This Country of Ours the Story of the United States
ThisCountryofOurstheStoryoftheUnitedStates
HEHenriettaElizabethMarshall
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But the company wanted set- tlers. They therefore offered to give an estate with eigh- teen miles' bay or river frontage to every man who would bring, or send, fifty colonists. Many people at once became eager to win such a prize, and very soon there were little settlements all along the shores of the Hudson. The men who received these huge estates were called patroons, which is the same word as our English patron, The and they had power not unlike the feudal lords of old time. Patroons They we...re bound to supply each of their settlers with a farm, and also to provide a minister and a schoolmaster for every settlement. But on the other hand they had full power over the settlers. They were the rulers and judges, while the settlers were almost serfs, and were bound to stay for ten years with their patroon, to grind their corn at his mills, and pay him tribute. Over the whole colony there was a Governor who was as a rule autocratic and sometimes dishonest, and there was a good deal of unrest in the colony.
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