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Historic Towns - New York
New York, by Theodore Roosevelt.
Chapter I. Discovery and first settlement. 1609-1626
Chapter II. The Dutch town under the first three directors. 1626-1647
Chapter III. Stuyvesant and the end of Dutch rule. 1647-1664
Chapter IV. New Amsterdam becomes New York. The beginning of English rule. 1664-1674
Chapter V. New York under the Stuarts. 1674-1688
Chapter VI. The usurpation of Leisler. 1689-1691
Chapter VII. The growth of the colonial seaport. 1691-1720
Chapter VIII. The closing of the colonial period. 1720-1764
Chapter IX. The unrest before the Revolution. 1764-1774
Chapter X. The Revolutionary War. 1775-1783
Chapter XI. The federalist city. 1783-1800
Chapter XII. The beginning of democratic rule. 1801-1821
Chapter XIII. The growth of the commercial and democratic city. 1821-1860
Chapter XIV. Recent history. 1860-1890
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