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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 106 (part 5)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Tienpoint, which Directors, in the year 1624, built Fort Orange on the North River, and Fort Nassau on the South River, and after that, in 1626, Fort Amsterdam on the Manhattes. In all which, garrisons were continually maintained, and trade was carried on in those several districts with 150 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. yachts, sloops and other craft. And in the year 1G29, the Freedoms and Exemptions conceded by the Hon''''' Assembly of the XlX. were published, with their High Mightinesses' approbation. Thereupon divers Patroons and Colonists resorted thither and endeavored to advance agriculture and population. For further security, Fort Good Hope was also erected in 1633,