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  2. Charter of Liberties and Privileges - Wikipedia

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    The Charter of Liberties and Privileges was an act passed by the New York General Assembly during its first session in 1683 that laid out the political organization of the colony, set up the procedures for election to the assembly, created 12 counties, and guaranteed certain individual rights for the colonists.

  3. Province of New York - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Colonial House (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Colonial House is an American reality series produced by Thirteen/WNET New York and Wall to Wall Television in the United Kingdom, following the success of The 1900 House, an exercise in vicarious "experiential history" that is characteristic of an attempt to provide an educational version of popular reality television.

  6. Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    New York City attracted a large polyglot population, including a large black slave population. [19] In 1674, the proprietary colonies of East Jersey and West Jersey were created from lands formerly part of New York. [20] Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 as a proprietary colony of Quaker William Penn.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick [a] (1634 – 14 December 1715) was an Irish military officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of New York from 1683 to 1688. He called the first representative legislature in the Province of New York and granted the colony's first charter of

  9. Middle Colonies - Wikipedia

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    In 1665, the Province of New Jersey split from New York; however, the New York-New Jersey Line War continued until the final borders were decided in 1769, and approved by the legislatures and the King in 1772 and 1773 respectively. A Colonial Assembly convened in October 1683, making New York the last colony to have an assembly.