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    •   Activity of Dutches. Dominating position

    you are: Activity of Dutches

    Among the Netherlands colonists in New Light capture of dominating position by large land owners gradually begins. Dreaming of a new life at resettlement to America Dutches, as well as in the homeland, could not get rid of division on rich and poor. Â"Cartridges, - the American researcher G.Myers wrote about them, - surrounded itself with splendour and inspired trembling to associates. Like the small monarchs, each of them had the flag and the arms... Colonists were only obedient vassals; they were direct citizens of a cartridge...Â"

    Capture of the earths was usually made not by those who came to New Light on settlement. It conducted in favour of representatives of ruling class of the Netherlands. So, Amsterdam merchant Killian van Renssler, the dealer jewelry became the largest land owner. It posessed an extensive estate on the western coast of the river Hudson the area approximately 280 thousand hectares which he never saw own eyes. Assert, that some Netherlands families have reserved the right to possession of the ground areas in New York and round it up to present time. Leasing them, they receive considerable incomes of this property.

    By 1650 New Amsterdam consisted of several small houses over which wings of invariable windmills for Dutches rotated. Houses with traditional front gardens, without the special conveniences, arranged, as well as in the Holland, rude, however convenient furniture, were erected on either side of the wide street named Breidveg (the name was transformed later to the Broadway). There was in settlement and the channel-that it for Holland without channels! And though it has disappeared later, the street-bridge-strit name - in New York remains. Protective constructions included a powerful wall - Vaal - between channels of Hudson and Ist-River. The street adjoining to it, was called Vaal-straat. After its name it will be world renowned, but already in an English transcription - Uoll-strit. By the way to tell, already then Dutches here made various commercial transactions.