A history of the American nation . ge was entitled to become the owner and ruler of a strip of country onthe banks of some river sixteen miles in width, or eight miles where bothbanks were occupied, and stretching back from the river indefinitely. 2 There was much truth in the complaints of some of the colonists:It seems, they said, as if from the first the company had sought tostock this land with their own employees, which was a great mistake, forwhen their time was out they returned home, taking nothing with themexcept a little in their purses and a bad name for the country. . Thedirectors
A history of the American nation . ge was entitled to become the owner and ruler of a strip of country onthe banks of some river sixteen miles in width, or eight miles where bothbanks were occupied, and stretching back from the river indefinitely. 2 There was much truth in the complaints of some of the colonists:It seems, they said, as if from the first the company had sought tostock this land with their own employees, which was a great mistake, forwhen their time was out they returned home, taking nothing with themexcept a little in their purses and a bad name for the country. . Thedirectors here, though far from their masters, were close by their profit. THE MIDDLE COLONIES—1614-1700 75 The Dutch were not allowed to maintain in peace theirclaim to all this wide territory in which they planted their furstations; other nations wanted a share. In 1638the Swedes built a fort, called Fort Christina,on the Delaware River, where Wilmington now stands, andcalled the adjoining territory New Sweden. The Dutch New strenuously objected and after much dispute the Swedes yieldedand New Sweden disappeared. 76 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION In the meantime, the New Englanders, strongly objecting to the attempts of the Dutch to build forts on the Connecticut, took possession of the country themselves; Dutch f^*T?^*^^^ trading companies could not hold out against land becomes or- o New York. such scttlcrs as entered the Connecticut Valleyfrom the older settlements of the coast. And then(1664) war broke out between England and Holland, an Eng-lish fleet appeared in the harbor before New Amsterdam,
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