The Story of Manhattan

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Author

Hemstreet, Charles, 1866-

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E-text prepared by Gregory Smith, David Garcia, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

F106: United States local history: Atlantic coast. Middle Atlantic States

Subject

New York (N.Y.) -- History

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Text

eBook-No.

13842

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13842

Release Date

October 24, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Story of Manhattan
2. 2.By Charles Hemstreet — Charles Scribner's Sons — 1901
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.INDEX to CHAPTERS
5. 5.LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — THE ADVENTURES of HENRY HUDSON
7. 7.CHAPTER II — THE FIRST TRADERS on the ISLAND
8. 8.CHAPTER III — PETER MINUIT, FIRST of the DUTCH GOVERNORS
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — WALTER VAN TWILLER, SECOND of the DUTCH GOVERNORS
10. 10.CHAPTER V — WILLIAM KIEFT and the WAR with the INDIANS
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — PETER STUYVESANT, the LAST of the DUTCH GOVERNORS
12. 12.CHAPTER VII — NEW YORK under the ENGLISH and the DUTCH
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII — SOMETHING about the BOLTING ACT
14. 14.CHAPTER IX — THE STIRRING TIMES of JACOB LEISLER
15. 15.CHAPTER X — THE SAD END of JACOB LEISLER
16. 16.CHAPTER XI — GOVERNOR FLETCHER and the PRIVATEERS
17. 17.CHAPTER XII — CONTAINING the TRUE LIFE of CAPTAIN KIDD
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII — LORD CORNBURY makes HIMSELF very UNPOPULAR
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV — LORD LOVELACE and ROBERT HUNTER
20. 20.CHAPTER XV — GOVERNOR BURNET and the FRENCH TRADERS
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI — THE TRIAL of ZENGER, the PRINTER
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII — CONCERNING the NEGRO PLOT
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII — THE TRAGIC DEATH of SIR DANVERS OSBORNE
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX — THE BEGINNING of DISCONTENT
25. 25.CHAPTER XX — THE STORY of the STAMP ACT
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI — THE BEGINNING of REVOLUTION
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII — FIGHTING the TAX on TEA
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII — THE SONS of LIBERTY at TURTLE BAY
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV — THE WAR of the REVOLUTION
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV — A BATTLE on LONG ISLAND
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI — THE BRITISH OCCUPY NEW YORK
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII — THE BATTLE of HARLEM HEIGHTS
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII — THE BRITISH FAIL to SWEEP EVERYTHING BEFORE THEM
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX — NEW YORK a PRISON-HOUSE
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX — AFTER the WAR
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI — THE FIRST PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII — THE WELCOME to GEORGE WASHINGTON
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII — CONCERNING the TAMMANY SOCIETY and BURR'S BANK
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV — MORE about HAMILTON and BURR
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXV — ROBERT FULTON BUILDS a STEAM-BOAT
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVI — THE CITY PLAN
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVII — THE STORY of the ERIE CANAL
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVIII — THE BUILDING of the CROTON AQUEDUCT
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXIX — PROFESSOR MORSE and the TELEGRAPH
45. 45.CHAPTER XL — THE GREATER NEW YORK
46. 46.TABLE of EVENTS
47. 47.INDEX

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