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of arms of New Amsterdam received from Holland......Dec. 8, 1654 Governor Stuyvesant sails to West Indies to establish trade......Dec. 24, 1654 Indian invasion......Sept. 15, 1655 Hoboken, Pavonia, and Staten Island laid waste, 100 killed, 150 made prisoners, $76,000 of property destroyed......Sept. 15-20, 1655 Governor returns; prompt measures for defence......Oct. 12, 1655 Prisoners ransomed from the Indians......Oct. 26, 1655 Settlement of Jamaica, Long Island......March, 1656 New church at Beaverwyck (Albany)......June, 1656 Proclamation against the Quakers......1657 [Any person entertaining a Quaker for a single night to be fined £ 50, one-half to the informer, and vessels bringing any Quaker into the province to be confiscated.] Village laid out at Esopus (Kingston)......May 31, 1658 French are obliged to abandon their colonizing efforts among the Iroquois after......1658 Massachusetts grants land to English colonists on the Hudson......165