TABLE   OF   CONTENTS
 

CHAPTER I.

THE  ABORIGINAL  INHABITANTS  OF  THIS   ISLAND   AND   OF   THE   ADJACENT
COUNTRY.

CHAPTER n.

THE   DISCOVERY   AND   SETTLEMENT   OF   MANHATTAN   ISLAND.

CHAPTER HI.

THE   EARLY  PROGRESS   OF   THE   CITY.

CHAPTER lY.

THE   FIRST   INDIAN   WAR   (1642.)

CHAPTER Y.

THE  ORGANIZATION  OF  MUNICIPAI.  INSTITUTIONS,  AND   THE  EVENTS OP THK

YEARS 1653, 1654 AND 1655.
CHAPTER YI.

THE  PROGRESS   OF   THE   CITY.

CHAPTER YH.

THE   CONDITION   OP   THE   CITY  AT   THE   TIME   OF   THE   CAPITULATION TO THE
ENGLISH,   IN   1664.

CHAPTER YIII.

THE   SAME   SUBJECT   CONTINUED.

CHAPTER IX.

THE   SAME   SUBJECT   CONTINUED.