The Memorial History of the City of New York from Its First Settlement to the Year 1892

Edited by James Grant Wilson and published by the New York History Company in 1892, this text marks the first entry in a four-volume series on the history and contemporary life of New York City. It is broken into fifteen chapters and covers major developments between the early 16th and late 17th centuries. Includes a variety of steel engravings and illustrations.

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• Chapter I “Explorations of the North American Coast Previous to the Voyage of Henry Hudson,” pgs. 1-32
• Chapter II “The Native Inhabitants of Manhattan and its Indian Antiquities,” pgs. 33-54
• Chapter III “The Antecedents of New Netherland and the Dutch West India Company,” pgs. 55-107
• Chapter IV “Henry Hudson’s Voyage and its Results in Trade and Colonization,” pgs. 108-151
• Chapter V “Peter Minuit and Walter Van Twiller, 1626-1627,” pgs. 152-194
• Chapter VI “The Administration of William Kieft, 1638-1647,” pgs. 195-242
• Chapter VII “Peter Stuyvesant, The Last of the Dutch Directors,” pgs. 243-306
• Chapter VIII “Richard Nichols, The First English Governor, 1664-1688,” pgs. 307-340
• Chapter IX “Francis Lovelace, and the Recapture of New Netherland, 1668-1674,” pgs. 341-362
• Chapter X “The Administration of Sir Edmund Andros, 1674-1682,” pgs. 363-398
• Chapter XI “Thomas Dongan and the Granting of the New York Charter, 1682-1688,” pgs. 399-452
• Chapter XII “The Period of the Leisler Troubles, 1688-1692,” 453-488
• Chapter XIII “Benjamin Fletcher and the Rise of Piracy, 1692-1698,” pgs. 489-522
• Chapter XIV “Constitutional and Legal History of New York in the Seventeenth Century,” pgs. 523-569
• Chapter XV “Printing in New York in the Seventeenth Century,” pgs. 570-603