Abbott John Stevens Cabot. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam
PREFACE
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
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On the 12th of October, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed upon the shores of San Salvador, one of the West India islands, and thus revealed to astonished Europe a new world. Four years after this, in the year 1496, Sebastian Cabot discovered the continent of North America. Thirty-three years passed away of many wild adventures of European voyagers, when, in the year 1539, Ferdinand de Soto landed at Tampa Bay, in Florida, and penetrating the interior of the vast continent, discovered the Mississippi River. Twenty-six years more elapsed ere, in 1565, the first European colony was established at St. Augustine, in Florida.
In the year 1585, twenty years after the settlement of St. Augustine, Sir Walter Raleigh commenced his world-renowned colony upon the Roanoke. Twenty-two years passed when, in 1607, the London Company established the Virginia Colony upon the banks of the James river.
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Sir Henry Hudson does not appear to advantage in the account transmitted to us of this exploration. Mr. Sparks, in his American Biography, gives the following extraordinary account of one of his procedures.
It was now manifest that no northwest passage to the Indies could be found in this direction, and it was not deemed expedient to attempt to ascend the river any farther in the ship. The mate, however was sent with a boat's crew, to explore the river some distance higher up. It is supposed that the boat ascended several miles above the present site of the city of Albany, Hudson probably going a little beyond where the town of Waterford now is. Upon the return of the boat, the mate having reported that it was useless to attempt any farther ascent of the river with the ship, Sir Henry commenced his return.
