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The Story of American History for Elementary Schools

Chapter VII · Pages 88-105. THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK; THE QUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

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Chapter VII. Pages 88-105. THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK; THE QUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

Topics for Collateral Reading.—Henry Hudson: his voyages, voyage upon the Great River, his tragic fate, see Fiske's The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, Vol. I, pp. 83-95. William Penn: see the Index to Fiske's The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America.

References for Reading.—The Great Peace Maker (Penn) (Daring Deed Series); Abbott's Peter Stuyvesant (Ajax Series).

Outside Readings.—Butterworth's Wampum Belt (Penn); Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York (humorous and satirical account of the Dutch Colony of New Netherland); Paulding's The Dutchman's Fireside (Colonial Life in New York).

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