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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 vine. But the States General refused to grant a monopoly of trade. On the first day of January, 1618, the exclusive 1618. privilege conceded to the company of merchants for New Netherland, expired; but voyages continued to be made by their age again, a representative to the States General. The States, the true personation of a fixed commercial aris- Chap. XV.} 1618. tocracy, resisted popular innovations; and the same instinct which led the Romans to elevate Julius Caesar, the commons o, Olden Barneveldt and Grotius were taken into custody. In November, 1618, a few weeks after the first acts Chap. XV.} 1618. of violence, the States General gave a limited incorporation to a company of merchants; yet the conditions of the charterhich the hills had been praised by Verrazzani, and the soil trodden by the mariners of Hudson, a trading station seems, in 1618, to have been occupied at Bergen. In December, 1651, Augustine Herman purchased, but hardly took possession of the land