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THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY.

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

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AMONG MANY SURPRISING AND CURIOUS MATTERS, THE UNUTTER-
ABLE PONDERINGS OF WALTER THE DOUBTER, THE DISASTROUS
PROJECTS OF WILLIAM THE TESTY, AND THE CHIVALRIC
ACHIEVEMENTS OF PETER THE HEADSTRONG, THE THREE
DUTCH GOVERNORS OF NEW AMSTERDAM; BEING THE ONLY
AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE TIMES THAT EVER HATH BEEN
PUBLISHED.

THE THIRD EDITION.

BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.

De waarheid die in duister lag,
Die komt met klaarheid aan den dag.

IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. I.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY M. THOMAS.

J. MAXWELL, PRINTER.

Kepair No.

55505

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

163596

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899.

EASTON DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit:

BE REMEMBERED, That on the fifth day of March, in the for ty-third year of the independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1819, Moses Thomas, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

A History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the end of the Dutch Dynasty. Containing among many surprising and curious matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam: being the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been published. The third edition. By Diedrich Knickerbocker, De waarheid die in duister lag, Die komt met klaarheid aan den dag.

In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, intituled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

D. CALDWELL,

Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR.

It was sometime, if I recollect right, i the early part of the autumn of 1808, that a st: ger applied for lodgings at the Independent Columbian Hotel in Mulberry-street, of which I am landlord. He was a small, brisk looking old gentleman, dressed in a rusty black coat, a pair of olive velvet breeches, and a small cocked hat. He had a few gray hairs plaited and clubbed behind, and his beard seemed to be of some eight and forty hours growth. The only piece of finery which he bore about him, was a bright pair of square silver shoe buckles, and all his baggage was contained in a pair of saddle-bags, which he carried under his arm. His whole appearance was something out of the common run; and my wife, who is a very shrewd body, at once set him down for some eminent country schoolmaster.

As the Independent Columbian Hotel is a very small house, I was a little puzzled at first where to put him; but my wife, who seemed taken with his looks, would needs put him in her best cham

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