Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
- Downloads
- Under 100
- Pages
- 378
About this book
Two members of the Labadist sect, travelling under false names, left Amsterdam on 8 June 1679 aboard the small flute-ship Charles, sent to find land in America where their Protestant community could settle. Jasper Danckaerts kept the diary, and Peter Sluyter went with him. It records the boredom and fright of the crossing, then New York five years back under English rule, the Dutch farms and villages of Long Island, and hard overland weeks through New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. In Boston the following summer they called on the missionary John Eliot and came away distinctly unimpressed by Harvard College. The manuscript vanished for almost two centuries, until Henry C. Murphy came across it in an Amsterdam bookshop in 1864. Little else from the middle colonies is this plain-spoken about daily life.
About the author
More from this genre
See all- T The Trial of Aaron BurrThe Trial of Aaron Burr
- C Curiosities of HistoryCuriosities of History
- 1 1995 United States Congressional Address Book1995 United States Congressional Address Book
- S Salona, Fairfax County, VirginiaSalona, Fairfax County, Virginia
- I Indian Biography; Vol. 2Indian Biography; Vol. 2
- S State of the Union AddressesState of the Union Addresses
Books like this one
-
The Battle of New Orleans
-
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden
-
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
-
Acadia
-
Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology
- I Italy With Sketches of Spain and Portugal Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal
Discussion
No comments yet. Share a thought, a question or a favourite passage.
Copyright concern? Read our DMCA policy
Read or download
Public domain book This work is in the public domain and free of copyright. Anyone may read, download and share it.
- EPUB 2.3 MB
-
KINDLE Send to Kindle Send
- Download the EPUB file to this device.
- Open Amazon's Send to Kindle page, sign in, and add the file. Open Send to Kindle (opens in a new tab)
On a phone: open the downloaded EPUB and share it to the Kindle app.
You can also email the file to your Kindle address (it ends in @kindle.com) from an email address you approved in your Amazon account.
- PDF 5.3 MB
Downloads start right away. How to open EPUB on your phone
Book facts
- Author
- Jasper Danckaerts
- Reading time
- About 9 hours
- Pages
- 378
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American History
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online