[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] OF HUDSON'S RIPER. 157 they renewed the fight the next morning at break of day, but were repelled with great loss." Filled with alarm, the colonists at 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 fleet were echoing over the waters of the bay — a more formidable enemy was knocking at the doors of New Amsterdam. Indian Inscription on Rocks at Esopus. 158 THE INDIAN TRIBES CHAPTER VII. 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, of a treaty of peace and alliance, similar to that which had existed with the Dutch.