Anthony Clove, the governor of reconquered New Amsterdam, was wide-awake.

He kept his eye on the movements of the savages and Frenchmen on the north, watched every hostile indication in the east, and sent proclamations and commissions to towns on Long Island and in Westchester to compel hesitating boroughs to take the oath of allegiance to Prince William of Orange.

His forts about New Orange were strengthened and mounted with one hundred and ninety cannon.

A treaty of peace between the Dutch and English, however, made at London in 1674, restored New Netherland to the British crown.

Some doubts arising as to the title of the Duke of York after the change, the king gave him a new grant of territory in June, 1674, within the boundary of which was included all the domain west of the Connecticut River, to the eastern shores of the Delaware, also Long Island and a territory in Maine.