Note 17 — Chapter V · DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE UNDER THE DUTCH 1647-1664
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"No other figure of Dutch, nor indeed of Colonial days is so well remembered; none other has left so deep an impress on Manhattan history and tradition as this whimsical and obstinate, but brave and gallant old fellow, the kindly tyrant of the little colony. To this day he stands in a certain sense as the typical father of the city."—Theodore Roosevelt, New York, p. 26.