III. Lord Cornbury makes Himself very Unpopular.
From 1702 to 1708

CHAPTER XIV. Lord Lovelace and Robert Hunter.
From 1708 to 1720

CHAPTER XV. Governor Burnet and the French Traders.
From 1720 to 1732

CHAPTER XVI. The Trial of Zenger, the Printer.
From 1732 to 1736

CHAPTER XVII. Concerning the Negro Plot.
From 1736 to 1743

CHAPTER XVIII. The Tragic Death of Sir Danvers Osborne.
From 1743 to 1753

CHAPTER XIX. The Beginning of Discontent.
From 1753 to 1763

CHAPTER XX. The Story of the Stamp Act.
From 1763 to 1765

CHAPTER XXI. The Beginning of Revolution.
From 1765 to 1770

CHAPTER XXII. Fighting the Tax on Tea.
From 1770 to 1774

CHAPTER XXIII. The Sons of Liberty at Turtle Bay.
From 1774 to 1775

CHAPTER XXIV. The War of the Revolution.
In the Year 1775

CHAPTER XXV. A Battle on Long Island.
The Year 1776

CHAPTER XXVI. The British Occupy New York.
The Year 1776 (Continued)

CHAPTER XXVII. The Battle of Harlem Heights.
The Year 1776 (Continued)

CHAPTER XXVIII. The British Fail to Sweep Everything Before Them.
From 1776 to 1777

CHAPTER XXIX. New York a Prison House.
From 1777 to 1783

CHAPTER XXX. After the War.
From 1783 to 1788

CHAPTER XXXI. The First President of the United States.
The Year 1788

CHAPTER XXXII. The Welcome to George Washington.
The Year 1789

CHAPTER XXXIII. Concerning the Tammany Society and Burr's Bank.
From 1789 to 1800

CHAPTER XXXIV. More about Hamilton and Burr.
From 1801 to 1804

CHAPTER XXXV. Robert Fulton Builds a Steam-Boat.
From 1805 to 1807

CHAPTER XXXVI. The City Plan.
From 1807 to 1814

CHAPTER XXXVII. The Story of the Erie Canal.
From 1814 to 1825

CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Building of the Croton Aqueduct.
From 1825 to 1845

CHAPTER XXXIX. Professor Morse and the Telegraph.
From 1845 to 1878

CHAPTER XL. The Greater New York.
To the Present Time

TABLE OF EVENTS

INDEX

LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS

New Amsterdam, 1650--New York, East Side, 1746
The Half Moon in the Highlands of the Hudson
Earliest Picture of Manhattan
Indians Trading for Furs
Hall of the States-General of Holland
Seal of New Netherland
The Building of the Palisades
Old House in New York, Built 1668
Van Twillier's Defiance
Landing of Dutch Colony on Staten Island
Governor's Island and the Battery in 1850
Dutch Costumes
The Bowling Green in