The Early Dutch and Swedish Settlers of New Jersey

Description: Princeton, New Jersey: Van Nostrand, 1964. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket (only very lightly soiled). NOT price clipped (3.95). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. A square, tight, unmarked copy. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue boards. Gilt on spine and front cover is still bright and shiny. Illustrated with endpaper maps and 25 other old maps and prints of colonial New Jersey. Bibliographical notes. Index. Volume 10 in The New Jersey Historical series. From the Dust Jacket: "Few people are fully aware of the tremendous influences that the early Dutch and Swedish settlers had on New Jersey It was the Dutch who first explored and settled in the state in 1624 Remnants of early Swedish settlements can still be found in South Jersey Swedish and Finnish names are on the gravestones in the cemeteries there Leiby follows the activities of New Jersey's early Dutch and Swedish settlers from Hendrik Hudson's journal in 1609 through the surrender of New Netherlands to the English, and the Dutch occupation of New Sweden He examines the historical role played by the Dutch West India Company, the Indian Wars against the Dutch, the New Sweden company; and the powerful influences of men such as Peter Minuit, Peter Stuyvesant and Johan Printz.". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xiv, 137pp

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