Province of New York

The Province of New York (1664-1776) ( Dutch: Provincie New York) was established after the capture of the colony of New Netherland Dutch Republic by the Kingdom of England, and included the present-day American New York State fully. First, belong to it the territory of the present states of New Jersey, Delaware and Vermont, as well as portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine. Your new name was given to the province after the conquest in honor of James, Duke of York and brother of the then king Charles II in 1776, the Congress of the New York Province explained to manage the State of New York and said so from the UK going on. A year later he adopted the Constitution of the State of New York, which the province was history.

Colony Connecticut · colony Delaware · Georgia Province · Province of Maryland · Province of Massachusetts Bay · Province of New Hampshire · Province of New York · Province of New Jersey · Province of North Carolina · Province of Pennsylvania · Colony of Rhode Iceland and Providence Plantations · Province of South Carolina · Virginia Colony

Governors

  • List of Governors of the New York Province
  • History of New York
  • History of the Thirteen Colonies
  • Historical territory ( America)
  • Historical overseas territory
James II of England British North America Connecticut Colony List of colonial governors of New York
663286
de