they renewed the fight the next morning at break of day, but were Filled with alarm, the colonists at repelled with great loss."

Fort Orange sent in hot haste to request the presence and ad vice of the director ; but he had other duties to perform the

guns of the English bay

fleet

a more formidable

were echoing over the waters of the enemy was knocking at the doors of

New Amsterdam.

Indian Inscription on

Rocks at Esopus.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

THE INDIANS UNDER THE ENGLISH.

TREATIES WITH THE

FIVE NATIONS, THE MAHICANS AND THE ESOPUS INDIANS. THE JESUITS AND THE WAR OF 1689.

HE English, under Richard Nicolls, took possession of Fort Amsterdam on Monday, September 6th, 1664, and immediately changed its name to Fort

James.

Nicolls was proclaimed deputy governor for

the Duke of York, in compliment to whom he directed that the city of

New Amsterdam should thenceforth be known as New

York.

Fort Orange surrendered on the loth, and its name was

changed to Fort Albany, after the second title of the Duke of York. Following this change came a conference with chiefs of the Mohawks and Senecas, representing the Five Nations, and the conclusion with them, and with the Mabicans of New York, and

of a treaty of peace existed with the Dutch.

alliance,

similar to

that

which had

By the terms of this treaty the inde

pendence and equality of the nations parties to it, was recognized, " under the while the tribes not in alliance with them, but pro