Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1896 edition. Auszug: ... Feake, Robt. Coe, Thos. Hazard, William Washburn, John Seaman, Elbert Elbertsen, Thos. Spicer, Thos. Swartout, Jan Stryker, George Baxter, James Hubbard, from Breuckelen. from Flushing. from Middelburgh. from Hempstead. from Midwout. y from Amersfoordt ...
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Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1896 edition. Auszug: ... Feake, Robt. Coe, Thos. Hazard, William Washburn, John Seaman, Elbert Elbertsen, Thos. Spicer, Thos. Swartout, Jan Stryker, George Baxter, James Hubbard, from Breuckelen. from Flushing. from Middelburgh. from Hempstead. from Midwout. y from Amersfoordt.-from Gravesend. patents were delayed. They go on to say that they have "transformed with immense labour and at their own expense, a wilderness of woods into a few small villages and cultivated farms," and complain that large grants of land on which twenty or thirty families could have been established, had been given to favoured individuals for their private profit. By the feudal law of their founding it was the fief, and not the people, which possessed the right of representation, and no delegates could be recognised who did not come from the Court of the township. Stuyvesant, therefore, would not receive the delegates from Midwout, Breuckelen, and Amersfoordt, nor give the categorical "answers" demanded. He resented the drafting of the Remonstrance by an Englishman, George Baxter, and declared false the charges against himself. He stoutly denied the right of the people to call meetings, and ordered the Convention to disperse, or suffer the " pain of arbitrarie correction." He objected to the election of magistrates " by the populace," because " each would vote for one of his own stamp, the thief for a thief, the rogue, the tippler, the smuggler, each for a brother in iniquity that he might enjoy greater latitude for his own offences." His ultimatum was that " We derive our authority from God and the Company, not from a few ignorant subjects, ... and we alone can call the people together." Meanwhile piracies on sea and depredations on land...
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