A history of the United States for schools . erated, and people came from allparts of Europe; it is said that as many as eighteen lan-guages were spoken in New Amsterdam. At first, it was the fur trade that interested everybody, and little attention was paid to , the NewNetherland Companyoffered a prize to anymember who shouldbring fifty permanentsettlers into the col-ony. The prize wasan estate of sixteenmiles frontage on theHudson River, and of depth undetermined. Between New York and Albanythere would be room for about ten such manorial estateson each side of the river. T
A history of the United States for schools . erated, and people came from allparts of Europe; it is said that as many as eighteen lan-guages were spoken in New Amsterdam. At first, it was the fur trade that interested everybody, and little attention was paid to , the NewNetherland Companyoffered a prize to anymember who shouldbring fifty permanentsettlers into the col-ony. The prize wasan estate of sixteenmiles frontage on theHudson River, and of depth undetermined. Between New York and Albanythere would be room for about ten such manorial estateson each side of the river. The proprietors could holdlittle courts of their own, and had some other privilegeslike those of lords in Europe in the old proprietors were-called patroons, andplayed a very important part in the history of the colony. The Dutch in Holland were in many respects as freea people as the English, and in some respects moreenlightened, but the colony of New Netherland had no 1 From The Memorial History of the City of New York, i. 248-. PALISADES UN WALL STREET. The pa-troons. 132 COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA. Ch. VII. representative assembly. The governor had a smallcouncil of from eight to twelve men to advise him, butthere was no real check upon his authority, except thatpeople could complain of him to the government in Hol-land, and beg to have him removed. The two governorswho succeeded Minuit were men of weak head and badcharacter. The colony was grossly misgoverned, and,in 1643-45, was nearly ruined in a murderous war withthe Algonquin tribes of the neighborhood. Fortunately,the Dutch secured the firm friendship of the Iroquois,who soon found that rich peltries would buy musketsand powder and ball to be used against other red menand against the French in Canada. The famous Peter Stuyvesant, who was sent, in 1645,Peter stuy- to govcrn Ncw Ncthcrland, was an arbitraryvesant. rulcr, but houcst and much more sensiblethan his predecessors. Under his rule, the wealth and
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