Howard Pyle, a chronicle by Charles D. Abbott, with an introduction by N. C. Wyeth and many illustrations from Howard Pyle's works.

HOWARD PYLE: A CHRONICLE
because in the few scraps of authentic narrative that have
reached us, it says that the new governor had his secretary
with him. The secretary would be likely to present such
credentials. Consequently, I deemed it to be reasonable
to suppose that the various steps of taking possession would
be about as follows: first, that the ship would sail up into
the bay to some convenient point of anchorage whence the
immigrants and their belongings could be put ashore. This
would be done, doubtless, at some such pier or landing stage
as I have attempted to depict in my picture. As soon as
the ship came to anchor, debarkation would immediately
begin, and doubtless several immigrants with their belongings
would be sent ashore.
"Second, the Governor would not be willing for these
immigrants to land until he had entered formally into
his Governor-ship, and probably he would send a couple of
musketeers to the wharf to see that these people did not quit
the wharf landing until he himself had first set foot upon
his new province.
"Third, word would undoubtedly have been sent to the
original settlers commanding them to meet the Governor at
his point of landing, so that there would doubtless be quite
a little party of them gathered at the spot of debarkation.
"Fourth, it would undoubtedly be the case that the Governor would land with some official pomp. He would
probably bring with him his secretary, the Captain of the
ship, and perhaps some gentleman adventurer who would
accompany him. It was quite necessary in those days for
a public officer to have his trumpeter, who acted as a sort
of herald-messenger. Anthony van Corlear stood in such
a capacity to Governor Stuyvesant, and there are numerous
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