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The Story of Manhattan

by Charles Hemstreet

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — The Adventures of Henry Hudson
  3. 3Chapter II — The First Traders on the Island
  4. 4Chapter III — Peter Minuit, First of the Dutch Governors
  5. 5Chapter IV — Walter van Twiller, Second of the Dutch Governors
  6. 6Chapter V — William Kieft and the War With the Indians
  7. 7Chapter VI — Peter Stuyvesant, the Last of the Dutch Governors
  8. 8Chapter VII — New York Under the English and the Dutch
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Something About the Bolting Act
  10. 10Chapter IX — The Stirring Times of Jacob Leisler
  11. 11Chapter X — The Sad End of Jacob Leisler
  12. 12Chapter XI — Governor Fletcher and the Privateers
  13. 13Chapter XII — Containing the True Life of Captain Kidd
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Lord Cornbury Makes Himself Very Unpopular
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Lord Lovelace and Robert Hunter
  16. 16Chapter XV — Governor Burnet and the French Traders
  17. 17Chapter XVI — The Trial of Zenger, the Printer
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Concerning the Negro Plot
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — The Tragic Death of Sir Danvers Osborne
  20. 20Chapter XIX — The Beginning of Discontent
  21. 21Chapter XX — The Story of the Stamp Act
  22. 22Chapter XXI — The Beginning of Revolution
  23. 23Chapter XXII — Fighting the Tax on Tea
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — The Sons of Liberty at Turtle Bay
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — The War of the Revolution
  26. 26Chapter XXV — A Battle on Long Island
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — The British Occupy New York
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — The Battle of Harlem Heights
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — The British Fail to Sweep Everything Before Them
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — New York a Prison-House
  31. 31Chapter XXX — After the War
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — The First President of the United States
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — The Welcome to George Washington
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — Concerning the Tammany Society and Burr’s Bank
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — More About Hamilton and Burr
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — Robert Fulton Builds a Steam-Boat
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI — The City Plan
  38. 38Chapter XXXVII — The Story of the Erie Canal
  39. 39Chapter XXXVIII — The Building of the Croton Aqueduct
  40. 40Chapter XXXIX — Professor Morse and the Telegraph
  41. 41Chapter XL — The Greater New York
  42. 42Table of Events

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