The Settlement of Bergen (1660) and the First School. (1662-1673)
Abstract
My story begins in the year 1655 with the shooting of a little Indian girl for pulling and eating a peach in an orchard, where Wall Street, New York City is today. The murder was the signal for a general uprising in New Amsterdam. Six hundred inhabitants of New York, and we have no record of how many on the west bank of the Hudson but we know they were fewer in number, crowded into the stockade at the Battery away from the fury of the Indians. Peter Stuyvesant, the director general, was down on the Delaware scattering the Swedish settlements that had unlawfully entered Dutch territory. His absence probably explains the rash action of the settler in putting the security of his orchard above that of the colonists.
Subject Area
History|Sociology
Recommended Citation
Bannerman, Helen, "The Settlement of Bergen (1660) and the First School. (1662-1673)" (1929). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31189848.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31189848
