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A 1664 illustration of New Netherland Landing of the English at New Amsterdam 1664 In March 1664, Charles granted American territory between the Delaware and Connecticut rivers to James. On May 25, 1664 Colonel Richard Nicolls set out from Portsmouth with four warships led by the HMS Guinea , [ 6 ] and about three hundred soldiers.
Articles about the transfer of New Netherland on the 27th of August, Old Style, Anno 1664. The Articles of Capitulation on the Reduction of New Netherland was a document of surrender signed on September 29, 1664 handing control of the Dutch Republic's colonial province New Netherland to the Kingdom of England.
New York City 1664–1710. Conquest and Change (1976). Bachman, V.C. Peltries or Plantations. The Economic Policies of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland 1633–1639 (1969). Balmer, Randall H. "The Social Roots of Dutch Pietism in the Middle Colonies," Church History Volume: 53. Issue: 2. 1984. pp 187+ online edition; Barnouw, A.J.
By 1655, the population of New Netherland had grown to 9000 Dutch people, with 1,500 living in New Amsterdam. By 1664, the population of New Netherland had risen to almost 9,000 people, 2,500 of whom lived in New Amsterdam, 1,000 lived near Fort Orange, and the remainder in other towns and villages. [2] [4]
Before the Second Anglo-Dutch War had even started an English fleet took over the colony New Netherland of the Dutch West India Company in 1664 in a bloodless coup in the name of the Duke of York. The colony was renamed New York, and the town of New Amsterdam was given the same name. [5] This situation was left in place in the Peace of Breda of ...
The region between the lower Hudson and the Delaware was deeded to proprietors and called New Jersey. The loss of New Netherland led to the Second Anglo–Dutch War during 1665–1667. This conflict ended with the Treaty of Breda, which stipulated that the Dutch give up their claim to New Netherland in exchange for Suriname.
On August 29, 1664, The Duke of York’s forces captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch, as part of their conquest of New Netherland. They renamed New Netherland as the Province of New York, which included modern New York, New Jersey, Vermont, southeast Pennsylvania, and Delaware. [1] Yorkshire was created soon afterward in 1664.
Richard Nicolls was born c. 1624 in Ampthill, Bedfordshire.He was the son of Francis Nicolls, a barrister and politician, and his wife Margaret. [1] Francis and Margaret were married at Abbots Langley in 1609; she was the daughter of Sir George Bruce, a Scottish merchant who built Culross Palace, [2] and a niece of Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss.