. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . earing or entering at the port of New Amsterdam(or New York as it afterwards was called). Flypse, Van Courtlandt, andBayard were keen politicians as well as successful traders. To them is creditedthe hanging of Governor Zeisler, and they were hotly charged with receivingfrom Kidd, whose privateering commission they had procured, a share of hispiratical booty. Upon the great estates, the exactions of the lords proprietors drove manytenants out of the colony. Some of the patroons even went to the length ofasserting their right to e
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . earing or entering at the port of New Amsterdam(or New York as it afterwards was called). Flypse, Van Courtlandt, andBayard were keen politicians as well as successful traders. To them is creditedthe hanging of Governor Zeisler, and they were hotly charged with receivingfrom Kidd, whose privateering commission they had procured, a share of hispiratical booty. Upon the great estates, the exactions of the lords proprietors drove manytenants out of the colony. Some of the patroons even went to the length ofasserting their right to eject tenants and reassume the land at will. This courseof procedure retarded the growth and development of the Hudson River SCHOOLS IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH 73 Settlements for many yearstion of feudal authority inNew York were very muchlike the monopolies of landand power in the in one thing New Am-sterdam differed very muchfrom Virginia ; that was inthe possession of a thriving,busy city that should coun- In some respects the great estates and assump-. terbalance the spiritof feudalism by itsdemocratic How can we close this chapterbetter than by refer-ence to the beofinninofs of whatwe hold most precious of allthe legacies which the fore-fathers of the American peopleleft to their descendants ? In Virginia GovernorBerkeley, in 1671 thanked Godthat there were no free schools,nor were likely to be for ahundred years. But less thantwenty years afterward, a different feeling began to prevail. Williams and MarysCollege was founded by James Blair in 1692. But already a university was in rHE ATTACK c iN KMIKRS AT STKlNiU lELD, MASS., IN I786. 74 THE STORY OF AMERICA. existence in the North, and the first common-school system, probably, that theworld had ever known, had been established half a century in free-school dates back to 1640, and the state adopted a general planfor common schools seven years later ; a plan, the purpose of which was
Size: 1437px × 1740px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthormabieham, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookyear1904
