. The story of agriculture in the United States. Dutch Patroon orLanded Proprietor 36 AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES estate, that of the Van Rensselaers, was important inlater years. What farmer wanted to be bound by allthese conditions, in a new country where land could behad for the asking, or could be taken without asking?The Company later made new plans under which mencould easily acquire the ownership of farms. More Dutch f ^. t\ -^jii, _ ^^!>iA.^ t^k 1 ->!> Ancient Van Rensselaer MansionAt Greenbush, near Albany, N. Y. now came, but even larger numbers of settlers from Eng-lan
. The story of agriculture in the United States. Dutch Patroon orLanded Proprietor 36 AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES estate, that of the Van Rensselaers, was important inlater years. What farmer wanted to be bound by allthese conditions, in a new country where land could behad for the asking, or could be taken without asking?The Company later made new plans under which mencould easily acquire the ownership of farms. More Dutch f ^. t\ -^jii, _ ^^!>iA.^ t^k 1 ->!> Ancient Van Rensselaer MansionAt Greenbush, near Albany, N. Y. now came, but even larger numbers of settlers from Eng-land and New England found good locations on the banksof the Hudson and on the shores of Long Island. Herethey founded Httle towns and managed their farms andcommon lands much as was done in New England. Later,after the Enghsh conquered New Netherland (1664) andmade it New York, more large estates were founded onthe Hudson. Some, such as those owned by the Schuylerand Livingston famihes, were called manors. On theseestates some slaves were found and some indentured serv-ants; but most of the laborers were tenants, who broughttheir rents to the manor house twice a year and werethen given a great celebration and barbecue. MIDDLE COLONIES AND THE CAROLINAS 37 As the settlers cleared the land and made their farmsfarther up the Hudson and then spread westward, alongthe valley of the Mohawk, they found the soil to be ex-ceedingly rich
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