Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Colonial New York Was Rowdy, Filthy, Smelly

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Early manuscripts newly posted online by New York City's Municipal Archives depict New Amsterdam as an intoxicated Dutch settlement and show its leader, Peter Stuyvesant, struggling to bring order.

Today, nearly four centuries later, the residents of that once lawless outpost - now known as New York - and anyone else with an Internet connection can read some of the earliest laws promulgated in North America.

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