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ST. NICHOLAS SOCIETY DINES.; Mayor Low Recalls the Troubles of Peter Stuyvesant Over the Excise Question.

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How Dutch settlers got their start in the New York Harbor

In “Taking Manhattan,” author Russell Shorto writes about the deal that New Netherland Director General Peter Stuyvesant made with English military officer Richard Nicolls to transfer the Dutch colony ...