Magazine of American History, Vol. 20: Illustrated; August, 1888 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Magazine of American History, Vol. 20: Illustrated; August, 1888
Subscriptions are invited for copies da' rod. The edition is 300 copies. There remain 150 for sale at $18 each, bound in beveled boards, Cloth, gilt tops, with, the pedigrees separately bound. No account is made of the labor or expenditures of the authors.
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History of the City of New York, Volume 2: Vol. II. Embracing The Century Of National Independence, Closing In 1880.
(Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, formerly the editor of "The American...)
Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, formerly the editor of "The American Historical Magazine," and one of the best informed historical writers of our times, left a great legacy at her death, especially to the citizens of New York, in her masterful effort "The History of the City of New York." This work has an increasing value with each succeeding year, and, as the late Hon. Thurlow Weed wrote, "No library is complete without it". Everything about New York, from the first day of its settlement until today, that is worth knowing, is between the pages of this valuable volume. This book is widely conceived as “the” authority on the first two centuries of New York City, forever. This is volume two out of two.
Magazine of American History, With Notes and Queries, Vol. 16: July-December, 1886 (Classic Reprint)
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Back of all this is a choice bit of history concerning the land, that will interest the curious. It was a plot granted to Anthony Portuges, a free negro, by Governor Peter Stuyvesant before the English conquest of New York. Governor Nicolls, in 1667, prefaced a series of confirmations of ground briefs in the following language Whereas, there was heretofore, that is to say, in the years 1659 and 1660, several grants made by the Dutch Governor, Petrus Stuyvesant, unto certain free negroes, for several small parcels of land lying upon the Island Manhattas, along the highway, near unto the said Governor's bowery, etc. - Lib. 2, pp. 119 - 132. These confirmations were then entered with minute descriptions, boundaries, etc. There were nine of the plots, and they extended from Art street - now As tor Place - to Prince street. It seems that the ground briefs of the Dutch governors were conveyed in the name both of the States General and the West India Company, and, in View of the phraseology of the third article of the surrender of 1664, were indisputable sources of title either with or without a confirmation.
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History of the City of New York, Vol. 3 of 3: Its Origin Rise, and Progress (Classic Reprint)
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Preparations for Canal Celebration in New York City. - Opening of the Erie Canal. -the First Canal-boats reaching the Metropolis. - The Aquatic Display. - The Ceremony of uniting the Waters of Lake Erie and Atlantic Ocean Procession in the City. The Illu mination. The Ball. The Medals. Modern New York. Mayor Philip Hone. Founding of the Mercantile Library. The New York Athenzeum. Literary Men. Early Clubs of New York. Residences of Prominent new-yorkers in 1826. Public Buildings erected. Death of Adams and Jefferson. - The two Great New York Rivals. -clinton's Re-election. -the Leake and Watts Orphan Home John Watts. Albert Gallatin. Death of Clinton. - Tlie Apprentices' Library. - Right Rev. John Henry Hobart. Epis copal Theological Seminary University of the City of New York. Washington Square The Union Theological Seminary. Institution for the Blind. First Horse-rail road in the City. Steam Locomotives. Return of Washington Irving from Europe.
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Souvenir of the centennial anniversary of Washington's inauguration
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Martha Joanna Reade Nash Lamb was an American author. She was an editor of the Magazine of American History from 1883.
Background
Martha Joanna Reade Nash Lamb, the daughter of Arvin and Lucinda (Vinton) Nash, was born in the little town of Plainfield, Massachussets, close to the Berkshire Hills, "blessed with an abundance of rock and forest and fresh air, " as she once characterized it. Her grandfather, Jacob Nash, was a Revolutionary soldier, and her grandmother, Joanna (Reade) Nash, had ancestors on the Mayflower and was of the same family as Charles Reade, the English novelist. While Martha was still a child her mother died. Her father, she says, was a severe critic of newspapers and of people who wrote for them.
Education
She was educated at the Williston Seminary in Easthampton and Northampton High School. In school her favorite subject was mathematics, and it was that and allied subjects to which she later devoted herself during a brief teaching career.
Career
At the age of fifteen, when on a visit to her mother's birthplace, she wrote an unsigned letter to a Northampton paper, which the editor, having discovered the identity of his contributor, published over her signature. Fearing her father's wrath, she locked herself in her room until she was assured that she would not be "scolded for her first literary effort. "
She lived for some years in Chicago. While there she aided in the movement which led to the foundation of the Half-Orphan Asylum and the Home for the Friendless. In 1866 she made New York City her residence and plunged into literary work.
At first she wrote several books for children, then a novel, Spicy (1873), which had the Chicago fire for a background, then short stories for magazines. In 1879 she published her article, "The Coast Survey" (Harper's New Monthly Magazine), that revealed her grasp of a technical subject. Later she saw an opportunity to indulge the taste for historical study which had always possessed her. Though Washington Irving had written his burlesque History of New York in 1809, and Mary L. Booth, a single-volume History of the City of New York in 1859, neither had used to any extent the wealth of source material that was available.
With the aid of the colonial documents published by the State of New York, of newspapers, and of manuscript collections, she was able to write a History of the City of New York: Its Origin, Rise, and Progress (2 vols. , 1877 - 81), which for accuracy, clearness, and precision of statement was far superior to any earlier work on the subject. Both humor and pathos appear in her treatment of what to some others would have seemed but dry facts. The work won acclaim for her as "one of the most advanced women of the century" (New York World, January 3, 1893).
In May 1883 she was chosen as editor of the Magazine of American History, at that time in its seventh year, and the only periodical in the country that was devoted to American history. This publication absorbed her attention for the rest of her life. She secured for its columns contributions from talented writers in all parts of the country and herself contributed scores of articles, some of which were subsequently reprinted, among them, Wall Street in History (1883), Unpublished Washington Portraits (1888).
With untiring energy she gave her personal attention to the most minute details in connection with each issue, and her readers realized they were profiting by the work of an accomplished, patient, industrious, and painstaking student. Invited to a meeting of the Royal Society of Canada in 1891, she was "the guest of Montreal, " an honor never previously bestowed upon a woman not of royal blood. Her death occurred in New York City, but she was buried in the Berkshire Hills from which she came.
Achievements
She was chiefly remembered as a writer of the history of New York City and editor of the "The Magazine of American History". She wrote about 50 shorter stories, and more than 100 historical and other papers in magazines. She also helped found the Home for the Friendless and the Half-Orphan Asylum.
