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New York Page
By MeganJustin Carissa
Nate
Farmers Lumbermen Sailors Miners Trappers Merchants Servants
Jobs
Mohawk River Hudson River Iron and Minerals Farms Valleys
Geography
Most Problems were governed by the king and
others were the governor.
Government
The colony that the British named New York
was first settled by people from the Netherlands. The Netherlands (often called Holland) is a country in northern Europe. Its people are the Dutch. The Dutch came to the area to set up fur-trading posts. The British, however, wanted this land for themselves so that British settlers in New England could move westward. In 1664, the British captured the colony. England’s king gave the land to his brother, the Duke of York
The History
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