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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present — John Shaqi

The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the presentSherwood, John D.

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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

Name: The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present
Author: Sherwood, John D.

Sherwood, John D.

United States -- History -- Humor

Views of the New England States and Character determined
          by one’s Church.—Partial Notions about Clocks, Nutmegs,
          Pumpkin Pies, etc.—Getting an Historical Coach to one’s
          self.—Why the Puritans did not hang up their Stockings
          on their first Christmas Eve.—Their nearest
          Neighbors.—Indian Points and other Points.—Governor
          Carver and Want of Meats.—Massasoit, and how he kept his
          Faith in-violate.—New Hampshire on the Rampage.—Why
          Boston was begun, and why it is not finished.—Roger
          Williams and his Providential Ways and
          Dealings.—Connecticut founded, although its Charter not
          found.—The Wind against Cromwell.—Harvard
          College.—Vermont and her Ways and Means.


 V.     THE SETTLEMENT OF NEW YORK                                   126

        The Spirits of the Age present at its Foundation.—Who they
          were and how they were affected.—The Wonders of
          Manhattan in September, 1609.—How the Animal, Vegetable,
          Ornithological, Maritime, and Human Productions then
          compared with those now.—What New York Lots were worth
          two hundred and fifty years ago.—Their Owners.—Hudson’s
          Trip up the River.—What he saw and didn’t see.—The four
          Dutch Governors; their Doings and Misdoings.—Sketch of
          Holland and the Characteristics which she impressed upon
          New Amsterdam.—Bravery evinced in settling Brooklyn.—How
          the Van Rensellaers and other Vans were enticed
          hither.—The Troubles and Sorrows of Wouter Van Twiller
          and William Kieft.—Of the Surrender of the Dutch, and
          the Instalment of English Rule in New York.—Petrus
          Stuyvesant retires from Business.—His Farm and what he
          raised on it.


 VI.    THE SETTLEMENT OF NEW JERSEY                                 142

        A spirited Sketch of the Way in which it was done, and the
          Results.


 VII.   THE SETTLEMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA                               143

        Governments in their Action like Pianos.—The Reason; and
          illustrating Examples.—Varieties in the Make-ups of the
          different Settlers of the Colonies.—Character of Penn,
          and why it improves by Age.—His Accomplishments.—His
          first Visit to America in 1681.—Tall Talk and
          Peace.—Philadelphia, its Early and Late
          Characteristics.—Delaware sets up for herself.—Penn in
          Prison.—Again in Pennsylvania.—Returns to England by the
          Philadelphia Line.—Pennsylvania leaps into the
          Eighteenth Century, and what she does there.


 VIII.  THE COLONIES IN THE UPPER HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY    150

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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

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