Colony Of New York "New York, originally called New Netherlands, was so named in honor of the Duke of York and Albany, England, to whom the territory was granted on its conquest from its first settlers, the Dutch. On September 13th 1609, a vessel called theCrescentcame to anchor within ...
Nothing prevented his marching instantly to the South River, and enacting scenes still more glorious than those of Fort Christina, but the necessity of first putting a stop to the increasing aggressions and inroads of the Yankees, so as not to leave an enemy in his rear; but he wrote to ...
A survey of notable events and people in the history of Nigeria. The country, located on the Atlantic coast in western Africa, has a diverse population and is home to some 250 ethnic groups, and hundreds of languages are spoken in the country.
Jamestown Colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. Financed and organized by the Virginia Company, the colony was originally a private venture that had been granted a royal chart
University of Pennsylvania Press The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America Jaap Jacobs Cornell University Press Knickerbocker: The Myth behind New York Elizabeth L. Bradley Rutgers University Press We Used to Own the Bronx ...
Under the later administration of Peter Stuyvesant, the colony prospered, and by the 1650s, about 1,000 were living in New Amsterdam. In 1653, the year that New Amsterdam was incorporated as a city, Stuyvesant built a wooden palisade where Wall Street is today, to mark the northern city ...
North Carolina was first settled toward the northern border by immigrants from Virginia. Some of the North Carolinians, particularly the Quakers, came all the way from New England, tarrying in Virginia only long enough to learn how little they were wanted in that Anglican colony.The Scotch-Irish...
History of Maine Image: Map of Early Maine The 1622 grant of the Province of Maine is outlined in blue. The Province of New Hampshire is shown in teal, and the colony of Maine is shown in pink. The boundaries of the Massachusetts Bay Company grant are shown in green. The Province of ...
Founding of Rhode Island In 1635, Williams was banished to England by theMassachusetts Bay Colonyfor his beliefs in the separation of church and state and freedom of religion. Instead, he fled and lived with the Narragansett Indians in what would become Providence Plantation (meaning "settlement"...
New York was a well-protected harbor, which could be defended on a well-protected island, which was the gateway to the interior of the entire New York Colony. The Dutch arrived in 1613 and established a trading post on the island and named it New Amsterdam. ...