Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 177
and runaway to France, where my uncle, Louis XIII.,was king. He gave me a palace to live in forthe rest of my days. In history I am calledJames II., the last Roman Catholic King ofEngland. When I was in the prime of life, my royalbrother, the king, gave me, as a reward forsome hard fighting I had… … called; and one of them included all the landfrom the west side of the Connecticut Riverto the east side of the Delaware,— a grant ofwhat in truth belonged to the Dutch, who had a settlement atthe mouth of theHudson Rivercalled New Am-sterdam, and far-ther up the Hud-son a…
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