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Title: Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years ..
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Common Council Willis, Samuel J Valentine, D. T. (David Thomas) 1801-1869 Shannon, Joseph Hardy, John
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Publisher: New York : The Council
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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687 great colonial success. The Dutch were speedily at work to securethe benefits of their acquisition. Tteir first superstructure was ablock-house, erected in 1626. Manhattan Island had been selected as the head-quarters of theDutch West India Company, and the commercial city, looming up inthe future, was to he the New Amsterdam of a new conti-nent. The Society all know, or can readily learn from the elaborate de-tails of Mr. Brodheads History of the State of New York, thatunder the administrations of Van Twiller and Kieft, especially of thelatter, the affairs of the Dutch Government in New Netherlandsbecame seriously embroiled with those of the English authorities,and the Dutch Government was in imminent danger of losing itsinfluence, and the control of its possessions on the American conti-nent. In May, 1647, a new phase was given to the public affairs by thelanding of Peter Stuyvesant on the Island of Manhattan, as theChief Director of the Government of Nieuw Netherland. The admin

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