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N March, 1664, Charles II.

granted to his brother James,
then Duke of York, ‘the terri-
tory comprehending Long Island
and the islands in the neighbor-
hood, and all the lands and rivers |
from the west side of the Con-|ffll
necticut River to the eastern
shore of Delaware Bay.”

The English equipped four}
vessels, with 450 men, under |g
Colonel Richard Niccolls, to lf" "A
take possession of the Province. |ftmeaws

Niccolls with his ‘ red-coats” x \ ay
arrived off the Fort on 30th off
August, and to the consternation
and dismay of the inhabitants as-
sembled on the Bowling Green,
as well as to Stuyvesant himself, =
immediately sent ashore a sum- |,

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