Originally New Amsterdam a Dutch Colony it became the English Colony of New York.
The Colony of New York was founded in 1664. New York and New Jersey became English colonies because the English wanted worship their religion.
The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam became the English colony of New York.
New york became a Royal State in the 1685.
The first Europeans to establish a colony in what later became New York State was the Dutch. They settled there in around 1613.
The New York Colony began as the Dutch trading outpost of New Netherlands. The Dutch founded the colony in 1614. Later the British took over this area and renamed it New York in 1664.
the first dutch colony was called new neatherlands then became new amsterdam, and now it is new york which is only nyc now (new york city)
The Dutch sold their colony of New Amsterdam to the English, and this colony eventually became New York.
John Jay who became the First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
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the first dutch colony was called new neatherlands then became new amsterdam, and now it is new york which is only nyc now (new york city)
All of them became royal colonies eventually. New York became a royal colony in 1685. The site of a Dutch trading post on Manhattan Island, it was colonized as New Amsterdam by Dutch director general Peter Minuit, who bought it from the Indians in 1626. it then became a proprietary colony and was given to the duke of york.