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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 15 15 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 8 8 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 7 7 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 3 3 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 3 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 3 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904 2 2 Browse Search
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
ntion of his countrymen to their rising colony, and published Hudson's own glowing description of the land. Under such auspices Peter Minuit, of Wesel, in Jan- 1626. uary, 1626, sailed for New Netherland as its director general. He arrived there on the fourth of May. Hitherto the Dutch had no title to ownership of the land; 1626, sailed for New Netherland as its director general. He arrived there on the fourth of May. Hitherto the Dutch had no title to ownership of the land; Minuit succeeded at once in purchasing the island of Manhattan from its native proprietors. The Brodhead's Hist. of N. Y. 164, 165. price paid was sixty guilders, about twenty-four dollars for more than twenty thousand acres. The southern point was selected for a battery, and lines were drawn for a fort, which took the name of y years had been steadily devoted to the subject; at his instance, a commercial company, with exclusive privileges to traffic beyond the Straits of Gibraltar, and 1626. June 14. the right of planting colonies, was sanctioned by the king, and incorporated by the states of Sweden. The 1627. May 1 stock was open to all Europe for