Patroon van Volkenberg : $b A tale of old Manhattan in the year sixteen hundred & ninety-nine

"Patroon van Volkenberg: A Tale of Old Manhattan in the Year Sixteen Hundred" by Henry Thew Stephenson is a story set in the late 1600s, throwing readers into a world of pirates, taverns, and political unrest as a young man named Vincie Le Bourse searches for his sister, Ruth, after being shipwrecked on Long Island, encountering kind strangers and learning about the powerful Patroon Kilian Van Volkenberg, all while dealing with the harsh circumstances of being a Huguenot in a dangerous time.