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  2. List of colonial governors of New York - Wikipedia

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    Despite one brief year when the Dutch retook the colony (1673–1674), New York would remain an English and later British possession until the American colonies declared independence in 1776. With the unification of the two proprietary colonies of East Jersey and West Jersey in 1702, the provinces of New York and the neighboring colony New ...

  3. Province of New York - Wikipedia

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    The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783. It extended from Long Island on the Atlantic, up the Hudson River and Mohawk River valleys to the Great Lakes and North to the colonies of New France and claimed lands further west.

  4. York Shire (Province of New York) - Wikipedia

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    On August 29, 1664, The Duke of York’s forces captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch, as part of their conquest of New Netherland. They renamed New Netherland as the Province of New York, which included modern New York, New Jersey, Vermont, southeast Pennsylvania, and Delaware. [1] Yorkshire was created soon afterward in 1664.

  5. History of New York City (1665–1783) - Wikipedia

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    The English had renamed the colony the Province of New York, after the king's brother James, Duke of York and on June 12, 1665, appointed Thomas Willett the first of the Mayors of New York. The city grew northward and remained the largest and most important city in the Province of New York, becoming the third largest in the British Empire after ...

  6. History of New York City - Wikipedia

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    The colony was granted self-government in 1652, ... economics and race from 1800 to 1990. ... New York City, 1664–1710: Conquest and Change ...

  7. The Duke's Laws - Wikipedia

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    A New York State Historical Marker commemorating the 1664-1665 Duke's Laws Convention in Hempstead, New York. The Duke of York's Laws for the Government of the Colony of New York were a set of guidelines laid out during the early years of English rule in the Colony of New York. [1]

  8. History of New York (state) - Wikipedia

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    The Province of New York thrived during this time, its economy strengthened by Long Island and Hudson Valley agriculture, in conjunction with trade and artisanal activity at the Port of New York; the colony was a breadbasket and lumberyard for the British sugar colonies in the Caribbean. New York's population grew substantially during this ...

  9. History of New York City (prehistory–1664) - Wikipedia

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    History of New York City; Lenape and New Netherland, to 1664 New Amsterdam British and Revolution, 1665–1783 Federal and early American, 1784–1854 Tammany and Consolidation, 1855–1897 (Civil War, 1861–1865) Early 20th century, 1898–1945 Post–World War II, 1946–1977 Modern and post-9/11, 1978–present: See also; Transportation