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anded......1644 Kiliaen Van Rensselaer dies at Amsterdam, Holland......1644 End of Indian war; treaty with some of the tribes......April 22, 1645 General treaty with the Indians after five years of disturbance......Aug. 30, 1645 Several Englishmen obtain a patent from Governor Kieft for 16,000 acres about Flushing, L. I., and settle......Oct. 19, 1645 Adriaen Van der Donck buys of Indians land as far as Spyt den Duyvel ; States-General confirms the title (the Dutch name, de Jonkeers Landt, became Yonkers)......1646 States-General, at the request of the company (July 13), ratify Stuyvesant's commission as governor......July 28, 1646 Patent issued to Cornelis Antonissen Van Slyck for a colony in Kaatskill......August, 1646 Father Jogues returns to Canada, revisits the Mohawks, and is put to death......Oct. 18, 1646 Breuckelen (Brooklyn-) obtains a municipal government......Nov. 26, 1646 Kieft protests against English encroachments on New Netherland......16