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Giovanni Da Verrazano was the first white man to see Manhattan
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The English navigator, Henry Hudson landed in the Lower Bay of New York in his ship, Half Moon
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The system of trade began between the Indians and the Dutch, gold was bartered for precious fur.
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The Amsterdam based Dutch East Company commissioned an English sea captain, Henry Hudson to find a northwest passage to Asia
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Already the territory parts of which would also become Delaware, New Jersey and Connecticut, had a name New Netherlands.
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The Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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The Dutch Government gave a license to a group of merchants who organized the Dutch West India Company, because of the Dutch trade of America and Africa
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The first settlers to arrive in Mnahattan were the Dutch emigrants.
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A Dutch Colony settlement began by the Dutch West India Company.
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War began between England and Holland
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The colony was captured and renamed New York James' "title" at the time was "The Duke of York".
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There was peace between the English and Dutch
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A horseback postal service was made between New York and Boston.
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The Dutch Government controlled the city of New York
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The Dutch realized they could not fight in war succesfully against England and France.
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New York was officially grant representative style of government.
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New York became a royal colony when James ascended the thrown of England.
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Seven of the 13 colonial assembly met in Albany to discuss coming together for deffense and government,
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A group of rebels formed New York provincial congress
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New York endorsed the Declaration of Independence thus declaring itslef an independent state. New York was no longer a colony.
