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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by MoneminsCastle[/i] [br]If you've read the Fort Orange thread you will see that the Dutch armed the Mohawks with muskets. Then they instigated a conflict between the Mohawks and the Mahicans. Once the Mahicans were driven from the shores of the Hudson, it was time to swindle them from their land. Enter Kiliaen van Rensselaer, a Dutch diamond dealer who was the primary investor in the Dutch West India Company. He was awarded over 700,000 acres of Mahican land by the company. Contract of of sale of land along the Hudson River from the Mahican Indians to Kiliean Van Rensselaer, 6 August 1630 http://purl.org/net/nysl/nysdocs/NY1937386 This document is an original copy of the land title that established the Colony of Rensselaerwyck, within the province of New Netherland. It relates to the patroonship plan of colonization under the auspices of the West India Company, that allowed an investor, called a patroon (lord of manor) to negotiate with natives for a tract upon which he was obligated to settle 50 colonists at his own expense. The patroon was granted complete jurisdictional rights and could hold the land in perpetual fief of inheritance with the right to dispose of colony by last will and testament. Kiliaen van Rensselaer, thus became the first patroon of Rensselaerwyck that would continue to exist under his heirs well into the 19th Century. The lands in the conveyance comprised much of present Albany and Rensselaer counties of New York State. Peter Minuit, Director General of New Netherland signed this document along with others on the governing council. [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.