[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] CHAPTEE X GENERAL HISTORICAL REVIEW TO THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY COMPLETION OF THE WORK OF ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT N tracing to the beginning of the eighteenth century the history of the great land purchases and manor erections, only incidental allusion has been made to the general history of the times during the first few decades which followed the surrender of New Netherland by the Dutch, and to the coincident progress of such settlements as were not directly asso-ciated with the manorial estates. After briefly summarizing the general history of the province and the county during that period, we shall complete the account of original local settlement. The narrative as a whole will then proceed more uniformly and rapidly. Eichard Nicolls, the first of the English governors, continued in office until 1G68, when he was succeeded by Francis Lovelace. Dur-ing Mcolls's administration, the old Dutch land patents throughout the province were reissued, being altered only so as to provide for allegiance to the Duke of York and the government of England, in-stead of the Dutch West India Company and the government of the United Netherlands; the boundary line between New York and Con-necticut was provisionally established, although upon a basis soon to be totally repudiated; and the code known as "the Duke's Laws," for the general government of the province, was adopted.