Seal and Flag of the City of New York

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Excerpt from Seal and Flag of the City of New York: Authorized by the Committee Appointed by the Mayor to Commemorate the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Installation of the First Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of New York on June 24, 1665The ¿ag which has recently been adopted by The City of New York as its official emblem, com bining the colors of the United Netherlands, under which the City was settled, with the design of the municipal seal, under which English authority replaced the Dutch, tells the story of the origin and early history of the city. Founded by the Dutch in 1626, as New Amsterdam, it was re named New York in 1664, and a year later, on June 24, 1665, the municipal government was formally transferred to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of The City of New York, as suc cessors in office of the Burgomasters and Schepens of the City of New Amsterdam.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.