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GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
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| NEW YORK. |
| BEFORE the advent of the
Europeans, the territory from the
Catskills to Lake Erie, including
also part of northern
Pennsylvania, belonged to the
powerful Iroquois
confederacy--the Mohawks, the
Oneidas, the Onandagas, the
Cayugas, and the Senecas. These
were the Five Nations of the
ancient explorers, which
afterwards became the Six
Nations, by the addition of the
Tuscarora tribe from North
Carolina. Although they numbered
but 12,000 souls, their land
became the Empire State of
America. |
| The
discoverer of the sea-coast of
New York was Hendrik Hudson, an
English captain, who sailed from
the Texel in 1607. Trading in
furs was begun about that time
between the merchants of
Amsterdam and the natives of
Manhattan. An order of patrons
came into being in 1620, and
imposed on the Hudson valley a
line of feudal chieftains--Van
Rensselaer, Pauw, De Vries, Godyn
and other Dutch gentlemen. Then
came over as governor the gallant
soldier Peter Stuyvesant, and
inaugurated a wise, honest but
despotic rule. On the 9th of
July, 1776, the Declaration of
Independence was read aloud by an
aide, in Washington's presence,
to a brigade of the Continental
army, drawn up in hollow square
on the site of the City Hall. The
same day the citizens pulled down
the equestrian statue of George
III, erected on Bowling Green, in
1770. At Newburgh, Washington
rejected a proposal to make him
king of America. After 1788 the
vast wilderness of central and
western New York was rapidly
settled by New Englanders. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
A
Street in New Amsterdam; Peter
Stuyvesant; Ethan Allen
Commanding the Surrender of
Ticonderoga; The Destruc-
tion of the Statue of George III,
at Bowling Green;
Hendrik Hudson's ship, the "Half-Moon." |
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