A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . further privileges, such as free passages,and aid in bringing over stock for their prospective farms, were grantedby the Amsterdam directors to desirable emigrants. This wise and timely act placed New Netherland where it hadnever been before — on an equality, so far, with the English colonies 1640.] BETTER TIMES IN NEW NETHERLAND. 44T about it.
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . further privileges, such as free passages,and aid in bringing over stock for their prospective farms, were grantedby the Amsterdam directors to desirable emigrants. This wise and timely act placed New Netherland where it hadnever been before — on an equality, so far, with the English colonies 1640.] BETTER TIMES IN NEW NETHERLAND. 44T about it. The change the measure wrought in its condition was greatand immediate. Emigration from Holland began in the very increasedautumn after the issue of the proclamation, De Vries, who f^l^Hoi-^had bought land on Staten Island, being one of the first ^^^•to carry out colonists to the plantation. During the next summership after ship brought emigrants, people of all conditions, from sub-stantial burghers to the laborers whom they had employed at an unprofitable trading-post New Netherland suddenly became,in the eyes of Hollanders, a very land of promise. Those who emi-grated to it wrote to their friends at home of the prosperity which. Landing of Dutch Colony on Staten Island. began to spring up about them ; rich men, like Melyn of Antwerp,who came to see the country, sent back for their families and ser-vants to join them. Nor was the immigration from the Netherlandsonly; men who had long been restless under the severity of Puritanrule began to seek new homes among the tolerant Dutch ; wholesettlements, says the record, removed to Dutch territory to availthemselves of the new freedom offered there, and to escape from theinsupportable government of New England.^ Many came from Vir-ginia also, who had been bound to masters there, and had served outtheir time. 1 The phrase of the Journael Van Nieuw Nederlant, 1647. See, also, OCallaghan, vol. i.,p. 208. 448 PROGRESS OF D
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