Manhattan: historic and artistic; a six day tour of New York city; (1892)
Ober, Corolyn Faville, Mrs, Alden, Cynthia May Westover, 1862-1931 · New York, Lovell, Coryell & company · leaf 19
shipoffices opposite Bowling Green,—the wateredge being then nearer than at present. As at this time Manhattan Island was within 2 MANHATTAN. the limits of the northern colony of Virginia,it belonged in reality to the British crown, butits possession was not disputed until the year1664, w^hen… … THE OLD FORT AT THE BATTERY. dispatched troops who forced the Dutch gov-ernor (Stuyvesant) to surrender,—when thename of the colony was changed to New Yorkin honor of the conqueror. From this timeManhattan Island was alternately in the handsof the Dutch and the English until 1691, whenGreat Britain…
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