. The city of New York. Dutch Burgomasters,schepens and other officials, who under theEnglish rule became the aldermen andsheriffs, were continued in power, and on thewhole, the administration of the Englishwas a decided improvement over the policyof the Dutch West India Company. Theloss of this colony made a final ending ofthe Corporation, which had already lostenormous sums in the enterprise; thence-forth, with the exception of about tenmonths in 1673, New York remained exclu-sively and continuously under the Englishuntil the Revolution. That the Dutch char-acter and Dutch influence has endu
. The city of New York. Dutch Burgomasters,schepens and other officials, who under theEnglish rule became the aldermen andsheriffs, were continued in power, and on thewhole, the administration of the Englishwas a decided improvement over the policyof the Dutch West India Company. Theloss of this colony made a final ending ofthe Corporation, which had already lostenormous sums in the enterprise; thence-forth, with the exception of about tenmonths in 1673, New York remained exclu-sively and continuously under the Englishuntil the Revolution. That the Dutch char-acter and Dutch influence has endured and isimportant, is a high tribute to the splendidcharacter of the founders of our city, no lessthan to the general willingness of the Eng-lish to let the original settlers preserve theiridentity and to pursue their political andreligious desires unmolested. Strangelyenough the English who captured NewYork were evidently of a different moldfrom those who peopled New and tolerance in religion and35. politics was the first agreeable surprisewhich greeted the Dutch. The ProtestantEpiscopalian service was, of course, at onceintroduced. The chaplain of the Englishforces had, however, no proper place inwhich to celebrate divine service except inthe Dutch Church in the Fort. It was verycordially arranged therefore that after theDutch had ended their own morning wor-ship in the church, the British chaplainshould, in the afternoon, read the Churchof England service to the governor and thegarrison. The same church, therefore, didduty for both. Later the English erectedtheir own edifice—beloved old Trinity—in1696, and the Dutch continued to do justas they always had done. In fact, the Eng-lish did little or nothing to disturb theDutch, and although in England the twogovernments were occasionally at war, thepeople themselves preserved a friendlyfeeling and found that in the new country,erstwhile enemies were not such bad neigh-bors, and each learned tolerance from
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