. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. stood on State Street, andwas, as seen from the bay, the most prominent object on the island. Notfar from it were the bakery, brewery, and warehouse of the company. A feiTy to Long Island had been established before Kiefts arrival,from the vicinity of Pecks Slip to a point a little below the presentFidton Ferry. Cornells Dircksen, who had a farm in that vicinity, cameat the sound of a horn, which hung against a tree, and ferried the wait-ing jjassengers across the river in a skiff, for the moderate charge ofthree stivers in wa
. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. stood on State Street, andwas, as seen from the bay, the most prominent object on the island. Notfar from it were the bakery, brewery, and warehouse of the company. A feiTy to Long Island had been established before Kiefts arrival,from the vicinity of Pecks Slip to a point a little below the presentFidton Ferry. Cornells Dircksen, who had a farm in that vicinity, cameat the sound of a horn, which hung against a tree, and ferried the wait-ing jjassengers across the river in a skiff, for the moderate charge ofthree stivers in wampum. Many thousands now cross the Brooklynferries daily at about the same place. COMPETITION OF SWEDEX. >il There was a road which had been formed by travel froui the forttowards the northern part of ManJiattan Island, crooking al)out to avoidhills and ravines, and which might have been more tridy called a either side of it, although at considerable distances apart, farms werelaid out, and some English colonists, who removed to this hitherto uncul-. First Ferry to Long Island. AprU 15. tivated district troni Virginia, witli them cherry and peacli trees,and soon rendered it somewhat interesting to agrictdturists. Ivieft wasextravagantly fond of flowers, and encouraged ganleniug after the mostapproved European standard. He also stocked the farms with fine all at once apjjeared as a competitor ^^•ith France, England,and Holland for a foothold in North America. Peter Minuet had offeredto that power the benefit of his colonial experience; and an ex-pedition was placed under his direction, with fifty emigrants, aLutheran minister, goods for the Indian trade, and the necessaries formaking a Uttle colony comfortable in a strange land. They came tothe Delaware Bay country, where Minuet bought of the sachem Matte-hoorn, for a kettle and other trifles, as mticli land as would serve toluiild a house upon and make a jilantation. For tliis land a deed
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