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 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 Them.
 From 1776 to 1777
 
 CHAPTER XXIX. New York a Prison House.
 From 1777 to 1783
 
 CHAPTER XXX. After the War.
 From 1783 to 1788
 
 CHAPTER XXXI. The First President of the United States.
 The Year 1788
 
 CHAPTER XXXII. The Welcome to George Washington.
 The Year 1789
 
 CHAPTER XXXIII. Concerning the Tammany Society and Burr's Bank.
 From 1789 to 1800
 
 CHAPTER XXXIV. More about Hamilton and Burr.
 From 1801 to 1804
 
 CHAPTER XXXV. Robert Fulton Builds a Steam-Boat.
 From 1805 to 1807
 
 CHAPTER XXXVI. The City Plan.
 From 1807 to 1814
 
 CHAPTER XXXVII. The Story of the Erie Canal.
 From 1814 to 1825
 
 CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Building of the Croton Aqueduct.
 From 1825 to 1845
 
 CHAPTER XXXIX. Professor Morse and the Telegraph.
 From 1845 to 1878
 
 CHAPTER XL. The Greater New York.
 To the Present Time
 
 TABLE of EVENTS