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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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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), May, Cornelius Jacobsen (search)
May, Cornelius Jacobsen Colonial governor; commanded the Dutch tradingvessel Fortune on a trading excursion to Manhattan in 1613. The next year he coasted along New England to Martha's Vineyard. In 1620 he was on the coasts and rivers southward of Manhattan, in the ship Glad Tidings, visited Chesapeake Bay, and sailed up the James River to Jamestown. The bay at the mouth of the Delaware River the Dutch called New Port May, in compliment to their commander, and the southern extremity of New Jersey is still known as Cape May. In the spring of 1623, Captain May conveyed to Manhattan thirty families, chiefly Walloons,. in the ship New Netherland, with Adriaen Joris as lieutenant. May remained at Manhattan as first director or governor of the colony. He was succeeded by William Verhulst, second director of New Netherland, and returned to Holland. Excepting his career in America, little is known of his life.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, State of (search)
which had been much restricted by the first constitution, was abolished in 1817, but a few aged persons continued in nominal slavery several years later. The revised constitution of the State was adopted November, 1894, materially restricting the proportionate representation of New York and Kings counties. Population in 1890, 5,997,853; in 1900, 7,268,012. See United States, New York, in vol. IX. governors of New York. Under the Dutch. Name.Term. Cornelius Jacobsen May 1624 William Verhulst1625 Peter MinuitMay 4, 1626 to 1633 Wouter Van Twiller April, 1633 to 1638 William KieftMarch 28, 1638 to 1647 Peter Stuyvesant May 11, 1647 to 1664 Under the English. Richard NicollsSept. 8, 1664 to 1668 Francis LovelaceAug. 17, 1668to 1673 Dutch resumed. Anthony Colve1673 to 1674 English resumed. Edmund AndrosNov. 10, 1674 to 1683 Thomas DonganAug. 27, 1683 1688 Francis Nicholson.1688 to 1689 Jacob LeislerJune 3, 1689to 1691 Henry SloughterMarch 19, 1691 Richard
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
ench Protestant refugees)......March, 1623 Reaching the Hudson, some eight families settle near Fort Orange; the rest on Long Island at the Wallabout, Brooklyn......May–June, 1623 Cornelius Jacobsen May, first director or governor of New Netherland......1624 Sarah Rapelje the first known white child born in New Netherland......June 7, 1625 Peter Evertsen Hulft fits three vessels, each of some 250 tons, for New Amsterdam; lands at Nutten (Governor's) Island......July, 1625 William Verhulst succeeds May as director......1625 Peter Minuit, director, leaves Amsterdam in Sea-Mew......Jan. 9, 1626 Arrives at Manhattan......May 4, 1626 Manhattan Island, rocky and full of trees, ceded by Indians to the Dutch West India Company for sixty guilders ($23)......1626 A block-house built surrounded by a palisade of cedar posts, at the extreme southern end of the island and called Fort Amsterdam......1626 Six farms, or boweries, laid out on the island, and specimens of th