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Title: Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680

Author: Jasper Danckaerts

Editor: Bartlett Burleigh James and J. Franklin Jameson

Release Date: October 30, 2007 [eBook #23258]

Language: English

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Original Narratives
of Early American History

JOURNAL OF JASPER DANCKAERTS

1679-1680

Edited by

BARTLETT BURLEIGH JAMES, B.D., PH.D.

of the Maryland Historical Society

and

J. FRANKLIN JAMESON, PH.D., LL.D.

Director of the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie
Institutions of Washington

With a Facsimile and Two Maps

Charles Scribner's Sons
New York

Copyright, 1913, by
Charles Scribner's Sons

[Illustration: NEW YORK FROM BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, 1679

From the original drawing by Jasper Danckaerts in the possession of
the Long Island Historical Society]

CONTENTS

JOURNAL OF JASPER DANCKAERTS

EDITED BY BARTLETT BURLEIGH JAMES AND J. FRANKLIN JAMESON

PAGE

NOTE A ix

INTRODUCTION xiii

NOTE B xxv

VOYAGE TO