United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . m was im-mediately was clear that theburgomasters meant tosurrender. The stormyold governor exhorted them to rouse to action and fight; some one replied thai, the Du^hWest India Company was not worth fighting for. Burning with indig-nation, Stuyvesant snatched up the written proposal of Nicolls and toreit to tatters in the presence of his council. It was all in vain. Thebrave old man was forced to sign the capitulation; and on the 8th
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . m was im-mediately was clear that theburgomasters meant tosurrender. The stormyold governor exhorted them to rouse to action and fight; some one replied thai, the Du^hWest India Company was not worth fighting for. Burning with indig-nation, Stuyvesant snatched up the written proposal of Nicolls and toreit to tatters in the presence of his council. It was all in vain. Thebrave old man was forced to sign the capitulation; and on the 8th ofSeptember, 1664, New Netherland ceased to exist. The English flagwas hoisted over the fort and town, and the name of New York wassubstituted for New Amsterdam. The surrender of Fort Orange, nownamed Albany, followed on the 24th; and on the 1st of October theSwedish and Dutch settlements on the Delaware capitulated. The con-quest was complete. The supremacy of Great Britain in America wasfinally established. From the north-east corner of Maine to the southernlimits of Georgia, every mile of the American coast was under the flagof England. 13. PETER STUYVESANT. 172 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. CHAPTER XX. NEW YORK UNDER THE ENGLISH. RICHARD NICOLLS, the first English governor of New York,began his duties by settling the boundaries of his province. It wasa work full of trouble and vexation. As early as 1623 the whole of LongIsland had been granted to the earl of Stirling. Connecticut also claimedand occupied all that part of the island included in the present county ofSuffolk. Against .both of these claimants the patent of the duke of Yorkwas now to be enforced by his deputy Nicolls. The claim of Stirling wasfairly purchased by the governor, but the pretensions of Connecticut werearbitrarily set aside. This action was the source of so much discontentthat the duke was constrained to compensate Connecticut by making afavorable change in her south-west boundary-line. Two months b
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