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Dutch and English on the Hudson; A Chronicle of Colonial New York
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By Maud Wilder Goodwin (Chronicles of America #7) 6 Apr, 2020
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Dutch and English on the Hudson is a classic American history text by Maud Wilder Goodwin. Geography is the maker of history. The course of the Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river that runs its length of a hundred and fifty miles ... Read more
Dutch and English on the Hudson is a classic American history text by Maud Wilder Goodwin. Geography is the maker of history. The course of the Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river that runs its length of a hundred and fifty miles from the mountains to the sea through the heart of a fertile country and which offers a natural highway for transportation of merchandise and for communication between colonies. No man, however, could foresee the development of the Empire State when, on that memorable September day in 1609, a small Dutch yacht named the Halve Maene or Half Moon, under the command of Captain Henry Hudson, slipped in past the low hook of sand in front of the Navesink Heights, and sounded her way to an anchorage in what is now the outer harbor of New York. Less
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Maud Wilder Goodwin
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Maud Wilder Goodwin(Born 5 June 1856, Ballston Spa, New York; died 5 February 1935, New York, New York), Daughter of John and Delia A. Wilder; married Almon Goodwin, 1879. Maud Wilder Goodwin did not ...
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