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History of the United States by George Bancroft (6 Volumes)
Volume 1
Part 2 British America Attains Geographical Unity
Chapter 14 New Netherland, New Jersey, and New York

   Under Lord Lovelace, who, in May, 1667, succeeded him, the same system was more fully developed. In 1669, even the Swedes and Finns, the most patient of all emigrants, were roused to resistance. "The method for keeping the people in order is severity, and laying such taxes as may give them liberty for no thought but how to discharge them:" such was the remedy proposed in the instructions from Lovelace to his southern subordinate, and carried into effect by an arbitrary tariff.

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History of the United States by George Bancroft (6 Volumes)
Volume 1
Part 2 British America Attains Geographical Unity
Chapter 17 James II Consolidates the Northern Colonies

   In November, some months after the province of Sagadahock -- that is, Maine east of the Kennebec -- had been protected by a fort and a considerable garrison, Andros hastened to England; but he could not give eyes to the duke; and, on his return to New York, in 1675, he was ordered to continue the duties which, at the surrender, had been established for three years. In 1679, the revenue was a little increased; but the taxes were hardly three per cent on imports, and really insufficient to meet the expenses of the colony; and an attempt to thwart the discipline of the Dutch Reformed church by the prerogative had been abandoned. As in the days of Lovelace, the province was "a terrestrial Canaan. The inhabitants were blessed in their basket and their store. They were free from pride; and a wagon gave as good content as in Europe a coach, their home-made cloth as the finest lawns. The doors of the low-roofed houses, which luxury never entered, stood wide open to charity and to the stranger." The island of New York may, in 1678, have contained not far from three thousand inhabitants; in the whole colony there could not have been far from twenty thousand. Ministers were scarce but welcome, and religions many; the poor were relieved, and beggars unknown. A thousand pounds seemed opulence; the possessor of half that sum was rich. The exports were land productions -- wheat, lumber, tobacco -- and peltry from the Indians. In the community, composed essentially of freeholders, great equality of condition prevailed; there were but "few merchants," "few servants, and very few slaves." Prompted by an exalted instinct, the people, in a popular convention, demanded power to govern themselves; and when, in 1651, the two Platts, Titus, Wood, and Wicks, of Huntington, arbitrarily summoned to New York, were still more arbitrarily thrown into prison, the purpose of the yeomanry remained unshaken.

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History of the United States by George Bancroft (6 Volumes)
Volume 2
Part 3 Colonization of the West and of Georgia
Chapter 2 The Middle States After the Revolution

   Lord Cornbury, more successful than any patriot, had taught New York the necessity and the methods of incipient resistance. The assembly, which, in April, 1709, met Lord Lovelace, his short-lived successor, began the contest that was never to cease but with independence. The crown demanded a permanent revenue, without appropriation; New York henceforward would raise only an annual revenue, and appropriate it specifically. That province was struggling to make the increase of the power of the assembly an open or tacit condition of every grant. The provincial revenue, as established by law, would not expire till 1709; but the war demanded extraordinary supplies; and, in 1704, the moneys voted by the assembly were to be disbursed by its own officers. The royal council, instructed from England, would have money expended only on the warrant of the governor and council; but the delegates resolved that "it is inconvenient to allow the council to amend money bills;" and council, governor, and board of trade yielded to the fixed will of the representatives of the people. In 1705, the assembly was allowed by the queen "to name their own treasurer, when they raised extraordinary supplies;" by degrees all legislative grants came to be regarded as such, and to be placed in the keeping of the treasurer of the assembly, beyond the control of the governor. In 1708, the delegates, after claiming for the people the choice of coroners, made a solemn declaration that "the levying of money upon her majesty's subjects in this colony, under any pretence whatsoever, without consent in general assembly, is a grievance;" and, in 1709, as the condition of joining in an effort against Canada, the legislature assumed executive functions. In the same year, by withholding grants, they prepared to compel their future governors to an annual capitulation.

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