THE GOEDE VROUW OF MANA-HA-TA
By Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer
Excerpt from Preface
It has been well said in the preface to the Lives of the Lindsays
that "Every family should have a record of its own. Each has its
peculiar spirit running through the whole line, and in more or less
development, perceptible in every generation. We do not love our
kindred for their glory or their genius, but for their domestic
affections and private virtues. An affectionate regard to their
memory is natural to the heart; it is an emotion totally distinct
from pride -an ideal love. Our ancestors, it is true, are denied to
our personal acquaintance, but the light they shed during their
lives survives within their tombs, and will reward our search if we
explore them."
Encouraged by these wise words, I am emboldened to lay before the
public the results of my researches into the lives of the women
who, by their industry, their courage, and their piety, helped to
create a colony in the New World, and I have followed out the
history (as far as was possible) to their descendants of the third
and fourth generation. The information contained in this volume was
culled from various sources, many of them not open to the public,
such as private family papers to which I have fortunately had
access, and some of which I had inherited, they having been lain
aside by an older member of the family with the view of compiling a
family history, which was never accomplished. Family traditions
have been used which have always been given for what they are worth
and always noted, histories were consulted that have been long out
of print and are now to be found only on the back shelves of some
old-fashioned library, as well as those that are commonly known and
often consulted by the public. All of these I have woven into a
web. If the pattern is not clear, or the colors are not properly
assorted, it must be excused, as being the work of a woman, done in
a womanly...
Abridged Table of Contents
I. Two Dutch Colonies in America
II. Women of the Seventeenth Century
III. Prominent Pioneer Women
IV. The First Settlement on Mana-ha-ta
V. Homes of the Settlers
VI. Habits, Amusements, and Laws
VII. Rensselaers of the Manor
VIII. Der Colonie Nieu Nederlands
IX. New York vs. New Amsterdam
X. Passing of the Pioneers
XI. The Dutch and Their Neighbors
XII. New York in Infancy
XIII. The Pirate and His Escapades
XIV. Society Under the English Rule
XV. Wedding-bells and Caudle-cups
XVI. James Alexander
XVII. My Lady of "Petticoat Lane"
XVIII. Petticoats and Politics
XIX. New York in 1732
XX. Matches, Batches, and Despatches
XXI. New York "in the Forties"
XXII. The Last of the Dutch Matrons
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