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pJ        Preface to the Second Edition, by Rev. T. W. Chambers, D. D.........       v

Preface to First Edition............................................       x

rq         Notes Relative to the Second Edition................................    xiii

,.,^        Additions and Corrections..........................................     xv

rt)         Board of Trustees and Names of Teachers, 1883......................     xx

V^        Sketch   of   Parochial   School   System   in   Holland,    by   Rev.   Thomas

'^                      De Witt, D.D..............................................       I

History, by Henry Webb Dunshee :

Chapter I. —A Brief Outline of the Discpvery and Settlement of New

Amsterdam,   1609-1633............................       7

Chapter II.— From the Establishment of the School {1633) to the Capitu¬
lation (1664)......................................     12

Chapter III.—From the Capitulation (1664) to the Revolutionary War

(1776)..........................................     35

Chapter IV.—From the Peace of 1783 to the Present Time...........     64

Appendix :

r. Attendance of the Children on the Sabbath......................     83

2.   Revenue of the School........................................     84

3.   Localities of the School.......................................     85

4.   Present Condition of the School—Course of Study, etc............     91

5.   Names of School Officers, 1642 to 1883..........................     94

6.   Names of Members of the Board of Trustees......................   103

7.   Ancient and Modern Names of Streets...........................   107

8.   Catalogue of Scholars since  1790...............................   109

9.   Alphabetical List of Scholars, page 2i7~with Notes.............   237

10.   Names of Assistant Teachers since  1842........................   236

11.   Addresses delivered on the occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the

School....................................................   246

12.   Addresses at the Re-union on the Unveiling of the Tablet........   264

13.   Description of the Coat-of-Arms on Tablet,.....................   278

Autographs.....................................................   280

Index..........................................................   281

illustrations'AND MAP.

View of New Amsterdam, the Earliest Locality of the School...........      iv

•'      De Witt Chapel, the present School Building..................      ix

"      the City Tavern, Branch School, 1652........................   xvii

*'      Old and New Dutch Churches..............................   xviii

"      the South Dutch Church...................................    xix

Etching of Henry Webb Dunshee...................................       6

Photograph of Gerrit Van Wagenen.................................     43

''             James Forrester......................................     80

The Stuyvesant Pear Tree........................................   249

Seal of the Collegiate R. P. D. Church..............................   263

Coat-of-Arms of John Harpending..................................   276

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