Dozens of students walked out of the Thomas Hardye School to join a rally in Dorchester, Dorset. But Henry Schachter criticised the school for allowing students to be brainwashed .
The document, the charter from when the British seized New York from the Dutch, is on the auction block with two others. Together they could go for as much as $900,000.
There are some relevant lots in the Sotheby's New York Americana sale on Monday, January 23, including a 1927 publication agreement for Charles Lindbergh's book about his transatlantic flight ($15,000–20,000); a group of five seventeenth-century letters and documents about Britain's colonies in the American northeast ($15,000–25,000); a subscriber's copy of the octavo edition of Audubon's Quadrupeds in the original parts ($15,000–25,000); and several plates from the original edition of Audubon's Birds.
Middle and Southern English Colonies
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The establishment of the Middle and Southern English Colonies of North America was encouraged by the earlier English settlements of Jamestown Colony of Virginia in the south (founded 1607) and Plymouth Colony and, especially, Massachusetts Bay Colony in the north (founded 1620 and 1630 respectively). These early colonies not only inspired more English to cross the Atlantic to start a new life in North America but, in the Middle Colonies especially, those of other nations.
The colonies of New England grew primarily from the Massachusetts Bay Colony following Plymouth’s success. Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire were all developed by religious dissenters from Massachusetts Bay. The regions which would become the Middle Colonies were largely controlled by the Dutch until 1664 while the lands of the future Southern Colonies were inhabited by Native Americans who were displaced as Virginia’s tobac