Stepping-stones of American history . ./ HUDSON RIVER FUR TRADER [VUHTHE INDIANS. THE DUTCH IN NEW NETHERLAND THE same Almighty Power which laid the rocksin strata set in their order the foundations ofAmerican history. The Puritans occupied theNorth, or New England. The cavaliers settled inthe South, or Virginia. Between them, Providenceplaced the broad-minded Dutch and the tolerantQuakers. New Netherland, roughly speaking, was theterritory comprised in the Middle states. NewYork, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and capital, or chief centre of government, was NewAmsterdam, on Manhattan
Stepping-stones of American history . ./ HUDSON RIVER FUR TRADER [VUHTHE INDIANS. THE DUTCH IN NEW NETHERLAND THE same Almighty Power which laid the rocksin strata set in their order the foundations ofAmerican history. The Puritans occupied theNorth, or New England. The cavaliers settled inthe South, or Virginia. Between them, Providenceplaced the broad-minded Dutch and the tolerantQuakers. New Netherland, roughly speaking, was theterritory comprised in the Middle states. NewYork, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and capital, or chief centre of government, was NewAmsterdam, on Manhattan Island. Most of theother settlements of the Dutch, such as Brooklynand Beverwyck, were named either after places inPatria, as they called their beloved country, or afterthe Indians, such as Esopus and Schenectady. Dif-ferent from the other colonists, who sometimes didand sometimes did not buy the American lands theyoccupied, the Dutch were explicitly commanded inthe charter of the West India Company to pay theIndians, honestly and well, for all lands upon whichthey should sett
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