. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. to -5O £ < I fe THE ORIGIN OF NEW YORK IS 287. 288 THE ORIGIN OF NEW YORK of patroonships from the College of Nineteen, the patroons were obliged,in 1631, to receive other members of the company into copartnership ; butthis did not end the turmoil. The patroons meddled with the fur traffic,and could not easily be controlled. The company tried to modify its feu-dal system and was plunged into fresh embarrassments. It aimed to governits troublesome territory wisely, but failed through the inexperience andincompetence of its early offi
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. to -5O £ < I fe THE ORIGIN OF NEW YORK IS 287. 288 THE ORIGIN OF NEW YORK of patroonships from the College of Nineteen, the patroons were obliged,in 1631, to receive other members of the company into copartnership ; butthis did not end the turmoil. The patroons meddled with the fur traffic,and could not easily be controlled. The company tried to modify its feu-dal system and was plunged into fresh embarrassments. It aimed to governits troublesome territory wisely, but failed through the inexperience andincompetence of its early officers. Destructive Indian wars prevailed, andunlucky disputes arose with the English, and afterward with the relations of the New York colonists with their colonial neighbors grewmore and more unsatisfactory, and the company lacked the power necessaryto set matters right. A terrible conflict among the strong men who repre-sented the citizenship of the little town on Manhattan Island was equally un-manageable. The corporation in despair appealed to the States-General in1638 for counsel. But whe
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