HORACE GREELEY

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

THE BROOK FARM CALL

"THE HIVE"

CHARLES A. DANA

THE PAGEANT

A PIONEER KINDERGARTEN

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE





CHAPTER I

THE OLD COLONIE


In May, 1624, the Dutch packet New Netherlands sailed up the Hudson
River to the head of navigation, bringing a company of eighteen families
under the leadership of Adrian Joris. The immigrants landed at a little
trading post called Beaverwick kept by one Tice Oesterhout, a pioneer
hunter, married to a Mohawk Squaw. In a few days a party of Indians,