Identifier: magazineofamericv11stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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uropean settler. At our feet theHudson River creeps along its silent way like a huge canal, while acrossits waters, toward the rising sun, may be seen a billowy, fathomless ex-panse of green, in all the shades, ending in a soft colorless mist among theMassachusetts hills. Fancy must sketch the first quaint Dutch craft that appeared in view.Its mission was fulfilled when a trading post was established with theIndians. The Dutch visitors, with their buttons and beads, took the redmanssoul captive, and carried beaver, wild-cat and rat skins to theHolland market. Furs were much worn in the cold European countries,and hitherto could only be obtained at fabulous prices from Russian andother speculators. If the same skins could be procured in the new worldfor a few inexpensive trinkets, it was worth grave consideration. The newsspread. Visions of sudden wealth dazzled many a Dutch brain. Yet onlynow and then a Dutch merchant had the temerity to undertake such a long, THE VAN RENSSELAER MANOR
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THE LIBRARY. uncertain voyage, at private expense and risk. No purchase of land waseffected; no attempt at colonization made ; not one family emigrated tothe region. The aristocratic Dutch East India Company was in the fulltide of its prosperity, coining immense profits from Oriental commerce,and seemed to regard all American traffic as grotesque. Even thediscoveries of Hudson under its own flag were turned into ridicule. Amovement was in progress, however, making little headway for years,which, breathing fresh impetus from the highly colored reports of thetraders on the Hudson, developed into a power that shook the Netherlandsfrom center to circumference, carried to the scaffold the venerablestatesman and founder of the Dutch Republic, John of Barneveld, andculminated in that extraordinary corporation, known as the Dutch WestIndia Company—to which New York owes its origin. Just hefe, it will not be amiss to observe for a moment the nature ofthe forces that shaped our feudal institu

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