New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . o the Indies, but hesoon found out his error and, returning to Europe, reported the progress hehad made. The next visitor to Manhattan was Adrien Black, a Hollander,who came in 1611 and again in 1613, this time with Captain Hendrik Chris-tiaensen. They brought with them a number of veterans as settlers in the Tiger and Fortune, with a cargo of merchandise for trading purposes, anderected a redoubt containing four small houses on the site of the present Broadway. The venture proving successful, other settlers were added
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . o the Indies, but hesoon found out his error and, returning to Europe, reported the progress hehad made. The next visitor to Manhattan was Adrien Black, a Hollander,who came in 1611 and again in 1613, this time with Captain Hendrik Chris-tiaensen. They brought with them a number of veterans as settlers in the Tiger and Fortune, with a cargo of merchandise for trading purposes, anderected a redoubt containing four small houses on the site of the present Broadway. The venture proving successful, other settlers were added j-earafter year to the little colony, the merchants who bore the original expenseof the enterprise organizing themselves into the United New NetherlandsCompany, and subsequently procuring from the States-General of Holland acharter granting them a monopoly of the trade, which was chiefly in furs,between the 40th and 45th parallels, north latitude. This was known as theCENTRAL PARK—THE PILGRIM. Dutch West India Company. The favorable reports from the Colony which. viii NEIV YORK, THE METROPOLIS. reached Europe intensely interested the English Puritans residing in Holland, then looking around for a regionin which they might settle and have free scope for the exercise of their political and religious tenets, and acommittee acting in their behalf requested permission to settle in the new province. The States-General,however, did not give them any encouragement. Holland was at that time the colonial and naval rival ofEngland, and its Government looked to North America as an acquisition of the very greatest importance, bothfrom a colonial and commercial point of view. Hence they gave the Dutch West India Company a charterconferring upon them exclusive rights over the New Netherlands for twenty years, the company agreeing to ».return to colonize the province within a reasonable time. In accordance with this agreement, they sent hither,in 1624, thirty families, composed chiefly of
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