The Historical Writings of John Fiske: Illustrated with Many Photogravures, Maps, Charts, Facsimiles, Etc. ...Houghton. Mifflin Company, 1902 |
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... Peter Minuit , 1626 The building of Fort Amsterdam Mohawks and Mohegans · • 143 , 144 Minuit's discussion with Governor Bradford . Crushing naval defeats of the Spaniards by the Dutch · 145 , 146 V " " " PRIVILEGES AND EXEMPTIONS The ...
... Peter Minuit , 1626 The building of Fort Amsterdam Mohawks and Mohegans · • 143 , 144 Minuit's discussion with Governor Bradford . Crushing naval defeats of the Spaniards by the Dutch · 145 , 146 V " " " PRIVILEGES AND EXEMPTIONS The ...
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... Peter Minuit and his Swedes on the Delaware River . 277 Affairs of New Sweden . • John Printz , the ponderous governor He receives a visit from De Vries Fall of New Sweden . 278 279 280 281 IX DUTCH AND ENGLISH Change in the relations ...
... Peter Minuit and his Swedes on the Delaware River . 277 Affairs of New Sweden . • John Printz , the ponderous governor He receives a visit from De Vries Fall of New Sweden . 278 279 280 281 IX DUTCH AND ENGLISH Change in the relations ...
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... Peter Minuit , a native of the duchy of Cleves . Early in May , 1626 , Minuit arrived at Manhattan and took command of New Netherland . The first important act of Minuit's adminis- tration was the purchase of the island of Man- hattan ...
... Peter Minuit , a native of the duchy of Cleves . Early in May , 1626 , Minuit arrived at Manhattan and took command of New Netherland . The first important act of Minuit's adminis- tration was the purchase of the island of Man- hattan ...
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... Peter Minuit , who was accused of showing too great partiality for the patroons . There were probably motives work- ing below the surface to which we Recall of have no adequate clue . Minuit , who Minuit was an eminently just and ...
... Peter Minuit , who was accused of showing too great partiality for the patroons . There were probably motives work- ing below the surface to which we Recall of have no adequate clue . Minuit , who Minuit was an eminently just and ...
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... Peter Minuit , the little colonies at Manhattan and at Plymouth had kept about evenly balanced , each with about 300 inhabitants ; but now within five years Winthrop's new colony had grown from nothing to 4000 souls , and was already ...
... Peter Minuit , the little colonies at Manhattan and at Plymouth had kept about evenly balanced , each with about 300 inhabitants ; but now within five years Winthrop's new colony had grown from nothing to 4000 souls , and was already ...
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Página 167 - His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly an hour to each; he smoked and doubted eight hours, and he slept the remaining twelve of the four and twenty.
Página 167 - 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 backbone, just between the shoulders.
Página 105 - I sailed to the shore," he says, " in one of their canoes, with an old man, who was the chief of a tribe, consisting of forty men and seventeen women ; these I saw there in a house well constructed of oak bark, and circular in shape, so that it had the appearance of being well built, with an arched roof.
Página 312 - We derive our authority from God and the Company, not from a few ignorant subjects, and we alone can call the inhabitants together.
Página 103 - This day the people of the country came aboard of us, seeming very glad of our coming, and brought green tobacco, and gave us of it for knives and beads.
Página 158 - The Patroons and colonists shall in particular, and in the speediest manner, endeavor to find out ways and means whereby they may support a Minister and Schoolmaster, that thus the service of God and zeal for religion may not grow cool and be neglected among them, and they shall, for the first, procure a Comforter of the sick there.
Página 167 - His body was oblong and particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by Providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labor of walking.
Página 253 - Thirdly, that they should establish the boundaries of New Netherland beyond question by treaty with friendly powers. In the course of this memorial the Nine Men invite the attention of the States General to the golden example set by their neighbours of New England, where, as they say with emphasis, "neither patroons, nor lords, nor princes are known, but only the people.
Página 105 - This afternoone, one canoe kept hanging under our sterne with one man in it, which we could not keepe from thence, who got up by our rudder to the cabin window, and stole out my pillow, and two shirts, and two bandeleeres.
Página 106 - ... made red wooden bowls ; two men were also despatched at once with bows and arrows in quest of game, who soon after brought in a pair of pigeons which they had shot. They likewise killed a fat dog, and skinned it in great haste, with shells which they had got out of the water.