CONTENTS

I. UP THE GREAT RIVER Page 1

II. TRADERS AND SETTLERS " 17

III. PATROONS AND LORDS OF THE MANOR " 32

IV. THE DIRECTORS " 51
V. DOMINES AND SCHOOL-TEACHERS " 83

VI. THE BURGHERS " 102

VII. THE NEIGHBORS OF NEW NETHERLAND " 123

VIII. THE EARLY ENGLISH GOVERNORS " 137

IX. LEISLER " 150

X. PRIVATEERS AND PIRATES " 165

XI. COLONIAL GOVERNMENT IN THE EIGH-
TEENTH CENTURY " 180

XII, THE ZENGER TRIAL " 193

XIII. THE NEGRO PLOTS " 206

XIV. SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON « 218
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE " 231
INDEX "4 235