Report of Committee on Historical Tablet 5 i 



After receiving this grant, the Duke of York borrowed several 

 men of war from his brother the King, and Col. Nicolls was ap- 

 pointed the commander of the expedition for the conquest of New 

 Netherland, which set sail May 15th, 1664. It anchored at Nyack 

 (in Gravesend Bay) the i8th of August, the approaches to New 

 Amsterdam were blockaded, and the blockhouse on Staten Island, 

 opposite the squadron, was occupied. 



Col. Nicolls sent a letter to Director Stuyvesant on August 20th 

 requiring his surrender, to which Stuyvesant replied on August 

 23rd. Col. Nicolls refused to argue the matter, and landed troops 

 at Gravesend on August 25th; from there they marched to the 

 ferry at Brooklyn. Articles of capitulation were agreed upon by 

 representatives of Stuyvesant, and Nicolls, on August 27th, and 

 New Amsterdam was surrendered to Col. Nicolls on August 29th, 

 1664. (Col. Doc. 2 : 414, 415 ; 13 : 393. See Brodhead 2 : 20-37 

 for account with references.) 



VI. STATEN ISLAND SEPARATED FROM NEW JERSEY 



1668. Staten Island separated from New Jersey 



is the inscription on the tablet. 



1664. I2th March 1664, Chas. II, King of England made a 

 grant to his brother the Duke of York, described in part as fol- 

 lows : " Togeather alsoe with the said River called hudsons River 

 and all the land from the West side of Conectecutte River to the 

 East side of Delaware Bay." (Col. Laws N. Y. i : i ; N. J. Ar- 

 chives, I ser. I : 3, 4.) 



23rd and 24th June 1664. The Duke of York executed deeds 

 of lease and release, to Lord John Berkeley, and Sir George Car- 

 teret, granting to them, their heirs and assigns, all that portion of 

 his tract " Lying and being to the Westward of Long Island and 

 Manhitas Island and bounded on the East part by the Maine Sea 

 and part by Hudson's River," " which said Tract of Land is here- 

 after to be called by the name or names of New Cesarea or New 

 Jersey." (N. J. Archives, i ser. i : 9-14; Brodhead 2 : 82.) 



