The Story of the City of New York ...G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902 - 496 Seiten |
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Aaron Burr American Amsterdam appointed arms army arrived Astor Battery Bayard boats Boston British Broadway Brooklyn building built burgomasters Burr called Captain CHARLES BURR TODD charter citizens City Hall Clinton Colonel colony command Congress Connecticut council court Curaçoa Director Dutch East River enemy England English erected ferry fire fleet Fort Amsterdam French frigates Fulton Ferry G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Governor guns Hamilton Holland honor horses Hudson hundred Indians James John Kieft king king's land later Leisler letter Liberty Long Island Lord Manhattan marched Mayor ment merchants miles militia Minuit morning negro Netherlands Nicolls o'clock officers Park party passed patriots patroons Peter Minuit pirates present President prisoners regiment sailed schepens sent ship shore slaves soldiers Sons of Liberty soon Stamp Act Staten Island Street Stuyvesant tavern tion town trade troops Twiller vessel Washington West India Company William York
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Seite 338 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Seite 242 - You shall be taken from the place where you are, and be carried to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there be severally hanged by your necks until you be dead. And the Lord have mercy on your souls.
Seite 438 - LAY down the axe ; fling by the spade ; Leave in its track the toiling plough ; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms like yours were fitter now ; And let the hands that ply the pen Quit the light task, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein The charger on the battle-field.
Seite 38 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between the shoulders.
Seite 30 - They assemble by beat of drum, each with his musket or firelock, in front of the captain's door; they have their cloaks on, and place themselves in order, three abreast, and are led by a sergeant without beat of drum. Behind comes the Governor, in a long robe; beside him, on the right hand, comes the preacher with his cloak on, and on the left hand the captain with his side arms, and cloak on, and with a small cane in his hand. And so they march in good order, and each sets his arms down near him....
Seite 197 - Dutch is aurigation, ie riding about in Wagons which is allowed by Physicians to be a very healthful exercise by Land. And upon the Ice its admirable to see Men and Women as it were flying upon their Skates from place to place, with Markets upon their Heads and Backs.
Seite 375 - General Hamilton and Judge Kent have declared, in substance, that they looked upon Mr. Burr to be a dangerous man, and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of government.
Seite 149 - Esq., or, in his absence, to such as for the time being take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws in their Majesties' province of New York, in America.
Seite 38 - His body was oblong and particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by Providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labor of walking.
Seite 176 - Second, by the Grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord...