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THE DUTCH AND QUAKER

COLONIES IN

AMERICA

BY

JOHN FISKE

Nieuw Nederlant is een seer schoon aengenaem gesont en lustigh lantschap
daer het voor alderley slagh van menschen beter en ruymer aen de kost
of gemackelycker door de werelt te geraken is als in Nederlant offte
eenige andere quartieren des werelts mijn bekent.

ADRIAN VAN DER DONCK, 1656.

For I must needs tell you, if we miscarry it will be our own fault; we
have nobody else to blame; for such is the happiness of our Constitution
that we cannot well be destroyed but by ourselves.

WILLIAM PENN, 1679.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1900

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER X.

THE ENGLISH AUTOCRATS.

Peaceful transfer of New Netherland to English rule

Admirable character of Governor Nicolls .

Carr's shameful conduct at New Amstel

Fall of the republic of New Haven

Yorkshire, Dukes County, and Cornwall

Cartwright sails for England, but lands in Spain

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Unwillingness of New Haven leaders to be annexed to Con-

Exodus from New Haven to New Jersey

Robert Treat and Abraham Pierson

Constitutional troubles in New Jersey

Lord Berkeley sells out his interest to a party of Quakers

Nicolls returns to England, and is succeeded by Francis

Lovelace

Abolition of the distinction between great and small burgh-

ers

The first mail on the American continent, monthly between
New York and Boston, starts on New Year's Day, 1673 19, 20

The postman's route

The English towns on Long Island protest against arbitrary

taxation

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Charles II. abandons the Triple Alliance, and joins with

Louis XIV. in attacking Holland

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