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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
.} 1614. company of merchants interested in these discoveries, a three years monopoly of trade with the territory between Virginia and New France, from forty to forty Brodhead's Colon'l Documents, 110. five degrees of latitude. Their charter, given on the eleventh of October, 1614, names the extensive region New Netherland. Its northern part John Smith had that same year called New England. To prosecute their commerce with the natives, 1615. Christiaensen built for the company, on Castle Island, south of the present city of Albany, a truck-house and military post. The building was thirty-six feet by twenty-six, the stockade fifty-eight feet square; the moat eighteen feet wide. The garrison was composed of ten or twelve men. The fort, which may have been begun in 1614, which was certainly finished in 1615, was called Nassau; the river for a time was known as the Maurice. With the Five Nations a friendship grew up, which was soon ratified according to the usages of the Iroquoi