Book/Printed Material An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
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Image 1 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... I £2. B41- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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- Date: 1870
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- Date: 1870
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Image 4 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 5 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 6 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 7 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 8 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 9 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... Rounders of JN e w Y o p v K- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 10 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 11 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE SAINT NICHOLAS SOCIETY OF TOE CITY OF NT-W YORK BY JAMES W. BEEKMAN SATURDAY DECEMBER 4 1 809 PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY M DCCCLXX- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 12 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... 4*\ ALBANY JOEL MUNSELL PRINTER- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 13 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... Extract from the Minutes of the St. Nicholas Society. At a special meeting held at the rooms of the Historical Society, on the 4th day of December, 1869, after the delivery of...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 14 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 15 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. Brothers of St. Nicholas: When the Turkish sultan, Amurath m, heard some foreigners describe the protracted and obstinate con- flicts between the Spaniards and the Hollanders in the...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 16 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... b TIIE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. The founders of New York were Netherlander. The seven united provinces in 1609, covered nearly the same territory which now is known as the Kingdom of...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 17 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. to commerce. The port by which this canal enters the ocean, is deep enough for the Great Eastern steamship, and is built of blocks of artificial stone...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 18 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... 8 THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. of Dutch good works. There are pauper colonies on waste sandy plains, which were drifting barrens. A million of guilders are annually spent upon these re-...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 19 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... THE POUNDERS OF NEW YORK. with advantage. There are two houses in the Dutch Legislature; the upper house consists of thirty-nine members elected for nine years, one-third retiring every third year, and...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 20 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... 10 THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. for five hundred. More than a century of free printing had produced generations of thinking soldiers, who cul- tivated letters and the arts in the midst...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 21 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. 11 force of intellectual power awl intelligent courage, Hol- land, with freedom and common schools as her instru- ments, unlocked and gathered for herself- the wealth of...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 22 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... 12 THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. Their merchandise amounted in Guicciardini s time to fourteen millions per annum, whereas England, which is in compass almost as large again, and hath the ocean...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 23 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... THE FOUNDERS OF NEW FORK. 13 In the beginning of the seventeenth century when the fatherland was thus prosperous, New Netherland in America was occupied but by a few small trading posts,...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 24 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... 14 THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. the legislature of New York, on the present state of education in the United States and in other countries, by V. M. Rice, superintendent of public...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 25 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. 15 United States in 1860, was half tilled by a few farmers, who took the best land and let the other run to waste. Yet with this...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 26 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... 16 THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. first administration of the Lord s supper, full fifty com- municants. They fell much wood here to cany to fatherland, and are making a windmill to...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 27 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. 17 community. On Saturday, September 23d, 1679, they landed at the foot of Broad street, and speak with amaze- ment of the excellence and abundance of the...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 28 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... 18 THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. 1 Upon the many complaints of the great mischief done by wolves on this Island of Manhatans, and at the request and desire of severall of...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 29 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. L9 tish island which had been, for ages, Largely settled by emigrants from the Low Countries. Those men knew how to take care of themselves. They have...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 30 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... 20 THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. of Britain, and they welcomed and assisted Csesar when he landed in Kent, A. D. 55. In the beginning of the ninth century the Low Countries...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 31 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... THE FOUNDERS OF NEW FORK. 21 trated far inland into Huntingdon and Essex. Weshall Bee that the minds which have directed the growth of English freedom, both religious and civil, had their...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 32 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... 22 TUE FOUNDERS OF NEAV YOUK. the very seat and centre both of the early Dutch settle- ments in Britain, and of the nonconformist agitations which resulted in the colonization of Boston...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 33 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. 23 coin, Huntingdon and Cambridge shires, there occurs tlic explanatory word, marcx, mersc, mora, that is to say, marsh or fen, and the rent in that part...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 34 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... 24 THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. became plodding and industrious; they ceased, after a while, to rove; instead of piratical galleys, Northmen in Holland began to build Dutch galliots. In the lapse...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 35 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. 25 Leif, sou of Eric, entered Mount Hope bay, and spent some time in what is now the state of Rhode Island, so the Icelandic sagas tell...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 36 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... 26 THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. aimals. It has been claimed, for example, that the first bishop who ever trod the soil of the United States of America, was Fr: Juan Xuarez,...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 37 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. 27 We have compared the fatherland of 1609 with the feeble beginnings of her colonies here at the same period. We have, also, fresh in our memories...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 38 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... 28 THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. The earth is astir with the hum of busy men men vanquishing the obstacles which nature seems to have set up only against the happiness of...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 39 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. 29 tion to meridian instruments lias made navigation accurate, and its power over the starry heavens has added a new faculty to the astronomer. Janssens, too, devised...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870
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Image 40 of An address delivered before the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New ... 30 THE FOUNDERS OF NEW YORK. if a state iu time of war can oblige its citizens to take up the sword and the musket, has it not still more the power,...- Contributor: Beekman, James W. (James William) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1870