. A junior class history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States .. . an Island,* where soon afterward(1623) there was commenced a thriving settlement, calledNew Amsterdam. They built Fort Orange on the presentsite of Albany, and also forts on the Delaware and Con-necticut Eivers. Thus they i:)artly took possession of theregion lying between these two rivers ; but their claim * In 1624, the Dutch purchased from the Indians the island of Manhattan, fortwenty-four dollars. It is said that Verrazzani, just one hundred yea
. A junior class history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States .. . an Island,* where soon afterward(1623) there was commenced a thriving settlement, calledNew Amsterdam. They built Fort Orange on the presentsite of Albany, and also forts on the Delaware and Con-necticut Eivers. Thus they i:)artly took possession of theregion lying between these two rivers ; but their claim * In 1624, the Dutch purchased from the Indians the island of Manhattan, fortwenty-four dollars. It is said that Verrazzani, just one hundred years before, landedon the island, and gave the Indians wine, by which they were intoxicated : so that theisland was afterward called by them Mannuhata, or the Island of Drunkenness. 4. What forts were built ? What town was founded ? What region did the Dutchclaim ? Its name ? n HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES [1623 extended as fur as Cape Cod.* This regiou they calledNew Xetherlaxds. 5. Growth of the Colony—Troubles.—The growthof the colony was uot rai)id, although every individual whosucceeded in forming a settlement of fifty persons had a. larsre tract of land granted to him. These land-holderswere called Patroons ; and in quite recent times the claimsof their descendants to rent led to the anti-rent troublesin the State of New York. During the first few years, * In 1614, a Dutch captain named Adrian Block, sailing from New York Bay intoLong Island Sound, passed around that island. He was the first European navigatorthat sailed through the dangerous whirlpool of the East River, called Hurlgate orHellgate. 5. Growth of the colony ? Who were the patroons ? What did their claims to rentcause in after years ? What troubled the colony ? 1643] NUW YORK AND NEW JERSEY 111 there were contests with the English on the ConnecticutEiver, unci the Swedes on the Delaware. There were alsotroubles with the Indians. 6. Governors.—New Netherlands had, in the courseof time, four governors, the
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