A HISTORY OF NEW-YORK, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THE END OF THE DUTCH DYNASTY. CONTAINING, AMONG MANY SURPRISING AND CURIOUS MATTERS THE UNUTTERABLE PONDERINGS OF WALTER THE DOUBTER, THE THREE DUTCH GOVERNORS OF NEW-AMSTERDAM : Being the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been published, 34 IN TWO VOLUMES. SEVENTH AMERICAN EDITION. BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. VOL. II. De waarheid die in duister lag, Philadelphia : CAREY & LEA-CHESNUT-STREET. THE NEW YORK. 163491 ASTOR, LENOX AND 1899. Southern District of New-York, to wit: ****** BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-first day of L. S. November, in the forty-eight year of the independence of the United States of America, Č. S. VAN WINKLE, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "A History of New-York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch Dynasty. Containing, among many surprising and curious matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements or Feter the Headstrong, the three Dutch Governors of New-Amsterden. Being the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath beer published. In two volumes. Sixth American edition. By Diedrich Knickerbocker. De waarheid die in duister lag Die komt met klaarheid aan den dag." In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to an Ac entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts f designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other Prints." JAMES DILL, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. CONTAINING THE FIRST PART OF THE REIGN OF PETER STUY- CHAP. I.-In which the death of a great man is shown to be no very inconsolable matter of sorrow-and how CHAP. II.-Showing how Peter the Headstrong bestirred himself among the rats and the cobwebs, on entering into office-and the perilous mistake he was guilty of, in his dealings wits the Amphyctions, CHAP. III.—Containing divers speculations on war and negotiations—showing that a treaty of peace is a great CHAP. IV.—How Peter Stuyvesant was greatly belied by his adversaries the Mosstroopers and his conduct CHAP. V.-How the New-Amsterdammers became great in arms, and of the direful catastrophe of a mighty army-together with Peter Stuyvesant's measures to CHAP. VI.-How the people of the east country were sud- |