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    The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783. It extended...
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  • York Shire (also known as the Shire of York and Yorkshire) was the first large governmental unit organized in the English Province of New York soon after...
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    The attorney general of New York is the chief legal officer of the U.S. state of New York and head of the Department of Law of the state government. The...
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    New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States. One of the Mid-Atlantic states, it borders the Atlantic Ocean, New...
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  • New York University Province of New York, the British colony preceding the state of New York New York, Florida, an unincorporated community New York,...
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    The Province of York, or less formally the Northern Province, is one of two ecclesiastical provinces making up the Church of England and consists of 14...
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    state of New York. Only one of them – the state of Vermont – succeeded. Among the unsuccessful ones, the most prominent included the proposed state of Long...
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  • governed by the Director of New Netherland. Following the 1664 creation of the British Province of New York, newly renamed New York City was run by the British...
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    The mayor of New York City, officially mayor of the City of New York, is head of the executive branch of the government of New York City and the chief...
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    borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located near the western end of Long Island, it is the largest of the...
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    with Kings County, one of twelve original counties established under British rule in 1683 in the then Province of New York. As of the 2020 United States...
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    The Province of New Hampshire was an English colony and later a British province in New England. It corresponds to the territory between the Merrimack...
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    governor of New York is the head of government of the U.S. state of New York. The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government...
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    the U.S. state of New York. The first 12 were created immediately after the British took over the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam; two of these counties...
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    New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the...
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  • County was a county of the former Province of New York, established on September 5, 1665 from 25,100 square miles (65,000 km2) of land that had been granted...
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    of the present state of New York, until the border was finalized in 1773. The Province of New Jersey was originally settled in the 1610s as part of the...
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  • Dukes County was a county of the Province of New York from 1683 to 1691. It was established on November 1, 1683, at the same time as Kings County, Queens...
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    is also the metropolitan of the larger Ecclesiastical Province of New York. The Good Newsroom is the digital news outlet of the archdiocese and includes...
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    The history of New York begins around 10,000 B.C. when the first people arrived. By 1100 A.D. two main cultures had become dominant as the Iroquoian and...
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  • The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the judiciary of New York. It is vested with unlimited civil...
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    New York was part of the Dominion of New England, the territory was known in this period as the Province of New York. For a list of governors of New York...
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    in Westchester County, New York. The population was 17,309 at the 2020 census. Bedford is located in the northeastern part of Westchester County and contains...
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    city in the U.S. state of New York, and the seat of and most populous city in Albany County. It is located on the west bank of the Hudson River, about...
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    in Ulster County, New York, United States, in the northern part of the county, northwest of Kingston. It lies within the borders of the Catskill Park...
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    Middle Colonies (category Colonization history of the United States)
    majority of the conquered land became the Province of New York. The Duke of York and the King of England would later grant others ownership of the land...
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    Westchester County, New York, United States. It is an inner suburb of New York City, immediately to the north of the borough of the Bronx. As of the 2020 census...
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    colonial Province of New York in the British American colonies. It was created from Albany County on March 24, 1772. The county was named for Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz...
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    New Paltz (locally /ˈnuː pɔːlz/) is an incorporated U.S. town in Ulster County, New York. The population was 14,407 at the 2020 census. The town is located...
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    entertainment center. It is one of the principal cities of the Southern Tier region of Western New York. The city is surrounded by the town of Olean and is located...
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