I believe a real old-world _Mevrouw_ would have looked as coldly askance upon the innovation of putting the sugar _in_ the tea, as she looked at the pernicious ingress of the devil-endowed Church of England.
In 1664 came the English rule in what had been New Amsterdam and with it British settlers and a new language.

So the Bossen Bouwerie became Green Wich (later clipped in pronunciation to _Grinnich_), the Green Village, and a peaceful, remote little settlement it remained for many a long year.
Now came the rich and great in search of country air, health, rest or change of scene.

Colonial society was not so different from twentieth century society.

They, too, demanded occasional doses of rustic scenery and rest cures; and they began to drift out to the green little hamlet on the Hudson where they could commune with nature and fortify themselves with that incomparable air.

Captain Warren, Oliver de Lancey, James Jauncey, William Bayard and Abraham Mortier all acquired estates there.