The negotiations took place, and the terms were finally agreed upon, on Saturday, September 6th, 1664, at Gov. Stuyvesant's house in the Bowery. This house, as L have been told by the Hon. Hamilton Fish, now the oldest living descendant of Stuyvesant, .stood on what is now the block between 12th and 13th Streets facing the Third Avenue, as that part of the Bowery road is now called, and on the east side of that avenue. The old Stuyvesant pear tree which stood till within a few years at the north east corner of 13th St. and Third Avenue was one the Governor planted in his garden. Nicolls ratified the articles the same day. The next day was Sunday, during which the Director-General and his Council considered them, and early on the morning of the succeeding day, Monday, September 8th, 1664, ratified them. About eleven o'clock of the same morning Stuyvesant marched out of the fort with the honors of war, at the head of the Dutch regulars, about 150 in number, and through Beaver street to the ship "Gideon," in which they were at once embarked for Holland, though she did not sail till some days later. A corporal's guard of the English took possession of the fort as the Dutch marched out. " Col. Nicolls's and Sir Robert Carr's companies one hundred and sixty-eight strong, formed into six columns of about thirty men each, next entered New Amsterdam ; whilst Sir George Cartwright occupied with his men the city gates and Town Hall." The volunteers from Connecticut and Long Island, were detained at the ferry at " Brenkelen," " as the citizens dreaded most being plundered by them." Finally the Burgomasters having proclaimed Nicolls Governor, he called Fort Amsterdam "Fort James," and the name of the city and Province he changed to " New York." ^ Thus ended the Dutch dominion in America, and thus forever passed away the great Batavian Province of New Netherland from the Republic of the United Netherlands.