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Connecticut governor John reebok Winthrop Jr. meanwhile opened a campaign to bring the English towns on Long Island and Wcstchcstcr under the authority of his govern¬ment. Connecticut agents stirred up support for the idea; in Gravcscnd. where they causcd "a greatc Hubbub and furic," it was rumored that armed parties were planning to put both "English & Dutch to fyre & to Sword." With the entire island in an uproar, the reebok easytone English towns rejected Winthrop's meddling and banded together in a combination with an adventurer named John Scott as their president. Scott tried to forcc the Dutch towns into the combination as well, assisted by none other than Captain John Underhill, lately returned to Flushing. Justifiably alarmed, jimmy choo shoes the West India Company ordered Stuyvcsant to hold the line. But in February of 1664, with the situation completely out of hand, Stuyvesant arranged a one-year trucc with Scott. The alternative, he explained, was "an inevitable surprise and capture of all the Dutch villages on Ix>ng Island."
As New Netherland disintegrated, York and his friends closed in. Ousting the Dutch from North America, they reasoned, would make Britain master of the whole eastern seaboard www.mycasualzone.com/ from Maine to Cape Fear, linking settlements of the Chesapeake and reebok zigtech New England and clearing the way for more effective enforcement of the Navigation Acts. By virtue of New Amsterdam's position at jimmy choo the southern end of the I Iudson- Champlain corridor to Montreal, its conquest would also give Britain an invaluable base of operations against the French in Canada and their Indian allies. This would mean not only enhanced security for the frontier of New England but a stronger grip on the fur trade as well.
Furthermore, manolo blahnik shoes as the manolo blahnik West zigtech India Company too had known, the plantation economies of the West Indies needed an entrepot on the mainland from which they could obtain slaves and food in exchange for raw sugar and molasses. Because it was the only city of any size between Boston and Havana, New Amsterdam was the obvious choice: to wrest it from the Dutch West India Company would be an act of mercantile acumen, not to mention the highest patriotism.
The acquisition of New Netherland promised to improve the duke's own finances too. According to his personal Commission of Revenue, possession of the colony could bring him between ten and thirty thousand pounds a year in rents and customs duties. (On the Amsterdam exchange in 1664, Stuyvesant's annual reebok easy tone salary of three thousand guilders was the equivalent of just three hundred pounds.) Finally, as many people sus¬pected but few knew for skechers shape ups certain, the duke was about to abandon Anglicanism for Roman Catholicism. An American province the size of New reebok zig Netherland would make an attrac¬tive refuge for his sorely oppressed coreligionists, and perhaps for himself as well.