batavian republic took over new netherlands from dutch settlers.
who took over new netherlands from dutch settlers?
batavian republic
due to a lack of detailed documentation, the exact role haynes played in the colony's political activities is unclear. one of his more notable achievements was the negotiations with some of the neighboring colonies that led to the creation of the new england confederation in 1643. this organization was a loose confederation of the connecticut, massachusetts bay, new haven, and plymouth colonies, principally established to coordinate defense against common threats. for connecticut, the major threats came from indians and from the dutch of the new netherlands to the west. in particular, the smaller colonies benefited from this confederation at the expense of the significantly more populous massachusetts colony. during his terms in office, he was called upon to mediate disputes between local indians and to negotiate with dutch representatives of the new netherlands, who claimed land south of hartford on the connecticut river. when one dutch trader complained about the seizure by some englishmen of land he claimed, haynes responded that because the dutchman had done nothing to develop the land, and that because "it was a sin to let such rich land ... lie uncultivated", he had effectively forfeited his claim. this dispute resulted in minor military confrontations between the english and dutch in the 1640s and was resolved temporarily in the 1650 treaty of hartford, in which the dutch ceded their claims on the river. some territorial disputes continued even after the english took new netherlands from the dutch in 1664, and the territory described in the duke of york's charter overlapped that of connecticut.
john haynes (governor)
the united kingdom took over from the netherlands as the colonial power at the cape of good hope in 1806. subsequently, a number of its dutch-speaking inhabitants trekked inland, first in smaller numbers, then in groups as large as almost a hundred people, after 1834 even in groups of hundreds. there were many reasons why the boers left the cape colony; among the initial reasons were the language laws. the british had proclaimed the english language as the only language of the cape colony and prohibited the use of the dutch language. as the bible, churches, schools and culture of many of the settlers were dutch, this caused a lot of friction. britain abolished slavery in 1834 and allocated the sum of 1,200,000 british pounds as recompense for the dutch settlers' slaves. the dutch settlers disputed the requirement that they had to lodge their claims in britain and objected that the value of the slaves was many times the allocated amount. this caused further dissatisfaction among the dutch settlers.
boer republics