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 that in Germany, too, the nature and the dangers of emigration were clarified. In addition, the German Society informed the German-Americans in New York about important bureaucratic features of the New World. From 1837 to 1841, John Jacob Astor was the president of the company and donated her $ 5,000 annually. In his testament he left her another $ 20,000. This money should be invested and used to run a permanent office in 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