Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Error in printing: p. 11 contains text belonging to another work. "Abraham Lincoln edition."

Up the great river -- Traders and settlers -- Patrons and lords of the manor -- The directors -- Domines and school-teachers -- The burghers -- The neighbors of New Netherland -- The early English governors -- Leisler -- Privateers and pirates -- Colonial government in the eighteenth century -- The Zenger trial -- The Negro plots -- Sir William Johnson.