The Dutch and English on the Hudson: A Chronicle of Colonial New YorkCosimo, Inc., 1. jan. 2006 - 500 sider Sea commerce at this time had so far outstripped a naval power adequate to protect it that piracy grew more and more profitable, and many a respected sea merchant held private stock in some more than dubious sea venture.-from "Privateers and Pirates"First published in 1919, this now-classic history chronicles the settlement and early life of what would become the greatest city in the world, from the first European traders and settlers to the civic life of the colony in the 18th century. In vivid, dramatic prose, Goodwin describes: .Henry Hudson's arrival in New York harbor.the Dutch West India Company's early charter in the New World.the government of the burghers, and the first English governors.the brutal treatment of Negro slaves in the burgeoning city.the waves of immigration that saw surges in the city's population.and much more.MAUD WILDER GOODWIN (1856-1935) wrote extensively on American history, including The Colonial Cavalier, Or Southern Life Before the Revolution (1895), White Aprons: A Romance of Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia, 1676 (1897), Historic New York (1899), and Sir Christopher: A Romance of a Maryland Manor in 1644 (1901). |
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THE BURGHERS | 102 |
THE NEIGHBORS OF NEW NETHERLAND 66 | 123 |
THE EARLY ENGLISH GOVERNORS | 137 |
LEISLER | 150 |
INDEX | 235 |
THE BIRTH OF PENNSYLVANIA | 1 |
PENN SAILS FOR THE DELAWARE | 17 |
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN | 63 |
00 | 108 |
VIII | 125 |
PLANTERS AND TRADERS OF SOUTHERN | 153 |
SCOTCH COVENANTERS AND OTHERS | 168 |
PRIVATEERS AND PIRATES 46 | 165 |
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT IN THE EIGH TEENTH CENTURY | 180 |
THE ZENGER TRIAL | 193 |
THE NEGRO PLOTS | 206 |
SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON 66 | 218 |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 66 | 231 |
XI | 180 |
XII | 197 |
THE ENGLISH CONQUEST | 215 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 231 |
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Side 58 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back bone, just between the shoulders.
Side 58 - ... a beer barrel on skids. His face, that infallible index of the mind, presented a vast expanse, unfurrowed by any of those lines and angles which disfigure the human countenance with what is termed expression. Two small gray eyes twinkled feebly in the midst...
Side 19 - ... air clear and sweet, the springs plentiful, and provision good and easy to come at ; an innumerable quantity of wild fowl and fish : in fine, here is what an Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would be well contented with ; and service enough for God, for the fields are here white for harvest. 0, how sweet is the quiet of these parts, freed from the anxious and troublesome solicitations, hurries, and perplexities of woeful Europe...
Side 69 - It may during my administration be contemplated to appeal, but if any one should do it, I will make him a foot shorter, and send the pieces to Holland, and let him appeal in that way.
Side 112 - The teatable was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork, fried brown, cut up into morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company being seated...
Side 112 - The tea was served out of a majestic delft teapot ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs, with boats sailing in the air, and houses built in the clouds, and sundry other ingenious Dutch fantasies.
Side 2 - ... side of them; then we had five and six fathoms, and anchored. So we sent in our boat to sound, and they found no less water than four, five, six, and seven fathoms, and returned in an hour and a half. So we weighed and went in and rode in five fathoms, oozy ground, and saw many salmons, and mullets, and rays very great.
Side 200 - I am truly very unequal to such an undertaking on many accounts. And you see I labor under the weight of many years, and am borne down with great infirmities of body; yet old and weak as I am, I should think it my duty, if required, to go to the utmost part of the land where my service could be of any use in assisting to quench the flame of prosecutions upon informations set on foot by the government to deprive a people of the right of remonstrating (and complaining too) of the arbitrary attempts...
Side 2 - ... barre before it, for we had but ten foot water. Then we cast about to the southward, and found two fathoms, three fathoms, and three and a quarter, till we came to the souther side of them ; then we had five and sixe fathoms, and anchored.