PAGE “AS THEY DEFILED THROUGH THE PRINCIPAL GATE THAT STOOD AT THE HEAD OF WALL STREET” _Frontispiece_ “BLACKSMITHS SUFFERED THEIR FIRES TO GO OUT” 3 THE EDICT OF WILLIAM THE TESTY 9 A LONG PIPE 11 A POT-HOUSE POLITICIAN 13 THE MERRYLANDERS WERE FOND OF BOXING 19 “I LOWER IT TO NONE” 25 “A WHOLE ROW OF HELDERBERGERS REARED THEIR ROUND BURLY HEADS” 29 THE WISE MEN AND SOOTHSAYERS 32 “THEY SOLD THEM GUNS THAT EXPLODED AT THE FIRST FIRING” 39 DUTCH FAMILY PIPE 43 “DRINKING, FIDDLING AND DANCING” 49 “SO AS TO DELIGHT THE GOVERNOR WHILE AT HIS REPASTS” 61 “A NANTUCKET WHALER WITH A SPY GLASS TWICE AS LONG” 71 “THE OLD WOMEN REJOICED THAT THERE WAS TO BE NO WAR” 73 “THE ANGRY BULL BUTTS WITH HIS HORNS” 78 TWO AMBASSADORS 81 “SNIVELLING SCOURINGS, BROILS, AND MARAUDINGS, KEPT UP ON THE EASTERN FRONTIERS” 85 MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER WAS INJURED 89 “TWANGING HIS TRUMPET LIKE A VERY DEVIL” 93 “THE KNOWING COMMISSIONERS WINKED TO EACH OTHER” 97 THE MILITIA 105 THE FORTIFICATIONS 107 “HAVING A MOST SUSPICIOUS PREDILECTION FOR BLACK CATS AND BROOMSTICKS” 111 THE WORTHY JUDGES 114 JAN JANSEN ALPENDAM 119 “HE FRIGHTED ALL, CATS, DOGS, AND ALL” 123 VAN POFFENBURGH’S VALOR 127 KELDERMEESTER 129 PETRUS STUYVESANT 135 JAN PRINTZ 139 THE MOSQUITO PLAGUE 141 “THE MAIN GUARD WAS TURNED OUT” 146 “WITH GREAT CEREMONY, INTO THE FORT” 149 “TO ROB ALL THE HEN-ROOSTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD” 152 DIRK SCHUILER 157 “AND PADDLED OVER TO NEW AMSTERDAM” 161