ADMIRAL  EVERTSEN.
 

CHAPTER    XV.
 

ADMIRAL  EVERTSEN.
 

Admiral Evertsen. —The new Municipal Officers. —The Conquered Territory.—
Taking the Oath. —Lovelace's Private Losses. — Governor Anthoxy Colve. —
Eumors of War with New England. — Austria and Spain to the Rescue of Hol¬
land. — The Famous Test Act. — Mart oe Modena. —The Marriage of the Duke
OF York. — The Sacrifice of New Netherland. — The Treaty of Westminstee.
Sir Edmund Andros. —Lieutenant-Governor Anthony Brockholls.—New Jeksey.

— Long Island. — Governor Colve's Farewell. — The Reception of Governor
Andros. — Dosiinie Van Eensselaer. — Frederick Philipse. — Captain Manning.

— Stringent Measures. — Imprisonment of Leading Citizens. — Indian War in
New England. — Egbert Livingston. — Andros and the Connecticut Dele¬
gates. — City Improvements. — Tanneries along Maiden Lane. — Stephanus
Van Cortlandt. —The celebrated Bolting Act. — Indian and Negro Slaves.
 

THE two Dutch admirals, E"\eitsen
assume the responsibiUty of
governing their conquest until di
rections should come from the Hague
Never was the Dutch Eepublic
more ably represented than by the
cool, honest, and sagacious Admiral
Evertsen. He was the eldest son
of the renowned Admiml Cornells
Evertsen, who was killed in a battle
with the English, in 1666. He In 1
with him in the New York harl i
about twenty English prizes, which
he had captured in Virginia and else
where, and a large number of pus
oners. But it was a deUcate matter
to select from his inferior officers a
governor for New Amsterdam.
Captain Anthony Colve was the
 

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