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In 1617, officials of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland created a settlement at present-day Albany, and in 1624 founded New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island.The Dutch colony included claims to an area comprising all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine in addition to eastern ...
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 ...
The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America (2009) excerpt and text search; Kammen, Michael. Colonial New York: A History New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. Kilpatrick, William Heard. The Dutch schools of New Netherland and colonial New York (1912) online; McFarlane, Jim.
333 days after 35th president John F. Kennedy (died November 22, 1963) 33rd president Harry S. Truman (died December 26, 1972) 9 years, 34 days after 35th president John F. Kennedy (died November 22, 1963) 3 years, 273 days after 34th president Dwight D. Eisenhower (died March 28, 1969) 39th president Jimmy Carter (died December 29, 2024)
Mr Trump's mother became a US citizen in 1942 and died in 2000, aged 88. But she returned to Lewis throughout her life and always spoke Gaelic, Mr MacIver says.
The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History (2005) online; Hood. Clifton. In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis (2016). Cover 1760–1970. Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City.
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A new Gallup poll shows that 65 percent of Americans now believe JFK was killed on November 22, 1963 as the result of an assassination conspiracy, rejecting the official "Lone Gunman" theory that ...