The Articles of Capitulation on the Reduction of New Netherland was a document of surrender signed on September 29, 1664, handing control of the Dutch Republic's colonial province New Netherland to th
Articles about the transfer of New Netherland on the 27th of August, Old Style, Anno 1664
The capitulation of Peter Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam (by Charles Hemstreet)
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The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783. It extended from Long Island on the Atlantic, up the Hudso
Articles of Surrender of New Netherland
…Director-General Peter Stuyvesant conceded two days later to the capture of New Amsterdam by Richard Nicolls, who would become the first Governor of the Province of New York. The lead negotiator for the Dutch side was Stuyvesant's lawyer Johannes de Decker. Negotiated at Stuyvesant Farm, the articles of surrender were signed…
The Van Bergen farm near Albany, New York in 1733