The Story of Manhattan

By Charles Hemstreet

Charles Scribner's Sons

1901

PREFACE

Here the history of New York City is told as a story, in few words. The effort has been to make it accurate and interesting. The illustrations are largely from old prints and wood engravings. Few dates are used. Instead, a Table of Events has been added which can readily be referred to. The Index to Chapters also gives the years in which the story of each chapter occurs.

INDEX to CHAPTERS

LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I. The Adventures of Henry Hudson.
From 1609 to 1612

CHAPTER II. The First Traders on the Island.
From 1612 to 1625

CHAPTER III. Peter Minuit, First of the Dutch Governors.
From 1626 to 1633

CHAPTER IV. Walter Van Twiller, Second of the Dutch Governors.
From 1633 to 1637

CHAPTER V. William Kieft and the War with the Indians.
From 1637 to 1647

CHAPTER VI. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last of the Dutch Governors.
From 1647 to 1664

CHAPTER VII. New York Under the English and the Dutch.
From 1664 to 1674

CHAPTER VIII. Something About the Bolting Act.
From 1674 to 1688

CHAPTER IX. The Stirring Times of Jacob Leisler.
From 1688 to 1691

CHAPTER X. The Sad End of Jacob Leisler.
The Year 1691

CHAPTER XI. Governor Fletcher and the Privateers.
From 1692 to 1696

CHAPTER XII. Containing the True Life of Captain Kidd.
From 1696 to 1702

CHAPTER XIII. Lord Cornbury makes Himself very Unpopular.
From 1702 to 1708

CHAPTER XIV. Lord Lovelace and Robert Hunter.
From 1708 to 1720

CHAPTER XV. Governor Burnet and the French Traders.
From 1720 to 1732

CHAPTER XVI. The Trial of Zenger, the Printer.
From 1732 to 1736

CHAPTER XVII. Concerning the Negro Plot.
From 1736 to 1743

CHAPTER XVIII. The Tragic Death of Sir Danvers Osborne.
From 1743 to 1753

CHAPTER XIX. The Beginning of Discontent.
From 1753 to 1763

CHAPTER XX. The Story of the Stamp Act.
From 1763 to 1765

CHAPTER XXI. The Beginning of Revolution.
From 1765 to 1770

CHAPTER XXII. Fighting the Tax on Tea.
From 1770 to 1774

CHAPTER XXIII. The Sons of Liberty at Turtle Bay.
From 1774 to 1775

CHAPTER XXIV. The War of the Revolution.
In the Year 1775

CHAPTER XXV. A Battle on Long Island.
The Year 1776

CHAPTER XXVI. The British Occupy New York.
The Year 1776 (Continued)

CHAPTER XXVII. The Battle of Harlem Heights.
The Year 1776 (Continued)

CHAPTER XXVIII. The British Fail to Sweep Everything Before