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Rupert Sargent Holland. Historic Events of Colonial Days
Historic Events of Colonial Days
Table of Contents
Illustrations
I A PURITAN HERO
II PETER STUYVESANT'S FLAG
III WHEN GOVERNOR ANDROSS CAME TO CONNECTICUT
IV THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN NATHANIEL BACON AND SIR WILLIAM BERKELEY
V AN OUTLAW CHIEF OF MARYLAND
VI IN THE DAYS OF WITCHES
VII THE ATTACK ON THE DELAWARE
VIII THE PIRATES OF CHARLES TOWN HARBOR
IX THE FOUNDER OF GEORGIA
X THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS AND THE YORKERS
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Rupert Sargent Holland
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Rumors came that the farmers meant to rescue Christie, so he was taken at night to the fort on Manhattan Island. Sheriff Stillwell had to fly from his own house to escape the neighbors, and hurried to New Amsterdam, where he complained of the illegal acts of the Gravesend settlers. Excitement ran high. People on Long Island demanded that Christie be set free; but the Dutch council insisted on keeping him a prisoner. The council sent an express messenger to Peter Stuyvesant in Boston, asking him to settle the Long Island difficulties with the English governor there.
But the officers of New England would not agree to the sturdy Dutchman's terms. And other English colonists went through the land that belonged to the Dutch, rousing the farmers against the West India Company. Richard Panton, armed with sword and pistol, threatened the men of Flatbush and other villages near by with the pillage of their property unless they would swear allegiance to the government at Hartford and fight against the Dutch. Such was the news that greeted Stuyvesant when he came back to his capital from Boston. He knew that there were not enough of the Dutch to resist an attack from the English, who had come swarming in great numbers recently into Massachusetts and Connecticut. His only hope lay in argument, and so he sent four of his leading men to Hartford to try to arrange a peaceful settlement.
