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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dutch West India Company. (search)
Manhattan. The management of New Netherland was intrusted to the Amsterdam chamber. Their traffic was successful. In 1624 the exports from Amsterdam, in two ships, were worth almost $10,000, and the returns from New Netherland were considerably more. The company established a trading-post, called Fort Orange, on the site of Albany, and traffic was extended eastward to the Connecticut River, and even to Narraganset Bay; northward to the Mohawk Valley, and southward and westward to the Delaware River and beyond. To induce private capitalists to engage in the settlement of the country, the company gave lands and special privileges to such as would guarantee settlement and cultivation. These became troublesome landholders, and in 1638 the rights of the company, it was claimed, were interfered with by a settlement of Swedes on the Delaware. In 1640 the company established the doctrines and rituals of the Reformed Church in the United Provinces as the only theological formula to be al
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), May, Cornelius Jacobsen (search)
May, Cornelius Jacobsen Colonial governor; commanded the Dutch tradingvessel Fortune on a trading excursion to Manhattan in 1613. The next year he coasted along New England to Martha's Vineyard. In 1620 he was on the coasts and rivers southward of Manhattan, in the ship Glad Tidings, visited Chesapeake Bay, and sailed up the James River to Jamestown. The bay at the mouth of the Delaware River the Dutch called New Port May, in compliment to their commander, and the southern extremity of New Jersey is still known as Cape May. In the spring of 1623, Captain May conveyed to Manhattan thirty families, chiefly Walloons,. in the ship New Netherland, with Adriaen Joris as lieutenant. May remained at Manhattan as first director or governor of the colony. He was succeeded by William Verhulst, second director of New Netherland, and returned to Holland. Excepting his career in America, little is known of his life.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, colony of (search)
as a part of Virginia, resting their claim upon the discovery of Cabot. In 1622 the English minister at The Hague demanded the abandonment of the Dutch settlements on the Hudson. Five years afterwards Governor Bradford, of Plymouth, gave notice to Governor Minuit that the patent of New England covered the domain of New Netherland. In the spring of 1664 Charles II. granted to his brother James, Duke of York, all New Netherland, including the region of country between the Hudson and Delaware rivers; and in August the same year an English fleet appeared before New Amsterdam and demanded its surrender. Governor Stuyvesant resisted for a while, but was compelled to comply, and the whole territory claimed by the Dutch passed into the possession of the English on Sept. 8, 1664. At the treaty of peace between England and Holland, the Dutch were allowed to New York City Hall and docks in 1679. retain the colony of Surinam, in Guiana, England retaining New York. Edmund Andros was a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Patroons. (search)
gnized the right of the Indians to the soil by compelling its purchase from them; it invited independent farmers, to whom a homestead should be secured, and promised protection to all in case of war, and encouraged religion and learning. Yet the free New England system was far better for the development and growth of popular liberty. Several of these patroon domains were secured by directors of the Amsterdam Chamber. The patroons began vigorously to make settlements on the Hudson and Delaware rivers, and so construed the charter of privileges and exemptions that they claimed a right to traffic with the Indians. This brought them into collision with the other-directors, whose jealousy was aroused. The patroons persisted, and an appeal was made to the States-General, which prudently postponed a decision, in order to enable the parties to come to an amicable settlement. So ended the action of the Dutch government in the matter. The patroon system discouraged individual enterpris
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Kansas, 1864 (search)
