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Peter of Amsterdam by James Otis Yesterday's Classics Chapel Hill, North Carolina Cover and Arrangement © 2010 Yesterday's Classics, LLC All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or retransmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher. This edition, first published in 2010 by Yesterday's Classics, an imprint of Yesterday's Classics, LLC, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by American Book Company in 1910. This title is available in a print edition (ISBN 978-1-59915-183-0). Yesterday's Classics, LLC PO Box 3418 Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Yesterday's Classics Yesterday's Classics republishes classic books for children from the golden age of children's literature, the era from 1880 to 1920. Many of our titles are offered in high-quality paperback editions, with text cast in modern easy-to-read type for today's readers. The illustrations from the original volumes are included except in those few cases where the quality of the original images is too low to make their reproduction feasible. Unless specified otherwise, color illustrations in the original volumes are rendered in black and white in our print editions. Foreword The purpose of this series of stories is to show the children, and even those who have already taken up the study of history, the home life of the colonists with whom they meet in their books. To this end every effort has been made to avoid anything savoring of romance, and to deal only with facts, so far as that is possible, while describing the daily life of those people who conquered the wilderness whether for conscience sake or for gain. That the stories may appeal more directly to the children, they are told from the viewpoint of a child, and purport to have been related by a child. Should any criticism be made regarding the seeming neglect to mention important historical facts, the answer would be that these books are not sent out as histories,— although it is believed that they will awaken a desire to learn more of the building of the nation,—and only such incidents as would be particularly noted by a child are used. Surely it is entertaining as well as instructive for young people to read of the toil and privations in the homes of those who came into a new world to build up a country for themselves, and such homely facts are not to be found in the real histories of our land. JAMES OTIS. Contents Foreword Where I Was Born Alone in Holland An Important Introduction I Go My Way The Bargain Sailing for the New World A View of New Netherland The "Brown Men" or Savages Summoned to the Cabin Toys for the Savages Claim of the West India Company Making Ready for Trade Hans Braun and Kryn Gildersleeve The Gathering of the Savages Going Ashore Buying the Island of Manhattan Boats Used by the Savages Wandering over the Island The Homes of the Savages Master Minuit's Home Beginning the Work A Strange Kind of Craft Building a Fort In Charge of the Goods The Value of Wampum Buildings of Stone The Government A Prosperous Town Quarrelsome Slaves A Brutal Murder The Village Called Plymouth I Go on a Voyage A Lukewarm Welcome Two Days in Plymouth Forging Ahead The Big Ship Master Minuit's Successor Trouble with the English Master Van Twiller Discharged Director Kieft Unjust Commands Master Minuit's Return The Revenge of the Savages Master Kieft's War Director Petrus Stuyvesant Time for Sight-Seeing How the Fort Was Armed Village Laws Other Things about Town A Visit of Ceremony New Amsterdam Becomes a City Master Stuyvesant Makes Enemies Orders from Holland Making Ready for War An Unexpected Question With the Fleet Driving Out the Swedes The Uprising of the Indians An Attack by the Indians Hastening Back to New Amsterdam Coaxing the Savages Interference with Religious Freedom Punishing the Quaker Other Persecutions Dull Trade The Charge Made by Hans Braun Dismissed by Master Stuyvesant English Claims Idle Days On Broad Way Looking after the Ferry The Coming of the English A Weak Defense Master Stuyvesant Absent Disobeying Commands Surrender of the City Demanded A Three Days' Truce Visitors from the English Master Stuyvesant's Rage The End of Dutch Rule The City of New York Where I Was Born IF I ever attempted to set down a story in words, it would be concerning the time when I was much the same as a slave among the Dutch of New Amsterdam, meaning a certain part of the world in that America where so many of my father's countrymen came after they left England, because of the King's not allowing them to worship God in the way they believed to be right. It sounds odd to say that an English boy was ever held as slave by the Dutch, and perhaps I have no right to make such statement, because it is not strictly true, although there were many years in my life when I did the same work, and received the same fare, as did the negroes in the early days of New Amsterdam. Before I was born, my father was clerk to the postmaster of Scrooby, one William Brewster, and perhaps thus it was that when, because of troubles concerning religion, Master Brewster journeyed to Leyden with a company of people who were called Separatists, my parents went with him.
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