Title: Shorto's Errors
Review: In an otherwise excellent book, the author fell short in his historical research. In fact, the first charter from the Dutch West Indies Company for exploration and settlement of what would be Manhattan Island was granted to Jesse DeForest. DeForest was a French Walloon (protestant) who left Avenes in the north of France and settled in Leyden about 1618. In 1623 he fulfilled his charter and began the settlement of New Amsterdam. I suggest a reading of The DeForests of Avenes (And of New Netherland)by J.W. DeForest a well known late 19th C. novelist. This book was published at New Haven in 1900 by The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co.
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