History of the United States . e company, how-ever, overruled him in religiouspersecutions and directed himto allow all persons to worshipas they pleased. Stuyvesant fortified Man-hattan against the attacks ofthe Indians by building a pali-sade entirely across the island,along the line of the presentWall Street, and in 1655 hemarched against the Swedeswho had settled on the Dela-These he compelled tosubmit to Dutch authority, andNew Sweden became a part of New Net her land. In 1656 New Amsterdam contained about 1000 of these were traders from every part of Europe, and it wassa
History of the United States . e company, how-ever, overruled him in religiouspersecutions and directed himto allow all persons to worshipas they pleased. Stuyvesant fortified Man-hattan against the attacks ofthe Indians by building a pali-sade entirely across the island,along the line of the presentWall Street, and in 1655 hemarched against the Swedeswho had settled on the Dela-These he compelled tosubmit to Dutch authority, andNew Sweden became a part of New Net her land. In 1656 New Amsterdam contained about 1000 of these were traders from every part of Europe, and it wassaid that as many as eighteen languages were heard inNew Am- the strccts of the new settlement. Negroes had beenimported, but these did not thrive as well with theDutch as with their English neighbors in the south. They causedthe colonists considerable trouble in subsequent uprisings andwere severely punished. The English at Jamestown and in the New England coloniesdid not look with favor upon the claims of the Dutch to American. By permission of the New York Historical Society PETER STUYVESANT CONSIDERING SUMMONS TO NEW AMSTERDAM DUTCH AND SWEDISH COLONIZATION 41 territory. We have already seen that the Puritans in the Connecticut colony calmly disregarded the Dutch claimants there. Complaints of Dutch encroachment were carried to England from America, arid m 1664 a British fleet was sent to New York by Charles New a m- II. When it demanded the surrender of New Amster- comls^N^w dam, old Peter Stuyvesant stood alone in the desire ^°^ ^^^* to resist. The English secured control without striking a blow, and the Dutch settlements were merged in the British possessions.^ Charles II gave the province to ? his brother James, Duke of York, after whom a part of it wasnamed, as was also the town of NewAmsterdam. The Dutch patroonswere left in undisturbed possessionof their estates, but the governorswere appointed by the British 1638 Swedish colonists foundeda sett
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