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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)
e Park and the adja- 1649. cent region, long remained a common pasture, where, for yet a quarter of a century, tanners could obtain bark, and boys chestnuts; Lovelace, in J. W. Moulton's New Orange, 33. and the soil was so little valued, that Stuyvesant thought it no wrong to his employers Albany Records, IV. 24. to purchas arbitrary conduct. Even the Dutch patents for land were held to require renewal, and Nicolls gathered a harvest of fees from exacting new title-deeds. Under Lovelace, his successor, the same system was Chap XV.} 1667 May. 1669 more fully developed. Even on the southern shore of the Delaware, the Swedes and Finns, the most verity, and laying such taxes as may give them liberty for no thought but how to discharge them. Such was Oct. 18. the remedy proposed in the instructions from Lovelace to his southern subordinate, and carried into effect by an arbitrary tariff. In New York, when the established powers of the towns favored the demand for free
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
, which, at the surrender, had been established for three years. In the next year, the rev- 1679. enue was a little increased. Meantime the Dutch Calvinists had been inflamed by an attempt to thwart the discipline of the Dutch Reformed church. Yet it should be added, that the taxes were hardly three per cent. on imports, and really insufficient to meet the ex- Chap XVII.} 1678 penses of the colony; while the claim to exercise prerogative in the church was abandoned. As in the days of Lovelace, the province was a terrestrial Canaan. The inhabitants were blessed in their basket and their store. They were free from pride; and a wagon gave as good content as in Europe a coach; their home-made cloth as the finest lawns. The doors of the low-roofed houses, which luxury never entered, stood wide open to charity, and to the stranger. Denton's New York, printed in 1670, describes it under the duke's government, p. 19 and 20. Andros, in Chalmers, 601, &c. The Island of New York may,