NEW-YORK:
ALEXANDER V. BLAKE, 38 GOLD STREET.
1838.
[Entered according to Act of Congress of the United States of America in the year 1838, by George Dearborn & co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.]
New-York:
Printed by Scatcherd & Adams.
No. 38 Gold Street.
TO THE HONORABLE
STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER,
OF ALBANY,
These volumes are most respectfully inscribed. If the efforts of the writer to illustrate more fully and minutely than has hitherto been done, the most interesting portion of American history, in its immediate connection with the large and populous State of which The Patroon has so long been one of the most distinguished citizens, shall be so fortunate as to merit the regard, and receive the approbation, of one so excellently qualified to judge of its interest and value, there will be nothing left unsatisfied to the ambition and the hopes of
His friend and servant, THE AUTHOR.