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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)
f Ibid. XIII. 96—99; VIII. 139—142. was appointed by the governor; the two burgomasters and five schepens made a double nomination of their own successors, from which the valiant director himself elected the board. Albany Records, XIX. 33, 34. The city had privileges, not the citizens. The province gained only the municipal liberties, on which rested the commercial aristocracy of Holland. Citizenship was a commercial privilege, and not a political enfranchisement. So afterwards, in 1657. Albany Records, XV. 54—56. It was not much more than a license to trade. Ibid. XXIV. 45. Compare XX. 247, 248. The system was at war with Puritan usages; the Chap XV.} 1653. Dutch in the colony readily caught the idea of relying on themselves; and the persevering restlessness of the people led to a general assembly of two deputies from Nov. to Dec. each village in New Netherland; an assembly which Stuyvesant was unwilling to sanction, and could not prevent. As in Massachusetts, t<