History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . THE llL(.;Li:.\(Ji. PURITAN AND PILGRIM FOUNDATIONS 51. Men and women of the Netherlands, aliens on Englishsoil, stirred and excited Olde England to progress as shewould never have been stirred nor advanced without Dutchblood, brains, thrift, ingenuity and breeding. The laterdrainage of the easterncounties by Dutch en-gineers, adding millionsof fertile acres to Eng-land, was a monsterachievement. To Pilgrim and Puri-tan descendants it is ajoy to know that whiletheir ancestors hadmany a battle of wo
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . THE llL(.;Li:.\(Ji. PURITAN AND PILGRIM FOUNDATIONS 51. Men and women of the Netherlands, aliens on Englishsoil, stirred and excited Olde England to progress as shewould never have been stirred nor advanced without Dutchblood, brains, thrift, ingenuity and breeding. The laterdrainage of the easterncounties by Dutch en-gineers, adding millionsof fertile acres to Eng-land, was a monsterachievement. To Pilgrim and Puri-tan descendants it is ajoy to know that whiletheir ancestors hadmany a battle of wordswith the doughtyDutchmen, who inad-vertently made an out-post - guard - house o f Manhattan Isle, protecting Pilgrim and Puritan against In-dian and Spanish attack, little blood was shed between thesebrother pioneer settlers, who held the same faith and in nearlyall the wars, which meant the safeguarding of freedom andthe progress of humanity, were allies with the English. The Dutch-Iroquois Treaty, made before the Pilgrimsarrived, was of mighty import to the English and preventedmany a conflict with these Romans of the Western
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