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 20
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… … MANHATTAN. 3 British Occupation.—This peaceful epochconstituted the golden age of colonial history.As late as the year 1700, there were but threehundred houses on this portion of the Island,and on moonless nights the streets were lightedby lanterns, containing candles, hung on a polefrom the window…
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