Illustrations

(All the Illustrations are Collotypes by Bierstadt's process, except the
facsimiles of signatures opposite pages 3 o and 182)

I   Earliest View of New Amsterdam    .     Frontispiece

From a copy ef the first edition of Joost Hartger's
Beschrijvinghe van Virginia, Nieuw Nederlandt,
etc., Amsterdam, 1651, in the New York Public
Library, Lenox  Branch.
 

Opposite
page
 

2   Portrait of Joannes  Foreest .          .         .         .28

From the original oil-painting, dated 1628, which
is still in the possession of the Foreest family resid¬
ing in Heiloo, North Holland.

3   Portrait   of  Josina   Van   Segwaerd,   wife   of
Joannes  Foreest        .....          29

From the original oil-painting, dated 1628, which
is still in the possession ef the Foreest family resid¬
ing in Heiloo, North Holland.

4   Signature of Jan Jansen  Brouwer           .         -30

From the earliest original official New Netherland
document now extant, dated July 15th, 1630.