The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of Manhattan, by Charles Hemstreet
The Story of Manhattan
By Charles Hemstreet
Charles Scribner's Sons
1901
PREFACE
Here the history of New York City is told as a story, in few words. The effort has been to make it accurate and interesting. The illustrations are largely from old prints and wood engravings. Few dates are used. Instead, a Table of Events has been added which can readily be referred to. The Index to Chapters also gives the years in which the story of each chapter occurs.
INDEX to CHAPTERS
[CHAPTER I. The Adventures of Henry Hudson.
From 1609 to 1612]
[CHAPTER II. The First Traders on the Island.
From 1612 to 1625]
[CHAPTER III. Peter Minuit, First of the Dutch Governors.
From 1626 to 1633]
[CHAPTER IV. Walter Van Twiller, Second of the Dutch Governors.
From 1633 to 1637]
[CHAPTER V. William Kieft and the War with the Indians.
From 1637 to 1647]
[CHAPTER VI. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last of the Dutch Governors.
From 1647 to 1664]
[CHAPTER VII. New York Under the English and the Dutch.
From 1664 to 1674]
[CHAPTER VIII. Something About the Bolting Act.
From 1674 to 1688]
[CHAPTER IX. The Stirring Times of Jacob Leisler.
From 1688 to 1691]
[CHAPTER X. The Sad End of Jacob Leisler.
The Year 1691]
[CHAPTER XI. Governor Fletcher and the Privateers.
From 1692 to 1696]
[CHAPTER XII. Containing the True Life of Captain Kidd.
From 1696 to 1702]
[CHAPTER XIII. Lord Cornbury makes Himself very Unpopular.
From 1702 to 1708]
[CHAPTER XIV. Lord Lovelace and Robert Hunter.
From 1708 to 1720]
[CHAPTER XV. Governor Burnet and the French Traders.
From 1720 to 1732]
[CHAPTER XVI. The Trial of Zenger, the Printer.
From 1732 to 1736]
[CHAPTER XVII. Concerning the Negro Plot.
From 1736 to 1743]
[CHAPTER XVIII. The Tragic Death of Sir Danvers Osborne.
From 1743 to 1753]
[CHAPTER XIX. The Beginning of Discontent.
From 1753 to 1763]
[CHAPTER XX. The Story of the Stamp Act.
From 1763 to 1765]
[CHAPTER XXI. The Beginning of Revolution.
From 1765 to 1770]
[CHAPTER XXII. Fighting the Tax on Tea.
From 1770 to 1774]
[CHAPTER XXIII. The Sons of Liberty at Turtle Bay.
From 1774 to 1775]
[CHAPTER XXIV. The War of the Revolution.
In the Year 1775]
[CHAPTER XXV. A Battle on Long Island.
The Year 1776]
[CHAPTER XXVI. The British Occupy New York.
The Year 1776 (Continued)]
[CHAPTER XXVII. The Battle of Harlem Heights.
The Year 1776 (Continued)]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. The British Fail to Sweep Everything Before Them.
From 1776 to 1777]
[CHAPTER XXIX. New York a Prison House.
From 1777 to 1783]
[CHAPTER XXX. After the War.
From 1783 to 1788]
[CHAPTER XXXI. The First President of the United States.
The Year 1788]
[CHAPTER XXXII. The Welcome to George Washington.
The Year 1789]
[CHAPTER XXXIII. Concerning the Tammany Society and Burr's Bank.
From 1789 to 1800]
[CHAPTER XXXIV. More about Hamilton and Burr.
From 1801 to 1804]
[CHAPTER XXXV. Robert Fulton Builds a Steam-Boat.
From 1805 to 1807]
[CHAPTER XXXVI. The City Plan.
From 1807 to 1814]
[CHAPTER XXXVII. The Story of the Erie Canal.
From 1814 to 1825]
[CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Building of the Croton Aqueduct.
From 1825 to 1845]
[CHAPTER XXXIX. Professor Morse and the Telegraph.
From 1845 to 1878]
[CHAPTER XL. The Greater New York.
To the Present Time]
LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS
[New Amsterdam, 1650—New York, East Side, 1746]
[The Half Moon in the Highlands of the Hudson]
[Earliest Picture of Manhattan]
[Hall of the States-General of Holland]
[The Building of the Palisades]
[Old House in New York, Built 1668]
[Landing of Dutch Colony on Staten Island]
[Governor's Island and the Battery in 1850]
[The Old Stadt Huys of New Amsterdam]
[Stuyvesant leaving Fort Amsterdam]
[Petrus Stuyvesant's Tombstone]
[Sloughter Signing Leisler's Death-warrant]
[The Reading of Fletcher's Commission]
[New City Hall in Wall Street]
[View in Broad Street about 1740]
[Coffee-House opposite Bowling Green, Head-Quarters of the Sons of Liberty]
[Ferry-House on East River, 1746]
[Mrs. Murray's Dinner to British Officers]
[Howe's Head-Quarters, Beekman House]
[Map of Manhattan Island in 1776]
[View from the Bowling Green in the Revolution]
[Old Sugar-House in Liberty Street, the Prison-House of the Revolution]
[North Side of Wall Street East of William Street]
[Celebration of the Adoption of the Constitution]
[View of Federal Hall and Part of Broad Street, 1796]
[The John Street Theatre, 1781]
[Reservoir of Manhattan Water-Works in Chambers Street]
[The Grange, Kingsbridge Road, the Residence of Alexander Hamilton]
[The Clermont, Fulton's First Steam-Boat]
[Landing of Lafayette at Castle Garden]
[High Bridge, Croton Aqueduct]