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Colonists did, but they named the state after the duke of york

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Peter Minuit founded what would later become the colony of New York, in 1626, for the Dutch. During this time, the region was known as New Netherland.

The English took the territory over in 1663, and the new colony was named after the Duke of York, and would forever be known, as the colony of New York, and over time the state of New York.

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