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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
efore, the Dutch had no right to plant or trade; and he especially begged them not to send their yachts into the Narragansett. Our authority to trade and plant we derive from the States of Holland, and will defend it, rejoined Minuit. But in October of the same year, he sent De Rasieres, who stood next him in rank, on a conciliatory embassy to New Plymouth. The envoy, who proceeded in state with soldiers and trumpeters, landed at Monumet, and crossed the neck on foot. At Scusset, on Cape Cod Bay, he was met by a boat from the Old Colony, and was honorably attended with the noise of trumpets. He succeeded in concerting a mutual trade, but Bradford still warned the authorities of New Amsterdam to clear their title to their lands without delay. The advice seemed like a wish to hunt the Dutch out of their infant colony, and led the college of Nineteen to ask of the States-General forty soldiers for its defence. Such were the rude beginnings of New Netherland. 1628. The women an