A history of the American nation . Peter Stuyvesants House in New Amsterdam This house was erected in 165S and was afterward called the White Hall From an old print in \alentines Manual and the control of the great river passed into Englishhands. Charles II gave the newly acquired territory to hisbrother James, the Duke of York, and it was rechristenedNew York. THE MIDDLE COLONIES—1614-1700 77 Under English rule the colony on the Hudson went on and gradually took on the form of government that the other English colonies had. In i68s an assembly was New York. o j provided for, and after the Rev
A history of the American nation . Peter Stuyvesants House in New Amsterdam This house was erected in 165S and was afterward called the White Hall From an old print in \alentines Manual and the control of the great river passed into Englishhands. Charles II gave the newly acquired territory to hisbrother James, the Duke of York, and it was rechristenedNew York. THE MIDDLE COLONIES—1614-1700 77 Under English rule the colony on the Hudson went on and gradually took on the form of government that the other English colonies had. In i68s an assembly was New York. o j provided for, and after the Revolution of 1688the colony, now a royal colony under the government ofEngland, went steadily forward, growing in population and instrength. It is hard for us to picture to ourselves the greatstate of New York and its mighty city as they were at the endof the seventeenth century—a settlement of something lessthan twenty-live thousand souls, some of them traders and set-tlers up the river, some of them small merchants and farmers
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