Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware 1630-1707
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ORIGINAL NARRATIVES OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY REPRODUCED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION General Editor,
J.
FRANKLIN JAMESON,
Ph.D., LL.D.
RESEARCH DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
IN
THE
NARRATIVES OF EARLY PENNSYLVANIA WEST NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE 1630— 1707
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COPYRIGHT, 191 2, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published February, 191
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NOTE The first of the illustrations in tion of
this
volume
map entitled " Novi
an excellent
Belgii
a facsimile of a porNovseque Anglise necis
non Pennsylvania et Partis Virginia Tabula," by N. J. Visscher, a prominent Dutch map-engraver of the middle of the seventeenth century. The whole map embraces, as the title implies, all those parts of New England, the Middle States, and Maryland which at that time had been settled by white men or had become known, more or less accurately, through their explorations. The whole map measures twenty-two by nineteen inches. The part which nas been selected for reproduction
in this
volume covers the regions
The map
especially involved in the narratives printed therein.
is
chosen as representing the state of things at the time when Swedish occupation of the Delaware River region gave way to Dutch. Its