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Van Rensselaer and the Nijkerk Worthies (page 50) Frontispiece

Governor Minuit purchasing Manhattan       .       .       .       .82

Title Page showing Ship bearing Dutch Colonists     .       .         78

The Van JRensselaer Tomb in Nijkerk Church     ...     92

Corlaar in 1908.   Home of Arendt Van Curler      .       .       102

Town Arms of some Ancestral Seats.....    152

''A Poem in Twelve Cantos.''    The Cycle of the Year     .       172

William HI and Queen Mary, on Seal of the Province of

New York.........    228

Colonel John Taylor, of Rutgers College  ....       242

The Dutch in the Arctic Seas......    264

Piet Hein capturing the Spanish Silver Fleet   .       .       .       264

Where our Flag was First Saluted.   St. Eustatius      .       .    264

Simeon De Witt, Surveyor-General of New York State   .       272