The De Riemer Family

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Excerpt from The De Riemer Family: A. D. 1640 1903 Any contribution to the early history of New York City - first known as New Amsterdam - awakens peculiar interest. The pioneer men and women who laid the foundations or endured the hardships of life in the formative period of the Metropolis of the Empire State deserve to be held in grateful remembrance. These pioneers were not titled people. But few of them possessed wealth. They were quite unconscious of doing anything to be recorded in history. No professional chronicler was at hand to take note of their brave deeds. They are known to us today chiefly through the public records of the State and of the Church, - when they were born, and married and died, and what property they acquired, and to whom it was transmitted, - to obtain even these facts is no slight labor. The writer has attempted to do more than this with reference to the families of which he treats. Every available incident in the individual lives of the Colonial period is introduced in the printed page, so that the work becomes a series of biographical studies. There are two distinct periods in the Colonial history of New York - the Dutch period of 50 years, extending from 1614 to 1664, the date of Stuyvesant's surrender to the English fleet - and the English period of 160 years, from 1664 to 1773, when the Revolutionary War began. Among the pioneers who figured conspiciously in both these periods were some whose lives have not hitherto been made prominent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.