A Brief Description of New York
Author: Daniel Denton
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 110
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Author: Daniel Denton
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 110
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Published: 2024-07-09
Total Pages: 102
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Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2009-11
Total Pages: 554
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 106
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Published: 1902
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Published: 1670
Total Pages: 63
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Denton's work was the first English account intended to promote settlement of the region recently seized from the Dutch. It is of particular interest for 1) its description of the geographic and topographic features of the region from Albany in the north to the mouth of the Delaware Bay in the south, and from the eastern tip of Long Island to the interior of modern-day New Jersey; 2) its enumeration of the plants, animals, and commodities of the area; 3) its impressive and extended account of the customs and livelihood of the Indians of the region; 4) its early suggestion of 'manifest destiny, ' whereby the Indians are providentially removed by a 'Divine hand'; 5) its depiction of the region as a 'terrestrial paradise' for English settlement and agriculture--'a land flowing with milk and honey'; and 6) its invocation of an early form of the 'rags-to-riches' potential of American life. Rather than depict the rigors of colonial life, Denton focuses on the richness and opportunities of the New World, describing an almost carefree and sensually suggestive existence in a land rich in all sorts of fruits, including 'Strawberries, of which last is such abundance in June, that the Fields and Woods are died red : Which the Countrey-people perceiving, instantly arm themselves with bottles of Wine, Cream, and Sugar, and instead of a Coat of Male, every one takes a Female upon his Horse behind him, and so rushing violently into the fields, never leave till they have disrob'd them of their red colours, and turned them into the old habit.' Denton (c.1626-1703) was born in Yorkshire, England, and emigrated to Massachusetts in the 1640s. He was the son of the Reverend Richard Denton, considered the first Presbyterian minister in America. He became a town official and land developer in Long Island, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. His tract was published during his only return trip to England in 1670-72, and is a lively and unabashedly promotional picture of an Anglo-American agrarian paradise, including such examples as the following: 'How many poor people in the world would think themselves happy, had they an Acre or two of Land, whilst here is hundreds, nay thousands of Acres, that would invite inhabitants. ... I may say, and say truly, that if there be any terrestrial happiness to be had by people of all ranks, especially of an inferior rank, it must certainly be here: here any one may furnish himself with land, and live rent-free, yea, with such a quantity of land, that he may weary himself with walking over his fields of Corn, and all sorts of Grain. ... Here those which Fortune hath frown'd upon in England, to deny them an inheritance amongst their Brethren, or such as by their utmost labors can scarcely procure a living, I say such may procure here inheritances of land, and possessions, stock themselves with all sorts of Cattel, enjoy the benefit of them whilst they live, and leave them to the benefit of their children when they die. ... I must needs say, that if there be any terrestrial Canaan, 'tis surely here, where the Land floweth with milk and honey.'"--Abstract at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/22.
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 28
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Published: 2016-09-10
Total Pages: 566
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-09-27
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9781333755058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from A Brief Description of New York, Formerly Called New Netherlands, With the Places Thereunto Adjoining: Likewise a Brief Relation of the Customs of the Indians There This strait of Hell-gate was a place of great awe and perilous enterprise to me in my boyhood having been much Of a navigator on those small seas, and having more than once run the risk Of shipwreck and drowning in the course of certain holiday-voyages, to which, in common with other Dutch urchins, I was rather prone. Indeed, partly from the name, and partly from various strange circumstances connected with it, this place had far more terrors in the eyes of my truant companions and myself, than had Scylla and Charybdis for the navi gators Of yore. In the midst of this strait, and hard by a group of rocks called the Hen and Chickens, there lay the wreck of a vessel which had been entangled in the Whirlpools, and stranded during a storm. There was a wild story told to us of this being the wreck of a pirate, and some tale of bloody murder which I can not now recollect, but which made us regard it with great awe, and keep far from it in our cruisings. Indeed, the desolate look of the forlorn hulk, and the fearful place where it lay rotting, were enough to awaken strange notions. A row of timber-heads, blackened by time, just peered above the surface at high water but at low tide a considerable part Of the hull was bare, and its great ribs, or timbers, partly stripped Of their planks, and dripping with sea-weed's, looked like the huge skeleton Of some sea-monster. There was also the stump of a mast, with a few ropes and blocks swinging about, and whistling in the wind, while the sea-gull wheeled and screamed around the melancholy carcas's. I have a faint recollection Of some hobgoblin tale Of sailors' ghosts being seen about this wreck at night, with bare sculls, and blue lights in their sockets instead of eyes, but I have forgotten all the particulars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Daniel Denton
Publisher: Arkose Press
Published: 2015-11-07
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9781346223766
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