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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Rensselaer, Killian 1595-1674 (search)
n River, comprising the present counties of Albany, Rensselaer, and Columbia. The tract, which was named Rensselaerswick, was colonized with immigrants from Holland. Van Rensselaer never visited the colony, but directed its affairs through a sheriff. To protect the colonists from the Indians, he ordered that they should all live near each other, except the tobaccoplanters and farmers. After his death, in 1644, the West India Company became jealous of the success of the colony, and Governor Stuyvesant, with a military escort, visited it in 1648, and gave orders that no buildings should be constructed within a certain distance of Fort Orange. Subsequently he endeavored to restrict the privileges of Van Rensselaer's sons. His son, Jeremias, colonist, born in Amsterdam, Holland, presumably about 1632, was in charge of Rensselaerswick, N. Y., for sixteen years. When the English threatened New Netherland he was appointed to preside over the convention in New Amsterdam to adopt measu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Twiller, Wouter or Walter -1646 (search)
requently missed the wind. Buildings were erected for officers and other employs, and several in various parts of the province. Of this extravagance complaint was made, and his shortcomings were severely denounced by Dominie Bogardus, who, in a letter to him, called him a child of the devil, and threatened him with such a shake from the pulpit on the following Sunday as would make him shudder. His administration was so much complained of in Holland that he was recalled in 1637. He left the colony in a sorry condition, but with an ample private estate. Van Rensselaer seems to have had confidence in Van Twiller, for he made him executor of his last will and testament. In a controversy, Van Twiller took sides against the West India Company, and vilified the administration of Stuyvesant. The company were indignant, and spoke of Van Twiller as an ungrateful man who had sucked his wealth from the breasts of the company which he now abuses. He died in Amsterdam, Holland, after 1646.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), York, James, Duke of -1701 (search)
four ships from the royal navy, bearing 450 regular troops, for the service of taking possession of his domain. Col. Richard Nicolls commanded the expedition. Stuyvesant was compelled to surrender (see Stuyvesant, Peter), and the name of the territory was changed to New York. Very soon commissioners appointed by the governmentsrty-four delegates assembled—two representatives of each of the English and Dutch towns on Long Island and two in Westchester. Some of them had been members of Stuyvesant's last General Assembly of New Netherland the previous year. The meeting had been called by Governor Nicolls to settle good and known laws in their government they were not popular representatives to make laws, but were mere agents to accept those already prepared for them. They had merely exchanged the despotism of Stuyvesant for English despotism. The New York code adopted by that meeting was arranged in alphabetical order of subjects and published, and is generally known as the Du
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