New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . began to fight among themselves for pelf and power. The States-General on learning of this condition of things curtailed the privileges of the company, and PetrusStuyvesant, a stern soldier and narrow minded bigot, but a vigorous ruler, was sent out as Irving has made this last Dutch Ruler of the Colony immortal in his Knickerbocker History ofNew York. Stuyvesant dominated the Burghers, Patroons and Colonists generally, and even ignored theStates-General, in the interest of his masters, the compan
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . began to fight among themselves for pelf and power. The States-General on learning of this condition of things curtailed the privileges of the company, and PetrusStuyvesant, a stern soldier and narrow minded bigot, but a vigorous ruler, was sent out as Irving has made this last Dutch Ruler of the Colony immortal in his Knickerbocker History ofNew York. Stuyvesant dominated the Burghers, Patroons and Colonists generally, and even ignored theStates-General, in the interest of his masters, the company. He kept the aspiring Van Rensselaers, Van derDoncks and Schuylers down with a strong hand, persecuted Baptists, Quakers and other dissenters, and wenttearing around through the colony with his wooden leg banded with silver, in a manner that was at oncegrotesque and awe inspiring. His arrival dates from 1647, and in 1653 we find this veteran girding the townwith ditches, palisades, block houses and a wall running from the East to the North River. The State House. ANCIENT VIEW CHATHAM SyUAKE. A, Catiemuts Hill; B, Tlie Fresh Water; C, The Fresh Water Bridge; D, The .Jews Buryinp Ground; E. Rutgeis Farm House: F. The BoweryRoad; G, Ferry Road (present Pearl Street); H. Road to the City; I, Road t<i Ralph Pond; J, Commons; K, .Meadow. in which StujTesant lived and reigned had a gallows in front of it which was not always without a State House stood on the site of the present 73 Pearl Street, and it was here the Burghers, with theirwives and daughters, assembled for recreation, as many of their descendants assembled in after years at theBattery. Pearl Street was then known as the road to the Brooklyn ferry and passed through the wall at thewater gate, which was defended by a two gun battery. England, meanwhile, was spreading her dominions north and south of them, and the Dutch, knowingwhat a very country it was, and what little excuse the New Englander
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