Excerpt from Collections on the History of Albany, From Its Discovery to the Present Time, Vol. 4: With Notices of Its Public Institutions, and Biographical Sketches of Citizens Deceased The use of surnames gradually increased among the Dutch from the time the Province was occupied by the Eng lish in 1664, and after the first quarter of the following century few names were written without the addition of a family name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.