History of Albany, New York (1664–1784) state capital in the United States. In the period leading up to the Second Anglo-Dutch War, King Charles II of England granted the land from Maine to Delaware, which included all of New Netherland, to his brother James, Duke of York. In April 1664 four ships with a combined 450-men fighting force set sail for New Amsterdam. Fort Orange was surrendered to the English 16 days after New Amsterdam (the city of New York). Surrender terms at New Amsterdam were quite generous. Fort Orange was renamed Fort Albany, and the village of Beverswyck was renamed Albany, in honor of the
German Society of the City of New York German Society of the City of New York The German Society of the City of New York was established in 1784, and was concerned with the smooth immigration of the Germans into the USA as well as the bureaucratic affairs of German-Americans. Founded on the model of the German Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia by, among others, John Christoph Kunze and Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben , the company initially supported the German-American churches in New York. With the introduction of large immigration waves from the 1830s, the "German Society" dealt with the smooth running of immigration. This included the fact