QUARTERLY BULLETIN 91 1671, business evidently called him northward, for he rented the village house at Wildwyck (Kingston) in that year. In August, 1673, the Dutch regained control of the province, and Dutch officials replaced the English ones. Jacobus Strycker, on August 18th, became schout-fiscal, or sheriff, of the Breukelen district. In March, 1674, both he and his brother Jan were delegates from Long Island to confer with Governor Colve at New Orange (the second Dutch name of New York). Towards the end of the year, the Dutch again surrendered the province to the English, voluntarily and by treaty, and Jacobus ceased to hold office. In 1677, he and his wife, his son Gerrit, and his son's wife, were all fisted as members of the Reformed Dutch Church of Flatbush, living in New Amersfoort. His wife died in October, 1683, and Jacobus died in October, 1687. Just before he died, at the end of September, 1687, he and the other inhabitants of Kings County took the oath of allegiance to the English government, and Strycker reported that he had been a resident of the province for thirty-six years. So at the end of his fife, as during three-fifths of his residence in New York, he was an English citizen, but his place in the history of the city and of art is as a Dutch magistrate, and as a painter of Dutch officials in the finished manner of the best of the Dutch School.