INTRODUCTION THE manuscript of the narrative which follows was found in Amsterdam in the summer of 1895 by General James Grant Wilson. “It consists,” he says, “of 32 pages of well-preserved foolscap, which had been buried in a Dutch ...
Narratives of New Netherland reads like a small anthology on the discovery, origins, and history of the United States, but from a Dutch, rather than traditional English, perspective.
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This collection of letters and documents show the lives and struggles of the first Dutch inhabitants to colonize Manhattan and Brooklyn in the early 17th century.
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John Franklin Jameson. PREFACE THERE is no one classical narrative of the history of New ... Netherland history must perforce be composed of several pieces , most of ... narratives of New Netherland are written in Dutch . Hence the first ...