Anneke Jans Bogardus and Her New Amsterdam Estate, Past and Present: Romance of a Dutch Maiden and Its Present Day New World Sequel; Historical, Legal, Genealogical |
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... East India Co. Formation of Dutch West India Co. Colonizing of New Nether- lands . Purchase of Manhattan Island From the Indians for About $ 24.00 . Establishment of Pa- tronships . Arrival in America of Dominie Ever- ardus Bogardus ...
... East India Co. Formation of Dutch West India Co. Colonizing of New Nether- lands . Purchase of Manhattan Island From the Indians for About $ 24.00 . Establishment of Pa- tronships . Arrival in America of Dominie Ever- ardus Bogardus ...
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... East India Company , and this charter was to run for 21 years . This charter granted to the company the ex- clusive monopoly of the trade in the eastern seas beyond the Cape of Good Hope , and the Straits of Magellan in another ...
... East India Company , and this charter was to run for 21 years . This charter granted to the company the ex- clusive monopoly of the trade in the eastern seas beyond the Cape of Good Hope , and the Straits of Magellan in another ...
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... East India Company of Holland . Hudson , after two voyages , had no better success than his predecessors , and his backers refused to fit him out for a third trip . Hudson , however , had some of the optimism and determination of ...
... East India Company of Holland . Hudson , after two voyages , had no better success than his predecessors , and his backers refused to fit him out for a third trip . Hudson , however , had some of the optimism and determination of ...
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... East India Company . The East India Company , composed as it was of keen and grasping merchant tradesmen , were dis- appointed with Hudson's adventure for them , be- cause he brought back with him little more than a vivid description of ...
... East India Company . The East India Company , composed as it was of keen and grasping merchant tradesmen , were dis- appointed with Hudson's adventure for them , be- cause he brought back with him little more than a vivid description of ...
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... East India Company in 1610 , and it was dispatched in command of the former mate of the Half Moon , and this venture was so successful that in 1612 , the Company was enlarged by other merchants joining it , and two vessels , namely , 20 ...
... East India Company in 1610 , and it was dispatched in command of the former mate of the Half Moon , and this venture was so successful that in 1612 , the Company was enlarged by other merchants joining it , and two vessels , namely , 20 ...
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Page 106 - It is agreed, that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Page 199 - The rector and inhabitants of the city of New- York, in communion of the Church of England, as by law established...
Page 107 - Acts perfectly consistent, not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation which, on the return of the blessings of Peace, should universally prevail.
Page 107 - And that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several States a reconsideration and revision of all acts or laws regarding the premises...
Page 100 - Amsterdam in the merry month of June, the sweetest month in all the year, when Dan Apollo seems to dance up the transparent...
Page 110 - ... the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America ; and that, by the same name, they and...
Page 113 - Anne, by the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, etc.
Page 76 - Now for a confirmation unto the said freeholders and inhabitants in their possessions and enjoyment of the premises, Know ye, That by virtue of the commission and authority unto me given by his Royal Highness, I have...
Page 107 - ... fide price, (where any has been given,) which such persons may have paid on purchasing any of the said lands, rights, or properties since the confiscation. And it is agreed that all persons who have any interest in confiscated lands, either by debts, marriage settlements, or otherwise, shall meet with no lawful impediment in the prosecution of their just rights.
Page 141 - And for so doing, This shall be your Warrant. And so We bid you Farewell. GIVEN at Our Court at Kensington the Fifteenth Day of June, 1739, in the Thirteenth Year of Our Reign.