The De Forests And The Walloon Founding Of New Amsterdam

Green outlines for us the first families who colonized New Amsterdam, the area located on the southern tip of Manhattan Island, nor referred to as New York City. She presents her argument, that, it was not the Dutch who were the first settlers on the Island of Manhattan - it was a group of Belgian-French Protestant refuees by the name of Walloon, under the leadership of Jesse De Forest. They were not part of a colony established and planned by the Dutch Government, but created for themselves their own community, and sought nothing more from the Dutch than transportation to the new land and permission to be left to establish their own community. They arrived at the mouth of the Hudson in 1624, and shortly thereafter the Walloon family formed the first permanent colony.--Back cover.

• | Author: Lucy Garrison Green
• | Publisher: Heritage Books, Inc.
• | Publication Date: Sep 17, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 100 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0788423363
• | ISBN-13: 9780788423369