The Legends and Traditions of a Northern County

An excerpt from the first chapter: Early Settlements and Settlers The Colony of New York was unlike any of the other colonies and states in the manner of its early settlement and the character of its land holdings. When the Dutch West Indies Company began the settlement of the vast territory, which eventually shrank to the Colony of New York, it conveyed great tracts of land to patroons, who had to furnish a certain number of settlers to make good their title. Within the limits of their gra...