New York Page

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