James 2

[Brian D. McCary]

Henry notes, among other things, 

On this day (Teus, Sept. 9):
 In 1664, the settlement of New Amsterdam was seized from Dutch
 governor Peter Stuyvesant by the English under Colonel Richard
 Nicholls without a shot being fired. It was later renamed New York
 after James, Duke of York, the future King James II.  

Was this the Catholic James, whose ouster lead to the formation
of the Jacobites of whom we've read so much, recently?  If so,
it would make New York a sort of sister city to James's Town on
St. Helena.  This might merit some consideration when we get
to some of the New York passages later in the group read.