Peter Stuyvesant: Director-General for the West India Company in New Netherland (Classic Reprint)
- ISBN-10
- 1451001495
- ISBN-13
- 9781451001495
- Series
- Peter Stuyvesant
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 200
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-07-28
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- Bayard Tuckerman
Description
Excerpt from Peter Stuyvesant: Director-General for the West India Company in New Netherland Original sources of information concerning the early Dutch settlers of Manhattan Island are neither many nor rich. The two volumes of Holland Documents, published by the State of New York, contain the official papers of the colony and the West India Company. Some contemporary descriptions exist, of which Van der Donck's is the best. But the Dutch wrote very little, and on the whole their records are meagre. Concerning their social conditions, the best authority is to be found in the pro ceedings of the burgomasters and schepens, preserved inthe City Hall and in the books of the 'surrogate's and Register's offices. These sources and the collections of the New York Historical Society have been relied upon in the preparation of this book. The author's thanks are due to Mr. William kebby, Librarian of the Historical Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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