was restored by the diocese of London to the commonwealth of
Massachusetts, which now preserves it in the State Library in
Boston.

[2] Now known as Provincetown, where a lofty monument on a hilt
back of the harbor, dedicated in 1910, commemorates the landing
there of the Pilgrim Fathers. While the Mayflower lay in this
harbor, Paregrine White was born, the first child of English
parentage born in New England.

[3] The landing at Plymouth was effected on December 21.




THE FIRST NEW YORK SETTLEMENTS

(1623-1628)

BY NICHOLAS JEAN DE WASSENAER[1]


We treated in our preceding discourse of the discovery of some rivers
in Virginia; the studious reader will learn how affairs proceeded. The
West India Company being chartered to navigate these rivers, did not
neglect so to do, but equipped in the spring [of 1623] a vessel of 130
lasts, called the _New Netherland_ whereof Cornelis Jacobs of Hoorn
was skipper, with 30 families, mostly Walloons, to plant a colony
there. They sailed in the beginning of March, and directing their
course by the Canary Islands, steered towards the wild coast, and