Pietor William Van Doorn IV, later to become known in the New World as Peter Dorn, leaves Amsterdam at age 17. Well schooled by his aged father in matters of the Fur Trade, Pieter is woefully ignorant of what awaits him in Albany, under control of the hated English. Sailing on board De Engelenburg in 1690, is British Sir James Blackman with whom, a recalcitant Pieter is quartered. However, Sir James comes to see in this "scruffy young son of a burgher"...