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قراءة كتاب Dutch and English on the Hudson: A Chronicle of Colonial New York
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Dutch and English on the Hudson: A Chronicle of Colonial New York
ROOSEVELT EDITION
VOLUME 7
THE CHRONICLES OF AMERICA SERIES
ALLEN JOHNSON
EDITOR
GERHARD H. LOMER
CHARLES W. JEFFERYS
ASSISTANT EDITORS
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
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 |
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 |
DUTCH AND ENGLISH ON THE HUDSON
CHAPTER I
UP THE GREAT RIVER
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 Navesink Heights, and sounded her way to an anchorage in what is now the outer harbor of