Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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st valuabletrading places in the prov-ince. Those who were in-ferior to them in wealthwere of necessity compelledto become the tenants ofthe patroons, and thus acheck was placed upon theimprovement of the colony.In order to compel the col-onists to purchase theirsupplies from Holland, thecompany forbade them tomanufacture even the sim-plest fabrics for clothing, onpain of banishment. TJepatroons were enjoined toprovide a minister and aschoolmaster for their tenants, but no pro-vision was made for them by the company,which was careful, however, to offer to fur-nish the patroons with African slaves iftheif use should be found desirable. In 1629 Samuel Godyp and Samuel Blom-m^ert Durchased from the Indians the region between Cape Henlopen and the mouth ofthe Delaware River, and in 1631 a col-ony of thirty souls was planted on Lewe»Creek, in the present state of Delaware. That Delaware exists as a separate commonwealth is due to this colony. According to English rule, occupancy was neccs
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FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW YORK. sary to complete a title to the wilderness,and the Dutch now occupied Delaware.Less than a year later De Vries came overfrom Holland with a reinforcement, andfound only the ruins of the settlement, thepeople of which had been massacred by theIndians, 200 SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. Under the vigorous administration ofMinuits, New Netherland prospered; housesnere built, farms laid off; the population waslargely increased by new arrivals fromEurope. During this period New Amster-dam fairly entered upon its career as one ofIhe most important places in America. Itwas a happy settlement as well; the rightsof the people were respected, and they werepractically as free as they had been in Hol-land. Troubles with the Indians marked theclose of Minuits administration. The latterwere provoked by the murder of some oftheir number by the whites, and by the aidrendered by the commander at Fort Orangeto the Mohegans in one of their forays uponthe Mohawks. Alarmed by the hos

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