A history of New-York : from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty : containing among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William, the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter, the Headstrong--the three Dutch governors of New Amsterdam, being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been or ever will be published / by Diedrich Knickerbocker [i.e. W. Irving].