Upon this spot, washed by the tide, stood the North East bastion of Fort Orange, erected about 1623. Here the powerful Iroquois met the deputies of this and other colonies in conference to establish treaties. Here the first courts were held. Here in 1643,... Albany Guide Book - Página 981917 - 224 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Anthony Bleecker Banks, Franklin Martin Danaher, Andrew Hamilton - 1888 - 534 páginas
...with flush bolts. On it will be inscribed : " Upon this Spot, Washed by the Tide, Stood the north-east Bastion of Fort Orange, Erected about 1623. Here the...Estimable Minister, the Earliest Church was Erected north-west of the Fort, and to the South of it Stood the Dominie's House." Tablet No. 2 — Municipal.... | |
| John D. Whish - 1900 - 120 páginas
...Boyd Thacher. (The names of the Bicentennial committee follow.) FORT ORANGE TABLET H U o M pi I Id Upon this spot, washed by the tide, stood the North...Here in 1643, under the direction of Dominie Johannes Megapolcnsis, a learned and estimable minister, the earliest church was erected North West of the fort,... | |
| Warwick Stevens Carpenter - 1914 - 156 páginas
...Steamboat Square, just east of the bend in Broadway, upon which the following inscription appears: "Upon this spot, washed by the tide, stood the North...and to the South of it stood the dominie's house." Finding the sending of settlers too expensive, the Dutch West India Company in 1629 adopted the method... | |
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