This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXV. 1664. NICHOLAS 8 TIL WELL AND OTHERS REFUSING TO LIVE UNDER A PURI- TAN GOVERNMENT--REMOVE TO STATEN ISLAND--BUILD TOWN OF DOVER AND FORTIFY IT--RUMORS OF ENGLISH EXPEDITION AGAINST NEW NETHERLANDS--NICHOLAS AND OTHER ABLE-BODIED MEN FROM DOVER ORDERED TO NEW AMSTERDAM TO ASSIST IN ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXV. 1664. NICHOLAS 8 TIL WELL AND OTHERS REFUSING TO LIVE UNDER A PURI- TAN GOVERNMENT--REMOVE TO STATEN ISLAND--BUILD TOWN OF DOVER AND FORTIFY IT--RUMORS OF ENGLISH EXPEDITION AGAINST NEW NETHERLANDS--NICHOLAS AND OTHER ABLE-BODIED MEN FROM DOVER ORDERED TO NEW AMSTERDAM TO ASSIST IN DEFENCE OF CITY--FLEET ARRIVE AND CAPTURE DOVER--CAPITU- LATION AND SURRENDER OF NEW AMSTERDAM--ITS NAME CHANG- ED TO NEW YORK--ALL NEW NETHERLANDS SUBMITS TO THE DUTCH--LONG ISLAND RESTORED TO NEW YORK--NICHOLAS DIES AT DOVER, ON STATEN ISLAND, DECEMBER 28, 1671. Nicholas Stilwell had now nearly reached the allotted term of human life, and by many years of honest, earnest toil, had earned a right to that repose in his old age, which should reward a wellspent life; but the same clouds which had darkened his earlier days, now again threatened to overshadow the evening of his career. While yet in the full vigor of manhood, he had found in New Netherlands, a refuge from the intolerance of New England, and now in his old age, without any act of his own, found himself again under a Puritan government, to escape from which, he had, twenty-five years before, fled into the wilderness. He was not, now, more inclined to submit to that jurisdiction, than he had been then, and again he set out to find a new home, where in peace and quiet, he might pass the declining years of his eventful Life, In anticipation of the event which had now transpired, the absorption by Connecticut of Long Island, upon the first breaking out of the troubles with that colony, Nicholas, with a number of other English of Gravesend and its vicinity, who had determined not to live under a Puritan government, had selected as the site of a new settlement, the tract of land on the...
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