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MAWhile [ Irving, Washington].

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 Achievments of PETER THE HEADSTRONG, the three Dutch Governors of New AMSTERDAM; being the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been, or ever will be Published.

BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER,

De waarheid die in duißter lag,
Diz komt met klaarheid aan den dag.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

PUBLISHED BY INSKEEP & BRADFORD, NEW YORK; BRADFORD & INSKEEP, PHILADELPHIA; WM. M'ILHENNEY, BOSTON; COALE & THOMAS, BALTIMORE; AND MORFORD, WILLINGTON, & Co. CHARLESTON.

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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
Achievments of PETER THE HEADSTRONG, the three
Dutch Governors of NEW AMSTERDAM; being the only
Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been, or ever
will be Published.

BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER, →«Á

De waarheid die in duifker lag,
Dit komt met klaarheid aan den dag.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

PUBLISHED BY INSKEEP & BRADFORD, NEW YORK;
BRADFORD & INSKEEP, PHILADELPHIA; WM. M'IL-
HENNEY, BOSTON; COALE & THOMAS, BALTIMORE;
AND MORFORD, WILLINGTON, & CO. CHARLESTON.

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OF

NEW YORK, &c.

BOOK V.

Containing the first part of the reign of Peter Stuyvesant and his troubles with the Amphyctionic Council.

CHAP. I.

In which the death of a great man is shewn to be no such inconsolable matter of sorrow-and how Peter Stuyvesant acquired a great name from -the uncommon strength of his head.

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To a profour philosopher, like myself, who am apt to see clear through a subject, where the penetration of ordinary people extends but half way, there is no fact more simple and manifest, than that the death of a great man, is a matter of

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