COLLECTIONS

OF THE

NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

FOR THE YEAR 1829.

VOLUME IV.

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY.

1829.

G. De C.C.

HISTORY

OF THE LATE

PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK,

FROM

ITS DISCOVERY,

TO THE

APPOINTMENT OF GOVERNOR COLDEN,

IN

1762.

BY THE HON. WILLIAM SMITH,
Formerly of New-York, and late Chief Justice of Lower Canada.

VOL. I.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE NEW-YORK
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.