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English: Mutiny on Henry Hudson's ship

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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HUDSON STRAIT. instructions of the West India Company.The colonists, on their part, were to regardthe orders of the governor as their law. Hewas authorized to punish minor offences athis discretion, but cases requiring severe orcapital punishmenc were to be sent to Hol-land for trial. Minuits set to work withgreat vigor to lay the foundations of thecolony. He called a council of the Indianchiefs, and purchased the island of Manhat-tan from them for presents valued at abouttwenty-four dollars in American money. Hethus secured an equitable title to the islan(j
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198 MUTINY ON HUDSONS SHIP. THE SETTLEMENT OF NEW YORK. 199 ina won the friendship of the Indians. Toencourage emigration, the company grantedto each emigrant as much land as he couldproperly cultivate, and it was ordered thatany member of the company who in four yearsthould induce fifty persons to settle anywherej ithin the limits of New Netherland, theI sland of Manhattan aloneexcepted, should be termedPatroon, or * Lord of theManor,* and should be en-titled to purchase a tract ofland sixteen miles in lengthby eight in width for thesupport of this dignity. Anumber of persons availedthemselves of this privilegeand secured from the In-dians by purchase the bestlands and the most 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 toma

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