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COLLECTIONS

OF THE

NEW-YORK

HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

SECOND SERIES.

VOLUME 11.

"So I, from the perishing and scattered Pamphlets and Discourses of these times, have collected a few choice memorials."-LLOYD: 1688.

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY,

BY WILLIAM VAN NORDEN, 39 WILLIAM ST.,

might be deemed best for the interest of the Society and the insuring an extensive circulation. In accordance with these instructions, the Executive Committee caused the first part of the present volume to be published in 1848, which is now completed by the publication of the second.

It is believed that there is no State in the Union, for the illustration of whose history, richer materials have been gathered, than the State of New York-indeed, it is a matter of no slight difficulty to select, from so much that is interesting and important. It will be observed that the principal portion of the present volume, like the preceding, is devoted to the history of New Netherland; and we may congratulate ourselves that this period so long regarded as obscure, dry and uninteresting, is likely to prove, in our present lights, one of the most interesting and instructive. The influences which can be traced, as flowing from these primitive fountains, through the subsequent periods of our history, modifying institutions, character and manners, have a value in the eyes of the historical student, which is not lessened by the obscurity in which they are generally involved: and the committee congratulate themselves and the Society, that, while they are not forgetful of the general objects of their association, they are enabled to point with becoming pride to their successful endeavors to rescue the fast perishing memorials of the earliest history of the commonwealth, whose position, character and influence, have alike contributed to make her the EMPIRE STATE.

JUNE: 1849.

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