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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 111 7 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 28 16 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 12 4 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 10 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 8 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 8 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 6 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 6 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 6 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition.. You can also browse the collection for Staten Island (New York, United States) or search for Staten Island (New York, United States) in all documents.

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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)
tended above and below Fort Orange, for twenty-four miles on each side of the river and forty-eight miles into the interior. In the same year he sent out emigrants to the colony of Rensselaerwyck. Of Hoboken, and what is now Jersey City and Staten Island, Michael Pauw, another director, hastened to become the patroon; and he named his colonie Pavonia. The company had designed, by its charter of liberties, to favor the peopling of the province, and yet to retain its trade; under pretence of, IV. 4. the colony was almost annihilated by the vengeance of the neighboring Algonquin tribes. Angry and even bloody quarrels had sometimes arisen between dishonest traders and savages maddened by intoxication. The blameless settlement on Staten Island had, 1640. in consequence, been ruined by the blind vengeance of the tribes of New Jersey. The strife continued. A boy who had been present when, years before, his uncle had been robbed and murdered, had vowed revenge, and, now that he was