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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 31 31 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 23 23 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 12 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 6 6 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 3 3 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. 2 2 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 2 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 2 2 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
A voyage from Virginia to vindicate the trade in the Hudson for England, proved a total loss. The settlement of Manhattan grew directly out of the great continental struggles of Protestantism. The Thirty Years War of religion in Germany had 1621. begun; the twelve years truce between the Netherlands and the Spanish king had nearly expired; Austria hoped to crush the reformation in the empire, and Spain to recover dominion over its ancient provinces. Thus did a nation of merchants give away the Chap. XV.} 1621. right to appropriate continents; and the corporate company, invested with a boundless liberty of choice, culled the rich territories of Guinea, Brazil, and New Netherland. Colonization on the Hudson and the Delaware was neither the motive nor the main object of the establishment of the Dutch West India Company; the territory was not described either in the charter or at that time in any public act of the States General, which neither made a formal specific grant nor