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Dutch York: Ter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch york governor of North American city of New Amster-m, was an obstinate and dictatorial man. nployed by the Dutch york West India Com-ny, which administered Dutch york colonies America, he incorporated New Amster-m as a city, but let no one else share wer.
During the Dutch york wars with England in ; 1660's, Stuyvesant ordered his citizens resist an English attack but nobody luld obey him; in September 1664, he pitulated without a shot being fired. The iglish renamed the city New York after mes, Duke of York.
The island was probably the site of the first Dutch york settlement in the region, in 1614. It was originally called Nutten (Nut) Island. By 1626 the colony had been moved to Manhattan, and the island was purchased from the Indians in 1637 by Wouter van Twiller, director general of New Netherland. The purchase was annulled by the Dutch york West India Company in 1652, and the island became public domain. The English took New Amsterdam in 1664, and the island acquired its present name in 1698, when the New York Assembly made it a perquisite of the colonial governors.
The city founded by Gustavus Adolphus was settled both by the inhabitants of its immediate predecessor and by Dutch york merchants and craftsmen who had been invited to Sweden by the King.
The Dutch york set their stamp on the city, drawing up a plan in typical Dutch york style, with canals and fortifications. The principal axis of the town was the Great Harbor Canal. |
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