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New York 170 Years Ago: With a View, and Explanatory Notes Joseph White Moulton No preview available - 2008 |
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New York 170 Years Ago: With a View, and Explanatory Notes Joseph W 1789-1875 Moulton No preview available - 2016 |
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administration Amsterdam appointed backer barquier Beeckman Borssum Brinckerhoof Broad street Brugh Burgerrecht burgers Burgomasters and Schepens canal Capsey Church Wardens citizens city gates City Hall Claess conquest Cornelis Steenwyck Cornelis Van Ruyven Cortland Dirck Dutch duty East River Egidius Luyck elected Schepens England English erected Evert extended Eyck Ffredrick fleet Fort Amsterdam fortifications Governor and Council Governor Colve Governor Kieft gracht guilders half-moon harbor Heeren-gracht High Sheriff Holland Hoog Straet Huys Jan Vigne Jansen Jeronimus Ebbingh John Lawrence Lovelace magistracy Marketfield marking their weights Mayor military council militia scuttery Mire lane Moat Netherlands Nicholas Bayard Nicholas de Meyer North River opposite Coenties slip Pearl street Peyster present Pearl present Wall street Prince of Orange Province public store house Rombouts Schout seawant Sheriff shore Smet Smet-straet stadt Stadt-herberg Stadt-huys States-General Stone street Surrinam Twiller United Netherlands Verplanck vessels Waegh Water Water-poort Whitehall Whitehall street Willem Hendrick York
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Page 10 - States-General of the United Netherlands and his Serene Highness the Lord Prince of Orange, and to maintain their sovereign jurisdiction, right and domain over this country.
Page 9 - that a great deal of bad seawant, nasty rough things, imported from other places," was in circulation, while " the good splendid seawant, usually called Manhattan's seawant, was out of sight or exported, which must cause the ruin of the country!
Page 18 - ... in the mean time assist them whenever ' it is in their power, and allow them the use, for a month or six weeks, of the Company's boat, to facilitate the carrying of the stone thither.* " The church was not completely finished until the first year of Governor Stuyvesant's administration.
Page 7 - Schepens, and Anthony De Mill, Sheriff ; and took an oath of allegiance "to the high and mighty lords, the States-general of the United Netherlands, and his highness the lord prince of Orange...
Page 18 - Nether. land, and John Ogden of Stanford, and Richard Ogden, who contracted to build the church of rock-stone, 72 feet long, 52 broad, and 16 feet high above the soil, for 2,500 guilders (£416 13 4) "in beaver, cash or merchandize, to wit, if the church-wardens are satisfied with the work, so that, in their judgment, the 2,500 guilders shall have been earned— then said church-wardens will reward them with one hundred guilders (£16 13 4) more...
Page 6 - ... presence of a conquering fleet, popular sovereignty — the sovereignty of opinion — was recognized in the very act of organizing a new government over their conquest. It is so in every instance of the formation and administration of government. If tyrannical, it is influenced by popular opinion through fear; if liberal, through choice. The sovereignty of the people, therefore, as expressed in popular feeling and opinion, lies at the base of every government. If corrupt, it engenders but still...
Page 18 - ... their power, and allow them the use, for a month or six weeks, of the Company's boat, to facilitate the carrying of the stone thither.* " The church was not completely finished until the first year of Governor Stuyvesant's administration. In July, 1647, he and two others were appointed kerk-meesters, (church, wardens,) to superintend the work, and complete it the ensuing winter.
Page 6 - In 1673, their privileges were further taxed, for the public defence, by an extraordinary duty of two per cent, on exports of beaver and other furs ; two and a half on imports of "friezes and blankets, and five on imports of powder, ball, brandies, and distilled waters.
Page 21 - ... obliged to conform, and to pay the eyck-meester for marking their weights and measures. Goods were here also brought in bulk and weighed, before they were stored in the public store-houses. ** In front of the City-Hall were also the stocks and whipping-post. The ducking-stool, or rather cucking-stool, was not yet erected, notwithstanding the Lutheran minister in 1673 pleaded in bar to a public prosecution against him for striking a female that she * provoked him to it by scolding.
Page 12 - ... less perilous period, might have deemed arbitrary. But the Dutch paid homage to the supremacy of law. Private inconvenience for the general good was the patriot's duty. They submitted to direct taxation, to demolition of houses that embarrassed the defence, and to the assumption on the part of...