Dutch settlers at Esopus were troubled by hostile Algonquin (Esopus) Indians until Governor Peter Stuyvesant finally pacified them in 1658. In 1661 Wiltwyck, later Kingston, was settled and remained strongly Dutch after the English conquest in 1664. While New York City was in British hands during the Revolution, the Constitution of New York State was proclaimed at Kingston on April 20, 1777, and later that year Kingston was burned by the British. In the nineteenth century, river traffic by sloop and steamboat brought commerce and industry to Saugerties and Kingston, and boat building, brick making, and the quarrying of bluestone proved profitable. By 1900 cement manufacture was extensive, and transportation to the interior was improved by turnpikes, the Delaware and Hudson Canal, and the West Shore Railroad. To the west, the Catskill Mountains provided natural resources and recreation: early lumber mills and tanneries used timber and bark from the forests, later construction of the Ashokan Reservoir supplied water for New York City, scenic beauty and romantic associations were celebrated by artists of the “Hudson River School” and by writers such as Washington Irving, forests and wildlife were protected by the Catskill Forest Preserve created in 1904, and resort hotels and boarding houses popularized the area for vacationers.