OF OLDEN TIME: CONCERNING THE EARLY SETTLEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF NEW-YORK CITY AND STATE. FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS. BY JOHN F. WATSON, Author of Annals of Philadelphic, and Member of the Historical Societies of ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES. Oh dear is the tale of Olden Time, NEW-YORK: W. E. DEAN, PRINTER. PUBLISHED BY COLLINS AND HANNAY. HT HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-two, by COLLINS & HANNAY, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York. ADVERTISEMENT TO PARENTS, GUARDIANS, AND PRE- Ir is impossible to contemplate the wonderful progress of New-York City and State, in its actual advance to greatness, without feeling our hearts stirred with deep emotion, exciting us to gratitude and praise. But two centuries ago it began its career as a little Dorp or village, and now it is the great commercial emporium of the Union! It should be the just pride and exultation of an American to belong to such a country; and if so, what should offer him more interesting and edifying reading than the history of the infancy, and progress to manhood, of such a people? Impressed with such thoughts, we have supposed it might prove profitable to awaken in the breasts of the rising generation a fond regard for the annals of their forefathers: to whose enterprise, skill, and |