id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
34977	Goodwin, Maud Wilder	Dutch and English on the Hudson: A Chronicle of Colonial New York			.txt	text/plain	52706	1786	62	It is easy to understand that a member of the Pope-Swift-Bolingbroke circle in England should have found the social atmosphere of early New York far from exhilarating; and it is equally easy to comprehend that the pioneers of the New World resented his mismanagement of the campaign of 1711 against Canada and his assertion of the English Government's right to tax the colonists without the consent of the colonial Governments. It is true that the towns and forts were rechristened, and New Amsterdam, Fort Amsterdam, and Fort Orange became respectively New York, Fort James, and Albany in honor of the King's brother, James, Duke of York and Albany, to whom as Lord Proprietor the new English province was now granted; but the Dutch were not interfered with in their homes, their holdings, or their religion, and for nearly a year the city government at New Amsterdam went on as of old under the control of burgomasters, _schepens_, and _schouts_.	cache/34977.txt	txt/34977.txt
