A token of possession
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'In November of this year [1635], Governor Winthrop dispatched a
bark of 20 tons from Boston, with about 20 armed men, to take
possession of the mouth of the Connecticut. It will be remembered
that the Dutch had purchased this land of the Indians 3 years
before, and, in token of their possession, had affixed the arms of
the States-General to a tree. The English contemptuously tore down
these arms, "and engraved a ridiculous face in their place."'
(From Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by
John S. C. Abbott.)
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Authors: ag