. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . tury, though it haddisappeared elsewhere. • The anti-rent agitation began in the Hudson River counties dur-ing the first administration of Gov. Seward (1839). The greater partof the land in this section was comprised in vast estates such as theRensselaerswyck, Livingston, Scarsdale, Philipse, Ielham and VanCortlandt manors, and on these the leasehold system, with perpetualleases, and leases for 9
. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . tury, though it haddisappeared elsewhere. • The anti-rent agitation began in the Hudson River counties dur-ing the first administration of Gov. Seward (1839). The greater partof the land in this section was comprised in vast estates such as theRensselaerswyck, Livingston, Scarsdale, Philipse, Ielham and VanCortlandt manors, and on these the leasehold system, with perpetualleases, and leases for 99 years (or the equivalent), had become gen- ALBANY TO SYRACUSE 51 eral. Besides rents, many of the tenants were required to rendercertain services to the proprietor, and in case a tenant sold his interestin a farm to some one else he was required to pay the proprietor one-tenth to one-third of the amount received, as an alienation fee. Stephen van Rensselaer had permitted his rents, especially thosefrom poorer tenants, to fall much in arrears, and the effort of hisheirs to collect them—they amounted to about $200,000—was metwith armed opposition. In Rensselaer county a man was murdered,. Ancient Dutch Church, Albany (1714) {From an old print in the X. Y. Public Library) This church, built of bricks brought from Holland, stood for about 92 yearsin the open area formed by the angle of State, Market and Court streets. It waserected in less than four weeks. The early Dutch felt that without the churchthey could not hope to prosper. The old church was of Gothic style, one storyhigh, and the glass of its antique windows was richly ornamented with coats ofarms. In 1806 the church was taken down and its brick employed in the erectionof the South Dutch Church, between Hudson and Beaver streets, which in turn waslater replaced by a newer structure. and Gov. Seward was forced to call out the militia. The tenants,however, formed anti-rent associations in all the affected counties,an
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