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“Down with the rent” In what is now New York State, the Dutch employed a system of granting huge tracts of land as incentive to tame the vast wilderness. The patroons, or landlords, would then lease the land to settlers who cleared it, raised crops, paid taxes, and paid rent. This granting of land as a reward for service to the crown was expanded under the British. Over time these tenants began to consider the fairness of the situation. Was it right that they could not buy the land they worked? Was it right that they had no mineral, hunting, and fishing rights? Was it right that their labor financed the patroon lifestyle? The landlords considered fairness from the other side: Was it right for the tenants to refuse to live up to the terms of their agreements? Anti-rent emotion gripped these lands from 1839 to 1846. Rioting started in Albany County and swept west and south, culminating in the death of Sheriff Osman Steele in Andes. In 1906 Albert Champlin Mayham, grandson of two anti-renters and a professor of history, took the oral tradition of his family and their neighbors, interviewed people old enough to have witnessed the events, and compiled The Anti-Rent War on Blenheim Hill. Although the book focuses on the events as they happened and as they were reported in this small Schoharie community, it is a tale of interest to readers other than local history buffs. Mr. Mayham used elements of fiction to enliven his history—we see and hear these people live this story. The people of Blenheim Hill discuss state and national politics and the anticipated results if certain candidates succeed. Mayham included general discussions of feudal systems globally and historically. And it is primarily a study of the philosophical question that has driven many revolutions: Is it right because it is the law?
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“Down with the rent” In what is now New York State, the Dutch employed a system of granting huge tracts of land as incentive to tame the vast wilderness. The patroons, or landlords, would then lease the land to settlers who cleared it, raised crops, paid taxes, and paid rent. This granting of land as a reward for service to the crown was expanded under the British. Over time these tenants began to consider the fairness of the situation. Was it right that they could not buy the land they worked? Was it right that they had no mineral, hunting, and fishing rights? Was it right that their labor financed the patroon lifestyle? The landlords considered fairness from the other side: Was it right for the tenants to refuse to live up to the terms of their agreements? Anti-rent emotion gripped these lands from 1839 to 1846. Rioting started in Albany County and swept west and south, culminating in the death of Sheriff Osman Steele in Andes. In 1906 Albert Champlin Mayham, grandson of two anti-renters and a professor of history, took the oral tradition of his family and their neighbors, interviewed people old enough to have witnessed the events, and compiled The Anti-Rent War on Blenheim Hill. Although the book focuses on the events as they happened and as they were reported in this small Schoharie community, it is a tale of interest to readers other than local history buffs. Mr. Mayham used elements of fiction to enliven his history—we see and hear these people live this story. The people of Blenheim Hill discuss state and national politics and the anticipated results if certain candidates succeed. Mayham included general discussions of feudal systems globally and historically. And it is primarily a study of the philosophical question that has driven many revolutions: Is it right because it is the law?
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Anti-Rent War on Blenheim Hill: An Episode of the 1840s
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