Transactions Of The Oneida Historical Society, At Utica, 1892-1894: Resident And Honorary Members (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Transactions of the Oneida Historical Society, at Utica, 1892-1894: Resident and Honorary MembersEnglish Colonies, at least in their origin. It is the vice of American historiography that most of the writers pro ceed on the principle that we are an English people. And our country a kind of New England, or an expansion of the Eastern States, lying north of Long Island Sound. In reality...

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beside the liberal sprinkling of Irish, Scotch, scotch-irish, German, and Dutch blood, in the colonies collectively called New England, there was a still larger settlement of nationalities from outside of England in our Middle and Southern States, sufficient indeed to make us, even in 1776, a New Europe, rather than a New England, while the vast immigration within the century past Shows that we are anything but an English nation, except in language. The four Middle States, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, were settled in over whelming majority by the Dutch, Huguenots, Germans, Scotch. Irish. And scotch-irish. Beside not a few Swedes. And other Scandinavians. The real political and social life of New Netherland. And afterwards of New York was determined mainly by the Dutch and Huguenots. Pennsylvania was settled by the son Of a Dutch mother, who, beside Frisian principles of freedom brought over with hundreds of cultivated and educated Hollanders and many thousand German l'alatinates, while later to Pennsylvania came the scotch-irish.New Jersey and Delaware were first settled by the Dutch and Swedes. In every one of the Southern States were to be found Dutch, Huguenots, scotch-irish, and other non English nationalties. Hence, although the colonies were politically under the control of the British government, there were relations between the American people and those of the home lands on the continent of Europe, which were as throbbing nerves and pulsing arteries. Especially between the Dutch at home and the Dutch in America were there close ties of commercial, social, religious, as well as of historic interest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.