William Elliot Griffis

Name: The Story of New Netherland — Chapter VII: The Patroons and the Manors
Author: William Elliot Griffis

The Story of New Netherland — Chapter VII: The Patroons and the Manors (1909)

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“The Story of New Netherland — Chapter VII: The Patroons and the Manors”, published in 1909, is a work by William Elliot Griffis. It explores elements such as New Netherland, Patroons and whale.

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter VII: The Patroons and the Manors (1909)

“ This desire could not well be gratified in a small country like Holland. Here the earth had to be rescued by pump, spade, and dyke from under the jealous waters, and held only through sleepless vigilance. In America land was plentiful and cheap. It was this coveted prize that was a lure. By securing and owning great manors in New Netherland, plain burghers might become landed proprietors and rank as nobles.
So, with the threefold idea of enlarging their fortunes, becoming patroons, and developing New Netherland, the directors of the Dutch West India Company, in 1630, enlarged their plans. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter VII: The Patroons and the Manors (1909)

“ WE have seen that Dutch colonists for New Netherland were difficult to secure, and that artificial stimulus to emigration was needed. From England good men were driven out by spiritual tyranny, but in Holland conscience was free and the country well off. The ordinary lures — gold, fish, furs, freedom to worship God — which led Spaniards, Frenchmen, some Dutchmen, and many Englishmen beyond sea, did not suffice for the men of the Republic. So "John Company" bit upon a new device, which was nothing less than a reversion to feudalism. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter VII: The Patroons and the Manors (1909)

“ In the end, it was to issue that, whether in French Canada, Dutch New Netherland, English New York or Virginia, or in the Southern Confederacy, where belated feudalism attempted, even by going to war, to root itself, this Old World system of land tenure and reciprocal service was unsuitable and impossible in America.
Feudalism never promotes peace, and without military force is an absurdity. The new system, even on paper, nearly rent the Company in twain. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter VII: The Patroons and the Manors (1909)

“ In the Netherlands, the three classes of society were nobles, burghers or citizens, and the common people. The nobles, who lived mostly in the country, were landowners, and often patroons, that is, patrons, or manor lords of vast estates; but the burghers, who governed the cities, formed the aristocracy, and had great powers. The consuming ambition of the merchants, who were gaining wealth rapidly, was to own land, and thus be like the nobles. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter VII: The Patroons and the Manors (1909)

“ Nevertheless, the tendency of the Patroons was ever to exceed rather than to limit their powers. They even went so far as to invade the Company's darling monopoly of the fur trade, by sending agents and setting up trading-stations in new regions. This brought on another storm of bitter complaints. On the Bourse and in the Chambers jealousies were rife. Some one must be made a scapegoat.
In New Netherland Minuit, as a good servant of the corporation which employed him, continued to do his best. He was popular, progressive, and unceasingly active. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter VII: The Patroons and the Manors (1909)

“ In favor of this semi-feudalism, probably suggested by French methods in Canada, it may be said, however, that in all cases above the value of fifty guilders, the tenants on the manors had the right of appeal. Independent farmers, as well as patroons and manor-tenants after discharging their obligations, were encouraged to seek homesteads. Other benefits in the charter of Exemptions were in favor of the Indians, and of religion and morals, so that, despite objectionable features in the new plan of colonization, there was hope of a large emigration from Patria. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter VII: The Patroons and the Manors (1909)

“ Reserving Manhattan to the corporation, they issued the charter of "Privileges and Exemptions." This allowed a private person to take up stretches of land sixteen miles long facing a navigable river, or eight miles on either side of one, and extending as far back into the country as might be. ”

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William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland — Chapter VII: The Patroons and the Manors (1909)

“ The first colony of thirty settlers, with cattle and stores, who were to re-colonize the South River region, once temporarily occupied by May's colony in 1623, was sent out by the five co-Patroons, in December, 1630, in the big ship Walvisch, or Whale. ”

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