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Title: New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Innes, J. H. (John H.)
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sea, In service of the Company, While fifteen years around have rolled, etc., addressed to him by his friend, the Dutch poet, PieterVerhoek. 1 In Burger Jorissens day, in 1641, a drunken gunner, upon one of thevessels anchored near the shore, did considerable damage to this house, by thedischarge of a shotted cannon in firing a salute. 2 George Sandys, while treasurer of the Colony of Virginia in its early days,is said to have occupied a portion of his time in preparing his translation of Ovid.As his stay in the colony was but a limited one, however, and as his works con-tain nothing relating to America, it is difficult to see why he should be called anAmerican poet. As for the Rev. William Morrell, who resided for a very shorttime in the Plymouth Colony soon after its foundation, his verses publishedafter his return to England, about the year 1625, in the pedantic Latin of hisday, and which he called Nova Anglia, are to be looked upon more as a liter-ary curiosity than anything else.
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ENKHUYSEN 131 According to the best information accessible, Steendamwas born about 1616 in the city of Enkhuysen. This oldtown, in the extreme northeastern part of the province ofHolland, and at the entrance to the Zuyder Zee, thoughnow much decayed, was in Jacob Steendams time in highprosperity. Its streets of substantial stone houses werefilled with a busy throng of ship-builders, pilots, seamen, thefishermen of several hundred herring smacks then owned inthe city, and the numerous artisans and tradesmen supplyingthe wants of this maritime population. The little city, too,was proud of its historic and scientific renown; in 1572 itwas the first town in North Holland to raise the standard ofliberty against the oppression of Spain, and its citizens hadfought valiantly in the Dutch fleets and armies; the shipsbuilt here found their way to all parts of the globe; one ofthem, The Maid of Enkhuysen, was in the New Amster-dam trade; the spirit of geographical research and of explo-ration be

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