New York was originally part of New Netherland. This Dutch colony was founded after Henry Hudson explored the area in 1609. He had sailed up the Hudson River. By the following year, the Dutch began trading withIndigenous peoples. They created Fort Orange located at present-dayAlbany, New York...
This colony was centered around the city of New Amsterdam, which today is New York. Minuit was the director, or governor, of this colony, but he was soon removed from this post. In this role, Minuit had purchased the island of Manhattan for an extremely low price, likely through ...
1:56 minTV-PG Play Featured Mystery at Roanoke Before Jamestown and Plymouth, the English attempted to forge a colony at Roanoke. Within three years, it had disappeared, leaving a mysterious clue behind. What really happened to the Roanoke settlers?
Prenuptial agreements were standard in the colony of New Amsterdam, and were also a way that women could achieve a significant degree of autonomy. The agreements enabled women with money and/or property to keep their wealth after they married. In the English colonies, a woman’s wealth was ta...
Slavery was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the 17th century, shortly after the Dutch first settled in the colony. The colonial system of slavery was a labor system known as chattel slavery, in which the slave was the personal property of his or her owner for life. ...
But some of them were governors whom the people of other colonies would not have. The only event of importance in the history of the colony during the next twenty-five years was the founding of William and Mary College (1691) at Williamsburg. It was the second oldest college in the ...
Within the British colony of India there were a number of 'Princely States' where native rulers loyal to Great Britain ruled over their own territories. The rulers of these Princely States had to decide whether or not their territories should become part of independent India or part of the ...
The Motivation for Founding the New Jersey Colony In 1664, James, the Duke of York, received control of New Netherland. He sent a small English force to blockade the harbor atNew Amsterdam. Peter Stuyvesant surrendered to the English without a fight. King Charles II had granted the lands bet...
Courtesy of the Connecticut State Library, Hartford Massachusetts Bay Colony Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. “A Vindication of the Government of New-England Churches” Title page of “A Vindication of the Government of New-England Churches,” a pamphlet... ...
As a British colony, New Jersey was subject to English Common Law, and its women, especially married women, were subject to the property rights and civil rights of women in England. When a woman married, her legal status became that of feme covert, meaning that the wife was covered by th...