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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)
Nineteen to ask of the States-General forty soldiers for its defence. Such were the rude beginnings of New Netherland. 1628. The women and children of the colony were concentered on Manhattan, which, in 1628, counted a population of two hundred a1628, counted a population of two hundred and seventy souls, including Dutch, Walloons, and slaves from Angola. With April of that year arrived Jonas Michaelius, a clergyman, who at once established a church. Minuit was chosen one of its two elders; at the first administration of the Lord's of game, as far as the St. Lawrence, and the skiffs of the Dutch, in quest of furs, penetrated every bay and Chap. XV.} 1628. bosom and inlet, from Narraganset to the Delaware. It was the day of straw roofs and wooden chimneys and windmills. The followed. Reprisals on Spanish commerce were the alluring pursuit of the West India Company. On a single occasion, in 1628, the captures secured by its privateers were almost eighty-fold more valuable than all the exports from their colony for t