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About Robert Hodgson
Robert Hodgson was a Quaker minister who emmigrated to New Amsterdam in 1657. He was brutally beaten by a slave with a 4 inch bull whip, at the orders of Governor Stuyvesant, and thrown in prison because he was a Quaker. The governor's own sister was appalled at her brother's treatment of the Quaker immigrants, and went into the prison to minister to Hodgson's wounds. Anti-Stuyvesant sentiment as a result of the treatment of the Quaker Robert Hodgson was thought to be the reason the British were able to just walk into New Amsterdam and take over. They found no resistance from the New Amsterdam residents, who welcomed the more humane treatment at the hands of the British than of their own governor.
According to a history book that mentions the Robert Hodgson beating incident, Hodgson was indirectly responsible for the successful invasion of New Amsterdam by the British, who then renamed it "New York".
Robert died in 1710 and was buried at sea.
Robert served as an officer in the British Army. He moved his family from England to Ireland because of the persecution of the Quakers. Robert became a follower of George Fox and became a Quaker preacher. He set out with his family for America, but an epidemic on the ship caused the father, mother, and two sons to die and buried at sea. This left his son George, at age nine, to reach American in 1710.
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Robert Hodgson's Timeline
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1660
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Yorkshire, England
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| 1701 |
January 6, 1701
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Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England
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1702
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Providence, Providence County, RI, British Colonial America
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1703
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England, United Kingdom
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1705
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England, United Kingdom
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1705
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England, United Kingdom
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February 13, 1708
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Chester, Delaware, PA, United States
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1710
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England, United Kingdom
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1710
Age 50
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Pennsylvania, United States
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