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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
7, 48. Civil wars were one of the means of enfranchising the serfs of England. Berkeley promised freedom to the servants of the insurgents, if they would rally under his banner. The English vessels in the harbors naturally joined his side. With a fleet of five ships and ten sloops, attended by royalists, a rabble of covetous hirelings, and a horde of Indians, Bonds, &c. 113, 114. the Cavalier sailed for Jamestown, where he landed without opposition. Entering the town, he fell on his Sept. 8 knees, returning thanks to God for his safe arrival; and again proclaimed Bacon and his party traitors and rebels. The cry resounded through the forests for the countrymen to come down. Speed, it was said, or we shall all be made slaves—man, woman, and child. Your sword, said Drummond to Lawrence, is your commission and mine too; the sword must end it; Ibid. 110, 113. and both prepared for resistance. Returning from a successful expedition, and disbanding his troops, Bacon had reta
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
war and soldiers. The commissioners returned to advocate the capitulation, which was quietly effected on the following days. The aristocratic liberties of Holland yielded to the hope of popular liberties like those of New England. The articles of surrender, framed under the auspices of the municipal authority, by the mediation of the younger Winthrop and Pynchon, accepted by the magistrates and other inhabitants assembled in the town hall, and not ratified by Stuyvesant till the sur- Sept. 8. render had virtually been made, promised security to the customs, the religion, the municipal institutions, the possessions of the Dutch. The enforcement of the navigation act was delayed for six months. During Chap XV.} Albany Records XVIII. and XXII that period, direct intercourse with Holland remained free. The towns were still to choose their own magistrates, and Manhattan, now first known as New York, to elect its deputies, with free voices in all public affairs. The colonists