New-York tribune., 1909-09-25
DSONFULTON NUMBER. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER % 1909.

houses, which struggled along the East Riyer
waterfront a block house, a horsepower mill
and a stone building. or government house,
which was the most imposing structure in tina
place In 1929 Holland granted the New Neth-
"rland5 a charter OF privileges and exemptions,
which IN manner transplarted tho fundamen-
tails Of the ancient feudal s. stem, for patroons
were allowed TO take up lands by patent and
We're given control of the lives and property Of
The persons living within the limits of their
patents. But the charter also enjoiued the "sV
tablishment of schools and churches
New Amsterdam became the principal sentie
Of the fur and eoasting trade OF the uatroon9
and tie lesser coonists All carsoes had to be
landed at New Amsterdam shipped from
there In 1880 the imports amounted TO 1900
gliders and the exports to 10000. \ duty oG
per cent was imposed upon all ths trade.
SMpbuildnE was engaged IN extensively rbo
colonist5 took great pride in their most no
pOrtant product I'm this direction, which was q
vessel OF eight hundred tors-Iarss Tor that AK"
which they Damcd The New Netherlands Tho
embargo against foreign immigration was lifted
and settlers from countries other than Holland
came docking IN. The West India Company at
tractcd settlers by transporting them at a cost
Of I2ia cents day for passage and food. and
gave them free all the land they would place
under cultivation. Religious liberation VAS
broad. and Walloons. Calvinists. Plritanq
HusGeuots. Quakers. Papists. Jevs-every pre-
serib,d s.ct-came and were made Welsot1. in
Ncw Amsterdam.
England looked with cOvetoIs eyes upon tho
Dutch possessions. Finally the question Of
which should rulo over the New Netherlands
clme To- an Issue. Conflicts arose between tho
company and the PATRONS over various queq-
md 1p ~
OF tlyorlng the PATRONS. fell into disfayor and
was recalled. Returning to Holland aboard the
Eeudragt. stress Of weather forced the ship 60
take refuge IN Plymouth Harbor. There She
vas detained the ground that she had iII,-
gally interfered with English uonOpoes A.
correspondence arose between Holland and Enf-
land. Holland based her right to the country
upon Hudson's discoveries In 1909, the main
tcnancc OF Forts Nassau and Manhattan and
the purchase OF Manhattan Island from tho Ind
ians- The English argued that Cabots discoy-
cry Of the Hudson antedated that OF Henry Hud-
son. that the charter granted 70 the Plymouth
colony covered New Netherlands and that as
tho Indians were a migratory race they could
not be held to have title 10 Manhattan Island
and could not have sold II. Internal troubles
In England forced that country to relinqush her
claims for the time being. the Ecndrast w;t4
released.
Governor NouteF van T"lI'r came out To New
Amsterdam In 1888 bringing with him 100 SOL
diers and Spanish caravel which his ship had
attacked and captured the way across tho
Atlantic Among the passengers were Dominic
EverarduS Bogardus. New Amsterdam's fr4t
clergy man. and the city's first schoolmaster
Adam Roclandscn. wooden church was
erected fronting the East River in Pearl street
between Whitehall and Broad streets. a grave
yard was laid out in Broadway, near Morris
street.