Abbott opens with Henry Hudson’s voyage up the river that bears his name, then traces the Dutch colony of New Netherland through its early governors, its bloody wars with the native peoples and its quarrels with New England. The second half belongs to Stuyvesant, an energetic and autocratic ruler, through the Esopus War to the English fleet’s arrival off New Amsterdam in 1664.
A lively nineteenth-century narrative of the Dutch beginnings of New York. Download the free EPUB.