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He was a Loyalist Tory and generally opposed to independence. The passion of the other politicians at the First Continental Congress surprised him greatly.

It was the Dutch that first founded New York and there were many mercantile relationships existing between New Yorkers and Dutch merchants. Initially, the Dutch gunpowder was smuggled into New York because it was less expensive than English gunpowder or gunpowder from Kentucky or other parts of America. (The transportation costs by ship from Holland were much less than the overland cost from Kentucky.) By 1774, there was great friction between American patriots and the British and the smuggling was used to stockpile gunpowder for a possible revolutionary war. See {636944} for insight into the gunpowder shortage.

He was a Loyalist Tory and generally opposed to independence. The passion of the other politicians at the First Continental Congress surprised him greatly.

It was the Dutch that first founded New York and there were many mercantile relationships existing between New Yorkers and Dutch merchants. Initially, the Dutch gunpowder was smuggled into New York because it was less expensive than English gunpowder or gunpowder from Kentucky or other parts of America. (The transportation costs by ship from Holland were much less than the overland cost from Kentucky.) By 1774, there was great friction between American patriots and the British and the smuggling was used to stockpile gunpowder for a possible revolutionary war. See {636944} for insight into the gunpowder shortage.