One of the original Thirteen Colonies, it was settled by Dutch and Swedish colonists in the 1620s and 1630s, was ceded to the English as part of New Netherland in 1664, and became a royal province in 1702. The colony was strategically important in the American Revolution and was the site...
The settlement was promptly renamed "New York" after the Duke of York (the future King James II and VII).[62] The duke gave part of the colony to proprietors George Carteret and John Berkeley.[63]【参考译文】1667年,在第二次英荷战争后的《布雷达条约》谈判期间,获胜的荷兰人决定保留他们从...
Also found in:Acronyms,Encyclopedia,Wikipedia. New Harmony A town of southwest Indiana on the Wabash River west-northwest of Evansville. Founded in 1814 by the Harmony Society led by George Rapp, it was the site (1825-1828) of a utopian community established by Robert Owen. The colony was ...
In 1713 (after a violent slave uprising in New York), special laws were enacted to control the actions of slaves, and the colony began to operate a separate court system to deal with slave crimes. Laws were passed to discourage slave revolts. Slaves were forbidden to carry firearms when no...
New Jersey is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and northeast by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylv
New York City’s Democrat Mayor FLIPS OUT – in Wild Town Hall Speech FK– The only problem is they can’t register them to vote fast enough and they can’t find a way to let them vote in so-called ‘red’ states. I bet the IRS will let them submit to having money stolen out ...
Above: Illustration and article on "Typhoid Mary" that appeared in 1909 in The New York American. At right, Mary Mallon with other quarantined inmates on North Brother Island. (Wikipedia) The Irish-bornMary Mallon(1869–1938) lived a simple life as a maid and a cook, and it would have ...
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Both the Dutch and the British imported African slaves as laborers to the city and colony; New York had the second-highest population of slaves after Charleston, SC. Slavery was extensive in New York City and some agricultural areas. The state passed a law for the gradual abolition of slavery...
(Wikipedia/Wikitree/Ephemeral New York) White also noted a new craze that had originated around the same time as the birth of The New Yorker… TWO ACROSS…Max Schuster and Richard Simon of Simon & Schuster, with their first crossword book, 1924. (americanbusinesshistory.org) White ...