The Story of Manhattan

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dia Company's choice of him for a Governor was not by any means a wise choice. For he was soon doing exactly what Minui

ull moon. He was a sharp trader, having made two voyages to the Hudson River

There was also on the ship Everardus Bogardus, the first minister of the colony, as well as Adam Rolandsen, the first school-master. This school-master had a hard

usehold work, while the colonists cultivated the fields These slaves did most of the wo

ke the place of the horse-mill. But he had them placed in such a position that the bui

ick-finer than any in the little settlement-and on one of the bouweries nearest the fort, he erected a summer-h

ller's

on the western side of the city along the Hudson River. The colonist died the year af

the Annetje Jans farm to Trinity Church. That was almost two centuries ago. What was once a farm is now a great busi

e world, founded a colony on Staten Island. This sailor was Captain David Pietersen De Vries. Staten Island attracted him because of its be

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use of the many nut-trees that grew there. There is little doubt but that Governor's Island was once a part of Long Island. It is separated from it now by a deep arm of water called Buttermilk Channel. The channel was so narrow and so shallow in Van Twiller's t

land and the

nds, and these, with some others, made him the richest landholder in

ry angry. He told the schout-fiscal not to expect any more salary, that it would be stopped from that minute. This did not worry the schout-fiscal much, as he had not been paid his salary in three years! But Van Twiller did not stop there. He sent the schout-fiscal as a prisoner to Holland, which was a foolish thi

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