Complex sentence: Control of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam shifted to England in 1664, marking the first gradual cultural shift in Foster's Meadow with the establishment of a community of predominantly English, Protestant farmers and their families.
Split into simpler sentences: Control of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam shifted to England in 1664. This marked the first gradual cultural shift in Foster's Meadow with the establishment of a community of predominantly English Protestant farmers, and their families.