Robert Remini
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Sep
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The English government thought that now the time had come to assert its power.
It ordered the Massachusetts rulers to send other Quakers to England for trial, but when this order reached Massachusetts, there were no Quakers in prison awaiting trial, and none were ever sent to England.
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Connecticut and Rhode Island
While the English government was attacking Massachusetts, it was giving liberal charters to Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Indeed, these charters were so liberal that they remained the constitutions of the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island until long after the American Revolution.
The Connecticut charter included New Haven within the limits of the larger colony and thus put an end to the separate existence of New Haven.
69.
Conquest of New Netherland, 1664.
The English government now determined to conquer New Netherland.
An English fleet sailed to New Amsterdam.
Stuyvesant thumped up and down on his wooden leg, but he was almost the only man in New Amsterdam who wanted to fight.
He soon surrendered and New Netherland became an English colony.
The Dutch later recaptured it and held it for a time, but in 1674, they finally handed it over to England.
Even before the colony was seized in 1664, Charles II gave it away to his brother James, Duke of York, and Albany, who afterward became king as James II.
The name of New Netherland was therefore changed to New York, and the principal towns were also named in his honor, New York and Albany.
Little else was changed in the colony.
The Dutch were allowed to live very nearly as they had lived before and soon became even happier and more contented than they had been under Dutch rule.
Many English settlers now came in.
The colony became rich and prosperous, but the people had little to do with their own government.
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