<P> In 1661 the Communipaw ferry was founded and began a long history of trans - Hudson ferry and ultimately rail and road transportation . On September 15, 1655, New Amsterdam was attacked by 2,000 Indians as part of the Peach Tree War . They destroyed 28 farms, killed 100 settlers, and took 150 prisoners . </P> <P> On August 27, 1664, while England and the Dutch Republic were at peace, four English frigates sailed into New Amsterdam's harbor and demanded New Netherland's surrender, whereupon New Netherland was provisionally ceded by Stuyvesant . On September 6, Stuyvesant sent lawyer Johannes De Decker and five other delegates to sign the official Articles of Capitulation . This was swiftly followed by the Second Anglo - Dutch War, between England and the Dutch Republic . In June 1665, New Amsterdam was reincorporated under English law as New York City, named after the Duke of York (later King James II). He was the brother of the English King Charles II, who had been granted the lands . </P> <P> In 1664, Jan van Bonnel built a saw mill on East 74th Street and the East River, where a 13,710 - meter long stream that began in the north of today's Central Park, which became known as the Saw Kill or Saw Kill Creek, emptied into the river . Later owners of the property George Elphinstone and Abraham Shotwell replaced the saw mill with a leather mill in 1677 . The Saw Kill was later redirected into a culvert, arched over, and its trickling little stream was called Arch Brook . </P> <P> In 1667 the Treaty of Breda ended the conflict . The Dutch did not press their claims on New Netherland . In return, they were granted the tiny Island of Run in North Maluku, rich in nutmegs, and a guarantee for their de facto possession of Suriname, captured by them that year . </P>

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