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1626

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New York Colony

Duke of York

The Empire colony

INFO

ECONOMY

FOUNDED

SUMMER

was founded in 1626 by the Duke of York and other colonists on Manhattan Island. trade and profit it was used for growing crops and such and becasme known as the bread basket

WINTER

FERTILE SOIL

ROCKY

ECONOMY

A typical farm was 50 to 150 acres consisting of a house, barn, yard and fields New York was often referred to as a breadbasket colony because it grew so many crops, especially wheat. The wheat was ground into flour in flour mills then shipped to England.

IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS/INFORMATION/PEOPLERELIGION

• By 1775 New York was governed as a Royal Colony.
• Original Name: The original name of the colony was the Province of New York, later New York and Vermont
• Peter Minuit and the duke of york and others( not specifed)
• Not dominated by a specific religion which gave way to religious freedom for Quakers, Catholics, Lutherans, Jews and others.