(Detachment). Aug. 1-5: Scout on Smoky Hills ForkIOWA--7th Cavalry (Co. "H"). Aug. 8-11: Scout from Salem to Mulberry CreekKANSAS--11th Cavalry (Detachment). MISSOURI--4th State Militia Cavalry. Aug. 16: Skirmish, Smoky Hills CrossingIOWA--7th Cavalry (Co. "H"). Union loss, 4 killed. Aug. 19-24: Scout on Republican RiverKANSAS--11th Cavalry (Detachment); 14th and 15th Militia (Detachments). Sept. 21: Affair near Council GroveKANSAS--17th Cavalry (1 man, Co. "C"). Sept. 25: Skirmish, Walnut CreekCOLORADO--2d Cavalry. Union loss, 2 killed, 7 wounded. Total, 9. Sept. 26: Skirmish, Osage MissionWISCONSIN--3d Cavalry. Oct. 22: Skirmish, Fort ScottKANSAS--6th Cavalry. Oct. 23: Skirmish, Cow CreekKANSAS--6th Cavalry. Oct. 25: Engagement, Mine Creek, Little Osage River, Marias des CygnesARKANSAS--2d Cavalry. COLORADO--2d Cavalry; 1st Battery Light Arty. INDIANA--7th Cavalry. IOWA--1st, 3d and 4th Cavalry. KANSAS--5th, 7th, 11th, 14th, 15th and 16th Cavalry. MISSOURI--1st, 2d, 4th, 10
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Kansas, 1865 (search)
1865 Dec. 4: Skirmish, Cow Creek near Fort ZarahIOWA--7th Cavalry (Detachment). Jan. 7-11: Scout from Fort EllsworthINDEPENDENT SCOUTS (Detachment). Jan. 15-21: Scout from Fort Larned to Pawnee Fork, Walnut Creek and Smoky Hill RiverINDEPENDENT SCOUTS. Jan. 20: Skirmish, Point of Rocks or Nine Mile Ridge near Fort LarnedCOLORADO--1st and 2d Cavalry (Detachments). Jan. 31: Skirmish near OxfordKANSAS--5th Cavalry (Detachment). Feb. 1: Skirmish, Fort ZarahCOLORADO--2d Cavalry (Co. "C"). Feb. 3-8: Scout from Fort Larned to South Fork Pawnee Creek and Buckner's RanchINDEPENDENT SCOUTS (Detachment). Feb. 12-20: Operations about Forts Riley and LarnedINDEPENDENT SCOUTS. Feb. 16-21: Scout from Fort LarnedINDEPENDENT SCOUTS. March 7: Skirmish near Fort LarnedAttack on train. March 9-15: Scout from Fort Larned to Crooked CreekCOLORADO--2d Cavalry (Detachment). April 22: Affair near Fort ZarahCOLORADO--2d Cavalry (Detachment). May 20: Affair near Pawnee RockCOLORADO--2d Cavalry (Deta
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Narrative and legendary poems (search)
n 1679 he was a law-lecturer at Frankfort, where he became deeply interested in the teachings of Dr. Spener. In 1680-81 he travelled in France, England, Ireland, and Italy with his friend Herr Von Rodeck. I was, he says, glad to enjoy again the company of my Christian friends, rather than be with Von Rodeck feasting and dancing. In 1683, in company with a small number of German Friends, he emigrated to America, settling upon the Frankfort Company's tract between the Schuylkill and the Delaware rivers. The township was divided into four hamlets, namely, Germantown, Krisheim, Crefield, and Sommerhausen. Soon after his arrival he united himself with the Society of Friends, and became one of its most able and devoted members, as well as the recognized head and lawgiver of the settlement. He married, two years after his arrival, Anneke (Anna), daughter of Dr. Klosterman, of Muhlheim. In the year 1688 he drew up a memorial against slaveholding, which was adopted by the Germantown F
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
e natives for the soil from Cape Henlopen to Chap. XV.} 1630. the mouth of Delaware River; in July, 1630, this purchase of an estate, more than thirty miles long, wa. And were they not so? The first permanent colonization of the banks of the Delaware is due to Oxenstiern. Yet more than four years passed away before the desig Chap. XV.} phia before William Penn became its proprietary. The banks of the Delaware from the ocean to the falls were known as New Sweden. The few English familied the beaver of the Schuylkill, the Dutch were to contend for the banks of the Delaware. In the vicinity of the river, the Swedish company was more powerful than itsad firmly 1659. maintained the right of the Dutch to the southern bank of the Delaware, pleading purchase and colonization before the patent to Lord Baltimore had be more as proprietary of the eastern moiety of New Jersey; but the banks of the Delaware were reserved for men who had been taught by the uneducated son of a poor Leic
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter XLI (search)
New-York, i. 308. was also soliciting leave from the Government in England to lead forth a Colony to the southwestern banks of the Mississippi. W. S. Johnson to Jos. Trumbull, 15 April, 1769. Compare Martin's Louisiana, II. 35; Monette's Valley of the Mississippi, i. 407, 408. In his peaceful habitation on the banks of the Yadkin River, in North Carolina, Daniel Boone, Boone was born in Virginia, McLung, 49. Boone was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on the right bank of the Delaware river, Collins, 182. Boone was born in Maryland, Marshall, i. 17. The advancing settlements of Schuylkill, Morehead, 17. Bridgeworth, Somersetshire, England, Niles, IV. 33, confounding perhaps the birth-place of his father, with that of Daniel Boone himself. Daniel himself does not seem to have thought about where or when he was born. Filson writes the name Boon. the illustrious hunter, had heard Finley, a trader, so memorable Compare J. T. Morehead's Address in commemoration, &c. 16, an