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I 33 ' ' ancestors were mingled with our own of the Holland Society, as together they first fought for home and country in pioneer days, and braved the battle on the banks of the Mohawk as on the Connecticut and on Massachusetts Bay. Of course, we never can forget to honor the Re- volutionary, descendants, the Sonsrof the Revolu- tion, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Daughters of the Revolution, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and if our banquet could have been 'postponed a week or two later, the Sons and Daughters of the Panama Revolution! And finally, last and best of all, the Society of the Daughters of Holland, the only really, truly, sure-enough, sister society--we throw our arms around and embrace them all! CGrea,t GPPZause.Q The great event ofthe year to us Dutchmen in New York was the celebration of the 2 goth, Anni- versary of the granting of our city charter by Peter Stuyvesant, and the great event of the cele- bration was the discovery of a new historian of the Dutch! Fifty years ago Dr. Motley, a New Englander, wrote his Rise of the Dutch Republic, and the series succeeding it, and some people 's hearts were stirred with his descriptions of what had been wrought on that handbreadth of sand dunes about the Zuyder Zee. Thirty years later Douglas Campbell of this State, ' ' without a drop of Dutch blood in his veins, as he declared, published The Puritan in H ollaud, Euglaud, cmd America, and attempted to prove that for many of the best things that have benefited the world, we are 1n- debted to those Netherlanders who plucked 3 territory from the sea and a people from bondage., This new historian who has now appeared 11-HS
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134 torn away the mask with which Motley and Camp- bell had hidden the real Dutchman, and has shown him up in his true light as a pirate and as the originator of the Albany lobby! It Was such a simple method that the Historian employed that it awakens our admiration. Our city authorities concluded that they would publish the early Dutch records that had been stored in the City Library for two hundred and nity years. Instead of employing some one who had knowledge of the Dutch language and knew all the documents that had been preserved, who had the training of an historian and was com- petent for the purpose, the city authorities pur- sued their usual course in dealing with the Dutch period and appointed a Committee, not one of whom understood Dutch, and not one of whom had adequate knowledge of the records that were in existence or of the relative importance of any of them. Forthwith, at an expense to the city of several thousand dollars, seven volumes were pub- lished under the misleading title of Records of New Amsterdam. These records are mainly similar to the proceedings of Jefferson Market Police Court or of the District Magistrates' Courts. Appar- ently the Committee was not aware that there' were any other 'fRecords of New Amsterdam in existence. Cur new historian, writing The Startd- ard History of the City of New York, prepared hiIf1SG1f. for his work by spending several days in reading some such important itemsas that Wyntje Van Twiller had been tried by the Burgomaster and .Schepens for stealing seven olekocks for 0001411-285, and that Aniieke jans, the wife of Domine Bogardus, while passing the blacksmith
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