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The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
The Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 0-8156-0808-X. Ellis, David M.; James A. Frost; Harold C. Syrett; Harry J. Carman (1967) [1957]. A History of New York State. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801401183. LCCN 67020587.. Fox, Dixon Ryan. The decline of aristocracy in the ...
On May 4, 1847, the New York State Legislature created the Board of Commissioners of Immigration to regulate immigration. [79] The first permanent immigration depot in New York was established in 1855 at Castle Garden, a converted War of 1812 era fort located within what is now Battery Park, at the tip of Lower Manhattan.
New York enacted its constitution in 1777 and was the eleventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, on July 26, 1788. It is the fourth most populous state. It is the fourth most populous state.
This territory was also claimed by New York. The resulting dispute led to the rise of the Green Mountain Boys and the later establishment of the Vermont Republic. New Hampshire's claim upon the land was extinguished in 1764 by royal order of George III, and on March 6, 1790, the state of New York ceded its claim to Vermont for 30,000 Spanish ...
Counties of New York Location State of New York Number 62 Populations 5,082 (Hamilton) – 2,561,225 (Kings) Areas 33.77 square miles (87.5 km 2) (New York) – 2,821 square miles (7,310 km 2) (St. Lawrence) Government County government Subdivisions Cities, Towns, Indian Reservations Part of a series on Regions of New York Downstate New York New York City Long Island Hudson Valley (Lower ...
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 Fourth New York Provincial Congress, resolving itself as the Convention of Representatives of the State of New York, adopted the first constitution of the state of New York on April 20, 1777. The Province of New York was established after the naval invasion and absorption of the previous Dutch Colony of New Netherlands.