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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Third.? Jeremias, from 1658 to 1674. Fourth.? Kiliaen 2d, from 1674 to 1720. Fifth.- Stephen, from 1720 to 1747. Sixth.? Stephen 2d, from 1747 to 1769. Seventh.? Stephen 3d, from 1769 to 1839. Eighth.?Stephen 4th, from 1839 to 1868. Under the Constitution and laws of the United States in 1787 the Rensselaerwyck could no longer be entailed and it was divided by Stephen 3d (the seventh Patroon) between his sons Stephen 4th (called Patroon merely by courtesy) and William Patterson ? the former getting the mansion, title, and the estate in Albany, and the latter the estate east of the Hudson. During the Patroonship of the Van Rensselaers ? a period of about 150 years ? many important events occurred, changing the relations of nations, the forms of government, and affecting Patroon interests. The Patroons were reputable men of affairs and some of them of superior abilities and generally discharged their duties creditably. To trace their acts through their rule would now be not only tedious but useless. There arose a controversy between the Dutch West India Companyand the Patroon concerning the territory surrounding Fort Orange (in Albany) built by the company, which was finally decided in favor of the Patroon, as the territory surrounding the fort and the fort itself was within his patent. The fur trade early was very important and as the English, claiming the territory under the right of prior discovery, sought this trade, their vessels sailed up the Hudson and set up trading posts. The Patroon attempted to prevent traders from coming to his colony to deal with the colonists and Indians and with that object in view ordered one Nicolaas Coorn to fortify Beeren Island (about eleven miles below Albany), a commanding position, and there demand of each skipper of a vessel passing, e...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217849326
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 210
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217849326
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 313 gr


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