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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 2 0 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)
who could have foreseen, that the population and wealth of that famed emporium, would one day be so far excelled by the maturity of the little settlement that had barely saved its life from the vengeance of the savages? The Island of New York was then chiefly divided among farmers; the large forests which covered the Park and the adja- 1649. cent region, long remained a common pasture, where, for yet a quarter of a century, tanners could obtain bark, and boys chestnuts; Lovelace, in J. W. Moulton's New Orange, 33. and the soil was so little valued, that Stuyvesant thought it no wrong to his employers Albany Records, IV. 24. to purchase of them at a small price an extensive bowery just beyond the coppices, among which browsed the goats and kine from the village. With so feeble a population, it was impossible to protect the eastern boundary of New Netherland. Of what avail were protests against actual settlers? Stuy- 1647. vesant was instructed to preserve the House of Goo