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Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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heard on Manhattan Island. It was during the building of the fort that an event occurred whichcaused much embarrassment and misery to the colony afterward. AnIndian, his nephew, and another barbarian, members of a tribe inWestchester County, came to Manhattan with beaver-skins to barterwith the Dutch. The beaten trail of the Indians from the Harlem1 liver was along the shores of the East River to Kips Bay, and thendiverging westward passed by a large pond Where the halls of justice,or The Tombs, now stand. At that pond they were met by threefarm servants of the governor, who robbed and murdered the men withthe peltries. The boy escaped. This deed was long unknown to theDutch authorities, and the guilty men probably escaped punishment,lint the young barbarian vowed he would avenge the murder of hisuncle. It was done with fearful usury years afterward. This atrociousdeed made the surrounding Indians, who were disposed to be friendlywith the Europeans, jealous, suspicious, and vengeful.
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OUTLINE HISTORY, 1009 1830. 7 The little colony flourished, and the village which grew up under theprotecting wing- of the fort was called Manhattan, which name itretained until Stuyvesant came in KMT. The community at Manhattanbecame cosmopolitan in its composition, as New York now is, becauseof the freedom enjoyed there, and finally gave to the State and nationa race in whose veins course the blood of Teuton, Saxon, Celt, andGaul. Their passion for far-reaching commerce and adventurous enter-prise has been a characteristic of the inhabitants of Manhattan Islandfrom that time until the present, through all their social and politicalvicissitudes. Within twenty years after Hudsons discovery of the island thepeople there turned their attention to ship-building, and in 1031 theyactually completed a ship, named Xew Netherlands of six hundred oreight hundred tons, and sent it to Holland. It was probably one ofthe greatest merchant vessels then in the world. It was a costlyexperiment, and w

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