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Nov 29, 2023 · New York was officially founded in 1664 when English forces captured New Amsterdam and took control of the Dutch colony of New Netherland. The Dutch initially founded their colony in 1614, which included portions of present-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, and Delaware.
Apr 24, 2021 · Culture Club / Getty Images. By. Martin Kelly. Updated on April 24, 2021. New York was originally part of New Netherland. This Dutch colony was founded after Henry Hudson explored the area in 1609. He had sailed up the Hudson River. By the following year, the Dutch began trading with Indigenous peoples.
NEW YORK COLONY began as the Dutch trading outpost of New Netherland in 1614. On 4 May 1626, officials of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland founded New Amsterdam, which subsequently became New York City. The English captured the colony in 1664, though a complete ousting of Dutch rule did not occur until 10 November 1674.
Nov 9, 2009 · Getty Images / Francesco Riccardo Iacomino. The Dutch first settled along the Hudson River in 1624 and established the colony of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. In 1664, the English took...
English Rule Restored. New York Under Governor Thomas Dongan. The Colony Becomes a Province. Dominion of England. England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688. Jacob Leisler’s Treason. New York Under Governor Henry Sloughter. Beginning of the Modern Form of Government. Suppression of Political Opposition; Confirmation of the Rule of Law.
In 1621, the Dutch West India Company (which had been founded to trade in West Africa and the Americas) began to colonize New Netherlands, which encompassed parts of present-day New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Connecticut. From the outset, New Netherlands was a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society.
The Founding Fathers: New York En Español Alexander Hamilton, New York. Hamilton was born in 1757 on the island of Nevis, in the Leeward group, British West Indies. He was the illegitimate son of a common-law marriage between a poor itinerant Scottish merchant of aristocratic descent and an English-French Huguenot mother who was a planter's ...
