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Scholars have estimated that at the time of European settlement, there may have been about 15,000 Lenape total in approximately 80 settlement sites around much of the New York City area alone. [ 9 ] : 5–6 In 1524, Lenape in canoes met Giovanni da Verrazzano , the first European explorer to enter New York Harbor , who called the area New ...
Lion Gardiner (1599–1663) was an English engineer and colonist who founded the first English settlement in New York, acquiring land on eastern Long Island.He had been working in the Netherlands and was hired to construct fortifications on the Connecticut River, for the Connecticut Colony.
The first Dutch fur trading posts and settlements were in 1614 near present-day Albany, New York, the same year that New Netherland first appeared on maps. Only in May 1624 did the Dutch West India Company land a number of families at Noten Eylant (today's Governors Island ) off the southern tip of Manhattan at the mouth of the North River ...
New York hosted significant transportation advancements in the 19th century, including the first steamboat line in 1807, the Erie Canal in 1825, and America's first regularly scheduled rail service in 1831. These advancements led to the expanded settlement of western New York and trade ties to the Midwest settlements around the Great Lakes.
The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America (2009) excerpt and text search; Kammen, Michael. Colonial New York: A History New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. Kilpatrick, William Heard. The Dutch schools of New Netherland and colonial New York (1912) online; McFarlane, Jim.
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (2017) excerpt; Burns, Ric, and James Sanders. New York: An Illustrated History (2003), book version of 17-hour Burns PBS documentary, "NEW YORK: A Documentary Film" Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press.
This buffer area with the native Lenape is sometimes considered the first free African settlement in North America, although the landowners had half-free status. Its name comes from descriptions in 1640s land conveyances of white-owned properties as bordering the hereditament or freehold "of the Blacks". [1] [2] [3] [4]
The first shipment of stamps for New York and Connecticut arrived at New York on 23 October 1765. [105] The ships were confronted by some 2000 angry colonists. Subsequently, the stamps had to be quietly unloaded in the middle of the night and brought into Fort George, which at the time had a garrison of only 200 regulars.