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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 12 0 Browse Search
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Gorton, 59. Hubbard, 441, and 365. The traditionary account of the battle on Strickland Plain, preserved by Trumbull, i. 161, and repeated, but not confirmed, by Wood, p. 74, cannot be quite accurate; at least as to time. Memory is an easy dupe, and tradition a careless storyteller. An account, to be of highest value, must be York. But factious republicans abounded; the deputies were scorned by their constituents for their inconsiderate servility; Correct Chalmers, 577, 598, 599, by Wood, 87; or Additions to code in N. Y. Hist. Coll. i. 418. and the governor, who never again conceded an assembly, was reproached ???666. and vilified for his arbitrle from their duty and obedience, and, according to the established precedents of tyranny, were ordered to be publicly burnt before the town-house of New York. S. Wood's Sketch of the First Settlement of Long Island, p. 83—96 It was easy to burn the votes which the yeomanry Chap. XV.} of Long Island had passed in their town
What was wanting to the happiness of the people? Prompted by an exalted instinct, they demanded power to govern themselves. Discontent created a popular 1681 Wood 99 convention; and if the two Platts, Titus, Wood, and Wicks of Huntington, arbitrarily summoned to New York, were still more arbitrarily thrown into prison, the fWood, and Wicks of Huntington, arbitrarily summoned to New York, were still more arbitrarily thrown into prison, the fixed purpose of the yeomanry remained unshaken. The government of New York was quietly maintained over the settlements south and west of the Delaware, till they were granted to Penn; over the Jerseys Andros claimed a paramount authority. We Chap. XVII.} 1675. have seen the Quakers refer the contest for decision to an English. less than a month after James the Second had ascended the throne, he prepared to overturn the institutions which he had conceded. A direct tax was Chap XVII.} Wood, 103, 104 decreed by an ordinance; the titles to real estate were questioned, that larger fees and quitrents might be extorted; and of the farmers of Easthampton w