THE .
