A home geography of New York city . Brooklyn,and Queens. In New Amsterdam there was also one high schoolcalled a Latin school and several private schools. The Dutch lan-guage and the Dutch reformed religion were taught in these Dutch loved their language and their church. The English governors allowed the Dutch to have their ownchurches and schools, but the government would not give theDutch free schools any money. The Dutch Church Society sup-ported as many free schools as it could. The English had their own schools and churches of differentdenominations. People who spoke other la
A home geography of New York city . Brooklyn,and Queens. In New Amsterdam there was also one high schoolcalled a Latin school and several private schools. The Dutch lan-guage and the Dutch reformed religion were taught in these Dutch loved their language and their church. The English governors allowed the Dutch to have their ownchurches and schools, but the government would not give theDutch free schools any money. The Dutch Church Society sup-ported as many free schools as it could. The English had their own schools and churches of differentdenominations. People who spoke other languages had their churchesalso. In a few years therewere in New AmsterdamDutch schools and Englishschools, Dutch churches,English churches, a Ger-man church, a Frenchchurch, and a Jewishsynagogue. The educatedpeople understood Dutchand English. The Englishlanguage was spoken inthe City Hall and in thecourts. The young Dutch people spoke English in school and withtheir English friends, and they began to attend the English View in Manhattan: Houses andChurches (1746) 160 HOME GEOGRAPHY OF NEW YORK CITY For these reasons Dutch was spoken less and less as the yearswent by, and English became the language of New York long beforethe Zenger trial. The First College in New York City. Until 1754 there wereonly primary schools and Latin or high schools in New who wislied to go to college were sent to Harvard, Yale,Princeton, or to Europe. In that year some New York gentlemendecided to found a college in New York. It was called KingsCollege. The Trinity Church Society gave the college a portionof the church lands. Some of the money necessary for the build-ings was raised in England and a part was raised in New of the books for the college were sent from England andothers were given by New York gentlemen. The classes weretaught in the vestry room of Trinity until a building was president and professors belonged to the Church of England. The college
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