Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam. John S. C. Abbott

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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       PREFACE

       JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.

       PETER STUYVESANT.

       CHAPTER I.—DISCOVERY OF THE HUDSON RIVER.

       CHAPTER II.—THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY.

       CHAPTER III.—THE COMMENCEMENT OF COLONISATION.

       CHAPTER IV.—THE ADMINISTRATION OF VAN TWILLER.

       CHAPTER V.—WAR AND ITS DEVASTATIONS.

       CHAPTER VI.—GOVERNOR STUYVESANT.

       CHAPTER VII.—WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND HOLLAND.

       CHAPTER VIII.—ANOTHER INDIAN WAR.

       CHAPTER IX.—AN ENERGETIC ADMINISTRATION.

       CHAPTER X.—THE ESOPUS WAR.

       CHAPTER XI.—THE DISASTROUS YEAR.

       CHAPTER XII.—ENCROACHMENTS OF THE ENGLISH.

       CHAPTER XIII.—HOSTILE MEASURES COMMENCED.

       CHAPTER XIV.—THE CAPTURE OF NEW AMSTERDAM.

       CHAPTER XV.—THE FINAL SURRENDER.

       CHAPTER XVI.—THE OLDEN TIME.

       THE END.

       NOTES

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      It is impossible to understand the very remarkable character and career of Peter Stuyvesant, the last, and by far the most illustrious, of the Dutch governors of New Amsterdam, without an acquaintance with the early history of the Dutch colonies upon the Hudson and the Delaware. The Antiquarian may desire to look more fully into the details of the early history of New York. But this brief, yet comprehensive narrative, will probably give most of the information upon that subject, which the busy, general reader can desire.

      In this series of "The Pioneers and Patriots of America," the reader will find, in the "Life of De Soto," a minute description of the extreme south and its inhabitants, when the Mississippi rolled its flood through forests which the foot of the white man had never penetrated. "Daniel Boone" conducts us to the beautiful streams and hunting grounds of Kentucky, when the Indian was the sole possessor of those sublime solitudes. In the "Life of Miles Standish, the Puritan Captain," we are made familiar with that most wonderful of all modern stories, the settlement of New England. "Peter Stuyvesant" leads us to the Hudson, from the time when its majestic waters were disturbed only by the arrowy flight of the birch canoe, till European colonization had laid there the foundations of one of the most flourishing cities on this globe.

      In these Histories the writer has spared no labor in gathering all the information in his power, respecting those Olden Times, now passing so rapidly into oblivion.

JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.

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