. A history of the United States. ts at mid-day, and bythe English in the afternoon. TheEnglish mode of government wasintroduced within a few years, in-cluding trial by jury and repre-sentative assemblies. The origi-nal Dutch inhabitants soon beganto learn the English language, andbecame much like their Englishneighbors. New Jersey. — Before Colonel Nicolls had reached NewAmsterdam the Duke of York had given to two friends. LordBerkeley and Sir George Carteret, all the land from theHudson to the Delaware. It was named New Jersey becauseSir George Carteret had bravely defended the island of Jer
. A history of the United States. ts at mid-day, and bythe English in the afternoon. TheEnglish mode of government wasintroduced within a few years, in-cluding trial by jury and repre-sentative assemblies. The origi-nal Dutch inhabitants soon beganto learn the English language, andbecame much like their Englishneighbors. New Jersey. — Before Colonel Nicolls had reached NewAmsterdam the Duke of York had given to two friends. LordBerkeley and Sir George Carteret, all the land from theHudson to the Delaware. It was named New Jersey becauseSir George Carteret had bravely defended the island of Jer-sey against the Puritans during the English civil war. Theproprietors were eager to attract settlers to their territory,and promised that each should worship as he wished. Theyoffered 200 acres in every community for the support of theminister whom the settlers should choose. The Dutch at New York again. — The seizure of NewAmsterdam hastened on war between England and theNetherlands. The Dutch made no attempt to recover New. Peter StuyvesantAfter the portrait in the posses-sion of the New York HistoricalSociety ENGLISH HOLD THE ATLANTIC SHORE 85 York. Several years later, in another war with the EngHsh,they did recapture New York and held it for 15 were obliged to restore it when peace was made. Thiswas the last war between the Dutch and the English, whohad already begun to see that the French and not the Dutchwere their most dangerous rivals.
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