Special Histories.--New York: Roberts (Commonwealths), and Brodhead: O'Callaghan, _New Netherlands_; G. Schuyler, _Colonial New York_, I.; W. Griffis, _New Netherland_; histories of New York city by Innis, Janvier, Lamb, Rensselaer, Roosevelt, Stone, and Wilson.--Delaware: Conrad and Scharf; Jameson, _Willem Usselinx_.--New Jersey: Lee, Mulford, Raum, and Tanner; F. Stockton, _Stories of New Jersey_; A. Melick, _Old New Jersey Farm_.--Pennsylvania: S. Fisher, _Making of Pennsylvania_; H. Jenkins, _Pennsylvania_; I. Sharpless, _Two Centuries of Pennsylvania_, and _Quaker Government_; A. Myers, _Irish Quakers_; O. Kuhns, _German and Swiss Settlements_; J. Sachse, _Pennsylvania Germans_, and _German Pietists_; Scharf and Westcott, _Philadelphia_. Contemporary Accounts.--Josselyn, _Two Voyages_ (1675); Dankers Sluyter, _Voyage to New York_ (1679); Penn, _Some Account_ (1681); Budd, _Good Order Established_ (1685); Sewel, _History of Quakers_ (1722); Hazard, _Annals of Pennsylvania_; Gabriel Thomas, _West Jersey_. Reprints: _Colonial Documents_ and _Records_ of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; _Half Moon Series_; _American History told by Contemporaries_, I. part vi.; Jameson, _Original Narratives_; publications by colonial and town record commissions, and historical and antiquarian societies. 83. Dutch Settlement (1609-1625). Sidenote: Hudson's discovery. In September, 1609, Hendrik Hudson, an English navigator in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, sailed up the river to which his name has been given by the English--the Dutch called it North River--as far as the future site of Albany. He found "that the land was of the finest kind for tillage, and as beautiful as the foot of man ever trod upon." Six weeks earlier Champlain, the commander of New France, had been on the shores of Lake Champlain about one hundred miles to the north, fighting the native Iroquois. The object of Hudson's search was a familiar one in his time,--the discovery of a water-passage through the continent that might serve as a short-cut to India, where his masters were engaged in trade. He did not find what he sought, but opened the way to a lucrative traffic with the American savages, whose good graces the thrifty Dutch strove to cultivate. The French leader's introduction to the Iroquois had been as an enemy, but the explorer from Holland came as a friend: the Dutch reaped advantage from the contrast. Sidenote: Early Dutch trading-posts.