…The end was near and an English squadron appeared in the Narrows summoning the town "on the Island-of-Manhattoea to surrender." The Director-General Stuyvesant was furious, but the citizens urged the uselessness of resistance, and six prominent men…

…Cortlandt, occurs as one of the six commissioners, appointed to meet the English De-puties at Governor Stuyvesant's house in the Bowery, to treat concerning the surrender of the colony. This individual subse-quently signed the articles of capitulation…

…was a Colony and Province of the United Provinces, from soon after its discovery, in 1609, to its surrender to the English in 1664. These Dutch records, however, are incomplete. It is known that the early Provincial authorities recorded their…

…When English ships seized New Amsterdam in 1664, Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant reluctantly oversaw New Netherland’s peaceful transition to become the province of New York. The terms of surrender allowed Dutch inhabitants to continue their way of life, and…