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Gouverneur Morris (/ ɡ ʌ v ər n ɪər ˈ m ɒr ɪ s / guh-vər-NEER MOR-ris; [1] January 31, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution.
The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1528. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608 and New Amsterdam was founded in 1624.
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1998), 1300 of highly detailed scholarly history; Goldman, Mark. High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York (Suny Press, 1983) McEneny, John (2006). Albany, Capital City on the Hudson: An Illustrated History. Sun Valley, California: American Historical Press. ISBN 1-892724-53-7.
The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in October 1765, as the Sons of Liberty organization emerged in the city and skirmished over the next ten years with British troops stationed there. [77] The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War, was fought in August 1776 within modern-day Brooklyn. [78]
Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794) was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia, [1] best known for the June 1776 Lee Resolution, the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain leading to the United States Declaration of Independence, which he signed.
In 1775, the New York Provincial Congress appointed Jay as commander of the Second Regiment of the New York City militia. [56] Jay was elected to the third New York Provincial Congress , where he drafted the Constitution of New York, 1777 ; [ 57 ] his duties as a New York Congressman prevented him from voting on or signing the Declaration of ...
New York History 103.1 (2022): 23-35. Goodfriend, Joyce D. Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730 (1994) Harris, Leslie M. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (2004) Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Party Politics in the Continental Congress. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-8191-6525-5. Launitz-Schurer, Loyal Whigs and Revolutionaries, The making of the revolution in New York, 1765-1776, 1980, ISBN 0-8147-4994-1; Ketchum, Richard, Divided Loyalties, How the American Revolution came to New York, 2002, ISBN 0-8050-6120-7